Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- February 2013

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Here's the new thread for February (*here's a link to my January 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 deal(s) for February 1!

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson from Quercus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (January 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

This lyrical novel is a beautiful coming of age tale set in contemporary Nigeria, portraying the clash between traditional and modern as it affects one extended family. Fusing the themes of love, culture, politics and tradition, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is a heartbreaking and triumphant tale.

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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks from Hyperion ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In this historical thriller from acclaimed author Richard Zacks, William Eaton sets out on a secret mission with the blessing of Thomas Jefferson, or so he thinks.

Night Visitor by Melanie Jackson from Montlake Romance ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A brave Scottish piper insistently calls to Tafaline across the winds of night and time. Looking into her heart, she knows there is naught to do but go to him...

A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith from W. W. Norton & Company ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From the legendary Patricia Highsmith comes a masterpiece of noir fantasy, in which unsettling psychological forces lurk beneath the surface of everyday life.

The Many Lives of Lilith Lane by E.V. Anderson from Amazon Children's Publishing ($1.98) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Seventeen-year-old Lilith Lane has a talent for solving small-town mysteries, but now her little sister has gone missing, and Lilith must try to save her.

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Dying to Read (The Cate Kinkaid Files Book #1): A Novel by Lorena McCourtney from Baker Publishing Group ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 1)

Product Description

A cozy Cate Kincaid mystery from Lorena McCourtney. All Cate needed was a paycheck and taking a job with her PI uncle was the best option. Just until she can find a "real" job, of course. But a visit to a creaky Victorian mansion almost puts her over her head as she's faced with one dead body and bunch of grey-haired old ladies as suspects.

** Price-matched on US Amazon

Dying to Read (The Cate Kinkaid Files Book #1): A Novel by Lorena McCourtney is also $1.99

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The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less has updated for February! 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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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for £2.99 or Less is a continuing 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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FYI, For Canadian Kindlers:

The Amazon February Monthly Deals in Kindle Books is a promo for Amazon Canada.

Each month we unveil a new collection of Kindle books for $3.99 or less in a wide variety of genres. You'll find great deals in mysteries, science fiction, romance, biographies and memoirs, and more.

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The Fast Diet by Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer from Short Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

This radical new approach to weight loss is the diet that everyone is talking about. It really is as simple as it sounds: you eat normally five days a week, then for just two days you cut your calory intake. Dr Michael Mosley presents the fascinating science behind the 5:2 diet; Mimi Spencer, award-winning food and fashion writer, explains the practicalities of how to go about it.

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Sara's Game by Ernie Lindsey ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Sara's three children have simultaneously gone missing from their schools, and a note under her windshield wiper reads: "Are you ready to play the game?"

Unbound by Nikkie Locke from Crimson Romance ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Author Nikkie Locke's Unbound is a top-rated, fast-paced, sensual thriller that's sure to appeal to fans and avid readers of romance and suspense novels alike.

Daughter of Witches (A Lyra Novel) by Patricia C. Wrede from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In the oppressive and fantastical city of Drinn, a trio of magical strangers offers a servant girl named Ranira the chance of a new life...

Three top-rated books featuring Nickelodeon's adorable Dora the Explorer from Nickelodeon Publishing ($0.99 each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Today only, save on three top-rated books featuring Nickelodeon's adorable Dora the Explorer and her ongoing educational adventures.

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Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy Series #1) by Kiersten White from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 2)

Product Description

Kiersten White (Supernaturally, Mind Games) gives the world a new slayer in the awesomely engaging character of Evie. Witty and whip-smart and with a hot pink taser at her side, she's the International Paranormal Containment Agency's best recruit.

** Price-matched on US Amazon

Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy Series #1) by Kiersten White is also $1.99

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Eleven by Mark Watson from Quercus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Xavier Ireland is a radio DJ who by night listens to the hopes, fears and regrets of sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself very much to himself. That is until he meets a one-of-a-kind cleaning lady and confronts his own biggest regret. This is a tale of love, loss and Scrabble, asking big questions about life and death, strangers and friends, comfort and heartbreak.

