The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (
$8.10 Kindle), by William Goldman, is $1.99 at
Kobo
tonight (and coupon eligible). So, if you see this before the price goes up, you can get a great deal on this classic.
Book Description
William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.
Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.”
Mastering Your Gluten- and Dairy-Free Kitchen: Easy Recipes, Chef's Tips, and the Best Products for Your Pantry (
$7.69 Kindle,
Kobo
), by Chef Einat Mazor, looks interesting and is coupon eligible at Kobo.
Book Description
In Mastering Your Gluten- and Dairy-Free Kitchen, Einat Mazor, a professional chef and culinary consultant, shares her vast knowledge and delicious recipes, so that those diagnosed with Celiac disease or food sensitivity to wheat, gluten, dairy, and casein can benefit from a quick and delicious diet.
When Einat Mazor’s six-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Celiac disease, Einat was determined to put her considerable professional experience to use. She dreamed of creating a diet rich in diverse flavors and textures so her daughter could continue to enjoy food just as she always had. Einat shares her personal story, along with simple and scrumptious recipes in a way that will help guide anyone who needs to change the way they think about food—but doesn’t know where to begin.
Einat serves up creative ways to avoid gluten and dairy in a diet, along with advice on building a pantry that is stocked with healthy and safe staples for this lifestyle diet. Each recipe begins with an anecdote and includes clear directions for tasty dishes, including cinnamon french toast, Chinese spring rolls, meatball kabobs, quinoa cookies—and even an amazing birthday cake!
Mastering Your Gluten- and Dairy-Free Kitchen provides valuable information and inspiration for those on a gluten- and dairy-free diet. It is also a valuable resource for parents and caregivers of people with autism, especially those who are attempting to alleviate symptoms through dietary changes.
Beyond the Night with Bonus Material (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo), by Joss Ware
Book Description
For a limited time and a special price, download the first installment in Joss Ware's hot paranormal romance series, the Envy Chronicles, about five men who survived the apocalypse with strange abilities and become humankind's last hope and receive deleted scenes and an excerpt from the next installment, Night Forbidden, available wherever books are sold 7/31.
Fifty years ago, the world came to an end.
Everything Elliott Drake has loved and known are gone, except the band of men who have become like brothers. Together they vow to discovered what has gone on while they slept an unnatural sleep for the last fifty years...
Jade, an auburn-hair beauty, has a mission of her own, and it does not include her attraction to Elliott. Why does he and his friends not know what has gone on in these past 50 years? Who are they? And why does Elliott's touch affect her so? But with her own secrets, does she dare to trust this man she is falling in love with?
Will Allen and the Great Monster Detective (
$0.05 Kindle), by Jason Edwards and Jeffrey Friedman (Illustrator). You can also get
Will Allen and the Ring of Terror for 95 cents.
Book Description
Will Allen may be one of the smallest boys at Ashford Middle School, but he is also one of the smartest. But cleverness alone isn't enough to help him when monsters infest his room!
Together with his friend Jeannine Fitsimmons, Will searches fruitlessly for help, until a strange business card appears, instructing them how to summon Bigelow Hawkins, the Great Monster Detective. With Bigelow's help, along with the use of his very special monster-fighting instruments, the RevealeR and the MonsterScope, Will must learn how to conquer his monsters and reveal the secret of the dreaded HIDDEN BEAST before it's too late...
Don't Look Back (
$2.99), by Karin Fossum and Felicity David (Translator)
Book Description
Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade.
Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.
The Scent of Shadows (
$0.99 Kindle), the first title in the
Sign of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson, is $6.99 in other stores, so it may go back up on Kindle soon. It's definitely a series to try out, at this price.
Book Description
When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert.
By rights, she should be dead.
Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers to whom or what she really is . . . and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.
But the nightmare is just beginning—for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own . . .
The Taken: Celestial Blues (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo
), by Vicki Pettersson, is the start of a new series. I snapped this one up, too.
Book Description
Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was back when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Fifty years later, he's an angel, but that doesn't make him a saint. One small mistake has altered fate, and now he's been dumped back onto the mortal mudflat to collect another soul—Katherine "Kit" Craig, a journalist whose latest investigation is about to get her clipped.
