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BARGAIN eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {04-24-2013}
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Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Women, True Accounts, True Crime, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse
“ Both creepy…and quite moving.”
–New York Times Book Review“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
–PeopleStolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.
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Kindred (Bluestreak) by Octavia Butler
Genre(s): Education & Reference, Literature & Fiction, Classics, United States, African American, Politics & Social Sciences, Sociology, Race Relations, Discrimination & Racism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction Classics, Chick-Lit
D ana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
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Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Satire, Self-Help & Psychology, Self-Help, Spiritual, Stress Management, Health Fitness & Dieting
T o say F**k It feels good. To stop struggling and finally do what you wish . . . to ignore what everyone is telling you and just go your own way . . . feels really great. In this inspiring and humorous book, John C. Parkin suggests that saying F**k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual concept of letting go, giving up, and finding real freedom by realizing that things don’t matter so much (if at all). It’s a spiritual way that doesn’t require chanting, meditating, or wearing sandals. And it’s the very power of this modern-day profanity that makes it perfect for shaking us Westerners out of the stress and anxiety that dominate our daily lives. So, find out how to say F**k It to all your problems and concerns. Say F**k It to all the “shoulds” in your life, and finally do what you want–no matter what other people think!
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Queen of New Beginnings by Erica James
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary Fiction
W hat happens when your best hope for the future is through the past? Voice-over artist Alice avoids telling the truth. It’s not lying, exactly, and the freedom of reinvention makes those tough years in the past a little easier to bear. So when she meets writer Clayton Miller, she recognizes the suspicious signs of someone who wants to shrug off his old life. Untangling the web of secrets they’ve constructed creates an unlikely friendship-until Alice discovers that Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way.
The author of fifteen international bestsellers, Erica James deftly explores infidelity, bereavement, and the bonds of family with a sparkling voice that will resonate long after the book is finished.
Praise for Erica James
“Intense, compelling stuff.”
-OK! magazine
“The author writes with a sturdy, feel-good optimism.”
-Sunday Times
“It is a captivating read: beautifully written.”
-Daily Telegraph “You know you have made it as a storyteller writer when readers simply cannot put your book down…Erica James has this page-turning ability in abundance…I wouldn’t have thought this writer could get any better, but she has!”
-Welsh Country
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Pandora’s Key (The Key Trilogy) by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Teens
W hen everything you believed about yourself is a lie, how do you unlock the truth? Evangeline Theopolis has nightmares about the violent deaths of women she has never met. Her single mother, Olivia, suffers delusions she can’t hide. And Malledy, a brilliant young man, may have a disease that will leave him paralyzed and insane. Their lives are about to collide.
On Evangeline’s 16th birthday her mother gives her a necklace with an antique key charm–a family heirloom, though no one knows what the key unlocks. Everything changes. Her mom is hospitalized. Her godmother attempts murder. An ancient Order tries to kill Evangeline, and a lethal sect to kidnap her. Nothing makes sense–especially Evangeline’s own face, which has morphed from geeky to eerily stunning; the ancient key that feels strangely alive against her skin; and the magical abilities she begins to possess.
Evangeline must use her wits and supernatural powers to fight her deadly adversaries and discover her true identity. But can she accept who she really is and save the world?
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FREE eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {04-08-2013}
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Operation Wolfe Cub (The Time To Tell) by H.C. Wells
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers
N ationally recognized ForeWord Clarion Reviews gave H.C. Wells’s new breakthrough novel “Operation Wolfe Cub” a four out of five star rating.
A baby is borne out of Germany in the middle of the night on a secret journey. He is prophesied to bring a thousand years of peace to the world, only to survive a shipwreck and be discovered on the shore of America by a disabled American veteran. Thinking he finally has the child he always wished for, he and his wife soon begin to realize that the baby just might be something else entirely.
A thought-provoking work of historical science fiction, H. C. Wells’s debut of his The Time to Tell series is a fascinating reinvention of our nation’s history and the possible truths behind it.
A taut, well-paced thriller full of intrigue and almost unbearable suspense, Wells captures your attention from the novel’s opening action sequence and never relents, always staying two steps ahead with intricate plotting marked by sharp turns and surprising twists. A razor sharp ear for time and place lend authenticity, and the marvel of weaving a fictional tale infused by magical realism within the true events of history is nothing short of astonishing. Full of gusto and quiet unease, Operation Wolfe Cub will have you questioning your beliefs and rethinking critical moments of the past seventy years.