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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

David Sheff's fiercely candid memoir brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.

When Wishes Collide (Wish Series) by Barbara Freethy ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

For Adrianna and Wyatt, meeting each other and falling in love might not be what they wished for, but it's exactly what they need.

Once Bitten by Kalayna Price from Bell Bridge Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A calico cat among lions and tigers, Kita Nekai is sentenced to death for creating a rogue shifter who tortures its human prey. Now she has 72 hours to find it.

The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War Series) by Jacqueline Davies from Houghton Mifflin Books for Children ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Jacqueline Davies's fresh, funny, emotionally charged novel subtly explores how arguments can escalate beyond anyone’s intent. (Grade 3-5)

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Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales from Little, Brown & Company ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 3)

Product Description

ESPN wasn't always the multi-billion dollar sports media phenomenon it is today. Learn the network's full story in this wonderful oral history drawing on hundreds of interviews from dozens of larger-than-life personalities. Behind-the-scenes gossip, corporate intrigue, and sports media as cultural force abound in this story of those who created what is truly the worldwide leader in sports.

** Price-matched on US Amazon

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales is also $3.99

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Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $2.99

Book Description:

Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of the government to further its goals. Its attacks on psychiatry and its requirement that believers pay as much as tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for salvation have drawn scrutiny and skepticism. And ex-members use the Internet to share stories of harassment and abuse.

Now Janet Reitman offers the first full journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an evenhanded account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology’s development from the birth of Dianetics to today, following its metamorphosis from a pseudoscientific self-help group to a worldwide spiritual corporation with profound control over its followers and even ex-followers.

Based on five years of research, unprecedented access to Church officials, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is the defining book about a little-known world.

The Yellow House: A Novel by Patricia Falvey (Hachette Book Group) is $2.99

Book Description:

THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Eileen O’Neill’s family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life.

She is soon torn between two men, each drawing her to one extreme. One is a charismatic and passionate political activist determined to win Irish independence from Great Britain at any cost, who appeals to her warrior’s soul. The other is the wealthy and handsome black sheep of the pacifist family who owns the mill where she works, and whose persistent attention becomes impossible for her to ignore.

High, Wide and Lonesome by Hal Borland (Open Road) is $2.83

Book Description:

In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family’s migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century.

On an unsettled and unwelcoming prairie landscape, the Borlands build a house, plant crops, and eke out a meager existence. While life is difficult—and self-reliance is necessary with no neighbors for miles—the experience brings the family close and binds them closer to the terrible and beautiful natural patterns that govern their lives.

Borland would grow up to study journalism and become an acclaimed nature writer, and it was these childhood years on the prairie that shaped the author’s heart and mind.

House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker (Thomas Nelson) is $2.99

Book Description:

A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint.

Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker—two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers—have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you’ve ever read. Enter House—where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose . . . and the only way out is in.

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman—or worse—could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed.

One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.

The Big Exit by David Carnoy (Penguin Publishing) is $2.99

Book Description:

By the acclaimed author of the remarkable debut novel, Knife Music, The Big Exit is a suspenseful crime novel that keeps the surprises coming right up to the end.

Richie Forman is freshly out of prison. By night, he makes a living impersonating Frank Sinatra in San Francisco’s lounges and corporate parties. But then his ex-best friend—the man who stole his fiancée while he was in prison—is found hacked to death in his garage, and Richie is the prime suspect. In a murder mystery with the twists and turns of a microchip, Carnoy weaves his characters like a master. He has written an authentic, unputdownable thriller that is sure to chill and delight.

The Naturally Clean Home: 150 Super-Easy Herbal Formulas for Green Cleaning by Karyn Siegel-Maier (Storey Publishing) is $2.51

Book Description:

You don’t need to pay a fortune for expensive “green” commercial cleaning products. It’s easy and inexpensive to mix up effective, nontoxic alternatives using basic kitchen staples — baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax — plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils.

