Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

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    Friday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Contemporary Fiction, Suspense, Romantic Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Romance, Paranormal, Horror… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Island House: A Novel Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    Weaving the trials and uncertainty of real life into a tapestry of passion, hope, and courage, The Island House is a beautifully told story about the ties that bind us—and how the blessings of love and family heal us in ways we never dream possible.

    Courtney Hendricks will never forget the magical summers she spent on Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin Vickerey, and Robin’s charismatic, turbulent, larger-than-life family, in their gorgeous island house. Now a college English professor in Kansas City, Courtney is determined to experience one more summer in this sun-swept paradise. Her reason for going is personal: Courtney needs to know whether Robin’s brother James shares the feelings she’s secretly had for him.

    Time with the Vickerey family always involves love and laughter, and this season is no different. Vivacious matriarch Susanna Vickerey is celebrating her sixtieth birthday, but beneath the merriment, trouble is brewing. The family patriarch, Dr. Alastair Vickerey, is quiet and detached, while unspoken tension looms over oldest son Henry, a respected young surgeon. Warm and witty Robin, the most grounded of the siblings, is keeping a secret from her parents. Iris, the colorful baby of the brood, remains rudderless and in need of guidance. And the sexy, stunningly handsome, untouchable James—to Courtney’s dismay—may be in love with a beautiful and vibrant local artist.

    As the summer unfolds, a crisis escalates, surprising truths are revealed, and Courtney will at last find out where her heart and her future lie…

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    The Bird Eater Over 1,300 5-Star Reviews!

    Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone.

    He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn’t come easy. Someone—or something—has other plans.

    Like Aaron, Holbrook House is but a shell of what it once was, a target for vandals and ghost hunters who have nicknamed it “the devil’s den.” Aaron doesn’t believe in the paranormal—at least, not until a strange boy begins following him wherever he goes.

    Plagued by violent dreams and disturbing visions, Aaron begins to wonder if he’s losing his mind. But a festering darkness lurks at the heart of Holbrook House…a darkness that grins from within the shadows, delighting in Aaron’s sorrow, biding its time.

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    Jingle Bell Harbor (A Bell Harbor Novella) Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    As assistant buyer for the world’s second-largest Christmas store, Kelsey Parker feels like a holiday harlot.

    She’s contractually obligated to promote the yuletide season. All. Year. Long. And it’s taking a toll on her spirit. But when her clueless, self-absorbed boyfriend goes on their long-anticipated romantic vacation—without her!—Kelsey is beyond disappointed to find herself tromping through the Bell Harbor snow instead of lounging on a tropical beach.

    Drew Hampton is considered quite a catch among the Bell Harbor bachelorettes, but when his high school dream girl, Kelsey Parker, shows up at his grandfather’s Christmas tree lot complaining about her love life, he decides it’s long past time to get her under the mistletoe himself.

    As things heat up between the two, a surprise visitor arrives, making Kelsey an offer she can’t quite believe. Now she must decide what matters most, and she just may discover the key to her happiness.

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    The Art of Hiding Over 9,000 5-Star Reviews!

    What would you do if you learned that the life you lived was a lie?

    Nina McCarrick lives the perfect life, until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels.

    Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain of debt, Nina quickly loses her life of luxury and she begins to question whether she ever really knew the man she married. Forced to move out of her family home, Nina returns to the rundown Southampton council estate—and the sister—she thought she had left far behind.

    But Nina can’t let herself be overwhelmed—her boys need her. To save them, and herself, she will have to do what her husband discouraged for so long: pursue a career of her own. Torn between the life she thought she knew and the reality she now faces, Nina finally must learn what it means to take control of her life.

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    Star Wars Trilogy Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A special anniversary collector’s edition featuring the novels of all three classic films—Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.

    Forty years after the phenomenon was born, Star Wars remains one of the greatest science fantasy sagas ever told. Read these stories and rediscover the wonder of the epic that begins:

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…

    The Star Wars Trilogy is a must-read for anyone who wants to relive the excitement, the magic, and the sheer entertainment of this legendary saga—now and forever.

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    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia Book 2) Over 14,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Narnia… a land frozen in eternal winter… a country waiting to be set free.

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years.

    Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change… and a great sacrifice.

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    The Mother-in-Law: A Novel Over 18,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman’s complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death…

    From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm’s length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. And as a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad word to say about Diana…except Lucy.

