Wednesday’s Top eBooks
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The Clause in Christmas
by Rachael Bloome
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Holiday Romance
Rating: 4.6
From the USA Today bestselling author of feel-good, small-town romances, comes a love story about enduring hope, finding a place to call home, and the unbreakable bonds of chosen family.
Cassie Hayward hates Christmas. Especially this year. No job. Flat broke. And an ex most definitely on the naughty list. The unexpected inheritance of a charming Victorian cottage in the small town of Poppy Creek may be the Christmas miracle Cassie needs. Except for one itty-bitty problem: a clause in the will… Check out Rachael Bloome’s A Poppy Creek Novel Series! #ad
Well of Furies
by Craig DeLancey
FREEBIE
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.2
The most feared world in the galaxy: The Well of Furies. From this planet, the godlike Ulltrians waged war on all life among the stars. Long thought extinct, the Ulltrians have returned. Now all the Galaxy is in danger. Humanity faces extinction.
Amir Tarkos is one of the only humans in the Predator Corp, the most elite military force in the galaxy. With his partner Bria, a bear-like carnivore, Tarkos is given a dangerous and difficult mission. Tarkos and Bria must locate the World Hammer, a pair of co-orbiting sunless planets that are the last refuge of the Ulltrians… #ad
The Berenstain Bears’ Big Halloween Party
by Mike Berenstain
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Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.8
It’s trick-or-treat season in Bear Country, and the whole neighborhood is getting together for the big Halloween party at the Bear family’s treehouse!
There will be a big Halloween parade, ghoulish games, a monstrous costume contest, and trick-or-treating for everyone. Brother, Sister and Honey can hardly wait for all the ghostly goodies and fun! #ad
Food Americana
by David Page
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History
Rating: 4.3
What is American cuisine, what national menu do we share, what dishes have we chosen, how did they become “American,” and how are they likely to evolve from here? David Page answers all these questions and more.
Engaging, insightful, and often humorous. The inside story of how Americans have formed a national cuisine from a world of flavors. Sushi, pizza, tacos, bagels, barbecue, dim sum–even fried chicken, burgers, ice cream, and many more–were born elsewhere and transformed into a unique American cuisine. #ad
The Ocean Between Us
by Susan Wiggs
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Deception, distance, and disaster test a weary military marriage in this classic novel of love and family by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
After years of following her navy officer husband on assignment around the world, Grace Bennett realizes that she’s left something behind–herself. Her husband, Steve, can’t understand the unraveling of his wife’s heart and is determined to set things right. Their already-strained relationship is pushed to the edge when old secrets are revealed… #ad
Clean Kill
by Stephen Leather
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.6
Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, and only his father – Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd of MI5 – can help.
Shepherd and an SAS team fly out to the badlands of Mali to rescue the kidnapped Brits. But the mission takes Shepherd away from an investigation in a high security prison that is about to explode into violence. Hundreds of lives are at risk, and Shepherd is running out of time… #ad
The Humble Bride For A Prideful Mountain Man
by Florence Linnington
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Historical Romance
Rating: 5.0
Desperation is a poor foundation for marriage. Louisa Fay Denton is looking for a fresh start. After her fiance’s death in a Union prison camp, there are no prospects left for her in her little hometown. But with her father’s refusal to let her go West to be a mail-order bride, she will have to decide between family loyalties and making her own way in life.
Running away in the dead of night is her only option. Starting a new life as a mountain man’s wife will be more difficult than she could have ever imagined. And her husband-to-be has an arrogant streak that will cost them both… Check out Florence Linnington’s Western Frontier Women Series! #ad
I Am Justice
by Lara Coates
FREEBIE
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
In a fish market shed in Apollo Bay, a young woman is found murdered–bound and savagely mutilated. Once a beauty, she’s now barely recognizable, and with a message carved into her stomach, but who is it for?
Melbourne Homicide Detectives Carson, a former criminal profiler for the FBI, and his partner Declan are tasked with figuring it out before the killer strikes again. And he will–because to him, murder is more than just the killing, it is justice… #ad
Once Upon a Time is Now
by Megan Biesele
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 5.0
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/’hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.
The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on the long-lived healing dance, known to many as the trance dance, and the intricate beliefs, artistry, and social system that support it. #ad
Crochet: Over 130 Techniques and Stitches
by DK
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Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.7
Learn more than 130 fully illustrated techniques and stitches and put them into practice as you go, creating 80 imaginative projects for home and to wear.
