Friday’s Top eBooks
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Dragons and Magic
by Blair Babylon
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Steamy Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4.2
Mathonwy, Duke Draco, absolutely, positively, definitely isn’t falling into a mating fever for the new little witch, Bethany Aura, whom his company just hired to whip a new Las Vegas casino into shape.
The casino is behind schedule, over budget, and a shambling mess of construction debris and dirt. Angel investors are arriving in a month, and someone in the finance department is embezzling money. But his eyes are changing color to flowing, molten gold, he keeps showing up to hang around Bethany… Check out Blair Babylon’s Dragon’s Den Casino Series! #ad
The Song of the Sirin
by Nicholas Kotar
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Epic Fantasy
Rating: 4.4
Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can’t avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls.
He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… #ad
Detours and Designs
by Matt Fazio
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Children’s Fiction
Rating: 5.0
Any other eleven-year-old kid might flip past a hand-drawn picture if they found it in a textbook. But not Drew Daley. When he discovers a detailed drawing tucked away in his science book, his entire life changes. He finds himself seeing everything differently and caring about things in a way he never did before.
Drew becomes determined to find the artist, but with the list of names inside the front cover of his book as his only clue, the search isn’t an easy one… #ad
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight.
Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter. #ad
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. #ad
The Rancher’s Secret Arrangement
by Lilah Rivers
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Inspirational Romance
Rating: 4.3
In the quaint town of Grapevine, Texas, Sophia Brewer feels trapped by her stepmother’s plans to marry her off to an unworthy suitor. Despite her longing for something more, Sophia resigns herself to a predetermined fate… Until an alluring young rancher arrives at her family’s estate.
With every stolen moment, Sophia finds herself drawn deeper into his irresistible charm and soon realizes that she cannot resist her growing affection for him. Will the increasing fondness for him shatter all social norms? #ad
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.1
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father… #ad
Of Murders and Mages
by Nikki Haverstock
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Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.4
Three ways that Ella’s life is totally messed up: her new coworker is as cranky as he is attractive; a mischievous cat has decided she needs a familiar; she just found out she’s a witch who can read the emotional hologram of a magical death (and isn’t that a mouthful)
And oh yeah, there’s five dead bodies, and no one knows how they are connected. Now she’s drawn into a madcap investigation at the casino where she’s managed to snag a job. She must navigate learning her new mage abilities, a topless burlesque show, a jealous girlfriend, gamblers of all varieties… Check out Nikki Haverstock’s Casino Witch Mysteries! #ad
Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace
by John Crittenden Duval
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History
Rating: 4.1
The writer of this book is well aware that it will not stand the test of criticism as a literary production.
A frontiersman himself, his opportunities for acquiring information, and for supplying the deficiencies of a rather limited education, have of course been “few and far between;” and therefore it cannot be reasonably expected that he could make a book under such circumstances which would not be sadly defective as to style and composition… #ad
Wait
by Rebecca Brewster Stevenson
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Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.6
What are you waiting for? Everyone has endured the endless traffic light, the queue that goes nowhere, the elevator music piped through the phone line. But what of those periods in your life when everything seems on hold? When you can’t do the next thing in your professional or personal life because you can’t get to it?
Waiting–be it for health, a life partner, a child, a job–can be an agony. The persistently unrealized goal feels like an endless road. And hope’s constant deferment can be exhausting… #ad
Resolute
by Jack Campbell
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Science Fiction
Rating: 4.7
Geary knows that some political factions in the Alliance were just trying to get rid of him when he was assigned to escort a diplomatic and scientific mission to the far reaches of humanity’s expansion into the galaxy … and beyond.
But he views his mission as both a duty and an opportunity to make things better wherever he can. And when a crippled Rift Federation ship tumbles out of jump space, Geary leaps into action. But the survivors’ story isn’t completely adding up… #ad
The Things We Do for Love
by Kristin Hannah
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant.
In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old… #ad
Cowboy for Eliza Jane
by Jovie Grace
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Christian Historical Romance
Rating: 5.0
Eliza Jane Ferrell can’t bear the thought of marrying any man besides the beau she lost in the war. Poverty, however, along with the advances of a lecher who’s been hounding her, ultimately convince her to become a mail-order bride. That said, she won’t hesitate to abandon her would-be groom at the altar if he proves to be no better.
Rancher Keegan Ford is bored, lonely, and on the hunt for a wife. The letter from his sassy bride-to-be sounds promising, with one exception. She makes it clear from the start that her heart will never belong to him… Check out Jovie Grace’s Mail-Order Brides on the Run Series! #ad
The Big Con
by Peter Ralph
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Thriller
Rating: 4.5
Felicity Lomax has no idea that Alistair Morgan is a conman. Now she’s staring at bankruptcy and stands to lose her business, her house, and her self-esteem. Breaking hearts and destroying lives means nothing to Alistair. All that matters is the euphoric sensation that courses through him after he’s scammed another victim out of their hard-earned cash. When Felicity begs Josh Kennelly for help to recover her money, he doesn’t have a clue about how he’s going to outwit the conman.
The Big Con is the fifth book in this high-stakes crime thriller series. You can read it as a standalone novel or part of the gripping Josh Kennelly Crime Thriller series. #ad
All Last Summer
by Stephanie J. Scott
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Young Adult
Rating: 4.2
My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought. It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil. No way can I board that plane.
With my trip tickets ripped up and the money down the drain, I owe my parents big-time. The only job hiring is Teed Off!, the driving range that just-so-happens to employ Matt’s trio of best friends… #ad
The Machine Stops
by E. M. Forster
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Literary Classics
Rating: 4.3
In a future version of planet Earth, most of the human population doesn’t venture above ground. Rarely do they even leave their own rooms, in which all of their needs are met by the Machine.
The Machine allows the humans to communicate “ideas” with one another, which is essentially their only activity. It doesn’t stop them from leaving their rooms, but they have little desire to do so anyway. They’ve started to believe the Machine is omnipotent and omniscient, not to be questioned… #ad
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor
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History
Rating: 4.4
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century.
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror… #ad
Imajica
by Clive Barker
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Horror
Rating: 4.6
From master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passion
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie ‘oh’ pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension… #ad
A Lord or a Liar
by Rose Pearson
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Regency Romance
Rating: 4.6
Miss Bridget Wynch is quite sure she is in love with Lord Landon, believing him to be the most excellent of gentlemen – for he has just donated a large sum to an orphanage where she offers some of her time. Bridget is hopeful that, very soon, he will consider her and their connection will only deepen from there.
When her friends encourage her to use ‘The London Ledger’ to make certain of his intentions, Bridget is reluctant to do so but does so in the end… Check out Rose Pearson’s Only for Love Series! #ad
First Born
by Will Dean
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.0
Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous.
But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge… #ad
Hampshire Stories
by Joe Giampaolo
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.4
Gold Medal, Literary Titan 2020 Book Awards – An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller
“Hampshire Stories by Joe Giampaolo is a stellar collection of short stories!” –Literary Titan, 2020
Hampshire Stories is an award-winning collection of short stories set in nineteenth-century England. This compilation was written with the greatest attention to historical accuracy and is recommended for readers who enjoy charming love stories and poignant dramas of the Regency and Victorian periods. Check out Joe Giampaolo’s The Hampshire Stories Series! #ad