    That was five years ago. Now, Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc inside her body.

    But the autopsy finds no cancer…

    It does find traces of poison, and evidence of suffocation.

    Who could possibly want Diana dead? Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both of her children, and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn’t exactly sad she’s gone?

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    Her Heart for a Compass: A Novel Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From one of the most famous former members of the British royal family, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York — a mesmerizing novel of a young noblewoman’s coming-of-age that richly details both high society and low in Victorian England.

    Queen Victoria’s close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But Margaret is an impulsive and outspoken girl in a repressive society where women are, quite literally, caged in corsets and required to conform.

    When Lady Margaret’s parents arrange a society marriage for her, she tries to reconcile herself to the match. But shortly before her betrothal is announced, Margaret flees, leaving her parents to explain her sudden absence to an opulent ballroom stuffed with two hundred distinguished guests.

    Banished from polite society, Margaret throws herself into charitable work and finds strength in a circle of female friends like herself—women intent on breaking the mold, including Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Louise. Margaret resolves to follow her heart—a journey of self-discovery that will take her to Ireland, America, and then back to Britain where she finds the life she was always meant to lead.

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    The Fold: A Novel Over 1,700 5-Star Reviews!

    Step into the fold. It’s perfectly safe…

    The folks in Mike Erikson’s small New England town would say he’s just your average, everyday guy. And that’s exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he’s chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence.

    That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door. Using a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to “fold” dimensions, it shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step.

    The invention promises to make mankind’s dreams of teleportation a reality. And, the scientists insist, traveling through the Door is completely safe. Yet evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn’t quite what it seems—and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret. As his investigations draw him deeper into the puzzle, Mike begins to fear there’s only one answer that makes sense. And if he’s right, it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys…everything.

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    Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded) Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago.

    Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his near accidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality

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    Once Upon a Cabin (Sweet Home, Alaska Book 2) Two sisters from Texas find themselves exiled to Alaska… and thrown into the arms of two very different men.

    Tori and McKenna St. James have been living comfortably on their trust funds in Dallas. But their uncle Monty, keeper of the purse strings, decides to push them out of their comfort zones by requiring them to spend one year in Alaska or lose their inheritance. Initially the sisters are stunned, but they aren’t willing to back down from the challenge.

    Tori is sent to a primitive homestead outside the tiny town of Sweet Home. She had been prepared to forego fashion magazines and lattes, but not electricity and running water! Will her rugged wilderness guide, Jesse Montana, teach her to survive, or send her fleeing back to civilization? Meanwhile, outdoorsy McKenna is stuck within the concrete walls of an Anchorage bank. Her sexy boss Luke McAvoy is tasked with teaching her the business but what he’s really doing is tempting her. Not that she’s the type to fall for a stuffed suit like him.

    Tori and McKenna find much needed solace with Sweet Home’s Sisterhood of the Quilt. Will this crafty group of women be up to the challenge of teaching two outsiders how to sew—and perhaps how to love?

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    Taken by Fate (The Alpha Territories Book 1) Over 7,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Plucked out of the Collector’s Pens, auctioned off to a vampire contingent, and sent across the ocean to the Alpha Territories was not exactly how I planned to spend my week.

    Actually, scratch that. I had planned the first bit. But I was supposed to be sold to the werewolves so I could save my friend from a fate worse than death. Instead, the bloodsuckers have me and so far? It’s not going great. I’ve been shoved into a corset and made to look like an extra on the cast of Bridgerton, all to take part in the Harvest Games—think The Bachelor set in the 1800s, but the men are all vampires, and then add a decidedly terrifying Squid Games element to the mix.

    No problem.

    My goal—besides keeping the number of holes in my body to the current norm—is more than surviving. It is escaping the inescapable, finding my way to the werewolf territory, and getting Jordan back.

    Armed with nothing more than a super sharp hairpin, my questionable charm, and an irrational amount of optimism plans to get both me and my bestie out alive are in full swing.

    Until the General of the Vampire Army and his molten eyes light me on fire and leave me wondering if escape is what I want after all…

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    Blue Harmony: A Second Chance Romantic Comedy (My Day Book 1) Amy flies to Santorini to confront her ex. What could possibly go wrong?

    Amy is tired of sabotaging all of her relationships because of Ethan. He broke her heart years ago, and she let him get away unscathed. It’s time for her to confront him and rewrite the past.

