Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- July 2012

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The Child Who by Simon Lelic from Mantle (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (July 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In The Child Who, Simon Lelic has created a dark and unflinching picture of the causes and consequences of a terrible and controversial event: the murder of a child by another child. At once both disorientating and fresh, this is a hugely gripping novel of exploitation, vengence and fear.

Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds by Beth Moore from B&H ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 22)

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It's easy to be overwhelmed by life's afflictions -- pride, loss, depression, temptation, and so on -- but no matter how out of control your life may feel, there's a way to break free from what hold you back. Beth Moore's faith-based resource is perfectly designed to help you through your troubles.

* FYI, Amazon has matched this deal: Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds is also $3.99 for Amazon

Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (Judy Moody Movie tie-in) by Megan McDonald from Candlewick ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (July 22)

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Roar! It's not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now Judy's two best friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be BOR-ing - eureka! - Judy comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever.

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This fantasy classic is an exceptional story about quests for riches, revenge, power, and true love. People may find it impossible--inconceivable, even--to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than its movie adaptation, but the film retains only a part of the book's ingenious storytelling.

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Another Kindle app deal:

Mahjong Words

Mahjong Words is perfect for fans of word search games and solitaire, and it's just $0.99 through August 2!

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Radio Congo and Confessions from Correspondentland are the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (July 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today's deal offers savings on two captivating works of narrative non-fiction. In Radio Congo, Ben Rawlence reports from one of the world's most dangerous places--Congo's 'silent quarter', whilst Confessions from Correspondentland by Nick Bryant is a warts-and-all account of life as a foreign correspondent.

The 3,000 Hit Club: Stories of Baseball's Greatest Hitters by Fred McMane from Skyhorse Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 23)

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It's never too early to think about baseball's post-season. Whether you're waiting for your team to clinch or already looking forward to next year, you'll love this collection of highlights of the game's best hitters, from Pete Rose to Willie Mays, Ricky Henderson to Derek Jeter, and the rest of this legendary baseball brotherhood.

* FYI, Amazon has this deal cheaper: The 3,000 Hit Club: Stories of Baseball's Greatest Hitters (eBook) is just $1.57 for US Kindle

Toy Story Junior Novel from Disney Press ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (July 23)

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Buzz, Woody, and the gang are all back in this fantasic book version of the movie Toy Story.

Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Despite her a life of privilege, Sylvie can't seem to give her husband, Gerald, her whole heart. She feels broken until she falls for Nikos, the Greek handyman. Pregnant with Nikos's child, one she knows Gerald won't accept, Sylvie switches babies in the hospital, a desperate move with generational consequences.

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The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Sheila Lukins, Sarah Leah Chase and Julee Rosso from Workman Publishing is $2.51 (US Kindle)

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The authors of the national bestseller The Silver Palate Cookbook now bring their acclaimed gourmet style to graceful entertaining at home.

In The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins make the entire year a celebration of good food, good friends, and good times, as they offer menus, suggestions, and strategies. More than 450 new recipes have been developed especially for this collection.All add to the joyfulness of the rapidly growing Silver Palate legend: there are glorious soups, savory entrees, vegetables, salads, cheese, souffles, and showstopping, just-right desserts.

As warmly inviting as the most rousing party, the pages of The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook abound with winsome line illustrations, pertinent quotations, unusual ideas—and with dishes including Cajun Chicken Morsels, Duck and Dandelion Green Salad, Pesto Fondue, Tex-Mex Stuffed Peppers, and more. The excitement begins in spring and continues right through to winter, with a lavish Christmas Goose accompanied by Scalloped Oysters and Baked Kumquats. The good times are here, with the compliments of The Silver Palate.

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The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo and Erik Bear (47North) are the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (July 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader, an elder of an order of warrior monks, they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.

Gentleman Says "I Do" by Amelia Grey from Sourcebooks ($0.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 24)

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This fan-favorite Amelia Grey novel features an aspiring author in Regency England, Catalina Crisp, who has written a scandalous parody about twins Iverson and Matson Brentwood. Publishing it under her father's name seemed a good idea, but when Lord Iverson Brentwood arrives at her door looking for her father, what's Catalina to do?

* FYI, Amazon has matched this deal : Gentleman Says "I Do" is also $0.99 for US Kindle

Curious George and the Pizza Party by H.A. and Margret Rey from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (July 24)

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George is going to a pizza party! He's so excited. He loves pizza and parties. George promises to be on his best monkey behavior, but when he gets to the party and sees all of that pizza dough, George has an idea . . . a big idea that lands him in big trouble!

