Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- October 2011

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FYI, new Kindle game apps:

Blossom Halloween Edition (A Creepy Puzzle Game for Kindle) by Braintonik Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Planting takes an eerie twist in Blossom Halloween Edition, where you are challenged to create a network of pipes that feed your Jack-O-Lanterns with potion from the witch's pot.

The goal of the game is to build an irrigation system that delivers a spooky brew to pumpkins by manipulating the game tiles with pipes on them. Just select the pipe tiles and rotate them until the potion flows through them and reaches the pumpkins to make them grow.

When a pipe is connected to the witch's cauldron it will fill up with potion. Make sure the brew flows in all the pipes to keep your pumpkins menacing. You'll have to rotate the tiles with pipes, pumpkins, and that all-important cauldron to make each part of the grid connect together and fill up every tile. All the pumpkins need to be connected to the cauldron and every pipe must be used to finish the puzzle. Are you facing a drought? The Hint system is there to help you figure out the next best move.

Halloween may be just around the corner, but with Blossom Halloween Edition's 120 puzzles, waiting has never been such a guilty pleasure!

Ultimate Halloween Quiz (A Spooky Trivia Game for Kindle) by HandyX ($0.99)

Product Description
Do you know Mary Shelley from Marilyn Manson, or Freddy from Jason?

Bring fear to your bones and take the horror challenge. Featuring hundreds of spine chilling questions, this funny, scary, and educational quiz will test your knowledge of all things dark and evil. Questions topics include horror movies, Halloween facts, scary novels, gruesome history, magical creatures, myths and legends. Halloween will never be the same!

Answer sets of questions in rounds of 10, or in a continuous stream. If you think you know it all then crank up the tension with the question countdown timer for an even greater challenge. In the 'Timer Play' contestants in the hot seat are under increased pressure to correctly answer questions before the time runs out!

Do you have the courage to answer them all?

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October Fest (The Murder-By-Month Mysteries) by Jess Lourey from Midnight Ink ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Oct 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Beer and polka music reign supreme at Octoberfest, Battle Lake's premier fall festival. To kick off the celebrations, the town hosts a public debate between the two congressional candidates: straight-laced Arnold Swydecker, and slippery incumbent, Sarah Glokkmann. As a reporter for the Battle Lake Recall, Mira James is roped into writing up the word war. But the festive mood sours when a well-known Glokkmann-bashing blogger is found dead . . . and the congresswoman herself meets a gruesome fate.

To keep the heat off her best friend's fiancé—an ex-con reporter—Mira wades through the candidates' dirty laundry, their unsavory secrets, and some murderous mudslinging to expose the killer.

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FYI, Amazon just price-matched the Nook deal;

Sweet Talk (Bakery Sisters Series #1) by Susan Mallery

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FYI, new Kindle game apps:

Futoshiki Halloween Edition (A Haunting Logic Puzzle for Kindle) by Braintonik Games ($0.99)

Product Description
Futoshiki Halloween Edition takes an eerie twist as witches and zombies take over in a graveyard game board.

The rules of Futoshiki remain deceptively simple but the game is challenging and addictive. Each row and column must be filled with unique numbers. However, Futoshiki has a twist. It adds greater-than or less-than signs between some cells. You must honor these signs in order to solve and complete the puzzles.

This collection of 120 spooky puzzles is grouped into four different sets ranging from easy to expert. The graveyard grids are 5x5 in easy, medium, and hard modes. Expert mode holds thirty 7x7 puzzles. The game features annotations to help you keep track of possible solutions, and a hint function to help you keep playing if you get stuck.

Get Futoshiki Halloween Edition and have a scream!

Mahjong Solitaire Halloween Edition (A Scary Matching Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo ($3.99)

Product Description
It's time to celebrate Halloween with this special edition of the popular matching game Mahjong Solitaire on Kindle.

In Mahjong Solitaire, you match pairs of identical tiles in order to remove them from the board. Only free tiles can be matched. Tiles are considered free if they do not have other tiles to either the left or right of them, or on top of them. The objective of the game is to clear all the tiles from the board. The game ends when all tiles have been removed or when there are no more free tiles left to match.

