Up to $100 off on 8.9" Kindle Fire HD

This isn't a limited time sale, but a new, lower price on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" Tablet for $269 and the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G LTE Wireless Tablet for $399, which is $100 off the original price. Although this isn't quite as good a price on the WiFi only model as the limited time promo just before last Christmas, it matches the one-day sale that Amazon had on them last February. For those wanting to step up to the $50/year cellular access (in addition to WiFi), though, this new price beats any previous promotion by $50 and the new price is here to stay and doesn't require any coupon code. You don't have to turn on the 4G plan right away, either -- you can leave it off and then activate it when you need it, such as when you need it during a vacation.

Diesel Daily Deal - The Raging Hearts (DF)

The Raging Hearts ($3.82 Kindle), the second novel in Patricia Hagan's The Coltrane Saga, is today's Deal of the Day at Diesel E-Books, where it's discounted to $1.00. (8 copies left). Now published by Samhain, this historical romance was originally published by Avon (1982) and I see that someone is trying to get over $500 for a "new" copy of the original paperback at Amazon.

Book Description

As the Civil War rages on, Kitty Wright must fight to keep her child—and her love—alive.

Kitty Wright finds herself alone in the smoldering ashes of the Civil War. Her beloved father has been killed, along with the man she was once engaged to, and fate has sent Travis Coltrane, the Yankee cavalry officer whom she truly loves, marching on with General Sherman's troops.

Unbeknownst to Travis, Kitty gives birth to his son. Struggling to survive, she marries carpetbagger Corey McRae, grateful when he saves her from a mob of angry neighbors. But her life soon becomes a a living hell as he forces her to endure his depraved lust.

Kitty's indomitable spirit and love for her child keep her fighting for the day when Travis will return to her. But when he does, he is angry she has married and thinks her child is McRae's. And once again, Kitty must fight for the two greatest loves in her life.

This is a Retro Romance reprint and was originally published by Avon Books in April 1982.

Warning: This book accurately depicts the horrors of the Civil War, including graphic battlefield scenes, wounds, and trauma.

Get the book from Diesel (DRM-Free); be sure to check the sales price, as the Deal of the Day often sells out.

Today's Deals 3/13

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Blood Man ($0.99), by Paul Cleave [Simon and Schuster].

Book Description
Edward Hunter has it all—a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future…and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, New Zealand’s first serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward’s father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he’s going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn’t seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?

Blood Men is “relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted, and shot through with a vein of humor that’s as dark as hell” (Mark Billingham). A true master of the genre that only comes along once in a generation, Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killer’s mind and of a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Deborah Goes to Dover: A Novel of Regency England - Being the Fifth Volume of The Traveling Matchmaker ($1.99), by M.C. Beaton / Marion Chesney [RosettaBooks], with the companion audiobook $3.49.

Book Description
Miss Pym has her matchmaking work cut out for her when, enroute to Dover, she meets Lady Deborah Western, a lovely lady who is determined to be a tomboy

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Dragonsbane ($1.99), the first novel in Barbara Hambly's Winterlands series [Open Road], with the companion audiobook $3.49.

Book Description
An idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom

As a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do.

Gareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly puny powers—a ragtag crew destined to become legendary, or die in the attempt.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is eight books for every reader, from £0.99.

• The Lost Library (£0.99 UK), by AM Dean (no US edition)
• Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders! British (£0.99 UK), by Tony Robinson (US edition $5.55)
• The Halogen Oven Secret (£1.09 UK), by Norma Miller (US edition $8.39)
• Quiet the Mind (£0.99 UK), by Matthew Johnstone (no US edition
• Shadows of the Silver Screen (£0.99 UK), by Christopher Edge (no US edition)
• Crucible (£0.99 UK), by SG MacLean (no US edition)
• Berlin (£0.99 UK), by Pierre Frei (US edition $10.09)
• Work, Sex and Rugby (Main/UK), by Lewis Davies (no US edition)

The Commonsense Kitchen: 500 Recipes Plus Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life ($14.57 $3.99 Kindle, B&N), by Tom Hudgens [Chronicle Books], is the Nook Daily Find. I've left myself a note to check for a price match on Kindle later today. Update: This has now dropped to $3.99 on Kindle!