The Gingerbread House: Volume 1 (Hammarby) by Carin Gerhardsen from Stockholm Text Publishing AB ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The haunting first novel of Carin Gerhardsen's Hammarby series explores schoolyard bullying and what can happen when people look the other way. Published by the same editorial team that brought Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy to the world, The Gingerbread House showcases a plot loaded with unexpected twists and turns.

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Aleph by Paulo Coelho from Vintage is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.

In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.

Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion. Even so, he never expects to meet Hilal. A gifted young violinist, she is the woman Paulo loved five hundred years before—and the woman he betrayed in an act of cowardice so far-reaching that it prevents him from finding real happiness in this life. Together they will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, traveling a path that teaches love, forgiveness, and the courage to overcome life’s inevitable challenges. Beautiful and inspiring, Aleph invites us to consider the meaning of our own personal journeys: Are we where we want to be, doing what we want to do?

Some books are read. Aleph is lived.

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The Brontes Went to Woolworths: A Novel by Rachel Ferguson from Bloomsbury USA is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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’How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters’; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.

London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface the Doll and Dion Saffyn the pierrot, to their fulsomely-imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington who, since Mrs Carne did jury duty, they affectionately called Toddy.

However, when Deirdre meets Toddy’s real-life wife at a charity bazaar, the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imaginings. Will the sisters cast off the fantasies of childhood forever? Will Toddy and his wife, Lady Mildred, accept these charmingly eccentric girls? And when fancy and reality collide, who can tell whether Ironface can really talk, whether Judge Toddington truly wears lavender silk pyjamas or whether the Brontës did indeed go to Woolworths?

The Brontës Went to Woolworths is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers.

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The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge from Open Road is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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From New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge comes a poignant new novel that asks the question, “What would you do if you were told you had only six months to live?” For one professional matchmaker the answer is heart-wrenching: She must find her husband’s next wife.

Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived more than her fair share of hardships. Her mother died when she was a young girl, leaving her and her sister with an absentee father. Now in her forties, she has already survived cancer once, though the battle revealed just how ill-equipped her husband Edward is to be a single parent. So when doctors tell Camille that her cancer is back—and this time it’s terminal—she decides to put her matchmaking expertise to the test for one final job. Seeking stability for her children and happiness for her husband, Camille sets out to find the perfect woman to replace her when she’s gone.

But what happens when a dying wish becomes a case of “be careful what you wish for”? For Edward and Camille, the stunning conclusion arrives with one last twist of fate that no one saw coming.

At once deeply felt and witty, The Replacement Wife is an unforgettable story of love and family, and a refreshing look at the unexpected paths that lead us to our own happy endings.

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$3.99 books from Open Road Publishing:

Compromising Positions (Judith Singer) by Susan Isaacs
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart
Coyote Wind by Peter Bowen
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurney Brown
Third Base Ain't What it Used to Be by Logan Levkoff
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien

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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth (Icon Books) are the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (July 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

The Lying Game (Lying Game Series #1) by Sara Shepard from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 25)

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Who's lying and what is the truth? Find out, if you can, in this new thriller from bestselling author Sara Shepard that starts with the reunion of two long-lost twins -- after one has been murdered. Sutton realizes she's dead, but can't remember much more, and attaches her ghostly self, undetected, to her living twin Emma. Together but still separate, will the duo be able to solve Sutoon's murder?

* FYI, Amazon has matched this deal : The Lying Game (Lying Game Series #1) is also $2.99 for US Kindle

The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo from Candlewick ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (July 25)

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When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it's true.

* FYI, Amazon has matched this deal : The Magician's Elephant is also $1.99 for US Kindle

You Can Run But You Can't Hide by Duane Dog Chapman from Hyperion ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this inspiring and revealing memoir, Duane "Dog" Chapman recounts his incredible transformation into one of the most successful bounty hunters in American history. With a reawakened faith, Chapman strove against all odds and shook off the chains of gang life, addiction, and wrongful imprisonment to become a respected icon.

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How To Cook A Tart by Nina Killham from Bloomsbury USA is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Cookbook author Jasmine March’s life is like a perfectly prepared béchamel-rich, satisfying, and drenched in butter. But even a great béchamel curdles sometimes. Her husband, Daniel, has taken up with one of his Zone-dieting drama students; Careme, her daughter, is bent on starving herself to death; and Jasmine’s fellow foodies have had just about enough of her astronomically caloric recipes. To make matters worse, her publisher is threatening to cancel her contract. And then there’s the small matter of the dead body she finds one morning on her kitchen floor.

