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9 Incredible May eBook Deals to Lift Your Spirits

by  | May 13
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There’s nothing like a good book to keep your imagination (and your spirits) soaring, so we’ve rounded up a few worthy candidates for the job. And as a bonus, they are currently on sale in eBook! From a sweeping family novel to a comedy of manners to a white-knuckle thriller spanning the country, there’s enough fun variety in here to provide hours of entertainment.

Check out Simon & Schuster’s complete collection of eBook deals.

For even more deals, Humble Bundle has an amazing sale going on for books like Star Wars vs. Star Trek, 100 Things to See in the Night Sky, Simple Acts to Save Our Planet, and so many others with a science, technology, engineering, and math focus. Basically, you can name your price of $1 or more to get a whole bundle of STEM-related eBooks. Better yet, your purchases help raise money for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, or BINC. Find out more here.

Price discounts featured are available now, but end dates vary by retailer. Discounted prices do not apply to ebooks sold outside of the United States. Participating retailers only.

The Women in Black

The Women in Black

by Madeleine St John

eBook deal - $11.99 $2.99

The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at Goode’s department store, are busy selling ladies’ dresses during the holiday rush. But they somehow find time to pursue other goals…

Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode’s for years. Sweet, unlucky Fay wants to settle down with a nice man, but somehow nice men don’t see her as marriage material. Glamorous, cultured Magda runs the high-end gowns department and hopes to open her own boutique one day. Lisa, a clever and shy teenager, takes a job at Goode’s during her school break but dreams of becoming a poet. By the time the last marked-down dress is sold, all of their lives will be forever changed.

A pitch-perfect comedy of manners set during a pivotal era, and perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Women in Black conjures the energy of a city on the cusp of change and is a testament to the timeless importance of female friendship.

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The Library Book

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean

eBook deal -$12.99 $2.99

In The Library Book, New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean chronicles the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.

Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present and delivers a uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.

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The Passenger

The Passenger

by Lisa Lutz

eBook deal - $12.99 $2.99

Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, changes her name, and flees town. It’s almost impossible to live off the grid in the twenty-first century, but Tanya-now-Debra and a female bartender named Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra is chased by a very dark secret. From heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, we are left to wonder…can she possibly outrun her past?

The Passenger’s white-knuckled plot and unforeseeable twists make one thing for certain: the ride will leave you breathless.

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Born Standing Up

Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin

eBook deal - $12.99 $1.99

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.”

Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times—the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies.

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The Room on Rue Amélie

The Room on Rue Amélie

by Kristin Harmel

eBook deal - $11.99 $2.99

When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the horizon. Unfortunately, her marriage soon grows cold and bitter, her husband Marcel, distant and secretive—all while the Germans flood into Paris, their sinister swastika flags waving in the breeze. When Marcel is killed, Ruby discovers the secret he’d been hiding—he was a member of the French resistance—and now she is determined to take his place.

A moving and entrancing novel, The Room on Rue Amélie is perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls.

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Dear Mrs. Bird

Dear Mrs. Bird

by AJ Pearce

eBook deal - $12.99 $2.99

In London during WWII, Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent, and when she spots a job advertisement in the newspaper she seizes her chance; but after a rather unfortunate misunderstanding, she finds herself typing letters for the formidable Henrietta Bird, renowned advice columnist of Woman’s Friend magazine. Mrs. Bird is very clear: letters containing any Unpleasantness must go straight into the bin. But as Emmy reads the desperate pleas from women who many have Gone Too Far with the wrong man, or can’t bear to let their children be evacuated, she begins to secretly write back to the readers who have poured out their troubles.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #1: Cardassia and Andor

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #1: Cardassia and Andor

by Una McCormack

eBook deal - $9.99 $0.99

CARDASSIA: The last world ravaged by the Dominion War is also the last on which Miles O'Brien ever imagined building a life. As he joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia's infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet's difficult agricultural renewal. But Cardassia's struggle to remake itself is not without opposition, as the outside efforts to help rebuild its civilization come under attack by those who reject any alien influence.

ANDOR: On the eve of a great celebration of their ancient past, the unusual and mysterious Andorians, a species with four sexes, must decide just how much they are willing to sacrifice in order to ensure their survival. Biological necessity clashes with personal ethics; cultural obligation vies with love—and Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane returns home to the planet he forswore, to face not only the consequences of his choices, but a clandestine plan to alter the very nature of his kind.

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Vanguard #1: Harbinger

Vanguard #1: Harbinger

by David Mack

eBook deal - $7.99 $0.99

Returning from its historic first voyage to the edge of the galaxy, the damaged U.S.S. Enterprise™ journeys through the Taurus Reach, a vast and little-known region of space in which a new starbase has been unexpectedly established. Puzzled by the Federation's interest in an area so far from its borders and so near the xenophobic Tholian Assembly, Captain James T. Kirk orders the Enterprise to put in for repairs at the new space station: Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard.

As Kirk ponders the mystery of the enormous base, he begins to suspect that there is much more to Vanguard than meets the eye. It's a suspicion shared by the Tholians, the Orions, and the Klingon Empire, each of whom believes that there are less than benign motives behind the Federation's sudden and unexplained desire to explore and colonize the Taurus Reach.

But when a calamity deep within the Reach threatens to compromise Starfleet's continued presence in the region, Kirk, Spock, and several key specialists from the Enterprise must assist Vanguard's crew in investigating the cause of the disaster and containing the damage. In the process, they learn the true purpose behind the creation of Vanguard, and what the outcome of its mission may mean for life throughout that part of the galaxy.

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We Are Not Ourselves

We Are Not Ourselves

by Matthew Thomas

eBook deal - $11.99 $1.99

Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born.

Driven by this longing, Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house. It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper, more incomprehensive psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future.

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