Today's First Lightning Deal on the
Gold Box page at Amazon is the
Jazz Icons: Series 3 (Eight-Disc Boxed Set). Only early birds get a chance at it, as it expires at 6AM Pacific (or when sold out).
Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is
Sudoku 10'000 Plus.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
The Collected: A Jonathan Quinn Novel (
$1.99), by Brett Battles, with the
companion audiobook also $1.99. This is the sixth, and latest, in the series and I see that I can borrow the first four from my local library, so I'll probably take a chance on this one.
Book Description
A cleaner’s tasks are simple: get rid of the body so that it will never be found, and make the scene of the kill look like nothing happened.
Rule Number One: Don’t get caught.
With Jonathan Quinn’s career in question, his apprentice Nate has successfully taken on the role of full-fledged cleaner, using Quinn’s name to keep the business working seamlessly in case his boss decides to return.
But Nate’s latest job is not what it seems, and he finds himself on the wrong side of a trap.
With Nate suddenly missing, Quinn and his partner Orlando set out to find him, and learn the reasons for Nate’s disappearance are more atrocious than they anticipated.
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is
The Miser of Mayfair: A Novel of Regency England (
$1.99), the first novel in M.C. Beaton's
House for the Season series. Originally published under the pen name Marion Chesney.
Book Description
It was the fashion during Regency to hire a house for the Season in Mayfair—the heart of London’s fashionable West End—at a disproportionately high rent for sometimes very inferior accommodation. So why is it that Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant season after season? The home of numerous families in the past to whom ill luck—even death-has befallen, Number 67 has been damned as unlucky. In the Miser of Mayfair, salvation seems to come at last in the form of a Mr. Roderick Sinclair, who has confirmed his intentions to let the house for the Season. The staff are overjoyed—until they find that Mr. Sinclair is a trrible miser and is planning so parties. Furthermore, his ward, Fiona, seems not to have a bright idea in her head. Only Rainbird, the clever and elegant butler of Number 67, plots with Fiona to bewitch, bedazzle, and confuse the earl into seeing things their way
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is
Wizard's First Rule (
$1.99), by Terry Goodkind, with the
companion audiobook also $1.99. I replaced my paper copy long ago, but it's tempting to grab this newer edition, just for access to the lower price audiobook.
Book Description
Wizard's First Rule, the first novel by Terry Goodkind, was a phenomenon from the moment it was published by Tor Books in 1994, selling more than 100,000 copies in North America alone. It still sells more than 100,000 copies a year and has gone on to bestsellerdom in the United Kingdom and in more than twenty foreign translations as well as audiobook form.
It is now being developed as one of the most ambitious television miniseries of all time. Executive Producer Sam Raimi (director of the three Spider-Man movies), in collaboration with Disney/ABC, is creating a 22-episode adaptation of the book to be filmed in New Zealand.
Richard and Kahlan's story unfolds over ten more novels, collectively known as the Sword of Truth series, concluding with Confessor in 2007. Placing Goodkind in the elite club of #1 New York Times bestselling authors, the series has sold more than twenty million copies to date worldwide.
In Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind introduced the world to an ordinary forest guide, Richard Cypher, and the mysterious, powerful woman he comes to love, Kahlan Amnell. Learning his true identity, Richard accepts his destiny as the one man who can stop the bloodthirsty tyrant Darken Rahl. Hunted relentlessly, betrayed and alone, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.
The importance of Wizard's First Rule is sourced in Goodkind taking on the toughest of all literary challenges: to tell an electrifying story of action, violence, and adventure that also makes people think, and that would influence the choices and actions of its readers.
Years after reading Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind fans still ask themselves, "What would Richard do?" when confronted with life's obstacles and challenges. "Your life is yours alone," Richard says at a key moment. "Rise up and live it."
The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is
three titles in Andrew Peterson's Nathan McBride series for
£0.99 each (~80% off).
Ten years ago, a botched mission in Nicaragua ended covert ops specialist Nathan McBride's CIA career. Now he utilises his unique skill set in the private sector--until the night Frank Ortega, former director of the FBI, calls in a favour. In this thrilling series, there are no rules, no protocol, no backup--only McBride.
First to Kill (Main/
UK;
US edition $2.99)
Forced to Kill (Main/
UK);
US edition $3.99;
companion audiobook $1.99)
Option to Kill (Main/
UK;
US edition $3.99;
companion audiobook $2.99)
Witchling ($7.99 Kindle,
$1.99 B&N), the first novel in the
Sisters of the Moon series by Yasmine Galenorn, is the Nook Daily Find; it should have already been price matched at Amazon, so wait for the pricing genie to work it's magin on the Kindle edition. I just wish that the second in the series,
Changeling, would be discounted, as it's my lone holdout on replacing this series in digital form. For those who prefer to listen, the
companion audiobook at Amazon is $5.49.
Book Description
We’re the D’Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we’re savvy—and sexy—operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she’s stressed. Menolly’s a vampire who’s still trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I’m Camille—a wicked-good witch. Except my magic’s as unpredictable as the weather, as my enemies are about to find out the hard way...
At the Wayfarer Inn, a portal to Otherworld and the local hangout for humans and beasties alike, a fellow operative, Jocko, has been murdered. Every clue points to Shadow Wing, the soul-munching, badass leader of the Subterranean Realms. He’s made it clear that he aims to raze humankind to the ground, turning both Earth and Otherworld into his private playground. Our assignment: Keep Shadow Wing and his minions from creeping into Earth via the Wayfarer. The demons figure they’re in like Flynn. After all, with only my bumbling sisters and me standing in the way, how can they miss? But we’ve got a secret for them: Faulty wiring or not, nobody kicks ass like the D’Artigo girls...
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is
When Jackie and Hank Met (
$1.99), by Cathy Goldberg Fishman and Mark Elliott (Illustrator).
Book Description
Jackie and Hank were born eight years and one thousand miles apart. Nobody knew these babies would grow up and play baseball. Nobody knew Jackie and Hank would meet and become heroes. Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg were two very different people. But they both became Major League Baseball players, and they both faced a lot of the same challenges in their lives and careers. For Jackie, it was because of his skin color. For Hank, it was because of his religion. On May 17, 1947 these two men met for the first time colliding at first base in a close play. While the crowd urged them to fight, Jackie and Hank chose a different path. This is the story of two men who went on to break the barriers of race and religion in American sports and became baseball legends in the process. Beautiful text by Cathy Goldberg Fishman is paired with sumptuous paintings by Mark Elliott. Generous back matter material includes a photo and prose biography of each man, timelines, quotes, resources to learn more, and a selected bibliography.
The Hermetic Millennia ($1.99 Kindle) is John C. Wright's newly released book from Tor (>$17 Hardcover). 
Impulse ($1.99 Kindle) is Steven Gould's newly released book from Tor (~$15 Hardcover). The companion audiobook is only $4.49.
Although you can't tell by the title, The Mongoliad: Book One ($0.99 Kindle), Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo and Erik Bear, is an updated, special "collector's edition" of the first novel in The Foreworld Saga, with the companion audiobook at $1.99. The original edition I bought last year seems to be missing form the store (and not linked to the audiobook, in any case) and since the formerly free short story included sells for the same 99 cents, this is a pretty good deal for fantasy fans that don't have these in in their libraries.
