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Trouble in Mudbug
by Jana DeLeon
FREEBIE
Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.5

Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law’s death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately, death doesn’t slow down Helena one bit.

DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into – especially as it seems someone wants her dead. Keeping his secrets while protecting Maryse proves to be easier than fighting his attraction for the brainy beauty. Check out Jana DeLeon’s Ghost-in-Law Mystery Romance Series! #ad

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The Crystal Eye
by Blake R. Wolfe
FREEBIE
Fantasy
Rating: 4.2

A thousand years ago the dragon lords ruled alongside humanity and guided them through the weave of magic. When greed tore humanity apart, a powerful mage rose up to fight the dragons for their claim. In a single battle, the dragons were slain, the mage disappeared, and magic was removed from the world forever.

Now Dusk, a slave miner of the nobles, has stumbled across the ancient remains of the dragon king and the crystal eye that holds all his power. With the crystal tucked safely away, Dusk makes his daring escape from the mines, setting out to find his long sought after freedom. #ad

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Smokehouse Handbook
by Jake Levin
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.5

For backyard grilling enthusiasts, smoking has become an essential part of the repertoire. Butcher and charcuterie expert Jake Levin’s comprehensive guide, Smokehouse Handbook, guarantees mouthwatering results for producing everything from the perfect smoked salmon to a gorgeous smoked brisket.

Levin demystifies the process of selecting the right combination of meat, temperature, and wood to achieve the ultimate flavor and texture. Detailed step-by-step photos show the various techniques, including cold-smoking, hot-smoking, and pit roasting. #ad

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Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me
by Karen Knotts & Betty Lynn
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.5

Much has been written about Don Knotts’s career, especially about his iconic role as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, but personal views into the man himself are few and far between.

In Tied Up in Knotts, a loving daughter provides a full-life narrative of her father: Don’s difficult childhood in an abusive home, his escape into comedic performance, becoming a household name, his growth as a feature film actor, his failing health, and his family life throughout, leading to touching and hilarious moments that will make the reader laugh and cry. #ad

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Fateful Trails in the West
by Carol Colyer, Lorelei Brogan, Elaine Shields
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.8

6 of our best-selling Western romance stories!

Stories full of powerful emotions, trust and betrayal, intrigue, family values and romance that will captivate you!

This Romance Collection includes: A Challenging Journey to Love, An Enduring Love to Heal Her, Loving a Courageous Soul, Returning For Her Happy Ending, Love Written In The Stars, The Precious Secret of Her HeartIf you love Western romances that feature strong women of the era and determined, yet charming, male protagonists, then you’ll love this collection! Grab your own copy now! #ad

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A Richer Dust Concealed
by R P Nathan
BARGAIN
Historical Mystery
Rating: 4.1

This is a tale that spans four centuries, revolving around the fabulous Most Holy Cross of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. This priceless artifact is buried in Cyprus in 1570, to hide it from the invading Ottoman Turks.

An Italian squire named Girolamo Polidoro is witness to the secret hiding place of the treasure, the beauty of which is forever burned into his mind. Polidoro leaves a diary in Venice, the end of which is a coded message of the cross’s whereabouts. An English code-breaker comes across the diary in 1915 but dies in Gallipoli before he can crack the secret. And all the while the mysterious Venetian ‘Council of Ten’ has also been searching for the cross. When John, one of six young back-packers, buys a book in Rome in 1992, he has no idea of the danger he has just put himself and his friends in. A treasure hunt begins, but will the Council of Ten allow it to continue? #ad

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The Snowman Killer
by Wendy Meadows
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.2

Sarah Garland is a retired homicide detective from Los Angeles, California, who found her peace in the cozy town of Snow Falls, Alaska. After a painful divorce, she now owns a successful coffee shop in the quaint town and is ready to pursue her new career as a mystery writer. But the peace of her own private winter escape is soon interrupted.

One cold winter morning, Sarah finds a grotesque snowman in front of her new home, despite being miles away from town on two acres of private land. Although Sarah first suspects the new Detective Conrad Spencer is the culprit of the snow tricks, she quickly realizes that a deadly criminal has been inspired by her new novel and takes pleasure in taunting her. Check out Wendy Meadows’s Alaska Cozy Mystery Series! #ad

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The Duties of Parents
by J. C. Ryle
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.7

In The Duties of Parents,J. C. Ryle presents seventeen simple and yet profound responsibilities of Christian parents. Nothing new is contained in this little volume, yet what is presented has the potential to change future generations both now and for eternity.

Learn how to shepherd your children; learn how to utilize the most significant key of all – love; and learn first and foremost how to present and represent Christ to your children… #ad

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Typhon Pact #1: Zero Sum Game
by David Mack
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.4

A spy for the Typhon Pact–a new political rival of the Federation–steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive.

