Tuesday’s Top eBooks
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Taken: Alien Commander’s Captive
by Hattie Jacks
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Sci-Fi-Romance
Rating: 4.3
JAYNE: I’ve dedicated my life to defending clients against injustice, but the imposing alien male that’s captured me doesn’t believe in innocent until proven guilty. All Commander Rexitor cares about is his precious Empire and I’m its biggest threat.
This alien is going to make sure I pay for my crime. Haalux justice is swift and brutal, just like him. But I believe in justice and I’m prepared to do anything to survive, even if it means defying him or the Empire… #ad
By Honor Bound
by Nancy Shields Kollmann
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History
Rating: 4.4
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture.
Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms–and also to defend against insults, to pursue vendettas, and to unsettle communities… #ad
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
by Rick Riordan
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Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
You’ve read the book. You’ve seen the movie. Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel.
Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson’s textbooks and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus… #ad
Unraveling
by Peggy Orenstein
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.3
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch–shearing, spinning, dyeing wool–and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.
With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker–and teaches us all something about creativity and connection. #ad
Better Off Dead
by Lee Child & Andrew Child
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.1
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun–until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems.
The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader… #ad
Carnal Innocence
by Nora Roberts
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Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.5
Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline Waverly goes to her grandparents’ home in Innocence, Mississippi, for some much-needed rest and relaxation.
Instead she finds herself overwhelmed all over again–first by Tucker Longstreet, a charming local with a sideline in no-strings-attached relationships, and then by a deadlier, more disturbing development… #ad
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.6
“Our Wild and Precious Lives deals with the big questions of Life, Death, Love and Loss set against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean Conflict…it also deals with the social upheaval in families and societies caused by war, on both sides…” -Amazon Review
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand… #ad
Triple Cross
by Marc Stiegler
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Thriller
Rating: 4.6
Cat burglar Cassie Parker minds her own business. But when she screws up and plays Good Samaritan she finds herself on the run with Remy, her new best friend and worst enemy.
In a world where the most ruthless clandestine organizations run the conspiracy theory web sites for psych experiments, Remy holds the key to global domination. But as Cassie and Remy seek answers across the planet, eluding pursuers again and again, recruiting their deadliest enemies in a doomed alliance, Cassie sees a pattern emerge… Check out Marc Stiegler’s The Dread Nought Series! #ad
Seeking Jake Ryan
by M.F. Lorson & Jessica Bucher
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Young Adult
Rating: 4.3
Sloane would rather curl up with a John Hughes movie than walk the halls of Grover High. However, all of that is about to change because on the first day of school she runs into none other than Mr. Sixteen Candles himself, Jake Ryan. Okay, he’s not really Jake Ryan, but Gabe has the khakis, sports car and trademark charm to fit the role.
Sloane hopes to pull a Molly Ringwald and win him over with her quirky sense of humor and even quirkier fashion sense, but what she doesn’t know is that she and her seemingly untouchable celebrity crush have a lot more in common than they think… #ad
When the Heart Waits
by Sue Monk Kidd
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Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.5
Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of “active waiting.”
Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are. #ad
Raisin Pie by Rosemary
by Marisa Masterson
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Christian Historical Romance
Rating: New Release
Rosemary Mast left her Pennsylvania Dutch community to find a home with distant relatives in Kansas. Only, none of her family was there. What she found was a man desperate for help with his orphaned niece and nephew. It seemed like the perfect solution to work for him, and she agreed to go with him.
Rosemary expected the man to be like others she had known while growing up, even though he was a Swede and not German. Was her new husband crazy? He asked for a funeral pie for Christmas! #ad
Promise Me
by Jill Mansell
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.3
The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn’t intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again.
Foxwell is also home to Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou hasn’t recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction – and luckily one’s about to turn up… #ad
River Road
by Eric Wilder
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Paranormal Mystery
Rating: 4.5
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother.
The case isn’t simply cold, it’s 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate. Check out Eric Wilder’s French Quarter Mystery Series! #ad
Dragon Apparent Complete Series Boxed Set
by Talia Beckett & Jess Mountifield
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Urban Fantasy
Rating: New Release
The world is guarded by dragons. Lurking in the shadows and keeping out of sight, they keep evil at bay. Or do they?
Scarlet lives an ordinary life in LA. She is going about her life as normal when she finds out the hard way about the creatures that go bump in the night. With her guardian missing and strange events happening wherever she goes, she is forced to confront the truth and accept her true nature. Will she become what she needs to be? Grab this complete 9-book boxed set to find out! #ad
The Return of the Soldier
by Rebecca West
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Literary Classics
Rating: 4.0
The Return of the Soldier tells the tale of a shell-shocked soldier who believes he is in love with a working-class woman from his past rather than married to his aristocratic bride when he returns home from the First World War.
Whether to bring him back to reality and send him to the front or whether to let him stay safe in his delusion is up to his family and doctor to decide… #ad
Where Nightmares Come From
by Multiple Authors
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Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.4
Where Nightmares Come From focuses on the art of storytelling in the Horror genre, taking an idea from conception to reality–whether you prefer short stories, novels, films, or comics.
Featuring in-depth articles and interviews by Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard series), Clive Barker (Books of Blood), John Connolly (Charlie Parker series), Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King (IT), Christopher Golden (Ararat), Charlaine Harris (Midnight, Texas), and many more. #ad
The Darkest Evening of the Year
by Dean Koontz
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Horror
Rating: 4.5
With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats.
Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he’s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fear–and of enduring devotion. #ad
From Ashes to Forever
by Grace Clemens
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Inspirational Romance
Rating: 4.2
In a twist of fate, Molly’s life takes a heart-wrenching turn as a devastating fire destroys her home and family. With her world in ashes and her dreams shattered Molly is forced to reimagine her life and find her own strength. While fleeing her own birthplace where she is being hunted for being the sole survivor of the tragedy, a mail-order bride ad becomes her lifeline.
Led by fate to a strange new town, her path intertwines with a mysterious man named Tobias. Will this stranger be the answer to her problems or the beginning of more secrets? #ad
The Quick and the Thread
by Amanda Lee
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Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.2
When Marcy Singer opens an embroidery specialty shop in quaint Tallulah Falls, Oregon, she throws a soiree and a Stitch-In. Soon, Marcy’s sign- up sheet for embroidery classes fills up and everyone in town seems willing to raise a glass-or a needle-to support the newly-opened Seven Year Stitch.
Then Marcy finds the shop’s previous tenant dead in the store-room, a message scratched with a tapestry needle on the wall beside him. Now Marcy’s shop has become a crime scene, and she’s the prime suspect… #ad
Christmas at Sandpiper Inn
by Ella Morgan
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Holiday Romance
Rating: 4.7
Ryan Almada, a charming attorney, is one of Penny’s closest siblings. Devoted to his career, he’s never allowed room for anything–or anyone–to get in the way of his success. But when his sister’s recuperation forces him into close quarters with Heather at Sandpiper Inn, old feelings he’s long ignored begin to stir.
Heather, a beloved local schoolteacher, thought she knew what to expect this Christmas. With her best friend Penny temporarily out of commission due to an injury, Heather’s holiday season was set to be a flurry of caretaking and tinsel… Check out Ella Morgan’s The Almada Family of Sandpiper Cove Series! #ad
ODETTE’S SONG: Music Is Life
by A. G. Russo
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Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.3
What’s going to happen to six-year-old Hunter? His parents are dead, and his grandmother is dying. He’s left with a family legacy of addiction, depression, and suicide. Hunter’s mother, Odette, wanted the husband she left for another man, to raise him, but Nico, alcoholic, depressed, and full of rage, wants no part of the child. He cannot accept that Odette, his wife and songwriting partner, left him.
During their senior year of high school, the beautiful, multiracial Odette, with an incredible voice and stage presence, joined Nico’s band. Five hard years of trying to “make it” finally paid off… #ad