Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- August 2014

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Here's the new thread for August!

Okay, so you may know me since I posted a lot of free and bargain books in this forum. I did add affiliate links to my posts before (the links may look like this-> http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Woman-Wa...ag=arcadata-20), but I've been told that isn't allowed anymore in the main forum. I'll be allowed to continue to post my affiliate links in this personal thread though.

Basically, what happens is that I earn referral fees (starts at 4%) whenever a visitor follows my link to Amazon.com (or other sites) and then makes a qualifying purchase. It was a pretty good incentive for me to spend time here sharing any deals I found since I would get extra money per month to spend on books & apps!

So, hopefully, if you don't mind me getting a commission, you'll come visit this thread and click on my links when you're planning to buy something!

And here's the deal(s) for August 1!

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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon Kindle Monthly Deals: Books £2.99 or less is a continuing promo for Amazon UK.

Each month we feature a new selection of discounted Kindle books for £1.99 or less. The deals begin at 12:00 am on the first Tuesday of the month and expires at 11:59 pm on the first Monday of the following month.

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Amazon UK:

Summer Sale: Up to 80% off Over 500 Kindle Books

Celebrate the sunshine with our selection of top summer reads. Choose from hundreds of the hottest books around, with prices starting from only £0.99 each. Offer ends 11:59 pm, September 1, 2014. Additional terms and conditions apply.

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11 Fantasy Books (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

11 Fantasy Books for £0.99 Each.

The Source (Witching Savannah) by J.D. Horn
The Line (Witching Savannah)by J.D. Horn

Dryad-Born (Whispers from Mirrowen) by Jeff Wheeler
Fireblood (Whispers from Mirrowen)by Jeff Wheeler

Among the Unseen (The Thin Veil) by Jodi McIsaac
Through the Door (The Thin Veil) by Jodi McIsaac
Into the Fire (The Thin Veil)by Jodi McIsaac

The Wrath of a Shipless Pirate (The Godlanders War) by Aaron Pogue
The Dreams of a Dying God (The Godlanders War)by Aaron Pogue

Queen of Stars (The Starfolk) by Dave Duncan
King of Swords (The Starfolk) by Dave Duncan

Evie Undercover by Liz Harris from Choc Lit (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

When libel lawyer, Tom Hadleigh acquires a perfect holiday home - a 14th century house that needs restoring, there’s a slight problem. The house is located in the beautiful Umbria countryside and Tom can’t speak a word of Italian.

Enter Evie Shaw, masquerading as an agency temp but in reality the newest reporter for gossip magazine Pure Dirt. Unbeknown to Tom, Italian speaking Evie has been sent by her manipulative editor to write an exposé on him. And the stakes are high – Evie’s job rests on her success.

But the path for the investigative journalist is seldom smooth, and it certainly never is when the subject in hand is drop-dead gorgeous.

Burt Lancaster: An American Life by Kate Burford from Aurum Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Startlingly handsome, witty, fanatically loyal, charming, scary, and intensely sexual, Burt Lancaster was the quintessential bête du cinéma, one of Hollywood's great stars. He was, as well, an intensely private man, and he authorized no biographies in his lifetime. Kate Buford is the first writer to win the cooperation of Lancaster's widow, close friends, and colleagues, and her book is a revelation.

Here is Lancaster the man, from his teenage years, bolting the Depression-era immigrant neighborhood of East Harlem where he grew up for the life of a circus acrobat -- then the electric New York theater of the 1930s, then the dying days of vaudeville. We see his production company -- Hecht-Hill-Lancaster -- become the biggest independent of the 1950s, a bridge between the studio era and modern filmmaking. With the power he derived from it we see him gain a remarkable degree of control, which he used to become the auteur of his own career. His navigation through the anti-Communist witch-hunts made him an example of a star who tweaked the noses of HUAC and survived. His greatest roles -- in Sweet Smell of Success, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Swimmer, Atlantic City -- kept to the progressive edge that had originated in the tolerant, diverse, reforming principles of his childhood. And in the extraordinary complete roster of his films -- From Here to Eternity, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Leopard, 1900, and Field of Dreams, among many others -- he proved to be both a master of commercial movies that pleased a worldwide audience and an actor who pushed himself beyond stardom into cinematic art.

