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  • Thursday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England. When Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their home, the police begin investigating their secret life.

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    Delivering the Truth (A Quaker Midwife Mystery) Quaker midwife Rose Carroll discovers dark secrets in 1888 Massachusetts…

    For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones.

    Driven by her desire for safety and justice, Rose Carroll begins asking questions related to the crimes. Consulting with her friends and neighbors—including the famous Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier—Rose draws on her strengths as a counselor and problem solver in trying to bring the perpetrators to light.

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    The Ship of Brides From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures.

    1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime.

    In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England—aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier’s captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy’s ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted—forever.

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    The First Rule (Joe Pike Book 2) When Frank Meyer and his family are executed in their home, the police begin investigating the secret life they’re sure Meyer had. Joe Pike’s on a hunt of his own: to clear his friend’s name, and to punish the people who murdered him. What starts out as a simple trail gets twisted fast by old grudges, double crosses, blood vengeance, and a crime so terrible even Pike and his partner Elvis Cole have no way to measure it.
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    A Woman of Independent Means At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacy – not only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means.

    From the early 1900s through the 1960s, we accompany Bess as she endures life’s trials and triumphs with unfailing courage and indomitable spirit: the sacrifices love sometimes requires of the heart, the flaws and rewards of marriage, the often-tested bond between mother and child, and the will to defy a society that demands conformity.

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    Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted Criminals From the New York Times bestselling author of Under and Alone comes an intimate and riveting account of federal law-enforcement agent William Queen’s relentless hunt for one of America’s most cold-blooded criminals.

    As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including going undercover to investigate a group of violent skinheads and infiltrating and busting a ring trafficking in high-powered explosives, drugs, and firearms.

    In the winter of 1985, he faces his toughest mission to date: he must apprehend Mark Stephens, a notorious narcotics trafficker who has been terrorizing the communities around Los Angeles with frequent rampages involving machine guns and hand grenades. A recluse living in the treacherous backwoods outside the city, Stephens is a cunning survivalist. Nobody has been able to catch him, but Queen is determined to take him down…

    A fascinating look into the daily life of an ATF agent and a taut portrayal of a monthlong manhunt, Armed and Dangerous depicts a classic race against time – lawman versus outlaw – in a harrowing true story of life-or-death suspense.

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    Chasing Jupiter Scarlett Blaine’s life in 1960s Georgia isn’t always easy, especially given her parents’ financial struggles and the fights surrounding her sister Juli’s hippie lifestyle. Then there’s her brother, Cliff. While Scarlett loves him more than anything, there’s no denying his unique behavior leaves Cliff misunderstood and left out. So when he wishes for a rocket to Jupiter, Scarlett agrees to make it happen, no matter how crazy the idea might be.

    Raising the rocket money means baking pies, and the farmer’s son, Frank, agrees to provide the peaches if Scarlett will help him talk to Juli. The problem is, Scarlett really enjoys her time with Frank, and finds herself wondering if, someday, they could be more than friends. Just as she thinks everything might be going her way, Cliff suffers an accident that not only affects the rocket plans, but shakes Scarlett’s view of God. As the summer comes to an end, Scarlett must find a way to regain what she’s lost, and also fulfill a promise to launch her brother’s dream.

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    Sanctuary Island: A Sanctuary Island Novel When Ella’s sister decides to reunite with their estranged mother, Ella goes along for the ride — it’s always been the two Preston girls against the world. But Sanctuary Island, a tiny refuge for wild horses tucked off the Atlantic coast, is more inviting than she ever imagined. And it holds more than one last opportunity to repair their broken family – if Ella can open her carefully guarded heart, there is also the chance for new beginnings.

    Grady Wilkes is a handyman who can fix anything… except the scars of his own past. When he accepts the task of showing Ella the simple beauties of the island that healed him, he discovers a deep sense of comfort he thought he’d lost. But now he must convince the woman who never intended to stay that on Sanctuary Island, anything is possible—forgiving past mistakes, rediscovering the simple joys of life, and maybe even falling in love.

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    The Girl in the Glass The latest McCabe and Savage thriller from USA Today bestselling author James Hayman is a crackling, twisty novel of suspense.

    Two identical women. Two identical murders. Two lives brutally cut short. 108 years apart.

    June 1904. Aimée Garnier Whitby, a beautiful French artist and wife of one of Maine’s richest and most powerful men, is found near death on the Whitby family’s private summer island, the letter “A” mysteriously carved into her chest.

