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Monday, August 31, 2015
Daily Deals 08/31/15
Well, I’m back in Tennessee! Three days in Michigan, then four states in one day with rainy and late driving, but we made it. It’s even still summer here, it seems, as we drove down into 90+ temps from the very cool upper Michigan coast where it just hit around 70. Seems we made it just in time for Amazon’s Big Student Sale, too. For the Nook Daily Find, we have a WWII thriller by James Douglas and the first two novels in Sarah J. Maas’ excellent Throne of Glass YA Fantasy series; I read the first one for review and bought the next two. The fourth in the series, Queen of Shadows, is being released in a few days.
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Up to 90% Off Over 425 Books for Students. This is their big back-to-school annual sale and there are always books that appeal to more than just “students”. I’ve picked out a few that look interesting already and will be investigating more this afternoon, while we get things unpacked.
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 60% on a Panasonic Home Monitoring System (Woot). In the Bonus Deal of the Day, save up to 50% on Select Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food (cans and 48- and 72-Hour Emergency Kits).
Today is the last day to take advantage of these deals:
The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK has several good selections today, including Kimberley Chambers’ Payback (£0.99 UK), which is going for $18 here in the US.
More Daily Deals
| Audible Daily Deal | Death and the Redheaded Woman ($9.59 Kindle; |
| Nook Daily Find | The Doomsday Testament: Jamie Saintclair #1 ($2.99 Kindle, B&N) by James Douglas [Transworld Digital] plus Throne of Glass ($0.99 Kindle, B&N) and Crown of Midnight ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first two novels in the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas [Bloomsbury USA Childrens] – Amazon Best Teen Book of the Month, August 2012 |
| Kobo Daily Deal | Wisdom’s Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba ($2.99 Kindle, Kobo) by by India Edghill [St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan] |
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New Release Books
Today’s first Featured New Release is Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter’s Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything ($11.99 Kindle), by Stefany Shaheen and Mark Dagostino [Hachette].
Book Description
The endearing true story of a Type-A mom struggling to care for a daughter who has Type 1 diabetes–and the incredible service dog who changes their lives for the better.
Stefany Shaheen takes readers on an emotional journey as she tries everything to manage her daughter Elle’s deadly and unpredictable disease, all while juggling a family of four children. Overcoming the skepticism that a dog can provide answers that medical science is still seeking, the family finds a resounding sense of peace and reassurance through Coach’s near miraculous abilities as a medic-alert dog, specially trained to detect dangerous changes in blood sugar levels. Elle & Coach is a story of determination and finding hope in the most unlikely of places.
About the Author
Stefany Shaheen has dedicated herself to making life better for people living with diabetes. A Harvard graduate, she launched a company to help those with chronic conditions better manage eating and exercise. She is on the Board of Trustees at Joslin Diabetes Center, served as the National Chair for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Children’s Congress, and currently serves on the Foundation’s Research and Advocacy Committee. She is a key spokesperson for her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, U.S. Senator and former New Hampshire Governor, and currently serves on the City Council for the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she and her husband, Craig Welch, live with their four children.Mark Dagostino is a New York Times bestselling co-author, and a former Senior Writer for People Magazine. He also lives in NH.
Today’s second Featured New Release is Woman of the Dead ($13.99 Kindle), by Bernhard Aichner [Scribner / Simon and Schuster].
Book Description
The #1 international bestseller praised as “one of the most arresting thrillers I’ve read in years” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner), Woman of the Dead is the darkly thrilling tale of Brünhilde Blum, a successful undertaker whose happiness is dashed by a tragedy that sets her on a path of revenge.
For the past eight years, Blum has had a good life—a life that masks the terrible secrets of her past. She is a successful undertaker, a doting mother, and the loving wife of a decorated police officer.
Then in one devastating moment, a hit-and-run changes everything. As Blum’s grief over the death of her husband, Mark, overwhelms her, only her two little girls can drag her back to the land of the living. Time passes quietly until while packing up Mark’s office, Blum discovers a recorded conversation from a case he was investigating. She soon learns Mark’s death was no accident—it was murder—and Blum dives headfirst into the abyss to find out why and have her revenge.
