Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- April 2012

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FYI, This week's active content deal:

"Nonograms," a Kindle puzzle game, 99cents through Thursday, 4/12.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 6)

The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues Series #1) by Rick Riordan from Scholastic ($3.99)

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Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

I usually read mostly murder mysteries, and some non-fiction, but the premise for this book seemed so funny that I picked it up when it was on-sale (free??) in the US a while back, and I enjoyed it enough that I then picked up the second in the series, and the free novella, and enjoyed all three.

Although self-pub, they are fairly well written, and they remind me of the Hitchhiker's Guide series with a sort of LOL wackiness. Right now the second in the series is on sale as part of the US Kindle 100 books for April - see arcadata's post #4 in this thread) or maybe arcadata can add a link. Although unless you do the proxy thing, or maybe have a long airplane flight in your near future, that may not be much use to know...

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This Is Life by Dan Rhodes from Canongate Books (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A missing baby mystery, an enchanted Parisian adventure, a lovable heroine. In Dan Rhodes's newest novel you will see life as you've never seen it before, discover the key to great art, witness the true cost of love and learn how all these things may be controlled by the in-breath of a cormorant.

In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta Ahmed from Sourcebooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 7)

* Amazon has price matched this book at $1.99 too

Product Description

On a whim, Dr. Qanta Ahmed accepts a position in Saudi Arabia. She thinks she understands the land she's chosen for her new adventure, but discovers that reality in the Kingdom is very different. She encounters rejection and scorn but also humor, honesty, loyalty, opportunity, and love in this land of invisible women.

Dora's Easter Basket (Dora the Explorer) by Sarah Wilson from Nickelodeon ($1.80) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 7)

Product Description

Easter time has arrived! Dora's parents have hidden 12 Easter eggs filled with prizes. It's up to Dora and Boots to find the eggs, join them on this exciting adventure.

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A Good and Useful Hurt by Aric Davis from 47North ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

At Mike's body-art business, loved ones are memorialized when their ashes are mixed with tattoo ink. This specialty unexpectedly provides supernatural assistance to track a killer that begins preying on Mike's customers. It's an intense journey that explores what happens when the hope of redemption collides with life's dark side.

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Bats Sing, Mice Giggle by Karen Shanor PhD and Jagmeet Kanwal PhD from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? Or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing trucks to stave off loneliness? This eye-opening voyage of discovery shows how animals express grief, joy, anger and fear--and emphasises just how animal we humans are.

Between the Bridge and the River HC/PB by Craig Ferguson from Chronicle books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 10)

* Amazon has price matched this book at $1.99 too

Product Description

Craig Ferguson, fan-favorite funnyman behind CBS's Late Late Show, here turns his comedic talents to prose in this satirical odyssey centered on two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South.

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter from Disney Book Group ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 10)

Product Description

Cammie and the rest of the girls from Gallagher Academy are back in Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, the second installment in the Gallagher Girls Series. When a series of security breaches occur at Gallagher, it is up to Cammie and her friends to catch the mole.

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Last Exit in New Jersey by C.E. Grundler from Thomas & Mercer ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Raised around boats and semi-trucks, 20-year-old Hazel Moran can handle anything on the road or water, but the hooligans hunting for her cousin and their missing shipment may be another matter. When Hazel and her father get in the thugs' crosshairs, she knows that playing nice will only end in tears.

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The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) is $0.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description
Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help.

Madonna and Corpse by Jefferson Bass (William Morrow) is $0.99 (Kindle US Pre-order)

Product Description

Renowned bone detective Bill Brockton and his intrepid assistant, Miranda, are about to get immersed in murder and intrigue in Avignon, France, home of the popes for most of the fourteenth century. But first, in this artful prequel to The Inquisitor's Key, other mischief is afoot in the ancient walled city. Inspector RenÉ Descartes of the French National Police is roused from a deep sleep to investigate a break-in at the Petit Palais, Avignon's museum of medieval masterpieces. Descartes's discovery plunges him into an elaborate, art-lined labyrinth: a labyrinth that leads him to a master forger's studio . . . and to a charred corpse. Just as he's finally closing the case, Descartes gets called to an even more bizarre death scene, where his path—and his fate—will collide with those of Brockton and Miranda.

