Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- September 2011

[arcadata]

Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series #1) by James R. Benn from Soho Press ($3.25) is the NOOK Daily Find (Sept 29)

Product Description

A fan-favorite mystery series debuts when Billy Boyle, a young Irish American cop from Boston, finds himself in London to serve as personal investigator for his uncle Ike -- Dwight D. Eisenhower himself.

What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massa-chusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator.

Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians.

Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.

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The Saint (Kindle Single) by Oliver Broudy ($0.49) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Sept 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Part profile, part travelogue, The Saint is an 85-page tale of true adventure. In this arresting Kindle Single, author Oliver Broudy takes on a writing assignment that will change his life, following James Otis--a collector of Gandhi-related memorabilia and wealthy devotee of the great Mahatma--to India and beyond.

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Bargain pre-order from Macmillian:

The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas by Madeleine L'Engle (Macmillan) is $2.99 at the US Kindle store

Product Description

Vicky Austin’s family does one special thing each day of December to prepare for Christmas. This year, they’re also preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister, due after the New Year. Vicky is worried that the baby will come early—what kind of Christmas Eve would it be without Mother to help them hang up stockings and sing everyone to sleep with carols? This classic story of an old-fashioned Christmas is accompanied by merry illustrations by Jill Weber.

This special eBook edition includes bonus content not available in the print edition:

· Christmas in New York essay by Madeleine L’Engle

· Reproductions of 7 unique L’Engle family Christmas cards created and illustrated by Madeleine L’Engle
· First chapter of the Newbery Award–winning A Wrinkle in Time

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Bargain from Tor Books/Macmillian:

Boneshaker (Clockwork Century Series #1) (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Cherie Priest is $2.99 at the US Kindle store & B&N

Product Description:
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

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Bargain from Tor Books/Macmillian:

Mainspring by Jay Lake is $2.99 at the US Kindle store & B&N

Product Description:
Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.
Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker's apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster to the planet will ensue if it's not rewound. From innocence and ignorance to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to fulfill the commandment of his God.

[arcadata]

Bargain from Tor Books/Macmillian:

The Affinity Bridge (Newbury & Hobbes Investigations #1) by George Mann is $2.99 at the US Kindle store & B&N

Product Description:
Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.
But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.
Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.
Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you’ve ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget…

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Moving Day (Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Series #1) by Meg Cabot from Scholastic, Inc. ($1.80) is the NOOK Daily Find (Sept 30)

Product Description

Nine-year-old Allie Finkle is convinced her life is over when her parents have moved her and her brothers from their moderately stylish home to a creaky old Victorian house in the weirdest part of town. From the author of The Princess Diaries.

When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie's sure her life is over. She's not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky floorboards and creepy secret passageways-not to mention leaving her modern, state-of-the-art suburban school for a rundown, old-fashioned school just two blocks from her new house.
With a room she's half-scared to go into, the burden of being "the new girl," and her old friends all a half-hour car ride away, how will Allie ever learn to fit in?

[arcadata]

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut series) by Kurt Vonnegut from RosettaBooks ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Sept 30) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous novel. Throughout its pages, reader's are treated to Vonnegut's unique opinions on America, war, love, and the idea that "We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation. The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), a fact which Vonnegut conceded frequently in interviews and which was based upon his own occasional relationship with Sturgeon. Here Kilgore Trout is an itinerant wandering from one science fiction convention to another; he intersects with the protagonist, Dwayne Hoover (one of Vonnegut's typically boosterish, lost and stupid mid-American characters) and their intersection is the excuse for the evocation of many others, familiar and unfamiliar, dredged from Vonnegut's gallery. The central issue is concerned with intersecting and apposite views of reality, and much of the narrative is filtered through Trout who is neither certifiably insane nor a visionary writer but can pass for either depending upon Dwayne Hoover's (and Vonnegut's) view of the situation. America, when this novel was published, was in the throes of Nixon, Watergate and the unraveling of our intervention in Vietnam; the nation was beginning to fragment ideologically and geographically and Vonnegut sought to cram all of this dysfunction (and a goofy, desperate kind of hope, the irrational comfort given to its fans by the genre of science fiction) into a sprawling narrative whose sense, if any, is situational, not conceptual. Reviews were polarized; the novel was celebrated for its bizarre aspects, became the basis of a Bruce Willis movie adaptation whose reviews were not nearly so polarized. (Most critics hated it.) This novel in its freewheeling and deliberately fragmented sequentiality may be the quintessential Vonnegut novel, not necessarily his best, but the work which most truly embodies the range of his talent, cartooned alienation and despair.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) is perhaps the most beloved American writer of the 20th century. His audience has built steadily since his first pieces in the 1950's. Vonnegut’s 1968 novel, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE has become a canonic war novel - with Joseph Heller's CATCH-22 the truest and darkest of all to have come from World War II. Vonnegut began as a science fiction writer and his early novels PLAYER PIANO and THE SIRENS OF TITAN were so categorized even as they appealed to a young audience far beyond science fiction readers. In the 1960's he became the writer most identified with the Baby Boomer generation. Like the novels of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut’s large body of work is now understood as unified. There is a consistency to his satirical insight, humor and anger which makes his work synergistic. The more of Kurt Vonnegut’s work you read, the more the work resonates and the more you wish to read. Vonnegut’s reputation - like Twain’s - will grow steadily through the decades to come as his work grows in relevance, truthfulness and searing insight.