Bucking heavenly orders, Grif refuses to let the sable-haired siren come to harm. Besides, protecting her offers a chance to solve the mystery of his own unsolved murder—and dole out some overdue payback for the death of his beloved wife, Evie.
Joining forces, Kit and Grif's search for answers leads beyond the blinding lights of the Strip into the dark heart of an evil conspiracy. But a ruthless killer determined to destroy them isn't Grif's biggest threat. His growing attraction to Kit could cost them both their lives, along with the answer to the haunting question of his long afterlife . . .
The Wildwater Walking Club (
$3.03 Kindle; $3.49
B&N,
Kobo), by Claire Cook, author of
Must Love Dogs ($2.99). Three more of her titles,
Summer Blowout,
Best Staged Plans and
Life's a Beach, are also marked down to $3.03.
Book Description
Just one step at a time.
After losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, Noreen finds it hard to know what the next step is--never mind take it. For the first time in a great many years, Noreen has time to herself. So she puts on a new pair of sneakers and a seriously outdated pair of exercise pants, and walks.
It isn't long before she's joined by neighbors Tess and Rosie, two women as lost as she is. As the Wildwater women walk and talk, and talk and walk, they tally their steps, share their secrets, and begin putting their lives back together. And along the way, they learn what women everywhere are finding out -- time flies, and getting fit is actually fun when you're walking with friends.
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana (
$2.99 Kindle), by Rick Bass
Book Description
The Wild Marsh is Rick Bass’s most mature, full account of life in the Yaak and a crowning achievement in his celebrated career. It begins with his family settling in for the long Montana winter, and captures all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month — the initial cruel teasing of spring, the splendor and fecundity of summer, and the bittersweet memories evoked by fall.
It is full of rich observation about what it takes to live in the valley — ruggedness, improvisation and, of course, duct tape. The Wild Marsh is also tremendously poignant, especially when Bass reflects on what it means for his young daughters to grow up surrounded by the strangeness and wonder of nature. He shares with them the Yaak’s little secrets — where the huckleberries are best in a dry year, where to find a grizzly’s claw marks in an old cedar — and discovers that passing on this intimate local knowledge, the knowledge of home, is a kind of rare and valuable love.
Bass emerges not just as a writer but as a father, a neighbor, and a gifted observer, uniquely able to bring us close to the drama and sanctity of small things, ensuring that though the wilderness is increasingly at risk, the voice of the wilderness will not disappear.
This last one is cheating a bit, as it isn't a book, but I just noticed at Amazon that you can get $8 off the Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition of
Brave, which includes the 3D and BluRay versions. There is a "coupon" you must clip, just below the cover image (just click the button there) and then use the full check out procedure (not one-click). You'll see the $8 discount on the final page before confirming the order. I was wanting to see this at the theater, but had to choose amongst the many new releases this month - with the discount, it's less than we'd pay to see it and we can watch the 3D version as many times as we want, at home. In any case, it goes with the
free copy of Brave that B&N is giving away today. It is a pre-order, so if the price goes down any between now and when it is released, you'll still get the lowest price minus the $8 discount (I don't expect it on this title, but I've actually had a few orders here and there where Amazon ended up actually paying me due to a coupon code and price match they did).
Movie Description
Set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland, Disney Pixar's Brave follows the heroic journey of Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald), a skilled archer and headstrong daughter of King Fergus (voice of Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (voice of Emma Thompson). Determined to change her fate, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the unruly and uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin (voice of Kevin McKidd), surly Lord Macintosh (voice of Craig Ferguson) and cantankerous Lord Dingwall (voice of Robbie Coltrane), unleashing chaos in the kingdom. When she turns to an eccentric Witch (voice of Julie Walters), she is granted an ill-fated wish and the ensuing peril forces Merida to harness all of her resources including her mischievous triplet brothers to undo a beastly curse and discover the meaning of true bravery.
The first free audiobook is Cleopatra’s Moon ($9.99 Kindle; $20.99 Audible), by Vicky Alvear Shecter, narrated by Kirsten Potter.
The Dramatized edition of Antony & Cleopatra ($12.27 Audible), by William Shakespeare, with a full cast narration from BBC radio, is the second selection for this week. There are several Kindle editions, ranging from 99 cents and up, for those that prefer the original and free versions in MOBI and EPUB are relatively easy to find, as well.