    Determined to set things right, she flies away with her friends for the blue skies of Santorini to carry out her plan; a plan that begins to collapse as soon as she crosses Ethan’s gaze.

    Surprise guests and an idyllic romantic setting will further complicate her designs. Is she right to insist, or will stirring up the past prove to be a dangerous game?

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    DOLLHOUSE: A Supernatural Horror (Dark Carousel Book 1) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    A dark presence is collecting girls, deep in the forest. Two girls have vanished, and now a third.

    Cassie and her friends desperately search the forest for their friend, who went missing on a hike. When they find vintage dolls hanging from strings on branches, they should have turned back.
    But they didn’t.

    The dolls lead to a crumbling mansion. Beneath the mansion lies a macabre, life-sized dollhouse that is controlled by a terrifying being. In the dollhouse, you must dance until your feet bleed, sit on the toy shelf if you’re bad, and if you’ve been very bad, you are sent to the toy box — a pitch-dark cavern that contains beings beyond nightmares.

    And now there is no escape…

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    Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Thriller, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Travis Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    Perhaps Travis Hale’s past is riddled with regrets, but his future looks limitless.

    He’s the police chief in idyllic Pelion, Maine, women are regularly falling at his feet, and his family has mostly forgiven his mistakes. But when the new guy in town crosses him, things start to look shaky—especially when he meets the stranger’s smoothie-making, birdseed-eating sister.

    Haven Torres’s life fell apart. Or, rather, burned to the ground. At the time, it seemed like a solid idea to jump in her car, her brother a mostly-willing co-pilot, and embark on a cross-country adventure for the summer. Especially if she can catch the attention of Pelion’s most eligible bachelor, Gage Buchanan, before she goes. And after the local police chief tells her of her brother’s scandalous misdeed, she knows without a doubt that Pelion is just another town where their stay is best short-lived.

    Still, she and Travis form an unlikely friendship, and at first, it seems simple enough. She’ll help him make her brother sweat a little, and he’ll help her win over Gage. But then Haven starts to see the man beneath the brooding, and Travis starts to see the woman beneath the mess.

    However, Haven refuses to be tied to Pelion. And Travis has vowed never to be second best ever again. Before they know it, simple has started to look pretty complicated.

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    Justina: Daughter of Spartacus (Justina Saga Book 1) For two thousand years, the rise and fall of Julius Caesar has captivated the world. All know his name. Few know the truth.

    Love. Honor. Treachery.

    Justina. A name lost to history. A young girl, barely a woman, raised in the Roman elite. When her true identity is discovered, the revelation will send her world spinning and propel her down a path toward her destiny…and Caesar. With enemies and lies encompassing her entire existence, her true past will determine her incredible future and that of the entire Republic.

    Power. Secrets. Betrayal.

    While Caesar builds his power in Rome, weaving a web of spies and alliances, one young girl’s fate is on a collision course with his own. Rome’s biggest challenge of the past 20 years came from a man known as Spartacus. Now, his unknown daughter threatens all that Rome has built.

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    Mayhem in the Mountains When a deadly blizzard traps Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane in the Dolomite Mountains, it’s all downhill from here.

    Their hotel is snowed-in, and no one can get in or out. Then a man is found dead in his locked hotel room – and the killer is still on the premises. But with no murder weapon and too many suspects, their investigation is treading on thin ice.

    The colder it gets outside, the hotter it gets inside as Fiona squares off with both her beloved
    Archie and her nemesis Fredricks. With her love-life on a slippery-slope, Fiona risks everything in one bold move…

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    Sully: My Search for What Really Matters Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.

    On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide.

    Sully’s story is one of dedication, hope, and preparedness, revealing the important lessons he learned through his life, in his military service, and in his work as an airline pilot. It reminds us all that, even in these days of conflict, tragedy and uncertainty, there are values still worth fighting for—that life’s challenges can be met if we’re ready for them.

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    Forbidden Falls (Virgin River Book 9) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Reverend Noah Kincaid moved to Virgin River to reopen an abandoned church he bought on eBay. Like Noah, the place is a little empty inside, but all it may need is some loving care…

    The young widower arrives ready to roll up his sleeves and build a place of worship and welcome, but he needs some help. And the Lord works in mysterious ways.

