UK Kindle Daily Deal 5/21

The Beach (£0.99 UK), by Alex Garland [Penguin], is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $12.99).

Book Description
Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest. Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, and island Garden of Eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning, Richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists. The challenge is irresistible, and Richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of Shangri-La.

Daily Deal - Relentless Pursuit (E)

Relentless Pursuit ($4.99 $3.82 Kindle), a contemporary romance by Sara Orwig [Harlequin Desire], is today's Deal of the Day at at Diesel E-Books, where it's discounted to $1.00 (4 copies left).

Book Description
A cool million to help a withdrawn child in time for kindergarten? Widowed teacher Ava Barton is touched that the girl's guardian, Texas billionaire Will Delaney, cares so deeply. But the job includes moving into Will's mansion for the summer. And suddenly, Ava is working nights and weekends trying—unsuccessfully—to resist the gorgeous tycoon down the hall. Will wants her in his bed for June, July and August. But come fall, he'll move on. Unless she can teach him a thing or two about opening his guarded heart to love.

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

Kindle Daily Deals 5/20

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Fraction Calculator Plus, which looks to be useful for checking the kid's homework.

I also see that Angry Birds Seasons has had an update, with 36 new levels and magic portals! If you have the Ad-Free Edition, which was a free daily app a couple of years ago, you should be able to update; I may use part of my $5 Amazon Coins credit to grab the Kindle Tablet Edition. I also see that the Bad Piggies Premium HD (Kindle Tablet Edition) is only 99 cents today; although it isn't marked as a sale, Rovio usually charges $2.99 for Tablet Editions and $0.99 for the Ad-Free Edition, which makes me think that it is.

Amazon's Digital Software Deal of the Week is 64% off two Quicken products: Quicken WillMaker Plus 2013 and Quicken Legal Business Pro 2013. Both come with updates thru the end of the year, plus WillMaker gives you free access to Nolo's Online Living Trust, a $79 value, while Legal Business includes the complete, searchable text of five Nolo business bestsellers plus a free download of Nolo's bestselling book Working With Independent Contractors, a $34.99 value, when you register.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Berried to the Hilt ($1.99), the fourth novel in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery series by Karen MacInerney [Midnight Ink].

Book Description
When a lobsterman discovers a sunken ship, Cranberry Island is abuzz with excitement. Is the wreck the remains of the Myra Barton, the missing ship of island sea captain Jonah Selfridge? Or the elusive Black Marguerite, which belonged to one of the most notorious pirates of the 17th century and vanished without a trace—except for the ghost ship that old-timers say roams the water on fog-shrouded nights?

Soon the island is swarming with marine archaeologists and treasure hunters. It’s good news for Natalie—and for the Gray Whale Inn—until a body turns up floating near the wreck. Natalie finds herself immersed in the world of pirates and sunken treasure, both past and present. Will she solve the mystery and find the killer in time? Or will Natalie be the next to join the lost ship’s crew, down in Davy Jones’ locker?

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Beach House No. 9 ($1.99), the first Crescent Cove CA novel by Christie Ridgway [Harlequin HQN].

Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Christie Ridgway introduces a sizzling new series set in Crescent Cove, California, where the magic of summer can last forever…

When Jane Pearson arrives at Griffin Lowell's beach house, she expects a brooding loner. After all, his agent hired her to help the reclusive war journalist write his stalled memoir. Instead, Jane finds a tanned, ocean-blue-eyed man in a Hawaiian shirt, hosting a beach party and surrounded by beauties. Faster than he can untie a bikini top, Griffin lets Jane know he doesn't want her. But she desperately needs this job and digs her toes in the sand.

Griffin intends to spend the coming weeks at Beach House No. 9 taking refuge from his painful memories—and from the primly sexy Jane, who wants to bare his soul. But warm nights, moonlit walks and sultry kisses just may unlock both their guarded hearts….

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Secret Hour ($1.99), the first novel in the YA Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld [HarperCollins].

Book Description
Nobody is safe in the secret hour.

Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma.

Time freezes.

Nobody moves.

For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour -- only they are free to move about the midnight time.

These people call themselves Midnighters. Each one has a different power that is strongest at midnight: Seer, Mindcaster, Acrobat, Polymath. For years the Midnighters and the dark creatures have shared the secret hour, uneasily avoiding one another. All that changes when the new girl with an unmistakablemidnight aura appears at Bixby High School.

