Wednesday’s Top eBooks
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Loving the Ladies’ Man
by Kristin Canary
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Romantic Comedy
Rating: 4.4
Connor is the last guy in the world I should fall for. He’s the resident office flirt. I’m the quirky Pride & Prejudice-loving editor who uses big words and dresses like the world’s non-sexiest librarian.
We have nothing in common. And we’re competitors for the same job. Game on, right? May the best person win and all that? Fine by me. I’m happy to hold him at arms’ length forever. And considering I’m practically the only woman in the office he’s never flirted with, he’s obviously happy to do the same… #ad
Shadowblade
by Jay Aspen
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Fantasy
Rating: 4.4
In the shadow of a powerful Elemental, Ariel makes a deadly bargain to save her sister and begins an epic journey to become the greatest mage-warrior the land has ever known. She knows that to accept the Shadowblade’s deadly gift of fighting skill and power is the first step on a dark path to tyranny.
Blade adepts are hated and feared–and ultimately hunted down and killed. She has no choice. It’s her only chance to rescue her sister from capture and slavery by the ruthless Rapathian invaders… #ad
Bead Weaving on a Loom
by Fra Ortmeyer & Carol C. Porter
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Crafts & Hobbies
Rating: 4.1
It’s easy to make beautiful and elegant beaded jewelry on a loom! Modern looms make it so simple. Even if you’ve never tried bead weaving before, now’s the time to start.
Bead Weaving on a Loom shows you how to use needles, thread, and beads to create your own expensive-looking jewelry in beautiful textural patterns. Eleven step-by-step projects are provided for weaving intricate beaded creations, including bracelets, necklaces, earrings and more. #ad
Another Forgotten Child
by Cathy Glass
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6
Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten.
The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee and, when she reads the referral, Cathy understands why. Despite her reservations, Cathy agrees to Aimee on – there is something about her that reminds Cathy of Jodie…and reading the report instantly tugs at her heart strings… #ad
The Boardwalk Bookshop
by Susan Mallery
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Contemporary Romance
Rating: 4.4
When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it’s a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving, their personal lives are…not.
Bree, wounded by brilliant but cold parents and her late husband’s ultimate betrayal, has sworn to protect her heart at all costs. Even from Ashley’s brother, a writer and adventurer who has inspired millions… #ad
Back to the Garden
by Laurie R. King
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.5
A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home’s past: a human skull, hidden away for decades.
Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate’s young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality… #ad
Song of the Pearl and Oyster
by Patty Duffy
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4
Nora is a surprise guest at her mother’s 75th birthday party, and she’s not sure her mother will be happy about it. Nora was sent away from home when she was six years old. Song of the Pearl and Oyster is based on real events following three generations of women.
Beginning in 1938 with a Japanese pearl diver and a dream, the narrative charts a path to America’s internment camps, post-war change, and the journey of a lonely, young girl. When young Nora overhears her grandmother speaking bitterly about her Japanese father in California, she makes a decision. She’ll leave the woman’s sharp-tongued abuse and run away to find him with only their shared last name to guide her… #ad
Cookies and Curses
by Rosie Pease
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Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4.5
As a matchmaking baker, customers flock to my cozy shop for the latest sweet treats and a chance to meet “the one.” I’ve never been wrong when it comes to cookies or love.
They say I’m a witch. That magic helps me do what I do. But I’m just Joanie Sunevall. If I really had powers, I’d have used them on my perpetually single self by now. Ghosts, however, were never a part of my business plan. Yet, for reasons I can’t explain, spirits only I can see are coming between my latest couple, threatening to tear them apart… #ad
Superbunny and the Peas of Doom
by Neil McFarlane
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Children’s Fiction
Rating: 4.1
You were out in the woods one day minding your own business and looking for peas when suddenly you fell down a rabbit hole. It was dark down there, but someone placed a carrot in your hand and said, “Eat it.”
You took a bite and said, “Ow!” “Eat the carrot, not your hand,” said the voice. You ate the carrot, the lights came on, and that’s when all the trouble started… #ad
The Children of Hamlin
by Carter Carmen
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Science Fiction
Rating: 4.2
The Hamlin Massacre–every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of Hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shield could be raised.
Even worse, the colony’s children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers. Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready… #ad
Smart Women
by Judy Blume
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Women’s Fiction
Rating: 4.1
Two thirtysomethings try to find their way through the complications of post-marriage love in this beloved novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy Blume.
Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado–while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn–and they will, when B.B.’s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo… #ad
His French War Bride
by Pamela Ferguson
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.7
June 1944. Despite her determination to be in Paris to welcome her father home when he escapes from a prison camp, interpreter Christine Arnette must obey when the French Resistance sends her on a secret D-Day mission to Normandy. When her cover story falls apart, the Allies start asking questions. Can she trust them with the truth?
When Lieutenant Harry Dean discovers their beautiful French interpreter lied about her reasons for coming to Carentan, it’s up to him to discover her identity. His gut tells him to trust her, but orders are orders. Is she really a spy? Will his heart allow him to stand by and watch if she’s arrested? #ad
Speaking in Bones
by Kathy Reichs
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do–test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head… #ad
After the Darkest Hour
by Yecheskel Rubin
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Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.5
Poland, 1948. It’s been years since the Second World War ended, but life in Poland hasn’t quite settled for Maria Zaneski. After losing her husband and son to the German labor camps, her only consolation from the horrors of war is her youngest daughter, Anna, whose childhood was sheltered from the terrible acts inflicted on her Jewish neighbors. Meanwhile, a chance meeting with a Jewish businessman holds the key to their salvation.
After years in exile, Olek Rabinovitch returns home to Poland in search of family members who may have survived the Nazi extermination machine. A courageous man with a keen sense of morality, Olek is tormented by his inaction during the War… #ad
DAVID COPPERFIELD
by Charles Dickens
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Literary Classics
Rating: 5.0
This carefully crafted ebook: “DAVID COPPERFIELD (Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The story follows the life of David Copperfield, a young boy who is born six months after the death of his father, from childhood to maturity. David spends his early years in relative happiness with his loving mother and their kindly housekeeper, Peggotty, but when his mother remarries David is sent to lodge with Peggotty’s family… #ad
Keeping the Promise
by Ken Oder
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Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.5
Keeping the Promise is a collection of fifty stories about the author’s personal experiences.
From encounters with interesting people like Muhammad Ali, President Clinton, Anna Anderson, who claimed to be the daughter of the Tsar of Russia, and Harold Swanson, Hollywood’s first literary agent, to coming to grips with life and death decisions, the trauma of aging, the heartbreak of dementia, the burden of representing a death row defendant, and the angst of enduring a pandemic, these stories span the spectrum of human emotion… #ad
The Most Significant Teachings in the Bible
by Christopher D. Hudson
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Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.8
An engaging visual survey of Scripture’s main lessons, this Bible companion makes Scripture accessible and memorable for students, laypeople, and anyone curious to know more about God’s Word–and have it stick.
If Scripture feels daunting to you in some way. If its pages seem inhospitable. If the Bible isn’t the kind of book you’re likely to have on your coffee table, accessible to all who enter your home–than this resource may be your key to unlocking the true approachability of the Bible. #ad
Invisible Boys
by Holden Sheppard
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Young Adult
Rating: 4.6
An emotional tale of identity, sexuality and suicide derived from personal experience about three teenage boys who struggle to come to terms with their homosexuality in a small Western Australian town. On the surface, nerd Zeke, punk Charlie and footy wannabe Hammer look like they have nothing in common.
But scratch that surface and you’d find three boys in the throes of coming to terms with their homosexuality in a town where it is invisible… #ad
Come With Me
by Ronald Malfi
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Horror
Rating: 4.4
Aaron Decker’s life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence–and her ghost–Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country.
Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death. Yet Aaron is unprepared to discover the dark secrets Allison kept, the death and horror that make up the tapestry of her hidden life… #ad
Healing his Shattered Heart
by Carol Colyer
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Historical Romance
Rating: 4.8
Longing for independence and purpose, Charlotte Mann leaves her privileged upbringing behind for a life as a schoolteacher, in the rugged town of Ridgeview. There, she meets a spirited student and his distant father who unintentionally draw her into their complicated lives.
While being pulled into a web of secrets and hidden pains she cannot resist, her own heart starts to ache… Can her growing feelings mend the fractured souls that have captured her heart? #ad
The Other Wife
by Michael Robotham
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Mystery/Thriller
Rating: 4.3
Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.
This is what their son, Joe O’Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood – a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer? #ad