Mahjong Solitaire tracks the number of pairs of free tiles available to be matched for you. In addition, the game allows for unlimited undos, and contains a Hint feature that will give you suggestions for your next move, as well a Shuffle feature that will rearrange the tiles when you get stuck.

The Mahjong Solitaire Halloween Edition gives you 13 different game board layouts to choose from and two special Halloween tile sets. This game is so fun it's scary!

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FYI, new Kindle game app:

TRIVIAL PURSUIT Master Edition (Play the Popular Trivia Game on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc ($4.99)

Product Description
Play the popular trivia game TRIVIAL PURSUIT on Kindle!

In this game, you move your marker around a circular board answering trivia questions and collecting wedges in six categories: Science & Nature, History, Sports & Leisure, Entertainment, Geography, and Art & Literature. To win, you will have to answer questions correctly from the required categories and collect one wedge for each category.

Experience traditional TRIVIAL PURSUIT game play in the classic mode described above, or enjoy the faster paced Pursuit mode in which the board is not circular, but has a start and an end. The winner is the player who can reach the end first by answering the most questions as quickly as possible.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT Master Edition on Kindle features more than 1,500 new questions that will challenge even the savviest player. You don't have to keep the fun to yourself either. While you can play on your own, the Pass 'n' Play feature lets you can challenge a friend so you can play together.

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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury USA ) is $2.99 at the US Kindle store and B&N

Product Description
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.

Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment—the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove—the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change.

The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity.

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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage from Walker Books ($3.19) is the NOOK Daily Find (Oct 14)

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A hands-down fascinating look at human history, told through the lens of six beverages -- beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola -- that have influenced culture from the stone age to today.

From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history.
Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In ancient Greece wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade, helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-century Europe they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the leading symbol of globalization.

For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your favorite drink the same way again.

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Gone to Green (Green (Abingdon Press)) by Judy Christie from Abingdon Press Fiction ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Oct 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Gone to Green, Lois goes from being a corporate journalist at a large paper in the Midwest to the owner of The Green News-Item, a small twice-weekly newspaper in rural North Louisiana. The paper was an unexpected inheritance from a close colleague, and Lois must keep it for at least a year, bringing a host of challenges, lessons, and blessings into her life.When Lois pulls into Green on New Year’s Day, she expects a charming little town full of smiling people. She quickly realizes her mistake. After settling into a loaned house out on Route 2, she finds herself battling town prejudices and inner doubts and making friends with the most surprising people: troubled teenager Katy, good-looking catfish farmer Chris, wise and feisty Aunt Helen, and a female African-American physician named Kevin.Whether fighting a greedy, deceitful politician or rescuing a dog she fears, Lois notices the headlines in her life have definitely improved. She learns how to provide small-town news in a big-hearted way and realizes that life is full of newsworthy moments. When she encounters racial prejudice and financial corruption, Lois also discovers more about the goodness of real people and the importance of being part of a community.While secretly preparing the paper for a sale, Lois begins to realize that God might indeed have a plan for her life and that perhaps the allure of city life and career ambition are not what she wants after all.

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FYI, Amazon price matched the Nook deal again:

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage now also $3.19

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FYI, Kindle bargain for those in Canada

Farlander by Col Buchanan ($1.55) from Tor Books *$7.99 for those in the US

Product Description
The Heart of the World is a land in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sasheen, ruthlessly maintains control through her Diplomats, priests trained as subtle predators.

Ash is a member of an elite group of assassins, the Roshun, who offer protection through the threat of vendetta. Forced by his ailing health to take on an apprentice, he chooses Nico, a young man living in the besieged city of Bar-Khos. At the time, Nico is hungry, desperate, and alone in a city that finds itself teetering on the brink.

When the Holy Matriarch’s son deliberately murders a woman under the protection of the Roshun; he forces the sect to seek his life in retribution. As Ash and his young apprentice set out to fulfill the Roshun orders, their journey takes them into the heart of the conflict between the Empire and the Free Ports…into bloodshed and death.

