Saturday’s Top eBooks
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Much Ado About Josie
by Lacy Williams
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Sweet Historical Romance
Rating: 4.6
Mack has built a solitary life for himself as a railroad surveyor. The only person he can rely on is his brother and partner. But when his brother is gravely injured, Mack is forced to accept help from the lovely Josie and her sidekick Ruthie.
Josie is Mack’s opposite in every way. She’s a dreamer who has led a charmed life. She sees the good in people. She draws people in, makes them feel special. Trapped on a mountain, surviving an avalanche, and exposure to the elements… being with Josie is the biggest risk of all. Because she makes Mack want things he’s never had before. Home. Family. Someone to love. Check out the Sunny Ridge Montana series! #ad
The Tethering
by Megan O’Russell
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YA Contemporary Fantasy
Rating: 4.3
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children meets Percy Jackson in this magic-filled fantasy romance. All he wants is to win her love. A dark spell may separate them forever.
A high school loner in a perfect town–that was Jacob’s life. Until his school was ripped apart by magic. After losing everything, Jacob is thrown into a world of enchantment. But the wonder of being a wizard isn’t enough to hide the danger lurking in the shadows. Emilia is the heir of her clan, raised to help her people hide right under the humans’ noses. She can’t escape her duty as a witch. But there are some wishes even spells can’t grant. Check out Megan O’Russell’s The Tethering series! #ad
As Always, Julia
by Joan Reardon
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.7
With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known by her first name alone. But how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on her deepest thoughts and feelings.
This riveting correspondence chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and the turbulent process of Julia’s creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks ever written. #ad
Yours Truly
by Sharon Gillenwater
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Western Romance
Rating: 4.6
West Texas 1885 – A hidden letter inspires her to leave New York City and search for the father she never knew…
Charity Brown, a celebrated author and illustrator for Century magazine, travels to the bustling West Texas cow town of Colorado City to write a series of articles–and to look for her father. She doesn’t know what she’ll do if she actually finds him. Hopefully, he’ll be happy to learn he has a daughter. But what if he isn’t? Given that possibility, she decides not to tell anyone there about her search. Charity quickly discovers that keeping her secret from the deputy sheriff will be difficult. Not only is the man much too observant, their instant attraction plays havoc with her heart, making her long for love… Check out Sharon Gillenwater’s West Texas Sweethearts-Colorado City, 1885-1891 series! #ad
Speaks the Nightbird
by Robert McCammon
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Horror
Rating: 4.6
It’s 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She’s been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead.
But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the traveling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favor of the beguiling young widow. #ad
Secrets of Honor
by Carol Kilgore
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Mystery
Rating: 4.5
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Except when they’re not. By the end of a long evening working as a special set of eyes for the presidential security detail, all Kat Marengo wants is to kick off her shoes and stash two not-really-stolen rings in a secure spot. Plus, maybe sleep with Dave Krizak. No, make that definitely sleep with Dave Krizak. The next morning, she wishes her new top priorities were so simple.
As an operative for a covert agency buried in the depths of the Department of Homeland Security, Kat is asked to participate in a matter of life or death–locate a kidnapped girl believed to be held in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since the person doing the asking is the wife of the president and the girl is the daughter of her dearest friend, it’s hard to say no. Kat and Dave quickly learn the real stakes are higher than they or the first lady believed and will require more than any of them bargained for… #ad
Murder and Mint Tea
by Janet Lane Walters
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Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.3
Katherine is a retired nurse and a retired church organist. The small Hudson River village where she lives in her Victorian “Painted Lady” makes her the neighborhood matriarch. Along with her Maine Coon Cat Robespierre, she guards friends and families.
When amoral Rachel moves into the first floor apartment of Katherine’s house, trouble erupts. The murder weapon is one she recognizes and makes her fear for her friends and family. Finding the killer becomes her goal. #ad
The New Author
by R. A. Barnes
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Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.3
The New Author is an excellent piece of writing, combining deceptive simplicity, lucidity and charm: a trick which in practice is very difficult to pull off. The book is also informed by considerable intelligence and analysis founded on firsthand experience.
Barnes explicitly warns against the trap that engagement at the required level can become obsessive and time consuming, and in a couple of nice vignettes he makes his point with wit and style. The New Author is a terrific companion for independent e-publishing and I recommend it. #ad
Flora and the Flamingo
by Molly Idle
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Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.6
In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance.
