My Wife Recommends this Re-Imagined Classic

My wife just finished this book and loved it.  That’s pretty much our highest recommendation.  For fans of updated classic tales, like Marion Zimmer Bradley’s "Mists of Avalon.”

$3.99

NOTE: This is the “Enhanced Version” with extra audio/video goodies for Kindle.  

NOTE #2: 125 5-Star customer reviews and the good word of my wife. What are you waiting for?   

From Amazon’s page…

Enter the world of Homer's ancient Greece with the enhanced e-book edition of The Song of Achilles. This edition lets you further engage with this compelling story through video interviews with Madeline Miller and Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of the Wicked series, clips from the audio book at the start of each chapter, an illustrated map, and a pop-up gallery featuring over 40 images and descriptions of the characters, armor, and ships found in the book.

The legend begins...

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. "The best of all the Greeks"—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles' mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.

When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece, bound by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller's page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career.

A Box Set of Thrills! for $5.99

These books have been red hot sellers individually for a while now.  Here’s all three in Christopher Smith’s NYC cycle of Thrillers for one low price (Box Set for E-book only).

$5.99

From the Amazon page on the first novel in the set,  Fifth Avenue…

Look beneath all the power and all the wealth that represents New York City's Fifth Avenue, and you'll find greed, blood, revenge. In the international best-selling thriller "Fifth Avenue," each intermingles within a revered society that is unprepared for what's in store for it when one man finally strikes in an effort to destroy another man for murdering his wife thirty-one years ago.

Louis Ryan is that man. George Redman, his wife, two daughters and their close friends are his targets. Both men are self-made billionaires who came from nothing to stake their claim to Fifth Avenue. But when Louis Ryan hires an international assassin to literally rip the Redman family apart, a series of events that can't be stopped catapults them all through a fast-paced, hard-edged thriller in which nobody is safe.

Secrets are revealed. Sex lives are exposed. The Mafia get involved. And George's two daughters, Celina and Leana Redman, come to the forefront. More than anyone, it's they who are caught in the throes of their father's past as Louis Ryan's blind desire to kill them all takes surprising turns in his all-out effort to see them dead.

"Fifth Avenue" is 145,000 words, or about 450 printed pages.

A #4 TOP 100 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER.

A TOP 100 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER FOR SEVEN MONTHS.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER IN "MYSTERIES & THRILLERS"

THE BEST-SELLING SEQUEL TO FIFTH AVENUE,"RUNNING OF THE BULLS," IS OUT.

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE SERIES, THE NOVELLA "FROM MANHATTAN WITH LOVE," IS OUT.

Excerpts from RUNNING OF THE BULLS and FROM MANHATTAN WITH LOVE are included with this edition of FIFTH AVENUE.

***PLANET KINDLE ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH***

"Fifth Avenue," the first novel by penned Christopher Smith, is a fantastic first effort and was the reason I was simply unable to put my Kindle down over this Christmas period. And I would go as far to say that it ranks as one of the best first novels I've ever read."--PLANET KINDLE

***P.M. RICHTER ON CHRISTOPHER SMITH***

"Fifth Avenue". A big, big novel. A blockbuster? Yes. A bestseller. It should be.

About the Author

Christopher Smith is the #1 international best-selling author of "Fifth Avenue," its sequels "Running of the Bulls, "From Manhattan with Love" and "From Manhattan with Revenge," as well as "Bullied," "Revenge," "Witch" and "War," all four of which deal with the subject of bullying. 

His thriller "A Rush to Violence" is the first in a three-book series that will also include "A Rush to Murder" and "A Rush to Vengeance."

Prior to writing novels, for fourteen years, Smith was the film critic for a major newspaper in the Northeast. For eight years, he appeared weekly on NBC affiliates, and two years nationally on the E! network. He has written over 4,000 reviews and he has been named Best Critic for 2010 by the MPA. He has published two previous books in his Netflix "Queued" series, which are compilations of hundreds of his film reviews. He lives in Maine.

Once Upon a Time is Now...only 4.99!

Okay, let's see... which hit TV show is this book based on?  Not ABC's "Once Upon A Time."  This one is "Once Upon a Time is Now!  You may know this story better as "Grimm"on NBC.  It's written by the creator of the show and it's only $4.99!

$4.99

Book Description

From the creator of NBC's hit series, GRIMM, Stephen Carpenter presents his original novel, THE GRIMM CURSE (Once Upon A Time is Now).

Fifteen year-old Jake Grimm is the last living descendent of the Brothers Grimm, who wrote the famous fairy tales in the 1800's. But Jake grew up never knowing his true destiny until he ran away from his unhappy foster home, to the place of his birth--Woodland--a small town nestled deep in a Northwestern forest.

In Woodland, Jake discovers that the fairy tales are real, and they are happening today. And Jake, as the last living Grimm, is the only one who can stop the witches, big bad wolves, and evil stepmothers who are all alive and well, and about to wreak havoc in the small town of Woodland.

Because once upon a time is now.