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A Sporting Murder (Greg McKenzie Mysteries) by Chester D. Campbell
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers, Suspense, Private Investigators
C hristmas week takes on a deadly flavor when PI Greg
McKenzie and his wife and partner, Jill, take on an investigation involving
rumored shady dealings in a business group’s plan to bring a National
Basketball Association team to Nashville. Their client is a fan group of the
local NHL hockey team who feel the fan base
of their beloved Predators will be fatally diluted. When Greg goes to meet an
informant who promises information that will “blow your mind,” he finds the
young man shot dead.
As they pursue sparse leads, a new complication pops up.
Greg learns a former lieutenant he helped send to prison during his Air Force OSI
career has been released with revenge in mind. The tension builds when someone
touches off an improvised explosive device beneath Greg’s Jeep. It all comes
together in a Christmas day climax that features something other than good will
toward men.
About the Author
Chester D. Campbell is the author of six thrillers and
mysteries featuring private investigators in Nashville.
This book is the fifth in his Greg McKenzie series.
Praise for Chester D. Campbell’s work:
“A gem of a writer.” – Crimespree Magazine
“Riveting.” – Women on Writing
“Unique.” – The Best Reviews
“Creative imagery.” – Blue Iris Journal
“Fabulous mysteries.” – Midwest Book
Review
“Excellent.” – Front Page Reviews
“Intriguing and Entertaining.” – The (Nashville)
Tennessean
“Masterful plotting.” – Spinetingler Magazine
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What’s Wrong With Me?: A Girl’s Book of Lessons Learned, Inspiration and Advice by Daree Allen
Genre(s): Social Situations, Self-Help, Self-Esteem, Teens
H ave you ever wished that you knew back then what you know now? What’s Wrong With Me: A Girl’s Book of Lessons Learned, Inspiration and Advice, is a part-memoir and part self-help young adult guide to encourage teen girls and young women in various areas of life, in an easygoing, conversational style. The messages in this book educate and empower young women in every facet of their lives, including: accepting their identity, dating relationships, dealing with toxic friends and family members, avoiding or delaying premarital sex, building self-esteem, developing a positive attitude, dressing for success, setting goals, spending money wisely, handling anger and depression, and embracing their singleness, and discovering their life purpose.
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Betty’s Child by Donald Dempsey
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse, Dysfunctional Relationships
I n the tradition of Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes, Don Dempsey uses Betty’s Child to tell the story of life with his cruel and neglectful mother, his mother’s abusive boyfriends, and hypocritical church leaders who want to save twelve-year-old Donny’s soul but ignore threats to his physical well-being. Meanwhile, Donny’s best friend is trying to recruit Donny to do petty theft and deal drugs for a dangerous local thug.
Young Donny is a real-life cross between Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield as he tells his story, with only his street smarts and sense of humor to guide him. Donny does everything he can to take care of himself and his younger brothers, but with each new development, the present becomes more fraught with peril–and the future more uncertain.
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Within a Man’s Heart by Tom Winton
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Inspirational
F our years after burying his young wife, New York sales executive Christian Crews still can’t move forward with his life. Day after day, treasured memories of his beloved Elyse continue to drift through his spirit like an endless procession of mournful ghosts.
Chris wants to leave Manhattan–walk away from his job and the apartment he and Elyse once shared. He dreams of moving to New Hampshire, where he feels he just might have a chance of finding peace. But in his grieving mind, breaking away from those memories would be the same as abandoning Elyse–an unforgivable act of betrayal he could never live with.
Then, on the fourth anniversary of Elyse’s death, Chris makes two shocking discoveries, and a part of him begins to believe that she would want him to go on with his life.
Two weeks later he makes the move to New Hampshire, and minutes after arriving in the small rural village of Mountain Step, he meets a beautiful local woman with mesmerizing gray eyes and a heart as big as the surrounding mountains. Beginning another emotional relationship may be the last thing on Chris’s mind, but he soon finds himself falling for Gina Elkin, every bit as hard as she’s fallen for him.
Could there be a future for them? Will Elyse allow it? After all, she’s still deep within Chris’s heart–a place no one else has ever been.
It has been said that author Tom Winton is a man who writes with his pen dipped in his soul. Like all his previous Amazon best-selling books, his new novella, Within a Man’s Heart, is packed with intrigue and emotion.
