$30 Off Kindle Fire (AL)

Update: Fixed links to voucher.

This is another AmazonLocal deal. Just click on Apply from the Free Voucher Worth $30 Off a Kindle Fire page, then complete the purchase on the page after that. You must 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 July 13, 2013 or when the number of vouchers set aside by Amazon have been exhausted.

Note that this deal is for the Kindle Fire (2nd Generation), not the Kindle Fire HD, which is currently marked at $30 off (no voucher needed). You can get the tablet with or without Special offers using the $30 voucher, with a limit of one tablet per account (although nothing says that families with more than one account can't buy one per account and then register them all together, to take advantage of a Prime membership).

Deal Description
Kindle Fire is the perfect family tablet with the best in kids' entertainment, and today's deal from Amazon.com offers an excellent opportunity to acquire one at a magnificent discount. Take advantage of today's deal and of all the convenience and fun Kindle Fire has to offer.

• Powerful processor and extra-long battery life, designed to travel with you wherever you go
• Ultra-fast web browsing over built-in Wi-Fi -- easy-to-use email works with Gmail, Yahoo!, and others
• Over 23 million movies, TV shows, apps, games, books, magazines, songs, and audiobooks
• This voucher will be automatically applied to your Amazon.com account; please do not place your Kindle Fire order until you have received an e-mail from Amazon Local confirming that your voucher has been applied. The credit may not apply to orders placed on Amazon.com prior to the receipt of this confirmation
• Voucher will expire if not used toward a qualifying purchase of Kindle Fire on Amazon.com by 11:59 P.M. PST on July 20, 2013
• Voucher is only valid for Kindle Fire Tablet featured here and identified as "Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital Services" and does not apply to products sold by other sellers
• Voucher is only valid for $30 off the regular price of Kindle Fire ($159 or $174) purchased only from Amazon.com. Purchaser will be responsible for payment to Amazon.com of final order total after discount, plus applicable taxes and shipping charges. Voucher is not valid for Kindle Fire HD
• Limit 1 voucher per customer; limited quantities available
• This promotion may not be combined with other offers, including promotional certificates

30 Kindle Books for $1 Each (AL)

This offer is set up via AmazonLocal and anyone (in the US) can participate.

Free Voucher to Purchase Select Kindle Books for $1 Each

Just 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, log into your Amazon account, 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, but verify that it has progressed from Processing on the My Vouchers page before purchasing your books). Sign-up for this offer expires July 11, 2013 or when the number of vouchers set aside by Amazon have been exhausted.

I took a quick look at the list of books and see some authors I recognize (Barry Eisler, L.J. Sellers, Aaron Elkins & Ian Fleming with a title I don't recall seeing on sale before) and a few I don't, so there are at least a few new authors I might sample.

Deal Details:

Thrills, romance, and the magic of historical fiction await you in today's deal from Amazon. Stock up for a summer trip or a quiet evening with exciting, emotional stories -- all at an amazing discount.

• Be moved by a soaring saga of friendship and adventure in In the Land of the Long White Cloud, and gasp at the spicy international intrigue in London Twist: A Delilah Novella
• Tropical island crime is on display in Pago Pago Tango (Jungle Beat Mystery), and In This Hospitable Land features a courageous flight from oppression
• 30 titles to choose from -- a great opportunity to build up your Kindle library

Once applied to your account, you can shop from your Kindle or desktop, picking any of the 30 qualifying titles. You should also be able to gift any of the books to someone else (I have in the past); the full price shows all the way thru, but on the invoice summary, you will see the $1 promotional price (note that you'll still see the full price until the invoice finalizes, usually several hours after purchase; the promo credit will show in the lower half of the invoice and the final price charged to your card or gift balance will be $1/book). The total number of books you can get at this price is 30. The voucher will expire if not used toward qualifying Kindle book purchases from Amazon.com by 11:59 p.m. PST July 31, 2013.

Kindle Daily Deals 7/7

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 15 Mysteries by Sue Grafton for $1.99 Each [Holt/Macmillan]. You've probably already guessed from the cover image, they are all from her Kinsey Millhone series, which is often referred to as the Alphabet Mysteries. Every letter from A thru O is on sale! This won't be enough to get you entirely caught up, if you are just starting the series, but it will get you more than halfway there. The latest in the series is W is for Wasted, available for pre-order and delivery in September; like all the titles in the series starting with "P", this newest novel is published by Putnam Adult/Penguin, rather than Holt/Macmillan.

