Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- February 2012

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A Royal Mess by Tyne O'Connell is $2.99 from Bloomsbury USA (US Kindle, B&N)

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Calypso Kelly has finally joined the in-crowd at her exclusive English boarding school. She also just happens to be dating Prince Freddie himself! But balancing her social life, her prince, and her parents' visit to London proves to be more than Calypso can handle.

Then, Freddie does the unthinkable and breaks up with Calypso--setting in motion a school-wide plan for a royal Counter Dump. Can Calypso win Freddie back just to break his heart?

All is fair in love and war . . . except, of course, if you're in love with a prince!

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Torn by Erica O'Rourke also $2.99

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That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny from Tindal Street Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Helena and Liddy travel to the island of Ischia in search of adventure and romance. But when a little boy in their care goes missing the spell is broken and the girls find themselves under suspicion from police. As the pressure grows, one will betray the other and for ever change the course of both their lives.

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Guernica: A Novel by Dave Boling from Bloomsbury USA ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Feb 4)

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A former B&N Discover Great New Writers selection, Guernica is a vast familiy saga set against the Spanish Civil War and the town that was famously firebombed by the Germans on the eve of WWII. A rewarding read, this vivid novel transports you to a place and time you will never forget.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Guernica: A Novel by Dave Boling also $2.99

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Well-Offed in Vermont (A Pret' Near Perfect Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade from MIDNIGHT INK ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Amy Patricia Meade's cozy debut, a Manhattan couple on vacation in Vermont finds themselves caught in the middle of a shocking small-town murder investigation.

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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (Bloomsbury USA) is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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The New York Times bestseller.

Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.

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Valeria's Last Stand: A Novel by Marc Fitten (Bloomsbury USA) is $1.24 for US Kindle ($7.46 at B&N)

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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009

When it comes to the sizes of fishes and ponds, Valeria is a whale in a thimble. She harrumphs her daily way through her backwater Hungarian village, finding equal fault with the new, the old, the foreign and the familiar. Her decades of universal contempt have turned her into a touchstone of her little community - whatever she scorns the least must be the best, after all. But, on a day like any other, her spinster's heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: the village potter, long-known and little-noticed, captures her fancy, and Valeria finds herself suddenly cast in a new role she never expected to play. This one deviation from character, this one loose thread, is all it takes for the delicately woven fabric of village life to unravel. And, for the first time in a long time, Valeria couldn't care less.

Valeria's Last Stand is a joyfully wise small-town satire that takes an hilariously honest look at later-in-life romance and the notion that it's never too late to start anew.

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Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empire, Gaius Petreius Ruso Series #3 by Ruth Downie (Bloomsbury USA) is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home-to Gaul. Having received a note consisting only of the words "COME HOME!" Ruso has (reluctantly, of course) pulled up stakes and brought Tilla to meet his family.

But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother Lucius is hoping he’ll leave. With Tilla getting icy greetings from his relatives, Lucius’ brother-in-law mysteriously drowned at sea, and the whole Ruso family being sued for bankruptcy, it’s hard to imagine an unhappier reunion. That is, until Severus, the plaintiff in the bankruptcy suit, winds up dead, and the real trouble begins...

Engrossing, intricate, and-as always-wonderfully comic, Ruth Downie’s latest is a brilliant new installment in this irresistible series. This is everything we’ve come to expect from our charming, luckless hero.

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Slipping by Cathleen Davitt Bell (Bloomsbury USA) is $1.24 for US Kindle ($6.39 at B&N)

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Michael Kimmel is an average eighth grader who's too short to be good at basketball and too unmotivated to care about school. When the grandfather he barely knows suddenly dies, Michael can’t understand why his dad seems so detached. But when the ghost of his grandfather contacts Michael and begins to show him scenes from the past, Michael suspects it’s up to him to right the wrongs between his father and grandfather – before he himself becomes trapped in the river of the dead.

A penetrating twist on the classic ghost story, full of humor and insight about family relationships.

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Chef: A Novel by Jaspreet Singh (Bloomsbury USA) is $1.45 for US Kindle ($7.46 at B&N)

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Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years.

Kirpal, called Kip, is shy and not yet twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar's camp, nestled in the shadow of the Siachen Glacier. At twenty thousand feet, the glacier makes a forbidding battlefield; its crevasses claimed the body of Kip's father. Kip becomes an apprentice under the camp's chef, Kishen, a fiery mentor who guides him toward the heady spheres of food and women.

In this place of contradictions, erratic violence, and extreme temperatures, Kip learns to prepare local dishes and delicacies from around the globe. Even as months pass, Kip, a Sikh, feels secure in his allegiance to India, firmly on the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani "terrorist" with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river and changes everything.

Mesmeric, mournful, and intensely lyrical, Chef is a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love, and memory set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.

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The Mark by Jen Nadol (Bloomsbury USA Childrens) is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Renfield has always seen the mark-a light glow reminiscent of candlelight. The only time she pointed it out taught her she shouldn't do it again. For years, the mark has followed Cassie, its rare appearances odd, but insignificant. Until the day she watches a man die. As she revisits each occurrence of the mark, Cassie realizes she can see a person's imminent death. Not how or where, only when: today.

Now armed with a slight understanding of the mark, Cassie begins to search for it. Even as she hides her secret, Cassie mines her philosophy class, her memories, and even her new boyfriend for answers about the faint glowing mark. But many questions remain. How does it work? Why her? And finally, the most important of all: If you know today is someone's last, should you tell them?

Look out for the second book in this series, The Vision, available now!

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The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for Nothing by Todd Robbins (Bloomsbury USA) is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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Cons, bar bets, card games, and general chicanery for the natural-born prankster.

Whether it’s winning $50 on a bar bet, scoring seats closer to the fifty-yard line, or finagling a free meal, The Modern Con Man ensures that aspiring low-risk grifters will always come out on top. Filled with humorous facts and tables, a glossary of con terms, illustrations, the history of the con, and easy-to-follow swindles, this is the perfect gift for the hidden flim-flam artist in your life.

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The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA Childrens) is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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This is what he knew:

His name was Fisher. The world was dangerous. And he was alone.

Fisher is the last boy on Earth - and things are not looking good for the human race. The carefully crafted survival dome where Fisher and dozens of other humans have been sleeping for millenia has been destroyed. Through a lucky accident, only Fisher survived.

The world Fisher wakes up in is a lot like ours - but it's changed, too. After the human race wiped itself out, nature took over, and wild creatures evolved into barely familiar beasts. Fisher must face them all as they set off on a journey that seems hopeless - at first. Then Fisher uncovers evidence that there may be a second survival dome far to the west. What was once a struggle for one boy's survival becomes a journey of hope.

With a broken robot and a friendly mammoth as his only companions, Fisher heads West. But something is watching them… something that wants to find the second survival dome just as badly as they do.

* FYI, there's more than 60 discounted books from Bloomsbury (and its imprints), the whole list is HERE.

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FYI, for Piers Anthony fans:

Special 3-Day Promotion! Piers Anthony’s epic six book sci-fi series, Bio of a Space Tyrant, on sale now through February 6th.

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