    With her tight shirts and short skirts, pastor’s assistant is not a phrase that springs to mind when Noah meets brassy, beautiful Ellie Baldwin. The former exotic dancer needs a respectable job so she can regain custody of her children. And Noah can’t help but admire her spunk and motherly determination.

    Noah and Ellie are an unlikely team to revitalize a church, much less build a future. The couple has so many differences, but in Virgin River anything is possible, and happiness is never out of the question.

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    Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Over 12,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

    Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don’s work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins–aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony–and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?

    What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations.

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    Exit West: A Novel Over 7,000 5Star Reviews!

    A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.

    In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through…

    Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

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    Recon: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Drop Trooper: Recon Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Tyler Callas had a life most people would kill for… He killed to escape it.

    Tyler is the pampered heir of a high-level Corporate Council executive, groomed from birth to take a seat beside her as a member of the ruling class of the Commonwealth society.

    But the bloody war with the alien Tahni has hit close to home and Tyler wants to join the military, something his powerful mother won’t allow.

    Desperate to escape her control, Tyler changes his identity to Randall Munroe, a product of the poverty-stricken Underground, and enlists in the Marines.

    There he flourishes, becoming a member of an elite Force Recon unit and striking deep behind enemy lines.

    But when his platoon is assigned to take back the colony on Demeter from the Tahni, the mission falls apart, most of his comrades are killed and Munroe is wounded, separated from his unit and left for dead on an enemy occupied world.

    With no other choice, he organizes the civilian colonists into a resistance movement and begins fighting against the occupation with limited supplies and no support.

    As the situation becomes more and more desperate, what began as a high-tech, interstellar conflict will become a war to the knife…

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    Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book 2) Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.

    She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.

    Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.

    This bestselling series from powerhouse author Tahereh Mafi showcases relentlessly thrilling action, heart stopping romance, and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom.

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    Dance Hall of the Dead: A Leaphorn & Chee Novel (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 2) Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them.

    Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi.

    But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig… and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.

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    Slice of Murder (A Pizza Parlor Mystery Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    In this small town, eating the last slice of pizza is murder…

    After being kicked out by her cheating fiance, Gina Romano decides to return to her hometown of Lake Basil, New York. She needs a break from the city, and her uncle, Rocco, could use the help with his bustling pizza parlor.

    But when Gina arrives expecting a warm, cheesy welcome, she finds the pizzeria on the brink of closure instead. Desperate to help, Gina takes over and is forced to fire the head chef who refused to do things the “authentic” way.

    Until he winds up authentically dead… Outside the pizza parlor… With a slice of Uncle Rocco’s pizza clasped in his cold hand.

    With the cops closing in, Gina has to figure out who killed the head chef and save her uncle’s pizza parlor before it’s too late. Can she solve the case in time?

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    Faking It With the Grump: A Sweet Small-Town Romantic Comedy (Second Chance Café Book 1) Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    He’s as grumpy as Mr. Darcy crossed with Oscar the Grouch—but his kiss is a plot twist I did not see coming.

    Imagine this: getting the old heave-ho from Dex Ryder, the Hollywood heartthrob I thought I was destined to marry. And as a special bonus, I’ve won a free ticket back to my small hometown in Washington state.

    Suddenly, every mother’s son, second cousin twice removed, and the neighbor’s cat groomer is being lined up to be my next great love. And don’t even get me started on the “Oh, you poor thing” expressions that are practically giving me sympathy-induced whiplash.

    Enter stage left one Christopher Young, the shiny new import to Hunter’s Creek. I decide to take on the challenge of making him mine—or at least faking it with style. I’m in a post-being dumped daze right now, and Christopher? Think master of all things dull and cranky and the proud owner of a suit-and-tie in a sea of flannel-wearing lumberjacks. He’s the perfect fake boyfriend to put those relentless matchmakers off the scent.

    And the totally irrelevant fact that the public kiss we just shared is doing weird things to my blood pressure doesn’t mean a thing…

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    Lost City (Tales of Lentari Book 1) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    When a young dwarf child is forced to undergo a challenging quest, three warriors and a scholar join together to track down a long lost piece of dwarven history.

    Lukas, a young dwarf, narrowly averts tragedy while attending a class by the master craftsman Maelnar, falling into the forge’s fire. Amazingly, he comes away from the near miss with only a mark on his back. The mark is not quite a burn. But it is disfiguring and embarrassing to the family, and it’s not fading away, so his father, Venk, takes young Lukas to consult the most respected wizard in the kingdom. They learn this mysterious mark is part of a Questor’s Mark, a sort of roadmap to an adventure that had long been the dream of many—to find the Lost City of Nar.

