Kindle Daily Deals 6/3

Today's Gold Box at Amazon saves up to 60% on select solid-state drives, microSD cards, SD cards, and USB flash drives from SanDisk.

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

• 10 Kindle Books for $1 Each

Today's Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Changeling ($1.99), the first novel in the Order of Darkness series by Philippa Gregory [Simon and Schuster].

Book Description
Dark myths, medieval secrets, intrigue, and romance populate the pages of this first in a four-book teen series from the #1 bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.

The year is 1453 and all signs point to it being the end of the world. Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of times across Europe. Commanded by sealed orders, Luca is sent to map the fears of Christendom and travel to the very frontier of good and evil.

Seventeen-year-old Isolde, a Lady Abbess, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her from claiming her rich inheritance. As the nuns in her care are driven mad by strange visions, walking in their sleep, and showing bleeding wounds, Luca is sent to investigate and driven to accuse her.

Forced to face the greatest fears of the dark ages—witchcraft, werewolves, madness—Luca and Isolde embark on a search for truth, their own destinies, and even love as they take the unknown ways to the real historical figure who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead ($1.99), by Sara Gran [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt], with the companion audiobook for $3.99.

Book Description
Claire DeWitt believes she is the world’s greatest PI, even if few agree with her. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices.

Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling—until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Glitter Baby ($1.99), by Susan Elizabeth Phillips [HarperCollins].

Book Description
Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby

Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy.

Jake Koranda is both New York's most brilliant playwright and Hollywood's hottest actor. Difficult, talented, and tormented, he has no patience for international glamour girls, not even ones with beautiful bodies and smart-aleck mouths. But there's more to the Glitter Baby than shine, and Fleur's tougher than Jake expects. Even with the odds stacked against her, she's fiercely determined to discover the woman she's destined to be.

An ugly duckling who can't believe she's turned into a swan . . . A tough-guy movie star with a haunted past . . . In a land of broken dreams, can two unlikely lovers trust their hearts?

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Darkening ($0.99), the second novel in Robin T. Popp's Immortals series [Montlake Romance], with the companion audiobook for $2.99.

Book Description
Created at the dawn of time to protect humanity, the ancient warriors have been nearly forgotten, though magic lives on--in vampires, werewolves, the Celtic Sidhe, and other beings. But now one of their own has turned rogue, and the world is again in desperate need of the IMMORTALS.

A werewolf and bounty hunter, Lexi was badass to the bone. She had no problem protecting herself in the seedy underground vampire clubs of New York City. Until the Immortal she had tried to summon actually appeared. It wasn't the intricate tattoos around his well-defined muscles that intimidated her; it was the raw power she saw shimmering in his golden brown eyes, power mingled with lust. Though she longed to give in to the passion and pleasure he promised, they first had a curse to break, a brother to find, and a whole legion of vampires to prevent from joining ...THE DARKENING.

UK Kindle Daily Deal 6/3

Learning to Lose (£0.99 UK), by David Trueba [Portobello Books], is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
It is the day of Sylvia's 16th birthday and her life as an adult is about to begin - not with the party she had been planning, but with a car-crash. At the wheel is a talented young footballer, just arrived from Buenos Aires, and set for stardom on and off the pitch.

As their destinies collide, elsewhere in the city Sylvie's father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair. Set against the maze of Madrid's congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions.

Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, and - above all - a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together, and holds the reader fast.

Nook Daily Find 6/3

Clarity ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in the Clarity Teen/YA series by Kim Harrington [Scholastic/Point], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. Be careful at B&N, as the price keeps bouncing up and down.

Book Description
When you can see things others can't, where do you look for the truth?
This paranormal murder mystery will have teens reading on the edge of their seats.

Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It's a gift.

And a curse.

When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare's ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case--but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare's brother--who has supernatural gifts of his own--becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away. Teaming up with Gabriel, the smoldering son of the new detective, Clare must venture into the depths of fear, revenge, and lust in order to track the killer. But will her sight fail her just when she needs it most?

Free Voucher for $10 from Audible.com (AL)

This deal is for NEW Audible customers only: Get a Free Voucher for $10 to Spend on Audiobooks from Audible.com

Click on Apply, then complete the purchase on the page after that. Yes, it now says "Apply" instead of "purchase" on these free offers, but nearly the same process: you must be in the US and have a credit card on file, make a "purchase" at zero cost, then the promo code is automatically applied to your account (no waiting for an email and dealing with a promo code). Sign-up for this offer expires June 2, 2013 or when the number of vouchers set aside by Amazon have been exhausted.

Grab a voucher today (before they 'sell out' or the offer expires) and you'll have a week to apply the voucher to your account and then 30 days to browse thru Audible and decide where to spend your $10. If you use it on some of the reasonably priced companion editions, you could get up to 5 audiobooks free from this deal.