Kate Buford has written a dynamic biography of a passionate and committed star, the first full-scale study of one of the last great unexamined Hollywood lives.

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For US Kindlers:

The Amazon Monthly Kindle Book Deals for $3.99 or Less has updated for August! Check out the new batch of discounts.

Each month we unveil a new collection of Kindle books for $3.99 or less. Deals expire on the last day of each month. To sort and filter a list of this month's deals, click here. We also offer Kindle Daily Deals for adults and young readers. Individual books may have additional territory restrictions, and not all deals are available in all territories. Amazon may modify the selection of books offered at any time.

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Amazon US promotion: Kindle Countdown sales

Limited-Time Discounts on Kindle-Exclusive Books

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30 Science Fiction & Fantasy Titles for $1.99 Each

Discover your next great read with these titles on sale through August 9, 2014.

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200 Kindle Books for $1.99 Each

Now through August 12, select Kindle books are $1.99 each. Browse the full selection to find your next great read.

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50 Kindle Books for $2 Each

Whether your taste runs to literary fiction, romance, thrillers, science fiction, or beyond, you'll find your next great read in this selection of 50 Kindle books for only $2 apiece. Offer valid through August 31, 2014.

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25 Kindle Kids' Books for $1 Each

Offer valid through August 31, 2014.

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Sci-Fi Summer Deal

Explore summer deals on Sci-Fi Kindle books for $1.99 each.

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Amazon Kindle First: Read next month's new releases today

August Picks: Choose one for $1.99

The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician Series) by Charlie N. Holmberg
A Cold and Broken Hallelujah (Long Beach Homicide) by Tyler Dilts
Portrait of a Girl by Dörthe Binkert, Margot Bettauer Dembo
Crazy for Her by Sandra Owens

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Anonymous Sources by Mary Louise Kelly from Gallery Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "So, what happens when a reporter turns writer? You get a brilliantly written novel that is so raw and riveting that this reader finished the novel in less than 24 hours."

A fast-paced international thriller in the vein of Janet Evanovich by former NPR anchor and correspondent Mary Louise Kelly, about a Pakistani terrorist’s nuclear threat to blow up the White House.

When Boston reporter Alexandra James is assigned to cover the death of Thom Carlyle, the son of a powerful Washington insider, she soon discovers the story is not as simple as it seems. The young man fell from the top of a Harvard bell tower, but did he jump…or was he pushed?

Intent on escaping the demons of her past, Alex knows how to outwork, outdrink, and outshop anyone else around. Now she is focused on what could be “the story of a lifetime”—chasing leads from Harvard Yard to the courtyards of Cambridge, England, from a clandestine rendezvous in London to the inside of a nuclear terrorist network. But when she goes to Washington, DC, for a key interview that promises to tie everything together, Alex the hunter becomes Alex the hunted. An assassin is dispatched…her laptop disappears…her phone is tapped…and she begins to grasp that Thom Carlyle may have been killed to hide a terrifying conspiracy within the White House itself.

Former NPR Intelligence correspondent Mary Louise Kelly has turned her own real-life reporting adventures into fiction with this stylish spy thriller.

The King's Pleasure by Heather Graham from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "If you are a true historical romance reader, then you will definitely enjoy the compelling story."

When a French woman is married off to the handsome Scot who conquered her town, she is determined not to let him conquer her heart as well

The English army’s siege of Aville has ground to a standstill—until a ten-year-old Scottish lad masterminds a breakthrough. The castle falls easily, giving glory to the king and a place at court to young Adrien MacLachlan. But his greatest reward is still to come.

Years later, the king decrees that Adrien shall marry Danielle d’Aville, a maiden of the town Adrien helped conquer. She loathes the strapping Scottish knight, but his strength stirs something inside of her—a passion that betrays everything her vanquished people stand for. As Danielle’s hatred for him pushes her towards treason, her budding love is the only thing that can pull her back from the brink.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Expendable (League of Peoples, 1) by James Alan Gardner from Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "The primary world Gardner creates is both familiar and foreign, and the narrative twists mostly unexpectedly."

In the 25th century, under the leadership of the League of Peoples, war and crime are a thing of the past and life is held sacred. That is, as long as you're healthy and beautiful. But those who are deformed, flawed or misfit in any way are destined - or is "doomed" a better word? - to become Explorers, crews assigned to probe worlds so hostile, the chances of returning are somewhere between slim and none.

