Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- April 2012

[scottken]

Just wanted to point out that this edition of The Dragon's Path also includes an additional complete novel, namely, Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey, a Space Opera, which has been nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award.

Originally Posted by arcadata

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

[arcadata]

Die for Me with Bonus Material by Amy Plum (HarperCollins) is $1.99 (US Kindle pre-order)

Product Description:

For a limited time, Amy Plum’s star-crossed paranormal romance Die for Me is available with a special sneak peek of Until I Die, the second book in this lush trilogy. Bonus content is also included: tips for “Living La Belle Vie” from main character Kate — including her favorite books, movies, and paintings.

[arcadata]

When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird, Jackie MacMullan and Earvin Johnson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Product Description

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s — Celtics vs Lakers, East vs West, physical vs finesse, Old School vs Showtime, even white vs black. Each pushed the other to greatness — together Bird and Johnson collected eight NBA Championships, six MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most critical time. When it started they were bitter rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends.

With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, When the Game Was Ours transports readers to this electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another. From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness, we come to understand Larry’s obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic pain and its truly exacting toll. In Magic we see a young, invincible star struggle with the sting of defeat, not just as a player but as a team leader. We are there the moment he learns he’s contracted HIV and hear in his own words how that devastating news impacted his relationships in basketball and beyond. But always, in both cases, we see them prevail.

A compelling, up-close-and-personal portrait of basketball’s most inimitable duo, When the Game Was Ours is a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint. It is also a rollicking ride through professional basketball’s best times.

[arcadata]

The Girl on the Wall byJean Baggott from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A photograph taken of Jean Baggott when she was aged 11 hangs on the wall. Her life was never going to be remarkable and the pinnacle of her achievements would come from being a wife and mother. Almost 60 years later, she vowed to devote her life to the happiness of 'the girl on the wall', and began to stitch a tapestry looking back on her life and the changing world around her. The result is a unique, touching portrait of a seemingly average British woman's life.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy by William Seil from Titan Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 12)

Product Description

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes continue as the world's greatest detective and Dr. Watson board the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage on a special government mission. With dangers other than icebergs lurking in Atlantic waters, the game's afoot!

Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday by Garth Nix from Scholastic ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 12)

Product Description
From fantasy master Garth Nix comes Mister Monday, the first book in the Keys to the Kingdom series. Join Arthur Penhaligon, as he tries to solve the mystery of a strange house and defeat the wicked Mister Monday.

[arcadata]

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins from Conari Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A cornerstone of the contemporary food-politics revolution, John Robbins's book was one of the first to discuss the negative health effects of eating genetically modified foods and animal products of all kinds. He vividly exposes the dangers inherent in our factory farming system and advocates for a plant-based diet.

[arcadata]

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy by William Seil also $1.99

[arcadata]

The Legacy with Bonus Excerpt by Katherine Webb (Avon) is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description
For a limited time at a special price of $0.99, enjoy Katherine Webb's captivating novel The Legacy—a haunting debut novel about a secret family history stretching from present-day England to America in the early 1900s. As a bonus, you get an excerpt from Webb's new upcoming novel, The Unseen, on sale May 22, 2012.

When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories that arise as she sorts through her grandmother's belongings, Erica thinks back to the summer her cousin Henry vanished mysteriously from the estate, an event that tore their family to pieces. It is time, she believes, to lay the past to rest, bring her sister some peace, and finally solve the mystery of her cousin's disappearance.

But sifting through remnants of a bygone time is bringing a secret family history to light—one that stretches back over a century, to a beautiful society heiress in Oklahoma, a haunting, savage land across the ocean. And as past and present converge, Erica and Beth must come to terms with two shocking acts of betrayal . . . and the heartbreaking legacy they left behind.

[arcadata]

The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper by Maxim Jakubowski from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Even for those disturbed by the phenomenon, it is impossible to deny the continuing fascination of Jack the Ripper. And we are not just interested in the historical Jack, whoever he was. This most famous of serial killers has had a healthy afterlife as a source of grisly inspiration for writers. In this collection, experts on the 19th century killer turn the case inside out looking for his true identity.

The Shooting of Rabbit Wells by William Loizeaux from Arcade Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 13)

Product Description

On January 13, 1973, William "Rabbit" Wells was shot and killed by policeman William Sorgie outside a Bernardsville, New Jersey bar. What is it that put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? That's the story that William Loizeaux deftly unfurls here with compasison and unflinching honesty, a tale that resonates even today.

