Friday’s Top eBooks
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A KISS BENEATH A STRAWBERRY MOON
by Tamara Ferguson
FREEBIE
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.5
Vocalist Marielle McKinnon and composer Drew Kendall find love one magical summer after a Kiss Beneath A Strawberry Moon. The future looks perfect for the two of them. Marielle’s a rising star, who becomes enormously successful, while Drew’s a composer who plans on completing college and going into teaching. But after a family altercation, Drew is forced to drop out of college and decides to enlist.
When Drew is severely injured in Iraq, and refuses to contact Marielle, not wanting to burden her with his injuries, will their love survive? Check out Daydreams & Dragonflies Rock ‘N Sweet Romance series!
Don’t Judge An Alligator By Its Teeth!
by Kevin Ocasio & Nicole Ocasio
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.4
In “Don’t Judge An Alligator By Its Teeth!,” you and your child will go on a wonderful journey with Benjamin while learning a valuable lesson along the way.
From the gorgeous illustrations to the fun, exciting and entertaining story, you and your child will love every minute of the first book in the “Benjamin’s Adventures” series!
In Pursuit of Love
by Rebecca Bender
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.8
Born and raised in a small Oregon town, all-American girl Rebecca Bender was a varsity athlete and honor roll student with a promising future. Then a predator pretending to be her boyfriend lured her into a web of lies that sent her down a path she never imagined possible.
For nearly six years, Rebecca was sold across the underground world of sex trafficking in Las Vegas. She was branded, beaten, told when to sleep and what to wear, and traded between traffickers. Forced into a dark sisterhood, Rebecca formed bonds with her trafficker and three other women…
Miranda Warning
by Heather Day Gilbert
BARGAIN
Women’s Detective Fiction
Rating: 4.2
Child of the Appalachian mountains, Tess Spencer has experienced more than her share of heartache. The Glock-wielding, knife-carrying housewife knows how to survive whatever life throws at her.
But when an anonymous warning note shows up in her best friend Miranda’s mailbox–a note written in a dead woman’s handwriting–Tess quickly discovers that ghosts are alive and well in Buckneck, West Virginia. Hot on a cold trail, she must use limited clues and her keen insight into human nature to unmask the killer…or the next victim might be Tess herself. Check out A Murder in the Mountains series!
Mail Order Isabella
by Jo Grafford
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 5.0
Isabella Hill signs a mail-order bride contract only hours before promising to raise a dying friend’s babe as her own. With her wedding date looming, there’s no time to contact her would-be groom by letter, so she decides to deliver the news of her change in circumstances in person – praying he won’t object to the idea of a ready-made family. Otherwise, she and her precious bundle might soon find themselves living in the streets.
Tex Sullivan’s rebel younger brother forges Tex’s name on a mail-order bride contract, only days before Tex is supposed to marry the catch of the season. While he scrambles to set the scandal straight, he finds himself face-to-face with a lovely, impoverished debutante from Atlanta – with an infant in her arms, no less! Check out the Widows, Brides, and Secret Babies series!
Summer in the City
by Kevin Phelps
BARGAIN
Young Adult
Rating: N/A
The city is Chicago, the summer is 1966. It’s an eventful time in America and Corey Mack, a delivery boy for the corner drug store, finds himself suffering from teenage angst, sexual discovery, and the responsibilities that come with being self-reliant as two of the 20th century’s greatest crimes reach out to scorch his unsuspecting young life: a notorious bank heist, and the Holocaust.
While other 14 year old boys enjoy summer camp or fun at the beach, Corey is busy working at two jobs to provide for himself while his absent and alcoholic mother swears him to a secret. Little does he know that unseen eyes are watching and tracking his movements, but for what purpose, and by whom?
Bad Blood Panther
by Anastasia Wilde
FREEBIE
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.8
Ever since he was Turned by his ex-girlfriend, Xander and his panther have been one homicidal rage from having to be put down. Now his only goal is to leave his beloved crew before they’re the ones that have to do it.
