Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Against His Will ($1.99), by Trish Jensen (Bell Bridge Books).

Book Description
They tried to resist each other, but it was impossible. Soon their passions were unleashed, and their self-control went to the dogs . . .FBI agent Jake Donnelly is not the kind of man who names a dog “Muffin.” Especially not a jowly bulldog. But now Jake’s Aunt Sophie has left him her beloved Muffin, along with a sizable inheritance that has some strings attached. Jake and Muffin have to attend a two-week therapy course designed to work out any bonding issues they may have.Enter Leanne Crosby, a pet shrink and owner of a luxury pet spa complete with private counseling sessions, a doggie dating service, and plenty of quirky advice on proper pet parenting.When the gorgeous and brilliant Dr. Crosby sets out to help Jake and Muffin become soulmates, it soon becomes obvious that she and Jake are falling in puppy love.

The Small Hand ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Susan Hill, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $5.72).

Book Description
Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer's evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity, he approaches the door, and, standing before the entrance feels the unmistakeable sensation of a small hand creeping into his own, 'as if a child had taken hold of it'. Intrigued by the encounter, he determines to learn more, and discovers that the owner's grandson had drowned tragically many years before. At first unperturbed by the odd experience, Snow begins to be plagued by haunting dreams, panic attacks, and more frequent visits from the small hand which become increasingly threatening and sinister...

Barefoot in the Sand ($5.99 $1.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in Roxanne St. Claire's Barefoot Bay series, is the Nook Daily Find; this is an Agency priced book, so should be price matched on Kindle later today. now priced matched on Kindle.

Book Description
When all you hold dear is taken away . . .

When a hurricane roars through Lacey Armstrong's home on the coast of Barefoot Bay, she decides all that remains in the rubble is opportunity. A new hotel is just what Mimosa Key needs, and Lacey and her teenage daughter are due for a fresh start. And nothing, especially not a hot, younger architect, is going to distract Lacey from finally making her dreams a reality.

A second chance is the only thing you have left.

Love has already cost Clay Walker everything. And if he's going to have any chance of picking up the pieces of his life, he needs the job as Lacey Armstrong's architect. What's not in the plans is falling for the headstrong beauty. Her vision of the future is more appealing than anything he could have ever drafted for himself. Will Clay's designs on Lacey's heart be more than she can handle, or will she trust him to build something that will last forever?

The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution ($12.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by David O. Stewart, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012. This is also an Agency/Publisher priced book, so watch for a price match on Kindle later today.

Book Description
The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- then and now.

George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention's sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the often painful process of writing the Constitution.

It was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were alloted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America's original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention.

The room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters, some known -- Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolph -- and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did, but Washington's quiet leadership and the delegates' inspired compromises held the Convention together.

In a country continually arguing over the document's original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus -- often reluctantly -- to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Rise of the Wolf ($2.99), by Curtis Jobling.

Book Description
A thrilling new series for Ranger's Apprentice fans!

Imagine a world ruled by Werelords--men and women who can shift at will into bears, lions, and serpents. When Drew suddenly discovers he's not only a werewolf but the long-lost heir to the murdered Wolf King's throne, he must use his wits and newfound powers to survive in a land suddenly full of enemies. Drew's the only one who can unite the kingdom in a massive uprising against its tyrant ruler, Leopold the Lion. But the king is hot on Drew's tail and won't rest until he's got the rebel wolf's head.

Grade Level: 5 and up

Today's Deals

For those with a Kindle Fire, several games are on sale for 99 cents in the Kindle Appstore, including VeggieTales: The League of Incredible Vegetables for kids (reg. $3), Router, a circuit puzzle game and a dozen Magic Puzzles (an electronic version of jigsaw puzzles), with themes ranging from kittens to Christmas.

If you are using your Fire or other Android device to listen to music, you might want to pick up iSyncr for PC or for Mac while it is half-price; it lets you sync your iTunes library easily (including via WiFi; DRM-free only, of course), use smart playlists and sync any Amazon MP3 purchases back to iTunes.

