Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- November 2011

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FYI, Tortured: A bridge story between Birthmarked and Prized by Caragh M. O’Brien from Macmillan is available for FREE pre-order on the Amazon US Kindle site

* This is part of the Birthmarked trilogy, and for those interested, the first book in the trilogy Birthmarked (Birthmarked Trilogy) is currently discounted to $2.99

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FYI, new Kindle apps:

Art Pad Basic (A Drawing Tool for Kindle) by Applications Innovations ($0.99)

Product Description
Art Pad Basic is a painting tool that allows you to draw and save simple images on the Kindle.

Draw your images using the five way controller, or take advantage of keyboard shortcuts. You can change the brush size and switch between drawing a black line, erasing, and moving the drawing point without marking board. Art Pad Basic also includes three saved image slots so you can continue your work later or replace them with newer sketches.

If you're looking for a simple painting tool, Art Pad Basic is perfect for you.

TriDoku (A Puzzle Game for Kindle) by DJAPE ($1.99)

Product Description
Is Sudoku getting a bit 'Square' for you? Try a new variant of Sudoku in a refreshing triangular format.

Unlike in ordinary Sudoku puzzles, these 50 TriDoku puzzles are played on a triangular instead of a rectangular grid. But that's not the only difference! Instead of rows and columns, you have to use triangles and hexagons and more! Instead of repeatedly solving classic Sudoku puzzles, this application offers you something to refresh your problem solving skills.

Features of this application include: pencilmarks, automatic pencilmarks, hints, multiple level undo/redo and instructions on how to solve puzzles.

Try an exciting and different Sudoku-type puzzle; accept the TriDoku challenge!

Its All About Sports (A Sports Quiz Game for Kindle) by Route 1 Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Love Sports? It's All About Sports is a quiz game that will exercise your Sports knowledge.

You start each quiz with a Bank of 100 coins and must place a wager for every answer you select. Questions cover everything from football, baseball, soccer, tennis, basketball, and athletics. Get the question right, you win. Wrong, you lose. Your challenge is to complete the quiz with the biggest stash of coins possible. Ten specialist questions will soon reveal what you know about players, results, awards, and much more. Don't worry If you get stuck, It's All About Sports has a Replay assist to get you out of trouble.

It's All About Sports will keep track of your highest score, but can you make it on to the leaderboard? Fun for the whole family, the four different profiles mean that players can save progress whenever they want, and each player can resume their saved quiz at any time - or start a new one.

The final question brings an even bigger challenge... Are you ready for It's All About Sports? Find out today!

Puzzle Baron's Cryptograms: Volume 2 (Code Breaking Puzzles for Kindle) by A Gamz ($2.99)

Product Description
Enjoy even more Cryptograms on your Kindle.

Test your deductive and word finding skills as you decode a series of letters to reveal a hidden message.

Puzzle Barron's Cryptograms Volume 2 contains one hundred new quotes organized into popular categories like Actors, Musicians, Scientists and U.S Presidents. Special features display the letters remaining in a puzzle and letter frequencies. Three difficulty levels will challenge beginners and seasoned players alike, and there is a hint option if you get stuck. When you finish the puzzle, you'll see a graph showing how your time compares to other people who have completed this puzzle and the number of hints taken if any.

If you like Cryptograms, this is for you!

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Cat Deck the Halls (Joe Grey Series #13) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (Amazon, B&N)

Product Description

The cats who saved Christmas . . .

The charming seaside village of Molena Point, California, leads one to expect a quiet traditional Christmas surrounded by family and friends—but not this holiday season. Instead of singing carols and climbing into Christmas trees, Joe Grey, feline P.I., is faced with his most difficult case yet—and that's saying a lot for a wily tomcat who for years has been solving crimes the police can't even crack.

At midnight in the deserted gardens of the shopping plaza, a stranger lies dead beneath the village Christmas tree; the only witness to the shooting is a little child. But when the police arrive, summoned by an anonymous phone call of feline origin, both the body and the child have disappeared. As police scramble for leads, the grey tomcat, his tabby lady, and their tortoiseshell pal, Kit, launch their own unique investigation.

Together Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit face their most heartbreaking case yet as they care for the child who may be the killer's next target. Trying to sort out perplexing clues amidst the happiness of the season, they shadow a cast of colorful characters. But neither the police nor their unknown feline assistants are aware that they might have stumbled over the murderer and never known it, until an electrifying final scene when the killer's identity is revealed.

