Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- January 2012

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New Kindle apps:

Farkle (A Dice Game for Kindle) by Olmatech Technology ($0.99)

Product Description
Farkle brings a popular dice game to Kindle.

Farkle is played by up to four players, with each player having a turn at throwing the dice. Each player's turn results in a score, and the scores for each player accumulate until one player wins by reaching 10,000 points.

There are two different game modes to choose from. In Play mode you pick scoring combinations from a displayed list after the dice are rolled. In Play & Think game mode, each player must choose scoring combinations appropriate to a current roll. You can play with friends in Pass n Play mode, or by yourself with Kindle as your opponent.

Both entertaining and educational, this game helps kids learn and improve their skills in choosing subsets from a set of objects.

Puzzle Quizzes (150 Brain Teasers for Kindle) by Grabarchuk Puzzles ($2.99)

Product Description
Discover a new type of puzzle challenge - Puzzle Quizzes. It's a unique mix of quizzes and logic puzzles where your goal is to find out which of the 4 possible answers is the correct one.

Solve 150 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: visual, spatial, counting, geometric, word, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.

FEATURES
- 150 hand-crafted puzzle quizzes
- 3 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
- Need help? Use hints.
- Time counter with pause option.
- Earn stars for each solved puzzle.
- Advanced score system.

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Empire of Dreams Giannina Braschi from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

New York City's perversions and passions, power and marginality, grandeur and squalor come vibrantly to life in Giannina Braschi's "Empire of Dreams". The novel comprises of three wildly imaginative, rich and complex sections that envisages life as a carnival-style spectacle, features a bucolic celebration and spoofs magical realism.

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American Gods (The Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Neil Gaiman is just $1.99 at B&N ($12.99 at Amazon)

Product Description

First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this tenth anniversary edition. Newly updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece by the one, the only, Neil Gaiman.

A storm is coming . . .

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.

But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow’s best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.

Life as Wednesday’s bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined—it is a job that takes him on a dark and strange road trip and introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with his own. Along the way Shadow will learn that the past never dies; that everyone, including his beloved Laura, harbors secrets; and that dreams, totems, legends, and myths are more real than we know. Ultimately, he will discover that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and that he is standing squarely in its path.

Relevant and prescient, American Gods has been lauded for its brilliant synthesis of “mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World) and as a modern phantasmagoria that “distills the essence of America” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). It is, quite simply, an outstanding work of literary imagination that will endure for generations.

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And.... price matched by Amazon

American Gods (The Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Neil Gaiman also $1.99

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Breathless by Jessica Warman from Walker Childrens ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Jessica Warman's poignant novel documents the delicate life of a high-school girl who seems to have everything going for her--she's smart, she's cute, and she's an Olympic-bound swimmer who has a first class ticket to any Ivy League school of her choice. But beneath the surface lurk some dark family secrets that might change her life forever.

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QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson from Faber and Faber Ltd (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong.

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Buried Sins: The Three Sisters Inn (Love Inspired Suspense Series) by Marta Perry from Harlequin ($3.96) is the NOOK Daily Find (Jan 20) *FYI, it's cheaper at Amazon $3.79 (free for Prime)

Product Description

Caroline's husband was killed in a car crash. Or was he? Strange incidents drive Caroline to flee to the safety of her sisters' Amish country inn, but will she be safe even there? Find out in this tale of irresistible intrigue from fan-favorite author Marta Perry.

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Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard E. Byrd from Island Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

An enormous best seller when it was first published in 1938, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's unforgettable narrative documents the triumphs and defeats he encountered while on a scientific expedition in Antarctica.

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HarperCollins bargains:

The Thief (The Queen's Thief Series #1) by Megan Whalen Turner is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

Product Description
"I can steal anything." After Gen's bragging lands him in the king's prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king's scholar, the magus, needs the thief's skill for a seemingly impossible task -- to steal a hidden treasure from another land. To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own.

About the Author
Megan Whalen Turner is the author of the Newbery Honor Book The Thief and its companions, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia.

Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure! by Jeff Brown is $0.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

Product Description
When Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning, his brother, Arthur, is yelling.A bulletin board fell on Stanley during the night, and now he is only half an inch thick!Amazing things begin happening to him. Stanley gets rolled up, mailed, and flown like a kite. He even gets to help catch two dangerous art thieves. He may be flat, but he's a hero!

The Lost Days (Emily the Strange Series) by Rob Reger is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

Product Description
13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:

1. Mystery
2. A beautiful golem
3. Souped-up slingshots
4. Four black cats
5. Amnesia
6. Calamity Poker
7. Angry ponies
8. A shady truant officer
9. Top-13 lists
10. A sandstorm generator
11. DoppelgÄngers
12. A secret mission
13. Earwigs

Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.

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The Skeleton in the Closet by M.C. Beaton from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Ever since the death of his father, Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. So when she dies and leaves him a fortune, Fellworth is left to wonder where the money came from. In his search to find answers, Fell unknowingly sets off on a path to danger and adventure.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

And.... price matched by Amazon

American Gods (The Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Neil Gaiman also $1.99

Great! Thank you!

And I nabbed Emily the Strange, too. :-)

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The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective. by Andy Andrews from Thomas Nelson ($3.60) is the NOOK Daily Find (Jan 21)

Product Description

An imaginative tale of a mysterious man named Jones who shows up in the lives of people in crisis to offer common sense and uncommon wisdom from beloved storyteller Andy Andrews.

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Bound by Antonya Nelson from Bloomsbury ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Antonya Nelson is known for her razor-sharp depictions of contemporary family life in all of its sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious complexity. Her latest novel has roots in her own youth in Wichita, in the neighborhood stalked by the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill).

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective. by Andy Andrews also $3.60

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Small Steps by Louis Sachar from Bloomsbury (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Jan 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when everyone expects the worst from you--except for your 10-year-old disabled neighbour. And just when Armpit seems to be on the right path, X-Ray, a mate from camp, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme.