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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 9, 2012 13:22:37 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Blackpool Highflyer...99p
It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is co-piloting a train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farther down the tracks; it lies directly in their path. Full stop of the engine; full steam ahead with the mystery.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 10, 2012 9:26:01 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Bats Sing, Mice Giggle...99p
Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? Or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing trucks to stave off loneliness? This eye-opening voyage of discovery shows how animals express grief, joy, anger and fear--and emphasises just how animal we humans are.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 11, 2012 6:12:05 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Perfect on Paper...99p
When her fiancé calls off their wedding at the last minute, Waverly Bryson wonders if her life will ever turn out the way she thought it would--or should. Perfect on Paper reminds us that everyone has a bad date (or 12), and that everyone eventually needs a best friend to tell them,"Honey, you are not alone".
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 12, 2012 10:31:48 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Girl on the Wall...99p
A photograph taken of Jean Baggott when she was aged 11 hangs on the wall. Her life was never going to be remarkable and the pinnacle of her achievements would come from being a wife and mother. Almost 60 years later, she vowed to devote her life to the happiness of 'the girl on the wall', and began to stitch a tapestry looking back on her life and the changing world around her. The result is a unique, touching portrait of a seemingly average British woman's life.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 13, 2012 10:10:49 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper...99p
Even for those disturbed by the phenomenon, it is impossible to deny the continuing fascination of Jack the Ripper. And we are not just interested in the historical Jack, whoever he was. This most famous of serial killers has had a healthy afterlife as a source of grisly inspiration for writers. In this collection, experts on the 19th century killer turn the case inside out looking for his true identity.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 14, 2012 7:26:19 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Four books by Gordon Ferris...99p
Gordon Ferris is an ex-techy in the Ministry of Defence and an ex-partner in one of the Big Four accountancy firms. Maybe that's where he gets his interest in spies and crooks. Get to know his heroes, Douglas Brodie (The Hanging Shed, Bitter Water) and Danny McRae (Truth Dare Kill, The Unquiet Heart).
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 15, 2012 12:01:36 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay...£1.69
As the Titanic sank and 1,000 men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat and rowed away to safety. His reputation never recovered and he never spoke of his beloved ship again. Now, using never-before-seen letters, author Frances Wilson explores Ismay's need to tell his story and to find a way of living with the consciousness of lost honour.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 16, 2012 6:21:17 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: My Daughter, My Mother...99p
Joanne, a sweet, shy girl, is increasingly afraid of her husband. Sooky, kind and good-natured, has already been through one disastrous marriage and is back at home living with her parents. As the friendship between these two young mothers grow, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in their lives.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 17, 2012 7:18:32 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Revelations...99p
A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement, offers everything the friends have been looking for, but also threatens to rip them apart. This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 18, 2012 6:58:16 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Finding Sky...99p
You have half our gifts, I have the other… Bad boy Zed talks to Sky with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Shadows stalk her past, but a new evil threatens her future, and Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 19, 2012 7:43:07 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Decisive Moment...99p
Philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional, but scientists are discovering this is not how the mind works. Jonah Lehrer draws on cutting-edge research and studies on the world's most interesting 'deciders'--from airline pilots and sportsmen to politicians and poker players--to answer how the human mind makes decisions and how can we make those decisions better.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 20, 2012 10:34:14 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Greenhouse...99p
The tragic passing of Lobbi's mother proves to be a profound catalyst, inspiring him to leave his studies and travel to a remote village monastery to restore its gardens. There he is surprised by a visit from former lover Anna and the daughter they conceived. In caring for both the garden and the little girl, Lobbi slowly begins to assume the varied and complex roles of a man.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 21, 2012 8:02:25 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It...£2.29
From the woman who is the voice of the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street, here are the voices of London as witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, who spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents. The result is a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of 21st century London.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 22, 2012 9:02:31 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Hit & Run...99p
Driving home from a party high and drunk, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, he decides to drive off. But the next day he discovers the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime lord and, as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a nightmare of guilt, retribution and violence.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 23, 2012 9:56:17 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Delicacy...99p
