Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- May 2014

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Here's the new thread for May (*here's a link to my April thread)

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!

And here's the deal(s) for May 1!

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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon Kindle Monthly Deals: Books £1.99 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.

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May Fête: 40 Books for £1 Each

We're feeling festive this May and celebrating with 40 books for £1 each. Whether you're enjoying spring sunshine now or stocking up for summer reading, choose one or all 40 of our selected titles.

This runs from 12:00 am BST on May 1, 2014 to 11:59 pm BST on May 31, 2014

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Kindle Select 25 - Our list of 25 books recommendations and hidden gems for this week.

Each week we'll select 25 books we love, from classics and new releases to best-selling and debut novels. The list will feature a mixture of books we've read and recommended time and again, hidden gems we think you should know about and some of the week's most talked about titles.

We've had great fun hand-selecting these titles and we hope you'll enjoy browsing through our picks each week.

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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand from Fourth Estate (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award• Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.

In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.

Cabin Fever by Mandy Smith from Thistle Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE...

Mandy Smith spent twelve years strutting down the aisles as one of Richard Branson’s sexy and sassy flight attendants. In Cabin Fever she tells the good, the bad and the downright naughty tales of life in the air.

From dealing with projectile vomit and celebrity tantrums to sipping Manhattans and shopping in New York, this is riotous good fun. Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, the cast of zany characters includes everyone from Courtney Love to Sir Richard himself.

Mandy’s jet-setting job allowed her to search the globe for Mr Right, which led her to many steamy love affairs. She even joined the Mile High Club, though not with a clumsy quickie in the toilet but a leisurely bonk in a Cessna. She’s no Virgin, and in-flight entertainment has never been so risqué!

‘This fun read dishes on what it's like to live with your head literally in the clouds - from in-flight fist fights to sneaky sex at Luna Park during a Sydney stopover.’ - Cosmopolitan

'The PRIMAL' series by Jack Silkstone from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

'The PRIMAL' series by Jack Silkstone are £0.99 each.

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For US Kindlers:

The Amazon Monthly Kindle Book Deals for $3.99 or Less has updated for May! 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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Amazon US promotion: Kindle Countdown sales

Limited-Time Discounts on Kindle-Exclusive Books

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20 Kindle Books for $2 Each

Whether your taste runs to mysteries, thrillers, romance, or science fiction, you'll find your next great read in this selection of Kindle books for only $2 apiece. Offer valid through May 31, 2014.

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The Big Deal: Kindle Books Up to 85% Off

Now through May 11, 2014, save up to 85% on more than 400 Kindle books.

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25 Kindle Kids' Books for $1 Each

Offer valid through May 31, 2014.

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

[QUOTE]May Picks: Choose one for $1.99

Dragon's Triangle by Christine Kling
From the Moment We Met (A St. Helena Vineyard Novel) by Marina Adair
Chasing the Sun by Natalia Sylvester
Moving Day by Jonathan Stone

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Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa and Samia Shanan (Translator) from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "Many have waited for a literary contribution capable of explaining the Palestinian experience to the West. The wait is over."

Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Amidst the loss and fear, hatred and pain, as their tents are replaced by more forebodingly permanent cinderblock huts, there is always the waiting, waiting to return to a lost home.

The novel's voice is that of Amal, the granddaughter of the old village patriarch, a bright, sensitive girl who makes it out of the camps, only to return years later, to marry and bear a child. Through her eyes, with her evolving vision, we get the story of her brothers, one who is kidnapped to be raised Jewish, one who will end with bombs strapped to his middle. But of the many interwoven stories, stretching backward and forward in time, none is more important than Amal's own. Her story is one of love and loss, of childhood and marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.

Set against one of the twentieth century's most intractable political conflicts, Mornings in Jenin is a deeply human novel - a novel of history, identity, friendship, love, terrorism, surrender, courage, and hope. Its power forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining conflicts of our lifetimes.

The 'Night Prowler' series by J.T. Geissinger ($1.99 each) from Montlake Romance 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 'Night Prowler' series by J.T. Geissinger are $1.99 Each.

The Power of Twelve by William Gladstone from BenBella Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add the professional narration of The Power of Twelve for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "This book shares deep knowledge about the nature of humanity and the remedy to make the world a better place."

The year 2012 didn’t mark the end of civilization as many had mistakenly predicted. Rather, it marked a turning point in human consciousness, a shift toward a more humanistic, less violent existence.

But not if Arnold Wheeler can help it.

