Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- February 2012

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Pizzicato: The Abduction of the Magic Violin by Rusalka Reh is $1.29 (US Kindle) (AmazonEncore)

Product Description
Nonstop fun with a dizzying amount of mystery, Pizzicato: The Abduction of the Magic Violin is a lighthearted whodunit featuring a fair-haired orphan named Darius Dorian, who has a sly wit and a curious way of approaching most any predicament. Darius is none too pleased to be paired with Archibald Archinola, a master violinmaker, for a school project, especially when he thinks about his rival—fellow orphan and constant nemesis Max—being surrounded by Porsches at Auto Frederick for the same assignment. But when Darius discovers an old violin in a glass case and strikes the chords, a cut on his hand magically disappears, and suddenly studying with the violinmaker proves to be anything but dull. As a greedy doctor works to get her hands on the magic fiddle, Darius is forced to pull a few strings to save the magic violin’s power.

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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can by Barbara Gordon from Moyer Bell ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Feb 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

With a successful career as a documentary filmmaker, Barbara Gordon had it all, but anxiety drew her into a dangerous Valium dependency. Beautifully written, Gordon's gripping account of her addiction and recovery is a must-read classic.

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FYI,

The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor is back to $1.99 at the US Kindle store

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Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber (Mira) is $1.62 for US Kindle ($10.26 at B&N)

Product Description
This Christmas, Emily Merkle (call her Mrs. Miracle!) is working in the toy department at Finley's, the last family-owned department store in New York City. And her boss is none other than…Jake Finley, the owner's son.
For Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. Now Christmas means just one thing to him—and to his father. Profit. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat.

Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Holly's widowed brother is in the army and won't be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe that toy robot from Finley's, the one gift he desperately wants. If she can figure out how to afford it…

Fortunately, it's Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping others—and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking!

This Christmas will be different. For all of them.

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Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean by Julia Whitty (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $0.61 for US Kindle ($10.16 at B&N)

Product Description

Orion Book Award Finalist * Northern California Book Award Finalist

At the center of Deep Blue Home—a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it—is Whitty’s description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It’s a watery force connected to the earth’s climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race.

Whitty’s thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of “extremophile” life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of “whale falls” (what happens upon the death of a behemoth).

No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. In the Galapagos, in one of the book’s most haunting encounters, she realizes: “I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongside—would she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?”

This book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

(HarperCollins)

$0.99 thrillers from Katia Lief (US Kindle):

Seven Minutes to Noon
Here She Lies
Waterbury: a crime novel
One Cold Night
You Are Next

Next Time You See Me (Karin Schaeffer) - $2.99

You Are Next is also part of the Karin Schaeffer series--it's book one; Next Time You See Me is book two. These should really be read in order. They are interesting, fast-paced thrillers--some suspension of disbelief is necessary, but they're enjoyable anyway if you like thrillers. I haven't read the others, so I don't know how they compare, but these two are a good buy.

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The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler from Candlewick is $2.16 (US Kindle)

Product Description
For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident - an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.

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The March 2012 thread is up!