Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- March 2012

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Storm Born by Richelle Mead from Zebra Books ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Part powerful shaman and part mercenary, Eugenie Markham trades in banishing spirits who cross into the mortal world. Her work gets personal after uncovering a prophecy claiming Eugenie's first born will threaten the world's future, and she's soon targeted by a various cast of other-worldly characters.

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Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Catherine one day hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a peddler, a minstrel, a monk, a wart charmer . . . anything besides being sold like a cheese to the highest bidder. Winner of the 1995 Newbery Honor, this richly entertaining story with an utterly unforgettable heroine now features a new introduction by Linda Sue Park.

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Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 8)

This is a great period-accurate YA historical which I've read and recommend.

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Roma (Rome 1) by Steven Saylor from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Epic in every sense of the word, Roma is a panoramic historical saga that weaves history, legend and archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative. Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city's first thousand years, from its founding by the ill-fated twins to Rome's ascent as the centre of the most powerful empire in history.

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.

TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of five books, most recently The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington State Book Award winner, and a Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book.

* You can review the rest of the $3.99 discounted books here.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning for Older Teens by Jack Canfield from Chicken Soup for the Soul ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 9)

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Candid teen talk of the high school experience -- sports, driving, curfews, self-image, dating and sex, family, friends, divorce, illness, death, pregnancy, failure, graduation, the future, and more -- make this inspirational book a must-have companion to for any teenager.

Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman from Aladdin ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 9)

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Have you ever wondered what wiped out the dinosaurs? It turns out it was an underpants war! In this hilarious romp you'll join T. Rex and the gang in their epic underpants war.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School: 101 Stories of Life, Love, and Learning for Older Teens by Jack Canfield also $2.99

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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth from Lyons Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. Ambushed during the mission, only Jan Baalsrud survived. This true story details Baalsrud's incredible escape from the Nazis in one of the world's harshest environments.

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Another price-matched Nook deal:

Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman for $3.99

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Still Missing by Chevy Stevens from St. Martin's Press is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N, iTunes)

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On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.

Still Missing is that rare debut find--a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted debut novel.

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Nurse! Nurse! by Jimmy Frazier from Constable (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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As punishment for some youthful hijinks, 16-year-old Jimmy Frazier is made to volunteer in a London hospital. The experience shocks him, and he swears he will never set foot on a ward again. Two decades later, older but not a lot wiser, some strange twists of fate lead Jimmy back to hospital--but this time as a student nurse.

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Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Piers Bizony (Bloomsbury USA) is $3.84 for US Kindle.

Book description:

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Film stars, politicians and pop stars from Europe to Japan, India to the United States vied with each other to shake his hand.

Despite this immense fame, almost nothing is known about Gagarin or the exceptional people behind his dramatic space flight. Starman tells for the first time Gagarin’s personal odyssey from peasant to international icon, his subsequent decline as his personal life began to disintegrate under the pressures of fame, and his final disillusionment with the Russian state. President Kennedy’s quest to put an American on the Moon was a direct reaction to Gagarin’s achievement–yet before that successful moonshot occurred, Gagarin himself was dead, aged just thirty-four, killed in a mysterious air crash. Publicly the Soviet hierarchy mourned; privately their sighs of relief were almost audible, and the KGB report into his death remains secret.

Entwined with Gagarin’s history is that of the breathtaking and highly secretive Russian space program – its technological daring, its triumphs and disasters. In a gripping account, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony reveal the astonishing world behind the scenes of the first great space spectacular, and how Gagarin’s flight came frighteningly close to destruction.

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The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner from Thomas Nelson ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 10)

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Johnny Cash is one of the most powerful and influential figures in American popular culture. Learn the story of the man behind the icon in this exclusive authorized biography that discusses his powerful music, his personal relationships, and his abiding faith.

Attack of the Vampire Weenies by David Lubars from Tom Doherty ($3.60) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 10)

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From critically acclaimed author and master of the macabre David Lubar comes Attack of the Vampire Weenies a collections of thirty spooky tales, a welcome addition to his best selling Weenies stories collection

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Man Called Cash by Steve Turner is $3.99

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Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood from Chronicle Books ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The fictional paper-mill town of Abbot Falls, Maine, serves as the setting for Monica Wood's nine stories. From brothers torn apart by a labor strike to the mill's CEO road-tripping with his estranged daughter, Wood's stories reaffirm one's faith in human resilience when adversity spawns human nature's bad side.