Karyn Siegel-Maier offers 150 all-natural recipes for cleaning everything in your home — from bathrooms to bedding, carpets to cabinetry. The formulas are so simple that anyone can make them, but they are at least as effective as the commercial options.

Try making your own Rosemary-Geranium Floor Wipes for electrostatic floor mops, Weekend Warrior Wicker Wash, Telephone Dirty Talk Tamer, Clear the Air Room Spritzer, or Lavender Lift Automatic Dishwasher Soap.

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (HarperCollins) is $2.99

Book Description:

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees’ decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature’s vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard’s original body of work.

The Radix by Brett King (Thomas & Mercer) is $0.99

Book Description:

A US agent has been hired to locate the legendary Radix, a relic with sacred healing powers, but the Knights of Malta will stop at nothing to get the relic for their own use and gain favor with the Pope.

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Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II by Michael Walling from Osprey Publishing (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

For five long years during WWII, thousands of men and women fought ferociously in the coldest corner of hell on earth. Some fought for survival, some struggled to help others survive and some sought to crush their enemies. The Arctic Convoys were war without mercy. If man-made death didn't get you, the Arctic's weapons of ice and cold would.

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House of Evidence by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson from AmazonCrossing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Nominated for the Scandanavian Glass Key Award, this four-star murder mystery is set in a stately house-turned-museum-turned-mausoleum.

Glory by Heather Graham from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In best-selling author Graham's historical romance, set in Civil War–era Florida, a woman suspected of witchcraft reawakens a tired doctor’s heart.

Murder in Vein (A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery) by Sue Ann Jaffarian from Midnight Ink ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Set in the City of Angels, Sue Ann Jaffarian's Madison Rose Vampire Mystery will thrill paranormal mystery fans.

Fairest of All (Whatever After Series #1) by Sarah Mlynowski from Scholastic ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Best-selling author Sarah Mlynowski's Whatever After offers a fresh, modern spin on a classic fairy tale.

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Fairest of All (Whatever After Series #1) by Sarah Mlynowski from Scholastic ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 4)

Product Description

This fresh, fun fairy-tale frolic from Sarah Mlynowski sees eleven-year-old Abby and her seven-year-old brother Jonah discover a magic mirror that transports them into a magical land where they manage to prevent Snow White from eating that poison apple. But if she never takes that bite, she'll never meet Prince Charming! It's up to Abby and Jonah to set things right to save happily-ever-after.

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Bone River by Megan Chance from Amazon Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From award-winning author Megan Chance, Bone River is a haunting, lyrical tale of passion and identity, set in the mid-19th century. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from the riverbank bordering her property. As she searches for answers to the mummy's origins, she begins to feel a mystical connection to it that defies all logic.

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The Pain Scale (Long Beach Homicide) by Tyler Dilts from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Long Beach homicide detective Danny Beckett returns from a year-long medical leave scarred and in pain, yet determined to prove he still has what it takes.

When Love Goes Bad: TruLove Collection from BroadLit ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From the pages of True Romance and True Love magazines, these 12 unique stories chronicle the highs and lows that so often define romantic love.

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In Polish sci-fi master Stanislaw Lem's mind-bending novel, the year is 3149, and a vast blight has obliterated much of the planet's written history... but not all.

Dragon's Breath (Tales of the Frog Princess) by E. D. Baker from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From E.D. Baker's beloved Tales of the Frog Princess series comes this fast-moving and inventive tale of quests, tests, love, dragons, and magic.

