Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- April 2012

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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison from Globe Pequot Press ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 19)

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You might think that a safari guide's life is nothing but adventure--and you'd be right! Face down charging lions, drive through a lagoon full of hippos, and marvel at the beauty of Botswana wildlife--all from the comfort of your NOOK.

Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 19)

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Grace loves cats. She also loves taking pictures of cats and drawing Not So Super comics. When the neighbor's cat goes missing Grace's well-intentioned plan to find it goes awry and she will find help in unexpected places.

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Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, Book 1) by Lois McMaster Bujold (HarperCollins) is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family’s farm. But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier–sorcerers from the northern woodlands. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike.

It is Dag—a Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilities—who must come to Fawn’s aid when she is taken captive by a malice. They prevail at a devastating cost—unexpectedly binding their fates as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership . . . and perhaps even love.

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More discounted books from HarperCollins:

$1.99

The Wrong Hostage (St. Kilda) by Elizabeth Lowel (US Kindle, iTunes)

$2.99

Semper Mars (Heritage Trilogy) by Ian Douglas (US Kindle, iTunes)

Fortress in the Eye of Time (Tristan) by C. J. Cherryh (US Kindle, iTunes)

The Praxis (Dread Empire’s Fall) by Walter J. Williams (US Kindle, iTunes)

Emissaries from the Dead (Andrea Cort) by Adam-Troy Castro (US Kindle, iTunes)

Shadows on a Sword: The Second Book of The Crusades by Karleen Bradford (US Kindle, iTunes)

From Christie Ridgway (US Kindle):

The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men
Wish You Were Here
The Thrill of it All
Do Not Disturb
This Perfect Kiss
An Offer He Can’t Refuse

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison also $2.99

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Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt and Co.) is $4.99 (from $9.99) US Kindle

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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam (Good Thief's Guides) by Chris Ewan (Minotaur Books) is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living, about an intrepid burglar named Faulks. To supplement his income---and to keep his hand in---Charlie also has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission.

When a mysterious American offers to pay Charlie 20,000 euros if he steals two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; he doesn’t know how the American found him, and the job seems too good to be true. And, of course, it is. Although the burglary goes off without a hitch, when he goes to deliver the monkeys he finds that the American has been beaten to near-death, and that the third figurine is missing.

Back in London, his long-suffering literary agent, Victoria (who is naive enough to believe he actually looks like his jacket photo), tries to talk him through the plot problems in both his latest manuscript and his real life---but Charlie soon finds himself caught up in a caper reminiscent of a Cary Grant movie, involving safe-deposit boxes, menacing characters, and, of course, a beautiful damsel in distress.

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Plan C: Just in Case by Lois Cahall (Bloomsbury Reader) is $1.99 (It won on the weekly Amazon vote for Weekend deals)

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A screwball comedy with a heart. Thelma & Louise go to Europe. A revenge on midlife crisis. Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white picket fence.

Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids, his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty nest. Empty soul.

Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who needs reality?

Until we realize reality can't be avoided. And truth is, we don't want to avoid it. We are a nation of underdogs - a society of hope. Plan C is accepting life as it comes, with no plan at all.

Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother named Libby Crockett, living and working her fingers to the bone on Cape Cod. Her Plan A had failed, and now she dreamed of a new life and a new love -- her Plan B. And Plan B worked! It brought her to glamorous New York to a new man, a new life...and his expensive ex, his out-of-control kids, and the biggest recession in 70 years. Was this really what Libby had been dreaming of? Maybe it was time for Plan C...

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The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The tragic passing of Lobbi's mother proves to be a profound catalyst, inspiring him to leave his studies and travel to a remote village monastery to restore its gardens. There he is surprised by a visit from former lover Anna and the daughter they conceived. In caring for both the garden and the little girl, Lobbi slowly begins to assume the varied and complex roles of a man.

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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Detailing Dr. Jane Goodall's decades of pioneering work with wild chimpanzees in Africa, Through a Window reads like a novel. Her research paints a vivid portrait of our closest relatives and reveals the essence of human emotions. Goodall holds up the mirror of chimpanzee life, and we see ourselves reflected.

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The Dog That Talked to God by J P Kraus from Abingdon Press ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 20)

* This was just free recently!

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Widow Mary Fassler's dog Rufus doesn't just talk to her. He also taks to God. A canine with a connection to the Divine, Rufus gives Mary exceptionally good advice, even if perhaps she doesn't realize it at first. A must-read for dog-lovers everywhere!

Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, and a Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans from Sterling Children's Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 20)

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Stuart Horten just moved to a new town full of secrets, a strange phone call in a broken phone booth pulls Stuart into the thick of a family mystery. It turns out Stuart's Great-Uncle Tony was an inventor and magician who one day inexplicably disappeared off the face of the earth, and now it is up to Stuart to find him, unfortunately he isn't the only one looking.

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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn (Tor Books) is $2.99 (US Kindle, Kobo)

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A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!

Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they’ll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

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This week's Kindle active content deal:

BATTLESHIP (Sale! The Original Naval Combat Game on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc. is $1.99 through Thursday, 4/26

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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It by Craig Taylor from Granta Books (£2.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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From the woman who is the voice of the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street, here are the voices of London as witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer, who spent five years exploring the city and listening to its residents. The result is a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of 21st century London.

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Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson from Bloomsbury ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Nearing ruin on her Central California farm, young widow Glory Solomon holds weddings in a chapel beneath her 200-year-old white oak tree to make ends meet. When her farm draws an abandoned teenage girl and the tree brings a broken-down ex-cop to her door, the three forge an unexpected bond.

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Tempted (Eternal Guardians Series #3) by Elisabeth Naughton from Sourcebooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 21)

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Elisabeth Naughton's Eternal Guardians series tells the stories of seven warrriors, descendend from the legendary Argonauts, who stand opposed to the forces of the Underworld. Here, read the story of Demetrius, the cruelest Argonaut of all and the one hiding a dark secret that just might be the key to the destruction of the world.

Inkspell (Inkheart Trilogy #2) by Cornelia Funke from Scholastic ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 21)

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From beloved author Cornelia Funke comes the second installment of the Inkheart Trilogy: Inkspell. Dustfinger's longing to return to his medieval world has untintended consequences, when his apprentice Farid goes in search of Meggie, they both get trapped in the story world, and the tale is evolving in new and dangerous way.