With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony. Full of humor and heart, this stunning performance (and splashy ending!) will have readers clapping for more! #ad
City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
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Paranormal Mystery
Rating: 4.5
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas deals with murder, spirits of the night, and a forbidden love triangle
It’s Mardi Gras in the Big Easy, an escaped killer on the loose, and a sunken boat in the shipping channel preventing cruise ships from entering or leaving the city. Wyatt’s rich new client wants him to prove he isn’t a passeblanc–a person of black heritage passing as white. Wyatt becomes enamored with his client’s beautiful daughter, a conflict of interest that threatens to get him killed. Oh, and N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia is having a torrid affair with the daughter of his best friend. Check out Eric Wilder’s French Quarter Mystery series! #ad
A Lesson in Trust and Hope
by Ellen Knightley
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.7
Carlie Ellis had never thought of leaving her hometown, and by doing so, hindering her relationship with her parents. Still, starting a family and a new life in New York had brought her so much happiness, she wouldn’t have it any other way. Yet Carlie’s bliss would come to an abrupt end, after losing her husband suddenly.
Left with no other option, there was only one place for her and her daughter, Josie, to return to; her family home. Amid mourning and reconciling with her parents, Carlie cannot even begin to think about the future, let alone finding love again. Especially when family secrets put Josie’s life in danger… #ad
Kateri: A Beacon in the Wilderness
by Jack Casey
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Christian Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.6
1660 – New France is a howling wilderness. Smallpox devastates a Mohawk village, scarring and half blinding a four-year-old survivor. Now an orphan, the girl earns her keep by making embroidery and wampum belts. Despite war and massacres around her, she resolutely follows her convictions, refuses to marry and comes to deeply embrace Christianity.
A young French Jesuit, Claude Chauchetier, has one glorious mystical experience of God which he can never replicate. Despairing, he chooses the hardship of missionary work only to be disillusioned by its harsh realities. Claude is astounded by Kateri, in whom he finds faith in its purest form, a powerful faith that will not be stilled by death and continues even now. #ad
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
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Literary Classics
Rating: 4.5
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters – the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy.
Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. #ad
Dispatches
by Michael J. Totten
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History
Rating: 4.3
Prize-winning author and award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century.
From crumbling Havana, Cuba–still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall–to a comparatively upscale Hanoi, Vietnam, still struggling to free itself from Chinese-style authoritarian rule. From a nightmarish Libya under the deranged Moammar Qaddafi, to an exhausted, polarized and increasingly fanatical Egypt before the Arab Spring finally ripped the region to pieces… #ad
The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse
by Multiple Authors
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Science Fiction
Rating: 3.9
Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang.
Now collected for the first time ever in one apocalyptic volume are those early doomsday writers and their contemporaries, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Norman Spinrad, Arthur C. Clarke, William F. Nolan, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Lester del Rey, and more. #ad
Damaged Hero
by Jo Grafford
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Romantic Suspense
Rating: 5.0
He has a checkered past to overcome. She’s a single mom. When tragedy strikes, all they have left to cling to is God…and each other!
Foster Kane is an all-in kinda guy. He’s partied hard, spent a few years in the pen, and is now working like crazy to make up for past wrongs. When he lands a job at Anderson Ranch, he discovers peace in ranching life he’s never experienced before. Until a sudden death in the family saddles him with running a security firm riddled with problems, as well as looking after the one sassy country gal he has no business falling for… Check out Jo Grafford’s Born In Texas series! #ad
Triumph of the Mountain Man
by William W. Johnstone
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Action & Adventure
Rating: 4.6
Robber baron Clifton Satterlee is in greedy pursuit of a coveted piece of land in the New Mexico Territory. He plans to wrest the timber-rich hills of Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own subservient labor force. Many will suffer as his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power.
But Saterlee has overlooked one mighty obstacle–the iron justice and deadly aim of the legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen. In triumph blood will be spilled… #ad
Defending the Reaper
by G.K. Brady
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Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.6
Take one grumpy hockey player, add one frazzled landscaper, and mix together not-so-gently in one car crash. Will they come out of this with their hearts intact?
Blizzard captain Dave Grimson’s life is as tangled as a wad of skate laces–and it’s a mess of his own making. Used to being in charge, “the Grim Reaper” has become the team leader in name only. Adding insult to injury, he finds himself dumped and single. Though he’s determined to piece his life back together, it’s time to leave his team and his city behind. What he needs is a trade and a fresh start. Dating? He’s leaving that behind too, until he collides with Ellie Hendricks. Literally. Check out G.K. Brady’s The Playmakers Series! #ad