Arnold is The Grand Light and Keeper of the Code of the Illuminati, which quietly and covertly control every major development on Earth. He is quite aware of the universal shift in consciousness predicted by the Mayans long ago. With this shift, humanity has the opportunity, for the first time, to reach its full potential. Except the Illuminati have other plans.

William Gladstone, author of the bestselling The Twelve, takes readers on a roller coaster adventure that features George W. Bush, alternate earths, and the real meaning of the upcoming 26,000-year Mayan cycle.

Part science-fiction, part philosophical exploration, The Power of Twelve will keep readers turning the pages, discovering the very nature of existence. The problems keep mounting. The clock keeps ticking. And by the end, readers will be wondering what is real, what is not, and how they can prepare their own lives for a world that is so rapidly changing.

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story by Ann Jones from Haymarket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "This was a moving, realistic and accurate portrayal of the horrors of war."

Ann Jones shows the dead, wounded, mutilated, brain-damaged, drug-addicted, suicidal, homicidal casualties of our distant wars, taking us on a stunning journey from the devastating moment an American soldier is first wounded in rural Afghanistan to the return home. Beautifully written by an empathetic and critical reporter who knows the price of war.

Bleach, Vol. 1: Strawberry and the Soul Reapers by Tite Kubo from VIZ Media: SHONEN JUMP ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (May 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Borrow this book for free on a Kindle device with Amazon Prime.

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Customer review: "This is great Manga that has action, drama, and tons of interesting and quirky characters. Highly recommended."

Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts--he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow--a malevolent lost soul--Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace.

Find out why Tite Kubo's Bleach has become an international manga smash-hit!

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FYI, For Amazon US (active for the next 5 days):

Kindle Graphic Novels: $3.99 or Less Sale

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FYI, For Amazon US:

$1.99 Kindle Gifts for Mother's Day

Choose from over 50 Kindle books all for $1.99 each and find the perfect gift for Mother's Day.

Offer valid through May 11, 2014.

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Audible Daily Deal - Language A to Z by The Great Courses (Narrated by Professor John McWhorter) for $3.95 (Regular Price:$14.95)

Publisher's Summary

Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible. But here's a secret: There's a lot that's quirky and intriguing about how human language works-and much of it is downright fun to learn about. But with so many potential avenues of exploration, it can often seem daunting to try to understand it. Where does one even start?

In these twenty-four 15-minute lectures by one of the best-known popularizes of language, you'll discover a delightful way to get accessible, bite-sized introductions to language. Using the English alphabet as a unique, offbeat way to approach the subject, Professor McWhorter has crafted a hopscotch tour of some of the field's major topics, hot-button issues, and more.

You'll learn why it can actually be OK to use slang like "LOL." Why English speakers don't use words like "thou" and "thee" anymore. What makes "mama" and "papa" a child's first words-in many languages. How popular rhymes like "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe") actually derive from the words for numbers in an early relative of Welsh. Why "like" is here to stay in common American speech. And much more.

These and other fascinating topics are all delivered in Professor McWhorter's light-hearted yet informative teaching style, which makes this series essential for anyone looking for a welcoming window into the quirks, curiosities, and intricacies of how language works. Filled with humor, whimsy, and no shortage of insights, it's a fast-paced tour of the same territory linguists tread each and every day.

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Corrupt Practices: A Parker Stern Novel by Robert Rotstein from Seventh Street Books ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 1)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Product Description

When an old colleague calls on Parker Stern to represent him in an embezzling case against a church (some would call it a cult), the lawyer must get over his stage fright after the suicide of his mentor. When his new client suddenly turns up dead Stern looks to uncover the truth behind the two deaths and take down the church in this legal thriller from author and lawyer Robert Rotstein.

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FYI, for Amazon US:

Open Road Mystery Deals from $1.99

Start each month with popular mysteries from Open Road, starting at $1.99.

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Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever) by Maggie Stiefvater from Scholastic ($3.99 on Amazon US, CDN$ 4.40 on Amazon CA)

Book Description

Lose yourself in Maggie Stiefvater’s NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Shiver series: SHIVER, LINGER, and FOREVER.

shiver

Sam's not just a normal boy -- he has a secret. During the summer he walks and talks as a human, but when the cold comes, he runs with his pack as a wolf. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house -- but never dreamed that she would fall in love with one of them. Now that they've found each other, the clock ticks down on what could be Grace and Sam's only summer together.

linger

Can Grace and Sam last? Each will have to fight to stay together -- whether it means a reckoning with his werewolf past for Sam, or for Grace, facing a future that is less and less certain. Enter Cole, a new wolf who is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being human. For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is harrowing and euphoric, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But can it be enough?