    June 2012. Veronica Aimée Whitby, the eighteen-year-old descendant and virtual double of the first Aimée, becomes the victim of a near perfect copycat murder. With another beautiful, promising young Whitby woman slain, the media begin to swarm and pressure builds for Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage to bring the killer quickly to justice. But the key to solving Aimée’s death just might have been buried with her beautiful ancestor.

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    Lulu's Cafe “Some scars are too deep to ever heal,” Leah Gabriella Allen whispered in hushed anguish.

    The orphaned young woman knows all too well about scars – exposed as well as hidden deep within.

    Gabriella naively falls in the thorny arms of the abusive Brent Sadler. The constant bruise of cruelty is ever present in their ten years of marriage.

    One last momentous beating ends with two deaths and changes Gabriella’s life forever. She stumbles away within an inch of her own life and begins a journey to an unexpected southern home which is none other than Lulu’s Café, where she tries to mend her severed spirit. Lulu is the petite charismatic southern belle, who wisely takes on the challenge of helping the young woman heal. She enlists the support of the enchanting southern gentleman, Crowley J. Mason IV, whose ocean blue eyes seem to hypnotize Leah from the start.

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    Fossil River Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died. Now, in this riveting action thriller, the tables are turning!

    As the energy crisis intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing citizens to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

    The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression, much worse than that of 1929.

    At the last moment of desperation, the U.S. discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit, in a remote mountain range revealed by glacier thaw within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

    Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death…

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  • Wednesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    A Cowboy, Christmas, and Crown Seven Ranch. Egyptian belly dancers at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. And Doughnuts. Yes, Doughnuts.

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    A Cowboy Christmas (The Lost Sons Trilogy) Reid Barclay doesn’t have time for Christmas, not with trouble brewing at the Crown Seven Ranch. He’s got prize thoroughbreds to protect and a long-ago wrong that he wants to make right.

    But the beautiful cook who’s taken over the ranch kitchen is a welcome distraction, even if Ellie Jo Cade burns everything from gingerbread to roast beef. Her sweet face and womanly figure are pure temptation…

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    The Girl on the Midway Stage What happens when a young, naive bride meets the Egyptian belly dancers and their enigmatic manager at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair? It changes everything.

    Young bride Dora Chambers can’t wait to begin her new life in Chicago. It’s an exciting time, with the 1893 World’s Fair putting a kaleidoscope of new inventions, new cultures, and new ideas on display.

    Unfortunately, those aren’t the only things on display…

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    American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss – and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legend.

    In early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband Chris were the happiest they ever had been. Their decade-long marriage had survived years of war that took Chris, a U.S. Navy SEAL, away from Taya and their two children for agonizingly long stretches while he put his life on the line in many major battles of the Iraq War. After struggling to readjust to life out of the military, Chris had found new purpose in redirecting his lifelong dedication to service to supporting veterans and their families. Their love had deepened, and, most special of all, their family was whole, finally.

    Then, the unthinkable. On February 2, 2013, Chris and his friend Chad Littlefield were killed while attempting to help a troubled vet. The life Chris and Taya fought so hard to build together was shattered. In an instant, Taya became a single parent of two. A widow. A young woman facing the rest of her life without the man she loved…

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    When Death Draws Near (A Gwen Marcey Novel) Gwen Marcey takes death in stride. Until she’s faced with her own mortality.

    Forensic artist Gwen Marcey is between jobs when she accepts temporary work in Pikeville, Kentucky – a small town facing big – city crime. But before Gwen can finish her first drawing of the serial rapist who is on the loose, the latest witness vanishes. Just like all the others.

    Gwen suspects a connection between the rapist and the “accidental” deaths that are happening around town, but the local sheriff has little interest in her theories. When her digitally-obsessed teenage daughter joins her, Gwen turns her attention to a second assignment: going undercover in a serpent-handling church.

    She could get a handsome reward for uncovering illegal activity—a reward she desperately needs, as it seems her breast cancer has returned. But snakes aren’t the only ones ready to kill. Can Gwen uncover the truth—and convince anyone to believe her—before she becomes a victim herself?

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    Fool's Assassin: Book I of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy FitzChivalry – royal bastard and former king’s assassin – has left his life of intrigue behind. As far as the rest of the world knows, FitzChivalry Farseer is dead and buried. Masquerading as Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is now married to his childhood sweetheart, Molly, and leading the quiet life of a country squire.

    Though Fitz is haunted by the disappearance of the Fool, who did so much to shape Fitz into the man he has become, such private hurts are put aside in the business of daily life, at least until the appearance of menacing, pale-skinned strangers casts a sinister shadow over Fitz’s past… and his future.

    Now, to protect his new life, the former assassin must once again take up his old one…

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    Prince Joe (Tall, Dark and Dangerous Book 1) Love is the toughest assignment of his life…

    It will be the biggest challenge of Veronica St. John’s career. She has two days to teach a rugged Navy SEAL to impersonate a European prince who has been targeted by terrorists. It’s a tough assignment, but Veronica is sure she’s up to the task—until she actually meets Joe.

    Despite his physical resemblance to the handsome prince, Lieutenant Joe Catalanotto is nothing like the stuffy aristocrat. Everything about the combat-hardened Navy SEAL – from the arrogant gleam in his eyes and streetwise attitude to the New York accent – says regular guy, not royalty. One conversation and Veronica knows nothing could turn this military man into an aristocrat. Joe, on the other hand, is confident he’s got what it takes to complete his duty.

    But neither of them expects their assignment to include falling in love…

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    End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy The New York Times bestselling author James L. Swanson, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination – from the Kennedys’ arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that continues to reverberate in our national consciousness fifty years later.

    The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, has been the subject of enduring debate, speculation, and numerous conspiracy theories, but Swanson’s absorbing and complete account follows the event hour-by-hour, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald conceived of the crime three days before its execution, to his own murder two days later at a Dallas Police precinct at the hands of Jack Ruby, a two-bit nightclub owner.

    Based on sweeping research never before collected so powerfully in a single volume, and illustrated with photographs, End of Days distills Kennedy’s assassination into a pulse-pounding thriller that is sure to become the definitive popular account of this historic crime for years to come.

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    Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts: Secrets and Recipes for the Home Baker Among enthusiasts, Seattle’s Top Pot Doughnuts reigns supreme. Now, doughnut aficionados everywhere can enjoy these tasty treats at home.

    Committed bakers, casual home cooks, and sweet-toothed fans will eat up these 50 tried-and-true recipes from classic Old-Fashioneds to the signature Pink Feather Boa and become experts themselves after learning the secrets of doughnut-making tools, terms, and techniques (no, you don’t need a deep fryer). And the selections of toppings and glazes, from chocolate to lavender? That’s just icing on the doughnut.

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    Nemesis: Book One She’s coming and there’s nothing anyone anyone can do about it…

    At a field party, four high school seniors witness a star fall from the sky. The world at their fingertips, ready to start their lives in earnest, they quickly realize no star fell that night. Something from another planet landed in their small town. Something that wants them to free it.

    Cast from her world, the alien needs a new home. Using the teenagers, she discovers how to escape her ship. Looking around this new place, she decides if her species is to colonize, she must radically change this planet.

    Earth’s final Nemesis has arrived and no one knows she exists…

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    Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors The end of the world as you’ve never known it. Life has been relatively normal for the people of New Hope since the apocalypse. To date the biggest problems have been super smart bears and finding a short stop for the town’s kickball team.

    But, now an army of savage raiders is threatening their safety and they must turn to a wandering warrior to protect them. They need someone who can protect them. Someone who can fight. Someone who understands the ways of the wasteland.

    Two such men have offered their services. One has been invited to stay and help. The other has been sent back into the post-apocalyptic world.

    Did they choose the right man for the job?

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    It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking. A Private Investigator is hunting her sister’s killer. A neurosurgeon has what may be the cure for paralyzing brain and spinal cord injuries – or does he?

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    Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking. As desperate hands emerge from the icy water, a few lucky row boats float in the darkness. On the boats are four survivors.

    Reg, a handsome young steward working in the first-class dining room; Annie, an Irishwoman traveling to America with her children; Juliet, a titled English lady who is pregnant and unmarried, and George, a troubled American millionaire.

    In the wake of the tragedy, each of these people must try to rebuild their lives.
    But how can life ever be the same again when you’ve heard over a thousand people dying in the water around you?

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    Willow Creek Brides: Three Loves Are Sweet Surprises in Historic Iowa (Romancing America) Journey back in time to the heartland of Iowa, where three women find healing and hope through the loves God brings to their lives.

