Thursday’s Top eBooks
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The Billionaire’s Rival
by Jeannette Winters
FREEBIE
Romance
Rating: 4.5
Charles Lawson carries the weight of the entire family’s future on his shoulders. As CEO of Lawson Steel it is his responsibility to ensure their legacy continued for the next generation. First on his agenda is to clean up loose ends from the past. Doing so is risky and if he fails, the price could be great. It’s a risk he’s willing to take.
Rosslyn Clark loves her life as is, but family is everything to her. When her parents find themselves in a crisis, all she loves is at risk. Whether she likes it or not, sometimes change is inevitable…
Cast Iron Cookbook: The Recipe Deck
by Joanna Pruess
FREEBIE
Cookbook
Rating: 4.3
Quick! What’s the most versatile pan in your kitchen? It cooks up the most mouthwatering buttermilk fried chicken, it does double-duty with a Swiss cheese and apple frittata (starts on the stove top and finishes in the oven), and its raspberry-blackberry crisp is a textural delight.
Cast iron cookware is a jack-of-all-trades: holding heat evenly, lasting virtually forever, and providing a unique cooking surface that improves with age.
Clapton: The Autobiography
by Eric Clapton
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.3
More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.
Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
The Billionaire’s Birthday Surprise
by Jenna Brandt
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.9
What do you give the billionaire who has everything? Samuel Butler is a billionaire celebrity chef, equally known for his playboy ways as he is for his Irish gourmet cooking. When a close friend encourages him to use his next birthday adventure to find something deeper, he’s not sure if he’s ready to stop giving in to life’s pleasures.
Vanessa Lewis is staying on the Billionaire Birthday Club’s private island to celebrate her sister’s extravagant birthday. When she runs into Samuel Butler, the charming hunk she shared a passionate kiss with on New Year’s Eve two years earlier, she wants nothing to do with the man who could so easily forget her. Fate intervenes, however, when the sisters are invited to join a private party for the very man she wants to avoid.
Divine Courage
by Hope Callaghan
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 5.0
Jo is proud of Sherry’s courage to move out on her own, but soon grows concerned when a string of disturbing incidents start to plague the woman. It appears that not all of the locals are happy to see the former convict move into their town. The minor incidents escalate and Jo is forced to investigate who is targeting her former resident.
In the meantime, Jo is asked to consider taking in a soon-to-be-released felon who has a long list of demands. Jo’s first response is a definite “no,” but she’s forced to reconsider when she discovers she may need the woman in order to keep her doors open…
From Daylight To Madness
by Jennifer Anne Gordon
BARGAIN
Gothic Fiction
Rating: New Release
The latest book from the critically acclaimed author of Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent; Jennifer Anne Gordon. On an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guard, keeping watch. For many who come here, this island is a sanctuary and a betrayal. This is a place where memories linger like ghosts, and the ephemeral nature of time begins to peel away …like the sanity of all who have been unlucky enough to step foot on its shore.
In the late spring of 1873, Isabelle gave birth to her son Oscar, he cried for three startling minutes, and then went silent. During the months that follow, Isabelle is drugged and lulled into an almost hallucinatory world of grief and fear. Her life begins to feel as though it exists in a terrifying new reality separated from those around her…
Pitch Black
by Elise Noble
FREEBIE
Romantic Thriller
Rating: 4.4
After the owner of a security company is murdered, his sharp-edged wife goes on the run. Forced to abandon everything she holds dear – her home, her friends, her job in special ops – she builds a new life for herself in England. As Ashlyn Hale, she meets Luke, a handsome local who makes her realise just how lonely she is.
Yet, even in the sleepy village of Lower Foxford, the dark side of life dogs Diamond’s trail when the unthinkable strikes. Forced out of hiding, she races against time to save those she cares about. But is it too little, too late?
Israel Feeling at Home
by Limor Kohler & Anat Ben Natan
NO LONGER FREE
Non-Fiction
Rating: 4.8
Forget everything you know about conventional design styles. Fewer rules, more feeling, more style. Though many people do not relate to a particular design style, their perceptions and the feel they seek to create inside their homes are what drives the choices they make for their own private space.
Israeli design was built over recent years layer by layer, and serves as an accurate mirror image of the people and the country it represents: a powerful mosaic of styles and cultures. In Israel Feeling at Home, you will become acquainted with ten new modern styles that are based on the senses and emotions that will allow each one of you to hone in on your personal style and find the design that makes you feel most at home.
Gold Dragon
by Lindsay Buroker
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.8
Now that Trip’s siblings are safely back in the capital, he would like it if life got back to normal. As normal as possible for a half-dragon army officer learning to use his magical powers when he isn’t busy piloting with Wolf Squadron.
