Today’s edition of our fun new Readers’ Alert series features Kindle titles that have received recent attention in the media:
- Heidi Durrow appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show to dish her debut novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Algonquin, 978-1565126800, $22.95, hardcover
discounted at Amazon to $15.61; Kindle edition $13.77
). PW wrote “Taut prose, a controversial conclusion and the thoughtful reflection on racism and racial identity resonate without treading into political or even overtly specific agenda waters, as the story succeeds as both a modern coming-of-age and relevant social commentary.”
- Ian Bremmer’s The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
got a Daily Show visit and a segment on NPR’s Morning Edition. Not available in Kindle format due to Penguin’s Agency 5 posture; hardcover discounted to $11.69 at Amazon
. $12.99 in Apple’s iBooks Store.
- Laura and Lisa Ling’s Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home
(William Morrow, 978-0062000675, $26.99) was featured on Oprah yesterday. Hardcover discounted to $16.19
at Amazon; Kindle edition $12.99
. $12.99 in Apple’s iBooks Store.
- Martin Amis’ new novel The Pregnant Widow
topped the NPR “What We’re Reading” list for last week and was tantalizing described as “part Decameron, part Big Chill, as twenty-somethings in an Italian castle navigate the sexual revolution.” Hardcover discounted to $17.79
- The Early Show yesterday featured Amy Wilson’s When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be (William Morrow, 978-0061956959, $23.99). Hardcover discounted to $16.31
at Amazon; Kindle edition $10.99. $10.99
Other Kindle titles in the media in the past few days:
- Avis Cardella, Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict
- Beth Ostrosky Stern, Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend
- Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
- Brad Meltzer, Heroes for My Son
- Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All
- Damon Wayans, Red Hats: A Novel
- Jane Buckingham, The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations
- Paul Bloom, How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
- Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Gail Sheehy, Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence
- Pam Grier, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
- Randy Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
