Friday’s Top eBooks
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Bayside Desires
by Melissa Foster
FREEBIE
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.5
Fall in love at Bayside, where sandy beaches, good friends, and true love come together in the sweet small towns of Cape Cod.
As the co-owner of Bayside Resorts, Rick Savage has a fabulous job working with his best friends and brother, and a thriving business in Washington, DC, which he’ll be returning to at the end of the summer. Spending time with his family is great, but being back on Cape Cod has unearthed painful memories. When sweet, smart, and overly cautious Desiree Cleary moves in next door, Rick is drawn to the sexy preschool teacher, and she just might prove to be the perfect distraction… Check out Melissa Foster’s Bayside Summers series! #ad
Dragonfly Maid
by D.D. Croix & DeAnna Cameron
FREEBIE
Fantasy
Rating: 4.3
Jane Shackle is a young maid haunted by visions who is tapped to protect Queen Victoria by Fayte Guardians, a shadowy group of castle servants that claim a powerful ally from the fae realm. But is she really hunting a killer, as she’s been told? Or is she merely a pawn in their plot?
Jane must use her wits and master her abilities–with help from a peculiar dragonfly–to uncover the truth, save the crown, and ultimately confront an otherworldly enemy driven to destroy them all. Check out D.D. Croix & DeAnna Cameron’s The Queen’s Fayte series! #ad
The Bonsai Bible
by Peter Chan
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.6
The Japanese and Chinese have been creating bonsai trees for centuries and it is now an internationally popular pastime.
This compact and stylish guide will provide everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common ailments, choosing the right container, feeding and repotting. A directory of over 90 of the most popular species, illustrated with beautiful photographs, will enable you to find the tree that is right for you. #ad
Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging
by Dick Van Dyke
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Show-business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better to offer instruction, advice, and humor than someone who’s entering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step?
Van Dyke isn’t just a born song-and-dance man; his irrepressible belief in embracing the moment and unleashing his inner child has proved to be the ultimate elixir of youth. When he was injured during the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, his doctor warned him he’d be using a walker within seven years, but Dick performed a soft shoe right there and never looked back. #ad
Moore or Less
by LM Karen
BARGAIN
Christian Romance
Rating: 5.0
Emma is a modern day prodigal obsessed with the security that financial success brings. She’ll do anything to get her career to the next level, and she’s working herself to the bone to make it happen. Luke has a history he prefers not to share. Having experienced the best the world has to offer, he finds he prefers the simplicity of small town life.
A confrontation with her estranged family removes Emma’s focus from work just long enough to get her questioning her faith and what a relationship with God might require. Finding solace in an unexpected hobby and friendship with a mysteriously grumpy gardener, Emma begins to understand her life may look different than she expected… #ad
Choking on the Splinters
by Jim Lively
BARGAIN
Mystery
Rating: 3.8
Charles Pierce thinks he has it all figured out at last. He’s bought a building to use as an art gallery, creates new paintings almost every day, dates a smart and beautiful woman, and hired a marketing whiz to promote his upcoming gallery opening and art show. So why isn’t everything exactly what it seems? Why does he keep finding hints and clues that people who show up in his life and at his gallery aren’t completely honest with him? And how did the guest bathroom in his gallery become the most popular spot in the entire place? What’s really going on in there? Something illegal and dangerous?
He can choose to ignore his suspicions, or he can get in touch with the detectives who saved his life last year. Either way, Choking on the Splinters isn’t an option. #ad
Limoncello Yellow
by Traci Andrighetti
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.3
Francesca “Franki” Amato is a straight-shooting rookie cop in Austin, Texas, until an embarrassing 911 call prompts her to take a job at her best friend’s PI agency in New Orleans. But Franki soon learns that solving crime in The Big Easy is no Bourbon Street party.
Case in point, her first investigation involves the murder of a beautiful boutique manager who was strangled with a cheap yellow scarf, and her primary suspect is her client… #ad
Hiding from the Kids in My Prayer Closet
by Jessica Kastner
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.5
Soon after Jessica Kastner became a mother, she wondered if she was the only mom who found pretend play more boring than watching playdough harden and who dreaded yet another friend’s Instagram post of homemade deliciousness.
