The Daily Deal today (29 Jan 2023) at Amazon US is 148 non-fiction titles ranging all the way from military history to biographies to mental health to cookbooks – and sadly even one conspiracy theory book. But overall, it’s a good selection, and I spotted several books I already have and have enjoyed, and a […]
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Today’s Big Deal (28 Jan 2023) at Kindle UK is 15 crime/mystery books for £0.99 each. I myself don’t see any authors/series that excite me, but if you want to take a look, here’s a link to the webpage…
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The Felse Investigations Volume Two, by Ellis Peters contains the fourth – sixth books in Peters’ George, Bunty, and Dominic Felse series. Peters is better known IMO for her Brother Cadfael series, but the Felse series is enjoyable too. The compilation includes: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (apa Who Lies Here?), The Piper on the
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos is $2.99 at Kindle US as part of today’s Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. I remember reading this as a young engineer and finding it both exciting (for what they did) and frustrating (because I was working
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A fun mystery, with a bit of 1940s awkwardness… The Turquoise Shop is the first in Frances Crane’s Patrick and Jean Abbott series, set in a fictional New Mexico artists’ colony, Santa Maria, which has some notable similarities to the town of Taos, where Crane lived. The book was written in the 1940s, and unfortunately
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Not quite as enjoyable as the previous couple of books… Unnatural History is the 38th in Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis series. But it’s only the third that I’ve read, after Serpentine and City of the Dead, since I picked the series up only recently. And, although many of the same enjoyable elements (wonderfully detailed
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That classic thriller, Airport, by Arthur Hailey, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. It’s not on sale (at least as of now) at Kobo US. Buy at Kindle US
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Joffe Books appear to have gotten the e-rights to V.C. Clinton-Baddely’s five Dr Davie books, first published in the 1960s – 1970s. (Per SYKM, the author’s full name is Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint Clinton-Baddeley. Whew!) I remember reading these in paperback, but don’t remember much other than a general pleasant memory of the short series.
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My son had to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for a non-fiction college course, and it sounded interesting, so I picked it up and read it. It turned out to be both fascinating and troubling, and well worth reading. And it’s on sale right now at Kindle UK for £0.99 as part of
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A fun mystery in an appealing setting… As I’ve mentioned on this blog a time or two, I’m a sucker for mysteries set in France, so I was thrilled to receive an advance review copy of Susan C Shea’s Murder Visits a French Village. And I liked it a lot. As the story opens, Ariel
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