Wednesday’s Top eBooks
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Hate to Love the Inspector
by Elsie Woods
FREEBIE
Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.2
I thought things were moving along well with my job as a groomer of naughty puppies at the Dog’s Paw Dog Spa. I can handle the most troublesome of four-legged furballs, so it can’t be much harder to manage the male species of the two-legged variety, right? Wrong.
Inspector Buckley waltzed into the Dog’s Paw Dog Spa and turned everything upside down. If there ever was the perfect example of a pompous hunk of man, it’s Inspector Buckley. He’s been sent to shut down the doggy spa, which automatically makes him my sworn enemy, and I’ve got to stop him. But there’s something stirring under that tough exterior… Check out Elsie Woods’s Finding Love at the Doggy Spa Series! #ad
Redeeming the Swindler
by Jodi Basye
FREEBIE
Cowboy Romance
Rating: 4.5
The only thing Charlie Cross has ever wanted is a home. After being raised on the road with a traveling carnival, swindling is the only skill Charlie is left with. When his perfect scam earns him the money he needs to buy land and build a home, his greedy companions decide it’s not something they are ready to give up.
Mary Armstrong’s only ambition is to work hard and send money back home. After she bought a phony cure at a traveling medicine show, Mary’s family is left grieving the loss of her little brother. Now, all she wants is to take care of her remaining siblings and make up for her colossal mistake… #ad
Shadow and Bone
by Leigh Bardugo
BARGAIN
Fantasy
Rating: 4.5
Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold–a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.
Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country’s magical military elite–and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift… #ad
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
by Russell Brand
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.7
With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery.
Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction–from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity… #ad
Wait for You
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at the Halloween party five years ago–an event that forever changed her life.
All she needs to do is make it to her classes on time, make sure the bracelet on her left wrist stays in place, not draw any attention to herself, and maybe–please God–make a few friends, because surely that would be a nice change of pace. The one thing she didn’t need and never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she’s building for herself. #ad
To the Nines
by Janet Evanovich
BARGAIN
Women Sleuths
Rating: 4.6
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she’s pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way… and she always gets her man. In To the Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who’s also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant.
When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word hunter… #ad
Bitter Gorge
by William Black
BARGAIN
Western
Rating: 4.0
After finding a train schedule in the pocket of a dead outlaw, Sheriff Dean uncovers the most sinister plot yet of the deadly militia Los Bandidos Rojos. There’s a train car full of gold due to pass through Dean’s town. And the militia is going to send it over the bridge at Bitter Gorge.
Los Bandidos Rojos. Waves of the militia fighters are being sent over the Rio Grande into the West Texas desert under orders to occupy Dean’s county for Mexico… Sheriff Dean Coleman won’t let them. The sheriff is having a hard time finding someone that heeds his warnings or is willing to help him take out the horde of desperados… Until he finds a young woman riding that same train… Check out William Black’s American Post-Civil War Westerns! #ad
Capitol Crimes: Is That a Knife in Your Back?
by Scott Paradis
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 5.0
The murder of a dangerously ambitious politician unites three efforts to challenge the secretive and corrupt forces dominating American politics.
A cynical FBI agent discovers a centuries-long financial conspiracy. A principled outsider defies institutionalized corruption. Idealistic political operatives attempt to take the White House and remake the political playing field. The political intrigue begs the question: Can truth withstand the onslaught wrought by the contemporary gospel of fear and hate? #ad
A Month of Bedtime Stories: the First Five Stories
by Neil McFarlane
FREEBIE
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
The first five stories of the highly praised collection, “A Month of Bedtime Stories”.
Children will love being the main character and hearing about the adventures they had earlier in the day. (“You don’t remember? It must have been that bonk on the head that made you forget!”) Parents too will enjoy the humor and imagination of this book of immersive, read-aloud bedtime tales. #ad
A Shot in the Moonlight
by Ben Montgomery
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.6
After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, 1897, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns, and a few tucked pistols in their pants.
Their target was George Dinning, a freed slave who’d farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning’s home, he fired back in self-defense, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family… #ad
Star Trek: Destiny #1: Gods of Night
by David Mack
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy’s greatest scourge returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation–and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation.
Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth’s first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity. #ad
To Dance with the White Dog
by Terry Kay
BARGAIN
Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.6
After Sam Peek’s beloved wife Cora dies, his children are worried about him. After fifty-seven years of marriage, they are unsure how their elderly father will survive on his own. They talk about him as if he can’t hear them, questioning how he’ll run a farm, drive his truck, or live by himself.