Book Description
This is a big, general, American cookbook emphasizing sustainibility and self-sufficiency. It celebrates the vital craft of cooking with an eclectic repetorie of more than 600 recipes for foods in all categories from salads to baking. Deep Springs College and Ranch serves as the frame for this all-purpose cookbook. As Joy of Cooking is rooted in the Germanic spirit of the Rombauer/Becker family, all the recipes in Deep Springs are all from the chowhouse at Deep Springs College, a prestigious and unique ranch/two-year college program in the Sierra Nevadas that teaches liberal arts; democratic culinary principles; and sustainable farming and ranching. Over 600 basic recipes, from butter to pies to homemade soap. A percentage of the recipes have a Southwestern flavor profile (enchiladas, chilis) due to the location of the college in the Southwest US. For all skill levels. Includes instructions on such 'chores' as washing dishes.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Around the Neighborhood: A Counting Lullaby ($1.99), by Sarah L. Thomson and Jana Christy (Illustrator).

Book Description
Around the neighborhood, inside a room full of sun, lived a happy, laughing mother and her little baby one. “Play,” said the mother. “I play,” said the one. So they played and were glad in the room full of sun.

The popular lullaby “Over in the Meadow” is reimagined in this fun counting book that visits the families in a neighborhood, including a mother and her child, a dog and his puppies, a spider and his spiderlings, and a mallard and her ducklings. Sarah L. Thomson’s lyrical text is paired with Jana Christy’s adorable digital artwork for a perfect bedtime treat.

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.

Bargain Book Roundup

Catch Your Death ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo) and Killing Cupid ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo, $2.99 B&N), by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards, should get mystery/thriller lovers set for the weekend. These are both updated editions, published by HarperCollins, with new material that you won't find in the self-pubbed editions you might already have in your libraries.

Catch Your Death

Fear is contagious…

The No.1 bestselling internet sensation. Now in an updated edition with exclusive new material.

A terrifying enigma – with the power to destroy…

Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at research centre where scientists hunted for a cure for the common cold virus. That summer, Kate fell in love with a handsome young doctor, Stephen, but her stay ended in his tragic death and Kate fled to a new life in the US.

Now Kate is back in England and on the run with her young son, this time from her vile husband. But a chance encounter sets her on a terrifying path of discovery. What really happened at the Cold Research Unit two decades ago?

Killing Cupid

He is watching her…

The bestselling book and internet sensation, now in a brand new updated edition with exclusive new material.

Doesn’t love always feel this way?

Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this, but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together?
So Alex stalks her on Facebook and finds out where she lives, buys her presents using her own credit card and sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house, reads her diary and secretly listens to her while she takes a bath.
Isn’t that what all lovers do?
But when a love rival appears on the scene, Alex has to take drastic action, and soon a young woman lies dead after tumbling from the roof of her house. Now there is no-one standing in the way of Alex and his true love. But someone is watching Alex too and he is about to discover that there is a thin line between love – and hate…

The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World--Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; companion audiobook $5.49), by Dr. Daphne Miller, is an interesting looking diet/health book from HarperCollins.

Book Description

• Why do the relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States?
• Why is the rate of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm—so low?
• Why is it that older women in Okinawa have such low breast cancer rates that it is not considered cost-effective for them to get screening mammograms?
• The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more.

Whether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet, with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables, the antidepressive Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of omega-3s, the age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish, or the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes necessary to put those secrets into action. The Jungle Effect is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime.

A Drink Before the War ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), the first title in Dennis Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro series. Two more from HarperCollins, both stand-alone titles, Mystic River and Shutter Island, are still on sale for $2.99 at Amazon (but have gone up elsewhere, it seems).

Book Description
As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir -- and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.

A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice. About right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business ... it's deadly.

The double-novel omnibus Night Sins/Guilty as Sin ($6.99 Kindle), by Tami Hoag, comprises the first two novels in her Deer Lake series. It's $10 in the other stores I checked.

Book Description
NIGHT SINS
A peaceful Minnesota town is about to face its worst nightmare. A young boy disappears and the only clue is a note—taunting and casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer? For a tough-minded investigator, it’s her first make-or-break case. For a local cop, it’s the fear that big-city evil has come to stalk his small-town home. Together they’ll hunt a madman who knows no bounds and for whom no sin is forbidden.

GUILTY AS SIN
A psychopath has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. But when a second boy vanishes, a frightened public demands to know if the police have caught the wrong man. Is the nightmare continuing…or just beginning? Prosecutor Ellen North believes she has the right man—but that he has an accomplice in the shadows. Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of wits, a dark game of life and death… with an evil mind as guilty as sin.

