Monday’s Top eBooks
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Honeymoon For One
by Chris Keniston
FREEBIE
Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.2
To escape local gossip, jilted bride Michelle Bradford embarks on her honeymoon cruise–alone. Coaxed by a thrill seeking hunk she never expects to see again, she slowly sheds her good girl persona to have some well deserved fun. But unlike Vegas, what happens on the high seas doesn’t always stay there.
USA TODAY Bestselling author Chris Keniston invites you to sit back on a lazy afternoon, kick off your shoes, put your feet up, and join her for a few hours with laughter and love in the world she’s created for Michelle and Kirk. (P.S. The scene in last chapter at the office is her favorite, too.) Check out Chris Keniston’s Honeymoon Series! #ad
Influential Magic
by Deanna Chase
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Urban Fantasy
Rating: 4.3
It’s tough being a faery in New Orleans, a city fraught with vampires… especially when their very existence drains your life-force.
Willow Rhoswen, owner of The Fated Cupcake and part-time vampire hunter for the Void is having a rough week. Four years after her twin brother’s mysterious death, Willow’s life is threatened and the director saddles her with a new partner–her ex-boyfriend, David. To her horror, he’s turned vamp, which causes her physical pain whenever she touches him… and any other specimen of the undead… Check out Deanna Chase’s Crescent City Fae Series! #ad
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
by Cube Kid
BARGAIN
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.8
In the fourth in this series of four unofficial Minecraft adventure books, it’s time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner.
What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, it’s ON. #ad
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
by Jessica Pan
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.4
With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.
Chronicling the author’s hilarious and painful year of misadventures, this book explores what happens when one introvert fights her natural tendencies, takes the plunge, and tries (and sometimes fails) to be a little bit braver. #ad
The Pull of the Stars
by Emma Donoghue
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.3
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in “Donoghue’s best novel since Room” (Kirkus Reviews).
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders–Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney… #ad
The Good Father
by Diane Chamberlain
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Women’s Crime Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table.
But he’s never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe. But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he’s worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble…. #ad
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set Books 1 – 3
by Lorhainne Eckhart
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Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.7
The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems.
Nothing As It Seems: When an at-risk girl disappears from an island wilderness camp, social worker Billy Jo must team up with a detective who’s her polar opposite to bring her safely home. But one missing girl is just the beginning…
Hiding in Plain Sight: A long-buried secret that was never meant to be uncovered could suddenly put a target on both Detective Mark Friessen and Billy Jo McCabe.
The Cold Case: What happens when you stumble across a case that should never have been closed? Detective Mark Friessen uncovers a disturbing mystery: A little girl was taken, but when evidence disappeared, the case was closed. #ad
Death Walks a Dog
by Tess Baytree
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.5
Now that she’s in her fifties, Penelope Standing has life pretty well figured out. Her pet sitting business keeps her busy, her neighbors are conspiring to get her boyfriend, Jake, to propose, and she has just enough free time to make the corrupt mayor’s life miserable. Then she arrives to walk Brutus, the lovable but ill-behaved mastiff – and finds his owner, Jezza, dead.
While the police work to uncover Jezza’s past, Penelope launches an investigation of her own, talking to her clients as she takes care of their pets. Even Brutus, “temporarily” staying with Penelope and Jake, provides clues… #ad
A to Z Gardening for Beginners
by Lisa Bond
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Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.3
Gardening might seem like an easy thing to do. Buy a plant, dig a hole in the ground, drop the plant in it, and cover it up waiting for blooms to suddenly appear. If only it were that simple.
This guide will help you know all the basics of gardening. Everything from types of gardens, how much sunlight plants need, companion planting, essential gardening tools to have, and much more. When you’re done reading, you’ll be fully prepared to create your garden and make it one of the best. #ad
Fresh Water for Flowers
by Valérie Perrin
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Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne, France. Traversing the grounds by unicycle, tending to her many gardens–and being present for the intimate, often humorous confidences of visitors–Violette’s life follows the predictable rhythms of mourning. But then Violette’s routine is disrupted by the arrival of Julien Sole, the local police chief.
Julien has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien’s inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette’s own complicated past. #ad
Desire of My Heart
by Heidi Gray McGill
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Christian Romance
Rating: 4.7
When Rachel realizes that aging out of the orphanage is synonymous with being auctioned off to marry a stranger, she and her younger brother plan their escape. A widower with a five-year-old son and infant daughter needs help for his children. Could a marriage of convenience be the answer to their problem?
