Kindle Daily Deals 4/22

Today's Earth Day and (of course) Amazon has several interesting items in their Make Every Day Earth Day Sale, from Zojirushi and Ms Bento Lunch on the Go items to Goal Zero Yeti solar generators (which are slightly cheaper at CostCo, if you have a membership, but with Amazon you may not have to pay sales tax and get free Prime shipping, straight to your door). One of the more intriguing selections is the Eton Rugged Rukus All-Terrain Portable Solar Wireless Sound System, currently available to pre-order for $30 off. This joins their Rukus Portable Bluetooth Solar Powered Wireless Speaker System as a solution for listening to your devices when you aren't in your living room and want to share the program with more than one person. Both are solar powered (or can be wall charged), can charge your USB devices in a pinch (acting as a solar charger system) and connect to your phone, tablet or Kindle via Bluetooth, while the existing devices is larger, with a carrying handle and a pocket to stash your phone and has a standard audio jack for use with any device. The new device is much more portable (1.2 lbs vs. 3.5), will be much more backpack friendly and is water resistant. If you need truly waterproof, tho, you might want to look at something like the ECOXGEAR ECOXBT, which you can clip on your pack (it's solar charger is entirely separate, also) or use at the beach, beside the pool, in the shower, or while kayaking the rapids.

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Pepi Tree, a kid's game that is very appropriate for Earth Day!

Today's Free MP3 Pick is the radio edit of Hillbilly Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus, which matches the title of Cyrus' new memoir, now available on Kindle and, at $5.99, it's a bargain compared to the hardcover edition ($15 or more).

Starting today, Get a $10 or $20 Amazon.com Gift Card with Purchase of Select Paula Deen Cookware or Dinnerware (deal expires May 12).

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is King of Swords ($1.99), by Russell Blake.

Book Description
Book 1 of the Assassin series, King of Swords is an epic assassination thriller framed against a gritty backdrop of brutal drug cartel violence in modern Mexico.

The G-20 Financial Summit is planned for San Jose Del Cabo. The world's pre-eminent finance ministers will attend, along with the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico. Captain Romero Cruz of the Mexican Federal Police uncovers an assassination plot against the attendees. In a roller-coaster race against the clock, Cruz must track and stop El Rey, the "King of Swords" - a faceless super-assassin responsible for a string of the world's most spectacular killings, before he turns the G-20 into a slaughterhouse.

King of Swords is a rule-breaking rush that shatters convention to create a richly-drawn story that's sure to shock and delight even the most jaded intrigue/adventure thriller fans.

WARNING - King of Swords is controversial & contains jarring imagery & situations. It is NOT for the faint of heart. Readers interested in tame, conventional thrillers would be best advised to look elsewhere.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Tempting the Highlander ($0.99), by Janet Chapman [Simon and Schuster].

Book Description
She has the power to tempt him beyond all reason....

Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. Unbeknownst to Catherine, Robbie's looking for a book of spells to save the future of his family...and little did he expect to find a burning passion in Catherine's arms. Can Robbie seal his family's fate while enticing Catherine to follow him and her own heart wherever love will take them?

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Stranded ($1.99), an anthology by Anne Bishop, Anthony Francis and James Alan Gardner [Bell Bridge Books], with the companion audiobook for $3.99 (and it counts towards the Listening Rewards Sale this month). This looks like it would be worth picking up for the first novella alone and I'll be checking the sample later this morning.

Book Description
Three Great Authors—Three Great Science Fiction Stories

A Strand In The Web
New York Times Bestselling Fantasy Author Anne Bishop makes her U.S. debut in Science Fiction with this engaging futuristic novella. The Restorers travel the universe fulfilling a purpose handed down through the generations. They live and die aboard city-ships, never knowing the worlds they create and save. What begins as a disastrous training exercise in creating and balancing ecosystems becomes an unexpected fight for survival. The only hope may be the secret project of an untried Restorer team.

Host Of Leeches
Award winning author James Alan Gardner pens a wonderfully imaginative tale, in which a young woman wakes to find herself the sole human on an orbiting, mechanical space station. To find a way home, she must navigate the dangerous politics of war between opposing robot leaders.

Stranded
Popular urban fantasy writer Anthony Francis (Dakota Frost, Skindancer series) explores the clash of ethics and survival when a young, genetically engineered centauress from the ultra-advanced Alliance lays claim to a rare, strategic garden planet, only to find herself captured by a band of rag-tag Frontier refugees who’ve crashed their vintage ship on her unexpectedly hostile world.

Kindle Daily Deal Celebrate Earth Day 2013 with four illustrated, "green"-themed books for young readers at $1.99 apiece.

