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Kindle Daily Deal: No Buddy Left Behind - May 9th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 9th, 2012

Title: No Buddy Left Behind By Terri Crisp, C. J. Hurn



About: Many active U.S. troops share life-altering relationships with stray dogs and cats that they save from the brutalities of life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Overcoming monumental obstacles, author Terri Crisp makes it her mission to get these dog and cat "buddies" home to the people who love them.

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How the love of a stray dog or cat rescued in the combat zone helps U.S. troops deal with the trauma of war, and how one woman risks everything to bring these soldiers’ buddies home.

Language: English
# of Pages: 264
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Published by Lyons Press, on October 4, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: 7 Money Rules for Life - May 10th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 10th, 2012

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7 Money Rules for Life



About: With Mary Hunt's no-nonsense and encouraging advice, mastering your money becomes easy when using the keys she provides to get your spending and saving under control. Hunt's seven basic rules for money work in every financial situation at every income level and for every stage of life.

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Kindle Daily Deal: What the Heart Knows - May 11th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 11th, 2012

Title: What the Heart Knows By Mara Purl



About: The first book in Mara Purl's acclaimed Milford-Haven series follows privileged artist Miranda Jones as she starts a new life in a beautiful small town along California's Central Coast. It's a place filled with quirky, independent men and women, and one dark secret: the murder of journalist Christine Christian.

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What does your heart know?
Miranda Jones has always used her head. Her artist's rep and mentors, parents and sister, always advised she must. With her paintings at a major fine art gallery, her journey as a struggling artist is finally paying off.
But while her head told her success in a big city was what she wanted, her heart told her a simpler life in a small community would feel like home. Now that she's moved, deeper questions surface. What is her life purpose? What's missing? And what does her heart know that her head keeps ignoring?
California's Central Coast is growing explosively. Now, in the mid-1990s, tourism is up, but so are environmental regulations. Housing is on the rise, but so are water restrictions. Gambling is limited, but the Chumash tribe lobbies for a gaming casino. The stock market is booming, the upwardly mobile are pouring out of Los Angeles in search of a fresh start, or a weekend getaway. In these affluent, pre-9-11 days, it's a time of infinite possibilities.
Milford-Haven is a town full of characters.
Escapees from San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York and Arkansas, Montreal and South Africa, have come here with their own hopes and expectations, agendas and shadowed pasts. The stakes are high: create a new life from scratch. The opportunities are dazzling: own a piece of the California dream. It's a town of buried secrets and a dangerous mystery, quaint shops and breathtaking vistas, peaceful solitude and spontaneous conversations.
What draws people here is the sense that--in their heart of hearts--they know there's something they've always wanted to do. And if not now . . . when? So look for the sign to Milford-Haven, pull off Highway 1 and stop by. Come discover for yourself . . . What the Heart Knows.

Language: English
# of Pages: 320
File Size: 560 KB
Published by Bellekeep Books, on September 27, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Nazareth Child - May 12th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 12th, 2012

Title: Nazareth Child By Darrell James



About: When the FBI discovers that agent Del Shannon's father has unexplained ties to the Nazareth Church, she's sent deep into Kentucky's Appalachian foothills to investigate its compound and the mystery of her missing mother. This intense page-turner won the 2012 Left Coast Crime Eureka Award for Best First Mystery Novel.

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A smart and determined field operative in Tucson, Del Shannon has earned a reputation for being nearly invincible in tracking down missing persons. Ironically, the only person Del has not been able to locate is the mother she's never known. Deep in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, the Feds are investigating Nazareth Church, an isolated religious compound led by faith healer Silas Rule. People desperate for salvation are giving up everything they own—and are never heard from again.

Del is recruited when the FBI discovers that her father owns an abandoned house in the clannish community. Hoping to locate her mother, she goes undercover with ATFE agent Frank Falconet, a New Yorker who is battling his own demons. Caught in a deadly web of lies, scheming, and righteous threats of damnation, Del risks everything to find the truth. What secrets is Nazareth Church hiding? And could Silas Rule hold the key to her mother's past?

Language: English
# of Pages: 362
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Published by MIDNIGHT INK, on September 1, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: 20 great novels that inspired movies - May 13th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 13th, 2012

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20 great novels that inspired movies



About: Explore the connection between classic books and the popular films they inspired. From Richard Matheson's I Am Legend to W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe--filmed as Field of Dreams--this collection presents some of the most memorable books made into movies.

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Last Explorer - May 14th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 14th, 2012

Title: The Last Explorer By Simon Nasht



About: This riveting biography recounts the life of the world's first truly modern explorer: Sir Hubert Wilkins. He was a celebrated reporter, pilot, spy, war hero, and scientist. Focusing on the high drama of polar exploration, Wilkins was first to fly across the Arctic and first to fly in Antarctica.

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Simon Nasht's thoroughly captivating account of the exploits of Hubert Wilkins makes for an exhilarating edge-of-your-seat read." -- John Berendt

Language: English
# of Pages: 396
File Size: 610 KB
Published by Skyhorse Publishing, on November 11, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Desperate Passage - May 15th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 15th, 2012

Title: Desperate Passage By Ethan Rarick



About: Ethan Rarick offers an intimate and even-handed portrait of the Donner party's unimaginable ordeal. His novel-like narrative history draws on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants more than 150 years after the tragedy.

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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened--and what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion--remained shrouded in myth.
Drawing on fresh archeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity." A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, Desperate Passage casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.

Language: English
# of Pages: 314
File Size: 740 KB
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, on January 4, 2008.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Daughters for a Time - May 16th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 16th, 2012

Title: Daughters for a Time By Jennifer Handford



About: Jennifer Handford's heartfelt debut explores the ties that bind us and the lasting pain of childhood loss. The novel follows Helen Francis as she longs for a family to heal a heart broken by her mother's death, her father's abandonment, and the terrible illness of the sister who raised her.

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When Helen Francis was a child, her mother died and her father walked out, leaving her to be raised by her older sister. Now thirty-five, married, and trying to start a family of her own, Helen has moved on but never really healed from her traumatic childhood. She has always believed that a new baby would help fill the loss of what was taken from her at such a young age. After four years of trying to become pregnant, however, she is resigned to the fact that she will never be able to bear children. Halfheartedly accepting adoption as an alternative, Helen gradually embraces and grows excited over the prospect. And when her new baby is finally in her arms, true happiness washes over her. But her unimaginable bliss is dashed when she learns that Claire, the sister who raised and loved her throughout her childhood and adult life, has been diagnosed with cancer.


For Helen, the pain of her childhood returns and the old wounds of abandonment are once again torn open. Balancing the joy of her new daughter with the painful experience of watching her sister, the physical embodiment of unconditional love in her life, slowly die, Helen must reconcile her inner feelings and heal her broken spirit. A heart-wrenching exploration of the ties that bind us and the lasting pain of childhood loss,Daughters for a Time is about longing for a family to heal a broken heart, experiencing unconditional love as a parent, and finding solid ground to stand on when suffering and elation have equally powerful holds on our life.

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# of Pages: 287
File Size: 478 KB
Published by Amazon Publishing, on April 24, 2012.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Identity: Lost - May 17th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 17th, 2012

Title: Identity: Lost By Pascal Marco



About: In Chicago, 1975, young James Overstreet testified against a group of youths accused of murder, but authorities botched the case and James's family is sent into hiding in Arizona. Thirty years later, James is working as a prosecutor when his dangerous Windy-City past reappears to turn his life upside down.

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Pascal Marco, a Chicago native and long time resident, uses his intimacy with that city and his present residence to weave a tale of terror and murder with as many twists and turns as the city streets themselves. A successful entrepreneur and businessman, he's a graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago and a member of the Scottsdale Writers Group.

Language: English
# of Pages: 338
File Size: 535 KB
Published by Oceanview Publishing, on June 14, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Seven Ox Seven - May 18th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 18th, 2012

Title: Seven Ox Seven By P. A. Ritzer



About: The first book of P. A. Ritzer's historical-western trilogy unfolds in the heart of the Lone Star State circa 1877. After meeting in Kansas, Tom Schurtz and Luke Stuart unite their families and homestead a Texas ranch recently occupied by the Comanche. It's an epic story of the changing frontier.