To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive’s secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love. #ad

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Little Girl Lost
by Mia Frances
BARGAIN
Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.6

Sheriff Zac McHenry is fit to be tied. A new “working girl” just showed up at the local truck stop. He doesn’t want “her kind” in town! He arrests her, but things aren’t what they seem. She’s no hooker…she’s a librarian! Her name is Ali, and she’s trying to track down a 13-year-old runaway. The girl disappeared from the truck stop a week ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Zac tries to send Ali packing, even checks her out of her motel room, but she refuses to leave until she finds the girl.

With the rodeo in town and all the hotel and motel rooms in the area booked up, Ali finds herself temporarily homeless. With no place else to go, she moves in with the sheriff until a room becomes available. Zac thinks his houseguest is a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered hellion. She thinks he’s an interfering, arrogant bully. But when they work together to investigate a case of kidnapping, human trafficking, and murder…sparks begin to fly. Is this any way to start a romance? #ad

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Unhinged
by Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.2

When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in the department. But before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home – execution style. And in the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim.

Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service. Blix has shot and killed a man, and Ramm saw it all happen. #ad

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A Shopkeeper for Christmas
by Zina Abbott
BARGAIN
American Historical Romance
Rating: 4.3

Eva Barker cared for her father until his death. Now past the age most women marry, she does not know what to do with her life. Unhappy working for others at a wage that barely supports her, she allows her roommate to talk her into responding to an advertisement placed by a man looking for a wife. He has a young son who needs a mother’s care. At her age, she realizes the best she can hope for is a widower. All she can hope for is that the man’s heart be big enough to allow her in, too.

Owen Cardsdale is at his wit’s end. He has a mercantile to run and a motherless son, Willie, who, at age seven, needs more direction and attention than he has time for or the desire to give. His Aunt Aggie occasionally watches Willie in the hours after school, but she insists that what Owen needs is another wife to be a mother to his son… #ad

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Just Folking Around
by Penny Reid
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5

Raquel Ezra loves to fish. With so many fish in the sea, she’s never had a problem baiting the hook or reeling them in. Raquel is a good actress, she can be anyone’s fantasy for a single night as long as they agree to be hers. Which is why she doesn’t think twice about spending an evening in nowhere Tennessee with a smokin’ hot, well-mannered, and intriguing sheriff’s deputy by the name of Jackson James.

Except, when the time comes, Raquel discovers that reality might just be better than any fantasy, and maybe she’s not ready to release this catch. #ad

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Cassidy and the Rainy River Rescue
by Keely Chace
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.2

In her debut book, Cassidy™ tries to help round up the cattle when they get loose, though the little pony doesn’t quite know how. But it’s Cassidy who notices one calf has gone missing from the herd and is stuck in the river! Can Cassidy help save the day?

Little ones will love hearing this story from Hallmark as a narrator reads to them, page by page. And if she’s nearby, Hallmark’s Cassidy interactive Story Buddy® stuffed animal will respond when you read key phrases from the story. #ad

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Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret
by Paul Gannon
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.4

In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of World War II, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code.

Using science, math, innovation, and improvisation, Bletchley Park code breakers worked furiously to invent a machine to decipher what turned out to be the secrets of Nazi high command. It was called Colossus. What these code breakers didn’t realize was that they had fashioned the world’s first true computer… #ad

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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
BARGAIN
Horror
Rating: 4.4

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. #ad

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Once Upon A…
by Claudia Burgoa
BARGAIN
Romance
Rating: 4.7

ONCE UPON A… THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES THE FIRST BOOKS OF FOUR OF MY SERIES.

Plus, the first three chapters of Until Next Time. The beginning of an exciting new series. Against All Odds: The St. James Family.

*Maybe Later
*My One Regret
*Wrong Text, Right Love
*Begin with Me #ad

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Shadows Unveiled
by Amanda Berthault
BARGAIN
Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.6

Heavy metal singer Shadow McKinley has faked his death to leave behind what he considers a torturous life. While disguised under his new identity as Shanley, a traveling pool hustler, he meets Macy, a teenage runaway and fan of his former band. Her plan to find her father in Los Angeles has fallen apart, and together they begin a cross-country road trip to get there.

But Shanley makes one huge mistake, and their adventure turns into a desperate escape from the police and a struggle to stay alive. And with Macy unknowingly tormenting him with flashes of his past, Shanley must fight to keep his secret–not only from her, but from a world that is determined to find him. Check out Amanda Berthault’s The Shadows Trilogy! #ad

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