Jessica Day is not an outsider like the other Midnighters. She acts perfectly normal in every way. But it soon becomes clear that the dark creatures sense a hidden power in Jessica . . . and they're determined to stop her beforeshe can use it.

A story of courage, shadowy perils, and unexpected destiny, the secret hour is the first volume of the mesmerizing Midnighters trilogy by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is A Prince among Frogs ($2.99), the seventh title in the Tales of the Frog Princess series by E. D. Baker [Bloomsbury USA Childrens].

Book Description
Princess Millie and her fiancé, Audun, are busy preparing for their wedding when trouble starts brewing in Greater Greensward. Millie's baby brother, Felix, has been kidnapped and is trapped in a swamp full of other frogs. With all the adults busy fixing problems elsewhere in the kingdom, it's up to Millie and Audun to find him-but they need all the help they can get to fight the family's oldest nemesis, the angry wizard Olebald. From the deep blue sea to the soaring skies, our two heroes will stop at nothing to get their families back together and banish all the troublemakers for good.E. D. Baker brings out all our favorite characters for this funny and ferocious finale to Tales of the Frog Princess, the best-selling series that inspired Disney's The Princess and the Frog.

Age Range: 10 and up

Romance Bargain Duo

Taking Shots ($0.99 Kindle, Kobo, $2.99 B&N), the first novel in The Assassins series Toni Aleo [Loveswept/Random House]. Best of all, the remaining novels in the series are currently on sale for $2.99 apiece. These are not short novels, either - the first is nearly 500 pages and the next one I checked nearly 700!

Book Description
In Toni Aleo’s exhilarating Loveswept debut, the first in a series featuring the hockey hunks of the Nashville Assassins, a reformed bad boy helps a charming, willful woman face off against the demons of her past.

No matter how hard she tries, Elleanor Fisher never thinks she’s good enough, from her job to her weight to her love life. After enduring years of abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, Elli has been drifting through life in a daze. Until, that is, she meets Shea Adler on a promotional shoot for the NHL’s Nashville Assassins. Before Elli knows what’s happening, the gorgeous Shea breaks the ice and shatters her world.

A brilliant athlete inside the rink, Shea Adler is tired of the life he’s living outside of it: the women, the money, the drinking. But everything changes when he meets Elli. After laying eyes on this feisty, witty, beautiful woman, he feels like he’s just taken the hardest hit of his life. No matter how skeptical she is, Shea knows they are meant to be together—if only he can convince Elli to put her insecurities aside before she misses out on a shot at love.

The Notorious Lady Anne ($0.99 Kindle, Kobo, $2.99 B&N), a historical romance by Sharon Cullen [Loveswept/Random House]. A second novel, The Infamous Lord Blythe ($2.99), is also now available to pre-order, along with her previously published works.

Book Description
From rising romance star Sharon Cullen comes a tale of the fiery passion between a noble naval officer and a female pirate that’s as tempestuous and as unpredictable as the sea.

Nicholas Addison, celebrated captain of the Blackwell Shipping Fleet, has agreed to take Mrs. Emmaline Sutherland aboard the Pride and ferry the raven-haired beauty across the Atlantic on what he imagines will be a routine trip. But when the ship is attacked by pirates, the seemingly innocent passenger is revealed to be none other than the infamous marauder Lady Anne, whose name strikes fear in the hearts of sailors everywhere—and whose seductive wiles commandeers Nicholas’s affections.

Lady Anne, a legend of the high seas, has spent the last eleven years plotting revenge against her father, the owner of Blackwell Shipping. She’s targeted the Pride in hopes of plundering its captain’s company secrets. But beneath her fierce courage and bitter determination, Anne has the delicate heart of a woman—a heart that cannot help falling for Nicholas. Now Anne must make a difficult choice: bring down Blackwell or surrender to love.

Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: The Reluctant Countess, Wild Rain, and Silk on the Skin.

Nook Daily Find 5/20

How to Swear Around the World ($7.39 Kindle, $8.39 $0.99 B&N), by Toby Triumph and Jason Sacher [Chronicle Books], is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
This essential phrasebook collects the most colorful, explicit, and outrageous ways to tell people off in every part of the world. Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to expressions for X-rated relations with animals. Phonetic pronunciation is provided so that readers can curse like a native, and handy illustrations provide visual guides to these foreign exclamations. Perfect for the international traveler who may need to wish an enemy a painful death, insult a person's grandmother, or accuse someone's mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest.