Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Last Exit in New Jersey ($0.99), by C.E. Grundler

Book Description
Nice young ladies really shouldn't be dumping bodies at sea. Then again, that isn't stopping Hazel Moran, and she can't figure where anyone got the idea she was nice to begin with.

Raised aboard her father's aging schooner and riding shotgun in their eighteen-wheeler, she can handle almost anything on the road or water; it's her people skills that need work. Normally that isn't an issue—most people tend to leave her alone behind the wheel of a Kenworth. But when twenty-year-old Hazel and her father become the targets of some unsavory characters hunting for her missing cousin, their stolen tractor trailer, and a delivery that never arrived, she knows it's time to heed a lesson learned from her favorite hard-boiled paperbacks: playing nice will only end in tears.

It'll take all her ingenuity, not to mention some fishing tackle and high voltage, if Hazel hopes to protect her family and unravel this tangle of greed and betrayal. And anyone who gets too close, no matter the intent, will discover just how dangerous Hazel truly is as she sets in motion a twisted plan to uncover the truth, settle some scores, and not wind up dead in the process.

Gritty, offbeat, and darkly funny, Last Exit in New Jersey is a modern mystery that introduces an unforgettable new protagonist to the ranks of literature’s hard-boiled detectives.

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Karen Shanor PhD and Jagmeet Kanwal PhD, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.14).

Book Description
Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? That lizards do push-ups to seduce a mate, or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing trucks to stave off loneliness? Bats Sing, Mice Giggle is the culmination of many years of research that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have secret, inner lives of which until recently - although animals lovers will have instinctively believed it - we have had little proof. Drs. Shanor and Kanwal explain how animal friends keep in touch, and how they warn and help each other in times of danger; how some animals problem-solve even more effectively than humans - and how they build, create and entertain themselves and others. The authors reveal how animals express grief, joy, anger and fear, and experience a similar breadth of emotions as we humans. They describe sleep patterns of dolphins, who go to sleep in only one half of their brains at a time; and how schools of electric fish generate and use complex electric fields to determine their location within the group. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle is an eye-opening voyage of discovery - one which shows that many behavioural and mental traits considered uniquely human are in fact shared with other species.

Between the Bridge and the River ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Craig Ferguson, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession

Between the Bridge and the River is the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's The Late Late Show. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat, Socrates, and Tony Randall. Love, greed, hope, revenge, organized religion, and Hollywood are alternately tickled and throttled. Impossible to summarize and impossible to stop reading, this is a romantic comic odyssey that actually delivers and rewards.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls Series #2) ($6.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Ally Carter, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.

Book Description
After the excitement of the fall, all Cammie Morgan wants is peaceful semester at school. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the premier school in the world...for spies. Despite Cammie's best intentions, trouble crops up quickly. Cammie, Bex, and Liz learn that the Gallagher Academy is hosting guests from another spy school a school that is known to the world as the Ethan Frome Academy a secret spy school for boys. After her fiasco with Josh last fall, Cammie isn't sure she's ready for daily encounters with boy spies – especially after she meets Zach an incorrigible cutie who everyone thinks is just perfect. Cammie is right to be worried about their new guests. Soon after the boys' arrival, she's blamed for a series of security breaches that leave the school's top-secret status at risk. And the perfectly crushable Zach is her prime suspect. The Gallagher Girls will need to use all their skills to investigate the Frome Boys. Even though they're confident about their guy-spying (as if they haven't done it before!), the playing field is level this time, and the stakes for Cammie's heart—and her beloved school— are higher than ever.

Shakespeare Undead ($2.99 Kindle, Kobo), by bestselling author Lori Handeland, is the Kobo Today's Deal, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Something wicked this way comes . . . and it keeps coming and coming and coming. . . .

William Shakespeare was one of history’s greatest writers, a master of words with a body of work that is truly impressive . . . some may say a little too impressive for a single man to accomplish in one lifetime. Perhaps, as many have speculated, he had assistance. Or perhaps the explanation is more . . . unusual.

• Who was William Shakespeare?
• Who was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets?
• Why are the undead stalking the alleyways of London?
• And can they be stopped?

Something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark.

So brace yourself for a wild ride through twisted streets and shadowed graveyards of Elizabethan London, where you’ll discover how the Bard got his Bite.

Neutrogena: Get $10 Off $30 Order (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers, which means you can add the offers, grab this one, then turn them back off!):

Get $10 Off a $30 Purchase of Select Neutrogena® Items

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promo code. Sign-up for this offer expires on April 25.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until May 25, 2012 to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Limit one offer per customer and per device.

This deal has nearly the same selection as the last one, minus a few of the more popular items that have already sold out (only items on the linked page AND sold by Amazon qualify for the promotion). Overall, though, this offer is better than the last one, which was, at best, 25% off (and only if the two items purchased were of equal value). Also, this offer has a high enough purchase requirement that everyone will qualify for free super-saver shipping (which looks at the before coupon totals), if not a member of Prime.

I am having trouble getting the email to send on one of our Kindles, so it's a good thing that the deadline on this one is quite a ways off (it just keeps saying that it's unable to send an email, despite having no problem getting onto the Kindle store and a restart did nothing to fix the issue).

Today's Deals

Be sure to get today's free Android App, PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit, an interactive version of the time-honored classic, The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.

