Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- May 2012

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The Twitter Diaries: 2 Cities, 1 Friendship, 140 Characters by Imogen Lloyd Webber and Georgie Thompson from Bloomsbury Reader (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A lot can happen in a year. It turns out just 140 characters can change everything. Tuesday, a sports reporter and Stella, a men's shoe designer, are Brit 30-somethings who are introduced in NYC on NYE by a mutual friend and strike up an instant bond. Over the next 365 days, Tuesday and Stella put the world to rights, one tweet at a time.

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666 Park Avenue: A Novel by Gabriella Pierce from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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What if your mother-in-law turned out to be an evil, cold-blooded witch . . . literally?

Ever since fabulously wealthy Malcolm Doran walked into her life and swept her off her feet, fledgling architect Jane Boyle has been living a fairy tale. When he proposes with a stunning diamond to seal the deal, Jane can't believe her incredible luck and decides to leave her Paris-based job to make a new start with Malcolm in New York. But when Malcolm introduces Jane to the esteemed Doran clan, one of Manhattan's most feared and revered families, Jane's fairy tale takes a darker turn. Soon everything she thought she knew about the world —and herself —is upended.

Now Jane must struggle with newfound magical abilities and the threat of those who will stop at nothing to get them.

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To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd from Simon and Schuster is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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Sandra Byrd takes readers back to the court of Henry the Eighth in a novel that imagines the life of Anne Boleyn’s best friend, a young woman whose fortunes depend on the queen’s.

When Anne Boleyn’s star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best friend Meg Wyatt along for the ride. Life in the court of Henry VIII is thrilling at first, but as Anne’s favor rises and falls, so does Meg’s. And though she’s pledged her loyalty to Anne no matter what the test, Meg just might lose her greatest love—and her own life—because of it.

Meg’s childhood flirtation with a boy on a neighboring estate turns to true love early on. When he is called to follow the Lord, she turns her back on both the man and his God. Slowly, both woo her back through the heady times of the English reformation. In the midst of drama and intrigue, Meg finds her place in history and follows her own calling to the Lord. Meg and Anne must determine what love really means and what, in this life, is worth dying for.

Readers continue to be captivated by the Tudors, that most famous of English ruling families. To Die For seamlessly blends fact and fiction in an unforgettable tale of two fascinating lives and one unshakable faith.

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Withering Tights with Bonus Material by Louise Rennison from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Hold on to your tights! Meg Cabot, author of the Princess Diaries series, says, "I don't know how, but Louise Rennison has done it again. Tallulah is even funnier, warmer, and sweeter than her cousin Georgia Nicolson. I fell in love with Withering Tights, and you will too!"

For a limited time, bestselling author Louise Rennison's laugh-out-loud Withering Tights is available with a special sneak peek of A Midsummer Tights Dream, the next book detailing cheeky heroine Tallulah Casey's (mis)adventures!

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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson from Little, Brown & Company ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 22)

*FYI, Amazon has matched Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 also at $2.99 for US Kindle

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July 2005. Four US Navy SEALS departed for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border on a mission to document the activity of an al-Qaeda leader rumored to be in the area. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of Petty Officer Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of Operation Redwing, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history.

Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book One) by Eoin Colfer from Disney Book Group ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (May 22)

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Meet Artemis Fowl, a twelve year old genius who also happens to be the world's greatest criminal mastermind. Descended from a long line of line of thieves and rogues, Artemis is determined to restore his family's ill-begotten fortune. With the help of his manservant Butler, he plans to kidnap a fairy and hold it ransom for fairy gold, the only problem is that the fairy he has chosen is part of an elite supernatural task force. Things are about to get interesting

Tune In Tokyo:The Gaijin Diaries by Tim Anderson from AmazonEncore ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Pushing 30 and working a string of dead-end jobs, Tim Anderson made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move from North Carolina to Japan. In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in this collection of 16 sidesplitting stories.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the other Nook deal:

Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book One) by Eoin Colfer also $1.99

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Amazon also matched the Google Play deal of the week:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is $3.99

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A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orlean's lower denizens of the French Quarter.

A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk amonst the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Cief tablets as he goes - until his maroon-haired mother decress that he must work ...

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Darke: Septimus Heap Book 6 by Angie Sage from Bloomsbury (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In the sixth book of the Septimus Heap series, Alther Mella has been Banished, a Darke Domaine engulfs the Castle and a Darke dragon is on the loose. Now on the threshold of his fourteenth birthday, Septimus Heap must use all of his skills to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 23)

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Return to the origin of the fan-favorite film franchise with Lois Duncan's suspense thriller about four terrified friends who last summer made a desperate pact to keep a horrible secret. They'll soon learn that secrets like that don't always stay buried....

