Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- May 2016

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Here's the new thread for May 2016!

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 may 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 (or other sites) and then makes a qualifying purchase. It was a pretty good incentive for me to spend time here sharing any deals 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!

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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon Kindle Monthly Deals: Books £2.99 or less is a continuing promo for Amazon UK.

Each month we feature a new selection of discounted Kindle books for £1.99 or less. The deals begin at 12:00 am on the first Tuesday of the month and expires at 11:59 pm on the first Monday of the following month.

And here's the deal(s) for May 1! (continuing from April 2016)


A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre from Bloomsbury Publishing (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.

Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed.

With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former officers of MI6 and the CIA, this definitive biography unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.

Walking on Sunshine: 52 small steps to happiness by Rachel Kelly from Short Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life.

In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares the strategies that have helped her stay calm and happy after overcoming depression. Some of the steps relate to particular experiences and events, such as holidays, dramas at work and her children's exams; others are useful at any time. Indeed this is an ideal book to dip into whenever the mood takes you.

Written in the confidential, conversational style of a good friend and delightfully illustrated byDaily Mailcartoonist Jonathan Pugh,Walking on Sunshinewill act as a constant, supportive companion through your ups and downs.

Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper and Brian David Burrell from Atlantic Books (£1.39) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with at the Neurology Unit of Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr Ropper inhabits a place where absurdities abound: a sportsman who starts spouting gibberish; an undergraduate who suddenly becomes psychotic; a mother who has to decide whether a life locked inside her own head is worth living. How does one begin to treat such cases, to counsel people whose lives may be changed forever? Dr Ropper answers these questions by taking the reader into a world where lives and minds hang in the balance.

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For US Kindlers:

The Amazon Monthly Kindle Book Deals for $3.99 or Less has updated for May 2016! Check out the new batch of discounts.

Each month we unveil a new collection of Kindle books for $3.99 or less. Deals expire on the last day of each month. To sort and filter a list of this month's deals, click here. We also offer Kindle Daily Deals for adults and young readers. Individual books may have additional territory restrictions, and not all deals are available in all territories. Amazon may modify the selection of books offered at any time.

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Kindle Countdown sales

Limited-Time Discounts on Kindle-Exclusive Books

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50 Kindle Books for $2 Each

Whether your taste runs to literary fiction, romance, thrillers, science fiction, or beyond, you'll find your next great read in this selection of 50 Kindle books for only $2 apiece.

Offer valid through the last day each month.

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Amazon Kindle First: Read next month's new releases today

May Picks: Choose one of six for $1.99.

The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi
Enemy (On the Bones of Gods Book 1) by K. Eason
Time Heals No Wounds (A Baltic Sea Crime Novel) by Hendrik Falkenberg, Patrick F. Brown
We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman
About the Night by Anat Talshir, Evan Fallenberg

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Kindle Select 25: 25 Exciting Books This Week

Our list of 25 exciting books for this week.

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50 Kindle Books for $2 Each

Browse select Kindle books for $2 each from romances, to mystery & thrillers, and more. Deals are valid through the last day of each month.

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Roommates by Erin Leighfrom Amazon ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description
This is a 17+ read

Life is full of expectations.
For Brady Coldwell it’s always been about the game.
Hockey is and always will be, his life.
His family sacrificed everything to get him here and he won’t let them down.
He knows what’s expected of him.

Natalie Banks is no different.
She too knows what it means to have everyone sacrifice for you.
She knows about the debt that’s left owing in the end and the price you pay for making up your own mind.

But when an innocent mistake lands them as roommates, neither of them is prepared for the feelings they have or the consequences of their actions.
How do you negotiate matters of the heart?
How do you say no when it simply feels so right?

Roommates, an unlikely romance!

Where the Road Takes Me by Jay McLean from Skyscape ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $1.99

Product Description

Book 1 of 2 in the The Road Series

Chloe has one plan for the future, and one plan only: the road. She’s made a promise to herself: don’t let anyone in, and don’t let anyone love her. She’s learned the hard way what happens if she breaks her rules. So she’s focused on being invisible and waiting until she can set out on the road—her dream of freedom, at least for a little while.

Blake Hunter is a basketball star who has it all—everything about him looks perfect to those on the other side of his protective walls. He can’t let anyone see the shattered pieces behind the flawless facade or else all his hopes and dreams will disappear.

One dark night throws Chloe and Blake together, changing everything for Blake. For Chloe, nothing changes: she has the road, and she’s focused on it. But when the so-called perfect boy starts to notice the invisible girl, they discover that sometimes with love, no one knows where the road may lead.

The Perfect, Indiana Series, Books 1-4 by Barbara Longley from Montlake Romance ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 1)

** Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the Perfect, Indiana Series, Books 1-4 by Barbara Longley are $1.99 Each.

Far from Perfect (Perfect, Indiana Book 1)
The Difference a Day Makes (Perfect, Indiana Book 2)
A Change of Heart (Perfect, Indiana Book 3)
The Twisted Road to You (Perfect, Indiana Book 4)

The Poor Man's Fight Series, Books 1-2 by Elliott Kay ($1.99 Each) from Skyscape is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the Poor Man's Fight Series, Books 1-2 by Elliott Kay for $1.99 Each.

