Today's Deals

Audible's Shock-tober Sale continues with Werewolves this week. I've read Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Underworld, Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels and Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series in print and can recommend it and the start of Molly Harper's series (which I've also read and enjoyed) is only $3.95, while most of the others are $6.95. I also see David Wellington's series, which I haven't started, although I do have the first title in my TBR list. Like most sales, it's limited to subscribers, but you can always use a trial membership, then cancel and choose the $10/year membership to get access to sales after the trial is over.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Little Hoot ($1.99), by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Abby Sher.

Book Description
It's not fair! All Little Owl wants is to go to bed at a reasonable hour, like his friends do. But no . . . Mama and Papa say little owls have to stay up late and play. So Little Owl spends all night jumping on his bed, playing on the jungle gym, and doing tricks on his skateboard - but he's hooting mad about it ! Children who have a hard time going to bed will love this fun twist on the universal dilemma.

Grade Level: P and up

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Six Days of War ($1.99 Kindle; $7.95 companion audiobook), by Michael B. Oren.

Book Description
For six tense days between June 5 and 10, 1967, war raged between Israel and its neighbors, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. There are many contexts in which this story makes sense, but only Michael Oren, a widely published American-born Israel scholar and historian, has so far knitted the diverse strands into a cohesive fabric that remains vital and relevant today. With educated authority and authorial integrity, Oren manages to sketch out facts and motives with the same intrigue as battles and strategies.

Escalating territorial and populist tensions in the Middle East only serve to make this title more relevant. Anyone who wants to have a grasp of Middle Eastern politics or political tensions involving Israel must read this title. Six Days of War was a New York Times Bestseller and Washington Post Best Book Award Winner in 2002 and has gone on to be an internationally acclaimed bestseller. The book has been widely recognized as the definitive telling of the Six Day War.

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Oksana Zabuzhko and Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Translator), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible). This is an AmazonCrossing exclusive translation, so not available in other stores.

Book Description
Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden.

While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin’s secret police. Intrigued, Daryna sets out to make a documentary about the extraordinary woman—and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. For even as she delves into the secrets of Olena’s life, Daryna grapples with the suspicious death of a painter who just may be the latest victim of a corrupt political power play.

From the dim days of World War II to the eve of Orange Revolution, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is an “epic of enlightening force” that explores the enduring power of the dead over the living.

A Time to Dance ($4.74 $2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's Timeless Love series, is the Nook Daily Find. This is an updated edition (both are available on Kindle, so be careful searching) and I've reported the lower price to Amazon in hopes it will drop there. Update: Now price matched on Kindle!

Book Description
They celebrated their love with a dance. But will it end in divorce?

John and Abby Reynolds were the perfect couple, sharing a love born of childhood friendship and deep family ties. They are envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abbey are about to lose it all. On the verge of having an affair, John is no more the man Abby married than she is the long-ago girl of his dreams. They are strangers whose days of dancing seem gone forever.

They gather their three children to announce their plans, but before they can speak, their daughter makes an announcement of her own; she's getting married in the summer.

Abby and John determine not to ruin their daughter's season of happiness, but as the wedding nears they are haunted by questions. Is the decision they've made irreversible? Are there times when marriage--even the marriage between two people of faith--is truly beyond repair? And is it possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find...a time to dance?

Discover the resiliency of boundless love, the power of commitment, and the amazing faithfulness of God in A Time to Dance.

It's the Middle Class, Stupid! ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by James Carville and Stan Greenberg, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James Carville and pollster extraordinaire Stan Greenberg argue that our political parties must admit their failures and the electorate must reclaim its voice, because taking on the wealthy and the privileged is not class warfare—it is a matter of survival. Told in the alternating voices of these two top political strategists, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! provides eye-opening and provocative arguments on where our government—including the White House—has gone wrong, and what voters can do about it.

Controversial and outspoken, authoritative and shrewd, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! is destined to make waves during the 2012 presidential campaign, and will set the agenda for legislative battles and political dust-ups during the next administration.

Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• The Ghost Exterminator (K/N/DF)

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is "13" Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books for $0.99 each (67% off). I have 13 in quotes, as Amazon only lists twelve, yet claims "all" of the publisher's titles are on sale. So, I tracked down that missing title and have it listed first - check your invoice on it, though, as it keeps changing in price (I've refreshed the page about 6 times and saw 99 cents twice and $2.99 the other times).