Earth Day, Birthday!, by Maureen Wright and Violet Kim.

It's April 22, and Lion and his friends want to plant trees, recycle bottles, and have fun on Earth Day. But not Monkey. He wants to celebrate his birthday. Can he convince the other animals that it really is his birthday? Violet Kim's humorous artwork, rendered in paper, photographs, and colored pencil, highlight the sunny, friendly world of the animals.

Age Level: 3 and up

Nibbles: A Green Tale, by Charlotte Middleton.

In this companion book to Nibbles: A Green Tale, Nibbles and his new neighbor, Posie, are keeping six caterpillars as pets. They look after their caterpillars carefully, but one day, the caterpillars disappear! These gardening guinea pigs become the detectives of Dandeville. With the help of shop owner Mr. Rosetti, they solve their mystery in this green tale. Author and illustrator Charlotte Middleton uses a charming, unique style of mixed-media artwork.

Age Range: 6 - 8 years

Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, by Steven Kroll and Steve Cox.

Pinch is a packrat. He collects lots of stuff. When his friends decide to hold a tag sale, Pinch is horrified. The last thing he wants to do is recycle his things. But then he realizes that he can make money at a tag sale—enough money to buy more stuff! How Pinch changes and finds a way to beautify his town will reinforce the benefits of practicing the three R’s— reduce, reuse, and recycle!

Age Range: 6 - 8 years

Recycle Every Day!, by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.

Minna, a creative bunny, wants to win the Community Recycling Calendar Contest. She knows a lot about recycling but just can’t come up with the perfect idea for her poster. Minna’s family helps her find inspiration as they share their own recycling efforts. The book’s bright, bold cut-paper illustrations are enhanced by Wallace’s use of recycled materials such as bubble wrap, envelopes, and wallpaper. With games, activities, and recycling suggestions, this book is destined to be read again and again.

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up

Monday Morning Bargain Books

Diamond Eyes ($2.99 Kindle, Kobo), by A A Bell [HarperCollins]

Book Description
Mira Chambers has an unusual gift for solving mysteries ...

Blind, institutionalised and frustrated by her loss of independence, Mira has been driven to the brink of insanity by medications that make her life unbearable. When she astounds two medical scientists by ′seeing′ the impossible, they begin an exploration of Mira′s strange perspectives.

Together with Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con, Mira becomes entangled in a dangerous adventure of self-discovery that leads them to a killer -- and exposed to a manipulative sociopath whose own unique talent is more than a match for Mira′s.

Layers of secrets are about to be peeled away ... and no one will be safe from what is revealed.

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Karen Abbott [Random House]

Book Description
America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy’s world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys—four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee’s brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape—Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.

A Plague of Zombies: An Outlander Novella ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Diana Gabaldon [Random House]

Book Description
A captivating tale of history and suspense, with a touch of the supernatural, featuring Lord John Grey. This novella, originally published as “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” is now available as a standalone eBook.

Lord John Grey, a lieutenant-colonel in His Majesty’s army, arrives in Jamaica with orders to quash a slave rebellion brewing in the mountains. But a much deadlier threat lies close at hand. The governor of the island is being menaced by zombies, according to a servant. Lord John has no idea what a zombie is, but it doesn’t sound good. It sounds even worse when hands smelling of grave dirt come out of the darkness to take him by the throat. Between murder in the governor’s mansion and plantations burning in the mountains, Lord John will need the wisdom of serpents and the luck of the devil to keep the island from exploding.

Mother of the Bride ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Lynn Michaels [Random House]

Book Description
She planned everything for the wedding – except the falling in love part....

In a family of jet-setters and lovable eccentrics, Cydney Parrish is the stable, sensible one, always with her feet firmly planted on the ground. Maybe that’s why she ended up raising her sister’s daughter Bebe. Now Bebe is all grown up and about to marry the nephew of the handsome and reclusive author Angus Munroe. Between planning the wedding, dealing with her high maintenance kin, and facing a future with only a cat for company, Cydney has her hands full. But she isn’t too busy to notice that aside from being pushy and generally infuriating, Gus Munroe may just be the man of her dreams.

Angus Munroe is not about to let his only nephew throw his future away on some ditzy debutante. He flies into town determined to “speak now and never hold his peace”–but ends up instead with a broken nose, a slight limp, and his mountainside home invaded by the bride-to-be’s family. He’s pretty certain it is all the wedding planner’s fault. Aunts aren’t supposed to be sexy, but someone obviously forgot to tell the irresistible Cydney Parrish....

Nook Daily Find 4/22

Tumbleweeds ($8.89 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Leila Meacham, is the Nook Daily Find [Hatchette].