In EXPENDABLE, the first volume of the League of Peoples, Festina Ramos is assigned to escort an unstable admiral to planet Melaquin. Little is known about Melaquin, for every explorer who's landed there has disappeared. It's come to be known as the "planet of no return," and the High Council has made a habit of sending troublesome admirals there in an attempt to get rid of them. It's clear that this is intended to be Ramos' last mission, but she doesn't plan on dying, no matter how expendable she may be.

Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Harley Manning, Kerry Bodine with Kevin Shea from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Business & Money Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $0.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "This book provides a road map to customer experience success."

What simple innovation brought billions in new investments to Fidelity? What basic misunderstanding was preventing Office Depot from achieving its growth potential? What surprising insights helped the Mayo Clinic better serve both doctors and patients?

The solution in each case was a focus on customer experience, the most powerful—and misunderstood—element of corporate strategy today.

Customer experience is, quite simply, how your customers perceive their every interaction with your company. It’s a fundamental business driver. Here’s proof: over a recent five-year period during which the S&P 500 was flat, a stock portfolio of customer experience leaders grew twenty-two percent.

In an age when customers have access to vast amounts of data about your company and its competitors, customer experience is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. But how to excel at it?

Based on fourteen years of research by the customer experience leaders at Forrester Research, Outside In offers a complete roadmap to attaining the experience advantage. It starts with the concept of the Customer Experience Ecosystem—proof that the roots of customer experience problems lie not just with customer-facing employees like your sales staff, but with behind-the-scenes employees like accountants, lawyers, and programmers, as well as the policies, processes, and technologies that all your employees use every day. Identifying and solving these problems has the potential to dramatically increase sales and decrease costs.

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt from Atheneum Books for Young Readers ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (August 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $10.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "Appelt writes with droll wit and sly humor."

Age Level: 8 - 12 | Grade Level: 3 - 7

“Librarians often say that every book is not for every child, but The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp is” (The New York Times). Meet Bingo and J’miah, raccoon brothers on a mission to save Sugar Man Swamp in this rollicking tale and National Book Award Finalist from Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt.

Raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man—the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp—is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts.

Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn is not a member of any such organization. But he loves the swamp something fierce, and he’ll do anything to help protect it.

And help is surely needed, because world-class alligator wrestler Jaeger Stitch wants to turn Sugar Man swamp into an Alligator World Wrestling Arena and Theme Park, and the troubles don’t end there. There is also a gang of wild feral hogs on the march, headed straight toward them all.

The Scouts are ready. All they have to do is wake up the Sugar Man. Problem is, no one’s been able to wake that fellow up in a decade or four…

Newbery Honoree and Kathi Appelt’s story of care and conservation has received five starred reviews, was selected as a National Book Award finalist, and is funny as all get out and ripe for reading aloud.

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Audible Daily Deal - A Darker Shade of Sweden by Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder (Narrated by Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani, Stefan Rudnicki, John Scalzi) for $4.95 (Regular Price:$23.95)

Publisher's Summary

Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing with his acclaimed and best-selling Millennium trilogy, listeners around the world have sought out and devoured the crime fiction of his countrymen (and women), many of whom have proved to be some of the greatest masters of the genre. In this landmark and unique publication, Sweden's most distinguished and best-loved crime writers have contributed stories to an anthology that promises to thrill even the most jaded mystery listener.

Containing 17 stories, all never before published in English, A Darker Shade of Sweden illuminates the shadow side of this beguiling country as never before, and promises to be among the most highly anticipated crime fiction of the season.

©2014 John-Henri Holmberg (P)2014 HighBridge Company

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Clean Burn: Introducing Detective Janelle Watkins by Karen Sandler from Exhibit A ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 1)

* Price matched on Amazon US

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

After leaving the San Francisco PD four years ago, private investigator Janelle Watkins also left behind her work investigating child abductions. In this action packed thriller from Karen Sandler, Watkins returns to her hometown of Greenville after she's begged to look into two missing--just as more turn up missing, including the niece of her ex-partner and ex-lover, the Greenville County Sheriff.

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A Day at the Office by Matt Dunn from Lake Union Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

For most people, Valentine’s Day means flowers, chocolates, and candlelit dinners. But for five of Seek Software’s employees, it’s shaping up to be as much fun as a trip to the dentist.