The Giver by Lois Lowry from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 13)

Product Description
From beloved author Lois Lowry comes The Giver, winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal and upcoming feature film. In seemingly perfect utopian society twelve year old Jonas has been given the job of Receiver of Memories. Having been granted access to the collective past of his civilization, bit by bit he begins to realize that things are not as perfect as they seem.

[arcadata]

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

100 years ago today the Titanic rammed a North Atlantic iceberg and doomed 1,514 passengers to an icy death. Historian Walter Lord interviewed 63 survivors to create this gripping, moment-by-moment account. His 1955 chronicle masterfully details the ship's horrific sinking, which brought out the best and worst of human nature.

[russianfiction]

Originally Posted by arcadata

Here's the new thread for April (*here's a link to my March thread to check out the last bargains I posted there)



And here's the first deal(s) for April 1!

Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book byHarry Hill from Faber and Faber Children's Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking



Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Hay House ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 1)



Good Clean Knock-Knock Jokes for Kids by Bob Phillips from Harvest House Publishers ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 1)

any sale for the Nook book? thanks

[arcadata]

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal today:

The Shooting of Rabbit Wells by William Loizeaux also $2.99

[arcadata]

A Hundred Years of Happiness by Nicole Seitz (Thomas Nelson) is $2.32 (US Kindle)

Description

A beautiful young woman. An American soldier. A war-torn country. Nearly forty years of silence.

Now, two daughters search for the truth they hope will set them free and the elusive peace their parents have never found.

In the South Carolina Lowcountry, a young mother named Katherine Ann is struggling to help her tempestuous father by plunging into a world of secrets he never talks about. A fry cook named Lisa is trying desperately to reach her grieving Vietnamese mother who has never fully adjusted to life in the States. And somewhere far away, a lost soul named Ernest is drifting, treading water, searching for what he lost on a long-ago mountain.

They're all yearning for connection. For the war that touched them to finally end. For their hundred years of happiness at long last to begin.

From the beloved author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass and Trouble the Water comes this generous story of family, war, loss, and longing . . . of the ways we hide from those we love, and the ways that love finds us anyway.

[arcadata]

Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $1.67 (US Kindle)

Description

Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons and streets of Saigon, so he is less than thrilled at being sent to a tiny American outpost in the remote wilderness of the Central Highlands to take down a Viet Cong opium operation hidden in the jungle. When Rider lands in Cheo Reo, things get complicated. Viet Cong battalions are gathering in the surrounding hills like storm clouds, while the corrupt South Vietnamese commander and his troops sit idle. And sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople want their mountain homeland back.

Soon Rider is entangled with the local CIA man and an alluring doctor serving the indigenous tribes. As he closes in on the opium fields, he learns the hard way that that not all enemies are beyond the perimeter; someone in Cheo Reo wants him dead. Easy enough in a combat zone where killing is common and loyalties are for sale.

Red Flags is a masterly novel of soldiers and spies grappling with forces beyond their control and striving for the most basic goal in war—survival.

[arcadata]

Part of Amazon's Weekend deals that people vote on

Kindle deal: Ashes to Dust (Las Vegas Mystery) by Rex Kusler (Thomas & Mercer) is $1.99

Product Description

Since first joining forces in Punctured, Alice James and Jim Snow have been a great—if odd—crime-fighting team. He’s a forty-something former Las Vegas homicide detective who quit the force to become a full-time poker player. She’s a model-turned-cocktail waitress whose foray into casino security led her into law enforcement. Together they are the James & James Detective Agency, and their newest case is a doozy. Jack Roberts comes to them for help solving the brutal murder of his daughter Laura, a cocktail waitress whose body was found burning in the Nevada desert. Among the suspects: an obsessive ex-boyfriend, a mentally unbalanced construction worker, a temperamental roommate, a shady fiancé…perhaps even the client himself! Alice knows that if they can crack this case, business will come pouring in. But first she will have to manage Snow’s ill-timed midlife crisis and deal with the chemistry crackling between them. Ashes to Dust is pure entertainment, sure to please even the most hardboiled of mystery fans.

[arcadata]

Four books by Gordon Ferris from Corvus (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Gordon Ferris is an ex-techy in the Ministry of Defence and an ex-partner in one of the Big Four accountancy firms. Maybe that's where he gets his interest in spies and crooks. Get to know his heroes, Douglas Brodie (The Hanging Shed, Bitter Water) and Danny McRae (Truth Dare Kill, The Unquiet Heart).