Poor Man's Fight (Poor Man's Fight Series Book 1)
Rich Man's War (Poor Man's Fight Series Book 2)

Counting Stars by Kathleen Long from Lake Union Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Literary Fiction Deal Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $1.99

Product Description

When Bernadette Murphy's brother, Mark, dies unexpectedly, her world is rocked. Jenny, the wife he left behind, skips grieving and goes straight into survival mode. That is, until she shows up at Bernie's door in tears, holding a battered canvas journal in which Mark--once obsessed with adventure--had listed larger-than-life travel destinations.

Before losing her brother, life had been great for Bernie--a new career and a nice romance--even though she wavers on her boyfriend's proposal and wears her diamond engagement ring on a cord around her neck instead of on her finger. But inspired by Mark's unique bucket list, Bernie puts her mom, her dog, her best friend's angsty teenager, and Jenny into a borrowed RV and sets off on a cross-country road trip, sharing quirky adventures and unexpected turns along the way.

But Bernie can't run forever. Will she find a way to let go of the past, heal her losses, and open herself to life's new possibilities?

USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Kathleen Long, delivers an unforgettable story of healing and hope in this much-anticipated follow-up to her breakout novel, CHASING RAINBOWS.

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Audible Daily Deal - Still Midnight (Alex Morrow Book 1) by Denise Mina, Jane MacFarlane (Narrator) for $3.95

Publisher's Summary

Alex Morrow is not new to the police force - or to crime - but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received.

On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has never been, inside the front door. In the confusion that ensues, one family member is shot and another kidnapped, the assailants demanding an impossible ransom.

Is this the amateur crime gone horribly wrong that it seems, or something much more unexpected?

©2010 Denise Mina (P)2010 BBC Audio

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4 books from the 'Joe Logan' series by Michael Kerr from Amazon (£2.49 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Today only, get 4 books from the 'Joe Logan' series by Michael Kerr for just £2.49 each.

Aftermath (Joe Logan Book 1)
Atonement (Joe Logan Book 2)
Absolution (Joe Logan Book 3)
Allegiance (Joe Logan Book 4)

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The Choice by Nicholas Sparks from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette ($2.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door.

Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

World of Warcraft: Wolfheart by Richard A. Knaak from Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster ($1.99) is the Kindle Science Fiction & Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

In the wake of the Cataclysm, conflict has engulfed every corner of Azeroth. Hungering for more resources amid the turmoil, the Horde has pressed into Ashenvale to feed its burgeoning war machine. There, acting warchief Garrosh Hellscream has employed a brutal new tactic to conquer the region and crush its night elf defenders, a move that will cripple the Alliance’s power throughout the World of Warcraft.

Unaware of the disaster brewing in Ashenvale, the night elves’ legendary leaders, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind and Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, conduct a summit near Darnassus in order to vote the proud worgen of Gilneas into the Alliance. However, resentment of Gilneas and its ruler, Genn Greymane, runs deep in Stormwind’s King Varian Wrynn. His refusal to forgive Genn for closing his nation off from the rest of the world years ago endangers more than just the summit: it threatens to unravel the Alliance itself.

Varian’s animosity is only one of many unsettling developments in Darnassus. An uneasiness creeps over the once-immortal night elves as the first of them fall victim to the infirmities of age. While they cope with their mortality, tensions flare over the reintroduction of the Highborne, formerly the highest caste of night elf nobility, into their society. Many night elves are unable to pardon the Highborne for the destruction unleashed on Azeroth millennia ago by their reckless use of magic.

When a murdered Highborne is discovered on the outskirts of Darnassus, Malfurion and Tyrande move to stop further bloodshed and unrest by appointing one of the night elves’ most cunning and skilled agents to find the killer: the renowned warden Maiev Shadowsong. Yet with all that is transpiring in Darnassus, the Alliance might be powerless to stop the relentless new warchief Garrosh from seizing the whole of Ashenvale.

The Accidentally Yours Series, Books 2-3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff ($1.99 Each) from Forever/Hachette is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the Accidentally Yours Series, Books 2-3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff for $1.99 Each.

Accidentally Married to...A Vampire? (The Accidentally Yours Series Book 2)
Sun God Seeks...Surrogate? (The Accidentally Yours Series Book 3)

For the King's Favor by Elizabeth Chadwick from Sourcebooks Landmark ($1.99) is the Kindle Historical Fiction Deal Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

A Bittersweet Tale of Love, Loss, and the Power of Royalty

When Roger Bigod arrives at King Henry II's court to settle a bitter inheritance dispute, he becomes enchanted with Ida de Tosney, young mistress to the powerful king. A victim of Henry's seduction and the mother of his son, Ida sees in Roger a chance to begin a new life. But Ida pays an agonizing price when she leaves the king, and as Roger's importance grows and he gains an earldom, their marriage comes under increasing strain. Based on the true story of a royal mistress and the young lord she chose to marry, For the King's Favor is Elizabeth Chadwick at her best.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 1) by Edmund Morris from Modern Library/Random House ($1.99) is the Kindle Nonfiction Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR, who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of the White House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more than any man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with such authentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impression of TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to the White House, you shake hands with Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then you go home to wring the personality out of your clothes.”

