A new
Kobo coupon code for 30% off:
win_g7om1n1 (Exp 9/27), plus all book purchases thru 9/27 qualify you to win a new Kobo Glo or Mini. I also got a "come back" code for 25% off - this one may only work for one person, but I'm not going to use it:
56b6c125 (exp 9/25). For those who are also bloggers, Kobo is having a sale on
blogging guides thru Sept 26 - 25% off and no coupon necessary!
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
Valeria's Last Stand (
$1.99), by Marc Fitten, Amazon's Best of the Month, May 2009. His latest novel,
Elza's Kitchen, was released this summer.
Book Description
When it comes to the sizes of fishes and ponds, Valeria is a whale in a thimble. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community - whatever she scorns the least must be the best, after all. But, on a day like any other, her spinster's heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: the village potter, long-known and little-noticed, captures her fancy, and Valeria finds herself suddenly cast in a new role she never expected to play. This one deviation from character, this one loose thread, is all it takes for the delicately woven fabric of village life to unravel. And, for the first time in a long time, Valeria couldn't care less.
Valeria's Last Stand is a joyfully wise small-town satire that takes an hilariously honest look at later-in-life romance and the notion that it's never too late to start anew.
The Heat of the Sun (
$1.61 / £0.99 UK), by David Rain, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $12.99).
Book Description
When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton -- known to all as 'Trouble' -- for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are polar opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish and frail, yet their lives quickly become inextricable intertwined. First at school, then in the staccato days of twenties New York, Woodley sees flashes of another person in his friend and slowly discovers a side of Ben's nature that belies a dark and hidden history.
As the curtain falls on the frivolity of the twenties and rises to reveal the cruelty of a new decade, Woodley and Ben's friendship begins to fragment. Over the coming years the two men meet intermittently; in Japan before the outbreak of the Second World War and then in the midst of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Change in both their lives, their relationship and their suffering, stand for a generation; one dispersed by depression and upheaval, brutality and confusion.
David Rain's novel, The Heat of the Sun, is an ambitious and assured debut that captures perfectly two friends, two loves: two lives.
Identity: Your Passport to Success ($9.43 Kindle,
$1.99 B&N), by Stedman Graham, is the Nook Daily Find. At Amazon, there is a link for a
bonus PDF from the author.
Book Description
Features a foreword by John Maxwell and afterword from Steven R. Covey.
Have you ever thought about the connection between knowing who you are and success? Identity can serve as your greatest asset. Enduringly successful people know who they are, are clear about what matters to them, have established powerful identities, and create value in the world.
In this book, the process for discovering and understanding your identity is brought to life through Stedman Graham's personal experiences and the stories of individuals who've resolved their questions of identity, building a life that matters to themselves and those around them.
Take control of who you are. Take control of your life. Achieve lasting success.
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller!
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change ($9.39 Kindle,
$1.99 B&N), by Elizabeth Kolbert, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012. This one has a very good review from Scientific American on the Amazon page that is worth reading (and I've reported the lower price there, in hopes it will drop on Kindle).
Book Description
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.
About the author
Elizabeth Kolbert was a reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer covering politics for the New Yorker. She and her husband, John Kleiner, have three sons. They live in Williamstown, MA.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (
$1.99), by Ysabeau S. Wilce, has one of the longer titles I've recently seen on a book. Lots of good review and you'll get your money's worth at 431 pages in print.
Book Description
Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall--the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler--and into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.
Full of wildly clever plot twists, this extraordinary first novel establishes Ysabeau Wilce as a compelling new voice in teen fantasy.
Grade Level: 7 and up
The ebook and audiobook edition of Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (free to $12.99 Kindle; $27.99 Audible), by William James, narrated by John Pruden, is free direct from Tantor Media, thru the end of September. 
