Currently (as of 6/28/16) you can get these Temperance Brennan novels and novellas by real-life forensic pathologist Kathy Reichs for $3 or less. Audiobook fans, note that the Audible editions of the two novellas are currently priced at just $1.95 each and are a great, low-risk way to give this popular thriller series a try. … Read more
George (4.5/5 stars, priced at $1.95 TODAY ONLY) is a book aimed at gradeschool-age kids, intended to help them understand the struggles of trans children. From Amazon: BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she’s not a boy. She knows she’s a girl. George … Read more
Audible is running an end of the month four dollar sale, offering highly-rated audiobooks for $3.95 each from today through 6/30/16. Included in the sale: The Monet Murders (4.5/5 stars) Private investigator to the stars Riley Fitzhugh finds himself caught up in the case of a missing Hollywood beauty – and a stolen Monet – … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal features Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead (4/5 stars, priced at $2.95 TODAY ONLY), an examination of the science and broader implications of resuscitation. Not too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As … Read more
In E.M. Forster’s Maurice (4.5/5 stars, priced at $2.95 TODAY ONLY), a young man comes to grips with his identity. From Amazon: Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal, Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons From a Small-Town Obituary Writer (4.5/5 stars, priced at 99 cents TODAY ONLY), is about focusing on the silver linings. As she was digging deep into the lives of community members, Heather Lende, the obituary writer for her tiny hometown newspaper in Haines, Alaska, began … Read more
In A Beautiful Place to Die (4.5/5 stars, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY) Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make … Read more
Beautiful Ruins (4/5 stars, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY) Audie Award Nominee, Fiction and Best Solo Narration, 2013 The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin … Read more