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What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know: Facing Today's Challenges with Wisdom and Heart by Debra W. Haffner from Newmarket Press ($3.10) is the NOOK Daily Find (Oct 16)

Product Description

Parenting in the 21st century presents a new set of challenges that require new solutions. Like their parents before them, today's parents have to help their children navigate school, friends, crushes, extracurricular activities, and sexuality. But they also face a bewildering new world, driven by ever-evolving technology and media, that frequently thwarts their efforts to raise physically, emotionally, and sexually healthy children.

With understanding and clarity, parenting educator Debra Haffner (author of the award-winning From Diapers to Dating and Beyond the Big Talk) draws on extensive research to debunk the myths, validate the concerns, and address parents' questions. She provides concrete examples, practical advice, and enlightening anecdotes, and explains what parents can do to get it right today.

About the Author:
Deara W. Haffner is an ordained minister with the Unitarian Church in Westport, Connecticut

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Dead and Berried (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 2) by Karen MacInerney from Midnight Ink ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Oct 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, they're planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the island's namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. Natalie Barnes isn't sweet on the idea of commercial interests souring their cozy oasis, but the single innkeeper has other problems on her plate: a withering relationship with her best friend Charlene, the sudden appearance of her ex-fiance with a tempting proposal, and eerie bumps in the night suggesting the Gray Whale Inn is haunted. Worst of all, there's a killer on the loose, picking off people like ripe fruit.

When Charlene's lover–the handsome chaplain with a stake in the development– is stabbed to death, Natalie promises to find the murderer for her griefstricken friend, who's also the number-one suspect.

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FYI, here's some new Kindle game apps:

SpongeBob's Treasure Quest (A Puzzle Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo $2.99

Product Description
SpongeBob's Treasure Quest is an exciting game that combines the strategy of Sudoku with the tactics of Snakes in the rich undersea world of SpongeBob SquarePants.

SpongeBob has stumbled upon maps to hidden treasures that are buried throughout Bikini Bottom. It's up to you, with a little help from Patrick and Sandy, to guide SpongeBob through the deep to uncover the treasures for the Krusty Krab. Solve the first 50 levels, and you will enter unlimited mode and play for as long as you can survive!

There are clues to the number of treasures in each row and column, so you can deduce where the treasures are likely to be. Guess right, and you get the treasure. For each wrong guess, a plankton will start to follow you around the board. Lots of wrong guesses will mean a very long tail of plankton. Don't run into any of the plankton while looking for treasures!

SpongeBob's Treasure Quest has both Novice and Advanced modes, and your progress will be recorded in a High Score table. To keep the game fun and fresh, the levels will be different every time you replay them.

Plankton and his cousins are right on your heels! Will they grab the treasures for themselves and the Chum Bucket?

Smiles (A Game for Kindle) by Sykhronics Entertainment $2.99

Product Description
Light up the board in this cheerful matching game that combines patience and strategy, resulting in a uniquely fun experience.

The object of Smiles is to create contiguous sets of matching tiles until no unmatched pieces are left. Make matches by swapping tiles on the board with the tile in your hand. Matches are easy at first, but the challenge comes later when you try to create new matches while not undoing existing matches or blocking future matches. Fortunately, you can undo a move with just a button press, and you can exit and resume your game at any time.

Smiles features randomly generated levels for nearly infinite replayability with 4 difficulty modes and 2 cheerful themes including Weather and Vegetables. Regular and high-contrast versions of each theme are available, and you can see how well you did with post game statistics and a high score chart.

When you can finally match all the pieces, you'll be all smiles!

The Periodic Table of the Elements (A Reference Tool for Kindle) by Braintonik Games $0.99

Product Description
The Periodic Table of the Elements is the classic tabulation of the atomic elements organized by increasing atomic number.

The user interface of this Periodic Table provides fast and easy access to the following data for each atomic element: atomic number and weight, classification, group, electron configuration, oxidation state, density, state of aggregation, melting and boiling temperatures, electro-negativity, ionization energy, and atomic measures of interest.

In addition to being a handy reference to have at hand, the Periodic Table of the Elements is an invaluable resource for students of the natural sciences. Let this resource be your fast and accurate reference guide to the elements whenever you need it. Don't be caught without it!

Snakes Basic (A Game for Kindle) by Applications Innovations $0.99

Product Description
Snakes Basic is a game where you control a constantly moving snake to capture pellets.

