Wednesday’s Top eBooks
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Survive the Night
by Diana Duncan
FREEBIE
Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.6
Pacifist Bailey Chambers fell for SWAT door-kicker Conall O’Rourke against her better judgment. A glimpse into his violent job helped her regain her senses, and she dumped the roguishly handsome cop. Conall O’Rourke doesn’t believe in surrender. He’s determined to woo, win, and wed the woman he loves, despite her trepidation about his job.
But when they wind up trapped in a mall with a gang of ruthless bank robbers who’ve taken hostages, they must work as a team to save everyone, before time runs out. As the deadline clock counts down, Bailey and Con each offer the ultimate sacrifice, desperate to ensure the other will survive the night… #ad
Time Trap
by Micah Caida
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.4
Rayen wakes up in a strange place called Albuquerque with no memory of how she landed in a desert where she’s captured. While the authorities search for a way to identify her, she’s sent to an unusual institution where she’s shocked to see paper.
When a power inside her manifests unexpectedly, she opens a portal, sending her and two unlikely sidekicks to a place harboring a deadly secret that can destroy this world … and the future. #ad
The Dog Listener
by Jan Fennell
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.5
In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel.
This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan’s countless case histories of problem dogs–from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers–to show how you can bridge the language barrier that separates you from your dog. #ad
Official and Confidential
by Anthony Summers
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.1
No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. #ad
Murder in Little Italy
by Victoria Thompson
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah disagrees.
So does the woman’s own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws, the Ruoccos – an accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups. The situation escalates when a second death in the tenements nearly leads to riots in the streets… #ad
To Seduce a Highland Scoundrel
by Collette Cameron
BARGAIN
Scottish Romance
Rating: 4.6
Steadfast, loyal, and a fierce warrior, Laird Graeme Kennedy puts his duty to his family and clan above all else. After a horrendous marriage, he’s vowed to never wed again and to become the best laird Killeaggian Tower has ever known. Only, the unexpected arrival of the beautiful and intelligent Berget Jonston throws his orderly life into upheaval and threatens the safety of those under his protection.
Brave and intrepid, widow Berget Jonston refuses to be manipulated into another arranged marriage. Risking all, she escapes to the Highlands. The last thing she expected–or wanted–was to encounter the intimidating, brawny Graeme Kennedy. A man who affects her as no one ever has… #ad
How to Bake a Murder
by K.J. Emrick
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
“I can’t get a pulse. Cookie, call for an ambulance.” Definitely not the words you want to hear when a man has just collapsed in the middle of your bakery.
A few minutes is all it took for Karen ‘Cookie’ Williams to be thrust into the center of a nightmare. A customer was dead and she was considered a suspect. Her beloved shop was a crime scene. Things weren’t looking so great for her. #ad
Oakshot Complete Works of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
FREEBIE
Literary Classics
Rating: 4.7
“Every reader of American literature will want a complete set of Mark Twain, especially to discover and enjoy his many lesser-known works; to say the least, he was a great writer, a keen observer of human foibles, and a humorist par excellance.
This Oakshot edition is a very convenient way to acquire, in a single download, all his many great works (also available individually in free public domain editions) and thereafter to have them altogether in one location for easy future access…” -Amazon Reviewer #ad
The Girl at the End of the World
by Richard Levesque
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she’s made the best of her parents’ divorce. But in one way, she’s special: on her fifteenth birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she’s ever known, yet somehow it passes her by.
Her family dead, alone in a corpse-strewn metropolis, she has no choice but to survive. She needs food, shelter, a safe place to sleep. She discovers that an ordinary girl is capable of extraordinary things, and that she’s more resilient than she imagined… #ad
Bad Kid
by David Crabb
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Discovering George Michael’s Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: he was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders.
David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing the Pet Shop Boys–and learning lessons about life and love along the way. #ad
The Face-Changers
by Thomas Perry
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman. A famous plastic surgeon who has dedicated his life to healing, the good doctor hasn’t a clue why stalkers are out for his blood.
