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Kindle Daily Deal: Maps and Legends - 06-04-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-04-2012

Title: Maps and Legends By Michael Chabon



About: Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon's collection of 16 essays champions the cause of sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, westerns, and other genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction. For Chabon, stories that give us great pleasure are, in many ways, our best art, the building blocks of our shared imagination.

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Chabon declares, “I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” But of course there’s much more to his vivid and mischievous literary manifesto in 16 parts than that. A writer of prodigious literary gifts, Chabon brings the velocity, verve, and emotional richness intrinsic to the best of short stories to his exceptionally canny and stirring essays. Musing over the various literary traditions he riffs on in his many-faceted novels, he concludes, “All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.” Chabon zestfully praises the many allures of genre fiction and celebrates writers, among them Vonnegut and Byatt, who infuse their fiction with “the Trickster spirit of genre-bending and stylistic play.” He offers a fresh and affecting take on Arthur Conan Doyle and pays witty and provocative tribute to M. R. James, a seemingly serene British author of superb horror and ghost stories. Norse myths, Will Eisner, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road are all are interpreted with acuity and vigor. And then there are Chabon’s hilarious and puckish personal essays about his early writing misadventures and evolving sense of Jewishness. A writer so versatile he seems to be a master of disguises, Chabon provides invaluable keys to his frolicsome creativity and literary chutzpah in this truly entertaining collection. --Donna Seaman


Language: English
# of Pages: 203
File Size: 534 KB
Published by Open Road; 1st edition, on December 20, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: The File on H. - 06-05-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-05-2012

Title: The File on H. By Ismail Kadare



About: In the mid-1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands--the last stronghold of the oral epic--with a first-generation tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey without writing. This entertaining work is a spy novel and a comedy-of-errors combined.

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Two American researchers head into 1930s Albania with a tape recorder in search of the Homeric oral tradition but find unexpected complications. A stuffedshirt bureaucracy that against all evidence thinks them spies provides only limited hindrance, but a violent Serbian monk who resents Albania getting the credit sets out to stop them. For good measure, throw in a dreamy governor's wife, who fantasizes about an affair with one of the foreigners, and some real spies, including Dull Baxhaja, whose florid prose in missives about the foreigners makes the governor drool, and you are bound for a complicated outcome. Without giving away too much, the researchers head home lacking hard evidence, one of them going blind, seeming to become a rhapsody himself. Kadare (The Pyramid, LJ 4/1/96) and translator Bellos consistently get the tone just right, and their product is both slyly funny and wistful. Recommended for all world literature collections.?Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
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Published by Arcade Publishing, on January 31, 2012.

Kindle Daily Deal: A Kiss Before Dying - 06-06-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-06-2012

Title: A Kiss Before Dying By Ira Levin



About: This winner of the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel set a new standard in the art of psychological suspense. It tells the shocking tale of a charming, intelligent young man willing to use everything in his power--even murder--to prevent his dreams from being derailed.

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Ira Levin is the author of The Boys from Brazil, Rosemary’s Baby, Son of Rosemary, The Stepford Wives, This Perfect Day, Sliver, and A Kiss Before Dying (for which he won the Edgar Award). Levin was also the recipient of three Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Awards. His website is iralevin.org.


Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He is the founder of the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books, and has received an Edgar Award, an Ellery Queen Award, and a Raven Award for his contribution to the mystery field. His anthology The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps was a New York Times Bestseller.


Language: English
# of Pages: 288
File Size: 407 KB
Published by Pegasus Books; Reprint edition, on May 10, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: The Child in Time - 06-07-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-07-2012

Title: The Child in Time By Ian McEwan



About: Stephen Lewis, a successful children's book author, takes his three-year-old daughter, Kate, to the supermarket one Saturday morning. For a moment, he gets distracted, and when his attention turns back to Kate, she's gone. This powerful, beautifully written, and unforgettable novel earned Ian McEwan the Whitbread Novel Award in 1987.