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A Thankful Heart: How Gratitude Brings Hope And Healing To Your Life by Carole Lewis from Gospel Light Publications ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 5)

Product Description

In these complicated, troubled times, it's sometimes difficult to see the path beyond our problems and pain. This warm, inspiring book reminds us of the power of giving thanks -- even in seemingly impossible moments -- and how thankfulness can transform both our inward attitudes and our outward situations.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

A Thankful Heart: How Gratitude Brings Hope And Healing To Your Life by Carole Lewis also $2.99

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Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor (Scribner) is $3.99

Book Description

When Brad Thor arrived on the scene with his hard-hitting debut novel, The Lions of Lucerne, he was greeted with an enthusiasm rarely seen since John le Carré’s heyday. “A roller-coaster of a debut,” pronounced Kyle Mills. And Nelson DeMille, the master of the genre himself, welcomed Thor as “a savvy new novelist” with a knack for action scenes that “will give the reader a case of vertigo.” Now, Thor and his indomitable hero Scot Harvath are back, raising the stakes and taking on one of the world’s most deadly terrorist organizations bent on stoking a global holy war of apocalyptic proportions.

After rescuing the President from kidnappers, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath shifts his attentions to rooting out and capturing or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man — the world’s most feared, most ruthless terrorist, Hashim Nidal, who has assembled an international league of Islamic terrorist networks in an ingenious plot to topple both Israel and America. Harvath and his CIA-led team must reach Nidal before it’s too late. One problem remains — they have no idea what the man looks like.

Only one person can positively identify Harvath’s quarry — Meg Cassidy, a beautiful hijacking survivor. Together, Scot and Meg must untangle a maddening web of global intrigue stretching across four continents. From Macau, Jerusalem, and Chicago to Libya, Capri, and Rome, Harvath and Cassidy find themselves locked in a desperate race against time to sort the pieces of a deadly puzzle that will test not only their physical and mental limits, but also the growing bond they feel for each other.

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell (Scribner) is $3.99

Book Description

With this novel, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell created one of crime fiction’s most compelling heroines: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell’s gift for combining cutting edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic.

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it’s being sabotaged from within—and someone wants her dead.

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The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion) is $3.99

Book Description

From the creator of the hit Percy Jackson series, this new fantasy brings ancient Egyptian mythology to life in a vivid modern-day setting.

Since his mother’s death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter’s been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants – school friends and a chance at a “normal” life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for – time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.

On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he’s going to “make things right.” But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.

Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them – Set – has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey – a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

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An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones from Mantle (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

An Agent of Deceit is a thinking-person's thriller in the tradition of John Le Carre. Private Investigator Ben Webster becomes fixated with the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. But how far is Ben willing to risk the wellbeing of his family? Against a background of Moscow, London and Berlin, a journey of impossible decisions begins...

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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth from Lyons Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

David Howarth's epic tale of endurance chronicles the astonishing story of Jan Baalsrud's harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway during World War II.

Thunder in the Night by Kate Fellowes from Crimson Romance ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

There's more than Mayan ruins in Belize, where unwitting journalist Allison Belsar discovers crime, hidden secrets, and a certain gorgeous tour guide.

Kingmaking: Book One of the Pendragon's Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick from Sourcebooks Landmark ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Book One of Helen Hollick's "Pendragon's Banner Trilogy" depicts the unexpected story of the making of a king, a legend who united all of Britain.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($2.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (February 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

An Amazon Best Teen Book of the Month (August, 2012), Sarah J. Maas's stunning debut stars a heroine with a quick wit, a large heart, and some fierce fighting skills.

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The Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris from Kensington ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 6)

Product Description

This atmospheric historical mystery from Tessa Harris (The Dead Shall Not Rest) sees Dr. Thomas Silkstone, an American anatomist living in London, drawn into investigating the death of the rakish Sir Edward Crick. Silkstone's forensic acumen is unconventional in 1780s England, but he'll have to be wary of the living as well as the dead to solve this mystery.

