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
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).
