Friday’s Top eBooks
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Old Castle Secrets
by Amanda Daire
FREEBIE
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
This multigenerational family drama features a small town, island setting, quirky characters, a kitty rescue in a tea room overlooking the ocean, “chosen/found” family, realistic emotional storylines, clean/wholesome relationships, and an uplifting ending.
Three generations of heartbreak. One chance to heal old wounds. Join the O’Donnell women on their quest for forgiveness and family and love. #ad
Traveler in the Dark
by Deirdre Gould
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Science Fiction
Rating: 4.0
Sixteen hundred years ago, they fled Earth. Now their long journey may finally be at an end. None of them have ever walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air.
Their resources nearly spent, they sent a last exploratory mission to a new planet. It’s ideal… but they are not alone. In the struggle for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction. And time is running out. #ad
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family. #ad
Long Distance Hero
by Jo Grafford
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Romantic Suspense
Rating: 5.0
Farmer and agricultural pilot Nash Wilder has waited a long time for someone like Kenzie Malone to come along. Her fun and outspoken personality is the perfect fit for his outrageous brand of humor. Never before has anyone been able to dish it back the way she can. It’s way too bad she’s in the middle of a job transfer back to New York.
He asks her to be his long-distance girlfriend, not realizing her ex is already scheming to win her back. Yeah, Nash understands the All’s Fair in Love and War rule, but this guy is pushing some pretty big boundaries, including the legal ones… Check out Jo Grafford’s Born In Texas Series! #ad
Pastime
by Robert B. Parker
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker’s electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction–a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage.
Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to. This time, it’s more than a routine search for a missing person–Spenser must search his own soul… #ad
The Nurse’s Curing Gaze
by Grace Clemens
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Inspirational Romance
Rating: 4.8
As the war ravages on, Molly Scanlon is determined to serve her country in the only way she knows how – through healing. For the past year, she has been treating wounded soldiers and tending to their wounds, in Dr. Myers’ recovery hospital.
Despite her own rule of not getting emotionally attached to her patients, she finds herself drawn to one particular man, the handsome yet enigmatic Edward that makes her heart skip a beat… Will she make this exception and let her emotions heal his scarred heart? #ad
Chronicles of Winland Underwood Starter Pack
by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
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Urban Fantasy
Rating: New Release
Winland Underwood has been running and hiding most of her life. Today is the day she will stop and stand her ground.
Can she protect the magical refugees while searching for her mother? What other challenges await the Fixer’s daughter?
Grab the first two books of the Chronicles of Winland Underwood series today to find out! #ad
Blood Guilt
by Ben Cheetham
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
You’re not a policeman, you’re not a husband, and you’re not a father. The man you were is dead. Everything he was is gone. It’s over. Finished. Nothing can bring him back.
After the death of his son in a freak accident, Detective Harlan Miller’s life is spiralling out of control. He’s drinking too much. His marriage and career are on the rocks. But things are about to get even worse. A booze-soaked night out and a single wild punch leave a man dead and Harlan facing a manslaughter charge. #ad
Chickens Can’t Count
by E. B. Adams
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Every chicken knows, don’t count your eggs. So when Pecky tries to count her eggs, it turns the coop upside down. Maybe it is a good idea to count your eggs before they hatch?
E. B. Adams lives on an urban homestead in Cape Town with his partner and three free-ranging kids. He is a 2D/3D illustrator and author of over twenty children’s books. #ad
A Divine Truth
by Hilary Walker
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Christian Fiction
Rating: 4.7
Father James’ bishop is determined to ensure he remains in permanent exile without pay. As a result, the cancelled priest is reduced to stacking shelves in the village grocery to earn a living. He then discovers that his bishop ousted him without duly following Canon law.
Confident of being reinstated, he sends a letter of appeal to the Vatican. But the bishop mails a poisoned missive to Rome to ensure Father James’ appeal never gets heard. He then throws more pastors out of their parishes. Father James senses God is calling him to help these cancelled priests. But how can he achieve this? Check out Hilary Walker’s A Modern Catholic Trilogy! #ad
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants
by Garrett Ryan
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History
Rating: 4.8
Why didn’t the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?
In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. #ad
The Graveyard Shift
by Jack Higgins
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.2
After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he’s headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren’t happy about it, and they’ve asked for police protection.