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BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {02-05-2013}
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The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes by Dawn Schiller
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Women, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Child Abuse, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Pornography, Nonfiction, Parenting & Families, Dysfunctional Relationships
P ainstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre life of legendary porn star John Holmes. Starting with a childhood that molded her perfectly to fall for the seduction of the king of porn,” this autobiography recounts the perilous road that Dawn Schiller traveledfrom drugs and addiction to beatings, arrests, forced prostitution, and being sold to the drug underworld. After living through the horrific Wonderland murders of 1981, she entered protective custody, ran from the FBI, and turned in John Holmes to the police. This is the true story of a young girl’s harrowing escape from one of the most infamous public figures, her struggle to survive, and her recovery from unthinkable abuse.
Knife Music: A Novel by David Carnoy
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Medical, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Police Procedurals, Thrillers, Legal, Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
K risten Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago-but now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail. What was going on? What had she told them?
That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn’t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.
Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it’s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate.
Madden grapples with his long- suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent.
The Life & Dysfunction of Nadine Daniels by Hadena James
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Women Sleuths, Mystery & Thrillers
N adine Daniels’ life is a disaster. The security company that she owns is being sued, her mother is coming to visit for a week, and some unpleasant realities about her “charity” work are about to surface. She thought this was as bad as it could get, but she was wrong–dead wrong.
Someone believes she knows a secret – a secret worth killing for. With assassins tracking her every move, Nadine wishes the only thing she had to worry about was her mother pestering her to settle down with her suspected live-in boyfriend, Zeke, but she can’t think about the future when the present might end with her death.
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Western, Westerns
H aunted by nightmares, tormented by guilt, Jezebel came to Redemption Ranch to escape the past–except now she’s stuck in the middle of nowhere with no redemption in sight. When her mother pushes her into riding lessons with local veterinarian Matthias Saunders, Jezebel balks. Sure, the doctor is gorgeous, but he’s completely obnoxious and knows how to push every one of her buttons.
Only her deep connection with The Reverend, a gentle stallion who guards her darkest secrets, has her agreeing to spend any more time with Dr. Saunders. Caring for the stallion is the first bright spot in her life in months, and if being around the horse means she has to deal with Matthias Saunders, then so be it. Surely a city girl like her can handle one country vet–even one with disturbing blue eyes. Can’t she?
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Literary, United States, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
T he critically acclaimed debut novel from pioneering actress and writer Denise Nicholas tells the story of one young woman’s coming of age via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. Nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a voter registration project as part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty in this tiny town, but also deep truths about her family and herself. Drawing on Nicholas’ own involvement in the movement, Freshwater Road was hailed by Newsday as “Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement.”
Trust No One (Vista Security) by Diana Layne
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Thrillers
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Nominated for the RWA® Golden Heart® Award
“Layne has star power in spades.” ~Diane Morasco RT Book Reviews for The Good Daughter
When reality is a web of lies and the truth endangers all you hold dear . . .Trust No One.
Drafted into the nebulous underworld of a secret agent right out of college, MJ Thornberg survived betrayal and attempted murder at the hands of her trusted partner. Instead of returning to the deadly realm of espionage, she chose to retire to a small Texas town and work as a mechanic while raising her soon-to-be-adopted baby daughter.
Ben Walker is a man with his own secrets. An agent with MJ’s former employer, Vista Security, Ben is clawing his way out of a downward spiral from a job gone wrong when Vista sends him after MJ, with orders to use the threat of halting her baby’s adoption to ensure her cooperation.
Furious and trusting no one, MJ intends on working the job solo until a sniper’s bullet alters her plans. With no choice but to work with Ben, MJ must confront ghosts from her past, discover truths of her present, and trust that the future she deserves is in her hands to create.
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Betrayed….
“Who you working for, Keith?”
“No need for you to know,” the man behind her said. He poked his revolver into her back. “You’re gonna be dead.”
She ignored him and focused on Keith. “How much money? Who’s the target?”
“Stalling, MJ? Afraid to die?”
“I knew the risks going in. So did you. But what about the innocent people who’ll die if you sell that information?”
“Sorry, baby, but I don’t have time to debate philosophy.” The sound of a distant engine made Keith pause and tilt his head to listen. “That would be the extraction team,” he said.
MJ tightened every muscle, ready to spring. It well could be his team, but it could as easily be hers. Even if she wasn’t in position for the original pick-up, she’d sewed a small tracking device in that backpack.
“No time for long good-byes.” He raised the gun.
Now or never.



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