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Apple has a sale on NYT Bestsellers for $4.99 each.  Amazon has price matched (or better) most of the books I have looked at.

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski - $4.99

274 pages, 682 of 740 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Audiobook is discounted to $3.99 with purchase of Kindle Book 

An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness.

When Laura Schroff brushed by a young panhandler on a New York City corner one rainy afternoon, something made her stop and turn back. She took the boy to lunch at the McDonald’s across the street that day. And she continued to go back, again and again for the next four years until both their lives had changed dramatically. Nearly thirty years later, that young boy, Maurice, is married and has his own family. Now he works to change the lives of disadvantaged kids, just like the boy he used to be.

An Invisible Thread is the true story of the bond between a harried sales executive and an eleven-year-old boy who seemed destined for a life of poverty. It is the heartwarming story of a friendship that has spanned three decades and brought meaning to an over-scheduled professional and hope to a hungry and desperate boy living on the streets.

French Silk by Sandra Brown

French Silk by Sandra Brown - $1.99

403 pages, 69 of 81 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Audiobook is discounted to $2.99 with purchase of Kindle Book 

Like the city of New Orleans itself, Claire Laurent is a vibrant beauty laced with a mysterious elusiveness. The founder of French Silk, a fabulous lingerie company, she has fought hard to make it a worldwide success. Then a TV evangelist attacks French Silk’s erotic sleepwear as sinful. And when he is killed, Claire becomes the prime suspect.

District Attorney Robert Cassidy knows Claire is damning herself with lie after lie about the murder, even as he feels her drawing him into her world and her very soul. But neither Cassidy nor her protests of innocence can save Claire unless she reveals a shocking truth — one she has sworn to take to the grave…

Thinking, Fast and Slow Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - $4.99

512 pages, 458 of 543 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

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Jesus is Lord, Ceasar is NotSummary: Jesus is Lord does not necessarily mean that early Christians were also saying Caesar is not.

Jesus is Lord, Caesar is Not sounded like a great book that I desperately wanted to read.  In the end I found it was a good book that I probably could have read a review of instead.  That is not to say it isn’t worth reading.  Just to say it was not worth reading for me.

You see I have previously thought that thinking about Christianity in terms of Empire or Anti-Empire could be useful, but either way often put more emphasis on the writer’s political views than on the actual biblical evidence.

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Love Thy Rival: What Sports' Greatest Rivalries Teach Us About Loving Our Enemies by Chad Gibbs

Love Thy Rival: What Sports’ Greatest Rivalries Teach Us About Loving Our Enemies by Chad Gibbs

244 pages, 6 of 6 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled

In his first book, the best-selling God & Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC, humorist Chad Gibbs explored his own struggles to balance faith in God with passion for pigskin. Now Gibbs is back asking how Christian fans can love their enemies, when we can’t even love rival fans.

From the cross-country culture war of Lakers vs. Celtics, to the cross-state hate-fest of Alabama vs. Auburn, Gibbs spent one year attending the most intense rivalry games in sports (Yankees vs. Red Sox, Duke vs. Carolina, and many more), observing the darker side of fan culture, and pondering the problems rivalry games present to the Christian fan.

The result… Love Thy Rival, an enlightening, laugh-a-minute look at what sports’ greatest rivalries teach us about one of Jesus’ most difficult commands: Love your enemies.

Maid for Murder: Deadly Business by Susette Williams

Maid for Murder: Deadly Business by Susette Williams

254 pages, 60 of 92 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled

Bailey inherits her grandfather’s business, Maid For You, but cleaning up dead body parts wasn’t part of the job description. Bailey hopes to wipe out crime with the help of Nate, her computer hacker assistant, despite protests of their involvement in the case from Detective Max Wellington.

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Kindle Daily DealRicochetby Sandra Brown

Customer review: “A thriller set in the steamy town of Savannah.”

 

Deal Price: $1.99

 

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Kindle Daily DealKittyby Marion Chesney

Customer review: “A Gothic romance set in the early Edwardian period.”

 

Deal Price: $1.99

 

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Kindle Daily DealLud-in-the-Mistby Hope Mirrlees

Customer review: “A book that can change the way you look at the world.”

 

Deal Price: $0.99

 

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Kindle Daily DealGoing Undergroundby Susan Vaught

Customer review: “A novel that draws upon real stories of sexting scandals.”

 

Deal Price: $2.99

 

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Google Play Ebook Store is having a sale on Mysteries and Thrillers.  Amazon has matched all of the prices I checked.  Below are Amazon links.