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A sense of loss pervades this fine, provocative new novel by the author of The Comfort of Strangers. The protagonist, Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, is introduced to us in a scene more frightening than any from a horror novel: while he is shopping with Kate, his three-year-old daughter, the child is kidnapped. Stephen's mounting terror as he combs the store for Katetrying in vain to recall the face of the dark-clad stranger he glimpsed behind themis palpable. As the story moves forward, it focuses not only on Stephen's search for his daughter, but also on his attempts to come to terms with his loss and the likely collapse of his marriage to Julie, a musician. Woven through the narrative is a subplot that deals with childhood and loss of a different sort. It is the innocence of youth that Stephen's friend and former editor, Charles Darke, longs for and ultimately recaptures at a terrible price. This is a beautifully rendered, very disturbing novel. First serial to Esquire.
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Language: English
# of Pages: 258
File Size: 405 KB
Published by RosettaBooks, on February 11, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: Stealing Trinity - 06-08-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-08-2012

Title: Stealing Trinity By Ward Larsen



About: In the last days of WWII, the Third Reich tries to retrieve a spy planted deep in the Manhattan Project, birthplace of the atomic bomb. For the mission, the Nazis choose a ruthless killer, American-born Alexander Braun. When the British find out, Major Michael Thatcher is sent to hunt Braun.

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Leaders in the Third Reich see the end coming and decide to launch a bold plan. One of their most valuable spies in the U.S. is working on a top-secret initiative called the Manhattan Project, prompting the Nazis to send their top agent, ruthless killer Alexander Braun, to reconnoiter with the spy. Born in America, Braun heads back to the States with a personal agenda: visit the woman he was forced to leave behind when he left the country. He finds himself torn between his feelings for her and his mission. Meanwhile, British intelligence learns of Braun and sends one of its best agents after him. All of their lives collide at the dawn of the atomic age. This is well-trod ground—Joseph Kanon’s Los Alamos (1997), for example—and Larsen’s characters and story line provide no real surprises. Still, for readers who can’t get enough of the Manhattan Project in fiction, this is a serviceable thriller. --Jeff Ayers


Language: English
# of Pages: 332
File Size: 1959 KB
Published by Oceanview Publishing, on October 1, 2008.

Kindle Daily Deal: 23 world-class mysteries - 06-09-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-09-2012

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23 world-class mysteries



About: These page-turning debuts and first books in popular series promise something for all lovers of great mysteries and thrillers. From Edward Bunker's critically-acclaimed classic, No Beast So Fierce, to book one of Loren D. Estleman's award-winning Amos Walker series, Motor City Blue, this selection features masterfully-crafted novels for all tastes.

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Kindle Daily Deal: A Discovery of Witches - 06-10-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-10-2012

Title: A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness



About: This imaginative and suspenseful debut portrays a passionate tale of obsession, in which Diana Bishop--a young scholar and descendant of witches--discovers a long-lost and enchanted manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

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In Harkness's lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford's Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.)
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Language: English
# of Pages: 594
File Size: 1080 KB
Published by Penguin, on February 8, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: The Search for Major Plagge - 06-11-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-11-2012

Title: The Search for Major Plagge By Michael Good



About: Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good unfolds the incredible true tale of WWII German commander Karl Plagge. In charge of a Lithuanian work camp, Plagge saved hundreds of Jews in the Vilna ghetto, including Good's mother. This expertly researched and well-written account reveals one man's remarkable courage.

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This book is a personal quest, personal journey, and a personal history.
...unprecedented insights into the burden of silent memories and a disastrous heritage of guilt.-Edith Wyschogrod
This is an exceptional story of one man's bravery and compassion in a world where six million Jews were murdered.



Language: English
# of Pages: 308
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Published by Fordham University Press; 2 edition, on December 31, 2006.

Kindle Daily Deal: Carbs & Cadavers - 06-12-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-12-2012

Title: Carbs & Cadavers By J.B. Stanley



About: Divorced, overweight, and shy, former English Professor James Henry moves back home to help his recently-widowed father. After arriving, James joins a supper club for dieters. When a mysterious death strikes fear in their small community, the club members dodge delectable temptations by working together to find the killer.

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J.B. Stanley has a BA in English from Franklin & Marshall College, an MA in English Literature from West Chester University, and an MLIS from North Carolina Central University. She taught sixth grade language arts in Cary, North Carolina for the majority of her eight-year teaching career. Raised an antique-lover by her grandparents and parents, Stanley also worked part-time in an auction gallery. An eBay junkie and food-lover, Stanley now lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, two young children, and three cats.



Language: English
# of Pages: 286
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Published by Midnight Ink, on September 8, 2006.

Kindle Daily Deal: More Sweet Tea - 06-13-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-13-2012

Title: More Sweet Tea By Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Deborah Dixon, Maureen Hardegree



About: Settle into a comfortable chair and enjoy the latest volume of poignant, humorous, and nostalgic stories from the acclaimed Sweet Tea series. In this anthology, authors Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis and Deborah Dixon spin tales about the legendary South, from vindictive mules to marriage rituals involving a pig.