Long-term singleton Sophie has a crush on colleague Nathan but worries he doesn’t even know her name. And is there really any point in her sending a card to the man who organises the annual office Anti-Valentine’s party?

Overweight, insecure, and still living with his mum, Calum’s desperate for a girlfriend. He’s recently met the woman of his dreams online but his exaggerated profile might mean tonight’s first date could also be their last.

Mark’s been besotted with Julie since she kissed him at the office Christmas party. While she doesn’t seem to remember a thing, today might be his best chance to remind her. If only he could work out how.

A Day at the Office is a wise, wonderfully moving, and laugh-out-loud novel about life, love, and relationships by bestselling novelist Matt Dunn.

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead from Granta Books (£1.69) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Rebecca Mead was a young woman when she first read Middlemarch, and she has read it many times since, interpreting and discovering it anew.

In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this remarkable, much-loved Victorian novel, and shows how we can live richer and more fulfilling lives through our profound engagement with great literary works.

Published when George Eliot was fifty-one, Middlemarch has at its centre one of literature's most compelling and ill-fated marriages, and some of the most tenderly drawn characters. Its vast canvas incorporates the lives of ordinary people and their most intimate struggles. Virginia Woolf famously described it as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people', and Mead explores how the ambitions, dreams and attachments of its characters teach us to value the limitations of our ordinary lives.

Interweaving readings of Middlemarch with an investigation of George Eliot's unconventional, inspiring life and Mead's reflections on her own youth, relationships and marriage, this is a sensitive work of deep reading and biography, for every lover of literature who cares about why we read books and how they read us.

The Fast Beach Diet: The super-fast 6-week programme to get you in shape for summer by Mimi Spencer from Short Books (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From the author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book. Mimi Spencer presents the super-fast 6-week programme to kickstart your Fast Diet for summer. Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this book offers an enhanced approach that will take you off cruise control and give your 5:2 lifestyle a sensational summertime boost.

The Fast Beach Diet includes:

A clear 6-week plan to encourage fat loss of up to 2lbs a week
New tips and clever tricks to get you through your Fast Days
Habit-busting ideas to jumpstart your non-Fast Days
A brilliant new HIT exercise programme to maximise your fitness and fat loss – in just five minutes a day 30 fresh new calorie-counted summer recipes, plus meal plans and food and exercise trackers Motivation and 5:2 support to rev up your Fast Diet and get you fit for life

Think of it as a boot camp for the 5:2. For six short weeks. Whether you’re a woman with a bikini deadline or a man on a mission to fitness – or simply interested in better health – the Fast Beach Diet is for you.

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The 'Kathleen Turner' series by Tiffany Snow from Montlake Romance ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the 'Kathleen Turner' series by Tiffany Snow are $1.99 each.

The 'Whisper Horse' series by Nancy Herkness ($1.99 each) from Montlake Romance is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 2)

** Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the 'Whisper Horse' series by Nancy Herkness are $1.99 Each.

Eleanor by Jason Gurley from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "A mesmerizing mix of surreal fantasy, science fiction and beautifully written drama."

Time is a river.

1985. The death of Eleanor's twin sister tears her family apart. Her father blames her mother for the accident. When Eleanor's mother looks at her, she sees only the daughter she lost. Their wounded family crumbles under the weight of their shared grief.

1993. Eleanor is fourteen years old when it happens for the first time... when she walks through an ordinary door at school and finds herself in another world. It happens again and again, but it's only a curiosity until that day at the cliffs. The day when Eleanor dives... and something rips her out of time itself.

And on the other side, someone is waiting for her.

Money: A Love Story: Untangle Your Financial Woes and Create the Life You Really Want by Kate Northrup from Hay House ($2.99) is the Kindle Business & Money Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "This offers a refreshing perspective into our relationship with wealth and money management."

Having a good relationship with money is tough—whether you have millions in the bank or just a few bucks to your name. Why? Because just like any other relationship, your life with money has its ups and downs, its twists and turns, its breakups and makeups. And just like other relationships, living happily with money really comes down to love—which is why love is the basis of money maven Kate Northrup’s book.