Additional formats on free books:

• Vegan Baking Classics (K/N)

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

• $30 Off Amazon Denim

Today's Kindle Daily Deal and Nook Daily Find is Blackberry Winter ($2.99 Kindle, B&N; $8.99 companion audiobook), by Sarah Jio.

Book Description
From acclaimed novelist Sarah Jio, a new “mystery-slash-love story [that] will have you racing to the end”

Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the nightshift, but it’s the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning—even though it’s the second of May—a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow.

Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Times reporter, Claire Hanson, awakens to another late-season snowstorm. Assigned to cover this “blackberry winter” and its predecessor decades earlier, Claire learns of Daniel’s unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth—only to discover that she and Vera are linked in unexpected ways.

The Colonel's Mistake ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Dan Mayland, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible). You can also get the companion audiobook for this one very inexpensively ($1.99 US/$2.29 UK).

Book Description
Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives a quiet life as a professor at Western University in the city of Baku. But his peace is shattered by both the assassination of a high-level American during an international oil conference and the arrest of CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham for the crime.

Sava knows the Iranian American Buckingham well—he personally trained her—and doesn’t believe she had anything to do with the murder, so he visits a CIA control center to discuss the situation with the new station chief. When no one answers the outside intercom, Sava overrides the security code and stumbles upon the grisliest scene of his career. Now, he can’t help but wonder if he really knows Buckingham as well as he thought…

Determined to find out, Sava soon finds himself and a partner caught in the middle of the new Great Game—a deadly intelligence war over oil that has Iran, China, and the United States clawing at each other’s throats. Meanwhile, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation from Washington. His stake in the Great Game is high—and personal.

From the shadows of the world’s most volatile region to the highest levels of Washington politics, The Colonel’s Mistake takes readers on an unforgettable ride where the good, the bad, and the brutal play a deadly chess game of global espionage.

The Portable Patriot: Documents, Speeches, and Sermons That Compose the American Soul ($9.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Joel Miller and Kristen Parrish, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012.

Book Description
What does it mean to think, believe, and act like an American?

The soul of America is far more than a concept—it is a people. Even the most sacred principles mean very little unless lived out passionately by an informed citizenry. In The Portable Patriot you’ll find a carefully assembled sampling of American history’s most formative words, written by the people who made that extraordinary history. Speeches and sermons, essays and extracts, poems and proclamations illumine such values as independence, virtue, humility, bravery, thrift, prayer, enterprise, liberty, and reliance on God. While peering back to the cradle of America’s national identity, The Portable Patriot also points a way forward, compelling us to heed poet John Dickinson’s plea to “rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty’s call.”

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Coraline 10th Anniversary Edition ($1.99), by Neil Gaiman.

Book Description
"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . ."

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman's first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.

$0.99 eInk Halloween Games & Books (K)

For a limited time, you can pick up several Kindle E Ink Halloween Games and Interactive Books for $0.99 each (up to 75% off). For those of you with a Kindle Fire, be sure to check out the daily Free Android App (top/right corner of the blog home page); today's app: Halloween Mahjong.

Interactive Books

• Witch's Brew - Spellspinners 1, by Heidi R. Kling
• Cursed (A Vampire Text Adventure, Volume 1), by Sam Landstrom
• Arcania - Trial By Fire 1, by Liz Maverick
• Choice of Zombies, by Choice of Games
• Choice of the Vampire, by Choice of Games

Games

• Falling Blocks Halloween Edition, by Play Gray
• Killer Sudoku, by DJAPE
• Brick Arcade Halloween, by Gameblend Studios
• Mahjong Solitaire Halloween Edition, by Mobigloo
• Tarot, by Olmatech Technology / Matrix Software
• Ultimate Halloween Quiz, by HandyX
• Halloween Pairs, by Oak Systems Leisure Software

Today's Deals

Looking for something different to give out for Halloween this year (or just want a free game)? Then run over to the Stop Zombie Mouth website and print off as many coupons as you want, each one good for a free copy of Plants vs. Zombies at Popcap Games (redeem Oct. 30 - Nov. 10). You can also download some wallpaper for your computer, some coloring pages for kids, invitations for a Halloween party and some masks that you can print.


Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Eight Spooky Halloween Books, most of them for 99 cents.

Zombie Town ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
Three Faces of Me ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
My Alien Parents ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The 13th Warning ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The Creatures from Beyond Beyond ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The Adventures of Shrinkman ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
Blackbriar ($1.99), by William Sleator
An Eyeball in My Garden: And Other Spine-Tingling Poem ($1.99), by Jennifer Cole Judd, Laura Wynkoop and Johan Olander

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 22 Karen Kingsbury Romances for $1.99 each! That's far too many for me to list them out, so just click the link to see them all. Also, be sure to double check the prices before one-clicking, as I still don't see a price drop and it's well after midnight (PT) as I am posting this (regular prices of $8-$10 are showing). If there are several of these you want, it's probably worth a phone call to Kindle support to see if they can notify someone who can get the prices corrected before this afternoon.

Book Description
Award-winning author Karen Kingsbury is arguably America's favorite inspirational writer with more than 50 novels to her name. Today's deal features 22 of her best-selling novels covering five complete series: Bailey Flanigan, Above the Line, Sunrise, Redemption, and Firstborn.

Death and the Devil ($1.58 / £0.99 UK), by Frank Schätzing, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).

Book Description
Cologne, 1260. The great cathedral, the most ambitious building in all Christendom, is rising above the city. In its shadow seethes a society in ferment: traumatised Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, religious tensions poised to explode into violence, a burgeoning merchant class that despises the old aristocracy and is determined to seize power.Against this backdrop Jacob the Fox, a flame-haired petty thief, witnesses a murder – the cathedral's architect, pushed to his death from the scaffold by a black-clad assassin. Soon Jacob is on the run, convinced the Angel of Death is on his trail, as the killer pursues him through medieval Cologne's seedy underworld. To survive he must uncover a vengeful conspiracy that threatens to tear the city apart and stain the sacred project with blood.

Blood and Bullets ($5.38 $2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series by James R. Tuck, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle, now price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat. But now an immortal evil has this bad-ass bounty hunter dead in its sights. . .

Ever since a monster murdered his family, Deacon Chalk hunts any creature that preys on the innocent. So when a pretty vampire girl "hires" him to eliminate a fellow slayer, Deacon goes to warn him--and barely escapes a vampire ambush. Now he's got a way-inexperienced newbie hunter to protect and everything from bloodsuckers to cursed immortals on his trail. There's also a malevolent force controlling the living and the undead, hellbent on turning Deacon's greatest loss into the one weapon that could destroy him. . .

1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America ($15.87 Hardcover, $1.99 B&N), by David Pietrusza, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012 (no Kindle edition).

Book Description
The behind-the-headline true story of Harry Truman's stunning upset!

Everyone knows the iconic news photo of jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing a copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” David Pietrusza goes backstage to explain how it happened, placing the brutal political battle in the context of an erupting Cold War and America's exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism.

Pietrusza achieves for 1948's presidential race what he previously did in his acclaimed 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: bringing history to life and intrigue readers with tales of high drama while simultaneously presenting the issues, personalities, and controversies of this pivotal era with laser-like clarity.

Today's Deals

Get 50% off Windows 8 Programming books at O'Reilly, using e WKWNDW8 - Deal expires November 2, 2012 at 11:59pm PT.

Additional formats on free books:

• The Power Trip Prequel (K/N)

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Big Maria ($1.99), by Johnny Shaw, which was the UK Daily Deal earlier this week (and one that I was hoping we would get).

Book Description
There’s gold in them thar hills—or more precisely, in Arizona’s Chocolate Mountains, where one hundred years ago a miner stashed a king’s ransom of the stuff. But times have changed. The world has changed. And now the Chocolate Mountains are the home of the largest military artillery range in the world.

