Thursday’s Top eBooks
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Safe Haven
by Leeanna Morgan
FREEBIE
Romance
Rating: 4.4
Hayley Elliott’s sister has found a cure for Alzheimer’s and their mom is living proof that the supplement works. To keep everyone safe, Hayley has to return to Montana. But she can only do that with help from Tank–a man who’s living with a secret more heartbreaking than her own.
Tank has spent his life protecting people. He works for one of the most successful security companies in the world, makes more money than most people see in a lifetime, and has a past no one can ever know about… Check out Leeanna Morgan’s The Protectors Series! #ad
Tale of the Hidden Village
by Riley Rookhouse & K.C. Norton
FREEBIE
Fantasy
Rating: 5.0
Crimson Smoke’s first conscious memory is of their appearance in the woods outside of town on a backwater island. Their only friend, the reclusive half-Jotunn investigator known as the Emerald Flame, plans to catch a thief in what he assumes will be a simple case.
But when a government agent turns up dead, the pair soon find themselves on the hunt for much more dangerous prey. As the clues in the dead man’s bed lead them deeper into the heart of the island, Crimson discovers there is more than one mystery to unravel. #ad
Ragweed
by Avi
BARGAIN
Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.7
A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is determined to see the world. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music, excitement, new friends…and cunning, carnivorous cats!
Silversides is the purring president of F.E.A.R. (Felines Enraged About Rodents), a group dedicated to keeping cats on top, people in the middle, and mice on the bottom. Can Ragweed and his motley yet musical crew of city nice–Clutch, Dipstick, Lugnut, and Blinker–band together to fight their feline foe? #ad
Untamed
by Will Harlan
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
In a “moving homage … that artfully articulates the ferocities of nature and humanity,” biographer Will Harlan captures the larger-than-life story of biologist, naturalist, and ecological activist Carol Ruckdeschel, known to many as the wildest woman in America.
She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia (Kirkus Reviews). #ad
One Perfect Summer
by Brenda Novak
BARGAIN
Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for a genetic test, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn’t know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
The women decide to dig into the mystery together at Serenity’s family cabin in Lake Tahoe. With Reagan navigating romantic politics at work and Lorelei staring down the collapse of her marriage, all three women are converging at a crossroads in their lives… #ad
Fixing the Mountain Man’s Broken Heart
by Ava Winters
BARGAIN
Historical Romance
Rating: 4.7
She wants nothing more than to be respected. He wants someone who will listen to his family’s needs. How can they nurture their passion when fear of the unknown keeps their hearts locked?
Phoebe has been living in misery ever since her father’s death. Her stepmother treats her like a lowly servant, and her two step-sisters are cruel and heartless. After her best friend’s suggestion, she goes to the local dance only to be humiliated by her step-family, who tears off her dress. How can the mysterious rancher who saves her rekindle her faith in love? #ad
The Teaching
by T. O. Paine
BARGAIN
Thriller
Rating: 3.8
Based on the author’s true-life experience living in a cult.
Raine Harkins believes everything the Teaching tells her–forgiveness is freedom, there are no dead, and there is no dying. She has lived her entire life in the Haven, a small religious community buried in the hills of northern Nevada, and it’s been a good life. But when she discovers a frightened teenage girl hiding in the forest, everything changes. Raine offers to help the girl, but gunshots ring out, and the girl runs away, never to be seen again. A week later, Raine finds a letter pinned to her cabin door–God doesn’t want you here. Leave the Haven now, before he runs you down… #ad
Welcome Home to Murder
by Rosalie Spielman
FREEBIE
Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.7
Tessa Treslow never wanted a small town life. As soon as she graduated high school, she happily escaped her tiny town to join the U.S. Army, leaving New Oslo, Idaho, population 852, firmly behind her. Twenty years later, the hometown hero is finally ready to come back–even if she has just a visit with loved ones in mind while her family is hoping to convince her to stay for good.
With her fawn boxer dog, Vince, in tow, Tessa falls into the unsettlingly familiar small town life, helping out in her family’s general store and her feisty Aunt Edna’s auto body shop… #ad
5 Secrets of Story Structure
by K.M. Weiland
FREEBIE
Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.5
Want to take your writing to the next level? Discover the “secrets” of story structure other authors are overlooking!
If you’ve read all the books on story structure and concluded there has to be more to it than just three acts and a couple of plot points, then you’re absolutely right! It’s time to notch up your writing education from “basic” to “black belt.” Internationally-published author K.M. Weiland shares five “secret” techniques of advanced story structure. #ad
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
BARGAIN
Science Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury’s incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic.
