Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- February 2013

[arcadata]

The Bubble Gum Thief (Dagny Gray) by Jeff Miller from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

It started with the theft of a pack of gum, and the ominous note left behind: "This is my first crime. My next will be bigger." When petty theft gives way to bloody murder, what began as the smallest crime possible builds towards the biggest crime imaginable.

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Tears of the Jaguar by A.J. Hartley from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Curator Deborah Miller unearths a Mayan treasure, but now archaeologists, occultists, and a very determined arms dealer will stop at nothing to claim the prize for themselves.

The Scandalous Lady Wright (Royal Series) by Marion Chesney (a.k.a. M.C. Beaton) from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Lady Emma knew her husband was a jealous brute who delighted in humiliating her. Now that he's gone, she begins to discover that he had long hid secrets... and enemies.

* FYI, there are actually a total of 35 of the regency england mysteries by Marion Chesney (a.k.a. M.C. Beaton) currently discounted to $1.99 (US Kindle search link)

Ragnarok: A Jack Sigler Thriller by Jeremy Robinson with Kane Gilmour from Breakneck Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

It starts with a thunderous crack and a flash. Then the hunters come. The light disappears, and a massive crater remains where a chunk of the world is simply gone.

Cow Can't Sleep by Ken Baker from Amazon Children's Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Vivid, hilarious, full-color digital artwork gives just the right touch to this wonderfully silly bedtime story.

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Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan from Kensington ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 22)

Product Description

It's a keep-you-guessing cozy mystery from Mollie Cox Bryan when the ladies of Cumberland Creek realize that their friend's suicide was actually murder. Whodunnit?

FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

Scrapbook of Secrets (A Cumberland Creek Mystery) by Mollie Cox Bryan also $1.99

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Puss in Boots (Matthew Hope Mystery) by Ed McBain (Thomas & Mercer) is $2.00

Book Description

A long shadow looms above her. Then a hand clamps over her mouth and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short.

Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Carlton Markham, who’s been arrested for his filmmaker wife’s murder but says he didn’t do it. Witnesses fly forward to proclaim his guilt, but Markham’s not giving up that easily on his innocence. And when Matthew digs deeper into the victim’s business—from heavy financial backers to sleazy egomaniacs—he finds she may not have been the perfect lady she had seemed. The one piece of evidence that could set Markham free and finger the real killer is the victim’s film reel. Only it’s gone, along with the film’s sexy star. Now Matthew needs to infiltrate the seedy side of the film industry in order to find the missing reel and solve the murder.

From master storyteller Ed McBain, Puss in Boots is another Matthew Hope Mystery classic, the tale of a woman who aimed too high and the many men who fell for it all.

Bonnie (Eve Duncan Series) by Iris Johansen (St. Martin’s Press) is $3.99

Book Description

The truth has eluded her for years… Now, is she ready to face it?

When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life — until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape.

But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic sculptor to help others find closure in the face of tragedy. Now, with the help of her beloved Joe Quinn and CIA Agent Catherine Ling, Eve has come closer than ever to the truth. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie’s father is a key player in solving this monstrous puzzle. And that Bonnie’s disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed…

Don’t miss the other novels in THIS SERIES: Eve, Quinn, and Chasing the Night

From Julia Alvarez (Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist) - all $1.99

In the Time of the Butterflies

Book Description

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—“The Butterflies.”

In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Book Description

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the palacio of the dictator’s daughter. So when Dr. García’s part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee.

They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to lose themselves—by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new, trying to live up to their father’s version of honor while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends. Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s brilliant and buoyant first novel sets the García girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America.

In the Name of Salome

Book Description

In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another.

Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salome Urena, who died when Camila was three.

In stark contrast to Salome, who became the Dominican Republic's national poet at the age of seventeen, Camila has spent most of her life trying not to offend anybody. Her mother dedicated her life to educating young women to give them voice in their turbulent new nation; Camila has spent her life quietly and anonymously teaching the Spanish pluperfect to upper-class American girls with no notion of revolution, no knowledge of Salome Urena.

Now, in 1960, Camila must choose a final destination for herself. Where will she spend the rest of her days? News of the revolution in Cuba mirrors her own internal upheaval. In the process of deciding her future, Camila uncovers the truth of her mother's tragic personal life and, finally, finds a place for her own passion and commitment.

Yo!: A Novel

Book Description

ALA Notable Book.

Yolanda Garcia has managed to put herself at the center of many lives. Each part of this novel is told from the viewpoint of one of those first tangled in her web and now frozen in the spotlight her literary fame has generated. While everybody from her three sisters to her third husband attempts to sort out Yo's character, motivations, and behavior, Yo herself never speaks on her own behalf, even though, in her native Spanish, her nickname means "I."

Saving the World

Book Description

Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later.

The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked by a story she has stumbled across. It's the story of a much earlier medical do-gooder, Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook to vaccinate the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox. To do this, he required live "carriers" of the vaccine.