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Language: English
# of Pages: 220
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Published by BelleBooks, Inc., on April 30, 2005.

Kindle Daily Deal: Twisted Justice - 06-14-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-14-2012

Title: Twisted Justice By Patricia Gussin



About: Dr. Laura Nelson's perfect family life starts crumbling after discovering her husband Steve, a TV-anchorman, is having an affair with his costar, Kim. When Kim is found murdered, Laura's the prime suspect and she's forced to cut through deceptions and dark secrets to prove her innocence and protect her family.

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Patricia Gussin, M.D. is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, is Board Certified in Family Medicine and holds an MBA from Columbia University. Pat practiced medicine and directed medical research as a worldwide vice president for a leading healthcare company. Gussin is also author of Shadow of Death and the upcoming What's Next for You?


Language: English
# of Pages: 338
File Size: 534 KB
Published by Oceanview Publishing, on April 1, 2008.

Kindle Daily Deal: A Gay and Melancholy Sound - 06-15-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-15-2012

Title: A Gay and Melancholy Sound By Merle Miller, Nancy Pearl



About: The first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new Book Lust Rediscoveries series, this lost literary classic is available for the first time in decades. As funny and entertaining as it is captivating and heartrending, this shattering depiction of modern disconnection explores the consequences of a life without love.

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Merle Miller was born on May 17, 1919 in Montour, Iowa, and grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa. He attended the University of Iowa and the London School of Economics. He joined the US. Army Air Corps during World War II, where he worked as an editor of Yank. His best-known books are his biographies of three presidents: Plain Speaking: An Oral History of Harry Truman, Lyndon: An Oral Biography, and Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him. His novels include That Winter, The Sure Thing, Reunion, A Secret Understanding, A Gay and Melancholy Sound, What Happened, Island 49, and A Day in Late September. He also wrote We Dropped the A-Bomb, The Judges and the Judged, Only You, Dick Daring!, about his experiences writing a television pilot for CBS starring Barbara Stanwyck and Jackie Cooper, and On Being Different, an expansion of his 1971 article for the The New York Times Magazine entitled “What It Means to Be a Homosexual.” He died in 1986.Nancy Pearl is a librarian and lifelong reader. She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Her books include 2003’s Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, 2005’s More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment and Reason; Book Crush: For Kids and Teens: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest, published in 2007, and 2010’s Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers. Among her many awards and honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association; the 2010 Margaret E. Monroe Award from the Reference and Users Services Association of the American Library Association; and the 2004 Women's National Book Association Award, given to "a living American woman who …has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation."



Language: English
# of Pages: 585
File Size: 924 KB
Published by AmazonEncore, on April 3, 2012.

Kindle Daily Deal: The Cold Dish - 06-16-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-16-2012

Title: The Cold Dish By Craig Johnson



About: In his outstanding first novel, best-selling author Craig Johnson introduces his popular character Sheriff Walt Longmire of Wyoming’s Absaroka County. Johnson uses his law enforcement background and deep attachment to the American West to create this fast-paced mystery filled with memorable characters, good humor, and a strong sense of place.

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The Cold Dish, a multilayered whodunit mystery, stands out in its genre. Shades of racism, mysticism, and revenge give the novel nuance; dead-on dialogue, good-natured humor, and flesh-and-blood characters, including the foul-mouthed deputy Victorian "Vic" Moretti, give it life. Johnson, who lives in Ucross, Wyoming, knows the Western landscape well, and creates stunning and violent scenes (including a raging blizzard) of the Rocky Mountains. Only The Philadelphia Inquirer faulted the novel’s roughness and comparatively immature prose. The other critics look forward to reading more from Johnson’s powerful voice and reconnecting with his eccentric mélange of characters.Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.



Language: English
# of Pages: 380
File Size: 754 KB
Published by Penguin, on December 29, 2004.

Kindle Daily Deal: $0.99 Mysteries and Thrillers - 06-17-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-17-2012

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About: Today's deal showcases the world-class work of D.M. Annechino, Scott Nicholson, Blair S. Walker, Traci Hohenstein, and Rex Kusler. With settings ranging from Kusler's gritty, Great Recession-era Las Vegas to rural America and Nicholson's harrowing Monkey House drug trials, these suspenseful books promise to keep you reading into the night.

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Kindle Daily Deal: Five Top-Rated "Brain Books" - 06-18-2012

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About: This inspiring collection is filled with fascinating and fun strategies for unleashing your imagination, recharging your intuition, and bolstering your self-confidence. All five books feature expert advice and refreshingly original approaches designed to improve your mind and quality of life.

