Daily Deals: Classic historicals and award winning Newberry books
Lucien’s Fall by Barbara Samuel. $ .99
From the Jacket Copy:
Fans of Jo Beverley, Eloisa James, and Stephanie Laurens will love the romances of RITA award winner Barbara Samuel.
A full-length historical romance novel.
A SINFULLY APPEALING RAKE
Lord Lucien Escher, is a renowed London rake who believes there is not a woman in the world who cannot be seduced, and is determined to prove it, come what may.
AN INTELLIGENT AND DETERMINED WOMAN
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SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt. $ 3.79
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SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, with such questions as:
How is Street Prostitute Like a Department-Store Santa?
What’s The Best Way to catch a Terrorist?
What Do Hurricanes, Heart Attacks, And Highway Deaths Have in Common?
Are people harwired for Altruism or Selfishness?
Can Eating Kangaroo Save The Planet?
Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically.
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater. $ 1.99
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The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
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Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes. $ 1.99.
From the Jacket Copy:
Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was fifty years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War seen through the eyes of a boy who turns in his smithing tools to take up a rifle and fight for the liberty of America.
Fourteen-year old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper, the Boston Observer, and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events shaping the American Revolution from the Boston Tea Party to the first shots fired at Lexington.
Powerful illustrations by American artist Michael McCurdy, bring new life to Ether Forbes’ quintessential novel of the American Revolution.
After injuring his hand, a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
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I’m not a very forgiving reader of jacket copy. When I see punctuation as mangled as what appears on Lucien’s Fall, I won’t buy the book. Don’t publishers realize this?
MR POPPER’S PENGUINS!!!!
(Forgive the exclamation marks.)
I simply adored this book as a child, and loved it just as much each time I re-read it to my children. I’ll bet I’m not the only person who painted the walls in her kitchen different colors just because of a few paragraphs in this story.
Whatever you do, do NOT judge this book by the recent live-action film.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the link to the Johnny Tremaine sale! We had to read it for Middle School, and it was one of the first books I read in English after reaching the reading level of my own age group. I remember loving it to bits (though it may have had something to do with the relief of being able to read above kiddie level again). I’ve wanted for years to reread it sometime and see if it’s as good as I remember, and now I can! So thanks.
IIRC, I liked Lucien’s Fall years ago, but it’s been so long that I can’t be sure I would feel similarly now.
Like Janine, I read Johnny Tremaine in middle school and loved it. Even then I wanted a sequel, though, to see what came next ;)
I picked up both Lucien’s Fall and Heart of the Knight as Kindle freebies earlier this year and enjoyed them both. I thought Samuel’s writing quite beautiful.
Weird. I was randomly thinking of Johnny Tremain last night.
Having enjoyed the first book, I just checked out the SuperFreakonomics. I was a little perplexed, tho, because Amazon is offering the “illustrated” Kindle version for $22.99. Does that mean that the $3.79 version has none of the charts/graphics? Without them, I’d think the book is pretty much useless. Why would they do this?
Loved Mr. Poppers Penguins! Does anyone else also remember the Amalia Bedelia books? I think I was reading those about the same time. Johnny Termain Day was the highlight of both my children’s Fifth Grade year in school. All the 5th grade classes dressed up and the school brought in a reenactor. Such a fun event.
It’s the Newbery Award, named after John C. Newbery. It doesn’t have the word “berry” in it.