Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- June 2012

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Here's the new thread for June (*here's a link to my May thread to check out the last bargains I posted there)

Okay, so you may know me since I posted a lot of free and bargain books in this forum. I did add affiliate links to my posts before (the links look like this-> http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Woman-Wa...ag=arcadata-20), but I've been told that isn't allowed anymore in the main forum. I'll be allowed to continue to post my affiliate links in this personal thread though.

Basically, what happens is that I earn referral fees (starts at 4%) whenever a visitor follows my link to Amazon.com (for example) and then makes a qualifying purchase. It was a pretty good incentive for me to spend time here sharing any freebies and bargains I found since I would get extra money per month to spend on books & apps!

So, hopefully, if you don't mind me getting a commission, you'll come visit this thread and click on my links when you're planning to buy something!

And here's the first deal(s) for June 1!

Granta 119: Britain (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing) by John Freeman from Granta Magazine (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Granta's Britain explores landscapes, identities and stories of the British Isles. The issue includes original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James and Jon McGregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie McKendrick, Don Paterson and Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice, Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel.

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Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin from St. Martin's Press ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 1)

*FYI, Amazon has matched Nook deal: Heart of the Matter also at $2.99 for US Kindle

Product Description

Emily Giffin is one of our favorite novelists, delivering unforgettable stories of the struggles and successes of modern women. While you await her new book Where We Belong, treat yourself today to Heart of the Matter, her enthralling character study of two women, both good people, whose lives converge in unimaginable circumstance.

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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly and Richard Rhodes from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The race to develop the world's first nuclear weapon began in 1939. This groundbreaking collection of documents, essays, and articles from, and about, the original creators of the atomic bomb is the first of its kind. Included are accounts by Einstein, Oppenheimer, and many others, along with dozens of photos.

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The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less has updated for June! Check out the new batch of discounts.

Looking for great books at a low price? Browse the newest section of our store--100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less--a diverse selection of deals hand-selected by our editors each month.

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The Amazon Weekly Deal Vote winner:

Legacy of the Dragon (A Paul Chang Mystery) by J. Gregory Smith from Thomas & Mercer is $1.99

Product Description
For former NYPD and Delaware State Police detective Paul Chang, retiring to open his own agency with former partner Nelson Rogers should mean leaving behind politics and scapegoating. Instead, corrupt Colonel Byrd of the state police and his lackey Clyde Foley harass Chang at every turn, and their unwanted attention puts his fledgling business on the brink of bankruptcy.

With the police on his back and the agency taking sleazy cases he never thought he’d have to, Chang erupts under the job’s pressures and sees his personal demon, an alter ego he calls the dragon, emerge. Only the training from his martial arts teacher and old friend Shu can keep Chang sane. But when someone tries to frame him for the stalking of his ex-wife and a journalist, the harassment turns deadly and the lives of everyone close to him are in danger. Unable to wait for events to take their course, Chang must unleash the dragon.

The second installment of J. Gregory Smith's Paul Chang mystery series, Legacy of the Dragon is a riveting exploration of the profound impact the sins of the past have on our present.

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And the Kindle app weekly deal:

Bookworm (Sale! - Feed your appetite for words) by Electronic Arts Inc. ($1.99)

Product Description
Only $1.99 through 6/7/12 (60% off)!

Feed your appetite for words with Bookworm ? designed for Kindle.

This popular word-puzzle game is easy to play but challenging to master. Form words by linking letters up, down and all around to level up, earn points and unlock hidden challenges. Bonus tiles heighten your score, but beware the burning letters ? they could spell disaster!

Take your time to find the best word in Classic Mode or speed up your game with the fast-paced play of Action Mode. Unlock and complete themed Bonus Books when you spell certain words. Keep track of your top scores and your best and longest words in the Hall of Fame.

Play single-handedly with intuitive controls designed for Kindle.

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Reminder for UK Kindlers, this sale is only until June 7

Kindle Jubilee Sale

Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a selection of Kindle books on sale from £0.99.

Relive history with biographies of the Queen and telling accounts of times gone by, or immerse yourself in the world of fiction with pulse-pounding thrillers, bestsellers and more.

The Kindle Jubilee Sale ends 11:59 pm on June 7, 2012.

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Thanks for posting these every month! When I go to the Amazon 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less link, First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones is on the list but priced at $7.99, even when I change my store to US. Do you see a lower price?

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Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles Series #1) by Suzanne Collins from Scholastic, ($1.00) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 1)

Product Description

From Suzanne Collins, author of the international phenomena The Hunger Games comes the first installment of the Underland Chronicles. When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world beneath New York City, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

@treadlightly, yeah I see it at the higher price too, sometimes it takes some time for the books to go down to the discounted price. Better check back in a day or two (the sale is a month anyway)

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@treadlightly,

First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones finally shows $2.99

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To Romania With Love by Tessa Dunlop from Quartet Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Aged eighteen, Tessa Dunlop went to post-Revolutionary Romania to work in an orphanage and she befriended a student and his family. They lost touch, but the pull of Romania eventually proved too much and, five years on, Tessa returned. To Romania With Love is the moving story of a country in turmoil, and of finding love in the most unexpected places.

Cupcakes! by Elinor Klivans from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 2)

Product Description

Join the cupcake craze with these scrumptious ways to upgrade your next picnic or potluck. With tips and techniques for perfect cupcake-making as well as basic "head-start" recipes and step-by-step instruction, this book is the perfect reason for you to get out your mixing bowl and start baking.

So You Want to Be a Wizard (digest): Young Wizards, Book One: 1 by Diane Duane from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 2)

Product Description

Tormented by bullies, thirteen year old Nita finds solace in the library, and there discovers a peculiar book, a how to guide on how to become a wizard. What she didn't count on was being transported to a different dimension, where she will be called upon to undertake a mission to save the universe.

