Thursday’s Top eBooks
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The Obituary Society
by Jessica L. Randall
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.2
When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather’s house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.
Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson. But when spooky things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like its a precious family heirloom… #ad
My First Scarf
by Barb Asselin
FREEBIE
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.4
Crochet a beautiful scarf today – even if you’ve never crocheted before!
Inside you will find the following: a review of the main crochet stitches and materials often used in crochet projects, in case you are new to the craft, or are looking for a refresher; step-by-step instructions on how to perform all of the stitches needed to create a beautiful, multi-colored scarf, including pictures at every step of the way; two versions of the beautiful scarf pattern shown on the cover… #ad
Kindred Beings
by Sheri Speede
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.9
What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees Taught Me About Life, Love, and Connection
As a child, Sheri Speede knew that she wanted to advocate for animals in any way she could. But it was not until many years after veterinary school, when she was transporting a chimpanzee named Pierre away from a biomedical facility as part of her job as a conservation advocate in Cameroon, that Dr. Speede discovered her true calling. She began to search for land for a forest sanctuary for captive chimpanzees that were held on chains and in small cages at local hotels… #ad
Firelight
by Kristen Callihan
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.2
Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.
Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can’t help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn’t felt in a lifetime. #ad
Lawfully Covert
by Jenna Brandt
BARGAIN
Inspirational Romance
Rating: 4.8
Lady Josephine Bradley, the second daughter of the Duke of Rothenbury, loves her life as the center of the English nobility. But when her best friend is mysteriously killed, she finds herself recruited to be a lady spy due to her connections. She must quickly learn to navigate a world she never imagined, filled with secrets, lies, and a forbidden spymaster who fills her thoughts.
Charles Gilbert expertly serves the Crown as London’s spymaster, so when he recruits Lady Josephine, he’s certain he can manage the young debutante. The problem is she’s determined to do whatever it takes to solve her friend’s murder, even if it derail his plans. Nothing seems to deter her, not even sinister threats, highway robbery, or kidnapping. #ad
No One Lives Twice & No One to Trust
by Julie Moffett
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
I’m Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I’ve never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella.
Until today, that is, when two gun-toting thugs popped up in my life and my best friend disappeared. So, I’ve enlisted the help of the Zimmerman twins–the reclusive architects of America’s most sensitive electronic networks–to help me navigate a bewildering maze of leads to find her. #ad
Detective Docherty and the Demon’s Tears
by Sarah WaterRaven
FREEBIE
Fantasy
Rating: 4.4
It was called the Great Awakening, when magickal kind returned to our world. They live among us now, renting apartments, laboring in the workforce, and paying taxes. Ares is a vampire and doing very well for himself in the modern world.
Between teaching at the local university and assisting a paranormal investigator, things couldn’t be better. But when a woman dies mysteriously in her own home, the question isn’t who killed her, but what. #ad
The Epic Misadventures of Caden Parker
by T. H. Heiner & Tamara Hart Heiner
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 5.0
S’mores and campfires and sleeping under the stars! Caden can’t wait for summer camp. But he doesn’t count on sunburns and tornadoes and buried treasure and obnoxious cabin mates.
Not to mention a ghost that haunts the campground. Will Caden and his friends survive their one week in the outdoors? Or will this be his last camp out ever? #ad
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
BARGAIN
Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.7
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.
When Lily’s fierce-hearted black “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina–a town that holds the secret to her mother’s past… #ad
Jungleland
by Christopher S. Stewart
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.0
On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras.
Nearly seventy years later, in the same hotel, acclaimed journalist Christopher S. Stewart wonders what he’s gotten himself into. Stewart and Morde seek the same answer on their quests: the solution to the riddle of the whereabouts of Ciudad Blanca… #ad
World Without End
by Ken Follett
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected.
Critics were overwhelmed–“it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)–and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. Look out for the next book in this series, A Column of Fire, available now. #ad
The Broken Heart
by Mary Lancaster
BARGAIN
Regency Romance
Rating: 4.5
Shunned by society and even by her own family after the treachery of her late husband, Isabelle de Renarde has long given up any thought of love or remarriage. But desperate loneliness drives her to make an assignation at the Hart Inn – which is where, inevitably, everything changes.
For the Hart is in turmoil once more, captured by a small group of French raiders led by the wildly reckless Captain Armand le Noir – who always succeeds in the end. Dazzled by Isabelle’s beauty, Armand regards her at first much like the task in hand – a distraction from his own pain. But the Hart seems to work its magic and inconvenient attraction gets in the way of both unwise assignation and the search for lost prisoners of war… #ad
Polar Bear Dawn
by Lyle Nicholson
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.2
Frank Mueller, the Alaskan Detective is close to retirement. He’s been through three marriages and two stints in rehab. He is on probation with the force. He knows the Anchorage Police department has given him this case because they don’t want it investigated fully and there’s no booze in the Arctic oil camps.
Bernadette Callahan, the Canadian Detective, is in her mid thirties with a lot to prove on the force. She is Cree Indian and Irish, raised on a native reservation in Northern Canada. She’s been ingrained with the ways of the ‘people,’ by her grandmother that have given her instincts… #ad
The Remarkable Soul of a Woman
by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7
If you are feeling overwhelmed with change, challenges, or checklists, you may wonder how you can partake now of God’s happiness and find your pathway to peace, hope, and joy.
With loving insight, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf addresses two attributes that contribute to our Heavenly Father’s perfect happiness – the power of creation and service with compassion. As a treasured daughter of our Heavenly Father, you can develop those remarkable abilities as well as find happiness in the journey. #ad
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
BARGAIN
Horror
Rating: 4.0
Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness.
Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. They cannot seem to escape tragedy…or the feelings that someone–or something–is stalking them… #ad
Surgeon in Blue
by Scott McGaugh
BARGAIN
Historical
Rating: 4.2
“Solid, well-researched… A nicely crafted biography that also offers Civil War buffs an unusual ambulance-wagon view of the great conflict.” -Kirkus Reviews
Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major battles–Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg–that produced unprecedented numbers of casualties… #ad
Death Below Stairs
by Jennifer Ashley
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.
Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs when her young Irish assistant is murdered. #ad
Since I Found You
by Mary Jane Morgan
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.2
Every man in Paige Dillingham’s life has walked out on her when she needed them the most, so she devotes herself to her first love–delivering babies. Until she meets the sweet, sexy, irresistible brother of a patient and wonders if she dares to risk her heart one more time.
For Justin Coleman, settling down and having a family is very important–someday. But for now, he’s perfectly happy playing the field. That is, until the night Paige Dillingham walks into his pub and everything changes. “Just friends” doesn’t last long, but when Justin wants more, old fears return for Paige. Will she have the courage to tell Justin the secret she’s hidden from everyone–the secret that could very well be the deal breaker that shatters her dreams one last time? #ad