1. When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens If It Succeeds, by David Ewing Duncan
2. Weekday Vegetarian: Finally, a Palatable Solution, by Alex Estes and Graham Hill
3. Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? , by Howard Rheingold
4. Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise, by Daniel Grossman
5. Beware Dangerism!, by Gever Tulley
6. The Happiness Manifesto, by Nic Marks
7. Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere, by Will Richardson
8. Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act, by Ron Gutman
9. Homo Evolutis, by Steve Gullans and Juan Enriquez
10. Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World's Most Daunting Disease, by Paul Ewald and Holly Swain Ewald
11. Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning, by Sugata Mitra
12. Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, by Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna
13. Cheating The Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist, by Philippe Petit

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Larklight ($1.99), by bestselling British author/illustrator Philip Reeve and David Wyatt (Illustrator).

Book Description
Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe.

Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.

Grade Level: 5 and up

Truth ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Peter Temple, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead. Villani's job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. Now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, his soul is about to be laid bare. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.

Bite Me ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel of the Demon Underground series by Parker Blue, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. Some of you will already have this, from when it was free this past summer.

Book Description
Barely eighteen-year-old heroine Valentine Shapiro got a raw deal in the parent lottery. Her father was part incubus demon, and her mother's never forgiven her for that.Life after high school is tough enough without having to go 15 rounds with your inner demon. Thrown out of the house by her mother, Val puts one foot in front of the other and does the only thing that seems to make any sense--she takes aim at the town vampires. A stake a day, keeps the demon at bay. (But don't call her Buffy. That makes Lola, her demon, very cranky.) Her dark side makes everyday life a roller coaster, but means she's perfect for her night job as a bounty hunter. San Antonio's vampires are out of control, and it's up to Val, her faithful hellhound Fang, and her new partner, a handsome San Antonio police detective, to get the deadly fangbangers off the city streets. Soon enough she finds herself deep in the underbelly of the city, discovering the secrets of the Demon Underground and fighting to save those she loves. Whether they love her back or not.

The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Mike Lofgren, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, price matched on Kindle, where the companion audiobook is $5.99.

Book Description
The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today

There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.

Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill—but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected.

Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.

$30 Off Amazon Denim (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers, but not the Kindle Fire with Special Offers):

Get $30 Off a Purchase of $100 or More in the Amazon Denim Shop

Click on the offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and you'll get an email(right away) with the promotion code. This offer is good for one book and only one per account (if you have multiple KSO devices, they need to be registered to different accounts before you sign up to get the promotion code emails; every Kindle on an account gets flagged when you sign up for the special offer and they will all get the same code for that promotion from then on). Sign-up for this offer expires October 21, 2012, and the promo code must be used by October 28.

The email will contain a link to the promotion page. You'll need to add the items you select to your cart, then use the full check out process and enter the Promo code on the summary page (it's not automatic, like the Kindle Fire promo).

Other than the dates (and getting a code via email, rather than an automatic credit via AmazonLocal), this is the exact same offer that those with a Kindle Fire with Special Offers received a couple of days ago. There doesn't seem to be any reason you can't take advantage of both offers, if you have a lot of denim to purchase, but they can't be used on the same order, of course.

Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Into the Darkest Corner ($1.99), by Elizabeth Haynes.

Book Description
Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell.

But what begins as flattering attentiveness and passionate sex turns into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon learns there is a darker side to Lee. His increasingly erratic, controlling behaviour becomes frightening, but no one believes her when she shares her fears. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape.

Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine—now Cathy—compulsively checks the locks and doors in her apartment, trusting no one. But when an attractive upstairs neighbour, Stuart, comes into her life, Cathy dares to hope that happiness and love may still be possible . . . until she receives a phone call informing her of Lee’s impending release. Soon after, Cathy thinks she catches a glimpse of the former best friend who testified against her in the trial; she begins to return home to find objects subtly rearranged in her apartment, one of Lee’s old tricks. Convinced she is back in her former lover’s sights, Cathy prepares to wrestle with the demons of her past for the last time.

Utterly convincing in its portrayal of obsession, Into the Darkest corner is an ingeniously structured and plotted tour de force of suspense that marks the arrival of a major new talent.