Det. Sgt. Nick Miller, meanwhile, is hopeful; this may be an opportunity to finally locate the stolen money that was never recovered after Garvald’s last heist. But a colleague of Miller’s is jealous: He wants to crack the case himself, and will risk endangering everyone to do so. #ad
A Royal Secret
by JaNae Griffin
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Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.2
Catherine is the princess of Merick. She stumbles into an American while sneaking out of the palace. Landon is visiting her country, not looking for love, until, he meets a sophisticated woman he can’t stop thinking about.
Her father, the king, despises Americans; she falls in love with one, and hides her relationship, and identity, taking her freedom to a whole new level. One secret turns into a waterfall of lies, and Catherine struggles to keep up with her deception to ensconce her true identity… Check out JaNae Griffin’s Born Royal Series! #ad
The Tome of Syyx
by Stavros Saristavros
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Epic Fantasy
Rating: 4.6
On the fringes of civilization, the town of Sanctuary embarks on a mission to legitimize its existence and that of its half-breed inhabitants.
Tasked with helping secure the future of the town, four young adventurers soon discover that armies of orcs and hobgoblins are far from the only threats to peace on the frontier. Dragons are rumored to once again fly, and an imprisoned god returns to plague the world. What hopes do they have in the face of such foes? Unlikely alliances must be forged and rivalries put aside. But not all friends are what they seem… #ad
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.3
Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine’s desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation.
The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. #ad
How to Be a Storyteller
by The Rogue Novelist
FREEBIE
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.3
If you want to BE A WRITER who is continually able to WRITE an abundance of satisfying stories which readers love then you must unshackle your creativity!
We all have the ability to be creative. Accessing this fountain of creativity within yourself will allow it to blossom. What would you do if you could write with unlimited creativity? How satisfying would be to have extremely productive writing sessions that enthusiastically flowed out of you? #ad
Snowed In
by Rachel Hawthorne
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Young Adult
Rating: 4.1
Seventeen-year-old Ashleigh is about to experience a lot of things for the first time.
1) Snow. She and her mom are moving from sunny Texas to an icy island in the middle of Lake Michigan, which is completely snowbound. As in, no cars, just sleighs. 2) Small-town life. The icy island? Yep, it’s tiny. Like, 30 people in the whole high school tiny. And scariest of all: 3) Boys. Of course they had boys in Texas. But none of them were as irresistible–or as hard to figure out–as Josh Wynter. #ad
The Orphan’s Letters
by Glynis Peters
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4
As the Second World War rages on, nurse Kitty Pattison’s life takes a nomadic turn as her work with the Red Cross sees her traversing the country, moving from post to post.
With her best friends Jo and Trixie also scattered across the UK, and her soldier sweetheart Michael off on the continent undertaking medical missions he can’t discuss, the war takes its toll and long days are followed by sleepless nights interrupted only by nightmares of what she’s seen on the wards… #ad
The Children of Red Peak
by Craig DiLouie
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Horror
Rating: 4.0
David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. They grew up in an isolated religious community in the shadow of the mountain Red Peak, and they are among the few who survived its horrific last days.
Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind. And when a fellow survivor commits suicide, they reunite to confront their past and share their memories of that final night. But discovering the terrifying truth might put them on a path back to Red Peak, and escaping a second time could be almost impossible…. #ad
Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
by Misha Popp
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Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.3
Daisy Ellery’s pies have a secret ingredient: The magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men. But Daisy finds herself on the receiving end in Misha Popp’s cozy series debut…
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven… #ad
I Kissed an Earl
by Merry Farmer
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.3
Lady Marie O’Shea lives life by her own rules… But her days of running free end when her brother, Lord Fergus O’Shea, returns from England, intent on marrying his sisters off to keep them from being the scourge of the county. And when Marie lands herself in a scandalous amount of trouble, she ends up as the first sister doomed to whatever marriage of convenience her brother can arrange.
Bad boy Christian Darrow is having too much fun to be tied down… And as the younger son of an earl, he isn’t expected to amount to much. Which is why playing pranks and getting into trouble with Marie the moment they meet is his idea of a good time… Check out Merry Farmer’s That Wicked O’Shea Family Series! #ad