Monday’s Top eBooks
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Brush Creek Cowboy
by Liz Isaacson
FREEBIE
Clean & Wholesome Romance
Rating: 4.6
Former rodeo champion and cowboy Walker Thompson trains horses at Brush Creek Horse Ranch, where he lives a simple life in his cabin with his ten-year-old son, Michael.
He’s worked with Tess Wagner, a widow who came to Brush Creek to escape the turmoil of her life to give her seven-year-old son, Graham, a slower pace of life. Together, they run a cotton candy stand at the town’s Heritage Festival every fall, and Walker gets up the nerve to ask Tess to dinner. Neither of them wants to inflict more sorrow and suffering on the other than they’ve already endured. So when Tess confesses that her breast cancer has flared up again, Walker backs off. Way off…
Veil Rising
by Brandon Ellis
FREEBIE
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.2
Abducted along with thousands of others. Transported to a world of slavery for alien masters. Mind-wiped, so every hellish day in the mines feels like just another job shift. This has been going on for millennia. And one day, archaeologist Ali Johnson decodes an ancient Sumerian tablet that unveils the truth. Those secrets set her on a trail of clues that lead to the right place at the absolute wrong time.
The plan to keep humanity at heel relies on periodic purges, and the countdown to genocide is ticking. Ali may be the spark that ignites galactic rebellion. But before she can save mankind, she must remember who she is, what she’s lost, and why one terrible figure continues to haunt her dreams…
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
by Ted Kerasote
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.7
While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog–a Labrador mix–who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle’s native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in.
A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the author, Merle’s Door explores the issues that all animals and their human companions face as their lives intertwine…
He Sat Down
by Wes Raley
BARGAIN
Christian Non-Fiction
Rating: 4.9
From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author Wes Raley comes a powerful new book about how to have the peace of God in a world of striving, stress, and anxious toil.
We know that Jesus came to give us an abundant life (John 10:10). Yet many of us would frequently describe our lives with words such as busy, stressed, anxious, or even overwhelmed. Despite how much we dislike the weight of such a frantic existence, we often carry on living with a gap between our experience and the fullness of life we know that Jesus has to offer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. God has given us a blueprint in His Word so powerful that if fully embraced, it will effortlessly transport us into the abundant life that Jesus died to give us…
The Scarred Rancher’s Unforgettable Bride
by Ava Winters
BARGAIN
Western Historical Romance
Rating: 4.4
Sophie Fallon decides to become a mail-order bride as a promise to her now dead sister. She tries hard to keep up with the ranch and with her new husband, who seems to be more emotionally shut off than he would let her know when writing to her. She never really thought that loving a man would mean making so many steps backs to let him come to her. How long until he sees her for the tender and loving wife she truly is?
Arthur Soul is a silent man who has been deprived of his family from a young age. The man who took away from him his family is still alive and well. Even if far away from his location, Arthur fears that his present with Sophie might be threatened now more than ever. Yet, Sophie’s determined ways are what unlock his heart to connection. How can he let himself fall for her when there is still someone who wishes to hurt them?
A Traitor at Poppyridge Cove
by Rimmy London
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
“Not only was I immediately pulled into the story, but I lost a good amount of sleep over it!” -Bernadette, Amazon review
When Chase is awarded a major psychiatric achievement, he and Abby head off for a sudden getaway, leaving Emily in charge. But there was no way to know everything that would go wrong while they were away…
This exciting novel can be read as a standalone, or as a delightful glimpse into the life of Chase and Abby, and an entirely new adventure with Emily and Ryan — an unlikely pair who will have readers rooting for their happy ending.
His Hand In the Storm
by Ritu Sethi
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.2
Chief Inspector Gray James is sculpting the remembered likeness of his small son when he receives the call – a faceless corpse is found hanging by the choppy river, swirls of snow and sand rolling like tumbleweeds.
Montreal glitters: the cobbled streets slippery with ice, and the mighty St. Lawrence jetting eastward past the city. One by one, someone is killing the founders of a booming medical tech startup – propelling Gray into a downward spiral that shatters his hard-earned peace, that risks his very life, that threatens to force him to care and face what he has shunned all along: his hand in the storm.
The Celestial Gate
by Avital Dicker
NO LONGER FREE
YA Fantasy
Rating: 4.7
The paths of three teenagers cross at the heart of a large-scale terror attack in which their parents are injured. In order to save themselves they will have to give up everything they know and love.