House of Many Ways (Howl's Castle) by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books) is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places—the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a few.

By opening that door, Charmain has become responsible for not only the house, but for an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard, and a box of the king's most treasured documents. She has encountered a terrifying beast called a lubbock, irritated a clan of small blue creatures, and wound up smack in the middle of an urgent search. The king and his daughter are desperate to find the lost, fabled Elfgift—so desperate that they've even called in an intimidating sorceress named Sophie to help. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?

Of course, with that magical family involved, there's bound to be chaos—and unexpected revelations.

No one will be more surprised than Charmain by what Howl and Sophie discover.

About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones is recognised internationally as a major writer of fantasy and in 2007 received a LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the World Fantasy Convention. She has also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (twice) and the Guardian Award for CHARMED LIFE. Her books have been translated into more than eighteen languages, and her novel HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE was made into an animated film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.

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Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) is $3.16 (US Kindle)

Product Description

In Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics , Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from his scrappy survival at the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when Pulitzers began going to graphic novels (a term Eisner is widely credited with creating). Schumacher's extensive research and interviews with Eisner's family, friends, and colleagues, as well as other comics creators who have built upon his work, create a detailed portrait of Eisner the man and Eisner the artist.

Finally, a full biography of Will Eisner, creator of classic Golden Age superhero The Spirit and the father of the American graphic novel.

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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting (HarperCollins) is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

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Just Desserts (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysteries) by Mary Daheim (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the offing. But when their soothsayer-for-hire Madame Gushenka drops dead after someone douses her tea leaves with bug killer, harried hostess Judith and her irrepressible cousin Renie are left to clean up the mess. One of the Brodie bunch would dearly love to sweep the Madame's murder under the rug, however, and that might mean eliminating the nosy Ms. McMonigle as well. But with the help of her one-time beau, policeman Joe Flynn, Judith is determined to rattle the dust off some closeted family skeletons, in order to coax a killer out of hiding before coffee is served.

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What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins) is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness?

Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household.

In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?

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Burn Down the Sky by James Jaros (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

After the destruction of nature and the death of the world . . .

After the Wicca virus drove billions to madness and suicide, replacing order and reason with violence and terror . . .

In the parched ruins of what once was civilization, one commodity is far more valuable than all others combined: female children.

When well-armed marauders roll in at dusk to brutally attack a fiercely defended compound of survivors, Jessie is unable to halt the slaughter—and she can do nothing to prevent the ruthless abduction of innocents, including her youngest child. Now, along with her outraged teenage daughter, Bliss, Jessie must set out on a journey across a blasted landscape—joining up with the desperate, the broken, the half-mad, on an impossible mission: to storm the fortress of a dark and twisted religion and bring the children home.

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Perfect on Paper by Maria Murnane from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

When her fiancé calls off their wedding at the last minute, Waverly Bryson wonders if her life will ever turn out the way she thought it would--or should. Perfect on Paper reminds us that everyone has a bad date (or 12), and that everyone eventually needs a best friend to tell them,"Honey, you are not alone".

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin) by Daniel Abraham from Orbit ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 11)

* Amazon has price matched this book at $2.99 too

Product Description

A spat between the Free Cities and the Severed Throne threatens to sweep the entire land onto The Dragon's Path: that path to war that wordweary soldier-turned-mercenary Marcus knows all too well. None other than George R.R. Martin called this story "Everything I look for in a fantasy"; read it today and learn why!

Maisy Goes on Vacation by Lucy Cousins from Candlewick ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 11)

Product Description

Pack a bag and join Maisy, Cyril, and Panda for a fun beach vacation. There will be tons of swimming, sunbathing, and sandcastle building, so grab a swimsuit and head for the surf.

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Dangerous Games by Michael Prescott from E-Reads ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Saddled with a new partner she neither trusts nor wants, FBI agent Tess McCallum is on the trail of a twisted and deadly kidnapper known for chaining victims up in the vast storm drains of Los Angeles. This novel's breathtaking suspense and plot twists combine to deliver one irresistible read.