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For Grace, Sam, and Cole, the story continues -- only now, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. It's becoming harder and harder to hold on to one another. The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment -- a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.

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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina from Candlewick ($2.99 on Amazon US, CDN$ 3.30 on Amazon CA)

Add the professional narration of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass for a reduced price of $3.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

Book Description

Winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award!

In Meg Medina’s compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school — and must discover resources she never knew she had.

One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off or running away?

In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.

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11/22/63 [Kindle Edition With Audio/Video] by Stephen King from Scribner/Simon and Schuster is $2.99 (Amazon US)

Book Description

This Enhanced eBook Edition contains a 13-minute film, written and narrated by Stephen King and enhanced with historic footage from CBS News, that will take you back—as King’s novel does—to Kennedy era America.

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.

Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.

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Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind by Nicole Knepper from NAL/Penguin ($1.99) is the KOBO Daily Deal (May 1)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Add the professional narration of Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind for a reduced price of $10.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

Product Description

If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place.

Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts.

Based on her hugely popular Facebook page, “Moms Who Drink and Swear,” this book reveals why family dinners are like herpes, how to avoid smashing toys that are being fought over, and the joy of hearing that your son has murdered his imaginary friend. As Nicole rants and raves about caring for children (without crushing their souls), family togetherness (without too many tears), the saving grace of girlfriends (and vodka), and love and marriage (and all the baggage that goes with them), she gets to the heart of what every exasperated mom is thinking, just much funnier.

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The Dirty Duck: A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 4 by Martha Grimes from Scribner/Simon and Schuster ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add the professional narration of The Dirty Duck for a reduced price of $12.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "Miss Grimes has given us a realistic plot with her usual subtlety and humor. While English detectives seem to be a staple of American writers, Grimes has developed a unique and satisfying style."

The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeare’s beloved Stratford, and in this pub Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, fresh from a performance of As You Like It, takes her last drink. A few minutes later she is slashed ear to ear, the only clue: two lines from an unknown poem printed across a theater program. The razor-happy murderer, it seems is stalking a group of rich American tourists. And Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, just passing through Stratford for a glimpse of the intriguing Lady Kennington, instead takes a crash course in the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse.

Homeland: Carrie's Run by Andrew Kaplan from William Morrow Paperbacks ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add the professional narration of Homeland: Carrie's Run: A Homeland Novel for a reduced price of $3.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "The author did a wonderful job with characters and the fictional world already created by the show."

An edge-of-your-seat original prequel based on Showtime's hit series Homeland

Beirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a clandestine meeting with a new contact, code-name Nightingale. Suspicious that security has been compromised, she challenges the station chief in a heated confrontation that gets her booted back to Langley.

Expert in recognizing and anticipating behavioral patterns—a skill enhanced by her bipolar disorder she keeps secret to protect her career—Carrie is increasingly certain that a terrorist plot has been set in motion. She risks a shocking act of insubordination that helps her uncover secret evidence connecting Nightingale with Abu Nazir, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Determined to stop the terrorist mastermind, she embarks on an obsessive quest that will nearly destroy her.

Filled with the suspense and plot twists that have made Homeland a must-watch series, this riveting tale reveals the compelling untold backstories of the series' main characters and takes fans deeper into the life and mind of one brilliant female spy.

The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick from Mariner Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Add the professional narration of The Crack in Space for a reduced price of $0.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "Dick does an incredible job of revealing a complex world with plenty of unusual and unforgettable characters."

"Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable."—The New York Times Book Review

When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?

Scandal: A Manual by George Rush from Skyhorse Publishing ($0.99) is the Kindle Entertainment Deal of the Day (May 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add the professional narration of Scandal: A Manual for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "A cheeky, good tempered and very funny take on celebrities and how they got that way."

Over fifteen years of dirty secrets, shocking reveals, and all of the celebrity gossip that's unfit to print . . . but we're going to anyway. When Jay Z defended himself against unfair charges that he slapped a woman, when Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez got tagged by an escort agency madam, when Bill O'Reilly dissed Muslim women, and when Ruth Madoff discovered her scam artist husband, Bernie, had also been cheating on her, it all came out in the pages of Rush & Molloy, the internationally syndicated entertainment column devoured by millions.

George Rush and Joanna Molloy are as dedicated to finding the juiciest scoops as they are to their long screwball romance. Together they've made some impressive enemies, turned down some bribes, become unlikely relationship counselors to famous star-crossed lovers, and witnessed the evolution of celebrity coverage from the twilight of Winchell to the dawn of Twitter.

