Kindle Daily Deal: Today only, save on four wonderful works of Kindle Singles fiction by Richard Russo, Jonathan Ames, Amy Tan, and Richard Powers. Click here to view all four novels.
Nate in Venice (Kindle Single)
by Richard Russo
(41 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction
In this warm, bighearted novella, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo (“Nobody’s Fool,” “Straight Man,” “Empire Falls”) transports his characters from the working-class East Coast of his novels to one of Europe’s most romantic cities. In classic Russo fashion, however, he packs along their foibles and frailties. His latest foray into the messy beauty of the human heart, “Nate in Venice” is written with the same wry humor and ready generosity for which he’s been so richly praised.
After a tragic incident with a student, Nate, a professor at a small New England college, retires from teaching and from life. He ends his self-imposed exile with a tour-group trip to Venice in the company of his overbearing, mostly estranged brother. Nate is unsure he’s equipped for the challenges of human contact, especially the fraternal kind. He tries to play along, keep up, mixing his antidepressants with expensive Chianti, but while navigating the labyrinthine streets of the ancient, sinking city, the past greets him around every corner, even in his dreams: There’s the stricken face of the young woman whose life he may have ruined, and there’s Julian, the older brother who has always derided and discounted him. Is Nate sunk? Is the trip, the chance to fall in love, in fact, his whole existence, merely water under the ponte?
Maybe or maybe not. In Russo’s world, the distance between disaster and salvation is razor thin, and a mensch can be a fool (and vice versa). Nate’s Venetian high-wire act proves as surprising as a potboiler and as full of reversals as a romantic comedy. It’s an emphatic tribute to all the pleasures and possibilities of the novella.
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Romance Daily Deal
This Time Forever
by Kathleen Eagle
(15 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Romance
She’d helped convict him of a crime he didn’t commit. Now she wants his help adopting the son he never knew he had.
Seeking refuge in a world not her own, Susan Ellison follows her conscience to the reservation of the Lakota Sioux, hoping to heal the wounds of her ravaged heart.
Sentenced to life in prison, former rodeo champion Cleve Black Horse seeks freedom and justice.
Two lonely outcasts separated by culture, stubborn pride and prison bars, their destinies are joined by a shared duty to a helpless child, and by the blossoming of a bold and magnificent love that a cruel, intolerant society forbids.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Daily Deal
The Marked Son (Keepers of Life)
by Shea Berkley
(5 Reviews)
Genre: Teens
The first in the lyrical, exciting Keepers of Life trilogy by new talent Shea Berkley. Seventeen-year-old Dylan Kennedy always knew something was different about him. When Dylan sees a girl in white in the woods behind his grandparents’ farm, he knows he’s seen her before in his dreams. He’s felt her fear and heard her insistence that only he can save her world from an evil lord who uses magic and fear to feed his greed for power.
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Kids Daily Deal
The Seems: The Split Second
by John Hulme
(35 Reviews)
Genre: Children’s eBooks
Becker Drane may have the coolest job in The World, but he’s struggling to keep up with his normal life outside of The Seems. He’s so busy Fixing that his Me-2™ spends more time with his family than he does. And even though he’s supposed to keep his life in The World and The Seems separate, he can’t stop thinking about the girl he met during his Mission in Sleep. And the Missions aren’t exactly getting easier. When a bomb explodes in the Department of Time, Becker is called in to take over for a more senior Fixer. But the bomb has created a path of destruction Becker could never have imagined. And if Becker can’t Fix this Mission in Time, he might not have to worry about balancing life between The World and The Seems anymore. . . Look out for the other books in the Seems series: The Glitch in Sleep and The Lost Train of Thought!
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