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Free eBook – Mourning Becomes Cassandra
Mourning Becomes Cassandra by Christina Dudley
O ne wary young widow pairs up with one bent-on-disaster teenager… Whose brilliant idea was this?
You think you’ve got issues. Meet Cass Ewan.
After Plan A for her life falls to pieces, she moves in with single friends from church and reluctantly decides to mentor an at-risk adolescent. Never mind that Cass knows nothing about drugs, alcohol, or criminally-minded loser boyfriends. Once Nadina, the prickly, dog-whispering 15-year-old, enters Cass’s life, everything is up for grabs. There’s new employment at a video game company with a charming fellow mentor. There’s the unlikely friendship with her womanizing, atheist housemate Daniel, because who else can she ask about sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll? And finally there’s the epiphany about her own role in the universe. Where she once considered herself a cosmic unresolved plotline, Cass finds she still has a pivotal role to play.
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Free eBook – FUnEMPLOYMENT: A.K.A ‘Jobbus Interruptus’
FUnEMPLOYMENT: A.K.A ‘Jobbus Interruptus’ by Jayne Grey
T here was nothing accidental about Gil Chards…
While job hunting using his personal computer, Lexi Fulton inadvertently discovers the massive deceit and infidelity of her triple A-type boyfriend. In addition to several secret annulments and multiple Thai fiancé Visas, Gil Chards also maintains an active online dating profile. Lexi applies her tech skills in a wickedly creative way that would make any woman who’s ever been cheated on swell with pride as she (ahem!) modifies his overused Personal’s account and broadcasts his newly creepy profile to thousands of would-be dates.
Frustrated by her inability to solve her professional situation during a national economic downfall, Lexi decides to jump start her personal life and join her other single friends in the adventures of online dating.
Enter the friends, all connected in less than three degrees of Kevin Bacon thanks to Match.com and the California Department of Unemployment. The ensuing story is about redefining one’s identity (sans corporate resume) during what many would consider a financial catastrophe.
Come along for a fun and sometimes snarky ride through a series of interwoven mini-stories complete with fake profiles, crooked boob jobs, naked hot tubbing, cartwheels on the 49er infield, unexpected pregnancy, covert toilet paper jobs, ridiculously expensive shoes, bad manners, really bad golf, and beloved old dogs that just won’t die because it’s convenient. Welcome to FUnEMPLOYMENT.
No one in this story is a victim in any sense of the word … except for the cheating boyfriend.
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Free eBook – Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You: A good beer joint is hard to find and other facts of life
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You: A good beer joint is hard to find and other facts of life by Lewis Grizzard
P RAISE FOR LEWIS GRIZZARD
“So this is what’s happened to the South since William Faulkner left! Lewis Grizzard, a great American, gives us the best collection of stories about a mother’s love, old folks, railroad trains, going home, and the No-Name Bar in Willacoochee, Georgia.”
- The Chicago Sun-Times
“If you’ve ever owned a truck, a good dog, or had to kiss a good woman good-bye, you need to be reading Lewis Grizzard.”
- United Press International
“Funny and touching … Grizzard disperses common wisdom, common humor and common sense. Common to all of us.”
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“[A] TRIED AND TRUE SOURCE OF LAUGHTER…Readers will find some of his humor wry, some wistful, some sly, some indignant. But reading his comments is like having a chat with an old friend, with intervals of belly laughs.”
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Grizzard can make you laugh from the belly and a moment later you will suddenly get misty … one way or another, his writing will touch you.”
- The San Diego Union-Tribune
About the Author
New York Times bestselling author and humorist Lewis Grizzard, self-proclaimed “true son of the red clay whose granddaddy once owned the egg-suckingest dog in Coweta County,” leads us on a warm, sensitive, and very funny journey through the soul of his beloved South in his first published book, Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You.
This was Grizzard’s first published book and returns to print in eBook format after being out of print for more than 25 years.
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Free eBook – Scrambled Babies
Scrambled Babies by Babe Hayes
“ Oh, my god! This isn’t my baby!
Paeton McPhilomy was on a jet headed for Los Angeles with her two girls, six years and three months old. She had rushed to the restroom to change her little girl whose cry had sounded unfamiliar. She attributed the strangeness to being in a pressurized cabin thirty-thousand feet in the air. She had just pulled off the blanket covering her baby girl when she realized this infant wasn’t hers! The amazing thing was that to a stranger, this baby could have passed as hers. They could be twins to unfamiliar eyes. When Paeton opened the diaper, another big shock—Paeton beheld male genitalia! Her baby was a girl! A jarring cry escaped her lips. The infant’s wide eyes popped wider in response.”