Edited to add: I played with this a bit, to see what a "new" customer might be. It seems that not only those with a subscription, but anyone who has ever even logged into Audible with their Amazon account ID (or perhaps even if you just have an Amazon account) are considered "not new" customers. I know that an Amazon account that has no audiobooks and I don't think has ever logged into Audible was rejected as "not new", so suspect you'll need to create a new account at Audible (one with an email address not linked to an Amazon account) in order to use this voucher.

Deal Description
Get carried away by a great story with an audiobook from Audible.com. From classics to humor, thrillers to romance, and everything in between, it’s all here. Listen on your Kindle, iPhone, Android phone, Windows phone or tablet -- and turn your commute, your workout, even doing the laundry, into the most anticipated moments of your day. And now thanks to Whispersync for Voice, Kindle readers can switch seamlessly between a Kindle eBook and the Audible audiobook, picking up in one where you left off in the other.

• Valid for new Audible.com customers only
• Voucher will expire if not redeemed on Audible.com by 11:59 P.M. EDT June 9, 2013
• $10 balance will expire if not used toward the purchase of an item or items on Audible.com after 30 days from date of redemption
• Limit 1 voucher per customer
• Available only to U.S. customers

Kindle Daily Deals 6/2

I see a neat gift idea over at AmazonLocal today: a Custom Stainless Steel Water Bottle. You can upload the photo or image of your choice and make sure your bottle never gets mixed up with all the others at the gym or office; it's also a pretty decent price ($11) and would make a great Father's Day gift with a picture of the kids (one he might use, instead of the ties hanging in the back of the closet).

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is the SAS Survival Guide! This is the full text of the classic book, plus you can download 16 videos of survival tips. In addition to photo galleries of edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, you can also use the app as a Morse Code signalling device and as a Sun Compass. I'm definitely loading this one on my phone (and on my Kindle Fire, to read on a bigger screen).

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Discretion ($1.99), by former federal sex-crimes prosecutor and critically acclaimed author Allison Leotta [Simon and Schuster], with the companion audiobook for $4.49.

Book Description
A new thriller exploring the intersection of sex and power in Washington, D.C.’s most secretive worlds

When a beautiful young woman plummets to her death from the balcony of the U.S. Capitol, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis is summoned to the scene. The evidence points to a sexual assault and murder. The victim is one of the city’s highest-paid escorts. And the balcony belongs to Washington, D.C.’s sole representative to Congress, the most powerful figure in city politics.

The Congressman proclaims his innocence, but he’s in the middle of a tough primary fight, and the scandal could cost him the election. For Anna, the high-profile case is an opportunity. But as the political stakes rise, she realizes that a single mistake could end her career.

At the same time, her budding romance with Jack Bailey, the chief homicide prosecutor, is at a crossroads. Determined to gain respect in the office, Anna wants to keep their relationship under wraps. But the mounting pressure and media attention that come with the office’s most important case will inevitably expose their relationship—if it doesn’t destroy it first.

The investigation leads Anna to Discretion, a high-end escort service that caters to D.C.’s elite. But with each break in the case, the mystery deepens. And the further Anna ventures into D.C.’s red-light underworld, the larger the target on her own back.

From the secret social clubs where Washington’s most powerful men escape from public view to the asphalt “track” where the city’s most vulnerable women work the streets, Discretion is a gripping exploration of sex, power, and the secrets we all keep.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Tumbleweeds ($1.99), a coming of age novel by Leila Meacham [Hachette].

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.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is A Hunger Like No Other ($1.99), by Kresley Cole [Simon and Schuster]. This is the first novel in the Immortals After Dark series, one of the best werewolf/vampire romances I've read; since I started this series on paper, then switched to the ereaders sometime later, I'll be replacing my paper copy with this edition, today.

Book Description
Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death.

A mythic warrior who'll stop at nothing to possess her . . .

After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he's waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him.

A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . .

Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents -- until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae -- and their notorious dark desires -- ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings.

An all-consuming desire . . .

Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Judy Moody, M.D. ($0.99), by Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator), with the companion audiobook for $1.99.

Book Description
She took her own temperature. With the fancy thermometer that beeped. It was not normal. It was not 98.6. Judy's temperature was 188.8! Judy's temperature was 00.0! Judy's temperature was beep-beep-beep-beep-beep. She, Judy Moody, had the temperature of an outer-space alien!

Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and now, she is in a medical mood! It's no secret that Judy wants to be like Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor, when she grows up. So when Class 3T starts to study the Amazing Human Body, Judy can hardly wait to begin her better-than-best-ever third-grade projects: show-and-tell with something way rarer than a scab, a real-live ooey-gooey operation, and a cloning experiment that may create double trouble for Judy and her friends!

Judy's latest adventures are sure to tickle your humerus (AKA funny bone) and put you in a very Judy Moody mood!

Age Range: 7 and up