Woman of the Dead, the first book in a trilogy, is an unforgettable thriller about the lengths one passionate woman will go to for vengeance and the tug-of-war between good and evil that exists in all of us. Vivid, tense, and written with breakneck narration, this novel introduces Bernhard Aichner as a rising star in crime fiction.
About the Author
Bernhard Aichner is an award-winning author and photographer living in Innsbruck, Austria. His books have been translated into eight languages. Woman of the Dead is his first book to be translated into English.
Today’s third Featured New Release is Wildest Dreams: A Thunder Point Novel ($6.99 Kindle), by Robyn Carr [MIRA / Harlequin].
Book Description
With Thunder Point, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a town where hard work and determination are all it takes to make dreams come true
Blake Smiley searched the country for just the right place to call home. The professional triathlete has traveled the world, but Thunder Point has what he needs to put down the roots he’s never had. In the quiet coastal town, he can focus on his training without distractions. Until he meets his new neighbors and everything changes.
Lin Su Simmons and her teenage son, Charlie, are fixtures at Winnie Banks’s house as Lin Su nurses Winnie through the realities of ALS. A single mother, Lin Su is proud of taking charge and never showing weakness. But she has her hands full coping with a job, debt and Charlie’s health issues. And Charlie is asking questions about his family history—questions she doesn’t want to answer.
When Charlie enlists Blake’s help to escape his overprotective mother, Lin Su resents the interference in her life. But Blake is certain he can break through her barriers and be the man she and Charlie need. When faced with a terrible situation, Blake comes to the rescue, and Lin Su realizes he just might be the man of her dreams. Together, they recognize that family is who you choose it to be.
About the Author
Robyn Carr is a RITA® Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels, including the critically acclaimed Virgin River series. Robyn and her husband live in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can visit Robyn Carr’s website at www.RobynCarr.com.
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Free Book – Android NDK Beginner’s Guide
Android NDK Beginner’s Guide ($18.49 Kindle), by Sylvain Ratabouil, is free direct from publisher Packt Publishing.
Book Description
This beginner’s guide focuses on getting you through all the major learning points in a smooth, logical order. You’ll also see how to avoid some common pitfalls. Are you an Android Java programmer who needs more performance? Are you a C/C++ developer who doesn’t want to bother with Java stuff and its out-of-control garbage collector? Do you want to create fast intensive multimedia applications or games? Answer yes to any of the above and this book is for you. With some general knowledge of C/C++ development, you will be able to dive head first into native Android development.
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
New Release Books
Today’s first Featured New Release is Lies Ripped Open: The Hellequin Chronicles #5 ($4.99/KU Kindle), by Steve McHugh [47North].
Book Description
Over a hundred years have passed since a group of violent killers went on the rampage, murdering innocent victims for fun. But even back then, sorcerer Nate Garrett, aka Hellequin, knew there was more to it than simple savage pleasure—souls were being stolen.
Nate’s discovery of the souls’ use, and of those supporting the group’s plan, made him question everything he believed.
Now the group Nate thought long dead is back. Violent, angry, and hell-bent on revenge, they have Hellequin firmly in their sights. And if he won’t come willingly, they’ll take those closest to him first.
The battle begins again.
About the Author
Steve McHugh is the author of the popular Hellequin Chronicles. He lives in Southampton, on the south coast of England, with his wife and three young daughters. When not writing or spending time with his kids, he enjoys watching movies, reading books and comics, and playing video games.
Today’s second Featured New Release is Havana Jazz Club ($4.99/KU Kindle), by Lola Mariné and Rosemary Peele (Translator) [AmazonCrossing].
Book Description
Like Lady Day, Billie is young when she falls in love for the first time. Lured by her new playboy husband, the beautiful, trusting woman leaves her close-knit and caring family in Cuba to follow him to Spain. Once there, he reveals his true—and violent—nature, and Billie chooses the dangers of the street over the abuses of the man she once loved. Soon she finds herself with trouble to spare and nowhere to turn, but when her voice lands her a spot at the Havana Jazz Club, she discovers a new, unconventional family in a city far from the one she left behind. And with every high note and heartbreak, Billie skirts destiny to write her own song.