When Sam tells his children about a white dog who visits him, yet seems invisible to everyone else, they are sure that grief and old age have taken a toll on their father. But, real or not, the creature soothes Sam’s grief and ultimately reconciles him with his own mortality… #ad
Unlocking a Beastly Duke’s Heart
by Bridget Barton
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.6
Lady Arabella Hodgkinson has never been one to judge people by appearances. Therefore, meeting the heavily scarred Duke of East Anglia at a masked ball, leaves her totally undeterred, and yet somehow intrigued. Her tender heart flutters like never before when she receives an invitation to the Duke’s estate, which she decides to accept, despite the discouraging warnings from her family…
Alexander Meadows, the brooding Duke of East Anglia, has been living in a self-imposed exile since a fire killed his parents and disfigured his face… #ad
BIG: Beginnings
by Greyson Bryan
BARGAIN
Thriller
Rating: 4.2
“[E]ngrossing first novel…Readers will root for the sympathetic Duncan as he morphs into a more grounded version of James Bond or Jason Bourne.” -Publishers Weekly
Duncan Luke is no stranger to impossible situations. A high-priced lawyer and expert in business intelligence, he knows how to extricate his clients from sticky situations while saving–or making–them millions. To be the best, he’s sacrificed everything, including his family, but now he wants out. He’s quitting his lucrative practice for academia and time with his autistic son, Sam. But his wife isn’t on board and files for divorce, forcing him to fight for custody… Check out Greyson Bryan’s BIG Series! #ad
The Orphans’ Home
by Michal Ben Gal & Itzchak Belfer
NO LONGER FREE
Non-Fiction
Rating: 4.9
The Children’s Home is a sanctuary – a safe haven, school, and a place to call home for Jewish orphan children with nowhere else to go. Under the kind and perceptive eyes of caregiver Janusz Korczak, 107 children thrive and bring life to a city ravaged by war.
In 25 inspiring and heartwarming stories, the incredible and almost forgotten life and educational work of Janusz Korczak, the father of orphans, come to light. With little to no resources in one of the darkest of times, Korczak built an educational system based on respect, trust, and cooperation, which we have much to learn from, even today. #ad
Gambit
by T.K. Eldridge
FREEBIE
Horror
Rating: 4.2
Gambit: gam-bit noun – (in chess) an opening in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for the sake of some compensating advantage.
A fall festival, a visit to a fortune teller, and decisions that give Fate the edge it needs to put everything in motion. This is a prologue novella to The Chess Club Mystery series that starts with Rook. #ad
Seasonal Slow Knitting
by Hannah Thiessen
BARGAIN
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.5
Slow Knitting introduced crafters to a process of more mindful making through five basic tenets: source carefully, make thoughtfully, think seasonally, experiment fearlessly, and explore openly.
Now, this seasonal approach encourages knitters to delve deeper into those concepts, applying them to everyday making through a series of essays, projects, and patterns that explore the life of a knitter throughout the year. #ad
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
by C. S. Lewis
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Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.6
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics–presents a well-reasoned case for the importance of story and wonder, elements often ignored by critics of his time.
He also discusses his favorite kinds of stories–children’s stories and fantasies–and offers insights into his most famous works, The Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. #ad
The Reunion
by Guillaume Musso
BARGAIN
Young Adult
Rating: 4.0
Twenty-five years ago, on a campus paralyzed by a snowstorm, beautiful 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell ran away with her philosophy teacher after they began a secret affair. For Vinca, “love is everything or nothing.” She is never seen again.
The once inseparable Manon, Thomas and Maxime — Vinca’s best friends — have not spoken since graduation. Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, the three of them committed a murder and buried the body in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for an ultramodern new building… #ad
Mango, Mambo, and Murder
by Raquel V. Reyes
BARGAIN
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.0
Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith’s move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex.
Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women’s Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad, never to nibble again. #ad
Why You Should Never Kiss Your Enemy
by Erin Nicholas
BARGAIN
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.7
The last thing single dad and surgeon Nate Sullivan needs is more stress and distraction in his life. That makes his best friend’s gorgeous, mouthy, doesn’t-respect-schedules, hates-authority, has-no-boundaries sister a huge threat to his carefully balanced life.
Nate is the kind of guy Emma Dixon hates: buttoned-up, rigid, his-way-or-the-highway. So why is he the guy she can’t quit thinking about and who she most loves sparring with? They’re like oil and water. But when they’re thrown together on opposites sides of a “project”–Nate trying to keep his son from falling for the wrong girl and Emma playing cupid for the couple–they find they’re more like gasoline and a match. Check out Erin Nicholas’s Why You Should Never Series! #ad