A Lady of High Regard is now available on Kindle, but not free, while it is still free elsewhere - feel free to bombard Amazon with lower price reports, as that might get the price lowered before the promotion is over.

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is The Chicken Soup Series, with titles priced from 99 cents to $1.99! That's right, 172 books in the series are on sale, today only! It's not the entire series, but appears to be a bit over half and there are definitely some good ones to choose from in the sale.

There are simply too many books in the series to list them all (or even a representative sampling), with books for women, couples, teens, retirees, teachers, writers, baseball fans, pet lovers, cat lovers, dog lovers, dog & cat lovers, etc. There is even the Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook, no recipes of which have been adjusted to make them "nutritionally correct" and Chicken Soup for the Soul Recipes for Busy Moms, which features Mr. Food, whose recipes often fit entirely into a short television segment as a part of the local news. Mr. Food recently gave a demonstration at the Gluten Free Fair here; although the recipes in this book are not necessarily gluten free, many are easily converted, by substituting gluten free pasta, for instance.

Deal Description
Rediscover the power of inspiration with timeless stories illuminating the best of the human spirit. Whether you're discovering the Chicken Soup series for the first time or you're a long-time fan, this diverse selection of titles will motivate you to reach your highest potential and embrace the world around you.

Running the Rift ($2.05 / £1.29 UK), by Naomi Benaron, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $11.99).

Book Description
Jean Patrick dreams of running in the Olympics one day, and with gruelling training he soon beats a world qualifying time. But his chances of success are threatened by the ethnic tensions erupting all around him. When Hutu violence against Tutsis finally crescendos and his homeland Rwanda is wracked by unforgivable atrocities, Jean Patrick, a Tutsi, has no choice but to run for his life abandoning fatherland, family, and the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Following a decade in Rwanda s history through the eyes of one boy, Running the Rift is a wrenching tale of a people s collective trauma, of lives lost, and loves salvaged.

The Promise of an Angel ($3.49 Kindle, B&N), by Ruth Reid, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
In Mescota County, Michigan, an angelic visitor's words inspire Judith to a future she never imagined.

After a barn raising accident, Judith Fischer's convinced she's met an angel. However, her attempts to convince others end up frustrating her Old-Order Amish community. Only Andrew Lapp believes her, but the rest, including Levi Plank, the man's she's waited to marry, demand she forget the nonsense. Meanwhile, her younger sister Martha has taken a fancy to Levi and sees her sister's controversy as a perfect distraction for turning Levi's head.

In a dream, the angel tells Judith she must choose her path. As her faith continues to grow, so do her feelings for Andrew. Will she continue to place her hope in the angel's message, even if it means losing all she knows and loves?

Quiet Bunny ($8.24 Hardcover, no Kindle edition, $1.99 B&N), by Lisa McCue, is the Nook Daily Find for Families (requires NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet or NOOK Kids for iPad).

Book Description
In this beautiful picture book by renowned artist Lisa McCue, Little Bunny discovers the importance-and pleasure-of dancing to your own kind of music.

More than anything, Quiet Bunny loves the sounds of the forest: the birds chirping, the wind whispering shhhhh through the leaves, and, especially, the night song all the rabbits listen to. But, one day, he wonders: how can I join in? Bunny wanders the woods asking animal after animal-but he just can't ch-cheet like the cricket, ssssss like the hissing snake, or o-uuuu like the howling wolves. But nothing feels just right-until Quiet Bunny finds the wonderful beat that's his and his alone.

Free Audiobook - Road to the Resurrection

Christianaudio's free audiobook this month is Road to the Resurrection ($8.19 Kindle; $9.95 Audible), by Greg Laurie, narrated by Ray Porter.

Book Description
For three days after the Crucifixion, the disciples were dismayed, the religious leaders rested in victory, and Jesus Christ lay dead and buried in a dark garden tomb.

But early Sunday morning, the angel proclaimed the victorious words: “He has risen!” The message behind these words provides power to Christianity, freedom from sin, and joy to followers of Christ.

In Road to the Resurrection, Greg Laurie delves into the life-changing message of Easter and the hope it holds for people past, present, and future. You also will learn biblical truths concerning the risen Christ and encounter the important people, places, and events of His crucifixion and resurrection, including . . .

• the prophecies that foretold of His death and resurrection
• the statements Jesus made from the cross
• what happened Easter morning
• the appearances of the risen Lord
• Christ’s Great Commission and the birth of the church

Read Road to the Resurrection and discover the power of the risen Lord.

Get the free audio download from Christianaudio and scroll down the page for several $4.98 discounted titles by the same author. The checkout process is very streamlined (a coupon code is no longer required), as is the download process (no longer do you have to download each part of the book separately). You can also send a gift download of the free audiobook to someone else!

After finishing your order, download a zip file with the entire audiobook: select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle (M4B for the iOS, iTunes or QuickTime). Unzip the contents to the \audiobooks directory on your Kindle (not \music) in order to have audiobook controls and see it on your Kindle home page.

Winners of the iTunes App

Congrats to the winners on the last contest (which I kept forgetting to post). I need an email address on a couple of you, though, as the blogger profiles that come up don't have any way to get in touch with you:

Isabel - cookbook
Lyzz - ABC's (I need your email address!)
Krissie - bonus app: W.E.L.D.E.R.

If the last two will leave me a note here, I'll email you the codes to enter into iTunes.