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mysteries) by Tessa Harris also $2.99

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Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $2.99

Book Description:

“A finely honed portrait of the civil rights partnership President Johnson and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. forged . . . a fresh and vivid account.” — Washington Post Book World

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nick Kotz offers the first thorough account of the complex working relationship between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. Tracing both leaders’ paths, from Johnson’s ascension to the presidency in 1963 to King’s assassination in 1968, Kotz describes how they formed a wary alliance that would become instrumental in producing some of the most substantial civil rights legislation in American history: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources—Johnson’s taped telephone conversations, voluminous FBI wiretap logs, and secret communications between FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and the president—Kotz examines the forces that drew the charismatic men together and those that eventually drove them apart. Kotz’s focused and incisive examination significantly enriches our understanding of both men.

This book will appeal to people interested in: Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Race Relations, Voting Rights, 20th Century History, Politics, Political Investigations, Segragation, and American History.

Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck (Bloomsbury USA) is $2.51

Book Description:

Hailed as the “patron saint of farmers’ markets” by the Guardian and called one of the “great food activists” by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view “real food.” A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and why, Real Food is a thoroughly researched rebuttal to dietary fads and a clarion call for the return to old-fashioned foods.

In lively, personal chapters on produce, dairy, meat, fish, chocolate, and other real foods, Nina explains how ancient foods like beef and butter have been falsely accused, while industrial foods like corn syrup and soybean oil have created a triple epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The New York Times said that Real Food “poses a convincing alternative to the prevailing dietary guidelines, even those treated as gospel,” and that “radical” as Nina’s ideas may be, the case she makes for them is “eminently sensible.”

Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life by Sam Wang PhD and Sandra Aamodt PhD (Bloomsbury USA) is $2.99

Book Description:

Does drinking really kill brain cells? Does listening to Mozart make your baby smarter? For all the mileage we’ve gotten from our own brains, most of us have essentially no idea how they work. We’re easily susceptible to myths (like the “fact” that we use only 10% of our brains) and misconceptions (like the ones perpetrated by most Hollywood movies), probably because we’ve never known where to turn for the truth.

But neurologists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang are glad to help. In this funny, accessible book, we get a guided tour of our own minds, what they’re made of, how they work, and how they can go wrong. Along the way, we get a host of diagrams, quizzes, and “cocktail party tips” that shed light on the questions we nag each other about. (Can a head injury make you forget your own name? Are dolphins smarter than chimpanzees?)

Fun and surprisingly engrossing, Welcome to Your Brain shows you how your brain works, and how you can make it work better.

How to Save Your Own Life: The Eight Steps Only You Can Take to Manage and Control Your Health Care by Marie Savard MD and Sondra Forsyth (Hachette Book Group) is $3.28

Book Description:

Recent advances in medical technology mean that there are currently an extraordinary array of health care choices available to the public.

In this important book, Dr. Savard, a doctor turned patient advocate, equips readers with the techniques for navigating the often confusing world of healthcare, enabling them to take control of their own health.

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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Mysteries) by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown and Company) is $2.99

Book Description:

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he’s been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as “resurrection men,” he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus’s own mistake. Now Rebus can’t determine if he’s been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects.

When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that her investigation of an art dealer’s murder is tied to Rebus’s inquiry, the two -protÈgÈ and mentor- join forces. Soon they find themselves in the midst of an even bigger scandal than they had imagined – a plot with conspirators in every corner of Scotland and deadly implications about their colleagues.

With the brilliant eye for character and place that earned him the name “the Dickens of Edinburgh,” Ian Rankin delivers a page-turning novel of intricate suspense.

So Cold the River by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown and Company) is $3.79

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010

It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man’s past–just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he’s kept his entire life.

In Bradford’s hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history–a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria. Neglected for years, the resort has been restored to its former grandeur just in time for Eric’s stay.

Just hours after his arrival, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase and draw Eric deeper into the town’s dark history. He discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored–a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain its lost glory. Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, So Cold the River is a tale of irresistible suspense with a racing, unstoppable current.

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (HarperCollins) is $2.99

* Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi is also discounted to $2.99!

