Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- February 2012

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Siren by Tricia Rayburn from Faber and Faber (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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For sisters Vanessa and Justine, holidaying in Winter Harbour is a tradition--and so is spending time with the Carmichael boys, Caleb and Simon. But this time something deadly waits beneath the waves. When Justine's body washes ashore and Caleb disappears, Vanessa and Simon are left to figure out what happened.

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Emma's Secret by Barbara Taylor Bradford (Macmillan) is $2.99 (US Kindle, iBooks) *$7.99 at B&N

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Barbara Taylor Bradford captivated millions of readers with her saga of the indomitable Emma Harte. Now her unforgettable story continues in this novel of the sacrifice and secrets that shadow her extraordinary heritage...

A Legacy For Three Women...
Paula O'Neil has inherited her grandmother Emma Harte's dream for success-a magnificent business empire in London shared by Paula's daughters, Linnet and Tessa. Yet their future is far less secure than any woman imagines. For beneath the dazzling surface, flares a rivalry and discontent that leave them vulnerable to the dreams of others.

A Mystery For One Stranger...
Into the fray arrives enigmatic American fashion designer Evan Hughes seeking employment. But her interest in the Harte dynasty is a personal one. Bearing a striking resemblance to the Harte lineage, Evan's arrival begins to unravel a mystery that hides in the family's shadows, and that waits to be revealed in Emma's long-lost diaries.

A Secret That Could Define Or Destroy Them All...
Now as the past unfolds, so emerges an extraordinary tale of money and power, passion and revenge, and survival and triumph at any price-one that will irrevocably change the lives and loves of four women and shake an empire to its very foundation.

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Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Ed Offley (Basic Books) is $2.62 for US Kindle ($18.84 for B&N)

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The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.

In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II.

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Resurrection by Arwen Elys Dayton from 47North ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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It’s 1,000 B.C., and a group of humanoid extraterrestrials, the Kinley, have joined Egyptian society. After a tsunami destroys their spaceship, the Kinley await rescue. However, their home planet lies in waste from war, and when the Kinley do return for their lost people and ship, their enemies follow.

7 Money Rules for Life: How to Take Control of Your Financial Future by Mary Hunt from Baker Publishing Group ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Feb 17)

* A bit cheaper at $3.59 for US Kindle

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Financial freedom is within your grasp! Learn how to spend less than you earn, save for the future, manage your credit, and borrow only what you can repay. With these no-nonsense tips from the founder of Debt-Proof Living, you'll soon be on the road from drowning in debt to achieving true financial empowerment.

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Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke from Corsair (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, "Dream of Ding Village" is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way.

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The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by John Thorndike is $2.79 for US Kindle ($9.95 at B&N)

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Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He was the founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines, the author of three books, and the editor of a dozen more. But at age 92, in the space of six months he stopped reading or writing or carrying on detailed conversations. could no longer tell time or make a phone call. was convinced that the governor of Massachusetts had come to visit and was in the refrigerator.

Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, and like many of them, Joe Thorndike’s one great desire was to remain in his own house. To honor this wish, his son John left his own home and moved into his father’s upstairs bedroom on Cape Cod. For a year, in a house filled with file cabinets, photos, and letters, John explored his father’s mind, his parents’ divorce, and his mother’s secrets. The Last of His Mind is the bittersweet account of a son’s final year with his father, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease.

It is the ordeal of Alzheimer’s that draws father and son close, closer than they have been since John was a boy. At the end, when Joe’s heart stops beating, John’s hand is on his chest, and a story of painful decline has become a portrait of deep family ties, caregiving, and love.

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The First Counsel by Brad Meltzer from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Feb 18)

* Also $2.99 for US Kindle

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Wunderkind lawyer Michael Garrick has it all: a great job in the White House Counsel's office and a new relationship with the president's vivacious daughter Nora. But when he sees something he shouldn't have seen, there's no one to trust as he's suddenly ensnared in someone's secret agenda in this gripping political thriller from bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer.

