Over at B&N today, we have three bestselling novels from award-winning author and playwright Joe Meno (no price matches at Amazon yet), one of which was on the Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012 list. Audible has the first of M. C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin series, The Quiche of Death(be careful which edition you pick, if not using the links here), and Kobo has the second novel in Glenn Beck’s Agenda 21 series.
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save 38% on FoodSaver Vacuum Sealing System with Starter Kit. We use our Foodsaver often (and are on the 2nd one, as we wore the first one out after several years). This one looks a bit more compact and updated in comparison to the one we have.
In the Bonus Deal of the Day, save up to 45% on Select PC Gaming Gear: mice, controllers, monitors, headsets, and more, and get 50% or More Off on Jeans for Women and Men.
In the Lightning Deals, there are several Rossetta Stone software deals, hiding in the Toys and Games category.
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Essays After Eighty ($1.99), by Donald Hall [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]. Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Book Description
From a former Poet Laureate, a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old ageDonald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. Now, in the “unknown, unanticipated galaxy” of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. In the transgressive and horrifyingly funny “No Smoking,” he looks back over his lifetime, and several of his ancestors’ lifetimes, of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, packs of them every day. Hall paints his past: “Decades followed each other — thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty . . .” And, poignantly, often joyfully, he limns his present: “When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches.” Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him, every day: “Yesterday my first nap was at 9:30 a.m., but when I awoke I wrote again.”
About the Author
DONALD HALL, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president.
More Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the US
| Romance | the first two novlews in the Barkley Sound series by Toni Anderson for $1.99 each [Montlake Romance]:
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| SciFi & Fantasy | Alien: Out of the Shadows ($0.99) by Tim Lebbon [Titan Books] |
| Biographies & Memoirs | Devotion: A Memoir ($1.99) by Dani Shapiro [HarperCollins] – Publishers Weekly Starred Review |
| Kids | the first two novels in the Realm Walkers series by Donita K. Paul for $1.99 each [Zondervan / HarperCollins Publishing] – Grade Level: 5–8: |
More Daily Deals
| Audible Daily Deal | Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death ($7.99 Kindle; |
| Nook Daily Find | Three bestselling novels from award-winning author and playwright Joe Meno [Akashic Books]: Hairstyles of the Damned ($9.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), Office Girl ($10.19 Kindle, $1.99 B&N) – Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012; Booklist Starred Review – and The Boy Detective Fails ($9.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N) |
| Kobo Daily Deal | Agenda 21: Into the Shadows ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Glenn Beck and Harriet Parke [Threshold Editions / Simon and Schuster] and Lady Alexandra’s Lover: Sex and the Season #3 ($2.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Helen Hardt [Waterhouse Press] |
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