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Richard Koch, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
A new, updated 10th Annniversary edition of the business classic.

In the ten years since its original publication The 80/20 Principle has become one of the decade’s most original, provocative and powerful books and a business classic and was named as one of GQ’s Top 25 Business Books of the 20th Century. It has sold over 500,000 copies and been translated into 30 languages. This special 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling The 80/20 Principle contains an entirely new chapter, ‘The Yin and Yang of the Principle’, in which Koch responds to the thousands of reader responses to the book – including a rap song! – and uses this new material to reach a new level of awareness and understanding of the true power of the principle. And it is powerful: the 80/20 principle – the fact that 80% of results flow from 20% of causes – is the one true principle of highly effective people and organisations. The 80/20 Principle shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on that all-important 20%. The 80/20 principle is the key to controlling our lives. If we can latch on to the few powerful forces within and around us, we can leverage our efforts to multiply effectiveness. Most of what we do has trivial results. A little of what we do really matters. So if we focus on the latter, we can control events instead of being controlled by them, and achieve several times the results.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Timothy Keller, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of the forthcoming Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller with his wife of 36 years, delivers The Meaning of Marriage, an extraordinarily insightful look at the keys to happiness in marriage that will inspire Christians, skeptics, singles, long-time married couples, and those about to be engaged.

Modern culture would make you believe that everyone has a soul-mate; that romance is the most important part of a successful marriage; that your spouse is there to help you realize your potential; that marriage does not mean forever, but merely for now; that starting over after a divorce is the best solution to seemingly intractable marriage issues. All those modern-day assumptions are, in a word, wrong.

Using the Bible as his guide, coupled with insightful commentary from his wife of thirty-six years, Kathy, Timothy Keller shows that God created marriage to bring us closer to him and to bring us more joy in our lives. It is a glorious relationship that is also the most misunderstood and mysterious. With a clear-eyed understanding of the Bible, and meaningful instruction on how to have a successful marriage, The Meaning of Marriage is essential reading for anyone who wants to know God and love more deeply in this life.

Just as this book is based on his popular sermon series, so will his Encounters with Jesus series, the first of which, The Skeptical Student comes out in December.

Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century ($9.99 Kindle, $3.99 B&N), by Tom Bower, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012. This title is still covered by an Agency agreement, so should be the same in all stores, but hasn't dropped at Amazon.

Book Description
With unparalleled insight into BP and its safety record leading up to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Tom Bower gives us a groundbreaking, in-depth, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for our most vital natural resource.

OIL

Twenty years ago oil cost about $7 a barrel. In 2008 the price soared to $148 and then fell to below $40. In the midst of this extraordinary volatility, the major oil conglomerates still spent over a trillion dollars in an increasingly frantic search for more.

The story of oil is a story of high stakes and extreme risk. It is the story of the crushing rivalries between men and women exploring for oil five miles beneath the sea, battling for control of the world's biggest corporations, and gambling billions of dollars twenty-four hours every day on oil's prices. It is the story of corporate chieftains in Dallas and London, traders in New York, oil-oligarchs in Moscow, and globe-trotting politicians-all maneuvering for power.

With the world as his canvas, acclaimed investigative reporter Tom Bower gathers unprecedented firsthand information from hundreds of sources to give readers the definitive, untold modern history of oil . . . the ultimate story of arrogance, intrigue, and greed.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Yellow Star ($1.99), by Jennifer Roy.

Book Description
"In 1945 the war ended. The Germans surrendered, and the ghetto was liberated. Out of over a quarter of a million people, about 800 walked out of the ghetto. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. I was one of the twelve." For more than fifty years after the war, Syvia, like many Holocaust survivors, did not talk about her experiences in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. She buried her past in order to move forward. But finally she decided it was time to share her story, and so she told it to her niece, who has re-told it here using free verse inspired by her aunt.This is the true story of Syvia Perlmutter — a story of courage, heartbreak, and finally survival despite the terrible circumstances in which she grew up. A timeline, historical notes, and an author's note are included.

Grade Level: 4th and up

Today's Deals

Add coupon code OCTOBER35 to your Sony account this weekend and get 35% off your next book from this selection (of roughly 317 thousand books... looks like it's all non-Agency titles). Use the credit thru Monday, it appears, but don't wait too late, as they often cut off sales by early evening.