In Hiding from My Kids in the Prayer Closet, Kastner shares her experience as an “unmom”–a mom who loves her kids more than she loves the daily experience of mothering. She helps readers laugh at the ridiculous, delight in the unpredictable, and enjoy being the mothers God made them to be. #ad
SINdicate
by J.T. Nicholas
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Synths were manufactured to look human and perform physical labor, but they were still only machines. That’s what the people who used–and abused–them believed, until the truth was revealed: Synths are independent, sentient beings. Now, the governments of the world must either recognize their human nature and grant them their rightful freedom, or brace for a revolution.
Former New Lyons Detective Jason Campbell has committed himself to the Synths’ cause, willing to fight every army the human race marches against them. But they have an even greater enemy in Walton Biogenics, the syndicate behind the creation and distribution of the “artificial” humans… #ad
Picking Pears with Piper
by Regina Walker
BARGAIN
Sweet Romance
Rating: New Release
Piper, a single mom focused on caring for her mother who has dementia, doesn’t have time to fall in love. She knows it’s for the best for her to focus on her daughter, Cedar, and not get caught up in dating again. Her past choices in men were doozies. From the guys that wouldn’t keep a job, to the men willing to scare, intimidate, or hit her, Piper doesn’t know how to find someone different from those guys.
Corbin is a paramedic in Double Creek. He picked a small town to settle down in because he has visions of a family in his mind. Small town life isn’t what Corbin expected it to be, but when an elderly patient needs Corbin’s help on an old pear farm, he jumps to action. #ad
Tripwire
by Lee Child
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. He’s got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead.
The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous confidence of an alluring woman, and the dangerous corners of his own past. #ad
Lily
by Kirsten Osbourne
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Historical Romance
Rating: 3.9
Lily, the second daughter of banker Fred Sullivan, is finally of age and ready to marry. She’s been in love with Daniel Olafsen since the age of twelve, when she fell out of a tree…and onto him. Unfortunately for Lily, she believes Daniel is in love with her sweetly feminine older sister, Rose.
Lily’s not ready to accept defeat, though, and she curbs her tomboyish ways in an effort to make Daniel fall in love with her. But will he ever be able to see Lily for who she truly is? Or will she have to change for the man she loves to win him? Check out Kirsten Osbourne’s The Suitors of Seattle series! #ad
Back To Before
by Blair Bryan
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.6
Nothing is as it seems in New Hope, Indiana–the land of curly-haired designer dogs, bunco nights, and impeccably manicured lawns. Where the good kids from good families live. Except… it has a dark side.
Wanting the good life for her sons, Holly Simon stretched to afford a home in picture-perfect suburbia. Her dream is destroyed the night her son is found unresponsive but alive after an overdose on prescription drugs in the neighborhood park. Forced to navigate the terrifying gauntlet of addiction and treatment, she uncovers a maze of secrets and lies that rocks her to her core… #ad
Nikolas and Company
by Kevin McGill
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.0
Sometime in the near future, Earth is going to end. What’s fourteen-year-old Nick to do? Escape to a fantastic world teeming with magical creatures of course. What Nick doesn’t realize is the fantastic can be more perilous than the future.
On Earth, Nick Lyons and his friends fear the deadly geneva virus, live under the ever-watchful eye of the nannydrones, and fight to stay out of the US’s many refugee camps. Nick’s grandfather and his mysterious friend offer an escape to a better world. #ad
The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown
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History
Rating: 4.8
The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany–from the author of Facing the Mountain.
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times–the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. #ad
It Happened One Winter
by Savannah Ford
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Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.3
Two different soldiers. Two different letters. One had ended a childhood promise. The other had given false hope. Can Lina unlock her heart and learn to love again?
Adalina Moretti hates chocolate. But that doesn’t stop her from turning out hand-carved chocolates for the family business during the day, and building elaborate dollhouses for charity at night. With her parents retired and her twin sister living her best life in Hollywood, Lina finds herself alone–and the artistic introvert is fine with that. The last thing she expects or wants is a handsome holiday crasher disrupting her solitary life… #ad
The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage.
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten–the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well. #ad
The Resistance Lily
by Dana Levy Elgrod
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Paris, 1941. At the height of World War II, young and headstrong Josephine Portier is the protégé of a wealthy family in the highest echelons of Paris society. When she meets the arrogant but handsome Gabriel, she wants nothing to do with him – until he reveals a shocking secret about her adoptive family that puts her in grave danger.
With her life turned upside down and the Nazi forces ever advancing, Josephine finds a new calling when she joins the French underground Resistance. Her dislike for Gabriel soon flourishes into love, but their romance is short lived as she sacrifices her own freedom to allow his escape… #ad