Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- April 2012

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Missing with Bonus Material: The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book One by Shelley Shepard Gray (Avon) is $1.99 (US Kindle, pre-order)

Book Description

Can two young people survive the suspicions of their friends and neighbors when tragedy strikes a close-knit Amish community?

For a limited time, enjoy bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray's new Amish mystery Missing, Book One of The Secrets of Crittenden Country series. Plus, receive excerpts from the next two books, Found and The Search, available this summer.

Perry Borntrager had been missing for months from the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky, when his body is discovered at the bottom of an abandoned well. The first death from mysterious circumstances in more than two decades brings the scrutiny of the outside world: A police detective arrives to help the local sheriff with the investigation. His questioning begins with Lydia Plank, Perry's former girlfriend, and Perry's best friend, the Englischer Walker Anderson.

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Real Life & Liars with Bonus Excerpt by Kristina Riggle (William Morrow Paperbacks) is $2.99 (US Kindle, pre-order)

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For a limited time at a special price, enjoy Kristina Riggle's heartwarming novel Real Life & Liars along with an excerpt from her upcoming new novel, Keepsake, on sale June 26, 2012.

Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it.

For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age. On the weekend of their parents' anniversary party, lies will be revealed, hearts will be broken...but love will also be found. And the biggest shock may come from Mirabelle herself, because she has a secret that will change everything.

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To Surrender To A Rogue (Circle of Sin Trilogy 2) by Cara Elliott (Forever) is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

An expert in antiquities, Lady Alessandra della Giamatti arrives in Bath to excavate newly discovered Roman ruins-only to find herself caught in a web of evil intrigue by a blackmailer threatening to expose her scandalous past. The one man who can help her is Lord James "Black Jack" Pierson, a fellow member of the expedition and a sinfully handsome rogue whose tempting presence ignites a different sort of danger.

Jack has clashed with Alessandra in the past, so when she suddenly surrenders her body he can't help being suspicious. Is she a scheming temptress? Or is she truly a lady in trouble? As desire and deceptions swirl around them, Alessandra and Jack must find a way to win each other's trust. For if they don't work together to uncover a shocking truth, their enemy-and their own simmering passions-may destroy them and everything they cherish.

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The Revelations by Alex Preston from Faber and Faber Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement, offers everything the friends have been looking for, but also threatens to rip them apart. This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.

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A Gentle Rain by Deborah Smith fromBelleBooks ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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After a plane crash kills Kara Whittenbrook's parents, the young woman is stunned to learn that she was adopted and her birth parents live on a troubled Florida cattle operation. Hoping to discover her roots and help out, she leaves the Brazilian rain-forest preserve of her childhood for the ranch.

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The Gathering (Darkness Rising Series #1) by Kelley Armstrong from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 17)

FYI, Amazon has matched this Nook deal at $2.99 too!

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Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong revisits her world of DNA-manipulated supernaturals in this story, the first of her "Darkness Rising" series. Strange things are happening in a small town on Vancouver Island and 16-year-old Maya Delaney, even if the mystery reveals things she didn't know about herself.

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 17)

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This 2008 Newbery Honor winning book set in late 60's suburban Long Island follows the adventures of Holling Hoodhood. Forced to spend Wednesday afternoons studying Shakespeare with his English teacher, Holling eventually comes around to The Bard, taking joy in hurling a few Elizabethan insults as he navigates the perils of life in junior high.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.

About the Author
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany is $2.99 on B&N too (and $9.99 on Sony, boo). This is one of my favorite books of all time.

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Finding Sky by Joss Stirling from Oxford University Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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You have half our gifts, I have the other… Bad boy Zed talks to Sky with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Shadows stalk her past, but a new evil threatens her future, and Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 17)

FYI, already matched by Amazon & iTunes.

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The NOOK Daily Find today brings you this darkly comic from living legend John Irving, the story of Owen Meany, a remarkable boy who believes he is God’s instrument and the extraordinary, terrifying journey of his life that demonstrates that belief to be true.

One Love by Cedella Marley from Chronicle Books ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 18)

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Inspired by Bob Marley's classic song, this is the story of a little girl who transforms her neighborhood with through the power of love.

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Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells from Sourcebooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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At Indigo Beach, 16-year-old Mia Gordon met a boy with pale skin that glowed against the dark waves. It was the start of something neither could have predicted, something that would mark them forever and make everything that came after and before seem like another life.

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The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind by Jonah Lehrer from Canongate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional, but scientists are discovering this is not how the mind works. Jonah Lehrer draws on cutting-edge research and studies on the world's most interesting 'deciders'--from airline pilots and sportsmen to politicians and poker players--to answer how the human mind makes decisions and how can we make those decisions better.

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The Spy Who Left Me: An Agent Ex Novel (Agent Ex 1) by Gina Robinson (St. Martin's Paperbacks) is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes, Kobo)

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If there’s one thing that can ruin a vacation, it’s running into your ex. Just ask Treflee Miller. If she’d only known that her husband Ty would be here in Hawaii—muscular, sun-bronzed, and infuriatingly gorgeous—she would have brought the divorce papers for him to sign. But life is full of surprises when you’re married to a world-class spy…

Ty Miller can understand why his wife is tired of playing Mrs. James Bond. He’s never home, he’s always on a mission, and he’s usually surrounded by exotic informants. He has to admit that the perfect spy makes a pretty lousy husband. But for the sake of Ty’s security and Treflee’s safety, they can’t blow his cover. Not here. Not now. Not when his longing is so strong, her lips so tempting—and his enemies so close…

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FYI: the Kindle App Weekly Deal is Getting Dumped Part 1 – A Schultz Sisters Mystery at $0.99 (until 4/19).

and some new Kindle apps:

Outside Sudoku (Outside Sudoku Puzzles for Kindle) by DJAPE ($0.99)

Falling Blocks (An Arcade-Style Tile-Matching Puzzle Game for Kindle) by Play Gray ($1.99)

Choice of Zombies (An Interactive Novel Game for Kindle) by Choice of Games ($2.99)

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The Black Stiletto by Deborah Smith from Oceanview Publishing ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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While caring for his elderly, Alzheimer's-stricken mother, Martin Talbot discovers her cached diaries. Reading through them, he's stunned to realize that his mother may be the mysterious, deadly vigilante of yesteryear, the Black Stiletto. Martin doubts the accounts until one of the Black Stiletto's most vicious enemies returns for revenge.