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Kindle Daily Deal: Pocket-47 - 06-19-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-19-2012

Title: Pocket-47 By Jude Hardin



About: In Jude Hardin's critically-acclaimed thriller, former rock star turned private investigator Nicholas Colt takes on the seemingly simple case of missing teenager Brittney Ryan. Soon, Colt finds himself in a web of betrayal and murder that resurrects his tortured past and the plane crash that killed his family and band.

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Meet Nicholas Colt, a PI with an intriguing past. Once guitarist for the renowned band Colt .45, he's the sole survivor of a small-plane crash that killed his wife, daughter, and the rest of the band. After that, he renounced music and set up shop as a detective in his Airstream trailor near a lake in north Florida. When orphaned Leitha Ryan hires him to find her runaway 15-year-old sister, Brittney (eschewing police for fear of losing Brittney to foster care), the trail leads to a white-supremacy sect and connects to Colt's earlier life through SWAT sniper and former SEAL Roy Massengill, who once worked for the band. Pocket-47, Colt learns, is a pilot's expression that can mean not only an unexplained glitch but also sabotage. Colt is a physical, no-holds-barred PI, reminiscent of Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Lee Child's Jack Reacher, and his debut is action-packed. With a hefty toll of dead bodies, some described in cringe-inducing detail, this is crime fiction at its rawest. Hard-boiled connoisseurs should make Colt's acquaintance now.


Language: English
# of Pages: 236
File Size: 1887 KB
Published by Oceanview Publishing, on May 2, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: The Eagle Has Landed - 06-20-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-20-2012

Title: The Eagle Has Landed By Jack Higgins



About: In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: abduct Winston Churchill. Hitler's plan has only one roadblock, the quiet town of Studley Constable. When its residents uncover Hitler's plot, they realize that the fate of the war rests solely in their hands.

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Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.


Language: English
# of Pages: 372
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Published by Open Road, on March 29, 2011.

Kindle Daily Deal: Until the Next Time - 06-21-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-21-2012

Title: Until the Next Time By Kevin Fox



About: After inheriting his uncle Michael's journal, Sean Corrigan uses it to trace Michael's exodus from New York City to Ireland to escape a bogus murder charge. During his journey, Sean realizes the journal reflects his life and holds the key to finding the woman he is fated to love forever.

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Kevin Fox is a producer and writer for the Fox TS series Lie to Me, and his professional screen- writer credits include the film The Negotiator. He splits his time between coasts, living in both Los Angeles and New Jersey. This is his first novel.



Language: English
# of Pages: 400
File Size: 762 KB
Published by Algonquin Books, on February 14, 2012.

Kindle Daily Deal: River of the BrokenheartedFrom the author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Mercy Among the Children - 06-22-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-22-2012

Title: River of the BrokenheartedFrom the author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Mercy Among the Children By David Adams Richards



About: From the author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Mercy Among the Children comes the big-hearted story of Janie McCleary's struggle to overcome small-town prejudice during the Great Depression. After her husband dies, Janie bravely opens a movie theater, a pioneering act that shapes the lives of her children and grandchildren.

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Richards, acclaimed in his native Canada, draws on his grandmother's life to provide emotional resonance for his latest novel (after 2001's Mercy Among the Children), a multigenerational family saga in which some generations are considerably more interesting than others. The narrator's grandmother, Hanna Jane (Janie) McLeary, is born toward the end of the 19th century in a small New Brunswick village. At 20 she marries an older Englishman, George King, who is poor in health as well as purse. They open a small cinema, which outdraws the town's other theater, owned by Joey Elias. When King dies, Janie has a son, Miles, and a daughter on the way—surely she can't also run a theater. Elias cunningly uses her bank's manager and her own father in attempts to gain control of her business, but Janie remains steadfast in the face of whispered scandal and threats of violence. But while she manages to keep her theater, tragedy strikes—her father is killed, and her daughter disappears while in the care of her son. Janie's story is fascinating, but while Richards' depiction of character and place remain consistently strong, the narrative slows as it focuses on her son and grandson. The trials of the family as its members progressively succumb to failure and alcoholism (even as they keep the theater running) are well drawn, but as Janie's descendants learn little from their mistakes, the tale becomes less involving. An unexpected deus ex machina in the last pages forces a rather unlikely happy ending onto a story that had been, until that point, entirely believable if not particularly memorable.
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Language: English
# of Pages: 450
File Size: 938 KB
Published by Arcade Publishing, on January 12, 2012.

Kindle Daily Deal: Kindle Daily Deal - 06-23-2012

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