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery… #ad
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
BARGAIN
Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from “a writer of uncommon elegance and poise.” (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world – conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. #ad
The Inn at Dolphin Bay
by Mia Kent
BARGAIN
Clean Romance/Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Tana Martin was living her best life… until suddenly, she wasn’t.
When she catches her husband with a woman half her age, her friend suggests that she needs a little “you time” – meaning swimsuits, Mai Tais, and golden-sand beaches, not a cantankerous old man who needs a caretaker and a family inn that has fallen into a state of disrepair. She should be celebrating her silver wedding anniversary. Instead, she’s gearing up for the worst summer of her life. But Dolphin Bay, the small island off the coast of Maine where Tana spent many of her childhoods, has more than a few surprises in store… Check out Mia Kent’s Dolphin Bay Series! #ad
Gangland
by Chuck Hogan
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.4
In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses.
When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items–by whatever means necessary. #ad
A Billionaire Singer For The Cowboy
by Florence Linnington
BARGAIN
Christian Romance
Rating: New Release
When billionaire country singer Ava Morgan arrives at Misty Peak to record her next album, it’s not love but anonymity and inspiration she’s looking for. As fate would have it, the first person she meets is James Wright, a proud but kind-hearted local cowboy who makes her heart flutter.
Even though she’s utterly charmed by James, Ava decides to avoid him, conscious that she’ll be out of town the minute she finishes her work in the charming small town she’s found herself in. But James is determined not to let her push him away like that… Check out Florence Linnington’s Misty Peak Ranch Series! #ad
Gift of Diamonds
by Roberta Seret
FREEBIE
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Seventeen-year-old Mica is a determined aspiring actress living with her parents in Romania as Nicolae Ceausescu begins his reign. Her parents are covertly political and influential, which makes them a perfect target for the Secret Police. They’re soon arrested, and Mica flees the country with her father’s rare–and possibly cursed–diamonds.
With her parents imprisoned, it’s up to Mica to investigate the terrorism involving Ceausescu and his nuclear business partners. #ad
Benjamin Forrest and the School at the End of the World
by Chris Ward
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.1
At the end of everything … there is a new beginning.
Benjamin Forrest wakes up on a strange beach. Two suns shine in the sky, and a couple of miles out from the shore, the sea drops off the edge of the world. Where is he? How did he get here? And most importantly, how can he get home? As he begins to encounter the unusual characters of Endinfinium, he finds himself at the centre of a battle for a secret world, one in which he will play a decisive role… #ad
Mysteries of the Messiah
by Rabbi Jason Sobel
BARGAIN
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.8
Are you settling for half the story? Highlighting connections that have been hidden from non-Jewish eyes, Rabbi Jason Sobel will connect the dots between the Old and New Testament, helping you see the Bible with clarity as God intended.
Most people–even people of faith–do not understand how the Bible fits together. Too many Christians accept half an inheritance, content to embrace merely the New Testament, while Jewish people may often experience the same by embracing only the Old Testament. But God has an intricate plan and purpose for both the Old and the New. #ad
Black Flags, Blue Waters
by Eric Jay Dolin
BARGAIN
History
Rating: 4.5
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle).
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. #ad
Hydra
by Matt Wesolowski
BARGAIN
Horror
Rating: 4.1
One cold November night in 2014, in a small town in the north west of England, 21-year-old Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and younger sister to death with a hammer, in an unprovoked attack known as the Macleod Massacre.
Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. #ad
Cold Pursuit
by Carla Neggers
BARGAIN
Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
A prominent ambassador is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run in Washington, DC. Hours later, his stepdaughter vanishes in the mountains of northern New England.
Back in her hometown of Black Falls, Vermont, to do damage control on her career, Secret Service agent Jo Harper is drawn into the search. But her efforts face an unexpected challenge: Elijah Cameron. With his military training and mountain rescue experience, Elijah knows the unforgiving terrain better than anyone… #ad
MOLLY HACKER IS TOO PICKY!
by Lisette Brodey
BARGAIN
Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.0
At thirty-two, newspaper reporter Molly Hacker vows to never attend another wedding until she has had her own. And that’s a problem because Molly’s younger sister, Hannah, is going to be married in one year. Armed with snark, wit, and fabulous good looks, “Picky Molly” embarks on a quest to find Mr. Right in her hometown, Swansea, an elegant bedroom community of NYC.
Things get complicated fast. In no time at all, Molly has four “men of interest” and the memories of a lost love to send her overanalytic, befuddled mind into serious overdrive. Determined not to let her “helpful” girlfriends help her right out of another relationship, Molly tries to keep mum on the state of her love life… #ad