But trouble keeps popping up, and the capital isn’t the safe haven Trip had hoped. More and more dragons are working together, with attacks growing frequent as they scheme to claim the country for themselves. Equally daunting, Rysha wants to introduce Trip to her parents, parents who want a proper nobleman for their daughter, not some odd commoner sired by a dragon.
The British Are Coming
by Rick Atkinson
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.8
From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence.
Thirteen Hours
by Deon Meyer
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.4
As morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager’s body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel Anderson is somewhere in the city, terrified and alone, but hopefully still alive.
For both cases, time is short and media attention is high. And while the homicide detective has been sober for 156 days, day 157 is going to be a tough one…
Burdened Mail Order Bride And Her Reserved Widower
by Florence Linnington
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: 4.8
Jane Thompson suddenly finds herself a widow after her abusive husband passes away. With no way to support herself, she is forced to advertise with a mail order bride catalogue, agreeing to move out to Wyoming to marry a farmer who proposes a home and a peaceful life. But what seems like a blessing at first becomes a nightmare. There is no husband in waiting. Instead, Jane is forced to work as a saloon girl… for the slimy Mr. Cox
Widower Adam Keen is a man who has condemned himself to an uneventful, unhappy and monotonous life, until he stumbles upon the beautiful and distressed Jane, who is also… pregnant. Risking everything on an impulse, Adam decides to help free her from Mr. Cox. But is Adam ready to risk whatever he has left for Jane? And how far can Jane escape, when caught between love and duty?
Holding On
by Rachael Brownell
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.2
A coming of age story that will bring you back to your high school days and remind you what it felt like the first time you fell in love.
For five years Becca has been struggling to hide her feelings for her best friend, Brad. Now she finally has a chance to move on. She’s in a new city, she’s attending a new school, and she’s met the first guy besides Brad who’s held her attention in a long time. Not only is Ethan attractive, he’s an amazing tennis player, and he might just be Becca’s match on and off the courts…
The Longing
by Joey O’Connor
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.6
Without consciously knowing the questions,” says Joey O’Connor, “our hearts are asking, ‘Do I belong? Will people like me? Am I lovable? Will people accept me for who I am? Will I be chosen?’ Ever since we were children, our hearts have hungered to know whose we are.”
In The Longing, Joey O’Connor offers an uplifting, fresh view of God’s relentless love, giving you a whole new vision of how you see yourself and others. Your love and commitment to Christ will grow as a result.
The Hungry Road
by Marita Conlon-McKenna
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Ireland’s hopes for freedom are dashed with the arrival of a deadly potato blight that strikes terror in the heart of its people. 1845. Seamstress Mary Sullivan’s dreams of a better future are shattered as she looks out over their ruined crop. Refusing to give in to despair, she must use every ounce of courage and strength to protect her family as they fight to survive.
Dr Dan Donovan is Medical Officer to the Skibbereen Union. The arrival of ‘The Hunger’ soon brings starving men, women and children crowding into the town and the workhouse, desperate for assistance. Fr John Fitzpatrick’s faith is tested by the suffering that surrounds him as his pleas for help fall on deaf ears.
TRIBES
by Mia Frances
BARGAIN
Post-Apocalyptic/Romance
Rating: 3.4
A dark, gritty post-apocalyptic tale of love, loathing, & survival!
Alex, her sisters, and their kids are on their way to her camp in the Adirondack Mountains for the Columbus Day weekend when the unthinkable happens. A voice on the radio warns the country is under attack! Greeted by guns and bullets when they try to seek shelter, they’re forced to hide in a cave to wait out the fallout. After two weeks in their dank hole, Alex wakes up one morning to discover her sisters gone. They’ve taken the rented minibus and returned to the city to search for their husbands, leaving Alex to care for her 7 nieces and nephews. It’s an arduous 35-mile hike through the mountains to her camp…a journey through hell!
The Balloon Man
by Charlotte MacLeod
BARGAIN
Amateur Sleuths
Rating: 4.7
For all the Kellings’ quirks, no other family in Boston is more adept at throwing a wedding. So when Max Bittersohn’s wife, Sarah Kelling, offers to organize his nephew’s nuptials, Max is smart enough to stay out of her way.
But when the art-fraud investigator stumbles onto a family mystery, he is drawn into something far more serious than the question of who will catch the bouquet. Stolen years earlier, the priceless Kelling jewels were last seen in Amsterdam, so how did they end up among the wedding gifts?
Four Girls and a Guy
by Suzanne Jenkins
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 5.0
What happens to their secrets when five friends who attend the University of Chicago move in together? Alison Saint decided she couldn’t tolerate dorm life any longer and rented a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. She’s invited three friends to share the space in this introduction to the Girls in the City series. Edwin shows up later when Laura moves out.
Meet Alison Saint from the Saints of San Diego, Laura Long from Pam of Babylon, Samantha Karas from the Greektown Stories, and Joan Greenway from Bittersweets. Come along as five friends graduating from college embark on the next crazy stage of love and life.