    Tessa feels completely abandoned in Willow Creek, Iowa, until a kind man named Gideon begins healing her shattered heart. Pearl has no hopes for romantic love again, until Hubert comes to town and convinces her to dream once more. And Tillie knows Everett will never heal emotionally from the scars he sustained in a fire, until she can convince him his scars represent something beautiful to her.

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    Murder in Mind (Sloane Monroe Book 2) If you were given a second chance to catch your sister’s killer – would a lifetime behind bars be justice enough, or would you make him pay, with his life?

    Private Investigator Sloane Monroe has solved every case that’s come across her desk with the exception of one – the brutal murder of her sister Gabrielle.

    Three years have passed without a trace of the killer until today, when a young woman’s body is discovered in front of the local supermarket. Now Sloane is faced with the most difficult challenge of her life – finding a man who’s a master at concealing his identity before he kills again…

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    The One-in-a-Million Boy The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don’t they teach you anything at school?

    So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who’s been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she’s confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades.

    One Saturday, the boy doesn’t show up. Ona starts to think he’s not so special after all, but then his father arrives on her doorstep, determined to finish his son’s good deed. The boy’s mother is not so far behind. Ona is set to discover that the world can surprise us at any age, and that sometimes sharing a loss is the only way to find ourselves again.

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    Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves A brilliantly reported true-life thriller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington, the basis for the HBO film.

    In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin – a New York Times columnist and one of the country’s most respected financial reporters – delivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink.

    Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world’s economy.

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    Noble Vision: A Novel Brilliant Manhattan neurosurgeon David Lang has developed a breakthrough treatment to repair damaged nerves, which promises a long-awaited cure for paralyzing brain and spinal cord injuries. He believes his treatment is safe, but he must first get permission to use it from New York State’s health system. Beset with budget overruns and other priorities, the powerful agency puts David’s procedure on the back burner. He’s warned that if he performs the treatment without the proper authorization, he can lose his license and go to jail.

    His frustrations mount. Then one case pushes him over the edge…

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    The Girl from Charnelle: A Novel It’s 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas – a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate’s mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared.

    Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of calm. But her balance is upset and the repercussions of her family’s struggles are revealed when a chance encounter with a married man leads Laura into a complicated relationship for which she is unprepared. As Kennedy battles Nixon for the White House, Laura must navigate complex emotional terrain and choose whether she, too, will flee Charnelle.

    A heartfelt portrait of a young woman’s reckoning with the paradoxes of love – eloquent, tender, and heart-wrenching – K. L. Cook’s unforgettable novel marks the arrival of a significant new voice in American fiction.

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    Seven Years in Tibet (Cornerstone Editions) In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Tibet.

    Harrer was traveling in India when the Second World War erupted. He was subsequently seized and imprisoned by British authorities. After several attempts, he escaped and crossed the rugged, frozen Himalayas, surviving by duping government officials and depending on the generosity of villagers for food and shelter.

    Harrer finally reached his ultimate destination – the Forbidden City of Lhasa – without money, or permission to be in Tibet. But Tibetan hospitality and his own curious appearance worked in Harrer’s favor, allowing him unprecedented acceptance among the upper classes. His intelligence and European ways also intrigued the young Dalai Lama, and Harrer soon became His Holiness’s tutor and trusted confidant. When the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, Harrer and the Dalai Lama fled the country together.

    This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of Tibetans. It is a must-read for lovers of travel, adventure, history, and culture.

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    The Senator: A Blake Jordan Thriller Just as Senator Keller is set to receive his party’s nomination for President of the United States, a kidnapper initiates a plan to stream his execution for the world to see.

    Ex-Navy SEAL and federal agent Blake Jordan sets out to rescue his friend and mentor along with his partner. Can Blake stop the kidnapper before it’s too late?
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    Song of the Sea Spirit (The Mindstream Chronicles) She never planned to change the world. Now she has a chance to save it. Jora Lanseri always planned on fulfilling her duty. She was to be a wife and mother, nothing more. But when justice officials discover she has the uncommon ability to enter the Mindstream, allowing her to witness any event in the past or present, her fate changes for good.

    Whisked away to a new life in the capital, Jora begins her training as a Truth Sayer. Her new world turns terrifying when she witnesses a shocking crime with world-shattering implications.

    Faced with losing her family, Jora must solve the crime in addition to an ancient mystery at the bottom of the sea. As an unlikely ally supplies her with answers, she must summon every ounce of her strength and courage to save everyone she loves.

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