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Daily Deals: More pricematching from the BN Weekend Blow Out sale

A Secret Love By: Stephanie LaurensA Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

And now, Stephanie Laurens has created her boldest Cynster yet – Gabriel – a man who has known the pleasure of many women, but who has given his heart to no one.

She was desperate for his help…

When a mysterious lady, her face hidden by a black veil, begs Gabriel Cynster for his help, he cannot refuse her plea. For despite her disguise, Gabriel finds the woman alluring and he is powerless to deny her. But he exacts payment as only a Cynster would demand: with each piece of information he uncovers, she must pay him – in the form of a kiss.

He was powerless to resist…

Lady Alathea Morwellan knows Gabriel is intrigued, but despite the sparks that fly between them, they have never passed a civil moment together. Yet as the stakes get higher, so does Gabriel?s desire for payment. And with each overpowering kiss, each passionate embrace, Alathea knows that she will not be able to resist his ultimate seduction…but what will happen when she reveals the truth

Here are more price matching deals from BN and Amazon.  These deal prices may not be good for more than today as BN’s sale was for the weekend and they aren’t usually reflected at any other retailer other than BN and Amazon.

This is one of my favorite Laurens’ books. Granted, I haven’t read it in a while but it is a friends to lovers story and a true meeting of the minds. It follows the familiar Lauren’s type storyline with an overbearing alpha hero and a stand-off ish heroine but what I recall enjoying was how they negotiated their friendship into something passionate.

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And She Was: A Novel of Suspense by Alison GaylinAnd She Was: A Novel of Suspense by Alison Gaylin. $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

“A deftly plotted, completely involving novel with one of the most memorable protagonists to come along in years.”
—Laura Lippman

“Label me a big fan.”
—Harlan Coben

Edgar® Award nominated author Alison Gaylin is rapidly becoming a major player in the thriller game. A breathtaking novel of suspense, Gaylin’s And She Was introduces a remarkable new protagonist: Brenna Spector, a missing persons investigator afflicted with Hyperthymestic Syndrome, a rare disorder that enables her to remember every moment of every day of her life. A twisting mystery, both chilling and surprising, And She Was sets the haunted investigator on the trail of a missing child who vanished more than a decade earlier—a case with disturbing echoes in Brenna’s own scrupulously remembered past. Discover what Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardener, Laura Lippman, and other masters of suspense and crime fiction have already learned: Alison Gaylin is one of the best!

On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town . . . and vanished.

Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail of every day of her life. A blessing and a curse, it began in childhood, when her older sister stepped into a strange car never to be seen again, and it’s proven invaluable in her work. But it hasn’t helped her solve the mystery that haunts her above all others—and it didn’t lead her to little Iris. When a local woman, Carol Wentz, disappears eleven years later, Brenna uncovers bizarre connections between the missing woman, the long-gone little girl . . . and herself.

There are varying reviews for this book. Some found the main protagonist’s ability to be unevenly presented and that the author didn’t have quite the skill for the type of story she waned to pull off. But others thought Brenna’s neurological disorder was fascinating and helped her, obviously, to be a good PI.

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael LewisMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis . $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:

One of the best baseball—and management—books out….Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”—Forbes

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard).

I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?

With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar’s Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities—his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission—but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!—collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors.

What these geek numbers show—no, prove—is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Billy paid attention to those numbers —with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to—and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win…how can we not cheer for David?

This is a pretty amazing book to read even if you don’t like baseball or money management. The Moneyball way of measuring talent and building teams has spread beyond baseball and is used in almost every other sport. It’s a great gift book, too, which you can buy now and then have the gift delivered at Christmas or at someone’s birthday.

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The Sweetest Thing (A Lucky Harbor Novel) by Jill ShalvisThe Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis. $ 3.49.

From the Jacket Copy:

Two Men Are One Too Many . . .

Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to get things under control and come up with a new plan for her life.

But a certain tanned, green-eyed sailor has his own ideas, such as keeping Tara hot, bothered . . . and in his bed. And when her ex wants Tara back, three is a crowd she can’t control-especially when her deepest secret reappears out of the blue. Now Tara must confront her past and discover what she really wants. If she’s lucky, she might just find that everything her heart desires is right here in Lucky Harbor.

This is book 2 in the Lucky Harbor series. The entire series is on sale.

#1 Simply Irresistible $2.99 ( A | BN | K | S )
#3 Head Over Heels $.99 ( A | BN | K | S )
#4 Lucky in Love $3.49 ( A | BN | K | S )
#5 At Last $3.49 ( A | BN | K | S )
#6 Forever and a Day #3.49 ( A | BN | K | S )

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Jane Litte is the founder of Dear Author, a lawyer, and a lover of pencil skirts. She spends her downtime reading romances and writing about them. Her TBR pile is much larger than the one shown in the picture and not as pretty. You can reach Jane by email at jane @ dearauthor dot com

6 Comments

  1. JenM
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 13:51:39

    I think pretty much everything on sale at B&N has now been price matched at Amazon. I picked up 7 recent releases for under $30 (Twice Tempted, Deadly Sting, Crimson Frost, Kitty Rocks the House, Reaper’s Property, Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet, and Too Hot to Handle) so I’m a pretty happy camper right now.

  2. Tabs
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 14:32:51

    I picked up the two most recent Lucky Harbor books, Julie Ann Walker’s new release from last week, and Elizabeth Hoyt’s “Lord Of Darkness.” (All from Amazon).

  3. Ellen
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 14:42:57

    Don’t forget to look at your Audible wish list and see if there is a match to any of the sales items.
    I picked up The Wanderer by Carr and then got the Aubible for $3.99 and then I went ahead and got the Laurens above, same deal. The books qualified for the $10 listener “reward” going on this month.

    I am still thinking about the Shalvis. No Audible price break, though, and lots in the TBR mountain. Can’t really justify them.

  4. cleo
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 15:26:57

    From the BN sale, I bought The Lady Most Willing by Julia Quinn et al and Bossy Pants by Tina Fey. I’m tempted by the Laurens – she’s extremely hit or miss for me, but the hits usually have the h/h negotiating their relationship.

  5. erinf1
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 17:21:22

    I’m not even going to say how much I spend on this sale :P But I’m very, very happy Amazon price matched and I was able to whittle down my wishlist.

  6. Janet W
    Apr 07, 2013 @ 17:59:16

    Wonderful Laurens–it’s my 2nd favourite of all time of hers, right after Devil’s Bride. Moneyball is terrific too, and such a good time of year to read it.

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