At Fictionwise, get 35% off all non-Samhain books through October 15, using coupon code 101312

Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal:

• $5 Amazon MP3 Credit

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box ($1.99 Kindle; $7.99 companion audiobook), by The Arbinger Institute.

Book Description
International bestseller—over 750,000 copies sold and translated into 22 languages. Revised throughout, with a new section to help readers apply the lessons in the book.

Reveals how we unwittingly sabotage relationships, at work and at home, despite our best intentions—and how we can stop.

Since its original publication, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it has sold more copies each year since 2004 than it did in any of the first four years after publication. The book’s central insight—that the key to leadership lays not in what we do, but in who we are—has proved to have powerful resonances not only for organizational leadership, but in readers’ personal lives as well. This new edition has been revised throughout to make the story more readable and compelling. And drawing on the extensive correspondence the authors have received over the years they have added a section that outlines the many ways that readers have been using Leadership and Self-Deception, focusing on five specific areas: hiring, teambuilding, conflict resolution, accountability, and personal growth and development. Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at home to expose the subtle psychological processes that conceal our true motivations and intentions from us and trap us in a “box” of endless self-justification—even when we’re convinced we’re doing the right thing. Most importantly, the book shows us the way out. Readers will discover what millions already have—how to consistently tap into and act on their innate sense of what’s right, dramatically improving all of their relationships.

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Jane Yeadon, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $6.99).

Book Description
When Jane Yeadon decided that she wanted to become a nurse, the Swinging Sixties had arrived in style. But before her training the nearest she got to anything swinging was the udder of the cow on their farm in the north-east of Scotland. It was time to leave for the bright lights and some modern life. It Won’t Hurt a Bit is the story of Jane’s journey from the farm she loved and the schoolwork she hated through to her nurse training and the many adventures along the way. It’s a warm, funny and affectionate memoir from a simpler time as Jane and her new friends tackle the ups and downs of a gruelling three-year training, some scary matrons and a variety of challenging patients and their relatives. All to the backdrop of the fabulous Swinging Sixties.

White Girl Problems ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Babe Walker, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle, where the companion audiobook is $9.95.

Book Description
Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab—that's what happens when you spend $246,893.50 in one afternoon at Barneys. Now she's decided to write her memoir, revealing the gut-wrenching hurdles she's had to overcome in order to be perfect in every way, every day. Hurdles such as:

• I hate my horse.
• Every job I've ever had is the worst job I've ever had.
• He's not a doctor, a lawyer, or a prince.
• I’ll eat anything, as long as it’s gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie, sugar-free, and organic.

In an Adderall-induced flash of inspiration, Babe Walker has managed to create one of the most enjoyable, unforgettable memoirs in years.

The Moral Center: How Progressives Can Unite America Around Our Shared Values ($8.77 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by David Callahan, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012.

Book Description
Nothing’s the matter with Kansas: Americans voting their values are responding to a real moral crisis. And in this forceful follow-up to The Cheating Culture, David Callahan argues that the problems for most Americans are not abortion and gay marriage but rather issues that neither party is addressing—the selfishness that is careening out of control, the effect of our violent and consumerist culture on children, and our lack of a greater purpose. As Republicans veer into zealotry, liberals can find common ground with the moderate majority. But to alleviate the moral anxieties that drove GOP electoral victories they need a powerful new vision. In The Moral Center, Callahan articulates that vision and offers an escape from the dead-end culture war. With insights garnered from in-depth research and interviews, he examines some of our most polarized conflicts and presents unexpected solutions that lay out a new road map to the American center.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Chicken Big ($1.99), by Keith Graves.

Book Description
On a teeny little farm, in an itty-bitty coop, a very small hen laid a big, giant egg. And out of this egg came one big, humongous . . . something. 'It's big!' clucked the little rooster. 'It's enormous!' clucked the small chicken. 'It's an elephant!' peeped the smallest chicken. 'Run for your lives!' they cried. No matter how they try, these clueless chickens can't make sense of the gigantic new member of their familyGÇöuntil he saves the day. With wacky, laugh-out- loud humor and silliness to spare, this BIG twist on the classic Chicken Little story lends a whole new perspective to what it means to be chicken.

Grade Level: P and up