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Bargain Book: Instructions by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Instructions by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Charles Vess is currently priced $6.00 in hardcover, 60% off the $14.99 list price. This is a picture book and makes a great gift book to a child or adult. I've noticed it's been popular as a graduation gift, too, although we're not anywhere near any graduation times right now.

Either way, I have been posting many ebook bargains recently and thought I should share a printed edition of something fairy tale related, too. Bargain book prices on Amazon tend to be mercurial, limited to a certain amount of inventory and then gone. Then the book remains available as a regularly priced book. In other words, this price may stay available for a few more hours or a few more weeks, one can never be sure.

Free Book for Kindle: Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble

Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble is free in the Kindle edition today to promote Preble's new book, Haunted, in the same series. The paperback edition is $9.99. I'm sharing this because the book includes Baba Yaga as a major plot point.

Book description:

What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?

Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead.

In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn't know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good college—until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman. The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreams…

So this one might be of interest to those of you interested in the Romanovs and/or Baba Yaga. After all, it's free! As always, you don't have to have a Kindle to read a Kindle book, you can load the free software on your PC, Mac, smart phone and other devices. If you buy the book, it stays in your permanent library whether you download it to a device right away or not.

Telugu Actress Richa Gangopadhyay Images

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Heidi Montag Goes Shopping In Los Angeles

Taking a break from whatever the heck she does all day, Heidi Montag was spotted out and about in Los Angeles yesterday (January 26). Greeting the pap@razzi with a hopeful smile, the 24-year-old fromer reality TV star enjoyed an afternoon of window shopping sans her ever present hubby Spencer Pratt. 06 more images after the break...

10 Oldest Mosques in the World

01. Quba Mosque, Saudi Arabia

First Built: 622

The designation of the oldest mosque in the world requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest mosque congregation. Even here, there is the distinction between old mosque buildings that have been in continuous use as mosques, and those that have been converted to other purposes; and between buildings that have been in continuous use as mosques and those that were shuttered for many decades. In terms of congregations, they are distinguished between early established congregations that have been in continuous existence, and early congregations that ceased to exist (wikipedia). 09 More after the break...

Top 10 American Cities with Most Attractive People

01. Charleston

This South Carolina city bumped off perennial winner Miami this year; have the good-looking people really migrated north? Charlestonians also score high for friendliness, rank second for their classic sense of style, and even make the top 10 for intelligence. To see if it’s all true, just stroll the streets of this quaint city, which also ranks No. 1 for its noteworthy neighborhoods.

What makes the people of one city so good-looking and the folks elsewhere…well, not so much? Do some cities become magnets for the Greek god and goddess types, or does the mere act of living in a certain area actually have a transformative effect? Whatever the reasons, in this year’s America’s Favorite Cities survey, voters told us that good weather and great shopping go hand-in-hand with attractiveness. San Diego and Miami, for example, did well in all three categories, ending up among the top five cities to find America’s most attractive people. 09 More after the break...

Rock garden in Chandigarh

The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a 40-acre park full of plazas, waterfalls and thousands of unique creatures made from recycled materials. It’s a truly impressive sight, but even more so is the story of how Nek Chand spent four decades creating it and how he kept it a secret, for years. 16 more images after the break...

Tuesday, February 1, 2011