Archive for September 2012
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Saturday, September 22 – Save 72% on M.C. Beaton and Marion Chesney’s Historical Romance Minerva ; Kindle Daily Kids Deal — Save 80% on All Seven Daisy Meadows Books in the ‘Fairy Sisters’ Series–$1.99 Each Today TITLE; plus …Lisa Begin-Kruysman’s Something’s Lost and Must be Found: Six Short Tails of Inspiration on a Long Leash (Today’s Sponsor)
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Author But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
Something’s Lost and Must be Found: Six Short Tails of Inspiration on a Long Leash
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In the first volume of Marion Chesney’s popular historical romance series, “The Six Sisters,” prudish and beautiful Minerva goes to London to woo a wealthy husband. Unfortunately, the London dandies despise her moralizing. These so-called gentlemen plan a scandalizing assault on Minerva’s virtue, backed with a wager of 50,000 pounds.
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Kindle Kids Daily Deal: “The Rainbow Fairies” Series
All seven volumes of Daisy Meadows’s popular “Rainbow Fairies” children’s chapter-book series are only $1.99 each (80% off). The books follow the adventures of seven colorful fairy sisters. They keep Fairyland dazzling and bright, but when evil Jack Frost sends them away, Fairyland is threatened to turn gray forever.
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Free Classic: Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson
Every Friday, Marilyn Knapp Litt, who blogs at ClassicKindle.com, brings us her recommendation of a free classic book to discover (or rediscover) on Kindle. Find more of Marilyn’s recommendations at her blog, ClassicKindle.com, a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the Kindle. You can also get Marilyn’s blog on Kindle and I recommend that you “Like” the Classic Kindle Facebook page as well so you don’t miss anything. Here’s Marilyn’s post:
Miss Mapp is a one of a series of charming and humorous British novels by E.F. Benson. It was published in 1922.
Miss Elizabeth Mapp might have been forty . . . Anger and the gravest suspicions about everybody had kept her young and on the boil. She sat, on this hot July morning, like a large bird of prey at the very convenient window of her garden-room, the ample bow of which formed a strategical point of high value.
But she does not just watch, she plots
Of the two, Major Flint, without doubt, was the more attractive to the feminine sense; for years Miss Mapp had tried to cajole him into marrying her, and had not nearly finished yet. With his record of adventure, with the romantic reek of India (and camphor) in the tiger-skin of the rugs that strewed his hall and surged like a rising tide up the wall, with his haughty and gallant manner, with his loud pshawings and sniffs at “nonsense and balderdash,” his thumpings on the table to emphasize an argument, with his wound and his prodigious swipes at golf, his intolerance of any who believed in ghosts, microbes or vegetarianism, there was something dashing and risky about him . . .
Let’s turn to one of those useful Amazon Reader Reviewers who titles this review, “Hilarious fun in a small English Village,” —
“Benson has written a village with a range of gorgeous characters – from Diva who is Miss Mapp’s great rival, to Irene the local artist who keeps embarrassing Miss Mapp with her prosaic pronouncements. Then there is the local Vicar who talks in a combination of Shakespearian English and Burnsian dialect. There is also Mrs Poppit who is an up and coming social climber (hardly worthy of Miss Mapp’s notice) and the novel begins with Miss Mapps machinations to the Poppitt Bridge party.
Village life you see seems to run around Bridge parties. In this petty world of card games there is a great deal of opportunity to expose one another’s weaknesses and Miss Mapp, in order to be the center of village life in Tilling finds no object too petty to exploit. This is a novel of small things made into huge issues because of the smallness of the village.”
It sounds quite nice. Sometimes the best novels are about small things.
Click here to get your free copy of Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson >>>
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Friday, September 21 – Save 78% on Marc Fitten’s Novel of Small Town Romance, Valeria’s Last Stand; Kindle Daily Teens Deal — Save 75% on Ysabeau S. Wilce’ s Wildly Clever Fantasy Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (Magic Carpet Books) ; plus …Cerise DeLand’s Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET?
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What’s a girl to do when she has the hots for the local sheriff—and he’s playing it cool? Mae Montaine knows the man has a gun in his pocket and he’s always happy to see her.
So why won’t he come over and see her sometime…for a date? A hug? A kiss? More?
West Farraday yearns for the All-American knock-out who lives next door, but Mae’s got problems and secrets. He’d love to help her out…of her problems. And her clothes. Then into his bed.
When the timing seems right, West makes his move. He’s happier than a colt in clover.
Mae’s skeptical they can make it as a couple. After all, town gossip says the good sheriff is hard on the ladies.
But when three bad coyotes invade Mae’s life, West tries to prove to her that a man who’s hard in the sack can be oh, so easy to love.
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Valeria has long been the grumpy and respected touchstone of her Hungarian community, but when the village potter captures her fancy, her social standing starts unraveling. Joyful and wise, this small-town satire takes an honest look at later-in-life romance and the notion that it’s never too late to start anew.
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Flora knows not to take shortcuts in her home, Crackpot Hall. The house has 11,000 rooms that move around at random, but Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator: huge mistake! Lost in her own house, she stumbles into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal.
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