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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)
September 14, 2012 | 
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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)
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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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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Thursday, September 13 – Save 85% on Jean Brashear’s The Goddess Of Fried Okra; Kindle Daily Kids Deal — Save 72% on The Classic Behind the Classic Movie Mary Poppins; plus … Richard Guimond’s Earthshaker (Today’s Sponsor)
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Earth Shaker
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In Jean Brashear’s novel of life in the American South, ex-cocktail waitress and “convenience store professional” Eudora O’Brien lives low on cash and all alone, but as the novel progresses, her poignant journey comprises a tale filled with grief, hope, love, sword fights, and–of course–the crisp glory of fried okra.
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P. L. Travers’s timeless classic has thrilled children (and adults) for almost 80 years. Follow the adventures of the most exciting nanny that England–and the world–has ever seen.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Wednesday, September 12 – Save 60% on Former CIA Agent John LeBeau’s Thriller Collision of Evil; Kindle Daily Kids Deal — Save 69% on Don Freeman’s Kids Classic Corduroy; plus …David Moore’s Stonebridge Secret (Today’s Sponsor)
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Stonebridge Secret
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October, 1962. On a chilly afternoon in Stonebridge, New York, Alex Spencer discovers a dark secret about the parish priest he has revered all of his life. This discovery shatters Alex’s faith and launches an insatiable thirteen-year quest for revenge that threatens to derail his friendships, his career, and his chances of winning the girl he loves.
When Alex reaches the pinnacle of influence, he must choose to forgive or lose everything. Regardless of his choice, he is powerless to stop the forces of vengeance already put in motion. And the outcome is not at all what he envisioned.
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American tourist Charles Hirter is murdered in the Bavarian Alps, and the German detective in charge of the case, Kommissar Franz Waldbaer, has no clues, suspects, or motives. After Waldbaer reluctantly allows the victim’s brother to help, the two find themselves probing long-forgotten Nazi episodes to identify a present threat.
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This gentle, sweet, and classic children’s picture book follows the nighttime adventures of a department store teddy bear that goes looking for his missing overall button after all the shoppers have gone home. Available on Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android.
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