Jenny will do anything to keep her baby son out of the hands of the Broken Hill Clan, who want to raise him to be a killer. Her last hope is to beg protection from her old friend Xander, the wildest of the notorious Bad Blood Crew–and the man who broke her heart. But Jenny’s keeping secrets–secrets that can rip Xander’s life to pieces all over again. Can Jenny trust Xander with everything? Check out the Bad Blood Shifters series!
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
by James Mooney
FREEBIE
History
Rating: 4.2
The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc., and, in fact, embodying almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees.
The original manuscripts, now in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, were written by the shamans of the tribe, for their own use, in the Cherokee characters invented by Sikwâ´ya (Sequoyah) in 1821…
Twelve Ordinary Men
by John F. MacArthur
BARGAIN
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7
Contrary to popular belief, we do not have to be perfect to do God’s work. Look no further than the twelve disciples whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the pages of the New Testament.
Jesus chose ordinary men – fisherman, tax collectors, political zealots – and turned their weakness into strength, producing greatness from utter uselessness. MacArthur draws principles from Christ’s careful, hands-on training of the original twelve disciples for today’s modern disciple – you.
Fatal Remedies
by Donna Leon
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is someone from his own family.
Meanwhile, Brunetti is under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to a suspicious accidental death. Does it all lead back to the Mafia? And how are his family’s actions connected to these crimes?
New Orleans Rush
by Kelly Siskind
BARGAIN
Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.6
Beatrice Baker may be a struggling artist, but she believes all hardships have silver linings…until she follows her boyfriend to New Orleans and finds him with another woman. Instead of turning those lemons into lemonade, she drinks lemon drop martinis and keys the wrong man’s car.
Now she works for Huxley Marlow of the Marvelous Marlow Boys, getting shoved in boxes as an on-stage magician’s assistant. A cool job for some, but Bea’s been coerced into the role to cover her debt. She also maybe fantasizes about her boss’s adept hands and what else they can do. She absolutely will not fall for him, or kiss him senseless. Until she does… Check out the Showmen series, each book is STANDALONE!
The Watcher
by Matthew Hattersley
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.9
Even hired killers need a break. Acid Vanilla is about to take a holiday, won through sheer sweat and blood, when her boss demands she off a notorious Paris-based hacker. But when the eccentric female target shares a startling revelation about Acid’s troubled past, she can’t pull the trigger.
Tangled in a blossoming love/hate relationship with her spared victim and a bounty on both their heads, Acid’s only chance out of the game is to disappear for good. But first she has to battle through a barrage of deadly coworkers, and this killer-for-hire will need every brutal trick in her lethal playbook just to stay alive…
Mac ‘N Cheese to the Rescue
by Kristen Kuchar
FREEBIE
Cookbook
Rating: 4.0
With just a few simple tricks, Mac n’ Cheese to the Rescue transforms the classic, can’t-fail box of noodles and sauce into 100 palate-pleasing dishes.
Bake mac n’ cheese scrambled together with bacon n’ eggs for a cheesy delicious omelet. Make a Thai noodle bowl by spicing up mac n’ cheese with peppers, peanuts and sweet chili sauce. Melt ricotta and Parmesan into hot shells n’ cheese and simmer in marinara for the ultimate cheese lover’s treat…
The Revenant Express
by George Mann
BARGAIN
Steampunk Sci-Fi
Rating: 4.4
Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica’s sister Amelia must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo.
No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge. Can Newbury and Amelia defeat him and get the clockwork organ back to the Fixer in time to save Veronica? And can they do so without Newbury going so far into the dark side of occult magic that he can never return?
Cast in Shadow
by Michelle Sagara
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.1
Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her. Children were being murdered–and all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin.
Since then, she’s learned to read, she’s learned to fight and she’s become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the City of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and the immortal Barrani, she’s made a place for herself, far from the mean streets of her birth.
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.5
This summer has been warmer than usual in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen is trying to beat the heat both in and out of her bakery kitchen. But she’s about to find out the hard way that nothing cools off a hot day like a cold-blooded murder.
At the grand opening of a local hotel, a police department employee nearly dies falling from a penthouse–and then another woman, with whom Hannah has a less-than-friendly relationship, winds up dead. Hannah is the prime suspect–and to clear her own name, she’s got to find out who iced the victim…
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…