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* Winner Best Books Award: Fiction & Literature: Western, sponsored by USA Book News * Winner of two National Indie Excellence Awards: Historical Fiction and Best Cover Copywriting

* Winner of Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Best Regional Fiction Bronze and Writer's Digest Honorable Mention in Genre Fiction

* Winner Hollywood Book Festival for Western

Language: English
# of Pages: 672
File Size: 1110 KB
Published by Seven Ox Press, on September 15, 2010.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Those Who Save Us - May 19th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 19th, 2012

Title: Those Who Save Us By Jenna Blum



About: Trudy was only three when she was liberated from Buchenwald with her mother, Anna. For 50 years Anna never discussed the war with her daughter, but guilt drives Trudy to investigate: was her father a Nazi officer? What Trudy unearths is the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.

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Family secrets of Nazi Germany are at the core of this powerful first novel told in two narratives that alternate between New Heidelberg, Minnesota, in the present, and the small town of Weimar near Buchenwald during World War II. Trudy is a professor of German history in Minnesota, where she's teaching a seminar on women's roles in Nazi Germany and conducting interviews with Germans about how they're dealing with what they did during the war. But her mother, Anna, won't talk about it, not even to her own daughter. Trudy knows, she remembers, that Anna was mistress to a big Nazi camp officer. Why did she do it? Was he Trudy's father? The interviews are a plot contrivance to introduce a range of attitudes, from blatant racism to crippling survivor guilt. But the characters, then and now, are drawn with rare complexity, including a brave, gloomy, unlucky rescuer and a wheeler-dealer survivor. Anna's story is a gripping mystery in a page-turner that raises universal questions of shame, guilt, and personal responsibility. Hazel Rochman
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Language: English
# of Pages: 497
File Size: 545 KB
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition, on May 2, 2005.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Mongoliad - May 20th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 20th, 2012

Title: The Mongoliad By Greg Bear



About: In 13th-century Europe, a small band of warriors and mystics raise swords together to save their lands from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Their perilous journey uncovers a history of hidden knowledge and global conflict among powerful, secret societies. It's a medieval epic full of high adventure and unflinching battle scenes.

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The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.

But the saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is approached by a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados about translating a collection of long-lost manuscripts. Burton dies before his work is finished, and his efforts were thought lost until recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste, Italy. From this collection of arcana, the incredible tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.

Full of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and unflinching battle scenes, The Mongoliad ignites a dangerous quest where willpower and blades are tested and the scope of world-building is redefined.

A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors' preferred text.

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“This off-beat alternate history of Eurasia could be your new obsession.” –i09.com

“This story is pure adventure, with much swordplay and swashbuckling.” –Kirkus Reviews

“A terrifically engaging book that pulled me along at least as quickly as The Hunger Games. Think Lord of the Rings without all that pesky fantasy…Five frighteningly accurate historical sword fights out of five.” –Fanboy Comics

Language: English
# of Pages: 444
File Size: 742 KB
Published by 47North, on April 24, 2012.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: A Small Furry Prayer - May 21st, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 21st, 2012

Title: A Small Furry Prayer By Steven Kotler



About: At 40, journalist Steven Kotler fell in love with Lila, a devoted animal rescuer. This investigative, philosophical, and fun-filled narrative follows the couple's move to New Mexico to create a dog sanctuary. It's an insider's look at one of the largest and least understood underground movements in America: dog rescue.

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'Kotler's tale-part obsession, part inquiry, part adventure-serves up a well-rounded meal of soul-searching and psychology' Psychology Today 'Kotler offers a touching account of Chihuahua adventures alongside interesting blurbs on the history of pet ownership, canine ethology, the semantics of the dog-adoption process, homosexuality in nature and the intricate science behind canine domestication. A heartfelt example of humanitarianism at work' Kirkus Reviews 'A delightful, rich read sure to take you to unexpected places and beyond' Bark

Language: English
# of Pages: 315
File Size: 888 KB
Published by Bloomsbury; 1 edition, on October 3, 2010.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries - May 22nd, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 22nd, 2012

Title: Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries By Tim Anderson



About: Pushing 30 and working a string of dead-end jobs, Tim Anderson made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move from North Carolina to Japan. In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in this collection of 16 sidesplitting stories.