Book Description
Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.

UK Kindle Daily Deal 4/22

Shadow Behind The Sun (£0.99 UK), an auto-biography by Remzije Sherifi, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $11.99).

Book Description
REMZIJE SHERIFI worked as a journalist with Radio Gjilan in Kosova. She lost her job, and almost her life, as the Milosevic regime steadily tightened its grip on the Albanian people who lived there. In SHADOW BEHIND THE SUN she recounts her family's history to shine a new light on the terrible events of the 1990s. Now a British citizen, she has made her commitment to Asylum Seekers and other refugees, working with the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow. The shadow of past events stands behind the sunrise of every new constitutional or social development. Can they be forgotten? Should they? There has never been so much displacement in the world as at the present time. Beside the history of the Kosovar people she describes the plight of Asylum Seekers in the here and now. Remzije Sherifi is a compassionate and visionary presence in difficult and changing times.

Skeem Life: Growing Up in the Seventies (£1.09 UK), by Gary Robertson, is the second Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
When young Gary Robertson moved from the old tenements to an almost brand new housing scheme in the early 1970s, it was the start of a very big adventure. In the skeems, you could roam from morning to night and get up to all sorts – provided you obeyed the rules of the street (and your parents if they saw you). As a training ground for life it was second to none but there was plenty to learn. There was money to be made on the lemonade bottles and the berries each summer – provided you knew the tricks of the trade. There were games to be played, from Backie Hopping to Scubby Queen, gangs to be avoided and football, music and lassies to get to grips with – or not – at the Clubbie. Irreverent and funny, Skeem Life is set against a backdrop of the tough housing schemes of 1970s Dundee. It was Britain in the time of the three-day week and the OPEC oil crisis but it was a journey full of excitement, adventure and youthful dreams.

Kindle Daily Deals 4/21

Earth Day Deal of the Week: Up to 60% off "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" and Select Titles from National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

Over at Kobo, play the new Unforgettable Villians Trivia Game for coupons (up to 75% off) and a chance at a free Kobo Mini. You can play once a day, but on the first day you play, don't forget to go back and answer all previous day's questions and you'll get a coupon for each one.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 40 Kindle Mysteries & Thrillers, Each $1.99 or Less. These are all from Amazon's publishing imprints Thomas & Mercer, 47North, AmazonCrossing and Montlake Romance (a Romantic Suspense pick), with authors such as Max Allan Collins, LJ Sellers, Jayne Ormerod, Jutta Profijt, Blair S. Walker and Barbara Warren featured in the selections. For those that prefer audiobooks, most seem to have companion editions at Audible, with prices in the $1.99 to $3.49 range, which means they are less than half the subscription credit price, even after paying for the Kindle edition first.

Deal Description
Today only, save on any of 40 riveting Kindle mysteries and thrillers. Kindle books can be read on Kindles and free Kindle reading apps, or given as gifts to anyone with an e-mail address.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is On A Night Like This ($1.99), the first title in NY Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy's Callaways series. Like many of her backlist titles, this is now self-published under her own Fog City Publishing label.

Book Description
A romantic new contemporary series about the Callaways, a big, blended Irish family born to serve and protect. 


The second oldest of the Callaway clan, Aiden Callaway veered from the family tradition of urban firefighting and became a smokejumper, never questioning his choice until the job took the life of his friend, Kyle, and left Aiden with injuries and fractured memories. Everyone blames Aiden for what happened, but he doesn't remember, nor is he sure he wants to remember. The truth may clear Aiden of blame but destroy Kyle's reputation and hurt the people he left behind. 
 


Aiden seeks help from an unlikely ally … 
 


Sara had always been untouchable, sweet, innocent, his sister's best friend, and the girl next door. But one reckless night in their youth took their relationship to a new level. Sara has never forgiven or forgotten the way Aiden brought it crashing down, but she's no longer that girl with the crazy crush. She's a woman in search of her own truth.

The sparks between Aiden and Sara have been smoldering for a very long time. Sara is afraid to take another chance on a man who broke her heart, and Aiden knows better than anyone how dangerous an intense fire can be.

As teenagers they weren't ready for each other. Are they ready now?

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Sabriel ($1.99), the first title in the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix and Leo And Diane Dillon (Illustrator) [HarperTeen].

Book Description
Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life'and comes face to face with her own hidden destiny. . . Garth Nix's first young adult novel, Sabriel was recently nominated for the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Science Fiction in Australia.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is 2005 Newbery Medal winner Kira-Kira ($0.99), by Cynthia Kadohata [Simon and Schuster].

Book Description
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.

Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.


Age Range: 10 and up