Of greater interest to Alma is Isabel Sendales y Gómez, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who was asked to select twenty-two orphan boys to be the vaccine carriers. She agreed— with the stipulation that she would accompany the boys on the proposed two-year voyage. Her strength and courage inspire Alma, who finds herself becoming obsessed with the details of Isabel's adventures.

This resplendent novel-within-a-novel spins the disparate tales of two remarkable women, both of whom are swept along by machismo. In depicting their confrontation of the great scourges of their respective eras, Alvarez exposes the conflict between altruism and ambition.

Something to Declare: Essays

Book Description

In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist.

In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her father participated in a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and exile to the United States was the only way to save his life. The family settled in New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the business of assimilation--a lifelong struggle.

Loss of her native land, language, culture, and extended family formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's three best-selling novels--HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS and its sequel, YO! Her father's revolutionary ties inspired IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES, her historical novel about one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities.

SOMETHING TO DECLARE offers an extraordinary collection of essays that deal with the two big issues of Alvarez's life--growing up with one foot in each culture and writing. The twelve essays that make up "Customs," the first of two parts, examine the specific effects of exile on this writer. The essays are personal--how her maternal grandfather passed along his love of the arts, how the nuclear family-in-exile snuggled down every year to watch the Miss America contest from the parental bed, how Julia feared her family might disown her upon publication of her first novel. In the second half, "Declarations," are twelve essays about writing that range from confession of Alvarez's means of supporting her writing habit to the gritty details of her actual process. Every one of these essays is warm, open, honest, and generous.

SOMETHING TO DECLARE will appeal not only to her many fans, but to students of writing at all levels.

The Woman I Kept to Myself

Book Description

The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life.

In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez’s clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the woman she has become.

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FYI, Amazon's The Big Deal: Kindle Books Up to 88% Off sale is back

Now through March 10, save up to 88% on more than 500 Kindle books.

[jalandar]

Amazon's new affiliate program policy changes are probably going to affect you.

If you have more than 20k free kindle ebooks purchased (directly or indirectly) from your links, and if free ebooks are more than 80% of the total kindle ebooks sold through your links, you lose ALL your affiliate program income, even non-kindle related.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.... Policy goes into effect starting with March.

[KentE]

Originally Posted by jalandar

Amazon's new affiliate program policy changes are probably going to affect you.

Well, this would really stink! I really appreciate the work Arcadata goes to to let us (and others) know about both free and reduced price books. Punishing Arcadata for helping their marketing department seems really short-sighted!
IF it's likely to affect you, Arcadata, I'd appreciate your thoughts about how we might let Amazon know we don't like it. (Possibly a post on your blog?)
KentE

[jalandar]

Originally Posted by KentE

Well, this would really stink! I really appreciate the work Arcadata goes to to let us (and others) know about both free and reduced price books. Punishing Arcadata for helping their marketing department seems really short-sighted!
IF it's likely to affect you, Arcadata, I'd appreciate your thoughts about how we might let Amazon know we don't like it. (Possibly a post on your blog?)
KentE

Sadly the tools on the amazon affiliate program to track free kindle book transactions wont be up until march 1, so we can't even really know for sure if we're effected or not because right now they dont track them at all.

[KentE]

Originally Posted by jalandar

Sadly the tools on the amazon affiliate program to track free kindle book transactions wont be up until march 1, so we can't even really know for sure if we're effected or not because right now they dont track them at all.

Well, that double-stinks! It sounds like there's not even any method for such sites to plan an alternative strategy.
I'd certainly hate to lose information from Aradata, blogs I frequent, EreaderIQ, etc. I can certainly understand that there are some sites that do nothing but list free books with no discrimination, and why those don't benefit Amazon (Other than, of course, by helping Amazon accomplish exactly what they give away free ebooks for in the first place.....). But those who provide an educated "sifting" of freebies, and also do a wonderful job of providing info on reduced-price ebooks, shouldn't be punished in the process.
Perhaps we should start a thread in the "Discussion" forum, so we don't monopolize Arcadata's thread.
Link to Discussion forum thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=206515
KentE

[arcadata]

Originally Posted by jalandar

Amazon's new affiliate program policy changes are probably going to affect you.

If you have more than 20k free kindle ebooks purchased (directly or indirectly) from your links, and if free ebooks are more than 80% of the total kindle ebooks sold through your links, you lose ALL your affiliate program income, even non-kindle related.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.... Policy goes into effect starting with March.

@KentE and @jalandar

Thanks, I hadn't checked my email and didn't know about the change. I guess I'll have to wait till March to find out how much this will affect me.

Although I consider myself small fry, and would be surprised if I met the criteria of 20K free books, I really have no idea how many free books are actually downloaded via my links. Thanks for letting me know.

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Measuring the World: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann from Quercus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

"Measuring the World" recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment--the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. It is a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterization.

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Save on 30 top-rated Kindle novels ($1.99 or less for each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, save on 30 top-rated Kindle novels, including books by Helen Bryan, Karen McQuestion, Elisa Lorello, and more.