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“Aside from such classroom encounters and problems of his own with the Japanese language that vaguely recall David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Anderson regales his readers with tales of Japanese popular culture and his own social life…” –Booklist

Language: English
# of Pages: 294
File Size: 639 KB
Published by AmazonEncore; Reprint edition, on November 29, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Mystery Walk - May 23rd, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 23rd, 2012

Title: Mystery Walk By Robert R. McCammon



About: Though they live in the same town and were born with extraordinary powers, adolescents Billy Creekmore and Wayne Falconer are strangers. As Billy's ability to commune with the dead and Wayne's healing gifts grow, the boys become aware of each other and unite to fight an ancient evil threatening mankind.

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Two young psychics do battle with an ancient evil

Billy Creekmore was born to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe’s ancient mysticism, understood that the barrier between life and death is permeable. She knew how to cross it, and used that knowledge to help the dead rest easier. She passed that power on to her son, and he has spent his whole life learning how to communicate with the dead to prevent them from meddling with the living.

Though his powers are the same, Wayne Falconer’s background could not be more different. The son of a prominent preacher, he would be disowned if his father learned he was using supernatural powers in service of the church. Though they don’t know each other, Billy and Wayne share a recurring dream—and a common enemy. When a nightmarish monster descends on their community in Alabama, mankind’s fate will rest in their hands.

Language: English
# of Pages: 436
File Size: 664 KB
Published by Open Road, on October 18, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: It Happened on the Way to War - May 24th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 24th, 2012

Title: It Happened on the Way to War By Rye Barcott



About: In 2000, before he finished college and headed into the Marines, Rye Barcott spent time living in Nairobi's Kibera shantytown. The experience inspired him to cofound an organization for developing leaders from within one of Africa's largest slums. His courageous narrative explores a powerful melding of military and humanitarian service.

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Barcott, cofounder of the nongovernmental organization Carolina for Kibera (CFK), recounts the demands of serving as a Marine Corps officer while running a nascent nonprofit in this overwrought memoir. In 2000, as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, the author traveled to Kenya's notorious slum Kibera, in Nairobi, to study ethnic violence. The experience brought his "terribly privileged" background into relief, and Barcott—along with Tabitha Atieno Festo, a nurse, and Salim Mohammed, a community organizer—launched a nonprofit to ferry resources to local leaders in the hopes that they could directly promote development and prevent violence. A year later, with CFK barely launched, Barcott was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer and began an exhausting "balancing act" as he struggled to maintain oversight of CFK while deploying to Bosnia, Djibouti, and Iraq. The author's account of his military service is strained and riddled with inconsistencies: despite his desire "to lead Marines in combat," he angled for an intelligence billet; despite believing the Iraq war was "unjust,"' he volunteered to deploy. Barcott's service to Kibera and his country is laudable, but his memoir promises more insight and candor than it delivers. (Apr.)
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Language: English
# of Pages: 352
File Size: 698 KB
Published by Bloomsbury USA, on March 29, 2011.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Greyhound - May 25th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 25th, 2012

Title: Greyhound By Steffan Piper



About: It's 1981. Eleven-year-old Sebastian Rane's mother has abandoned him at a California Greyhound bus station. With $35 and a ticket to Pennsylvania, he's going to live with his grandmother. On the way, Sebastian connects with Marcus, an ex-con, and the unlikely pair lurches from one misadventure to the next.

