Today's Deals 12/27

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 20 novels for adults and teens by top romance authors for just $1.99 each (two are only $0.99).

1. Risky Business, by Nora Roberts
2. Big Sky Mountain, by Linda Lael Miller
3. Catching Fireflies (The Sweet Magnolias), by Sherryl Woods
4. All He Ever Needed (The Kowalskis), by Shannon Stacey
5. Wicked Nights, by Gena Showalter
6. The Unholy (Krewe of Hunters), by Heather Graham
7. Playing Dirty, by Susan Andersen
8. Undone by Her Tender Touch, by Maya Banks ($0.99)
9. Within Reach, by Sarah Mayberry ($0.99)
10. Real Men Will, by Victoria Dahl
11. Lakeside Cottage (The Lakeshore Chronicles), by Susan Wiggs
12. The Wrangler, by Lindsay McKenna
13. Secrets of the Lost Summer (A Swift River Valley Novel), by Carla Neggers
14. Dreams of Forever: Seduction, Westmoreland Style\Spencer's Forbidden Passion, by Brenda Jackson
15. The Iron King, by Julie Kagawa
16. The Goddess Test, by Aimée Carter
17. Pushing the Limits, by Katie McGarry
18. The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden), by Julie Kagawa
19. Speechless, by Hannah Harrington
20. Forever Buckhorn: Gabe\Jordan (Buckhorn Brothers), by Lori Foster

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Touch of Power ($1.99), the first title in the Avry of Kazan series by Maria V. Snyder.

Book Description
Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos.

Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince—leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life….

The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is three titles for £0.99 each (~80% off).

Swimming Home (Main/UK), by Deborah Levy (US edition $8.53)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.

Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams.

The Firemaker (Main/UK), by Peter May US edition $7.99)

A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear; facts that others are desperate to conceal.

Peter May is the author of The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen. The Firemaker is the first of his China thrillers. He lives in France.

The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (Main/UK), by Rosemary Sutcliff (US edition $8.99)

The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain-and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . . So begins the story of The Eagle of the Ninth, set against a backdrop of Roman Britain and featuring a young soldier, Marcus Aquila, who sets off into the unknown north to find out what happened to the lost legion. Following on from this are The Silver Branch in which two young soldiers uncover a plot to overthrow the Emperor, and The Lantern Bearers which is set at a time when the Romans are leaving the shores of Britain and tells of Aquila who, having served in the Roman army, is now returning home to his farm-but when he gets there everything he knows and loves has been destroyed and so he sets out to seek revenge. To have three such exciting stories in one volume is a treat for fans old and new.

The Shoemaker's Wife ($7.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Adriana Trigiani, is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York's Little Italy, apprenticed to a shoemaker, leaving a bereft Enza behind. But when her own family faces disaster, she, too, is forced to emigrate to America. Though destiny will reunite the star-crossed lovers, it will, just as abruptly, separate them once again—sending Ciro off to serve in World War I, while Enza is drawn into the glamorous world of the opera . . . and into the life of the international singing sensation Enrico Caruso. Still, Enza and Ciro have been touched by fate—and, ultimately, the power of their love will change their lives forever.

A riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny, inspired by the author's own family history, The Shoemaker's Wife is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write.

Today's Deals 12/26

Today is Amazon is having a recap of 2012 Free Apps for Android Greatest Hits and if you missed some of the best deals of the year, you get another chance to get them for free, including OfficeSuite Professional 6 (reg. $15). There is also a remote access app, a calendar/tracking app, an internet radio app and a number of games; I even found one I had missed, myself!

For those with young children or grandkids, you definitely will want to check out the Dr. Seuss sale, which has a number of my childhood favorites marked down to 99 cents, regularly $4-$5. There are more than two dozen titles in the sale, with some priced at $1.99 or $2.99, so you should be able to stock up your or you kids' new Kindle Fires with a lot of entertainment at a low cost.

If you "buy" any of the free apps created by Smule, Amazon will give you a $1 MP3 credit.

For those with eInk Kindles, be sure to check out the Best Kindle E Ink Games of 2012 for $0.99, which includes Uno, Scrabble, Brain Trainer and more.

At Audible, the Holiday Relief sale has 100+ books at $7.95.

At BooksonBoard, get 50% off and 5% rewards on non-Agency books using coupon code eKlaus (capitalization is important).

