The Kindle Daily Deals today consist of a great selection of science and math books!
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The Dark Days Club
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman is $1.99! This is a YA book about demon-hunting in Regency England, which sounds all sorts of badass. Readers loved the heroine and all the other female characters in the book, but some felt like it was too much like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a rather obvious way. Have you read this one?
London, April 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut presentation to the Queen. Her life should be about gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her family’s housemaids goes missing, Lady Helen is drawn to the shadows of Regency London.
There, she finds William, the Earl of Carlston. He has noticed the disappearance, too, and is one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of powerful demons that has infiltrated every level of society. But Lady Helen’s curiosity is the last thing Carlston wants—especially when he sees the searching intelligence behind her fluttering fan. Should Helen trust a man whose reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her headstrong sense of justice lead them both into a death trap?
In The Dark Days Club, internationally best-selling author Alison Goodman introduces readers to a heroine who is just as remarkable as Eona—and yet again reinvents an establlished literary genre, making it her own.
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The Magdalen Girls
RECOMMENDED: The Magdalen Girls by V.S. Alexander is $2.99! Redheadedgirl wrote a Lightning Review for this book and gave it a B:
I liked reading about this this facet of history, even as I had to struggle with the rage that this wasn’t a bygone era: this was happening in my lifetime. If we can understand the things people do to each other, maybe we can keep history from repeating itself.
Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city’s Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are “fallen” women—unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Among them is sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan, sent by her family when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest.
Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments—but always in the name of love. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in the reclusive Lea, who helps them endure—and plot an escape. But as they will discover, the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations.
Told with candor, compassion, and vivid historical detail, The Magdalen Girls is a masterfully written novel of life within the era’s notorious institutions—and an inspiring story of friendship, hope, and unyielding courage.
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The Friday Night Knitting Club
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs is $1.99! This is women’s fiction about – you guessed it – a knitting club. Some readers note that the writing style isn’t for everyone and that some of characters’ actions were pretty frustrating. However, others thought it was an emotional read and enjoyed the different character threads.
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia’s ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter’s life, her whole world is shattered. Luckily, Georgia’s friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they’ve created isn’t just a knitting club: it’s a sisterhood.
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Bedding the Baron
Bedding the Baron by Alexandra Ivy is 99c! Ivy originally published this historical romance under the name Deborah Raleigh and it’s the first book in the Illegitimate Bachelors series. Readers liked the forced proximity aspect of the romance, but some found the heroine a bit too prickly for their tastes.
Only the most damnable curiosity could compel Fredrick Smith to seek the truth about the father who abandoned him. And only a torrential storm could force him to stop at an inn en route. But what a treasure he finds there-a raven-haired beauty whose drab attire can’t disguise her latent sensuality. And soon Fredrick’s most pressing need is to melt Mrs. Portia Walker’s icy reserve, and make her smile, sigh, and cry out with pleasure.
AND A KISS THAT WOULD TEMPT THE DEVIL.
From the moment Fredrick enters Portia’s inn-wet clothes clinging to sleek muscles, angelic features, shimmering gray eyes-she is vibrantly aware of the danger he presents. Portia was almost ruined once, and swore that no man would control her destiny again. But vows are no match for a desire that could be pure folly-or the most exquisite bliss.
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If you’re a science person—today’s Gold Box deal has a LOT of really good science on sale, including The Invention of Nature, I Contain Multitudes, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, This is Your Brain on Parasites, and more. There’s also a de Beauvoir—The Ethics of Ambiguity.
I listened to The Dark Days Club and found it outstanding! Yes, it was Buffy-but IN THE REGENCY! WITH PRINNY! AND BEAU BRUMMEL! And the narrator was perfect-voices were in character and distinct throughout. Sequel comes out this Tuesday: Dark Days Pact. CAN’T WAIT!
A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev is on sale at Amazon for $2.99.
I’m having difficulty understanding how there could possibly be any problem about Buffy in the Regency. Someone very kindly wrote that just for me and I’mma go check it out now.
Which reminds me: Crazyhead. It’s like a British Buffy, and I am angry at everyone who knew this show existed and didn’t tell me!
Otoh that knitting book did absolutely nothing for me, but I much prefer romances to chicklit.
Wasn’t there a recentish movie about the Magdalen laundries? And a recent Phryne Fisher novel about the Australian version.
The Magdalen Girls…I watched a documentary on them a couple years ago and the biggest thing I remember was how much FREE WORK they did. It was laundry services, lots and lots and lots of laundry washed for free, by hand. Underneath the swooning beauty of pinioned femininity why doesn’t someone write a story about what this actually was: slavery, justified with religion and reinforced with shame and violence.
The Dark Days Club is currently free for Kindle – in Europe at least.
@Msb. It was part of the story of Philomena with Judi Dench – she was forced to give up her son for adoption by the nuns – the movie was mostly about her search for him years later
Thank you, Magenta, for saving me $1.99! Now I can justify something else on sale instead. 😀
I liked Dark Days Club enough that I’ll read the next one. And for all you historical details folks it has some of the most legit descriptions of how dancing and balls actually functioned in Regency Society. I love it when authors get the little details of who calls dances and all that right!