Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- May 2012

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Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience by Justin Wintle from Skyhorse Publishing is $0.99 (US Kindle, free for Prime members)

Product Description

An admiring biography of one of the most attractive personalities of our time. (The New York Times Book Review )

Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death." Aung San Suu Kyi is considered to be Burma's best hope for freedom, and, because of her unwavering commitment to nonviolent resistance to the country's brutal military junta, she has been under house arrest since 1989. Elected Prime Minister, she was prevented from taking office, but despite failing health, vilification at the hands of the Burmese media, and actual imprisonment in one of the world's most appalling jails, Suu Kyi has persevered in a campaign of nonviolent protest as unflagging as those of Gandhi, King, and Mandela, which earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

In Perfect Hostage, the most thorough biography of Suu Kyi to date, Justin Wintle tells both the story of the Burmese people and the story of an ordinary person who became a hero.

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From Amazon UK:

Kindle Jubilee Sale

Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a selection of Kindle books on sale from £0.99.

Relive history with biographies of the Queen and telling accounts of times gone by, or immerse yourself in the world of fiction with pulse-pounding thrillers, bestsellers and more.

The Kindle Jubilee Sale ends 11:59 pm on June 7, 2012.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the NOOK Daily Find for Families today"

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan also $2.99

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FYI, Amazon has also matched the NOOK Daily Find today:

Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters by Jerry Weissman also $1.99

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I wish Amazon US would match some of the Amazon UK deals! I enjoy reading about your royalty, too .... as well as some of the other deals I've seen go past.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

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

Will this deal be offered to Amazon US customers?

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@detayls, Unfortunately, no. Amazon US doesn't really match the Amazon UK deals...

Here's a deal for US people from Tor Teen:

Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She has spent years keeping everyone at a distance---even her closest friends---and it seems as if her senior year is going to be more of the same . . . until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can’t seem to stay away from him.

What she doesn’t know is that Luc is on a mission. He’s been sent from Hell itself to claim Frannie’s soul. It should be easy---all he has to do is get her to sin, and Luc is as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn’t stand a chance. But he has to work fast, because if the infernals are after her, the celestials can’t be far behind. And sure enough, it’s not long before the angel Gabriel shows up, willing to do anything to keep Luc from getting what he came for. It isn’t long before they find themselves fighting for more than just Frannie’s soul.

But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay . . . for all of them.

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More from Tor Teen:

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Description

Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011.

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.

Shadow Grail #1: Legacies by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Description
Who—or what—is stalking the students at Oakhurst Academy?

In the wake of the accident that killed her family, Spirit White is spirited away to Oakhurst Academy, a combination school and orphanage in the middle of Montana. There she learns she is a legacy—not only to the school, which her parents also attended, but to magic.

All the students at Oakhurst have magical powers, and although Spirit’s hasn’t manifested itself yet, the administrators insist she has one. Spirit isn’t sure she cares. Devastated by the loss of her family, she finds comfort with a group of friends: Burke Hallows, Lachlann Spears, Muirin Shae, and Adelaide Lake.

But something strange is going on at Oakhurst. Students start disappearing under mysterious circumstances, and the school seems to be trying to cover it up. Spirit and her friends must find out what’s happening—before one of them becomes the next victim…

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Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick from Sourcebooks is $3.28 (US Kindle) and $3.99 (iTunes)

Product Description

"A star back in Britain, Elizabeth Chadwick is finally getting the attention she deserves here" -USA Today

Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival Stephen do not know the iron will that drives her.

Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, is now married to a warrior who fights to keep Matilda off the throne. But Adeliza, born with a strength that can sustain her through heartrending pain, knows that the crown belongs to a woman this time.

In the anarchy, in a world where a man's word is law, how can Adeliza obey her husband while supporting Matilda?

How long can Matilda fight for the throne that she has struggled so bitterly to win?

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The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset by Nick Powdthavee from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness--precisely--will each life choice bring? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of happiness economics.

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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps by Simon Garfield from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.88 (US Kindle)

Product Description:

From the author of Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World, an obsessively readable memoir that brings the mania for stamp collecting to life.

From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst.

As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors — rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. When this passion reignited in his mid-forties, it consumed him. In the span of a couple of years he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand pounds, pursuing not only this secret passion, but a romantic one as his marriage disintegrated.

In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest and engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us.The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess.

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How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate by Jeff Goodell from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $0.92 (US Kindle)

Product Description:

When Jeff Goodell first encountered the term “geoengineering,” he had a vague sense that it involved outlandish schemes to counteract global warming. As a journalist, he was deeply skeptical. But he was also intrigued. The planet was in trouble. Could geoengineers help?

Climate change may well be the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. Temperatures in some regions of the world could increase by as much as fifteen degrees by the end of the century, causing rising sea levels and severe droughts. But change could also happen much more suddenly. What if we had a real climate emergency, the ecological equivalent of the subprime mortgage meltdown–how could we cool the planet in a hurry?

As Goodell shows in this bracing book, even if we could muster the political will for it, cutting greenhouse gas emissions alone may not be enough to reduce the risk of climate catastrophe. This has led some scientists to pursue extreme solutions: huge contraptions that would suck CO2 from the air, machines that would brighten clouds and deflect sunlight away from the earth, even artificial volcanoes that would spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere.

In How to Cool the Planet, Goodell explores the scientific, political, financial, and moral aspects of geoengineering. How are we to change the temperature of whole regions if we can’t even predict next week’s weather? What if a wealthy entrepreneur shots particles into the stratosphere on his own? What about wars waged with climate control as the primary weapon? What happens to our relationship with nature when, as Goodell puts it, we all find ourselves living in a giant terrarium?

And our options are dwindling. Maybe, Goodell suggests, we need to start taking geoengineering seriously. Maybe it’s Plan B for the planet. And if it is, we need to know enough to get it right.

Thoroughly reported and convincingly argued, How to Cool the Planet is a compelling tale of scientific hubris and technical daring. But it is also a thoughtful, even-handed look at a deeply complex and controversial issue. It’s a book that will surely jump-start the next big debate about the future of life on earth.

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The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.

In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.

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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy from Berrett-Koehler Publishers ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 25)

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What's your procrastination demon? Facebook? Cheesy movies? Or just making up excuses to put things off? Eat That Frog! is the best guide we've seen to overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way of getting things done, by teaching us the mental rewards we need to succeed. It's written by Brian Tracy, one of the world's leading productivity experts.

Tiger's Quest (Tiger's Curse Series #2) by Colleen Houck from Splinter (2.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (May 25)

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Every once in a while we recommend a writer that ignites the imaginations of NOOK readers, and the emails we've gotten about Colleen Houck and her Tiger's Quest series shows that her books strike a powerful chord. In this novel, the curse of the tiger brings Kelsey - the much-loved lead character - from comfortable Oregon back to India. It's got everything, including the irresistible allure of the bad-boy brother.

Greyhound by Steffan Piper from AmazonEncore ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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It's 1981. Eleven-year-old Sebastian Rane's mother has abandoned him at a California Greyhound bus station. With $35 and a ticket to Pennsylvania, he's going to live with his grandmother. On the way, Sebastian connects with Marcus, an ex-con, and the unlikely pair lurches from one misadventure to the next.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy now also $1.99