Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- November 2011

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Jr. now also $3.99

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Unsinkable (Titanic Series #1) by Gordon Korman from Scholastic, Inc. ($2.40) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 12)

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The ultimate action/adventure trilogy begins, with #1 bestselling author Gordon Korman plunging readers into the heart of the Titanic.

The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police - after she and Sophie have been arrested. Juliana's father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness. And Alfie is hiding a secret that could get him kicked off the ship immediately.

The lives of these four passengers will be forever linked with the fate of Titanic. And the farther they get from shore, the more the danger looms. . . .

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A PEOPLE MAGAZINE "TOP TEN" BOOK
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD
WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD

The international bestseller, reissued with a striking new illustrated cover. Part of The Bloomsbury Phantastic series - three books tracing the tradition of fantasy from Edgar Allan Poe to Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke. Susanna Clarke’s novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who emerge to change its history.

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.

Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.

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The Vampire Voss (Regency Draculia Series #1) by Colleen Gleason from Mira ($2.20) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 13)

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When the Vampire Voss meets Angelica Woodmore, he is possessed by a new kind of passion — the desire to protect her. Now Voss must battle his very nature to be with Angelica…but this vampire never backs down from a fight.

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Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery) by Sue Ann Jaffarian from Midnight Ink ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Imagine spending eternity with your backside hanging out—that's what Emma Whitecastle and Granny Apples can't help but think when they meet the ghost of Tessa North frolicking in the surf off Catalina Island. Tessa, a young starlet who died on the island in the 1960s wearing nothing but a polka dot bikini, won't cross over until "Curtis" comes for her. To help the winsome, bikini-clad spirit, Emma and Granny must find out who Curtis is and how Tessa died. Their investigation takes them from the grit and glamour of Hollywood to Kennedy-era political intrigue-before hitting dangerously close to home.

Along with a sprinkling of history, this spirited new mystery series features the amateur sleuth team of Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Vampire Voss (Regency Draculia Series #1) by Colleen Gleason now also $2.20

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FYI, the UK get their own daily deals:

Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath from Corvus (£0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The first book in Michael Ridpath's thrilling Fire & Ice series, Where the Shadows Lie binds Iceland's landscape, history, secrets and superstitions in a thrilling plot. Amidst Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an ancient manuscript containing a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power--one that's worth killing for.

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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis from W. W. Norton ($2.79) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 14)

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The inspirational true story of football phenom Michael Oher, who as a homeless teenager was taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family.

Read the story behind the award-winning movie.

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The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie from Hachette Book Group ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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War: where the blood and dirt of the battlefield hide the dark deeds committed in the name of glory. THE HEROES is about violence and ambition, gruesome deaths and betrayals; and the brutal truth that no plan survives contact with the enemy. The characters are the stars, as ever, and the message is dark: when it comes to war, there are no heroes...

Meet THE HEROES.

Curnden Craw: a ruthless fighter who wants nothing more than to see his crew survive.

Prince Calder: a liar and a coward, he will regain his crown by any means necessary.

Bremer dan Gorst: a master swordsman, a failed bodyguard, his honor will be restored - in the blood of his enemies.

Over three days, their fates will be sealed.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis now also $2.79

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FYI, the UK get their own daily deals:

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett from Bloomsbury (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 15) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011

Pharmaceutical researcher Dr Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who died under mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate the eccentric and notoriously tough Dr Anneck Swenson, and face her own disappointments and regrets.

Emotional, vivid and atmospheric, State of Wonder is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself.

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Nemesis by Philip Roth from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($6.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 15)

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What kind of accidental choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the questions that haunt Philip Roth's Nemesis, the masterpiece of elegant, brilliant prose that won the 2011 Man Booker International Prize.

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Buddha's Orphans by Samrat Upadhyay is $2.82 at the US Kindle store (still $9.99 at B&N) [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]

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Called "a Buddhist Chekhov" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyay's writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri.

Upadhyay's new novel, Buddha's Orphans, uses Nepal's political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege.Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and search for children, and through several generations, hinting that perhaps old bends can, in fact, be righted in future branches of a family tree.Buddha's Orphans is a novel permeated with the sense of how we are irreparably connected to the mothers who birthed us and of the way events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. But most of all it is an engrossing, unconventional love story and a seductive and transporting read.

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The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo from Candlewick ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 15) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009

Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo's timeless fable for young readers tells the tale of Peter Augustus Duchene, a ten-year-old orphan who receives a piece of information that sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it's true.

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The Settlers of Catan by Rebecca Gable and Lee Chadeayne is $2.99 just for 11/15 (US Kindle)

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The year is 850. In the seas of northern Europe, the small coastal village of Elasund falls prey to marauding neighbors. Their food stores pillaged, women and children stolen, livestock destroyed, the villagers are left to barely survive the harsh winter — and contemplate a drastic solution to their recurring hardships: leaving the only village they have ever known. Foster brothers Candamir and Osmund lead their people on an epic quest to a mythic island home, but without knowledge of exactly where the island is, they must trust the gods to deliver them safely. Lost at sea and set adrift, an extraordinarily violent storm washes them ashore the island famed in pagan lore: Catan. They quickly set about building a new society but old grudges, animosities, and social orders lead to fraternal strife. As the ideals of Candamir's Christian slave spread throughout the village and conflict with pagan law, the two belief systems clash. When both Osmund and Candamir fall in love with Siglind, the mysterious queen of the Cold Islands, things come to a head.

Based on the wildly popular board game of the same name designed by Klaus Teuber, Rebecca Gable’s The Settlers of Catan is a must-read adventure rich in detail and rippling with intensity.