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Advertisement  Prime Day in 2021 spans two days, kicking off on Monday, June 21 and ending on Tuesday, June 22. 30-day free trials are available (just dont forget to cancel your membership when the expiration date nears). Heres a look at some of the deals youll find:  Kindle Unlimited  Snag Kindle Unlimited  Amazons unlimited reading service, with a large library of ebooks and magazines available  for free for two months, after which itll renew at $9.99 each month. Subscribe to Audible Premium Plus for just $6.95 a month for four months with this limited-time deal. Save $10 on Launchpad  Browse Amazons Launchpad marketplace to receive $10 off your purchase of a product from a small business. 21 free prints to decorate your office  Print out your WIPs mood board when you take up Amazons offer to print 21 photos for free. Classic literature subscription box  Every two months, receive a classic work of literature along with a reading guide and several themed bookish goodies. Prime members save $9 on their first box. Books galore  Many titles are either steeply discounted or offered as part of a buy 2, get 50% off one offer. Some of this years discounted books include:  The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg  From the publisher: Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once shes bonded to paper, that will be her only magicforever. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imaginedanimating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic. An Excisionera practitioner of dark, flesh magicinvades the cottage and rips Thanes heart from his chest. To save her teachers life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thanes still-beating heartand reveal the very soul of the man.  Advertisement  The other books in the Paper Magician series are also on sale, including The Plastic Magician. Check the price on Amazon! Life by Lu Yao (translated by Chloe Estep)  From the publisher: In this first-ever translation of Lu Yaos Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialins difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillmentor at least hard-won acceptance. With the emotional acuity and narrative mastery that secured his reputation as one of Chinas great novelists, Lu Yao paints a vivid, emotional, and unsparing portrait of contemporary Chinese life, seen through the eyes of a working-class man who refuses to be broken.  Check the price on Amazon! Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad  From the publisher: One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Ka mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Advertisement  Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyads vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.  Check the price on Amazon! Girl Gone Mad by Avery Bishop  From the publisher: Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pastseven as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a middle school clique called the Harpiessix popular girls who bullied the new girl to her breaking point. The Harpies took a blood oath: never tell a soul what they did to Grace Farmer. Now, fourteen years later, it seems karma has caught up to them when one member of that vicious circle commits suicide. But when a second Harpy is discovered dead shortly after, also from apparent suicide, the deaths start to look suspicious. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the Harpies are about to find out just how much words can hurt you.  Check the price on Amazon! The Wedding Game by Meghan Quinn  From the publisher:Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting geniusshe can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. So its only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a do-it-yourself TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert. As a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding. Both fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along  Check the price on Amazon! Storm Glass by Jeff Wheeler (Harbinger Series 1)  From the publisher: Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries, and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society. Cettie Pratt is a waif doomed to the world below, until an admiral attempts to adopt her. But in her new home in the clouds, not everyone treats her as one of the family. Sera Fitzempress is a princess born into power. She yearns to meet the orphan girl she has heard so much about, but her father deems the girl unworthy of his daughters curiosity. Neither girl feels that she belongs. Each seeks to break free of imposed rules. Now, as Cettie dreams of living above and as Sera is drawn to the world below, they will follow the paths of their own choosing. But both girls will be needed for the coming storm that threatens to overturn both their worlds.  Check the price on Amazon! I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad  From the publisher: Bangladesh, 1971: the war of independence from Pakistan has torn through peaceful villages and turned life upside down. In the midst of war, one young girl holds on as she discovers the worlds unpredictability. During her fathers prolonged absence, she reminisces about the essence of her abbu, an esteemed professor, loving community leader, and now unexpected warrior. She is moved by his quiet determination to preserve Bengali language and culture in a struggle for autonomy. In his diaries, her abbu describes the painful decisions he must make because of the threat of war, from embracing the brutality of taking up arms to the struggle of moving his family from the embattled city of Dhaka. Amid the tragedy is the unbroken bond between a father and daughter, which makes this powerful and historically faithful portrait of a family surviving the worst in the fight for independence all the more stirring.  Check the price on Amazon! The Bette Davis Club by Jane Lotter  From the publisher: The morning of her nieces wedding, Margo Just drinks a double martini and contemplates the many mistakes shes made in her fifty-odd years of life. Spending three decades in love with a wonderful but unattainable man is pretty high up on her list of missteps, as is a long line of unsuccessful love affairs accompanied by a seemingly endless supply of delicious cocktails. When the young bride fleestaking with her a family heirloom and leaving behind six hundred bewildered guestsher mother offers Margo fifty grand to retrieve her spoiled brat of a daughter and the invaluable property she stole. So, together with the brides jilted and justifiably crabby fianc, Margo sets out in a borrowed 1955 red MG on a cross-country chase. Along the way, none of what she discovers will be quite what she expected. But it might be exactly what shes been seeking all along.  Check the price on Amazon! The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen  From the publisher: Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisperVenice. Carolines quest: to scatter Juliet Lettie Brownings ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. Its 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, its a wealth of history, art, and beauty. For Juliet, its poignant memories and a chance to reconnect with Leonardo Da Rossi, the man she loves whose future is already determined by his noble family. However star-crossed, nothing can come between them. Until the threat of war closes in on Venice and theyre forced to fight, survive, and protect a secret that will bind them forever. Key by key, Letties life of impossible love, loss, and courage unfolds. Its one that Caroline can now make right again as her own journey of self-discovery begins.  Check the price on Amazon! The Devil Wears Black by L.J. Shen  From the publisher: Maddie Goldbloom stitched up a plan to ensure everything in her life was perfectfrom a career in fashion to a chic NYC apartment to a pediatrician boyfriend. When her ex, Chase Black, storms back into her life with an outrageous request, her immediate reaction is to refuse him. But he only wants to fulfill his fathers last wish. So even though hes the man who broke her heart, playing his fiance shouldnt be hard, especially if it means she gets to watch the arrogant devil squirm a bit. What ensues is a chain of events that detonates Maddies lifeand when Chases walls come down, they both are forced to face reality. They say keep your enemies close. But what if your enemy is also the man you love?  Check the price on Amazon!