Camp SpongeBob (SpongeBob SquarePants Leveled Reader Series) by Molly Reisner from Nickelodeon Publishing ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (May 23)

*FYI, Amazon has matched Camp SpongeBob also at $1.99 for US Kindle

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Sandy decides to open Bikini Bottom's very first summer camp and asks SpongeBob to be her assistant. But SpongeBob goes overboard trying to make sure that their camp is the best camp ever!

Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Though they live in the same town and were born with extraordinary powers, adolescents Billy Creekmore and Wayne Falconer are strangers. As Billy's ability to commune with the dead and Wayne's healing gifts grow, the boys become aware of each other and unite to fight an ancient evil threatening mankind.

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Mariposa by Greg Bear from E-Reads, Ltd. is $2.41 (US Kindle)

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In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story—training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has another plan in mind—the destruction of the federal system and constitutional law.

Three FBI agents are all that stands between Talos’s CEO Axel Price and the subversion of our nation. Fouad Al-Husam is working undercover in Lion City, Texas, on the Talos Campus—but he may have just overplayed his hand. Agent William Griffin will engage in a desperate diversion to try to rescue Al-Husam, and the top-secret information he literally carries in his blood.

Rebecca Rose is called into action to partner with an unlikely hero: Nathan Trace, one of a team of four who created and programmed the thinking machines that are about to help Axel Price in his plans for domination. Trace and his colleagues were caught up in a violent incident in the Middle East several years ago, and experienced Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. All of them were forcibly enrolled in a treatment program sponsored by Talos Corporation, code-named Mariposa—which supposedly cured their PTSD. But now they are beginning to notice unexpected side effects. The Mariposa subjects are being liberated from nearly all human emotions and concerns—and all mental limits—to become brilliant sociopaths. They are out of control and they must die.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan also $2.99

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Gone by Mo Hayder from Atlantic Monthly Press is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Winner of the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Novel

From one of the most acclaimed authors in the thriller genre—praised as a “maestro of the sinister” by the New York Daily News—Mo Hayder delivers her most excruciatingly suspenseful novel to date. By turns thrilling and horrifying, Gone follows the investigation of a brilliant and twisted carjacker with a disturbing game to play.

Detective Jack Caffery’s newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he’s seen plenty of times before until he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn’t after the car, but the 11-year-old girl in the backseat. Meanwhile police diver Sergeant Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always a step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and as the chances for his victims grow slimmer, Jack and Flea race to fit the pieces together in time.

Gone is Mo Hayder at her terrifying best. Each dark and captivating twist reveals a new dimension to this tight-knit plot, burrowing deeper into the chilling and clever world Mo Hayder creates.

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This Heart of Mine with a Bonus Excerpt: A Novel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from William Morrow is $1.99 (US Kindle, pre-order)

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For a limited time and a special price, download the This Heart of Mine by New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips and receive a special sneak peek at her new novel, The Great Escape, available wherever books are sold June 10.

This Heart of Mine is the story of a children's book illustrator, the creator of Daphne Bunny, who is a bit down on her luck, and the new quarterback from the Chicago Stars who crosses her path. Throw in a search for a birth mother and you have a wonderful read from Susan Elizabeth Phillips which is both funny and sweet.

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Ashes: Book One of the Ashes Trilogy by Ilsa Bick from Quercus (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Alex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live. But then the world suddenly changes. An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device and killing the vast majority of adults. For those spared, it's a question of who can be trusted and who has changed.

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Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters by Jerry Weissman from Pearson Education ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 24)

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Does making a business presentation fill you with dread? Follow these techniques from presentation coach Jerry Weissman and never fear again. Featuring examples tailor-made for your NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet, this guide shows you how to supercharge every part of your message to deliver inspiring, unforgettable presentations to any audience!

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan from Disney Book Group (2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (May 23)

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Seventh grade is off to a surprisingly quiet start for Percy Jackson, after a summer spent preventing a war between the gods and learning about his mythical ancestry, things are seemingly back to normal. That is, until Percy's best friend is taken hostage by the Cyclopes and must cross the Sea of Monsters to save him, retrieve the Golden Fleece and rescue camp Half-Blood from destruction. The second installment of the Olympians series is even more action packed than the first.

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace by
Rye Barcott from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In 2000, before he finished college and headed into the Marines, Rye Barcott spent time living in Nairobi's Kibera shantytown. The experience inspired him to cofound an organization for developing leaders from within one of Africa's largest slums. His courageous narrative explores a powerful melding of military and humanitarian service.