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$1.99 discounts from Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech:

Walk Two Moons
Absolutely Normal Chaos
The Wanderer
Ruby Holler
Chasing Redbird

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Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Do you remember the best summer of your life?

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor—a diamond-filled day job replete with Tiffany blue shirtwaist dresses from Bonwit Teller's—and the envy of all their friends.

Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and famous; pinched pennies to eat at the Automat; experienced nightlife at La Martinique; and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with CafÉ society, she fell in love, learned unforgettable lessons, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.

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Two Self-Help books (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (July 31) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Stop struggling, start living and fulfil your potential with today's Kindle Daily Deal. Mindset is an authoritative, practical guide on how to develop the mindset necessary for success, both personal and professional. The Happiness Trap offers new techniques that enable you to experience a full and happy life, and to overcome depression and anxiety.

Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 31)

Product Description

Visit old New York in Marjorie Hart's sweet memoir recalling her younger self coming to the Big Apple in 1945 to become the first girl to work the sales floor at Tiffany & Co. Reflecting on her youthful energy, Hart takes us back to a magical time rubbbing elbows with the rich and famous, pinching pennies to eat at the Automat, and dancing away weekends with dashing midshipment. It was a remarkable time, and Hart captures all its romantic splendor here for you.

* FYI, Amazon has matched this deal : Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart is also $1.99 for US Kindle

Thea Stilton #10: Thea Stilton and the Secret of the Old Castle: A Geronimo Stilton Adventure by Thea Stilton from Scholastic ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (July 31)

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When Thea's good friend Bridget has to return to Scotland to help her family repair their ancient castle, Thea and her friends offer to help in whatever way they can. Little do they know that Bridget will be kidnapped, and they'll have to rush to Scotland to help find her!

The Physician (Cole) by Noah Gordon from Barcelona eBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 31) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This riveting, modern classic follows young orphan Rob Cole's exodus from the poverty and disease of 11th-century London. As he matures, Cole's strange gift--an acute sensitivity to impending death--drives him to become a healer and travel to Persia's Arab madrassas, home of the world's only authentic medical schools.

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Fever Dream (Pendergast) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child from Grand Central Publishing is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago.

Today, he discovers she was murdered.

Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her?

FEVER DREAM

Revenge is not sweet: It is essential.

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Grade Level: 10 and up
Some schools have honor codes.
Others have handbooks.
Themis Academy has the Mockingbirds.

Themis Academy is a quiet boarding school with an exceptional student body that the administration trusts to always behave the honorable way--the Themis Way. So when Alex is date raped during her junior year, she has two options: stay silent and hope someone helps her, or enlist the Mockingbirds--a secret society of students dedicated to righting the wrongs of their fellow peers.

In this honest, page-turning account of a teen girl's struggle to stand up for herself, debut author Daisy Whitney reminds readers that if you love something or someone--especially yourself--you fight for it.

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The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly from Little, Brown and Company is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge. Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he's spending his time investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to be his own mother.

Even after three decades, Harry's questions generate heat among L.A.'s top politicos. And as the truth begins to emerge, it becomes more and more apparent that someone wants to keep it buried. Someone very powerful...very cunning...and very deadly.

Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has created a dark, fast-paced suspense thriller that cuts to the core of Harry Bosch's character. Once you start it, there's no turning back.

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton from Atria Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Amazon Best of the Month, April 2008

The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades.

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline.

In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth.

In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever.

The novel is full of secrets -- some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history.

Originally published to critical acclaim in Australia, already sold in ten countries and a #1 bestseller in England, The House at Riverton is a vivid, page-turning novel of suspense and passion, with characters -- and an ending -- the reader won't soon forget.

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And Another Thing... (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Eoin Colfer from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . .
Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident.

Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Arthur has finally made it home to Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped his fate.

Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world's oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up . . . again.

And Another Thing . . . is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese.

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Blood Men by Paul Cleave from Atria Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Edward Hunter has it all—a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future… and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward’s father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he’s going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn’t seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?

Blood Men is “relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted, and shot through with a vein of humor that’s as dark as hell” (Mark Billingham). A true master of the genre that only comes along once in a generation, Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killer’s mind and of a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth.

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And Another Thing... (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) by Eoin Colfer from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

And showing as $3.43 at BN right now (US). Not providing a link so arcadata can...

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Castles (Crown's Spies) by Julie Garwood from DUTTON ADULT is $0.01 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Orphaned and besieged, Princess Alesandra knew that only a hasty marriage to an Englishman could protect her from the turmoil in her own land. To the amusement of her makeshift guardian, Colin, younger brother of the Marquess of Cainewood, the bold, raven-haired beauty instantly captivated London society. But when Alesandra was nearly abducted by her unscrupulous countrymen, the fighting instincts that won Colin a knighthood for valor were rekindled. Deceiving himself that he wanted only to protect her, Colin swept her into a union meant to be a marriage in name alone . . . yet Alesandra’s tender first kiss and hesitant caress ignited a wildfire in his soul. As the lovely princess dashed headlong into unforeseen dangers, Colin would follow, knowing he must claim her as his own forever. Now he would risk life itself before he would lose this sweet, tempestuous angel. .

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