1. "A" is for Alibi
2. "B" is for Burglar
3. "C" is for Corpse
4. "D" is for Deadbeat
5. "E" is for Evidence
6. "F" is for Fugitive
7. "G" is for Gumshoe
8. "H" is for Homicide
9. "I" is for Innocent
10. "J" is for Judgment
11. "K" is for Killer
12. "L" is for Lawless
13. "M" is for Malice
14. "N" is for Noose
15. "O" is for Outlaw

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Fool for Love ($2.99), the first novel in the Cupcake Lovers series by Beth Ciotta [St. Martin's/Macmillan]. The series continues with The Trouble with Love and Anything But Love, which is now available for pre-order.

Book Description
SHE’S CRAVING A SWEET NEW LIFE…
Call her a fool, but chef-in-training Chloe Madison wants to have her cake and eat it too. So when her boyfriend dumps her for some French tart, she decides to start over from scratch—with a new life and job in Sugar Creek, Vermont. What could be sweeter than cooking for an eccentric lady who’s crazy for desserts? What could be more tempting than joining a club called the Cupcake Lovers? Just one thing: local business-hunk Devlin Monroe…

AND HE’S THE ICING ON THE CUPCAKE
Although he’s the grandson of Chloe’s fun-loving boss, Devlin Monroe is all work and no play. Micro-managing the family business, he doesn’t have time to indulge in life’s sweetest pleasures—until he meets Chloe. How can he resist such a vibrant, beautiful woman who brings so much passion to the table? But when old grudges and secrets threaten to destroy the Cupcake Lovers, Devlin must decide if his feelings for Chloe are a recipe for disaster—or a sinfully delicious ever-after…

Today's Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Lunatic Detective ($1.99), the second title in the Lunatic Ghost series by Sharon Sala [Bell Bridge Books]. The first in the series, My Lunatic Life, was a Daily Deal in January (and was free back in 'll), so you may want to check to see if you have it in your libraries.

Book Description
As Tara and Flynn are closing in on Dee Dee Broyles' killer, a deadly new ghost begins to threaten them. It's just another day in Tara's lunatic life...

All during the day at school, Tara kept picturing the moment when she and Nate would find DeeDee's grave. Even the classes she had with Flynn, who made everything fun, never seemed to end. By the time the last bell rang, she was fired up like a roman candle on the Fourth of July. She bolted from her seat, made a quick stop at her locker, and slipped out a side door instead of taking the front, knowing full well she was going to miss seeing Flynn. She didn't have time to delay or explain, and she had a feeling he wouldn't be all that thrilled in what she was doing. He was pretty cool about her psychic stuff, but digging for bodies fell way out of the realm of normal-even for her.

Sharon Sala is the bestselling author of romance, suspense and historical novels for adults, and now, of the popular Lunatic Life mysteries for young adults. She's hard at work on her next Lunatic Life novel.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Who Goes There? ($1.99), by John Wood Campbell [RosettaBooks]. This novel was the basis for the movie The Thing.

Book Description
A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing. The alien is intelligent, cunning and a shape-changer who can assume the form and personality of anything it destroys and soon it is among the men of the expedition, killing and replacing them, using its shape-changing ability to lull the scientists one by one into inattention and destruction. The transformed alien can seemingly pass every effort at detection and the expedition seems doomed...

WHO GOES THERE?, according to the science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997), had an autobiographical impetus: Campbell's mother and aunt were identical twins and enjoyed the "game" of substituting for one another in his care as an infant and young child, confusing him again and again with false identity. It was this uncertainty, this susceptibility to masquerade and his terror at the game which, Moskowitz said, Campbell funneled into this last and greatest of his magazine pieces. (A short novel, THE MOON IS HELL, was published only in book form in the early 1950's.) Carefully and rigorously extrapolated in its portrait of the menaced expedition, the novelette is regarded as perhaps the greatest horror story to emerge form the field of science fiction. It was the basis for one of the great early science fiction films and its excellent remake decades later.

Campbell had become the editor of ASTOUNDING five months before the early 1938 publication of the story. As editor of that magazine, he insisted upon rigorous scientific background, humanized characters and values and a standard of writing comparable to that in the leading consumer magazines of the time. In pursuit, Campbell found a generation of new writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, A.E. Van Vogt, Henry Kuttner, Lester del Rey among them - who collectively (and individually!) produced an extraordinary body of work.