But he knows Jane Whitefield’s name–and that she is his only hope. Once again Jane performs her magic, leading Dahlman in a nightmare flight across America, only a heartbeat ahead of pursuers whose leader is a dead ringer for Jane: a raven-haired beauty who has stolen her name, reputation, and techniques–not to save lives, but to destroy them… #ad
Showdown at Durango
by Jesse Storm
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: 5.0
Ranch hand Samson Stockton and Sheriff Amis were almost at the town’s borders, both of them on their horses and loaded with guns and ammunition. Samson had his Smith & Wesson New Model 3, as well as a Colt Frontier, chambered for the .44-40 Winchester. The sheriff also carried two Colt Peacemakers on him, and an old Sharps ’67.
Between them, they had enough rounds to take out a small village, even though Samson would do anything to avoid a fight at that point. They were simply trying to find their hideout – Stels McHuay’s hideout – so that they could come up with a plan. McHuay and his gang are ruthless with a simple plan: kidnapping and violating young women. The women’s pleas and cries mean nothing to the gang, not when they can smell the money that the women can bring them… #ad
The School of Obedience
by Andrew Murray
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7
For us to have favor with God, obedience is of utmost importance. To obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22). This is evident from the very beginning of the Bible to the very end: Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life (Revelation 22:14).
From Paradise lost to Paradise regained, the necessity for obedience remains the same. It is only obedience that restores access to the tree of life and favor with God… #ad
Alix
by Virginia Hunter
FREEBIE
Fantasy
Rating: 4.6
Alix hadn’t always been gifted. In fact, she hadn’t been or done much of anything until after she’d turned sixteen–that’s when things had really gone south. Her mother was murdered, her father…well, no one knew where he was. That left Alix on her own in a selfish world filled with people who didn’t give a damn.
Nine years of hell had passed since her sweet sixteen, and the discovery of her gift. So far, she’d managed to handle everything the world had thrown at her. Everything, until Troy Sullivan strolled into the tattoo parlor where she worked… #ad
Trials of the Earth
by Mary Hamilton
BARGAIN
Historical
Rating: 4.6
The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 – c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The result is this astonishing first-person account of a pioneer woman who braved grueling work, profound tragedy, and a pitiless wilderness (she and her family faced floods, tornadoes, fires, bears, panthers, and snakes) to protect her home in the early American South… #ad
Where Jasmine Blooms
by Holly S. Warah
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.4
American-born Margaret Mansour wants nothing more than to rekindle the struggling twenty-year marriage to her Palestinian husband, Ahmed–but not if it means uprooting their home and children in America and moving halfway across the world.
Young and ambitious Alison Mansour has a degree in Near East Studies, but her American education and Syrian background are of no use when her new marriage begins to crumble under the weight of cultural and religious differences. The communication between Alison and her husband is already shaky; how will they cope with the arrival of their first child? #ad
Her Billionaire Cowboy’s Fake Marriage
by Hope Moore
BARGAIN
Romance
Rating: 4.4
A billionaire cowboy in need of a wife, a waitress in need of a miracle and the offer she can’t refuse. The last thing cowboy Wade McCoy expects when his beloved billionaire granddaddy dies is for him to require Wade to marry in order to save the vast McCoy Ranch that they both loved and built together. But that is exactly his granddaddy’s requirement: Wade has to marry within three months, stay married for at least three months or he loses it all, for him and his brothers.
He doesn’t like it, but his granddaddy didn’t raise him to walk away from anything and there has never been a challenge he couldn’t win…with no plans to lose the ranch he loves now Wade just has to find a woman who will go along with this crazy idea. #ad
Blood Gold in the Congo
by Peter Ralph
BARGAIN
Action & Adventure
Rating: 4.9
Inspired by true events. “This is an outstanding read and simply a wonderful action/adventure story.” -Reader’s Favorite – When twelve-year-old Congolese boy, Joseph Muamba, is sold to a wealthy American family he wants to die. Eventually, he comes to love the family and lives the life of the all-American boy. However, he cannot rid himself of a nagging feeling that he has a greater calling in life.
Fourteen years later he competes at the Beijing Olympics for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and wins his birth country’s first-ever medal – gold in the decathlon. However, the nagging feeling persists, not satisfied with Olympic gold. Revered, he returns to the Congo as a guest of the president but is horrified when he discovers Westerners and the Chinese are bribing politicians and plundering the country’s mineral wealth… #ad