Postcards From Nam by Uyen Nicole Duong from AmazonEncore ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

This 2012 International Book Awards finalist follows Mimi, a young Vietnamese immigrant practicing law in Washington, D.C., as she searches for Nam, the unknown sender of beautiful, hand-drawn postcards from Thailand. Mimi's long quest awakens memories of growing up in war-torn Saigon with her best friend: could this be Nam?

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Cupcakes! by Elinor Klivans also $1.99

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Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 by Winston Graham from Sourcebooks Landmark is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

A gorgeous new release of the heartwarming and hilarious first novel in the Poldark series, the subject of the landmark BBC series

Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters and one of the greatest love stories of our age.

Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family and his beloved Elizabeth. But instead he discovers that his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and Elizabeth, having believed Ross dead, is now engaged to his cousin. Ross must start over, building a completely new path for his life, one that takes him in exciting and unexpected directions?

Thus begins an intricately plotted story spanning loves, lives, and generations. The Poldark series is the masterwork of Winston Graham, who evoked the period and people like only he could, and created a world of rich and poor, loss and love, that readers will not soon forget.

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Sex and Sunsets: A Novel by Tim Sandlin from Sourcebooks Landmark is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

"Kelly Palamino's engagingly idiosyncratic voice falls somewhere between On the Road and Bright Lights, Big City. He's the Lone Ranger in love, riding out the rough patches on a Thorazine habit." -People

At twenty-nine, Kelly Palamino's a little off-kilter but settled into his career of professional dishwasher. His big, blond, ex-hippie wife has left him for good.

So it's with no particular purpose that Kelly positions himself on his porch across the street from an Episcopal church in Jackson, Wyoming, to witness a singular sight: a dark-haired bride in full regalia punting a football over the rectory before turning resolutely to walk down the aisle.

It's love at first sight for Kelly, and he'll do absolutely anything and everything to get his girl...

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Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk by Angie Sage from Katherine Tegen Books is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

The Magyk Begins Here

Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow -- a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take her into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus?

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Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber from Katherine Tegen Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

In her small town, dubbed "Dullsville," sixteen-year-old Raven -- a vampire-crazed goth-girl -- is an outcast. But not for long...

The intriguing and rumored-to-be haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood vacant and boarded-up for years. That is, until its mysteriously strange new occupants move in. Who are these creepy people -- especially the handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are they? Could the town prattle actually ring true? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.

Ellen Schreiber's spooky and stirring romance tells the story of two outsiders who fall in love in a town where conformity reigns, and ends with a shocking surprise.

[treadlightly]

Originally Posted by arcadata

@treadlightly,

First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones finally shows $2.99

Thanks! Picked it up via your link!

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The Assassin Trilogy: The Silver Bear, Columbus, Dark Men by Derek Haas from the Mulholland Books is $2.99 (US Kindle, Pre-order)

Product Description
An e-original omnibus of three suspense novels by the Barry Award-nominated novelist and co-screenwriter of Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and The Double.

He calls himself Columbus. His real name never meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father, an earnest young congressman and rising star in the Democratic Party named Abe Mann, or his mother, a prostitute whose involvement with Mann would prove dangerous.

All Columbus cares about is his next target. And considering that Columbus is a hit man who quickly made a name for himself as one of the best despite his years, you can be sure he'll fulfill whatever contract's been given him. Even if those who put out the hit have other plans in mind.

In THE COLUMBUS TRILOGY, the first three novels by Barry Award-nominated author Derek Haas, Columbus squares off against the shadow of his father, Czech crime lords, drug dealers, a prostitution ring, and more, in three acclaimed suspense novels by rising master of the genre.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith from Quirk Books is $3.99 (US Kindle, price match to Google Play's "Deal of the Week")

Product Description
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.

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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for £2.99 or Less is a new promo for Amazon UK.

We've pulled together a selection of 100 Kindle books, each for £2.99 or less, to make it easier for you to discover and try a new book or author. We'll be adding new books from time to time and titles may vary, so make sure to check back often. There's also the Kindle Daily Deal, which features a new Kindle book deal every day.

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When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant from Granta Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, When I Lived in Modern Times follows 20-year-old Evelyn Sert as she boards a ship to Palestine in search of adventure and change. Swept up in the spirited and chaotic churning of her new, strange country, she falls in love with a man who is not what he seems and finds herself an unwitting spy for a nation fighting to be born.

He Died with His Eyes Open (Factory Series #1) by Derek Raymond from Melville House Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 3)

* FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal, He Died with His Eyes Open also $2.99!

Product Description

The Detective Sergeant who heads London's Department of Unexplained Deaths may be the only one who cares about the derelict corpse and the box of cassette tape diaries he left behind. Listening to the dead man's final, tortured thoughts resonates with the investigator -- and with the reader -- in this ground-breaking, heart-breaking mystery.

Feed by M. T. Anderson from Candlewick ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 3)

Product Description

In a dystopian future television, internet, and free will have been replaced by a feed, a chip implanted directly into the brain. Titus, like most of his peers, doesn't seem to question his feed, it tells him where to party, what to buy, and keeps him entertained, but when Titus meets Violet, a rebellious girl who questions what is happening to her world everything changes. Together they decide they must fight the feed.

Cypress Grove (Turner) by James Sallis from Walker Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The first book of the masterfully-written John Turner trilogy follows a former big-city cop, psychotherapist, and ex-con as he tries to forget his past in a small town outside Memphis. His plan unravels when Sheriff Lonnie Bates asks Turner for help solving the ritualistic murder of a homeless man.