    Tales abound about the riches of Nar and the unsurpassed skills of that dwarven community, but no one has been there and no Narians seem to have survived. What happened? And how will Venk and the search party find the series of additional clues in order to complete the map? For completing the quest is the only way young Lukas will be free of the awful mark, and the only way his people will learn the answers to the age-old questions.

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    The Lucky Shamrock Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s bighearted novel about family, secrets, small-town Texas romance, and—with a little bit of luck—starting over.

    Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother’s flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock. The reunion isn’t exactly a beautiful arrangement—considering they’re as compatible as ranchers and coyotes.

    Thank heaven for a handsome go-between like Clinton, who lives above the shop. The easygoing war vet, and most eligible bachelor in Wheeler County, is now throwing romance into the mix and setting the local women to gossiping. But as the hot months wear on, hidden secrets begin to surface for the temperamental Irish trio. And it’s bringing them closer together than they ever thought possible.

    With a flurry of weddings, a love story in the making, a surprise baby, and crazy good fortune, maybe that shamrock painted on the window does bring luck. Because for Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja, this could be the summer that’ll change their lives forever.

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    Sinister Magic: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series (Death Before Dragons Book 1) Over 4,900 5-Star Reviews!

    I’m Val Thorvald, and I’m an assassin. When magical bad guys hurt people, I take care of them. Permanently.

    This doesn’t make me popular with the rest of the magical community—as you can tell from the numerous break-ins and assassination attempts I’ve endured over the years. But thanks to my half-elven blood, a powerful sword named Chopper, and a telepathic tiger with an attitude, I’ve always been able to handle my problems with aplomb. Maybe some cursing and swearing, too, but definitely aplomb.

    That changes when my boss is afflicted with a mysterious disease, a government agent starts investigating me, and a godforsaken dragon shows up in the middle of my latest job.

    I’ve taken down vampires, zombies, and ogres, but dragons are way, way more powerful. And it doesn’t look like this one is going to like me.

    Worse than that, he wants to use his magic to compel me to do his bidding, as if I’m some weak-minded minion… That’s not going to happen. I’d die before being some dragon’s slave.

    But if I can’t figure out a way to avoid him, save my boss, and get rid of the government spook, I’m screwed. Or dead. Or screwed and dead. And that’s never comfortable.

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    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Over 29,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

    One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

    As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives — a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys — she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

    With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

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    Greyhound (Movie Tie-In): A Novel Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" from the author of the legendary Hornblower series.

    The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas.

    For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars’ worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men.

    Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication, this novel is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century’s masters of sea stories.

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    Across the Sand (The Sand Chronicles Book 2) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert.

    The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand.

    In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand divers ever to comb the desert’s depths. But these branches of their family tree are long gone, disappeared into the wastes beyond, leaving the younger siblings scratching in the dust, hopeful for a better life.

    On the other side of No Man’s Land, Anya was born beside the abundant mines knowing her prospects would be to marry, have a family, and work in ore, in service to the Empire of the East. But when an atomic bomb delivered by a stranger destroys most of her town—murdering all her friends and community—she follows her father to a strange land of dunes to bring vengeance to their enemies.

    Two families collide across the sand, and nothing for a thousand dunes will ever be the same.

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    THE GARDEN PLOT an utterly charming English garden murder mystery (The Potting Shed Mysteries Book 1) Meet Prunella ‘Pru’ Parke, an American gardener who digs up murder and mystery wherever she goes.

    Dallas girl Pru’s always dreamed of living in England — a country of lush green gardens, endless drizzle and ruggedly handsome groundskeepers.

    She moves to London on a whim, to find that no one in the city wants to hire her. Except for wealthy Vernona Wilson, who’s quite desperate to be rid of her unsightly old potting shed.

    Pru dusts off her spade and gets to work, under the watchful eye of a snooping neighbor. She expects to dig up dirt. But nothing like this.

    An ancient Roman mosaic and a bludgeoned body. Whose secrets has she stumbled on, buried in the soil?

    Dishy Detective Christopher Pearse is on the case. But Pru can’t wait for him to piece it all together. Not when there’s a brutal killer out there who thinks she’s already dug much too deep…

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    The Admiral's Penniless Bride Over 450 5-Star Reviews!