In the UK, the 12 Days of Kindle sale is back, with "great books from as low as £0.99 [and] at least 50 books [added] to the selection every day."

Also for those in the UK (and Australia), iTunes is having a 12 Days of Christmas givewaway, with a new gift free each day.

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

• Get 1 of 50 Books for $1

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Host ($1.99), by Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series. Audible listeners can get the companion audiobook for only $3.95.

Book Description
Now available as a special edition eBook: New Bonus Chapter and Reading Group Guide, including Stephenie Meyer's Annotated Playlist for the book with linking to and back from text.

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST
is a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the essence of what it means to be human.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal saves up to 93% on biographies and memoirs by Caitlin Moran, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Ellen DeGeneres, and more, all $2.99 or less (up to 93% off).

• When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, by Monica Wood
• Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic, by Jenny McCarthy
• Washington: A Life , by Ron Chernow; companion audiobook $3.95
• Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him, by Luis Carlos Montalvan; companion audiobook $3.95 (I listened to this last year; recommended)
• Just Kids, by Patti Smith
• My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler; companion audiobook $3.95
• How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
• Waging Heavy Peace, by Neil Young (this one has been on our wishlist!)
• Seriously...I'm Kidding, by Ellen DeGeneres (I listened to the audiobook on this one last year and it was hilarious; from what I read, the book is different from the audiobook, but just as funny)
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Handmaid's Tale ($1.99), by Margaret Atwood. Check your libraries though, as I have it in mine, but in an edition that is no longer available.

Book Description

The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is six titles for £0.99 each (~80% off).

Angels (Main/UK), by Marian Keyes (US edition $7.99)

Marian Keyes' sixth novel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible girl who suddenly just wants to let her hair down.

"We will shortly be landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Please ensure your seat is in the upright position, that you weigh less than a hundred pounds and that you have excellent teeth."

Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is.

Follow her on a journey of discovery, from suburbia to a suntan - taking in some heartache and lots of martinis along the way - as she discovers what she really wants in life and why she really walked out of her marriage.

Artemis Fowl (Main/UK), by Eoin Colfer (US edition $5.69)

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!

A Long Way Down (Main/UK), by Nick Hornby (US edition $11.99)

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.

Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris and David Nicholls, you will love this book.

The Chase: The Isaac Bell Adventures #1 (Main/UK), by Clive Cussler (US edition $9.99)

In The Chase Clive Cussler introduces a historical hero- Isaac Bell.

1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years . . .

1906: For two years banks across the western United States have been living in terror of the 'Butcher Bandit'. This cold-blooded bank robber empties safes and murders all witnesses, vanishing without trace. In desperation, the US Government calls in Isaac Bell, the best detective in the country. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during the great quake, Bell uses all his guile and ingenuity to catch up with the murderous Bandit.

But when Bell has him almost cornered - the Bandit turns really nasty. And suddenly the stakes have changed. Bell isn't just battling to get his man. He's fighting for his very survival . . .

Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn - sends hero Isaac Bell to solve a mysterious series of bank-robberies and murders in the first novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures. The Chase is followed by The Wrecker and The Spy.

The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid (Main/UK), by Rick Riordan (US edition $7.99)

A brilliant new adventure series from the best-selling author of Percy Jackson.

Carter and Sadie have nothing in common but their parents: their father Dr. Julius Kane, a brilliant Egyptologist, and their mother, a famed archaeologist who died under mysterious circumstances when they were young.

The siblings barely know each other, but one night, their father brings them together at the British Museum, promising a 'research experiment' that will set things right for their family.

His plans go horribly wrong.

An explosion unleashes an ancient evil - the Egyptian god Set who banishes Dr. Kane to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Now orphaned, Carter and Sadie must embark on a dangerous quest - from Cairo to Paris to the American Southwest, to save their father and stop Set from destroying everything they care about . . .

Never Look Back (Main/UK), by Lesley Pearse (no US edition)

One good deed takes her into another world . . .

Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime.

She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. And she travels across the plains to the Wild West, where San Francisco is in the grip of the gold rush.

Streetwise and strong-willed, Matilda forges a new life for herself and Tabitha among pioneers like Captain James Russell - a man to whom she is deeply attracted. Yet a civil war will soon rip apart this new nation.

Can Matilda and those she loves brave separation and carry on, never looking back?