One minute Natalie was a happily married young woman, convinced the future was full of promise. The next, her husband was hit by a car. Bruised with grief but desperate to move on with her life, she impulsively kisses her colleague Markus. For Natalie, the kiss is just a gratuitous act. For the awkward, unassuming Markus, it is the moment at which he falls hopelessly, helplessly in love.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 24, 2012 11:03:47 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone...99p
Bernie Ecclestone never revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars to becoming the major player he is today, until he revealed his secrets to the most controversial biographer of them all: Tom Bower. From the deals and the marriages to the disasters and the successes, No Angel is a unique story of a simple, driven man.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 25, 2012 11:25:40 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Misremembered Man...99p
Jamie has no plans of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer. Lydia dreams constantly of changing her spinsterly fate. When kind-hearted friends and neighbours place Jamie and Lydia in one another's paths, the result is a meeting of absolute opposites.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 26, 2012 6:32:05 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers...£1.09
Contrary to the widespread belief that science and technology move steadily on from one discovery to the next, the fascinating stories in this entertaining collection present some of the unfamiliar characters and events that litter the path of scientific progress, where setbacks and mishaps are the norm, and breakthroughs are the exception.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 27, 2012 9:14:30 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Virgin Widow...99p
Anne Neville, daughter of the powerful Earl of Warwick, grows up during a time when kings and queens are made and destroyed in an on-going battle for the throne of England. As a child Anne falls in love with the ambitious and proud Richard of Gloucester, but her father is branded a traitor and her family must flee to exile in France.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 28, 2012 5:37:44 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Borkmann's Point...99p
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police in the investigation of two recent axe murders. The case turns from bad to worse when another body is found and one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a young female detective, disappears without a trace.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 29, 2012 11:59:01 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Economyths...99P
David Orrell explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; why no woman has ever won the Nobel Prize for economics; why financial crashes are less Black Swans than part of the landscape; and how new ideas in mathematics, psychology and environmentalism are helping to reinvent economics.
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Post by Lynnrose on Apr 30, 2012 10:17:47 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Girl Who Couldn't Smile...99p
Shane Dunphy's moving portrait of a year at Little Scamps is a testament to the redemptive power of love and nurturing, of finding oneself through the care of others, as well as finding the secret of a girl who couldn't smile.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 1, 2012 7:45:33 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Last Werewolf...99p
Jacob is a werewolf and now the last of his species. Deeply distraught and lonely, he contemplates suicide--even knowing it will end a legend thousands of years old. In Jake, Glen Duncan offers a powerful new version of the werewolf legend for the 21st century--a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 2, 2012 7:54:28 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Putting Alice Back Together...99p
Alice's friends think she is happy and her life is amazing. Except her job was great 10 years ago, the sexiest guy alive doesn't want her, her credit card bills are mounting up and she has a secret. A secret so big she can't tell anyone, even when everything starts to fall apart.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 3, 2012 11:01:11 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Never Mind...99p
In the first Patrick Melrose novel, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of adults. His father rules with considered cruelty and his mother has retreated into drink. They are expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before, and the shocking events that precede the guests' arrival tear Patrick's world in two.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 4, 2012 6:06:23 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: 50 Facts That Should Change the World...99p
50 Facts That Should Change the World is an unashamedly populist--but nonetheless serious and intelligent--book about some of the most shocking inequalities, appalling conditions, absurd contradictions and much more that abound even still in the world of the 21st century.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 5, 2012 7:25:57 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Carry Yourself Back to Me...99p
Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues. Seeking refuge from an upended love affair, she sequesters herself at home surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. Soon, however, this quiet, small town existence--far from recording studios, ardent fans and affairs of the heart--comes crashing down around her.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 6, 2012 12:01:30 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: Dark Redemption...99p
Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities, A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young student, whose studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 7, 2012 9:11:39 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys...99p
No story sums up the naked greed at the heart of modern football quite like this tale of debts, lies, cowboys and a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through the High Court and almost into administration. No one has had as much access to the truth, or tells it with as much passion, wit and insight as Brian Reade.
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Post by Lynnrose on May 8, 2012 6:00:40 GMT
Kindle Daily Deal: The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance...99p
Whether it's a mythical beast, a magical creature, an angel or a heart-stoppingly handsome ghost, get ready to fall in love with someone out of this world. Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jeaniene Frost, Kelley Armstrong, Maria V Snyder, Allyson James Marland and more create stories of extraordinary desires and show you powers beyond your wildest imaginings.
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