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Kind of Blue by Miles Corwin from Oceanview Publishing ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Murdered, a key witness, and the LAPD's top detective Ash Levine couldn't prevent it. The killing cost him his badge, but, a year later, Levine is back on the force wading through a cesspool of corruption to investigate an ex-cop's murder, and the case of the dead witness.

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Cham by Jonathan Trigell from Corsair (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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For the last few years Itchy tried to numb the pain of his past with alcohol and adrenaline. But now a serial rapist is stalking Chamonix Mont Blanc's tourist-thronged streets, haunting the same shadows as Itchy and triggering an obsession which will lead him far from Europe's peaks, to the depths of the valley and himself.

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Dear Money by Martha McPhee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $1.81 for US Kindle ($10.16 at B&N)

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In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything.The stranger is Win Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage-backed securities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitive nature and aware of her near-desperate financial situation Win poses a proposition: Give me eighteen months and I'll make you a world-class bond trader. Shedding her artist's life with surprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never once looking back...Or does she?

With a light-handed irony that is by turns as measured as Claire Messud's and as biting as Tom Wolfe's, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of people reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay for their transformation.

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Highlander's Heart by Amanda Forester (Sourcebooks Casablanca) is $1.99for US Kindle

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Fleeing into the wilderness to escape an abusive marriage, Lady Isabelle Tynsdale would sooner face down a wild boar than spend another night with her wretched husband. Battered by the elements, desperate to elude a band of attackers, and defending herself against, as fate would have it, a wild boar she is rescued by the handsome Laird David Campbell.

Campbell knows holding Isabelle captive for ransom is his best chance to temper the storm threatening to destroy his clan. The ransom of an English countess should be more than enough to pay off his debts to England and save him from an unwanted marriage. But Isabelle didn't escape her husband just to become another man's captive and Laird Campbell is seriously misguided if he thinks she's going to go quietly.

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I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze (Bk Business) by Deepak Malhotra from Berrett-Koehler Publishers ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhotra wants us to understand how we unknowingly hold ourselves back. In I Moved Your Cheese, he helps us get there with the invigorating story of Max, Zed, and Big. Malhotra's trio reveals that growth in business, and life, comes from following one's own rules.

Snitch by Booker T. Mattison from Curator ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Feb 19)

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An explosive story revolving around one man's choice, Snitch tells the story of Jersey City bus driver Andre Bolden and his decision whether or not to report the crime he witnessed. The code of the street would have him keep silent, but if he does, he might lose his job. And if he snitches, he could lose his family--or even his life.

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Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present by Hank Stuever (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $2.16 for US Kindle ($10.16 at B&N)

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In Tinsel, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas.

Stuever starts the narrative as so many start the Christmas season: standing in line with the people waiting to purchase flat-screen TVs on Black Friday. From there he follows three of Frisco's true holiday believers as they navigate through the Nativity and all its attendant crises. Tammie Parnell, an eternally optimistic suburban mom, is the proprietor of "Two Elves with a Twist," a company that decorates other people's big houses for Christmas. Jeff and Bridgette Trykoski own that house every town has: the one with the visible-from-space, most awe-inspiring Christmas lights. And single mother Caroll Cavazos just hopes that the life-affirming moments of Christmas might overcome the struggles of the rest of the year. Stuever's portraits of this happy, megachurchy, shopariffic community are at once humane, heartfelt, revealing--and very funny. Tinsel is a compelling tale of our half-trillion-dollar holiday, measuring what we we've become against the ancient rituals of what we've always been.

Stuever is a Washington Post staff writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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Plan C: Just in Case by Lois Cahall from Bloomsbury Reader (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother called Libby Crockett. Her Plan A had failed so she tried Plan B. Plan B gave her a glamorous new life with a handsome new man--along with his expensive ex, his out-of-control kids and a big recession. Now Libby's thinking it might be time for Plan C....

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FYI, Snitch by Booker T. Mattison now also $2.99 (price match by Amazon)