Jerusalem is burning and they are trapped. They have no choice but to follow a mysterious map and escape into a network of secret passages under the old city, where they are forced to fight for their lives against dangerous armed terrorists. Time is running out and the only way to save themselves and the city is to find the Celestial Gate. To accomplish this, they will have to overcome their differences and find the meaning of the secret bond that connects between the three of them, rooted in a previous life and in ancient history…
Antiquity
by Norman F. Cantor
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.1
Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world–from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476.
In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative…
Island Dreams
by Evangeline Kelly
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.6
It was a miracle. I never won anything. But here I was, boarding a plane for an all-expenses paid trip to Makani Island. Alone. I wasn’t expecting anything more than a soul-soothing vacation.
Then I met him. A total grouch, or so I thought. A guy I wouldn’t want to see again. Ever. But somehow, he convinced me to take a walk on the beach. The walk turned into an all-night conversation. A once in a lifetime connection. We both knew it, but his mega-wealthy parents had wedding plans set out for him already. He said he was his own man, but I refused to be a wedge between them. Could I really give him up? The bigger question was…would he let me?
The Empty Copper Sea
by John D. MacDonald
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.7
Van Harder, once a hard drinker, has found religion. But that doesn’t keep folks from saying he murdered his employer, Hub Lawless, whose body hasn’t been found. To clear his name, and cear up the mystery, Van asks friend-in-need Travis McGee to find out what really happened.
What McGee finds is that Timber Bay is a tough town to get a break in when you’re a stranger asking questions. But what he also finds is that, dead or alive, Hub Lawless is worth a lot of money. Some are eager to get a piece of that action–and some are willing to take more than a piece out of anyone who gets in the way….
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did–that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante–and a tyrant’s lover–Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers…
Seven Days of Friday
by Alex A. King
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Thirty-four-year-old Vivi Tyler is living her nightmare: gay husband, self-harming teenager, melodramatic mother. They’re picking apart her sanity, one stitch at a time. She’s crawling along rock bottom when the arrival of a mysterious package opens a new door to a new country.
A desperate Vivi dives headfirst into the quicksand that is Greece–her parents’ birthplace. But it’s a paradise far from perfect, and instead of the new beginning she covets, Vivi discovers trouble is determined to keep her in its pocket. Soon she’s fighting for her daughter’s life in a Greek hospital, clashing with her Greek relatives, and cobbling together an inadequate cage around her heart…
Young Al Capone
by William Balsamo & John Balsamo
FREEBIE
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.0
Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the “untouchable” Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone’s remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York.
Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone’s disquieting demeanor, combined with the “technical advice” he learned from these insidious pedagogues, contributed to the molding of a brutal criminal whose pseudonym, “Scarface,” evoked fascination throughout the world.
Warriors: The New Prophecy #1
by Erin Hunter
BARGAIN
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.8
The wild cats of the forest have lived in peace and harmony for many moons–but now, strange messages from their warrior ancestors speak of terrifying new prophecies and a mysterious danger.
Brambleclaw, a warrior of ThunderClan, may be the cat with the fate of the forest in his paws. Now he will need all the courage and strength of the greatest warriors to save the Clans.
A Field Guide to Fabric Design
by Kimberly Kight
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.7
If you’ve ever dreamed of showing your designs on fabric, textile aficionado Kim Kight, of popular blog True Up, is here to teach you how. Comprehensive and refreshingly straightforward, this impressive volume features two main parts.
First, the Design and Color section explains the basics with step-by-step tutorials on creating repeating patterns both by hand and on the computer. Next, the Printing section guides you through transferring those designs on fabric–whether it’s block printing, screen printing, digital printing or licensing to a fabric company–and how to determine the best method for you.
Riding Shotgun
by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
BARGAIN
Western Action & Adventure
Rating: 4.7
If anyone knows the road to purgatory, it’s Red Ryan. As a stagecoach guard, he’s faced holdups, ambushes, and all-out attacks from every kill-crazy outlaw, Indian, and prairie rat. But even he’s a bit reluctant to take on his next job: riding shotgun with his driver Buttons Muldoon on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss.
Word has it, the Apaches are on the warpath. They’re being led by the vicious war chief Ilesh, which means “Lord of the Earth.” And this lord means business, as in slaughtering every Texan from here to El Paso. Red wants to postpone the stage. But an army major’s beautiful but stubborn wife insists they leave–or she’ll go it alone. So Red has no choice…
Addicted to You
by Suzanne Jenkins
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 5.0
When a lost soul meets one on the mend, fireworks explode while two guardian angels keep watch.
On the one year anniversary of her fiance’s death, Sofia Saint takes a step out of her comfort zone and invites a handsome panhandler to sit at her table at lunch. After they share their history, it’s clear their meeting was more than a coincidence when a second chance at love heals broken hearts.
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