Affiliate Links for "arcadata"- January 2015

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Here's the new thread for January 2015!

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 January 1! (continuing from December 2014)

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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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Nine non-fiction books (£0.99 - £1.59 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, Nine non-fiction books are £0.99 - £1.59 each only

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For US Kindlers:

The Amazon Monthly Kindle Book Deals for $3.99 or Less has updated for January 2015! 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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Whispersync for Voice Pairs

Now you can seamlessly switch between reading featured Kindle books and listening to them without ever losing your place. It's easy! First, purchase the Kindle book for $3.99 or less. Then add the narration from Audible for $3.99 or less to enable the feature.

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Kindle Countdown sales

Limited-Time Discounts on Kindle-Exclusive Books

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Kindle Book Sale: Up to 65% Off Kindle Books

Build Your Kindle Library with Books for $1.99 Each

Save on select Kindle books up to 65% off starting December 25, 2014 and through January 25, 2015.

Browse the full selection to build your Kindle library with romances, mystery & thrillers, science fiction & fantasy and more.

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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 the last day each month.

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New Year, New Reads: $1.99 Kindle Book Deals

Select Kindle Books for $1.99 Each

Valid through January 31, 2015 select Kindle books are $1.99 each. Browse the full selection to find your next great read for 2015.

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

January Picks: Choose two FOR $1.99 (This month, you can buy up to two featured books for $1.99 each.)

Everything Burns by Vincent Zandri
Flirting with Felicity by Gerri Russell
Heart Collector by Jacques Vandroux, Wendeline A. Hardenberg
Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall

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Kindle Select 25: 25 Exciting Books This Week

Our list of 25 exciting books for this week.

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Over 40 Books to Jump-Start New Year's Resolutions ($2.99 or Less Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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

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Today only, Over 40 Books to Jump-Start New Year's Resolutions, $2.99 or Less Each.

The Miser of Mayfair (A House for the Season Book 1) by M. C. Beaton from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "Funny, warm, and light-hearted, this is very highly recommended for all Regency romance fans."

It was the fashion during Regency to hire a house for the Season in Mayfair—the heart of London’s fashionable West End—at a disproportionately high rent for sometimes very inferior accommodation. So why is it that Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant season after season? The home of numerous families in the past to whom ill luck—even death—has befallen, Number 67 has been damned as unlucky.

In the Miser of Mayfair, salvation seems to come at last in the form of a Mr. Roderick Sinclair, who has confirmed his intentions to let the house for the Season. The staff are overjoyed—until they find that Mr. Sinclair is a terrible miser and is planning no parties. Furthermore, his ward, Fiona, seems not to have a bright idea in her head. Only Rainbird, the clever and elegant butler of Number 67, plots with Fiona to bewitch, bedazzle, and confuse the earl into seeing things their way.

The first two books of 'The Witcher' Series by Andrzej Sapkowski from Dark Horse Books are $2.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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

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Today only, the first two books of 'The Witcher' Series by Andrzej Sapkowski are $2.99 each.

Customer review: "The Witcher Series continues to be highly captivating not only for its world, but for the great characters the author has created."

Straw Bale Gardens by Joel Karsten from Cool Springs Press ($2.99) is the Kindle Gardening & Horticulture Deal of the Day (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Add narration for a reduced price of $2.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

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Customer review: "This book has revolutionized how I garden. I will never garden in any other way."

You’ll find a bumper crop of vegetable gardening books on the shelves today, but it is a very rare title that actually contains new information.

Straw Bale Gardens teaches gardening in a way that isn’t only new but is thoroughly innovative and revolutionary to home gardening. It solves every impediment today’s home gardeners face: bad soil, weeds, a short growing season, watering problems, limited garden space, and even physical difficulty working at ground level.

Developed and pioneered by author and garden expert Joel Karsten, straw bale gardens create their own growing medium and heat source so you can get an earlier start. It couldn’t be simpler or more effective: all you need is a few bales of straw, some fertilizer, and some seeds or plants, and you can create a weedless vegetable garden anywhere—even in your driveway.

Karsten’s step-by-step guide offers all the information you need to make your own straw bale garden today. In this lushly photographed volume, Karsten shares all of the secrets he has developed over years of teaching eager students the miracle of straw bale gardening. You’ll learn how to locate and choose straw bales, then how to condition and plant them for the earliest possible start. You’ll master Karsten’s methods for combating plant pests and maximizing space by applying the principles of vertical gardening to his straw bales. Whether it’s seedlings or seeds, veggies or flowers, there is practically no limit to the plant varieties that will prosper in a straw bale garden—and with Karsten’s breakthrough gardening guide, you can do it all yourself.

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins from Scholastic Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (January 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "This is an amazing read. It had me crying, gasping, and gaping in amazement. I could not put it down!"

Age Level: 12 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up

The book no one can stop talking about . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

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Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Book 1) by M. C. Beaton from Grand Central Publishing is $1.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

Product Description

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers-or was it the fins?-of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrills - until her strangled body is fished out of the river.

Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do strike again.