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This extraordinary and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a child put on a bus by his neglectful mother to go live with his grandparents on the other side of the country. The boy is named Sebastien Ranes, and his 1981 cross-country ride is enlivened by a hijacking, a passenger’s death, and an engine fire. On his voyage he encounters two potential pedophiles, as well as a number of kind strangers who help him along his way. Sebastien befriends an ex-con named Marcus who helps protect him and introduces him to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Through their friendship, Sebastien begins to cut through his own naiveté and to learn how the world works. The author creates people who seem recognizable and lifelike without resorting to stereotypes and clichés, and the story unfolds at a brisk pace. Unlike the typical cross-country bus ride, this remarkable trip is one readers will not want to see end. --This text refers to the manuscript reviewed as a part of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.

Language: English
# of Pages: 256
File Size: 438 KB
Published by AmazonEncore; Unabridged edition, on April 20, 2010.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: God is an Englishman - May 26th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 26th, 2012

Title: God is an Englishman By R. Delderfield



About: From one of England's most beloved writers comes the first book in the epic Swann Family Saga series. This stirring historical novel set in England's Victorian era follows Adam Swann, an English soldier determined to build his fortune with the captivating and high-spirited Henrietta, daughter of a local mill owner.

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From master author R. F. Delderfield, the first in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman series. The first novel in the epic God Is an Englishman series, this book is a stirring saga of England in the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people.

Adam Swann, scion of an army family, returns home in 1858 after service with Her Majesty's army in the Crimea and India, determined to build his fortune in the dog-eat-dog world of Victorian commerce. Swann is soon captivated by Henrietta, the high-spirited daughter of a local mill owner. As Swann works to build his name, he and Henrietta share adventures, reversal, and fortune.

A beloved novel by a beloved author, God Is an Englishman is a treasure both for Delderfield fans and the growing legion of fans of historical fiction.

"R. F. Delderfield is a born storyteller."
Sunday Mirror

"A book to get lost in... An epic historical novel artfully contructed."
New York Times Book Review

"A novel in the grand tradition of Thackery and Dickens."
Milwaukee Journal

"A delightful bounty of characters fairly jumps from the pages of God Is an Englishman."
Columbus Dispatch

Language: English
# of Pages: 704
File Size: 1308 KB
Published by Sourcebooks Landmark, on June 1, 2009.

 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Seven Norwegian Crime Novels - May 27th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 27th, 2012

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Seven Norwegian Crime Novels



About: When it comes to intense, masterfully written crime sagas, Karin Fossum is one of the greats. In her award-winning, internationally best-selling "Inspector Sejer Mysteries," Fossum showcases her expert understanding of criminal psychology through the gripping investigations of her intelligent and melancholy Scandinavian inspector.

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Summer Son - May 28th, 2012

Kindle Daily Deal for May 28th, 2012

Title: The Summer Son By Craig Lancaster



About: With the pacing of a mystery novel, Craig Lancaster tells the tale of Mitch Quillen, a middle-aged man harboring marriage and career problems. When his long-estranged father calls, Mitch leaves for Montana to meet him. Together, Mitch and his father drill into their emotionally explosive history, altering Mitch's life forever.

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Mitch becomes “the summer son” when his parents split up. His kind mother lives in Olympia, Washington, where Mitch attends school. His irascible father lives in Utah and Montana. A “doodlebugger” who runs a “truck-mounted drilling rig” and searches for uranium and natural gas, Jim puts his too-young “summer son” to work, along with Mitch’s older brother, Jerry. But in the fateful summer of 1979, Jim—a violent, boozy, foulmouthed man with a hair-trigger temper—drives Jerry away, leaving gentle Mitch defenseless. In 2007, Mitch’s life is unraveling, and his wife convinces him to confront his estranged father. As Mitch and Jim circle each other like wrestlers, long-buried truths, brutal crimes, and lies are brought to the surface. In his second novel, Lancaster writes with deceptive directness, rendering the sensuous world with high-definition precision, from a rattlesnake to a sunset to Jim’s drunken aggression, while slowly revealing the complexity of his damaged characters’ psyches. A classic western tale of rough lives and gruff, dangerous men, of innocence betrayed and long, stumbling journeys to love. --Donna Seaman

Language: English
# of Pages: 323
File Size: 433 KB
Published by AmazonEncore, on January 25, 2011.