How could Paeton, candidate for Mom of the Year, lose track of her baby and end up flying to LA with the wrong child? You won’t believe how this uncanny mixup becomes more entangled and stressful with one zany incident after another. Lots of humor, some pain, suspense, and tender romance await you as you wonder how things go from bad to worse to…
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Free eBook – The Woof in the Wedding Plans
The Woof in the Wedding Plans by Regina Duke
N ovella. 22,000 words. This complete story is packed with dogs, laughs, danger and of course a happy ending.
Wedding plans are well along, but Terri hates the plans and hates the planner! She has adopted a German shepherd, but he thinks he belongs to Russ (her future husband), and Russ’s two shepherds are not happy about it. Although Russ is the man of Terri’s dreams, her future father-in-law is turning into the man of her nightmares. Her job may be in danger as well. Now one phone call throws her life into turmoil. Something has happened to Russ!
Come along for the ride as Terri tries to salvage her marriage plans and save her man.
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Free eBook – Reel Livin’
Reel Livin’ by Warren McClenagan
A s any fisherman ever lucky enough to wet a line in the wilderness knows, nary a working day goes by they don’t dream of the smell of pine, a breath of cool crisp mountain air, and a skillet filled with large fat trout. Yet, near that campfire where dreams meet reality, and Murphy tags along, more lures end up in tree bark than trout, camper heaters collect icicles and bears keep fishermen on full alert, pocket knives at the ready. Warren McClenagan shines his flashlight on the trials and tribulations set upon by almost every outdoorsman in their quest for paradise. From the frustrations of erecting a ‘simple’ tent to the incidental body piercing that occasionally accompanies fly fishing, McClenagan invites readers on a journey of camping and fishing, fathers and sons, and the birth of a legacy known forever as The Brotherhood of Dean.
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Free eBook – This Is Your Heart in Love
This Is Your Heart in Love by Kyle Rutkin
T his is not a story for your mom’s book club. This story is for anyone who’s ever done crazy s*** for the person they love. It’s for anyone who’s ever been defriended on Facebook or listened to overly dramatic music while they stare at someone’s profile picture. This is for anyone who’s ever been hopelessly trapped in the confines of the friend zone, or who has a standard break-up procedure designed to minimize emotional outbursts. This story is for anyone who’s ever looked at his college diploma and said, “Thanks, but what do I do now?” It is a story about hope, cyber-stalking, courage, crazy girlfriends and debauchery. But most of all, it’s about finding what it really means to be in love.
JD Andrews of is an overdramatic, hopelessly-in-love recent graduate, who will have to decide whether he wants his own love story to be a Shakespeare tragedy or a “G” rated fairytale.
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Free eBook – Scratch
Scratch by Danny Gillan
A n unexpected reminder of his past prompts Jim Cooper, a 33 year-old Glaswegian call centre worker, to make a big decision. He’s going back to adulthood ground-zero – no job, no debt, no, er, home, and starting again. Maybe this time he can do it right and get the girl. The fact that the girl is already married and living in another country and her Bruce Lee obsessed dad apparently wants to turn Jim into his latest pet are only two of the obstacles he faces.
Given Jim’s forward planning skills don’t extend beyond praying and having panic attacks, it isn’t surprising that he soon finds himself living with his parents and working for minimum wage, in the same pub he worked in when he was 18. What is unexpected is Paula Fraser walking through the pub’s door for the first time in 12 years.
What’s even more surprising is that Paula admits she still loves Jim. But yes, she’s married, and no, she won’t cheat on her husband. She’ll tell him the marriage is over. Soon. When the time is right. As soon as her husband’s sick grandfather gets better – or fatally worse.
And so, Jim and Paula embark on the tricky business of not having an affair, and not telling anyone they know that they’re not having an affair. As Jim reflects, ‘If not being physically intimate with her in any way and denying to everyone we knew that anything was going on between us was the best way to prove I loved her, then that’s what I would do.’
Scratch is an un-sanitised, emotionally honest and hilariously candid story about what it is to grow up as opposed to simply change age, as told by a man who doesn’t know what any of those words mean.
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Free eBook – Can Job
Can Job by Kirsten Mortensen
T hey’re launching a product that will save the company.
At the biggest trade show in the universe.
Their careers are at stake.
Heck, the future of the entire CITY is at stake.
Then they discover that the product doesn’t actually exist . . .