Filled with mouth-watering descriptions of Jasmine’s creations-venison stew with Madeira and juniper berries, crispy chicken breasts stuffed with goat cheese and mint-Nina Killham’s smart and spirited first novel is good enough to eat.

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard from Bloomsbury USA is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of “non-reading”-from books that you’ve never heard of to books that you’ve read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance.

Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.

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Talking to Strange Men by Ruth Rendell from Open Road is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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A man yearns to win back his wife’s love and wreak vengeance on her lover with the help of a secret ring of spies

Dead drops, coded messages, and a safe house—it’s all make-believe for a teenage spy ring. But when John Creevey intercepts the messages and believes them to be the work of a real crime syndicate, the spy games turn deadly serious in a fiery cocktail of obsession and revenge.

Ruth Rendell expertly layers her narrative to reveal the grotesque truths behind her characters’ ordinary lives.

My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time: A Novel by Liz Jensen from Bloomsbury USA is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen’s latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps at a new job opportunity for herself and Fru Schleswig, as cleaning ladies for the wealthy widow Krak. But mysteries abound at Fru Krak’s dark old mansion. The basement appears to be haunted, townspeople claim to have seen the dead Professor Krak walking the streets as a ghost, and there are stories of desperate souls who paid the professor a visit and never emerged. In fact, as Charlotte will discover, there is a simple explanation for all this: the basement is home to a time machine. When their cunning investigations land them in trouble, Charlotte and Fru Schleswig find themselves catapulted through time and space to modern-day London, and there their adventures truly begin.

With the minxy, intrepid Charlotte, Liz Jensen introduces a heroine every bit as memorable as Louis Drax. And with My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, she delivers yet another outlandishly entertaining novel, in which the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of spacetime proves no match for human ingenuity and earthly passion.

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Trap Line by Carl Hiaasen and Montalbano Bill from Open Road is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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The gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen—now available as an ebook

A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida’s drug lords in an underground war that could cost him his freedom—and his life

Though he is one of Key West’s most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around—and they have their sights set on Albury and his fishing boat. After the smugglers cut his three hundred trap lines and crush his livelihood, Albury is forced to run drugs to survive. But when he gets busted by the crooked chief of police and becomes a target of the drug machine’s brutal hit men, Albury becomes a vigilante on the seas of South Florida, unleashing a fiery and relentless vengeance on Key West’s most dangerous criminals.

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie from William Morrow Paperbacks is $0.99 (US Kindle Pre-order)

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A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius.

In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In "The Actress," a great star's shady past becomes the plaything of a blackmailer. . . . In "The Harlequin Tea Set," Mr. Harley Quin helps a man save his loved ones from the greedy hand of murder. These and six other stories of danger and detection complete this truly stellar collection.

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I can highly recommend both
Trap Line by Carl Hiaasen and Montalbano Bill
and
You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart

Trap Line was the first Carl Hiaasen I read, and I haven't missed one since.
(and I'm pretty sure I've read all of Montalbano's much more limited range as well, and enjoyed those.) They make me do ATDrake's baby seal dance...

The Larry Beinhart is excellent as well.

Thanks for all the great suggestions, Arcadata!

KentE

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The Uninnocent: Stories by Bradford Morrow from Pegasus Books is $2.31 (US Kindle)

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“The Unninocent is a masterpiece of empathy and of storytelling. Even if this is the first time reading Morrow, you’ll feel like you’ve been waiting your whole lifetime for this dark bouquet to appear. I love this chapel of unholy stories with their charming, monstrous, wholly sympathetic characters.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

Bradford Morrow’s stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his finest, gothic tales.

A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and birds’ nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with acquiring his brother’s girlfriend, in “The Hoarder” (selected as one of the Best American Noir Stories of the Century). An archeologist summoned to attend his beloved sister’s funeral is astonished to discover it is not she who has died, but someone much closer to him, in “Gardener of Heart.” A blind motivational speaker has a crisis of faith when he suddenly regains his sight, only to discover life was better lived in the dark, in “Amazing Grace.”

In all of these stories, the reader will be delighted to find himself enthralled and captivated by one of the most potent voices in contemporary American fiction.