Borrowed Time by CJ Lyons from Legacy Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

CJ Lyons's romantic thriller stars police officer Kate O'Hern, trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner, and a killer who targets them both.

The first five books in the Area 51 series by Bob Mayer from 47North ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, save on the first five books in New York Times best-selling author, West Point graduate, and former Green Beret Bob Mayer's "Area 51" series.

Unlocking the Spell: A Tale of the Wide-Awake Princess by E. D. Baker from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

E. D. Baker's Unlocking the Spell: A Tale of the Wide-Awake Princess brings to life a magical land of bears, princes, witches, dwarves, and more fanciful fairy-tale creatures.

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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya from Grand Central Publishing ($0.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 23)

Product Description

If you haven't read Rudolpho Anaya, you have deprived yourself of one of the modern age's most important voices. Be swept away in the sublime richness of his exquisite storytelling that defines the very best of Chicano literature.

FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya also $0.99

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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld from Simon & Schuster UK (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Two opposing forces, the Clankers and the Darwinists, are on the brink of war. Prince Aleksandar, the would-be heir to the throne, is fleeing for his life, while Deryn Sharp masquerades as a boy to join the British Air Service. When the two meet, they soon discover that their friendship will dramatically change the course of the Great World War.

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The Painted Girls: A Novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan from Penguin Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls is a gripping, heartrending novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris.

When We Collide by A.L. Jackson from Sapphire Star Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A.L. Jackson's When We Collide offers an intimate look into the lives of a family bound by an unseen connection.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The entire population has been obliterated by a vampire virus. Somehow Robert Neville survived, but there may be nothing else human left.

The Name of the Star (The Shades of London) by Maureen Johnson from Penguin Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this humorous, romantic, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Rory learns the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discovers her own shocking abilities.QUOTE]

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The Lightkeeper's Ball (Mercy Falls Series #3) by Colleen Coble from Thomas Nelson ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 24)

Product Description

It's a frothy tale of love, weath, marriage, and masquerades in turn-of-the-century New York from fan-favorite author Colleen Coble (Tidewater Inn.)

FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

The Lightkeeper's Ball (Mercy Falls Series #3) by Colleen Coble also $2.99

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The Virgin Suicides: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides from Bloomsbury Paperbacks UK (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this modern classic, Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour, and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Five sisters commit suicide in the same year and, 20 years on, one of the boys who worshipped them recreates the fateful year--from the youngest' s first plunge into her own bloodbath to the final field day of the national press.

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The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen fromOceanview Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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With the precision of a sharpshooter, Ward Larsen's The Perfect Assassin delivers an intricate tale of espionage and intrigue.

Samantha by Andrea Kane from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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One woman embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when she meets a man with irrepressible passion and a penchant for peril.

Spellsinger: A Spellsinger Adventure, Book One by Alan Dean Foster from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Snatched through an interdimensional portal into a land of magic, a young musician must rescue this new world before he can return to his own.

Mackenzie Blue by Tina Wells from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Young readers will find inspiration in Tina Wells's inspiring, open–hearted everygirl heroine and her love of words, art, and music. (Grades 4-7).

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Indiscretion: A Novel by Charles Dubow from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 25)

Product Description

Debut novelist Charles Dubow's Indiscretion sparkles with skillful wit and glamorous characterization that has book lovers everywhere talking. Read this epic story of friendship, betrayal, love, and loyalty today and cherish it forever.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Indiscretion: A Novel by Charles Dubow also $1.99

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Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes that Stick by Jeremy Dean from Oneworld Publications (£1.19) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Most of us would love to adopt a new positive habit, but can't quite muster the self-control to make our resolutions stick. If your New Year's Resolutions have stalled, today's deal may help you get back on track. Drawing on hundreds of studies, psychologist Jeremy Dean reveals how to take control of your brain's "auto-pilot" and transform willpower into reality.

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The Quilter's Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini from Simon & Schuster ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This top-rated installment of Jennifer Chiaverini's best-selling "Elm Creek Quilts" series weaves a pleasant historical adventure.

Mistress of My Fate (The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot) by Hallie Rubenhold from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman fending for herself in 18th-century London.

The Ladies of Mandrigyn (The Sun Wolf and Starhawk) by Barbara Hambly from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A brilliant mercenary must lead his army against the forces of the most powerful wizard alive.

Guinness World Records 2013: Full Color eBook by Guinness World Records ($2.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Guinness World Records 2013 presents the exciting world of recent record-breaking in full color.

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Otherkin by Nina Berry from Kensington ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 25)

Product Description

Nina Berry's shape-shifter Desdemona Grey is paranormal fantasy's next great action heroine. Don't miss this chance to start her Otherkin adventures today.

[arcadata]

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Otherkin by Nina Berry also $1.99

[BexBits]

Originally Posted by arcadata

The Ladies of Mandrigyn (The Sun Wolf and Starhawk) by Barbara Hambly from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 25) *

B&n also has this for $1.99