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Kindle Daily Deal – Slumberland: A Novel
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Slumberland: A Novel by Paul Beatty
C ritical darling Paul Beatty’s highly original, widely praised novel of race, identity, and underground music.
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city’s dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods , the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other.
Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.
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Free eBook – Fake Perfect Me
Fake Perfect Me by Cari Kamm
I sabella Reynolds has the perfect life … or does she? Maybe there is a grand illusion to glamour. Fake Perfect Me is a glorious dance that will tickle your senses.
Isabella seems to have it all–the former Southern belle with big dreams is the head of her own skin care company and is the self-proclaimed queen of all things beautiful in New York City. Then her world comes crashing down, and she is stripped of everything she loves–her man, the Italian litigator “Saint” Santo; the loss of her company; and the death of her beloved dog, Potato. With her penchant for bingeing and purging, how can she turn her life around when she still feels the need to maintain her “perfect” façade?
Fake Perfect Me, author Cari Kamm’s heart-warming–and often heart-wrenching–tale of a successful New Yorker and her inner circle, offers an inside look at a world of excess. Isabella Reynolds may seem unlike anyone you’ve ever known, but at her core, she’s instantly recognizable. Her trials and tribulations, her ups and downs, are much the same as anyone’s. Her world may have a high price tag, but its true value comes from its losses and lesson… to love one’s self.
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Free eBook – Godsmacked!
Godsmacked! by Andrew Green
I n the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. And then, roughly thirteen billion years later a loser was born. The most important loser in the history of boring losers.
Steve Finkle thinks he’s just a regular guy, but he’s about to find out that he’s a direct descendent of the messiah himself, Jesus Christ, and the boss is finally coming back — in the form of Steve’s grandson, decades in the future. (and no, that’s not “kind of like incest”. Not even a little bit.)
Now the heroes of the Old Testament are returning to the earth to protect Steve from the forces of darkness. King David, in the guise of a world-famous rock star, will be his personal bodyguard. Which is good news for Steve, since the bumbling members of an ancient cult are currently vying for his blood, not to mention the seductive demoness, determined to lure him over to the dark side by any means necessary.
The only thing certain for Steve now is that his future will be anything but boring.
This novella is 13,000 words long and the first in the Godsmacked series
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Free eBook – The Last Bookstore In America
The Last Bookstore In America by Amy Stewart
A comic novel about the future of books and bookstores by New York Times bestselling author Amy Stewart.
Nothing is what it seems in the offbeat and out-of-the-way town of Eureka, California. Shrouded in fog and hidden behind a curtain of redwoods, this rundown mill town is home to a peculiar cast of characters, a unique homegrown horticultural industry, and one of the last bookstores in America.
No one is more surprised by the unlikely survival of the Firebreathing Dragon than Lewis Hartman, its newest owner. By the time his uncle Sy died and left the bookstore to Lewis, even the most ardent bibliophiles had abandoned printed books in favor of a charming and highly literate digital device called the Gizmo. Bookstores all over the country had closed their doors. But somehow, the Firebreathing Dragon has kept going.
Lewis and his wife Emily find themselves in the unlikely position of owning one of the last bookstores in America. But how has the Firebreathing Dragon managed to survive the death of the book? And if it isn’t keeping itself afloat selling books, what is it selling? Reporters, federal agents, and corporate executives out to salvage their own imperiled industries all converge on the bookstore to uncover its secrets. What they discover is a small town that has fallen under the spell of the Firebreathing Dragon’s unique offerings.
In her first work of fiction, bestselling author and bookstore owner Amy Stewart takes an offbeat and lighthearted look at small-town life and the future of that marvelous two thousand year-old communication device, the printed book.
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Free eBook – Nine Hundred Nights
Nine Hundred Nights by Nick Apuzzo
I t was a time of titanic metal gods: JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, DIO, SCORPIONS, BLACK SABBATH, OZZY and many more. For the members of the bar band Raw Deal, it was their love of the music led them into the clubs and eventually onto the stage. The bonds that were formed as they lived with their days and nights reversed were never broken and left a lasting mark on all who were part of it. Gradually the band’s cover songs gave way to original material and an offer from a record company, but as often happens, reality intervened.
In his second novel, Nick Apuzzo pulls us into the lives of a heavy metal cover band. From uncertain beginnings spent auditioning for that elusive ’chemistry’, to the weekend chaos and mayhem of crowded nightclubs, Nick takes us on a wild and often hilarious ride that was the live music scene in the early 1980’s.
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