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“Fans of Cashore’s Fire, Oliver’s Delirium, and, yes, Twilight will find this addictive.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books )

“You can’t touch me,” I whisper. I’m lying, is what I don’t tell him. He can touch me, is what I’ll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things.

No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time – and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost forever.

Run by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins) is $2.99

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Since their mother’s death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children—all his children—safe.

Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you’ve never even met. As in her bestselling novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, Run is ultimately a novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths we will go to protect our children.

The Last Time They Met: A Novel by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown and Company) is $2.99

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A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December.

At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion.

This is no chance meeting. Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear, and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous for them both, a turning point in their lives, and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both.

THE LAST TIME THEY MET moves backward in time from Linda at age 52 to explore her life years earlier, at age 26, and still earlier, at 17. Anita Shreve examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime.

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (HarperCollins) is $2.99

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Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.

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Great Apes by Will Self from Bloomsbury Paperbacks (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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When artist Simon Dykes wakes after a late night out, he discovers that his world has changed beyond recognition. His girlfriend, Sarah, has turned into a chimpanzee. So has the rest of humanity. Simon is confined to an emergency psychiatric ward, where he becomes of considerable interest to eminent psychologist and chimp, Dr Zack Busner.

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Justice Denied (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries) by J. A. Jance from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Seattle has its fair share of crime and corruption, but a new and deadly conspiracy will require much more than Detective J. P. Beaumont's hard-boiled banter.

First Love, Wild Love by Madeline Baker from Montlake Romance ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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It took only one look into the dark, fathomless eyes of the prisoner for Brianna to see her destiny--that if he escaped his bonds, she would follow him anywhere.

Henry Franks: A Novel by Peter Adam Salomon from Flux ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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For Henry Franks, death is everywhere, even stalking the streets, where a serial killer's path of destruction reveals the dark truth of Henry's past.

Five Funny Bunnies: Three Bouncing Tales by Jean Van Leeuwen from Amazon Children's Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Anne Wilsdorf's illustrations bring Jean Van Leeuwen's wise and witty stories to life.

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Crewel (Crewel World Series , #1) by Gennifer Albin from Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 7)

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The Spinsters of Arras weave the threads of time and fate that maintain order in the land. When Adelice is discovered to have a Spinster's talent, she soon realizes just how extraordinary her world truly is -- a realization that will bring her power and responsibility and love and betrayal like never before.

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To the Tower Born: A Novel of the Lost Princes by Robin Maxwell (HarperCollins) is $0.99

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In 1483, Edward and Richard of York — Edward, by law, already King of England — were placed, for their protection before Edward’s coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.

In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes. The great and terrible events that shaped a kingdom are viewed through the eyes of quick-witted Nell Caxton, only daughter of the first English printer, and her dearest friend, “Bessie,” sister to the lost boys and ultimate founder of the Tudor dynasty.

It is a thrilling story brimming with mystery, color, and historical lore. With great bravery and heart, two friends navigate a dark and treacherous medieval landscape rendered more perilous by the era’s scheming, ambitious, even murderous men and women who will stop at nothing to possess the throne.

The Lion’s Game (John Corey) by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing) is $1.99

Book Description

To survive in a game with no rules at all, John Corey must invent a strategy that includes no luck at all.

The hero of DeMille’s No. 1 New York Times best seller, Plum Island, Corey has been through a lot, not the least of which was surviving three bullet wounds while serving on the NYPD.

Now he signs on with the government’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force in an attempt to stop an alleged Libyan terrorist known simply as “The Lion.” The Lion has the instincts of a wild animal, the bloodlust of a carnivore, and the boldness and speed of a cat of prey. And now he’s loose in America. Can John Corey stop him? Or has his allotment of luck just run out?

Filled with unrelenting suspense and surprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, THE LION’S GAME is a heartstopping race against time and one of Nelson DeMille’s most riveting thrillers.

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FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

Crewel (Crewel World Series , #1) by Gennifer Albin also $2.99