Black List ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the eleventh and latest thriller in Brad Thor's Scot Harvath series, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor “is arguably the best thriller writer of our time” (Suspense Magazine) and “America’s favorite author” (KTTX).

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Diary of a Wimpy Kid ($1.99), by Jeff Kinney.

Book Description
Boys don't keep diaries—or do they?

The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate to.

It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion.

Author/illustrator Jeff Kinney recalls the growing pains of school life and introduces a new kind of hero who epitomizes the challenges of being a kid. As Greg says in his diary, "Just don’t expect me to be all 'Dear Diary' this and 'Dear Diary' that." Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won't do and what he actually does are two very different things.

Since its launch in May 2004 on Funbrain.com, the Web version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid has been viewed by 20 million unique online readers. This year, it is averaging 70,000 readers a day.

Free Audiobook from Downpour

While it lasts, download a free audiobook from Downpour.com (Blackstone Audio's new consumer site). There are twenty to choose from and you can download either an MP3 (Kindle compatible) or MP4 (iTunes) format after the audiobook is in your library.

40% Off Qualifying Kindle Accessories (AL)

This is another AmazonLocal deal, so you must be in the US, but don't have to find a special offer on your Kindle: 40% Off Qualifying Kindle Accessories. Grab a voucher now, before they sell out and you'll have over a week to look thru the qualifying items and decide which ones you want (although popular ones may sell out, as always with these offers).

Deal Description
Whether you've owned your Kindle Fire or Kindle E-reader for years, or just got one as a gift, today's deal from the Kindle Accessories Store is the perfect opportunity to personalize -- and protect -- your device. Get a free voucher for 40% off qualifying purchases ($40 maximum discount) in the Kindle Accessories Store.

• Free voucher for 40% off select Kindle accessories
• Choose from a wide selection of qualifying Amazon Branded Accessories and Made for Kindle Accessories from brands like Marware, Verso, Punchcase and more
• Voucher will expire if not used toward a qualifying purchase in the Kindle Accessories Store by January 5, 2013
• Voucher is valid for a 40% discount on your order total (up to the first $100 spent) for qualifying items in the Kindle Accessories Store; your order total can be over $100, but the maximum discount is $40.

Today's Deals 12/25

Merry Christmas, everyone! I'll be checking on the free books later, but will be busy with family on and off, so it may later this afternoon.

Be sure to grab today's free Android App, World of Goo (usually $5). I also see that Need for Speed Most Wanted (Kindle Tablet Edition) and Asphalt 7: Heat (Kindle Tablet Edition) are on sale for 99 cents (down from $6.99). All are great choices for any new Kindle Fire HD's under the tree.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ($1.99), by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (Translator).

Book Description
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is five sensual, seasonal romances by Debbie Macomber, Sherryl Woods, Brenda Novak, RaeAnne Thayne, and Susan Mallery for just $1.99 or less.

The Perfect Christmas ($1.99), by Debbie Macomber

What would make your Christmas perfect?

For Cassie Beaumont, it's meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing's worked. Not blind dates, not the internet and certainly not leaving love to chance.

What other options are there? Well…she could hire a professional matchmaker. Simon Dodson has quite a reputation, but he's very choosy about the clients he takes on—and very expensive. Cassie considers him a difficult, acerbic know-it-all, and she's astonished when he accepts her as a client.

Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind, Simon assigns her three tasks to complete before she meets this paragon. Three tasks that are all about Christmas: being a charity bell-ringer, dressing up as Santa's elf at a mall and preparing a traditional turkey dinner for her neighbors (most of whom she happens to dislike). Despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie does it all—and then she's finally ready to meet her match.

But just like the perfect Christmas gift, he turns out to be a wonderful surprise!

An O'Brien Family Christmas ($1.99), by Sherryl Woods

Dating Matthew O'Brien—a playboy and a younger man—cost Laila Riley her career and her parents' respect. A high price, even for love—and when Laila decides it was just a fling, she breaks it off, despite Matthew's objections.

But the O'Brien family has other ideas, and they conspire to get Laila to join them on a Dublin holiday. It's a great time to get away from it all, but Laila has reservations about the trip. Matthew's bound to be there, and she's far from immune. What if she can't resist temptation?

Meanwhile, the O'Briens are in an uproar over matriarch Nell's unexpected romance with an old flame. Will she follow her heart, despite the risks? And will Laila discover that some risks are actually once-in-a-lifetime opportunities?

When Snow Falls ($1.99), by Brenda Novak

After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the mystery of her earliest memories, most of which feature a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother.

Although Cheyenne has repeatedly asked for explanations, the people who could help aren't talking. Cheyenne is set on finding answers, but without so much as a birth certificate, it won't be easy.

Things get even more complicated when her closest friend is attracted to the man Cheyenne has secretly loved for years. For Eve's sake, she decides to step aside—which lands her right in the arms of Dylan Amos, oldest and baddest of the hell-raising Amos brothers. He's the kind of guy she's sworn to avoid. She can't afford to make a mistake, not when she finally has a chance to learn who she really is and change her life for the better. But…maybe there's more to Dylan than she thought. Maybe letting him go would be a bigger mistake.

A Cold Creek Noel ($0.99), by RaeAnne Thayne

Caidy Bowman had been the apple of her family's eye—until a devastating tragedy forced her to hide from the world. She was used to devoting her time to the animals on her family's ranch. Then widower Ben Caldwell and his two adorable children arrived in Pine Gulch, and suddenly, Caidy wanted more than a life in the shadows….

As the town's new vet, Ben needed a place to stay for the holidays—and for his family to heal from their own loss. He absolutely wasn't looking for love again! But Caidy Bowman's sparkling green eyes and sweet smile touched Ben's broken heart, giving him hope for a new future. Their future—if he could convince the beautiful cowgirl that Christmas was a time for new beginnings….

A Christmas Bride: Only Us: A Fool's Gold Holiday\The Sheik and the Christmas Bride ($1.99), an anthology by Susan Mallery

Only Us
Pet groomer Carina Fiore wants nothing more than to confess her feelings to the man she loves. She's drawn to veterinarian Cameron McKenzie's good looks, caring nature and especially his devotion to his young daughter. There's just one problem—he's her boss. Putting her heart on the line could cost Rina both her job and their friendship forever. But when a kiss under the mistletoe unlocks the simmering passion between them, Rina and Cameron may just find love for the holidays after all….

The Sheik and the Christmas Bride
When Prince As'ad of El Deharia agrees to adopt three orphaned American girls, he does so on one condition—that their beautiful teacher, Kayleen James, become their nanny. His plan is to leave her to deal with the children as he continues his life, undisturbed. But all that changes when Kayleen and the girls invade the palace—and As'ad's heart—and change it for the better.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ($1.99), by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Book Description
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

The Millennium Trilogy ($3.70 / £2.29 UK), by Stieg Larsson , is the first Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $29.99, so a better deal is to start with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at $1.99 and pick up the other two volumes, later).

Book Description
Together in ebook for the very first time, discover the novels millions of readers worldwide could not put down:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned by the powerful Vanger clan. Her uncle employs disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders, they begin to unravel a dark family history…

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Lisbeth Salander is now a wanted woman, on the run from the police. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium magazine, is trying to prove her innocence. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight – but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Salander is plotting her final revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander is ready to fight to the end.

A Taste for Death ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by P. D. James, is the second Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $11.99).

Book Description
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .

Thrill! ($1.63 / £0.99 UK), by Jackie Collins, is the third Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US Kindle edition; Audible).

Book Description
From chic New York and the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of L.A., this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions and relentless desires in the seemingly perfect world of a gorgeous film actress.

She could have any man - but the one she can't resist is a mysterious lover with a shadowed past. As their jolting affair skyrockets with electric passion, shocking secrets break through their hidden traps - in a brilliantly twisting story that sparks with the explosive Jackie Collins touch

Caught ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Harlan Coben, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated than she could ever imagine. Dan is tied to the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old New Jersey girl, and the shocking consequences will have Wendy doubting her instincts about the motives of the people around her, while confronting the true nature of guilt, grief, and her own capacity for forgiveness.…

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is two wonderful recent classics for young readers--Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express --are just $2.99 each.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends -- one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena -- Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

Grade Level: 5 and up

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg.

Since its publication in 1985, Chris Van Allsburg’s holiday classic has sold millions of copies and has come to signify the essential spirit of Christmas for countless readers. Now, after more than twenty-five celebrated years of publication, the Caldecott Award-winning The Polar Express is available as a read-aloud e-book, featuring dramatic audio of the timeless tale as read by Liam Neeson. Readers young and old are sure to treasure this inspiring book, which brings to life the magic of Christmas for all who believe.

Age Level: 5 and up