About the Author
Lola Mariné is a writer, licensed psychologist, and actress. Born in Barcelona, she worked in show business in Madrid for twenty years before returning to her hometown. There, she earned a degree in psychology while teaching theater workshops to children.She has contributed to four anthologies, Tiempo de recreo (Playtime), Dejad que os cuente algo (Let Me Tell You Something), Atmósferas (Atmospheres), and Tardes del laberinto (Evening of the Labyrinth), and wrote Gatos por los tejados (Cats on the Roofs), a collection of short stories. Her first novel, Nunca fuimos a Katmandú (We Never Went to Kathmandu), was published in 2010. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/1NH2z4l.
Today’s third Featured New Release is Keeper’s Reach: A Sharpe & Donovan Novel ($9.99 Kindle), by Carla Neggers [Harlequin MIRA].
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns with this absorbing, twisting tale of suspense, romance and fast-paced action, the latest in her popular Sharpe & Donovan series.
Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, two of the FBI’s most valuable agents, are preparing for their next big assignment—their wedding—when Colin’s brother Mike alerts them that onetime friends from his military past are on Sharpe and Donovan home turf on the Maine coast. Now private security contractors, they want to meet with Mike. One of them, an FBI agent named Kavanagh, is supposed to be on leave. What is he investigating—or does he have his own agenda?
Mike zeroes in on Naomi MacBride, a freelance civilian intelligence analyst who, aside from a few hot nights, has never brought him anything but trouble. Newly returned from England, Naomi clearly isn’t telling Mike everything about why she’s snooping around his hometown, but he has no choice but to work with her if he wants to uncover what’s really going on.
But the case soon takes a drastic turn—Emma is targeted, and a connection surfaces between Naomi and Kavanagh and a recently solved international art theft case. Not every connection is a conspiracy, but as the tangled web of secrets unravels, Emma and Colin face their greatest danger yet. With everyone they know involved, they must decide who they can trust…or lose everything for good.
About the Author
Carla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 60 novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense, including her popular Sharpe & Donovan and Swift River Valley series. Her books have been translated into 24 languages and sold in over 30 countries. Carla is always plotting her next adventure–whether in life or for one of her novels. A frequent traveler to Ireland, she lives with her family in New England.
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Daily Deals 08/30/15
The Nook Daily Find today features a trio of best-selling mysteries, while Amazon has 10 of M. C. Beaton’s mysteries on sale today, so it looks like a good day to fill in a few holes in the library. B&N has a Bonus Find today also, a 3-novel fantasy boxed set under a dollar. Kobo has a single thriller, but it’s a good one (that I just checked out of the library, after a long hold). Be careful searching for the Dorothy Sayers’ book on your device, as it finds a different edition than the one from Open Road (and perhaps not a legal one) and watch out for the on by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, as neither B&N nor Amazon has dropped the price on that one, yet.
At Audible, we have a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic by Pearl Buck, with a great narrator. At Amazon, the Daily Deals are rounded out with a military romantic suspense novel, a great zombie book by Mira Grant (I bought the entire series after reading it for the Hugo Awards.
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 55% on Rowenta Pro Precision Steam Station (Woot) while they last. In the Bonus Deal of the Day, save up to 35% on Select Graco Car Seats and get 60% Off on Original Penguin Men’s Clothing & More.
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is 10 Books in the Agatha Raisin Mysteries Series by M.C. Beaton for $1.99 each:
- Something Borrowed, Someone Dead: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
- The Perfect Paragon
- Love, Lies and Liquor
- The Deadly Danc
- Hiss and Hers
- A Spoonful of Poison
- As the Pig Turns
- Busy Body
- There Goes the Bride
- Kissing Christmas Goodbye
More Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the US
| Romance | Broken Honor: Hornet #3 ($0.99) by Tonya Burrows [Entangled: Select / Macmillan] |
| SciFi & Fantasy | Feed: Newsflesh #1 ($1.99) by Mira Grant [Orbit / Hachette] – Publishers Weekly Starred Review |
| Inspirational | Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness … and World Peace ($1.99) by Chade-Meng Tan [HarperOne] |
| Kids | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets ($1.99) by Dav Pilkey [Scholastic] – Ages: 7-10; Grade Level: 5 |
More Daily Deals
| Audible Daily Deal | The Good Earth ($9.99 Kindle; |
| Nook Daily Find | A Case of Need: A Novel ($2.99 Kindle, B&N) by Michael Crichton and Jeffery Hudson, The Nine Tailors ($1.99 Kindle, B&N) by Dorothy L. Sayers, A Death in the Life: Julie Hayes #1 ($7.99 Kindle, $8.99 B&N) by Dorothy Salisbury Davis [Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller] and The Healers of Meligna Series Boxed Set ($0.99 Kindle, B&N) by K. J. Colt [indie] |
| Kobo Daily Deal | The Intern’s Handbook: A Thriller ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Shane Kuhn [Simon and Schuster] |
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Free Book – Microsoft System Center Config Mgr
Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook ($18.49 Kindle), by Brian Mason and Greg Ramsey, is free direct from publisher Packt Publishing.