Harry’s living on disability and getting liquored up and beaten down. Frank’s a feisty old-timer battling cancer and a domineering daughter. And Ricky’s a good kid in a bad spot, doing everything for family. Together they’re staking what little they have left on a dangerous quest to the Big Maria Mine—and the gold that can offer them a new beginning.

Unfortunately a meth-dealing biker wants a piece, a trigger-happy AWOL soldier wants to play chicken in a live minefield, two stubborn burros want to go home, a starving mountain lion wants his dinner, and the US Army wants to rain on our heroes’ parade with real bombs.

When you’re all out of crazy ideas, you’ve got to try the stupid ones.

Imagine Chuck Palahniuk and Don Winslow’s love child – and that would be ribald author Johnny Shaw. His novel Big Maria is a unfiltered, wild romp in which three men get one chance to find a lost gold mine; the only problem is the Big Maria Mine is right in the middle of a US Army artillery range.

Sightlines ($1.58 / £0.99 UK), by Kathleen Jamie, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring us to look again at the ‘natural’, the remote and the human-made. She offers us the closest of perspectives and the most distant, too: from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, or the pores of a whale’s jawbone under restoration, to satellites rising over a Scottish island, or the aurora borealis lighting up an iceberg-strewn sea. We encounter killer whales circling below cliffs, noisy colonies of breeding gannets, and paintings deep in caves.

Written with precision, delicacy and personal recollection, Sightlines invites us to pause and look afresh at our surroundings.

Sarah's Garden ($9.99 Kindle, $2.40 B&N), the first title in the Patch of Heaven series by Kelly Long, is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
Quite by accident, Sarah King has fallen in love. But this love is forbidden, and could cost her everything she holds dear.

Tucked into the majesty of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains is a garden Sarah King has been nurturing for years. She never feels more alive than when she is alone with her thoughts and her Creator among the delicate rows of plants. But then duty calls her away from her beloved garden and into a world she knows little about.

Grant Williams, a handsome young veterinarian, has left the city to open a rural practice among the Amish. Within minutes of meeting shy but feisty Sarah King, he is captivated by her.

As their feelings grow for one another, Sarah insists they can never be together. Marrying Grant would mean being uprooted from her home, her family, and her community. Throughout the cold Pennsylvania winter, with her garden tucked away until spring, Sarah begins crafting a quilt that illustrates her pain. Can anything lasting blossom from a love that's forbidden?

The Future of Power ($9.00 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Joseph S. Nye Jr., is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012.

Book Description
In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe. By 2010, none of these factors confer power in the same way: industrial capacity seems an almost Victorian virtue, and cyber threats are wielded by non-state actors. Politics changed, and the nature of power—defined as the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes you want—had changed dramatically. Power is not static; its story is of shifts and innovations, technologies and relationships.

Joseph Nye is a long-time analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government. Many of his ideas have been at the heart of recent debates over the role America should play in the world: his concept of "soft power" has been adopted by leaders from Britain to China; "smart power” has been adopted as the bumper-sticker for the Obama Administration’s foreign policy. This book is the summation of his work, as relevant to general readers as to foreign policy specialists. It is a vivid narrative that delves behind the elusive faces of power to discover its enduring nature in the cyber age.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Splat the Cat ($2.99), by Rob Scotton.

Book Description
It's Splat's first day of school and he's worried. What if he doesn't make any new friends? Just in case, Splat decides to bring along his pet mouse, Seymour, and hides him in his lunchbox. The teacher, Mrs. Wimpydimple, introduces Splat to the class and he soon starts learning all his important cat lessons. But when Seymour escapes and the cats do what cats do (they chase mice!), Splat's worried again. Maybe now he'll lose all his friends, old and new! Just in time, wise Mrs. Wimpydimple takes charge and teaches everyone an important new lesson. Maybe Cat School is going to be okay after all!

Grade Level: P and up

This book features Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images when using Kindle Fire/HD or select Kindle Reading Apps (Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android); unlike some other Text Popup books, this one won't work on any of the eInk Kindles.