    A witty tale of passions and practicalities in Regency England from the “powerful and wonderfully perceptive” RITA Award–winning author.

    Sally Paul is down to her last penny. As she spends it on a cup of tea—to stave off being at the mercy of the workhouse—the last thing she expects is an offer of marriage… from a complete stranger!

    Admiral Sir Charles Bright’s seafaring days are over—and according to society, that must mean he’s in need of a wife. Discovering that Sally’s in need of a home, he offers a solution… They marry in haste. But will they enjoy their wedding night at leisure?

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    Levi (The Killers) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    You know the sugary-sweet romances where the new girl moves to a small town, falls in love with the most popular guy in school, and they live happily ever after? I wish my story were that simple…

    Levi Hollingsworth is the most popular guy in school. He’s stoic, mysterious, and aloof. A man among boys. He claims attention wherever he goes, whether he wants it or not. And he doesn’t want it.

    The broody grump wants nothing to do with anyone. Especially me—the new girl who’s failing chemistry. And Levi is my new tutor.

    Little does he know, my grades are the least of my problems. Being forced to move to Virginia has everything to do with dirty politics, sex scandals, and cold cases.

    I already thought my life was complicated when I landed in the commonwealth and was forced to live with my horrid grandmother.

    But when the guy wants the girl, he’ll do everything to make her his.

    I just hope I don’t take Levi down with me.

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    The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Reese's Book Club Pick
    Over 30,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.

    To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale.

    Amber’s envy could eat her alive… if she didn’t have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces.

    With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.

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    ACCIDENTAL COWGIRL: WHISPER CREEK #1 Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    After she’s betrayed by her con man ex-fiancé, Kyla Bennett’s friends whisk her off to Whisper Creek, a dude ranch staffed by cowboys so hot they dim the Montana sunset.

    Nursing her broken heart, all Kyla wants to do is hide under a quilt. Then in rides Decker Driscoll. He’s hauling a wagonload of emotional baggage, but the more time they spend together, the more they begin to succumb to an undeniable attraction.

    After experiencing personal tragedy, Decker never thought he’d see Big Sky country again. But now that his family’s Whisper Creek property is in deep with a Vegas gambler, Decker’s back for the summer—and spending all his time running from “cowgirls” who come to the dude ranch to score a cowboy. Then he meets Kyla, a kindred spirit who brings on a stampede of protective feelings… and a powerful urge to make her stay.

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    Déjà Dead: A riveting thriller mystery set in Paris (The Claire Baskerville Mysteries Book 1) Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    Things can get pretty dark in the City of Light…

    Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something American who finds herself alone in Paris when her husband is brutally murdered.

    Reeling from the onslaught of devastating secrets he left behind Claire is stunned to realize she no longer knows who to trust. She only knows she can’t move forward until she finds out the truth behind who killed her husband.

    In spite of a genetic brain anomaly that makes it impossible for her to remember faces–even ones she’d seen just moments before, and all alone in a foreign city, Claire doggedly collects the clues that will lead her to her husband’s killer.

    Unfortunately, the closer she gets to the truth, the more determined that killer is to make sure she never leaves Paris alive.

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    To Steal A Heart (Secrets & Spies Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    A master spy and a beautiful thief find love and intrigue in each other’s arms…

    Forced to do the bidding of a corrupt government minister, Marianne de Bonnard agrees to plant incriminating evidence in the offices of France’s most notorious spymaster.

    Under cover of night, the tightrope-walking thief puts her skills to good use—until her aerial stunt is foiled when her target appears in the window and, with consummate poise, helps Marianne off the wire and into his lair. The tremors that run through her body are not just from fear; there’s an unwanted frisson of desire there, too. But is it because of her elegant, wickedly handsome host… or his proposition?

    Nicolas Valette has had plans for his graceful trespasser since he witnessed her unique skills at the Cirque Olympique. Sinuous as a cat, Marianne is perfect for his next mission, but she refuses his generous offer for fear of disobeying her family’s tormenter. When their mutual enemy auctions off her virginity to the highest bidder, Nicolas leaps at the chance to purchase her cooperation. Keeping her will be like trying to tame a wild animal, but what’s life without a little risk? Besides, Nicolas and Marianne both want the same thing: revenge—and, perhaps, something else that’s equally delicious.

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