After taking the Money Love Quiz to see where on the spectrum your relationship with money stands—somewhere between “on the outs” and “it’s true love!”—Northrup takes you on a rollicking ride to a better understanding of yourself and your money. Step-by-step exercises that address both the emotional and practical aspects of your financial life help you figure out your personal perceptions of money and wealth and how to change them for the better. You’ll learn about thought patterns that may be holding you back from earning what you’re worth or saving what you can. You’ll learn how to chart your current financial life and create a plan to get you to where you want to be—whether that’s earning enough to live in a penthouse in Manhattan or a cabin in the Rockies.

Using client stories and her own saga of moving from $20,000 of debt to complete financial freedom by the age of 28, Northrup acts as a guide in your quest for personal financial freedom. She’ll teach you how to shift your beliefs about money, create a budget, spend in line with your values, get out of debt, and so much more. In short, she’ll teach you to love your money, so you can love your life.

The Outcasts: Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1 by John Flanagan from Puffin ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (August 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $7.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

Customer review: "This book has great characters, fantastic plot, and a lot of action."

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up

From the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice!

They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing.

John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books.

Perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Audible Daily Deal - Under a Graveyard Sky: Black Tide Rising, Book 1 by John Ringo (Narrated by Tristan Morris) for $4.95 (Regular Price:$21.95)


Get this Audiobook for the reduced price of $1.99, when you buy the Kindle edition first.

Publisher's Summary

Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines.

When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family, Steven, Stacey, Sophia, and Faith, take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.

For it is up to the Smiths and a small band of Marines to somehow create the refuge that survivors seek in a world of darkness and terror. Now with every continent a holocaust and every ship an abattoir, life is lived under a graveyard sky.

©2013 John Ringo (P)2013 Audible Inc.

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Popped (Regan Reilly Series #7) by Carol Higgins Clark from Scribner ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 2)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Product Description

Bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark's delightful sleuth Regan Reilly is on the case, as she reconnects to help old school buddy Danny Madley. Someone's set on sabotaging his reality show before he shoots the final scene at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. A rival producer, a cameraman, and an ex-lover are a few of the many suspects at large in this entertaining whodunit.

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Arctic Fire (Red Cell Series) by Stephen W. Frey from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Troy Jensen could do it all: he conquered the Seven Summits, sailed solo around the world twice, and even fought a bull in a Mexican slum on a dare. So when word comes that a rogue wave has swept Troy off a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea and into a watery grave, his brother, Jack, doesn’t buy it.

Against his better judgment, Jack decides to quit his job as a Wall Street trader and head to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to investigate. Minutes after revealing his plan in his father’s New York City office, Jack is nearly run down in the street. He doesn’t think much of it at the time, but as he digs deeper into Troy’s disappearance, Jack unearths information about RED-CELL-SEVEN (RCS), a super-secret American intelligence group that has operated for forty years in almost total secrecy and with complete impunity—and its leaders intend to keep it that way at any cost.

An adrenaline-pumping tale of one man’s descent into a hellish underworld populated by terrorists, assassins, and very bad “good guys,” Arctic Fire explores the disturbing difference between doing what is good and doing what is right when it comes to protecting America from her greatest enemies.

The Murder of Billie-Jo by Sion Jenkins and Bob Woffinden from Metro (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

For most people, Valentine’s Day means flowers, chocolates, and candlelit dinners. But for five of Seek Software’s employees, it’s shaping up to be as much fun as a trip to the dentist.

Long-term singleton Sophie has a crush on colleague Nathan but worries he doesn’t even know her name. And is there really any point in her sending a card to the man who organises the annual office Anti-Valentine’s party?

Overweight, insecure, and still living with his mum, Calum’s desperate for a girlfriend. He’s recently met the woman of his dreams online but his exaggerated profile might mean tonight’s first date could also be their last.

Mark’s been besotted with Julie since she kissed him at the office Christmas party. While she doesn’t seem to remember a thing, today might be his best chance to remind her. If only he could work out how.

A Day at the Office is a wise, wonderfully moving, and laugh-out-loud novel about life, love, and relationships by bestselling novelist Matt Dunn.

Three Hot Heroes (3 Books in 1) by Sue Moorcroft from Choc Lit (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Three Hot Heroes combines Starting Over, All That Mullarkey and Love & Freedom by Sue Moorcroft. Three gorgeous reads.

Starting Over:

New home, new friends, new love. Can starting over be that simple?
Tess Riddell reckons her beloved Freelander is more reliable than any man - especially her ex-fiancé, Olly Gray. She's moving on from her old life and into the perfect cottage in the country.

