Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- December 2012

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FYI, for Amazon UK Kindlers:

The 12 Days of Kindle

Happy Christmas!

In this year’s 12 Days of Kindle, you’ll not only find great books from as low as £0.99, but we’ll be adding at least 50 books to the selection every day. That’s over 1,000 books in total, making it our biggest sale yet.

Check back daily to find the newest additions to the sale. Promotion ends 11:59 pm, January 7, 2013. Additional terms and conditions apply. Happy reading!

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Sourcebooks Christmas eBook Spectacular Day 25:

Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson is $2.99

Book Description

Who Knew One Book Could Cause So Much Chaos?

Barbara Bunde is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Maybe she could sell a novel ... if she knew any stories. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from her fellow residents of Silverstream, the little English village she knows inside and out.

To her surprise, the novel is a smash. It's a good thing she wrote under a pseudonym, because the folks of Silverstream are in an uproar. But what really turns Miss Bunde's world around is this: what happens to the characters in her book starts happening to their real-life counterparts. Does life really imitate art?

A beloved author who has sold more than seven million books, D. E. Stevenson is at her best with Miss Buncle's Book, crafting a highly original and charming tale about what happens when people see themselves through someone else's eyes.

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $1.99

Book Description

The Handmaid’s Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast.

Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions.

The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways To Keep The Little Things From Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson (Hyperion) is $2.24

Book Description

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and It’s All Small Stuff tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.

You can learn to put things into perspective by making the small daily changes Dr. Carlson suggests, including advice such as “Choose your battles wisely”; “Remind yourself that when you die, your ‘in’ box won’t be empty”; and “Make peace with imperfection”. With Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… you’ll also learn how to:

* Live in the present moment
* Let others have the glory at times
* Lower your tolerance to stress
* Trust your intuitions
* Live each day as it might be your last

With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr. Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring, with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free.

Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Algonquin Books) is $1.99

Book Description

An atmospheric tale of life and love in a Depression-era traveling circus.

Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It’s the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. Jacob introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus’ animal trainer); and to Rosie, a seemingly untrainable elephant.

Beautifully written, with a luminous sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells of love in a world in which love’s a luxury few can afford.

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Angels by Marian Keyes by Marian Keyes from Penguin (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Running away from her marital set-backs, Maggie hightails it to Los Angeles to stay with her old friend Emily. The two girls, surrounded by an eclectic cast of characters and misfits, proceed in sorting out their emotional issues in a stylishly witty, wonderfully warm fashion.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer from Puffin (£0.99) is the 2nd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In the author's own words, Artemis Fowl is "Die Hard with fairies". This is a 21st-century romp from beginning to end, as Artemis Fowl--the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history--hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairy folk of their pot of gold.

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby from Penguin (£0.99) is the 3rd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

On New Year's Eve, disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp plans to end it all by jumping off the top of a tower block. He is not expecting company, as he is joined at first by single-mum Maureen, then by 18-year-old Jess and finally by American rockstar JJ. The four potential jumpers form an unlikely bond, but is their friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

The Chase: The Isaac Bell Adventures #1 by Clive Cussler from Penguin (£0.99) is the 4th Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clues to a fortune lost for over 40 years. 1906: From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco, our hero Isaac Bell uses all his guile and ingenuity to catch up with the murderous 'Butcher Bandit'.

Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse from Penguin (£0.99) is the 5th Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime--a new life in the States. Never Look Back is a historical novel of love and survival at the time of the American Civil War.

The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan from Puffin (£0.99) is the 6th Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Carter and Sadie are siblings who barely know each other. Their father takes them to the British Museum for a 'research experiment' that will set things right, but instead unleashes the ancient evil of Egyptian god Set. Orphaned, the siblings embark on a dangerous quest--from Cairo to Paris to the American Southwest, to stop Set and save their father from oblivion....

FYI, for Amazon UK Kindlers: remember to check this daily for the new books

The 12 Days of Kindle

Happy Christmas!

In this year’s 12 Days of Kindle, you’ll not only find great books from as low as £0.99, but we’ll be adding at least 50 books to the selection every day. That’s over 1,000 books in total, making it our biggest sale yet.

Check back daily to find the newest additions to the sale. Promotion ends 11:59 pm, January 7, 2013. Additional terms and conditions apply. Happy reading!

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Black List (Scot Harvath Series #11) by Brad Thor from Atria/Emily Bestler Books ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 26)

Product Description

Hailed as one of the best thriller writers of our time, bestselling author Brad Thor delivers an action adventure masterpiece when counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is marked for death -- by his own government. Who has targeted him? And can he evade their deadly attempts on his life long enough to find out?

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Ten biographies and memoirs ($2.99 or less each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Today only, save up to 93% on biographies and memoirs by Caitlin Moran, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Ellen DeGeneres, and more.

The Host: A Novel by Stephenie Meyer from Back Bay Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From the best-selling author of the Twilight comes this mature and imaginative romantic thriller for adults, an Amazon Best of the Month pick from May, 2008.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The Handmaid's Tale was not only a radical and brilliant departure for respected Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 by Jeff Kinney from Amulet Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (December 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The first book in author/illustrator Jeff Kinney's hugely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series finds Greg Heffley thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings face kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

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FYI, Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant Books (1-6) are $2.99 or less each for US Kindle (Also Amazon Canada)

Info from Wikipedia:

Bio of a Space Tyrant series is a six-book science-fiction series by Piers Anthony based within the solar system. The series revolves around the character Hope Hubris and his family, and charts Hope's ascent from poor Hispanic refugee to Tyrant of Jupiter, a single person heading the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of the government. It is considerably more adult-themed than many of Anthony's earlier works.

