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March Whispersync Deal Roundup: Pierre Grimbert, Oz Reimagined, The Palace Job, Invisible Cities, Libba Bray, Anne McCaffrey, Diana Gabaldon, Harry Turtledove, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more
Posted on 2015-03-10 at 20:11 by Sam
I was planning to hold off posting this until March 13, because I know of a nice set of books that will be going on sale, but I'll have to settle for updating it after March 13 instead, due to some nice deals to pass along which expire on March 11, which is, er, tomorrow. Ah, the life of a bargain hunter.
So I'll start with those soon-to-expire deals, valid through Wednesday, March 11, taken from the Whispersync enabled titles among the 175 Kindle Books for $1.99 Each
UPDATE 3/13: SEE THE END OF THE POST
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Whispersync Daily Deal: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Kate Danley's The Woodcutter
Posted on 2014-03-20 at 13:26 by Sam
Thursday, March 20, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings bring a pair of fantastic Whispersync deals, led by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the Cuban-born Italian author's Nebula Award-nominated 1972 novel of Marco Polo's describing to Kublai Khan of the cities he has visited on his travels. "Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case
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Release Week: Niven and Harrington's The Goliath Stone, Christopher Priest's The Adjacent, Madeline Ashby's iD, Paul S. Kemp's A Discourse in Steel, Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Ballard's The Drowned World
Posted on 2013-06-26 at 15:00 by Sam
JUNE 19-25, 2013: June goes out with quite a bang -- limiting the picks to even the four pairs below still leaves titles of interest in the "also out this week" listings, such as a literary historical fantasy from Andrew Sean Greer and Jeff Noon's follow-on to Vurt; it's also another big week for self-published releases with David D. Levine, M.R. Mathias and Hugh Howey all publishing well-produced audiobooks of their works.
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
I'll start the pairings with two top-flight concurrent new
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