Packed with step-by-step photography and clear instructions, Crochet has everything you need to crochet a gorgeous array of clothing, home decor items, and toys. Get started with your first crochet hook, work a range of classic granny squares, and discover how to craft delicate lace and openwork pieces… #ad
The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart
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Fantasy
Rating: 4.4
The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands.
Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost… #ad
Fifty Words for Rain
by Asha Lemmie
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Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.3
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” -Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Nightingale
Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free. #ad
Abduction
by Gillian Jackson
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.2
A woman thinks she’s found her long-missing sister, but the discovery only leads to more questions in this wrenching thriller by the author of The Deception.
Elise McDonald is sure she has just spotted her sister, Grace, in a department store in Leeds. The last time she saw her was fourteen years ago, at Grace’s third birthday party, when the children scattered during a game of hide and seek–but Grace never returned from her hiding place… #ad
Fireflies
by Shea Hulse
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Romance
Rating: 4.4
Bridget had never considered herself special, odd definitely. But nothing worth looking at twice. And she had never cared to be looked at twice either. Until Declan, that is.
Then one night Bridget is approached by a strange (and large) dog. Rescued by Declan, he reveals that Bridget may be special after all, a goddess even. And the dog has been sent to protect her. Does she have the strength to defeat a powerful witch and her three sons? Why is Declan involved in magic and mystery anyway? And can she save Ruad, her handsome mentor and the God of Knowledge into this new world? Check out Shea Hulse’s Fireflies: A Celtic Romance Series! #ad
The Lutheran Ladies’ Circle
by Kris Knorr & Barb Froman
FREEBIE
Christian Fiction
Rating: 4.1
Henley has pulled the strings of the Lutheran Ladies Circle for years; now everything is unraveling. Traditions are changing. Even the annual rummage sale can’t escape modernization. And the independent Circle women are cheering the changes–all except for Vera.
Her humorous efforts to stop time time are often heart-breaking. And when her high-maintenance, crazy aunt introduces even more rebellion and upheaval, Vera is forced to pick through the chaos and choose: Which threads of change should she pluck–or can she bend others to doing it her way? #ad
The Second Window
by Erica Kiefer
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Young Adult
Rating: 4.2
As her senior year flies by on cruise control, seventeen-year-old Olivia Cole yearns for excitement–something her upscale private school no longer provides. Her job as a grocery store bagger isn’t much help…until the day she has a bizarre exchange with the cagey town recluse.
When the woman abruptly surrenders to the police, Olivia feels compelled to dig deeper into her perplexing story. But the investigation stalls when Olivia receives another piece of news… #ad
A History of Fear
by Luke Dumas
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Horror
Rating: 4.0
Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it.
When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that’s haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along? #ad
The Road Out of Hell
by Anthony Flacco & Jerry Clark
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True Crime Biography
Rating: 4.5
The New York Times-bestselling author’s “haunting, compassionate, and terrifyingly true” story of a man breaking free from his notorious past (Gregg Olson, New York Times-bestselling author of Starvation Heights).
In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil he’d encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one man’s remarkable ability to survive hell on earth and emerge intact. #ad
City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse… #ad
A Love more Precious than Gold
by Carol Colyer
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.4
In a world where life has dealt her a tough hand, Ava Lawson, an eighteen-year-old orphan with a heart of gold, clings to her faith and her unwavering determination to protect the only family she has left – Leon, a sweet boy with a heartbreaking stutter.
Together, they embark on a journey westward on the orphan train, in a desperate bid to secure a better life for Leon. Little did Ava know that fate had more in store for her when she stumbles upon an injured stranger in the woods, a man who possesses a life of privilege and emptiness; an encounter that will change her life forever… #ad
Risky Business, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
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Cozy Mystery
Rating: 5.0
When Donald Woodlawn, an investment advisor from Lynchburg, is shot dead in their quiet town, Sheridan Hendley can’t help but wonder why. As the secrets of his questionable financial dealings with investment clients unravel, she discovers that a dangerous combination of gambling debts and alcohol drove him to target rich and powerful men.
Multiple layers of risk and Sheridan’s quick thinking leads to many suspects. Danger lurks around every corner. As the threats mount, Sheridan’s determined to peel back the layers of deception to uncover the killer. Check out Christa Nardi’s A Sheridan Hendley Mystery Series! #ad