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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 10:35:08 +0000

Today only, take advantage of great deals on popular books to read during those last few dog days of summer! From enjoyable classics like The Hobbit and feel good favorites like Meet Cute, to back-to-school staples including 1984, there's something for everyone.

1984

by George Orwell

4.16
2,361,599 ratings

Bestsellers Fantasy & Science Fiction

$2.99
Regular price*: $9.99

Orwell's masterpiece is a terrifying dystopian vision of a future in which everyone is under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. Winston, an everyday hero, lives a dreary life working at war-struck London's Airstrip One—until he meets Julia. Their forbidden love leads Winston to question their government. Will Winston rebel against Big Brother and find happiness with Julia? Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

by William Goldman

4.25
676,351 ratings

Fantasy & Science Fiction

$2.99
Regular price*: $16.99

Here William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers finally receives a beautiful illustrated treatment. A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

4.26
2,387,836 ratings

Bestsellers Fantasy & Science Fiction

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Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, 'The Hobbit' met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4.29
997,658 ratings

Bestsellers Fantasy & Science Fiction

$2.99
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Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

by Timothy Egan

4.04
38,725 ratings

Nonfiction

$2.99
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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

3.65
4,637 ratings

Young Adult Romance

$2.99
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Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. 'Meet Cute' is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of “how they first met” from some of today’s most popular YA authors. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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King Leopold's Ghost

by Adam Hochschild

4.15
30,623 ratings

Nonfiction

$2.99
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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Vivian Apple at the End of the World (Vivian Apple, #1)

by Katie Coyle

3.76
4,582 ratings

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

$2.99
Regular price*: $8.99

Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed "Rapture," all that’s left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't know who or what to believe. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Turner House

by Angela Flournoy

3.64
12,821 ratings

Fiction

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A novel centered on the journey of the Turner family and its thirteen siblings, particularly the eldest and youngest, as they face the ghosts of their pasts, the imminent loss of their mother, and the necessary abandonment of their family home in struggling Detroit. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

4.24
33,406 ratings

Fiction

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This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid

3.69
46,913 ratings

Bestsellers Fiction

$2.99
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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter... Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Seven Storey Mountain

by Thomas Merton

4.17
11,131 ratings

Nonfiction

$2.99
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In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

by Timothy Egan

4.06
10,983 ratings

Bestsellers Nonfiction

$2.99
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An award-winning true story about the largest forest fire in American history, and Teddy Roosevelt’s preservation movement. In 1910, fierce winds tore through the national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping hundreds of small blazes into a roaring inferno that engulfed towns in the blink of an eye. In the aftermath, Roosevelt developed the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen—the benefits of which we can still witness today. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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On Turpentine Lane

by Elinor Lipman

3.57
4,474 ratings

Romance

$2.99
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At 32, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane, her life is finally on track. When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

4.35
5,866 ratings

Fiction

$2.99
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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war. Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness

by Amos Oz

4.2
5,982 ratings

Nonfiction

$2.99
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This is the magical self-portrait of Amos Oz, who witnessed the birth of a nation and its turbulent history. His boyhood in a war-torn Jerusalem apartment crowded with books and relatives, his adolesce after his mother’s suicide, and his adult years under a different name at a kibbutz are all captured. Follow Oz as he becomes an active participant in the political fabric of his nation. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

by Adam Hochschild

4.23
1,588 ratings

Nonfiction

$2.99
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From the acclaimed, bestselling author Adam Hochschild, is a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell. It’s a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

by A.J. Baime

4.3
1,372 ratings

Bestsellers Nonfiction

$2.99
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In 1941, as Hitler’s threat loomed ever larger, President Roosevelt realized he needed weaponry to fight the Nazis—most important, airplanes—and he needed them fast. So he turned to Detroit and the auto industry for help.The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim. Deal expires 8/12/18.

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