Part love story, part tabloid, Scandal is a rollicking memoir of fame, gossip, and two true icons of print and web journalism. Rush and Molloy have exposed, unraveled, and reported some of Hollywood's biggest rumors, blind items, and unbelievable stories. Still, over the years, the couple has kept a few salacious tales to themselves - that is, until now!

The 'Bea Catcher Chronicles' series by Olivia Samms from Skyscape ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (May 2) *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 'Bea Catcher Chronicles' series by Olivia Samms are $1.99 each.

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Audible Daily Deal - Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (Narrated by Avery Brooks) for $5.95 (Regular Price:$34.96)

Publisher's Summary

Audie Award Winner, Non-fiction, 2008

It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

As an adult, Alex spent 12 years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the "African" - Kunta Kinte - as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767.

Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people - slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, teacher, and one acclaimed author - descended from Kunta Kinte.

©1974 Alex Haley. Renewed 2004 by Myran Haley, Cynthia Haley, Lydia Haley, and William Haley; (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks America

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The Eighth Day by Tom Avitabile from The Story Plant ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 2)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Product Description

Before Tom Avitabile's action packed thrillogy comes to a conclusion on June 17 with The God Particle, go back to the beginning in this first novel, where a series of random murders and attacks turn out to not be so random after all. America is under attack--and doesn't know it, until William "Wild Bill" Hiccock and his newly formed ragtag team step in to find and take down the bad guys.

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In a Class of Their Own by Millie Gray from Black & White Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A MOVING FAMILY SAGA TELLING THE STORY OF A SINGLE MOTHER’S STRUGGLE TO BRING UP HER FAMILY IN WAR-TORN LEITH

All Rachel Campbell really wants is a better life for herself and her children. But as the Second World War rages throughout Europe, life in Leith gets tougher day by day. Her feckless husband Johnny isn’t helping either, so finally Rachel has no choice but to fend for herself and the children through the poverty and dangers of wartime. This is their story, as Rachel struggles to survive and the children grow up with all the joys and disappointments that life brings in difficult times.

Based on the real-life wartime experiences of author Millie Gray, In A Class of Their Own brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the time with all the hardships and struggles as well as the fun, warmth and humour of everyday life.

Timebound (The Chronos Files, Book 1) by Rysa Walker from Skyscape (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

2013 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction Winner

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.

Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.

Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost—if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?

Timebound was originally released as Time’s Twisted Arrow.

Autumn in the Vineyard (A St. Helena Vineyard Novel) by Marina Adair from Montlake Romance (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Frankie Baudouin has a hundred reasons not to trust Nate DeLuca. First, he’s a DeLuca. Second, he kissed her—in front of the entire town—and then never called. Oh, and he’s after her land. Sorrento Ranch is Frankie’s last chance to prove to her family—and to herself—that she has what it takes to be an award-winning winemaker. And she will stop at nothing to ensure her success—even if it means playing nice with the starched, sophisticated, and oh-so-sexy Italian.

For Nate, Sorrento Ranch is more than just soil and grape vines; it was his father’s dream—a dream Nate is determined to make a reality. So when he finds himself forced to cohabitate with a hot-headed, irrational, and incredibly gorgeous Baudouin, Nate is surprised to discover that chaos could be so much fun—especially when she sleeps in nothing but lace.

Past-it Notes by Maureen Lipman from Aurum Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (May 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Life the Lipman way is always unexpected, and the hilarious and witty way in which she recalls her adventures and misadventures has made her a bestselling author and national treasure.

Past-it Notes is the ultimate Maureen Lipman collection, drawing on choice material from her six previous books (re-visited and re-worked) laced with a heady dose of extremely funny new autobiographical material. Past-it Notes is packed with beguiling showbiz anecdotes, wonderful stories, eccentric characters, bizarre situations and memorable encounters – recalled and recorded with gusto and relish, including affectionate recollections of her late husband, the playwright Jack Rosenthal, and of her mother and Muse, the inimitable Zelma.

From entertaining the neighbours at the age of four with impressions of Alma Cogan to entertaining the nation on TV, from struggling with her laptop to film-roles and award-winning stage triumphs as diverse as The Pianist and Oklahoma – and not forgetting her iconic creation Beattie, star of thirty five British Telecom commercials – Maureen combines stories of her whirlwind professional life, and confessions of the chaos that often threatens to engulf her personal life, with a style and wit that is utterly and uniquely her own.