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Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) by Robin Hobb from Spectra/Random House is $1.99 (Amazon US)

Book Description

Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father’s gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the magic Skill—and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.

As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.

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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin from Diversion Books ($0.99 on Amazon US, CDN$ 1.15 on Amazon CA)

Product Description

As featured on Slate, for the first time in eBook edition comes a science fiction classic that is at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.

Winner of the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and one of the most acclaimed writers in science fiction, Ursula Le Guin’s classic novel The Lathe of Heaven imagines a world in which one man’s dreams can change all of our realities.

In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only George has the clear memory of how it was before. He seeks counseling from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour.

As relevant to our current world as it was when it won the Locus Award, Ursula Le Guin’s novel is a true classic, at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.

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The Blessing Way (Navajo Mysteries Book 1) by Tony Hillerman from HarperCollins is $1.99 (Amazon US)

Book Description

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues.

Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

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'The Wayward Pines' Trilogy by Blake Crouch from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (January 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 Wayward Pines' Trilogy by Blake Crouch are $1.99 Each.

She Effin' Hates Me: A Love Story by Scarlett Savage from Skyhorse Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day ((January 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "This is a fantastic book with great characters, a wonderful plot, and storytelling at its best. It's also incredibly funny."

Molly has arrived home from Vassar to reveal that she has an important announcement to make. Her mother, Suzanne, is convinced that Molly’s news is history repeating herself — and that she’s about to become a thirty-six-year-old grandmother. Suzanne’s mother, Ava, develops a case of impending great-grandmother fever—that is, when she’s not spying on the new next-door neighbor, Buddy McKinley, who turns out to be a blast from her past.

Decades earlier, Buddy was the business partner of Ava’s late husband, as well as his best friend during the Vietnam War. Ava feels she has good reasons for hating Buddy—she blames him for the fall of their business, an Irish pub that was a staple of the community. The loss not only destroyed her husband but also pushed her headfirst into the vodka bottle.

Suzanne eventually finds out that Buddy and Ava’s past goes back much further than either has admitted. She begins to wonder whether Ava truly hates Buddy, or whether her feelings are much more complicated, as are her own when Molly announces that she’s not pregnant, but gay.

Based on the award-winning play, She Effin' Hates Me is about three women relearning to love one another for who they are … and more importantly, for who they’re not.

Three Books in the Mercury Series By Robert Kroese from 47North are $1.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (January 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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

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Today only, Three Books in the Mercury Series By Robert Kroese are $1.99 each.

Customer review: "These are smart, funny, and highly engaging. The author has created a fascinating group of supernaturals in this fantastical ride."

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (January 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "A tale of true crime and cultural exploitation, this obscure history makes for fascinating reading."

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month October 2014
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post “must read”! October 2014

Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.

For the first time, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the incredible true story of the Igorrotes, a group of “headhunting, dog eating” tribespeople brought to America from the Philippines by the opportunistic showman Truman K. Hunt. At Luna Park, the g-string-clad Filipinos performed native dances and rituals before a wide-eyed public in a mocked-up tribal village. Millions of Americans flocked to see the tribespeople slaughter live dogs for their daily canine feasts and to hear thrilling tales of headhunting. The Igorrotes became a national sensation—they were written up in newspaper headlines, portrayed in cartoons, and even featured in advertising jingles, all fueled by Truman’s brilliant publicity stunts.

By the end of the summer season, the Igorrote show had made Truman a rich man. But his genius had a dark side and soon he would be on the run across America with the tribe in tow, pursued by ex-wives, creditors, Pinkerton detectives, and the tireless agents of American justice.

Award-winning journalist Claire Prentice brings this forgotten chapter in American history to life with vivid prose and rich historical detail. The book boasts a colorful cast of characters, including the mercurial Truman Hunt; his ambitious, young Filipino interpreter, Julio Balinag; Fomoaley Ponci, the tribe’s loquacious, self-important leader; Luna Park impresarios Fred Thompson and Elmer “Skip” Dundy; and Frederick Barker, the government man dead set on bringing Truman to justice.

At its heart, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a tale of what happens when two cultures collide in the pursuit of money, adventure, and the American Dream. It is a story that makes us question who is civilized and who is savage.

Snowman's Story by Will Hillenbrand from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (January 2) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "This beautifully illustrated and wonderful book without words allows children to create their own story."

Age Level: 3 - 7 | Grade Level: P - 2nd

Filled with charm and fun, this wordless picture book from a beloved illustrator lets kids tell their own version of the story.

One wintry day, a hat lands on the head of a newly made snowman and brings him to life. Hiding inside the hat is a rabbit, who listens to the snowman read a story to some animal friends. When the snowman falls asleep, the rabbit hops away with the book. But the snowman isn't about to let his story—or the mischievous rabbit—get away. The chase is on!

