Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- January 2012

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The Secret River by Kate Grenville from Canongate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a death sentence. But amongst the convicts there is a whisper that freedom can be bought, an opportunity to start afresh.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

The Secret River by Kate Grenville from Canongate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

I've read this one, it was short-listed for the Booker prize. A glimpse into the lives of early settlers of Australia and the inevitable conflicts with those who were already there.

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Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition by John Howard Griffin from Wings Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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John Howard Griffin's great humanitarian document is the story of a man who opened his eyes to social injustices and helped an entire nation to do likewise.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale from Walker Books ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Jan 29)

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A horriffic crime. A determined investigator. A nation obsessed with detection and investigation. This is not the stuff of today's ripped-from-the-headlines TV dramas, but of a shocking murder of a three-year-old boy in 1860 England, revealed in a brilliant, provocative narrative that you simply can't put down.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale also $2.99

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Last Train from Liguria by Christine Dwyer Hickey from Atlantic Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 30) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. But as fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that young Alec is Jewish places his life in danger. To rescue him, she and Alec's enigmatic music teacher board a terrifying train journey out of Italy.

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The Land of Later On by Anthony Weller from AmazonEncore ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 30) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Anthony Weller's vivid novel, a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological disease returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife.

And FYI, Amazon has price matched the Nook deal too. How to Back Up a Trailer...and 101 Other Things Every Real Guy Should Know by Kurt Anderson also $3.99

How to Back Up a Trailer...and 101 Other Things Every Real Guy Should Know by Kurt Anderson from F+W Media ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Jan 30)

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A real man need certain skills. Rotate tires. Tap a beer keg. Swing for the fences. Light a fire. These and dozens more are lessons in How to Back Up a Trailer, an indispensible guide to the skills (perhaps) lost to the modern man.

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Asylum Harbor by Traci Hohenstein from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 31) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Teenager Amber Knowles has everything going for her until she vanishes without a trace during a cruise to the Bahamas. Rachel, founder of Florida Omni Search, knows only too well what losing a daughter feels like. With the help of FBI special agent Drake Reynolds, she investigates Amber's disappearance and finds a crime ring at the centre of it all.

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Tales of the City (P.S.) by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins) is $0.99 for US Kindle ($9.99 at B&N)

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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey (HarperTeen) is $1.99 for US Kindle ($9.99 at B&N)

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It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died.

Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret power, Wren decides that what she wants—what she must do—is to bring Danny back.

But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy Wren fell in love with. His touch is icy; his skin, smooth and stiff as marble; his chest, cruelly silent when Wren rests her head against it.

Wren must keep Danny a secret, hiding him away, visiting him at night, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school, and Wren realizes that somehow, inexplicably, he can sense the powers that lie within her—and that he knows what she has done. And now Gabriel wants to help make things right.

But Wren alone has to undo what she has wrought—even if it means breaking her heart all over again.

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More HarperCollins bargains:

($2.99)

The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever by Frank Gifford (US Kindle, B&N)
Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion by Michael Holley (US Kindle, B&N)

Hachette bargains:

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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard (US Kindle)
Jane by April Lindner (US Kindle)
Knit Together: Discover God's Pattern for Your Life by Debbie Macomber (US Kindle)
This Is Not a Game: A Novel by Walter Jon Williams (US Kindle)

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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln is $1.99 for US Kindle ($9.99 at B&N)

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Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal liberty. As Douglass and Lincoln reinvented themselves and ultimately became friends, they transformed America.

Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling, and became the nation's greatest president. Douglass spent the first twenty years of his life as a slave, had no formal schooling-in fact, his masters forbade him to read or write-and became one of the nation's greatest writers and activists, as well as a spellbinding orator and messenger of audacious hope, the pioneer who blazed the path traveled by future African-American leaders.

At a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, Lincoln invited Douglass into the White House. Lincoln recognized that he needed Douglass to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union; Douglass realized that Lincoln's shrewd sense of public opinion would serve his own goal of freeing the nation's blacks. Their relationship shifted in response to the country's debate over slavery, abolition, and emancipation.

Both were ambitious men. They had great faith in the moral and technological progress of their nation. And they were not always consistent in their views. John Stauffer describes their personal and political struggles with a keen understanding of the dilemmas Douglass and Lincoln confronted and the social context in which they occurred. What emerges is a brilliant portrait of how two of America's greatest leaders lived.

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The Best American Noir of the Century by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 31) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler from the past century's treasure trove of great noir fiction, these thirty-nine stories include memorable works by Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, William Gay, and many more.

County Line by Bill Cameron from F+W Media ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Jan 31)

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In this Bill Cameron thriller, retired cop Skin Kadash discovers a corpse in his friend Ruby Jane's apartment and Ruby Jane nowhere to be found. Now he's determined to find out what drove the woman to so suddenly vanish.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

County Line by Bill Cameron also $3.99

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Oooh @ the Douglas/Lincoln book!

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The February thread is now up!