Miles Rattenbury's passions? Old cars and new women! Romance? He's into fun rather than commitment. When Tess crashes the Freelander into his breakdown truck, they find that they're nearly neighbours yet worlds apart.

Despite her overprotective parents and a suddenly attentive Olly, she discovers the joys of village life and even forms an unlikely friendship with Miles. Then, just as their relationship develops into something deeper, an old flame comes looking for him ...

Is their love strong enough to overcome the past? Or will it take more than either of them is prepared to give?

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23 Epic Fantasy Books by L. E. Modesitt Jr. from Tor Fantasy ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, 23 Epic Fantasy Books by L. E. Modesitt Jr. are $2.99 each.

The 'Return To Sugarcreek' series by Shelley Shepard Gray ($1.99 each) from Avon Inspire is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 3)

** Here's the link on Amazon CA for the Deals of the Day!

Product Description

Today only, the 'Return To Sugarcreek' series by Shelley Shepard Gray are $1.99 Each.

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "A classic collection of Vonnegut's combination of humor with heartbreak that has defined his written career."

Timequake (1997) exists in two conjoined versions ("Timequake One"/"Timequake Two") and in meta-fictional mode is a novel about a novel, composed in short, arbitrary chapters and using its large cast of characters and disoriented chronology to mimic the "timequake" which is its subject. Some cosmic upheaval has hurled the entire population a decade back where, in full consciousness (but helplessly entrapped) everyone’s pitiable and embarrassing mistakes are helplessly enacted again.

By this stage of his life--he was 72 the year the novel was published--Vonnegut was still wearing his luminescent bells and Harlequin's cape, but these had become dusty and the cape no longer fitted. Vonnegut’s exasperation and sense of futility could no longer be concealed or shaped, and this novel is a laboratory of technique (deliberately) gone wrong, a study of breakdown.

Vonnegut had never shown much hope in his work for human destiny or occupation; the naive optimism of Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater had in the damaged veteran Billy Pilgrim of Slaughterhouse-Five become a naive fantasy of escape to a sexual heaven. In the nihilism of Timequake, the only escape is re-enactment, but re-enactment has lost hope and force.

This is no Groundhog Day in which Vonnegut traps his various refugees (many escaped from his earlier works) but a hell of lost possibility. The temporal timequake of the title is the actual spiritual fracture of the 20th century, and in his 73rd year Vonnegut envisions no hope, not even the hollow diversions of Slapstick. Vonnegut’s imaginative journey, closely tracked by his work, is one of the most intriguing for any American writer of the twentieth century.

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Monster by Walter Dean Myers from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "While reading this award-winning, terrifically written work of art, I couldn't help but notice the similarity to Native Son."

This New York Times bestselling novel and National Book Award nominee from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.

Fade In: Interior: Early Morning In Cell Block D, Manhattan Detention Center.

Steve (Voice-Over)
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady prosecutor called me ... Monster.

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This stunning blend of historical romance and time traveling adventure has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world and catapulted author Diana Gabaldon to the top of the New York Times best seller list. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love.

In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. Their blissful reunion is shattered when she touches a boulder in an ancient stone ruin and is instantly transported to 1743 Scotland, a place torn by war and raiding border clans. Will Claire find her way back to her own time, or is her destiny forever linked with Clan MacKenzie and the gallant James Fraser?

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Ambitious, brilliant, and beautiful, Alex Sondheim is the undisputed star of Wall Street—and she knows it. So it comes as no surprise when Levy Manhattan Investments taps her to take their prestigious firm to the next level. She can name her price, but can she live up to their expectations?

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The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake by Roger Hermiston from Aurum Press (£1.49) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented 42 years in jail. By his own confession he was a Soviet spy, but the reasons for such a severe punishment were never revealed.

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Emma - There's No Turning Back by Linda Mitchelmore from Choc Lit (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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It isn’t easy to look forward when the past is so close behind you
Life hasn’t always been kind to Emma Le Goff. She has had her fair share of hardship and now finally, her life appears to be looking up. She and her childhood sweetheart, Seth Jago, are set to marry and both believe that an idyllic existence, free from heartache, awaits them.

Sequel to To Turn Full Circle but can be read on it's own.

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