WHO GOES THERE? provided the basis of the 1951 cult horror film THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and was remade into John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), also regarded as a classic science fiction film, who's prequel THE THING launched in 2011. The copyright of the novelette was, typically of the time, owned by Street & Smith Publications to whose magazine Campbell had sold all of the rights. Hawks paid Street & Smith $900 for all film rights, $500 of that was paid over "voluntarily" by Street & Smith to Campbell. "Don't you feel cheated?" Isaac Asimov said he asked Campbell at the time of the film's successful release. "No," Campbell said. "If it's a good film and it will get more people to read science fiction and take it seriously, then it's all a very good thing."

Nook Daily Find 7/7

Carried Away ($6.59 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), a standalone novel by Jill Barnett [Bell Bridge Books], is the Nook Daily Find. No price match yet on Kindle for this book, but I do see a discount on Wild ($1.99), the second in her Medieval Trilogy.

Carried Away

MacLachlan brothers Calum and Eachann need brides, but there are no women on their secluded island home. As the descendants of a displaced Highland clan, their lives are complicated, and their goals and methods for dealing with problems far from the same. Calum is the logical brother, solid and steady, while Eachann lives by his impulses. When widower Eachann’s two rebellious children are thrown out of their mainland boarding school, he decides it’s time for a wife. Fate all but hands him two women on a silver platter. So he kidnaps two brides, one to help him with his uncontrollable children, and one for his all-too-serious brother.

Debutantes Georgina Bayard and Amy Emerson are socially opposite, old money versus new, and both are the talk of the gossipy Four Hundred. While attending the same ball, they are swept away by a mad Scotsman. As captives on an isolated island, these two social enemies find themselves with only each other for support. Then, before the women can successfully escape, winter sets in and there is no way back to the mainland. They are stuck with the MacLachlans--two brothers and two completely unruly children. There, on that misty island, during a cold and blustery winter, Amy and Georgina must choose: to find some way to go back to their old lives, or take a chance and let their hearts get carried away….

Wild

A legendary warrior. A mission to tame the rebellion of the Welsh Borderlands. A wild Welsh beauty. For years Teleri of the Woods, shunned by superstitious villagers, has lived her life in solitude among the creatures of the forest. But when she discovers a man ambushed and left for dead in her woods, she must try to save him with her healing skills. She does not know he is a knight charged by the King of England to establish a stronghold and build a castle nearby, only that he is the same knight who chased her once before. Sir Roger FitzAlan awakes to discover that none of his fabled diplomacy and skills of war will help him with his most immediate problem--a madwoman who has tied him to stakes in a small woodland cottage. Teleri is his match in wit and will, but she opens his eyes to the wonder of a simple world he has never known. As Roger recovers and fomulates his plan for catching his would-be-murderer, he realizes something else: his real challenge won’t be taming the borderlands but taming and winning over his wild Welsh healer. But when he understands that he cannot live in her world and she may not survive in his, he knows he must teach her to trust him, even though he threatens all she holds dear.

UK Kindle Daily Deal 7/7

The Abomination (£0.99 UK), the first novel of the new Carnivia Trilogy by Jonathan Holt [Head of Zeus], is the Kindle Deal of the Day for those in the UK (the US edition is $11.76).

Book Description
THE VICTIM: On the steps of Santa Maria della Salute lies the body of a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest. In the eyes of the Church, she is an abomination.

THE INVESTIGATOR: Captain Kat Tapo has matched the victim's tattoo to graffiti in an abandoned asylum. Now she's been ordered to close the case.

THE HACKER: Carnivia.com is a virtual Venice that holds the city's secrets. Only its reclusive creator can help Kat unearth the shocking truth...

THE ABOMINATION has arrived.

Down in New Orleans (£0.99 UK), by Heather Graham [Open Road], is the Kindle Deal of the Day for for Romance Fans in the UK (the US edition is $6.15).

Book Description
When Ann infiltrates the dark corners of the Big Easy to clear her ex-husband’s name, what begins as an innocent investigation becomes a matter of life and death

Ann and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they’re good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon’s hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, “I didn’t do it.”

Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order to save him, Ann will have to dive into the sordid New Orleans underworld, looking for clues in erotic clubs and seamy jazz spots. And, if that weren’t enough, she must deal with the resolute detective bent on bringing her husband to justice—the eagle-eyed lieutenant who dogs her steps and surfaces in her dreams. But despite her wavering affections, Ann has bigger concerns as she becomes embroiled in a fight not only for Jon’s freedom, but also for her life.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.