A Few Right Thinking Men is the first in Sulari Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair historical (WWII) series. It’s on sale in the US for $1.99 (and discountable at Kobo US), and it’s also £1.99 at Kindle UK. I’ve never gotten into this series because almost all of the rest of the titles, with the occasional exception […]

Today’s Big Deal at Kindle UK today is all eight Slough House books by Mick Herron for £0.99 each. Per SYKM, the books in this series have all been nominated/won various awards. The books include Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, Joe Country, Slough House, and Bad Actors. Link to the

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George was, per Wikipedia, a 1960 Newbery Honor Award winner. (Wikipedia indicates this means it was a runner-up.) And among the bazillions of books I’ve read I still remember this one quite vividly from when I was young. Oh, and in a vividly positive way 😊…I guess one could also

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is on sale for $3.99/£2.49 in the US/UK right now… Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US | Kindle UK

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill is $1.99 as part of today’s Kindle Daily Deal in the US, matched at Kobo US. I especially like the recommendation from Timothy Snyder – my husband and I watched his Making of Modern Ukraine course, available from Yale on

A friend (now himself retired) recommended Steve Lopez’s Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will as both funny and insightful. Now Independence Day is on sale in the US/UK for $2.99/£2.99. Not sure why the famous mystery author, Michael Connelly, is the source of the

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is free right now at Kindle UK. Per its blurb, this is the first in a “fantasy mystery” series, which sounds like a fun mix. And I tend to like anything (well, almost anything) with librarians in it. And I get to try it for free. Win-win-win! Buy at

I’ve been a big fan of Alice Duncan’s Daisy Gumm Majesty series for many years. (See my review of the series here, and of the most recent book in the series, Wedded Spirits, here.) But somehow I haven’t yet read any books in Duncan’s Mercy Allcutt series. Now, though, there’s a collection of the first

Books in Thea Harrison’s Elder Races series don’t seem to drop in price very often, either in the US or the UK. So it’s nice to see Serpent’s Kiss, which is the third in the series, on sale in the US right now for $1.99. Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052RGBTUKobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/serpent-s-kiss-6