For years Shirley Rousseau Murphy has written tales that have delighted readers and critics alike. With her lyrical prose and fast-paced plotting, Murphy has created another delightfully absorbing trip to a magical place populated by unforgettable characters whom readers have come to think of as friends.

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Forgotten Realms by R. A. Salvatore from Wizards of the Coast ($2.40) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 9)

Product Description

Fantasy adventure at its finest! The uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the Kingdom of Many-Arrows simply won't last, but its fate will change the face of the Forgotten Realms world forever.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

Cat Deck the Halls (Joe Grey Series #13) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (Amazon, B&N)

Unfortunately not available in Australia, where we're only charged the bargain price of US$21.14. Good one HarperCollins Publishers. Time to dust off the US account...

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The Unquiet Bones: The First Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon (Hugh De Singleton 1) by Mel Starr from Monarch Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A medieval whodunnit set in Bampton, Oxfordshire during the plague years and featuring a newly qualified surgeon.

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Orc King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions, Book 1) by R.A. Salvatore now also $2.40

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Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($3.40) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 10)

Product Description

Stephen W. Sears's masterwork of historical research tells the full story of the Civil War's greatest campaign, drawing on such original source material as soldiers' letters and the official records of the war.

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The First Assassin by John J. Miller from AmazonEncore ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Winter 1861: the United States teeters on the brink of civil war. In Washington, D.C., Colonel Charles P. Rook is tapped to organize the district’s security and to protect president-elect Abraham Lincoln from the death threats pouring in to the White House. He surrounds the president with bodyguards and fills the city’s rooftops with sharpshooters, diligently investigating the conspiracies being fomented with increasing intensity by Southern secessionists. Yet amidst the chaos and confusion, a foreigner slips unnoticed into the teeming city. Hired by a wealthy Southern planter to eliminate President Lincoln and destroy the Union once and for all, the assassin catches Rook’s attention by cutting down anyone who gets in his way. As the bodies begin to pile up, Rook realizes he is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a cold-blooded killer who will stop at nothing to complete his mission. Rook’s only hope is Portia, a runaway slave who holds the key to the assassin’s identity—if she can stay alive long enough to deliver it.

Packed with dynamic characters, rich period detail, and a chillingly sinister villain, The First Assassin is a riveting thriller for fans of historical fiction.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears now also $3.40

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Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox is $2.99 US Kindle (Hyperion)

Product Description
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease.

"Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox

In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease -- a degenerative neurological condition. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. The worldwide response was staggering. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson's.

Combining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life -- from his childhood in a small town in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which -- with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends -- he has dealt with his illness. He talks about what Parkinson's has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. He is a very lucky man, indeed.

BIOHAZARD by Tim Curran is $2.99 US Kindle (Severed Press)

Product Description
The day after tomorrow: Nuclear fallout. Mutations. Deadly pandemics. Corpse wagons. Body pits. Empty cities. The human race trembling on the edge of extinction. Only the desperate survive. One of them is Rick Nash. But there is a price for survival: communion with a ravenous evil born from the furnace of radioactive waste. It demands sacrifice. Only it can keep Nash one step ahead of the nightmare that stalks him-a sentient, seething plague-entity that stalks its chosen prey: the last of the human race. To accept it is a living death. To defy it, a hell beyond imagining

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Originally Posted by arcadata

Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer from Sourcebooks ($1.99 pre-order from US Kindle)

Sprig Muslin is also $1.99 pre-order at BN now. I won't provide a link so arcadata can add an affiliate link if desired. I love to see the Heyer books at reasonable prices!!!

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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Jr. from W. W. Norton & Company ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 11)

Product Description

In honor of Veteran's Day, we present one of the finest accounts of true combat experience ever written: Frederick Downs Jr.'s searing tale of Platoon Delta One-Six's Vietnam missions.

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Originally Posted by sufue

Sprig Muslin is also $1.99 pre-order at BN now.

Here's the B&N link

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When the Devil Whistles by Rick Acker from Abingdon Press Fiction ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

“I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t.”

Allie Whitman is a professional whistleblower with a knack for sniffing out fraud in government contracts. Conner Norman is a gifted litigator and together they form Devil to Pay, Inc., a shell corporation that files lawsuits based on Allie s investigations. They soon find themselves fighting potentially fatal battles in and out of the courtroom, going great lengths to protect secrets that could ruin them both.