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The Lion Seeker by Kenneth Bonert from Mariner Books ($2.99) is the KOBO Daily Deal (January 2)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Add narration for a reduced price of $12.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

Product Description

“A taut, visceral account of a young Jewish boy’s African life . . . offering at times page-turning thrills and at others a painful meditation on destiny and volition.” — NPR, All Things Considered

A powerful family saga, The Lion Seeker is a thrilling ride through the life of Isaac Helger, from redheaded hooligan on the streets of Johannesburg to striving young man on the make. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, Isaac is caught between his mother’s urgent ambition to bring her sisters to safety out of the old world and his own desire for the freedoms of the new. But soon his mother’s carefully guarded secret takes them to the diamond mines, where mysteries are unveiled in the desert rocks and Isaac begins to learn the bittersweet reality of success bought at truly any cost.

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The Spellsinger (The Spellsinger Series Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster from Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ($1.99 on Amazon US, CDN$ 2.31 on Amazon CA)

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Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own

Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world—and his old one. Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard; a thieving, backstabbing otter; and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.

Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster’s eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.

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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey from Putnam Juvenile is $1.99 (Amazon US)

Switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to the Audible narration with Whispersync for Voice. Add narration for a reduced price of $10.99 when you buy the Kindle book.

Book Description

The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

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Ten popular books (£0.99 - £1.49 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (January 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, Ten popular books are £0.99 - £1.49 each only

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Six Books in the 'John Corey' Series by Nelson DeMille from Grand Central Publishing ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (January 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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

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Today only, Six Books in the 'John Corey' Series by Nelson DeMille are $1.99 Each.

If He's Daring (Wherlocke Book 6) by Hannah Howell from Zebra Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day ((January 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "Lively and satisfying, this tells a grand adventure as Sir Orion Wherlocke teams up with Lady Catryn to rescue her young son."

In a dazzling new novel in the Wherlocke family saga, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell creates an unforgettable story of intrigue, jeopardy, and desire. . .
Stealing a stranger's carriage is the second most reckless thing Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene has ever done. The first is succumbing to her powerful attraction to the carriage's owner. Catrin has heard the rumors about Sir Orion Wherlocke's family and their otherworldly gifts. He's the one person who can keep her son and his inheritance safe from her late husband's ruthless brother. As for how to protect herself. . .it may be too late for that.

Orion is facing the worst danger a man of his ilk can find: a woman he can't walk away from. Catrin is an intoxicating blend of innocence and sensuality, and for the first time, seduction is far more than a game. But her beauty and fortune have made her a target--one that will dare him to risk everything he's known--in pursuit of everything he's ever longed for. . .

Six Star Trek Books from Pocket Books/Star Trek are $1.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (January 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, Six Star Trek Books are $1.99 each.

Customer review: "With edge-of-your-seat action, these are must-reads for all Star Trek fans and good science fiction in general."

Once a Runner: A Novel by John L. Parker Jr. from Scribner ($1.99) is the Kindle Sports Deal of the Day (January 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "This is the best novel about running I've ever read! It's a definite must for all runners or even serious athletes."

Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner; to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written.

Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author's car, the book eventually found its way into the hands of high school, college, and postgraduate athletes all over the country. Reading it became a rite of passage on many teams, and tattered copies were handed down like sacred texts from generation to generation. It ranked as the number one most sought-after out-of-print book in the United States in 2007.

Once a Runner is the story of Quenton Cassidy, a collegiate runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the political and cultural turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school's athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes' protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team.

Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life: a head-to-head match with the greatest miler in history. This book is a rare insider's account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners; an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one man's quest to become a champion.

Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter from Atheneum Books for Young Readers ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (January 3) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "This is an honest and powerful memoir about the author's nine-year journey through the foster care system."

"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama."

Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.

Painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative,humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family.

In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice.

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Audible Daily Deal - Moving Day: A Thriller by Jonathan Stone and Christopher Lane (Narrator) for $3.95

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

Publisher's Summary

Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke - they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago.

When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke’s past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps, dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the 72-year-old Peke - who survived, came to America, and succeeded - must summon his original grit and determination, to track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for himself.

Peke and his wife, Rose, trace the path of the thieves’ truck across America, to the wilds of Montana, and to an ultimate, chilling confrontation with not only the thieves, but with Peke’s brutal, unresolved past.

©2014 Jonathan Stone (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, Inc., all rights reserved

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The Soul of Discretion: A Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mystery by Susan Hill from Overlook/Penguin ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (January 3)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Product Description

In the eighth of the successful Simon Serrailler series, the Chief Superintendent is faced with worse crimes than ever, and the town of Lafferton is left reeling

Susan Hill—the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards—returns with a gripping new novel, the latest chapter in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time.

From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land.

When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton’s new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers, who ask him to take the principal role in a difficult, potentially dangerous undercover operation. He must leave town immediately, without telling anyone—not even his girlfriend Rachel, who has only just moved in with him.

Meanwhile, Simon's sister Cat is facing difficult choices at work, as Lafferton’s hospice closes its bedded units—and at home, as her daughter is presented with a glittering opportunity that they would have to struggle to afford. And all is not well with Simon and Cat's stepmother, Judith, either.

To complete his special operation, Simon must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. This takes its toll on Simon and—as the investigation unfolds—also on the town and some of its most respected citizens.