Archive for September 2012
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Saturday, September 15 – Save Up to 60% on Barbara Freethy’s “Sanders Brothers” and “Deception” Series, Four Books at $1.99 Each ; Kindle Daily Young Readers Deal — Save 72% on Roland Smith’s Imaginative The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe; plus …James A. West’s The God King (Heirs of the Fallen) (Today’s Sponsor)
September 15, 2012 | 
Author But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
The God King (Heirs of the Fallen)
Here’s the set-up:
Heroes are not born, they are forged in the fires of apocalypse…
For gold enough to buy a throne, mercenary Kian Valara agrees to guard Prince Varis Kilvar during a dull excursion across the realm. He should have known better than to trust a highborn.
Driven by a lust for supremacy, Varis sunders the lost Well of Creation, the veil between his world and the dominion of the dead. He steals powers never meant for mortal hands, at once transforming himself into a living god and unleashing a cataclysm that will change humanity and the face of the world forever.
In the heavens the three moons collide, fire scorches the firmament, and the seas rage as the face of the world trembles. Chaos reigns from the king’s city of Ammathor to the forbidding walls of the Black Keep, as a demonic host released from the bowels of the Thousand Hells seeks to possess the flesh of the living.
Bound to Varis by powers he neither wants nor understands, Kian is forced onto a path of defending a world that has ever turned its back on him. As Kian hunts after Varis, his love grows for a Sister of Najihar, who knows in her heart that she is preparing him for a battle no man can win.
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
Kindle Daily Deal: Two Best-Selling Romantic Suspense Series
All four books encompassing best-selling author Barbara Freethy’s “Sanders Brothers” and “Deception” series are $1.99 each, up to 60% off the digital list price. Both series are perfect examples of Freethy’s completely engrossing blend of gripping suspense and absorbing romance.
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Seaman, a Newfoundland pup, doesn’t imagine a life of glory, but everything changes after meeting Captain Meriwether Lewis. This carefully researched, thrilling tale of America’s greatest journey of discovery–as seen through the keen, compassionate eyes of a remarkable dog–is part history, part science, and adventure through and through.
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Free Classics: Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
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:
E.M. Forster is a great writer and his first novel from 1905, “Where Angels Fear to Tread,” is not the usual first novel. It is a completely developed work. Consider this Amazon Reader Review:
” This is by far my favorite novel by Forster, and many rereadings have made it one of my favorite novels, period. In his first book, Forster shows a subtlety and lightness of touch . . . He makes wonderful use of the Italian settings and of Italian art, bringing them to vivid life, undermining tourist clichés, and weaving them gracefully into his main themes. No other book I know balances romanticism and irony so perfectly.”
So let’s take a look.
All her life had been spent at Sawston with a dull and amiable father, and her pleasant, pallid face, bent on some respectable charity, was a familiar object of the Sawston streets. Why she had ever wished to leave them was surprising; but as she truly said, “I am John Bull to the backbone, yet I do want to see Italy, just once. Everybody says it is marvellous, and that one gets no idea of it from books at all.” The curate suggested that a year was a long time; and Miss Abbott, with decorous playfulness, answered him, “Oh, but you must let me have my fling! I promise to have it once, and once only. It will give me things to think about and talk about for the rest of my life.” The curate had consented; so had Mr. Abbott. And here she was in a legno, solitary, dusty, frightened, with as much to answer and to answer for as the most dashing adventuress could desire.
It seems an adventure will be at hand for the reader. All of Forster’s books are engaging on a very thoughtful. This is one of the better free classics.
Click here to get your free copy of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster >>>
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Friday, September 14 – Save 80% on William L. Shirer’s Definitive Book on Hitler’s Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Kindle Daily Kids Deal — Save 63% on Ingrid Law’s Newbery Honor Book About a Magical Family, Savvy; plus …Ezekel Alan’s Disposable People (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
Here’s the set-up:
The pain and passion in this freewheeling text is so palpable that it is hard to regard it as fiction. It reads like a memoir, a record of hurts and darkly humorous short stories woven together with diary entries and line drawings, redolent with clever raunchiness and with language that rivals a text by Anthony Winkler.
(It is) a brilliant and often innovative offering that falls less in the realm of the West Indian tradition and more in the way of American postmodernist black humour, reminiscent of the work of Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five. Ezekel Alan has constructed a masterpiece of searing memories of his childhood in “that hateful f-ing place” in order to come to terms with them, heal himself, and honour those of the poor and victimised – the “disposable people”.
Ezekel Alan writes with an intensity that astonishes. This is a rousing text, full of energy and venom, and tells multiple stories of ‘disposable people” while building an understanding of the lot of Jamaica’s poorer children.
Alan is brilliant in his analysis of Kenny Lovelace’s relationship with his father and in the stories of abuse that most of the children suffered at the hands of the village men. His novel is a wail of agony wrapped in spritely prose, deepened with irony and a bitter humour. It reads fast and packed with surprise and horror. This is no admiring chronicle of the values of the God-fearing Jamaican peasant but a searing account of the exigencies of poverty and superstition in a demanding environment.
It is a magnificent piece of work, combining different modes of storytelling including poetry, letters, journal writing, and sketched images, and covering a plethora of issues, including attitudes to homosexuality.
Alan has done a bang-up job of presenting the memories of the boy he once was and the collective memories of the village he came from.
His coming to terms with these memories in a brilliantly innovative text is our gain and his salvation.
– Mary Hanna, Bookends Review, the Jamaica Observer newspaper (Read the full review here: bit.ly/z7RUV8)
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
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William Shirer’s National Book Award-winning history offers a clear, detailed, and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. The book has been translated into 12 languages and is a classic by any measure.
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In Ingrid Law’s Newbery Honor Book, the Beaumont family has, for generations, harbored a magical secret, a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn 13… and now it’s the eve of Mibs’s big day.
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