Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- December 2011

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Living Large On Less: A Guide to Saving without Sacrifice by Christina Spence from F+W Media ($3.40) is the NOOK Daily Find (Dec 6)

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You work hard for your money, especially these days. Wouldn't you like to get more for it? Living Large on Less is full of hundreds of ways to save money without drastically altering your lifestyle. With the practical, easy-to-implement advice herein, you'll never pay full price again!

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Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Carolyn Hennesy's magical tale follows a 13-year-old girl on her quest to collect unleashed mythological evils.

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Justice with Bonus Material by Faye Kellerman is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [HarperCollins] *The book without bonus content is $8.99

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For a limited time, discover one of Faye Kellerman first Decker/Lazarus novels at a special price, including an exclusive excerpt from her new thriller, Gun Games, available January 2012.

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects—and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Living Large On Less: A Guide to Saving without Sacrifice by Christina Spence now also $3.40

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Weekend with Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [Sourcebooks]

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Full of characters obsessed with Jane Austen and set in Jane Austen locations in England, this lively modern Jane Austen romantic comedy trilogy features two pairs of lonely hearts who find each other and themselves at a Jane Austen Addicts weekend.

Dr. Katherine Roberts is a Jane Austen lecturer at St Bridget's College, Oxford, who secretly loves the racy Regency novels of Lorna Warwick. But Lorna is really a man who's slowly been falling in love with Katherine. He's hoping that the Jane Austen Addicts weekend will be the perfect opportunity to declare his feelings...

Pillow Talk by Freya North is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [Sourcebooks]

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By day, Petra Flint is a talented jeweler working in a lively London studio. By night, she's a sleepwalker troubled by a past she can't put to bed and a present that leaves her clinging to an unsuitable boyfriend. Arlo Savidge was once a budding heartthrob musician. Then tragedy struck and he chose to forsake stardom and all future affairs of the heart for a quiet life in the countryside as a music teacher.

Petra and Arlo haven't seen each other since they were teenagers-when their feelings ran deep but the timing wasn't right. Now, seventeen years later, they run into each other once more. Might first love get a second chance-or will what keeps them up at night keep them apart forever?

Catriona (Casablanca Classics) by Jeannette Baker is $0.99 (US Kindle) [Sourcebooks]

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Known for her Scottish time travel and Irish historical romances, Jeanette Baker was featured in RT's "Where Are They Now" best-loved authors column. Kate Sutherland is visited by the mystical, ghostly Catriona, her deceased ancestor, who transports Kate into the passion and bloodshed of 15th-century Scotland. With ties in both the past and the present, Kate must now risk everything to right the wrongs of long ago, or lock the door on history to pursue her future love.

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The Wild Marquis by Miranda Neville is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [HarperCollins]

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The Marquis of Chase is not a reputable man.

He is notorious for his wretched morals and is never received in respectable houses. The ladies of the ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms . . . though they were more than willing to welcome him into their bedchambers. Ejected from his father's house at the age of sixteen, he now lives a life of wanton pleasure. So what could the Marquis of Chase possibly want with Juliana Merton, a lovely, perfectly upstanding shopkeeper with a mysterious past?

A moment's indiscretion? A night's passion? Or a lifetime of love?

Even the wildest rakes have their weaknesses . . .

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The White Devil: A Novel by Justin Evans is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [HarperCollins]

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Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in London, a chilling gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child . . .

A fierce and jealous ghost . . . A young man's fight for his life . . .

The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States.

But trouble—and danger—seem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an outcast, spurned by nearly all his peers. And there is the pale, strange boy who begins to visit him at night. Either Andrew is losing his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being haunted is true.

When the school's poet-in-residence, Piers Fawkes, is commissioned to write a play about Byron, one of Harrow's most famous alumni, he casts Andrew in the title role. Andrew begins to discover uncanny links between himself and the renowned poet. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a literary genius and infamous seducer but as a student at the very different Harrow of two centuries prior—a place rife with violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and tormented love affairs.

When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start to recur in Harrow's present, and when the dark and deadly specter by whom Andrew's been haunted seems to be all too real, Andrew is forced to solve a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery that threatens the lives of his friends and his teachers—and, most terrifyingly, his own.

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Breakfast With Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith from Profile Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Have you ever wanted to ask history's greatest philosophers about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith has, and so with dry wit and marvellous invention, Smith whisks you through a typical day, injecting a little philosophy into it at every turn. Wake up with Descartes, go to work with Plato and Nietzsche, visit the gym with Kant.

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The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Daniel Marston from Osprey Publishing ($3.95) is the NOOK Daily Find (Dec 7)

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Today, seventy years after that day that lives in infamy, reflect on World War II's Pacific operations in this all-encompassing history that spans Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and all the events in between.

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Unraveling Anne by Laurel Saville from AmazonEncore Childrens ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Laurel Saville explores the heartbreaking story of her mother, Anne Ford, a former beauty queen and model-turned-fashion designer whose success and charm were legendary, but whose life took a tragic turn for the worst.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Daniel Marston now also $3.95

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FYI, new Kindle game app:

Mahjong Solitaire Holiday Edition (A Holiday Matching Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo ($3.99)

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It's time to celebrate the Holiday season with this special edition of the popular matching game Mahjong Solitaire on Kindle.

In Mahjong Solitaire, you match pairs of identical tiles in order to remove them from the board. Only free tiles can be matched. Tiles are considered free if they do not have other tiles to either the left or right of them, or on top of them. The objective of the game is to clear all the tiles from the board. The game ends when all tiles have been removed or when there are no more free tiles left to match.

Mahjong Solitaire tracks the number of pairs of free tiles available to be matched for you. In addition, the game allows for unlimited undos, and contains a Hint feature that will give you suggestions for your next move, as well a Shuffle feature that will rearrange the tiles when you get stuck.

The Mahjong Solitaire Holiday Edition gives you 10 different game board layouts to choose from and two special Holiday tile sets.

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Old School Bones (Cape Island Mystery) by Randall Peffer is $1.86 at the US Kindle store (still $7.99 at B&N) [Tyrus Books].

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Winter in a New England prep school brings term papers, wet snow, and the suicide of a young black student. Except Liberty Baker's friends are convinced she couldn't have taken her own life, and Liberty's faculty advisor, Awasha Patterson, believes them. She is desperate to believe any theory that Liberty's death was suspicious--Awasha turned the girl away the night of her death. If Liberty had been suicidal, Awasha had missed the signs.

But how to prove it? No one in the school wants to think that it could have been a racially-motivated crime; vague whispers of school-sanctioned secret societies are quickly stopped by the headmaster. Awasha can't let it rest, her guilt is consuming. So she seeks out help from a man she knows understands guilt--a man so sensitive, so compassionate to others, that it ruined his career as a defense attorney with one fateful case. Awasha finds Michael DeCastro on his father's fishing boat, and Michael knows from the moment he sees her that he's about to be haunted by another injustice. And he knows he'll give everything of himself until the spirits of the dead lie in peace.

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Victim Six by Gregg Olsen from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this thriller by Gregg Olsen, the body of a young woman is found. Is she a runaway or a victim of a more serious crime? The police don't know and don't seem to care. But when more women are found dead, it becomes clear that somebody has carefully chosen these women to stalk, capture and torture.

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FYI, for those wanting a reading light for their Kindles:

“CHRISTMAS SUPER SALE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST, Save 50% on each Kandle by Ozeri II in White and Kandle by Ozeri Flex in Black when you purchase 1 or more”

*Original price is $25, but the price changes to $12.50 when you go to check-out