The object of the game is to collect as many pellets as possible before your snake runs into its tail, or into a wall or other stationary object. This wouldn't be so difficult, except that with each pellet collected, your snake will get longer and possibly faster! Good luck not running into your tail now!

The game comes with three difficulty modes (Easy, Medium, and Hard) that determine the speed and growth rate of your snake. The use of the 5-way controller to change the snake's direction gives the game the feel of a classic hand-held arcade game.

If you like challenging retro-style video games, Snakes Basic is for you.

Moron-o-Meter (An Irreverent Quiz for Kindle) by puzzle.tv $0.99

Product Description
Are you smarter than a fourth grader? Than a rock? You might be surprised. Let Moron-o-Meter set you straight.

Moron-o-Meter is a game that will test every ounce of your brain power, but not in a serious way. Do you know what comes once a year, but twice a week? It's not Santa Clause, it's 'e'. Your brain will be pestered with similar brain teasers when you take this challenge. If you want to be entertained while finding out if you're a Genius, a Moron, or any form of intelligent life at all, then this is the game for you.

A clever blend of serious, not-at-all serious and downright tricky questions will be asked in an attempt to bamboozle you into thinking you might be a moron. The game will amuse and test players of all abilities with three funny, creative and occasionally diabolical tests to complete. Get declared the ultimate brain by completing the tests in record time.

Throw down the gauntlet to your friends and family and take part in the irreverent Moron-o-Meter challenge. Reap the ultimate satisfaction and prove to yourself that you are indeed farther up the evolutionary ladder than bread mold!

Triviac (A Quiz Game for Kindle) by Alazar GmbH & Co. KG $0.99

Product Description
Trivia anyone? Become a contestant in your own quiz show!

In Triviac you will be challenged with 15 randomly selected questions, each one slightly more difficult than the previous one. Try to answer all 15 questions correctly and hit the Jackpot. More than 1,000 questions from the following ten categories test your knowledge in a race against the clock. The categories are: US general knowledge - Sports general - Mixed Music - Famous People - Geography - Entertainment - History - Classic Movies - Literature - Science and Nature.

In case you get stuck you only have three lifelines, so use them wisely. The lifelines are: "Ask The Host" The host will make her best guess and give you the right answer - "Fifty-Fifty" Two wrong answers will be deleted - "New Question" Skip the current question and get a new one.

Good luck with Triviac. No one knows everything, but maybe you can come close?

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FYI, here's another new Kindle game app:

5 in a row (A Game for Kindle) by DQ Team $0.99

Product Description
Five in a Row (also known as "Gomoku" or "Connect 5") is an abstract strategy board game, which is easy to learn but hard to master.

Players take turns placing their marks on a 19x19 board. The objective of the game is to place five marks in a row. The first player to have five unbroken marks connected diagonally, horizontally or vertically wins the game. While similar to tic-tac-toe in some ways, the larger dimensions of the board and longer string requirements open up many strategic options. 5 in a Row also requires much more tactical awareness, as many more possible victory conditions are in constant play. You play against Kindle, and can adjust the difficulty level to easy, medium or hard.

If you like exercising your abstract logic and attentiveness skills - this is the game for you!

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FYI, here's another new Kindle game app:

PUZZLE KING'S Number Trails (Math Puzzles for Kindle) by Route 1 Games $1.99

Product Description
Number Trails is a fun and educational math game in which victory is not just about the right answers, but about getting the right answers quickly.

You start your number trail with a number on which you must perform a series of arithmetic operations to arrive at your final answer at the end of the trail. You are rewarded for finishing each puzzle quickly, but make a mistake at any one step, and all of the answers following that step will be incorrect.

Number Trails has 100 puzzles divided into three difficulty levels, Easy, Medium and Hard. Easy puzzles include only simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division while the Hard puzzles delve into fractions and exponentials.

Number Trails lets you save your progress on any puzzle so you don't lose your place, and it lets you play any puzzle you want without having to solve the easier puzzles first. Four player profiles mean you can share the game with friends and family and not lose your current status or high scores.

Whether you're looking for the perfect way to enjoy practicing math or you simply enjoy the challenge of solving problems quickly and accurately, Number Trails is the title for you!