The five travelers quickly become a family, and their hope of happiness becomes a promise fulfilled in the place they call home. Even when tragedy strikes, God sees them through their trials by surrounding them with friends whose love helps them heal… Check out Heidi Gray McGill’s Discerning God’s Best Series! #ad
The Lost Soul of the City
by Dean Koontz
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Horror
Rating: 4.4
A gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.
In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence. Pledged to stop him is a man without a past, guided by a teenage boy through the tunnels under the corrupted port city. With each stealthy move toward their target, the path ahead grows ever darker. #ad
The Shadows Series Box Set Books 1-5
by Juliette Duncan
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Christian Romance
Rating: 4.7
A jilted teacher, a charming Irishman, & the chance to escape their pasts & start again
This Box Set includes: Book 1: Lingering Shadows – To her family’s consternation, Lizzy deals with heartache by running away with Daniel, a near-stranger. But once they’re married, Lizzy discovers her new husband has demons he hasn’t shared with her–and the stresses of marriage will send him back to them. Can these two lost souls endure the greatest challenge of their lives?
Also includes: Book 2: Facing the Shadows, Book 3: Beyond the Shadows, Book 4: Secrets and Sacrifice, Book 5: A Highland Christmas #ad
SO WE LIE
by Willow Rose
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
Fresh out of the national academy – mother of two – FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s breath-taking mystery.
When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward. But evidence found in the remains of the car soon raises the question of whether this was really an accident. Shortly after, her husband is taken in and later convicted of having murdered his wife. But many questions remain unanswered… #ad
The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
by Lynn Byk
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 3.6
Richard and Gail Finch designed their estate to carry ramifications for misplaced loyalties, but there are results neither one contemplated. When the third generation aims for a cache of treasure, someone is expendable.
Untying the family Finch saga with blistering tales, Richard and Gail’s unscrupulous affections span the geography of San Francisco Bay, Phoenix Arizona, Oklahoma City, and finally slip into the shadow of the Rockies. Will someone pay for the past? Who wins in this long game, and what remains? #ad
Defy The Stars
by Magan Vernon
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 3.9
I’d always wanted to leave small town Illinois, I just didn’t know I’d leave it for the stars. I needed to get into Columbia College. I’d do anything to get in. With no other choice, I had my dad help me get an internship at Circe Operations Center. Only it’s not an ordinary operations center.
Getting attacked on my first day on the job wasn’t exactly stellar, but staring into the eyes of the dark eyed boy who saved me, made me re-think every single thought I’d ever had… #ad
Tesla: Wizard at War
by Marc J. Seifer
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History
Rating: 4.3
Drawing on forty years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla’s discoveries, which continue to influence today’s military technology and diplomatic strategies.
One of the world’s leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer offers new insight into the brilliant scientist’s particle beam weapon (aka the “Death Ray”) and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures–including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt… #ad
Primary Inversion
by Catherine Asaro
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Science Fiction
Rating: 4.3
The first book in the Skolian Empire saga by the Nebula Award-winning author. “Fast, smart, speculative… another stellar debut.” -Los Angeles Daily News
Soz Valdoria, a bioengineered fighter pilot–and first in line for the military command of her people–has found refuge with her squad on the sanctuary planet of Delos. It offers a respite from the war that rages between her Skolian people and their enemies, the Traders. Looking for rest and relaxation, they must still be on their guard for the Trader soldiers who also visit the sanctuary. #ad
Uncovering the Truth of Love
by Grace Clemens
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.5
In the dusty town of Willow Creek, life is hard for everyone but young nurse, Caroline, is known for her unwavering dedication to helping those in need. Although she doesn’t doubt her duty when called to tend to a wounded prisoner, she feels conflicted upon seeing the handsome man she’s responsible for.
As Caleb finds himself bound to a kind nurse’s care and tenderness, he needs to get even more tight-lipped about why he was shot in the back by his own gang, in order to protect her… #ad
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Historical Mystery
Rating: 4.4
Since she graduated from Oxford’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her.
Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high–only to find that her life is in danger once again. #ad
The Old Scrapbook
by Dennis Higgins
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WWII Romance
Rating: 4.5
The Old Scrapbook is real. The characters within its pages were real as well. This story is an attempt to fill in the blanks of their actual relationship. Bet and Ray met, fell in love, and got engaged until a war separated them, World War II. Seventy years later, the old scrapbook was found, and the mysteries involved rediscovered.
I became obsessed with the scrapbook and what could have become of the young woman, Bet, who created it. I felt that woman was somehow guiding me as I wrote the story. That’s how I felt from the beginning, like I was led to that war-time scrapbook by an unseeing hand that I could feel something from its pages… #ad