The novels are set in a future several hundred years distant at a point where the nations of Earth have expanded into and filled the solar system. Various planets, moons and asteroids within the solar system have political, religious and geographical affiliations similar to those on 1980s Earth. Many events in the series parallel modern-day situations; for instance, Mars is controlled by the countries formerly comprising the Middle East, and they have the largest supply of iron, which is the primary fuel in Anthony's universe. Ganymede parallels Cuba, and has a Communist government allied with North Saturn's, which corresponds with the Soviet Union, and a "missile crisis" is an event in the series. Many other such correspondences abound.

The series is presented as a first-person autobiography of Hope Hubris, and the broad strokes of his life are painted from the earliest pages, including his status as a perceived tyrant and womanizer. It is clear from the introductions and epilogues that Hope died before the publication of his memoirs and that his career as military man, politician, executive and statesman was greatly misunderstood by the public, most notably his various affairs with women, which are a major focus of the series.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Black List (Scot Harvath Series #11) by Brad Thor also $2.99

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Swimming Home by Deborah Levy from And other stories Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. As Joe arrives with his family at a villa in Nice, he sees Kitty Finch rising naked from the swimming pool. Why is she there? And why does Joe's wife allow her to remain?

The Firemaker by Peter May from Quercus (£0.99) is the 2nd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description
A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear; facts that others are desperate to conceal.

The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles by Rosemary Sutcliff from Oxford University Press UK (£0.99) is the 3rd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Set against a backdrop of Roman Britain and featuring young soldier Marcus Aquila, this is the thrilling tale of the Ninth Legion--4,000 men who marched into the mists of northern Britain and they were never seen again. Aquila sets off into the unknown north to find out what happened to the lost legion

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The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 27)

Product Description

Get swept away in the story fan-favorite author Adriana Trigiani was born to write. Ciro and Enza met as villagers in the Italian Alps, but their youthful romance is nipped in the bud when Ciro is forced to flee to America and Greenwich Village. Later, Enza also emigrates to New Jersey, only a river away. Will fate reunite them at last?

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20 best-selling adult and teen romances from Harlequin ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Today only, save up to 87% on 20 Harlequin romances for adults and teens, including books by Nora Roberts, Linda Lael Miller, Sherryl Woods, Gena Showalter, and more.

Touch of Power (Healer) by Maria V. Snyder from Mira ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself, but she must decide who is worth healing, because the price may well be her life...

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FYI, for Amazon UK Kindlers: remember to check this daily for the new books

(like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five for £2.29)

The 12 Days of Kindle

Happy Christmas!

In this year’s 12 Days of Kindle, you’ll not only find great books from as low as £0.99, but we’ll be adding at least 50 books to the selection every day. That’s over 1,000 books in total, making it our biggest sale yet.

Check back daily to find the newest additions to the sale. Promotion ends 11:59 pm, January 7, 2013. Additional terms and conditions apply. Happy reading!

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For Amazon UK Kindlers:

Life Of Pi by Yann Martel is £0.20

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2002 BOOKER PRIZE

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi -- a 16-year-old Indian boy. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years.

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FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani also $1.99

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FYI, Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking series of books (Candlewick) are just $2.99 each

Description:

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Book One of the trilogy, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. The Ask and The Answer, the second book in the trilogy won the Costa Children’s Book Award 2009. The third book, Monsters of Men, was released in September 2010.”

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The Lighthouse (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh) by P.D. James from Faber and Faber Crime (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained past but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed authority figures who require privacy and security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team.

The Dinner by Herman Koch from Atlantic Books (£0.99) is the 2nd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

One summer's evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet for dinner. They need to discuss their teenage sons who have committed a horrifying act and been caught on CCTV. The boys remain unidentified--except by their parents. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

Hamish Macbeth Omnibus (Books 1-4) by M.C. Beaton from Robinson (£0.99) is the 3rd Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The first four titles in the Hamish Macbeth series together in one convenient edition: Death of a Gossip, Death of a Cad, Death of an Outsider and Death of a Perfect Wife. In these rivetting reads, the eponymous Scottish Constable solves a series of Highland mysteries.

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The Last Lion by William Manchester from Little, Brown & Company ($4.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 28)

Product Description

Winston Churchill is arguably history's most fascinating British Prime Minister. Historian William Manchester has written the definitive Churchill biography in the three-volume magnum opus The Last Lion. Here, meet Churchill in his early days -- from his lowly birth, wretched youth, early military and political career, and rising awareness of the Nazi threat.

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Last Lion by William Manchester also $4.99

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Under the Dome by Stephen King from Scribner ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In Stephen King's moving meditation on our capacity for good and evil, the town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. But why?

These Old Shades (Alastair Trilogy) by Georgette Heyer from Sourcebooks Casablanca ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Tinged with mystery and overshadowed by very real menace, These Old Shades is widely considered to be the book that launched Georgette Heyer's illustrious career.

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from Bantam ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Odd Thomas demonstrates Dean Koontz at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate, and the power of love.

11 books from the Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (December 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Today only, 11 books from the award-winning, best-selling series starring independent-minded third-grader Judy Moody are just $1.99 each.

Ages: 6+ | Grades: 1+

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The Screwtape Letters (Enhanced Special Illustrated Edition) by C. S. Lewis is $3.99

Book Description

This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected.

The Deluxe Illustrated Edition of a Timeless Classic

Now with this enhanced edition, readers can gain additional insight through video interviews, audio excerpts and letters from C. S. Lewis.

First published in 1942, The Screwtape Letters has sold millions of copies world-wide and is recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. A masterpiece of satire, it entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.