[badgoodDeb]

question: are you and/or koland still going to post free books? Or do we now have to look for those ourselves? I'm following your thread, arcadata, and koland's thread, and still following the FREE KINDLE thread. But I haven't seen much free lately. Perhaps that's just becuz it's the end of the month; maybe the freebies will pop back up again tomorrow. I'm hoping I don't have to look for them myself!

Although, in truth, I've already got so many on my kindle that it'll probably last the rest of my life.....

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

question: are you and/or koland still going to post free books? Or do we now have to look for those ourselves? I'm following your thread, arcadata, and koland's thread, and still following the FREE KINDLE thread. But I haven't seen much free lately. Perhaps that's just becuz it's the end of the month; maybe the freebies will pop back up again tomorrow. I'm hoping I don't have to look for them myself!

Although, in truth, I've already got so many on my kindle that it'll probably last the rest of my life.....

I was wondering about that as well.

[arcadata]

Yes, I will continue to post the free (published) books in the main deals forum (and I have). It's dried up a bit since it's end of the month but do expect more with the start of Oct.

*There were around 60 free indie books yesterday but I just didn't have the energy to post them (sorry, takes too much time and I've never received feedback that anyone wanted them)

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Bargain book from Random House:

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella is $1.99 (US Kindle / B&N)

Product Description
With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:

Secrets from her mother:
I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.

Secrets from her boyfriend:
I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.
I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

From her colleagues:
When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.

Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:
My G-string is hurting me.
I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.

Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.

But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from
the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.

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Bargain from Random House:

This Fierce Splendor: A Loveswept Historical Romance by Iris Johansen is $1.99 (US Kindle / B&N)

Product Description
In a classic historical romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, a bookish beauty and her rogue guide go in search of a city lost to the sands of time—and find a burning passion.

Ever since she was a little girl, Elspeth MacGregor has dreamed of completing her father’s quest to find the legendary lost city of Kantalan. After poring over textbooks, atlases, and tribal legends, Elspath knows everything there is to know about the ancient metropolis—except how to reach it. Now she’s made the journey to Hell’s Bluff, Arizona, in search of the man who may be her last hope of reaching Kantalan, despite his dangerous reputation . . . or maybe because of it.

The last thing Dominic Delaney needs is to lead some stubborn scholar around on a wild goose chase. A wanted man, Dominic has never had time for fairy tales. But there’s something about Elspeth’s fiery determination that has him willing to suspend disbelief . . . and something about Dominic that has Elspath falling for the wrong man. Now, to reach the magnificent riches of Kantalan, the mismatched pair must first conquer the dark mysteries of desire.

[koland]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

question: are you and/or koland still going to post free books? Or do we now have to look for those ourselves? I'm following your thread, arcadata, and koland's thread, and still following the FREE KINDLE thread. But I haven't seen much free lately. Perhaps that's just becuz it's the end of the month; maybe the freebies will pop back up again tomorrow. I'm hoping I don't have to look for them myself!

Although, in truth, I've already got so many on my kindle that it'll probably last the rest of my life.....

Arcdata is up later (perhaps earlier in her time zone) than I am, but if I find any I'll still post them. I suspect there will be a new batch either this weekend or the first of the week. At least, I hope so...

I too skip the indies - they are mostly free on smashwords all the time, so I just skip over them for the most part, unless I see one from an author I've heard of (a backlist title, for example).

[arcadata]

Bargain book from Random House Books for Young Readers :

Nobody's Princess (Princesses of Myth) by Esther Friesner is $3.99 (US Kindle / B&N)

Product Description
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with steely determination and a sassy attitude. That same attitude makes Helen a few enemies—such as the self-proclaimed "son of Zeus" Theseus—but it also intrigues, charms, and amuses those who become her friends, from the famed huntress Atalanta to the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi.

In Nobody's Princess, author Esther Friesner deftly weaves together history and myth as she takes a new look at the girl who will become Helen of Troy. The resulting story offers up adventure, humor, and a fresh and engaging heroine you cannot help but root for.