The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s irresistible rise to power. (He himself compared his trajectory to that of a rocket.) It is, in effect, the biography of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician—who merged at age forty-two to become the youngest President in our history. Rarely has any public figure exercised such a charismatic hold on the popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened TR’s vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said that he was “a very symbol of the creative will in man.” Walter Lippmann characterized him simply as our only “lovable” chief executive.

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Audible Daily Deal - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander, Corey Allen (Narrator) for $0.99

Publisher's Summary

2015 Newbery Medal Winner

2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks... The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dreadlocked 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother, Jordan, are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood. He's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander.

Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game changer for the entire family.

©2014 Kwame Alexander (P)2014 Recorded Books

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Every Move She Makes (Who's Watching Now) by Jannine Gallant from Lyrical Press/Penguin Random House ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Book 1 of 3 in the Who's Watching Now Series

No matter where she goes, he knows her every move…

Long ago, Rachel Carpenter was a glamorous soap star. She gave it all up to move to Napa Valley with her daughters to open up a bookstore near her family vineyard. Her life is safe and dependable, until she encounters Kane Lafferty at a wilderness camp in the rugged High Sierra. A burned-out police detective struggling with his own demons, Kane is instantly attracted to Rachel. And like Rachel, he isn’t sure if he’s ready to open up his heart. But everything is about to change…

Someone is watching from the darkness. A fanatic obsessed with Rachel for years has decided to claim what he believes is his. It will be up to Kane to not only protect his new love and her family, but to uncover the identity of the stalker before it’s too late for all of them…

Five books in the Vampire for Hire Series by J.R. Rain ($1.99 Each) from Amazon is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, five books in the Vampire for Hire Series by J.R. Rain for $1.99 Each.

American Vampire (Vampire for Hire Book 3)
Vampire Dawn (Vampire for Hire Book 5)
Vampire Games (Vampire for Hire Book 6)
Moon Island (Vampire for Hire Book 7)
Vampire Sun (Vampire for Hire Book 9)

The Word Game by Steena Holmes from Lake Union Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Literary Fiction Deal Deal of the Day (May 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $1.99

Product Description

USA Best Book Award Winner in General Fiction

For overprotective parent Alyson Ward, any time her daughter, Lyla, is out of sight is reason to panic. So it’s a big step for her when she lets Lyla attend a sleepover at her cousin’s house. Comforted by the knowledge that her sister, Tricia, is the chaperone, Alyson does the one thing she never thought possible: she lets go and trusts that her daughter will be safe.

But Alyson’s sense of peace is short lived. When Lyla comes home the next morning, she reveals something that could tear apart not only their family but also the entire community. Now, Alyson and Tricia must confront their painful shared past as they come together to help a little girl who they fear might be harboring terrible secrets similar to their own. Will the sisters be strong enough to face their demons in order to protect the child, even if it means telling their most private truths?

Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer from Berkley/ Penguin ($2.99) is the Kindle Literary Fiction Deal Deal of the Day (May 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for love.

Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.

Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go.

Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Biographies & Memoirs Deal of the Day (May 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add Audible narration to your purchase for just $1.99

Product Description

Book 5 of 11 in the Icons Series

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling “The Tell-Tale Heart” to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”—the first modern detective story—to the iconic poem “The Raven.”

Poe’s life was one of unremitting hardship. His father abandoned the family, and his mother died when he was three. Poe was thrown out of West Point, and married his beloved thirteen-year-old cousin, who died of tuberculosis at twenty-four. He was so poor that he burned furniture to stay warm. He was a scourge to other poets, but more so to himself.

In the hands of Paul Collins, one of our liveliest historians, this mysteriously conflicted figure emerges as a genius both driven and undone by his artistic ambitions. Collins illuminates Poe’s huge successes and greatest flop (a 143-page prose poem titled Eureka), and even tracks down what may be Poe’s first published fiction, long hidden under an enigmatic byline. Clear-eyed and sympathetic, Edgar Allan Poe is a spellbinding story about the man once hailed as “the Shakespeare of America.”

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Audible Daily Deal - Broken Grace by E.C. Diskin, Emily Sutton-Smith & Scott Merriman (Narrators) for $2.95

Publisher's Summary

On an icy winter's day in southwest Michigan, Grace Abbot wakes up as the survivor of a car crash. But she's left with a traumatic brain injury and a terrifying reality: she can't remember anything.

Left in the care of her sister, Grace returns to the family's secluded old farmhouse to recover - but within an hour of her return, the police arrive. Grace's boyfriend has been murdered. Without any memory, Grace has no alibi.

With suspicion weighing heavily on her and flashes of memory returning, Grace searches for clues to her past. But with every glimpse, her anxiety grows. There is something about the house, her family, her childhood...perhaps the accident isn't the only reason she can't remember. Are the dark recesses of her mind hiding something even more sinister and terrifying than she could ever imagine?

And someone is watching. Someone willing to kill again to protect a secret.

©2015 E. C. Diskin (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved