Thursday’s Top eBooks


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Daffodils
by Alex Martin
FREEBIE
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4

Katy, a maidservant at Cheadle Manor, longs to escape her narrow life but events unfold slowly in her rural village in Wiltshire. Jem Phipps has always loved Katy. His proposal of marriage rescues her from scandal but after tragedy strikes Jem becomes a reluctant soldier on the battlefields of The First World War, leaving Katy behind, restless and alone.

Lionel White, the local curate, has just returned from India bringing a dash of colour to the small village and offers Katy a window on the wider world. Only when Katy joins up as a WAAC girl does she finally break free from the stifling class-ridden hierarchies that bind her but the brutality of 20th-century global war brings home the price she has paid for her search.

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The School of Obedience
by Andrew Murray
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7

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.

While the original disobedience was the cause of humanity’s fall, through the obedience of Christ to the Father, and through our obedience to Christ, we can once again be restored. Let this study awaken in you an earnest desire to fully know God’s will concerning this truth…

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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6

Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild’s pilot reported their altitude at 15,000 feet.

But one minute later, the Santiago control tower lost all contact with the aircraft. For eight days, Chileans, Uruguayans, and Argentinians searched for it, but snowfall in the Andes had been heavy, and the odds of locating any wreckage were slim…

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Death Without Company
by Craig Johnson
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.7

Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Depth of Winter–Death Without Company is the second in the Longmire series

When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s dramatic Basque past. Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and newcomer Santiago Saizarbitoria, Sheriff Longmire must connect the specter of the past to the present to find the killer among them.

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Perky
by Julia Kent
BARGAIN
Romance
Rating: 4.4

One hundred years ago when I was young and impulsive (okay, it was five, alright? Five years ago…) I let my boyfriend take, let’s just say…compromising pictures of me. (Shut up. It made sense at the time). Surprise! The sleazy back-stabbing jerk posted them on a website and, well, you can guess what happened. That’s right. I’m a meme. A really gross one. You’ve seen the pictures. And if you haven’t – don’t ask. And don’t look!

As face recognition software online improves, I get tagged on social media whenever anyone shares my pictures. You try getting a thousand notifications a day, all of them pictures of your tatas. So. I’m done. It’s time for revenge. Let him see how it feels! But how do you get embarrassingly intimate pictures of your jerkface ex who double-crossed you five years ago?

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Kurtherian Gambit Boxed Set One
by Michael Anderle
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.9

What you thought you knew about Vampires and Werewolves is wrong…so very, very, wrong. This digital box set contains the first seven books, the complete first arc of the best-selling Kurtherian Gambit series from Michael Anderle.

Death Becomes Her: A thousand years of effort to keep the UnknownWorld hidden is unraveling and the Patriarch is tired. He needs to find someone to take over. He finds Bethany Anne. Unknown, untested and untried she sets out to accomplish the impossible while forging a new future. One that no one knew was in danger. And she does it with an attitude that will make you stand up and cheer! CLICK above to read the full descriptions!

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Deadly Ties
by Aaron Ben-Shahar
NO LONGER FREE
Thriller
Rating: 4.8

Bonnie, a prominent minister in the Israeli government finds a signed envelope inside the drawer of his recently deceased mother’s desk. The mysterious envelope, addressed to him personally, contains shocking details about his biological father which his mother had kept secret for over forty years.

When Bonnie decides to get to the bottom of this enigma, he finds himself at the crux of a complex international conflict in the boiling Middle East, from where there is no return. He must think twice about who is with him and who is against him. If he wants to save himself, he must trust only those closest to him…


The Food Stylist’s Handbook
by Denise Vivaldo & Cindie Flannigan
FREEBIE
Cookbook
Rating: 4.0

Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks and foodies alike who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake.

Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food stylists and photographers learn to slice, plate, tweak, and arrange so the dish becomes less a bit of food and more the work of an artisan.

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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.5

How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane’s Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony.

As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike…

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ONLY THE DEAD DON’T DIE
by A.D. POPOVICH
BARGAIN
Post-Apocalyptic
Rating: 4.5

Surviving the Super Summer Flu’s un-deadly aftermath is only the beginning! During the peak of summer vacations, the World Health Organization abruptly hints to a possible pandemic sweeping the far corners of the globe. Meanwhile, politicians and lamestream media downplay the novel coronavirus. But it’s already too late. The virulent Super Summer flu brings mankind to its knees in the grisliest way possible.

A few survive: the unlucky ones, the immune, and those relishing a life of lawlessness. This is their story. Experience the End Times through their eyes and face their fears as they struggle to outwit the evil holding Earth hostage.

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Death of a Blueberry Tart
by Lee Hollis
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.6

It may not be front page news, but Island Times food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is now happily married. Before she can set sail on her honeymoon cruise, however, Hayley’s mom, Sheila, pays an impromptu visit–and promptly becomes the prime suspect in a murder.

The victim is Sheila’s old high school rival, Caskie Lemon-Hogg, known for her homemade blueberry pies and her home-wrecking flirtations. As Hayley teams up with her BFFs Liddy and Mona to clear her mother’s name, Sheila reunites with Liddy’s mom Celeste and Mona’s mom Jane for their own amateur sleuthing…

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To Win a Widow
by Alexa Aston
BARGAIN
Regency Romance
Rating: 4.8

Dalinda Baker wed the Duke of Gilford after one brief meeting, escaping a cruel, unloving father before he could betroth her to a stranger. The much older duke gives her confidence, stability, and two sons before he dies of a heart attack a dozen years into their marriage. With her young boys away at school, Dalinda is at loose ends and visits her brother, where she meets a sinfully handsome stranger.

Rhys Armistead toils as a working-class groom when he is plucked from obscurity by the Earl of Sheffington, whose sickly son might never live to succeed him. Rhys’ mother is a distant cousin to the earl and Rhys is next in line to become Lord Sheffington if the heir apparent passes. Treating Rhys as a second son, the earl purchases a commission in the army for Rhys, who spends a dozen years fighting on the Continent until he receives word that he has inherited the earldom…

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The Lost Vampire Prince
by Melody Raven
FREEBIE
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.2

Nicolas is the embodiment of royalty. Strong. Powerful. Deadly. The only thing he’s missing is his throne.

Decades ago a vampire mutiny murdered his father and forced him into hiding, but all that is about to change. A mortal woman smart enough to learn the truth about him and naive enough to trust him is the perfect pawn to sneak him back into the monarchy. Nothing is going to stop Nicolas from getting what is rightfully his. Not lust. Not love. And not Anna. At least that’s what he thinks.

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Snowden: The Only Safe Place Is on the Run
by Kieran Fitzgerald & Oliver Stone
FREEBIE
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.2

From Oscar winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history.

This official motion picture screenplay edition, written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, includes a foreword by David Talbot and dozens of photos from the film.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
BARGAIN
Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.7

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.

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Just One Look
by Harlan Coben
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in this shocking thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.

When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn’t belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it’s him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past…

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I’ll Always Love You
by Lorhainne Eckhart
BARGAIN
Romance
Rating: 4.8

It was the hottest night of sex he’d ever had. Jeremy Friessen had heard the whispers that he was just like his father, with his looks, his bad ass attitude, and arrogance, and he’d never forget the night he’d spent with his best friends sister until she up and left, one day just three years ago.

But now she’s back, he’d caught a glimpse of her at the traffic light again at the store and when her eyes connected with his, she pretended as if she didn’t know him, and that made him angry until he realized she couldn’t hide her reaction to him. But what Jeremy doesn’t know is why she left, whatever her secret is–whatever her reason was for disappearing, Jeremy is determined to find out everything, and when he does he may wish he’d never found her.

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Ignition
by Emma Shelford
BARGAIN
Urban Fantasy
Rating: 4.4

For centuries, I was the only one with magic. Why? I don’t know. And I’m out of time to find out. I’m Merlin. Perhaps you’ve heard of me. My friend Arthur died in fifth-century Wales, but I didn’t. Eternal youth is not as great as it sounds, when friends and family die and I am left alone.

But the mystery haunts me: why am I the only one with magic? I thought this was a mystery that would remain forever unsolved until a volcanic eruption threatens a nearby town. At first, I didn’t care about the looming disaster–after living through the Black Plague, other death tolls seem insignificant–but it’s not natural. Someone with abilities like mine is forcing this disaster. If I can figure out what’s causing this eruption, I might finally discover why I’m different. I am Merlin, after all–one of a kind.

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