Bad Faith ($2.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Robert Tanenbaum, is the 24th and most recent novel in his Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi series [Simon and Schuster].

Book Description

A parent’s worst nightmare sets the stage for the exhilarating new thriller in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s New York Times bestselling Butch Karp series.

New York District Attorney Butch Karp has no qualms about putting David and Nonie Ellis on trial following the excruciating death of their young son, Micah. To him, the case is cut-and-dried—reckless manslaughter. Helpless ten-year-old Micah counted on his parents to protect him from the effects of a rare but treatable cancer. Instead, the Ellis family relied solely on prayer and the guidance of snake-oil salesman Reverend C. G. Westlund, of the End of Days Reformation Church of Jesus Christ Resurrected, to save him.

Westlund and his zealous followers set up camp outside the DA’s office, angrily protesting the indictment of their “brother” and “sister,” but the charismatic leader’s true objective is to create a diversion from an alarming fraud. He coerced Nonie Ellis into signing an insurance policy that listed himself and the church as beneficiaries in the event of Micah’s death, but he needs the Ellises to be exonerated to get the payout. When David Ellis discovers the deception, no amount of faith can save him from his gruesome fate.

Amid the firestorm of controversy surrounding the case, Karp’s wife, private investigator Marlene Ciampi, heads to Memphis to uncover Westlund’s past. The evidence she finds is enough to blow the top off the con man’s scheme—if she doesn’t get herself blown away in the process. Back in Manhattan, meanwhile, Karp is confronted by a deadly nemesis from the past who has explosive plans of her own. The edge-of-your-seat action comes to a head at the annual Halloween parade when a merciless struggle between good and evil metes out its own fatal form of justice.

Honolulu ($2.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; companion audiobook $2.99), by Alan Brennert [Macmillan].

Book Description
From the bestselling author of the “dazzling historical saga” (The Washington Post), Moloka’i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city

“In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents’ feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. As for me, my parents named me Regret.”

Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young “picture bride” who journeys to Hawai'i in 1914 in search of a better life.

Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it’s the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu’s tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands’ history...

With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai'i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale of four women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.

Resurrection ($0.99 Kindle; companion audiobook $1.99), by Arwen Elys Dayton, was originally published by Penguin, but is now published by Amazon's 47North, which means the ebook edition is exclusive on Kindle (the paperback edition is available at B&N).

Book Description
The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet—a primitive place called Earth. It’s mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. They buried remnants of their technology deep beneath the desert and sent a last desperate message home… Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction. An enemy that nearly obliterated their race has risen again—now with the ability to destroy them for good. A lone Kinley soldier named Pruit is sent on a desperate mission: to follow the ancient beacon back to Earth and recover the secrets to faster than light travel. It is their last hope. Technology that once allowed them to cross vast reaches of space might allow them to outrun their enemies and find a safe world to call their own. But Pruit’s mission will be harder than she can imagine. Her quest will draw her enemies after her and will awaken ancient foes on Earth. As she gets closer to what she seeks, she will find each adversary willing to risk everything to stop her. Each hoping to steal the knowledge for themselves. The rivals will meet in modern-day Egypt and their struggle will alter the fate of worlds.

Courting Trouble ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo) is the seventh novel in Lisa Scottoline's Rosato and Associates series. the ninth in the series, Killer Smile, is also marked down and is currently $4.27 on Kindle.

Book Description
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered -- above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she's got to play dead. She'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.

Diesel Daily Deal - Love Rescued Me (E)

Love Rescued Me ($4.49 Kindle), by Debra Kayn, is today's Deal of the Day at Diesel E-Books, where it's discounted to $0.80. (6 copies left).

Book Description

What's small-town veterinary doctor Samantha James to do when the one person she trusts and shares her secret with isn’t who she thought?

Samantha James moves to small-town Skamania, Washington to escape the crooked cops who framed her younger brother, Parker, and sent him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. With the goal of setting up her veterinary practice and making a home for Parker when he's released, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with the local forest ranger.

Undercover officer Bobby Thorn is only in Skamania posing as a forest ranger to apprehend the scumbag who killed his partner. He doesn't have time for romance. But when he goes to town seeking help for the injured wolf he finds, he can't help but be drawn to the fiery veterinarian. Caught between sharing sizzling nights with Samantha and doing his job, he finds himself torn. Will he be able to keep from blowing his cover, catch a killer, and keep the woman he loves safe all at the same time?

Get the book from Diesel; be sure to check the sales price, as the Deal of the Day often sells out.