Book Description
This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in System Center Configuration Manager and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. If you are an intermediate to advanced administrator who wants to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios, then this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager, however, knowledge of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is not necessarily required.
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Saturday, August 29, 2015
Daily Deals 08/29/15
The main Nook Daily Find, Shelley Costa’s You Cannoli Die Once: A Miracolo Mystery, looks like a fun read; I’ve reported the lower price and hope enough others do that I can pick it up on Kindle later today. The Audible Daily Deal is a cute YA Fantasy that I read on my Kindle Unlimited subscription, Nice Dragons Finish Last, while Kobo has Jeffery Deaver’s The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, which received a Starred Review from PW. If you read Fantasy at all, you know who R.A. Salvatore is and either already have or need to replace your paper copy of Homeland today, on the main Kindle Daily Deal.
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 65% on Bushnell Trophy XLT Roof Prism Binoculars. In the Bonus Deal of the Day, save 70% on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – The Complete Series on DVD and get up to 62% off on Select Portable Bluetooth Speakers, MP3 Players and Clock Radios
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt, Book I ($1.99), by R.A. Salvatore [Wizards of the Coast].
Book Description
Drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre’s standout characters. But Homeland first reveals the startling tale of how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark, leaving behind a society of evil and a family who want him dead. It is here that the story of this amazing dark elf truly began.
More Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the US
| Romance | The first four books in the Phoenix Pack series by Suzanne Wright for $1.99 each [Montlake Romance]: |
| SciFi & Fantasy | Swarm: Star Force #1 ($1.99) by B.V. Larson [indie] |
| Biographies & Memoirs | Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt ($1.99) by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II [William Morrow / HarperCollins] |
| Teen/Young Adult | Just One Year: Just One Day #2 ($2.99) by Gayle Forman [Speak / Penguin] |
More Daily Deals
| Audible Daily Deal | Nice Dragons Finish Last: Heartstrikers #1 ($4.99 Kindle; |
| Nook Daily Find | You Cannoli Die Once: A Miracolo Mystery ($6.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N) by Shelley Costa [Pocket Books / Simon and Schuster] and Just One Year: Just One Day #2 ($2.99 Kindle, B&N) by Gayle Forman [Speak / Penguin] |
| Kobo Daily Deal | The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Jeffery Deaver [Simon & Schuster] – Publishers Weekly Starred Review – and ARKANE Thriller Boxset: One Day in Budapest, Day of the Vikings, Gates of Hell ($6.99 Kindle, $2.99 Kobo) by J.F.Penn [indie] |
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Free Book – Learning AWS OpsWorks
Learning AWS OpsWorks ($11.99 Kindle), by Todd Rosner, is free direct from publisher Packt Publishing.
Book Description
AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps cloud management solution from Amazon Web Services. The OpsWorks web service works in concert with AWS resources and provides a template-driven approach to automated scaling. Learning AWS OpsWorks is a practical guide that includes details and instructions for scaling multistage environments and deploying applications using AWS OpsWorks.
Learning AWS OpsWorks will get you involved in a DevOps role, where you will learn key concepts and information about building scalable infrastructures to support high traffic applications. You will also learn about other important facets such as security, monitoring, and command-line reporting.
This book is a guide to Amazon’s DevOps cloud management service and will provide you with the foundation of knowledge and the skills required for building and scaling multistage environments and applications in the AWS cloud. You will become acquainted with the DevOps role and how it relates to OpsWorks. Technologies such as EC2, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, IAM, Route 53, Git, and GitHub will be discussed in relation to the core concepts of OpsWorks, which include stack and layer development, instances, apps, monitoring, and access control. This book is full of step-by-step instructions and illustrations which are designed to help you scale your applications for the Web.
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