Naked Heat by Richard Castle

Naked Heat by Richard Castle - $2.99

306 pages, 283 of 330 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Audiobook is discounted to $3.99 with purchase of Kindle Book 

Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle’s thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave.

When New York’s most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan.

Heat’s murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with their raw emotional baggage. But the handsome, wise-cracking Pulitzer Prize-winning writer’s personal involvement in the case forces her to team up with Rook anyway. The residue of their unresolved romantic conflict and crackling sexual tension fills the air as Heat and Rook embark on a search for a killer among celebrities and mobsters, singers and hookers, pro athletes and shamed politicians.

This new, explosive case brings on the heat in the glittery world of secrets, cover-ups, and scandals.

Memorial Day by Vince Flynn

Memorial Day by Vince Flynn $3.79

608 pages, 235 of 270 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled

Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is called upon to fight against the world’s most deadly terrorists in this harrowing political thriller by New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn.

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Overdrive's Big Library Read ProjectOverdrive is the system that most libraries uses to distribute ebooks and downloadable audiobook via the web to its patrons.  Starting last week (May 15th) until June 1st, Overdrive is trying a new pilot project, Big Library Read.

In more than 3000 library systems across the US, The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone is being advertised on the main page of the library’s Overdrive system.  This is more than just advertising because the book is being offered to the libraries for free during this time.

After the focus period the book is removed from the Overdrive system for free and the libraries can choose to purchase it as they normally would.

The book is available in EPub, PDF, and Kindle formats.

h/t Goodereader

Overdrive press release

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For the last 20 days Pressgram has been an advertiser on Bookwi.es.  I personally supported the Kickstarter campaign and know personally John Saddington, the man behind Pressgram.  I really do support Pressgram as a product, so go read the blog and follow them on twitter or facebook.  Below is the post that I wrote about Pressgram during the Kickstarter campaign in April.

Now that we have publicly announced that my wife and I are going to have a child in the fall, I have been thinking more about digital parenting.  I have thought about this more than a lot of first time fathers because I have also been a full time nanny for five years.  In that time I have seen an enormous change in the way we share our children’s lives.

When my oldest niece was first born I created a static Web site for her.  A few months later I changed to a Blogger blog.  Once my second niece was born I primarily turned the blogs over to their mother and I started sharing pictures and happenings through twitter, Facebook, and eventually Instagram.

My nieces (sisterly love)

But over the past 18 months my love of social media sites is waning.  Not because I don’t love the communities there, but because I am increasingly concerned with how Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are using my information (picture, stories, timeline) to make money and how I am losing control of my own data. And more importantly how I may be losing control of my nieces data.

My friend John Saddington announced a solution that I have been looking forward to since before we publicly announced our upcoming child.  Pressgr.am is a way to use the filters and photo tools of Instagram and other photo apps while keeping your photos on your own site or choosing when and where to share them.

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Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter by Vicki Courtney

Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter by Vicki Courtney - $0.99

291 pages, 39 of 49 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Audiobook is discounted to $2.99 with purchase of Kindle Book 

“For mothers with girls ages zero to eighteen, Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter is indeed a must-have book. In it, bestselling author and youth culture expert Vicki Courtney helps moms pinpoint and prepare the discussions that need to be ongoing from cradle to college so their daughters will know the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies. To fully address the dynamic issues and influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each of the conversations, which are: 1. You are more than the sum of your parts 2. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow up 3. Sex is great . . . and worth the wait 4. It’s OK to dream about marriage and motherhood 5. Girls gone wild are a dime a dozen—dare to be virtuous The book also includes invaluable tips on having each conversation across the various stages of development: five and under, six to eleven, twelve and up.”

Take a Chance on Me by Susan May Warren

Take a Chance on Me by Susan May Warren - $2.99

413 pages, 81 of 85 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled

Darek Christiansen is almost a dream bachelor—oldest son in the large Christiansen clan, heir to their historic Evergreen Lake Resort, and doting father. But he’s also wounded and angry since the tragic death of his wife, Felicity. No woman in Deep Haven dares come near.

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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C ClarkeTakeaway: The unknown may be the greatest horror of all.

I am a fan of science fiction.  And I know I have seen 2001 at least twice.  But I did not really remember much about it outside of the main story and the beautiful space shots.  So when it was the Kindle Daily Deal last week I picked up the kindle version.  And since the audiobook was discounted to $1.99 with purchase of the kindle book I picked that up as well and alternated between reading on kindle and listening to the audiobook.

(If you have a kindle and like audiobooks you really should try whyspersync.  It is Amazon’s ability for you to move seamlessly between your kindle and audible.com audiobook without losing your place. I have started using it quite a bit.)

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