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BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #2 – {02-23-2013}
Bargain eBook Hunter traps these BARGAIN Kindle Books just for you! Get them before they get away!
Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
The Lace Makers of Glenmara (P.S.) by Heather Barbieri
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, United States, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Friendship, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction
“ Charmingly wry yet evocative, with details and descriptions both telling and vivid.” –Boston Globe
“This hopeful, comforting novel is a testament to the power of taking chances and starting fresh and a reminder that life can bring joy after sorrow.” — Miami Herald
From the author of Snow in July comes The Lace Makers of Glenmara: a “charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch” (Joanne Harris), as a struggling young fashion designer journeys to Ireland to mend a broken heart, and helps a group of local lace makers change their lives–and her own. Fans of the strong feminine voices of contemporary Irish literature such as Maeve Binchy (Nights of Rain and Stars, Tara Road) and Cecilia Ahern (P.S. I Love You, Where Rainbows End) will fall in love with The Lace Makers of Glenmara.
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Genre Fiction, Historical, Literary, United States, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction
B it by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina’s grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories–the details of her grown children’s lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild–yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind’s eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army’s approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum’s priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks’ eventual return. As the Luftwaffe’s bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind–a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .
Includes an excerpt from Debra Deans The Mirrored World.
The Villain’s Guide to Better Living by Neil Zawacki
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Lawyers & Criminals, Nonfiction
A ll those aspiring ne’er-do-wells who cackled all the way to the cash register with the best-selling How to Be a Villain are ready to embrace the finer points of the evil life with The Villain’s Guide to Better Living. Within lie the answers to such trying questions as: Home decor – Gothic? Apocalyptic? Ikea? Friends – Do I have any? Can I make them? Work – Should I be a mad scientist or a corporate bastard? Written by the author of How to Be a Villain, this fiendish lifestyle guide is a must-have for any villain who knows more about programming TiVo than about entertaining with panache.
Chasing the Dragon by Jackie Pullinger
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Christian Books & Bibles, Evangelism, Missions & Missionary Work, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
I nside of Hong Kong was the infamous Walled City. Strangers were not welcome there. Police hesitated to enter. It was a haven of filth, crime and sin. Prostitution, pornography and drug addiction flourished. Jackie Pullinger had grown up believing that if she put her trust in God, He would lead her. When she was 20 years old, God called her to the Walled City. She obeyed. And as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal hoods were converted, prostitutes retired from their trade and heroin junkies found new power that freed them from the bondage of drug addiction. Hundreds discovered new life in Christ. Chasing the Dragon tells the whole amazing story exactly as it happened. Equally amazing has been the reach of this ministry, now detailed in this updated and revised edition. From Hong Kong to the Philippines, Thailand and beyond, the ministry that started with Jackie and her friends taking people in to live and care for them has continued and developed to form the present St. Stephen’s Society. Readers will be inspired by this tale of trust and loving as Jesus would.
Gone with a Handsomer Man (Teeny Templeton Mysteries) by Michael Lee West
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Women Sleuths
“ Gone with a Handsomer Man is fun, funny, and fabulous!”—Janet Evanovich Take one out-of-work pastry chef . . .
Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She’s getting married, she’s baking her own wedding cake, and she’s leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiancé playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks.
Add a whole lot of trouble . . .
Needless to say, the wedding is off. Adding insult to injury, her fiancé slaps a restraining order on her. When he’s found dead a few days later, all fingers point to Teeny.
And stir like crazy!
Her only hope is through an old boyfriend-turned-lawyer, the guy who broke her heart a decade ago. But dredging up the past brings more than skeletons out of the closet, and Teeny doesn’t know who she can trust. With evidence mounting and the heat turning up, Teeny must also figure out where to live, how to support herself, how to clear her name, and how to protect her heart.
FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {02-21-2013}
Bargain eBook Hunter traps these FREE Kindle Books just for you! Get them before they get away!
Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
Shadowed Homelands (Dreigiau Book 2) by Erin McManaway
Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Literature & Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Teens
T suYa is running out of time. Cursed by the hand of the dark Arweinydd, Zerom, he struggles against the gripping darkness that threatens to consume him.
In effort to bring home a cure, ZenToYa journeys into the Spiral, the heart of their enemy’s homeland, to battle a creature from the Time Before. But when ancient clan rivalries begin loom out of the shadows of the past, Zento discovers that there may be more planned to his quest than merely finding help for his son.
Meanwhile, in lands far away, AsaHi and SoYa arrive in the deep mountain city where the Dragon servants of Zemi dwell. There, AsaHi learns of the secrets that lay hidden within herself, a power that draws her nearer to the heart of Zemi Dreigiau. She finds herself torn, caught between her love and loyalty to her Promised, SoYa, and a strange, growing attraction to the Lord Dragon. Little does she realize that her connection to the Dreigiau may be the only thing that can pull him from the brink of Chaos, a power that seeks to devour his spirit.
Shadowed Homelands is book 2 of the Dreigiau series, a young adult fantasy, where Dragons are the guardians of the people of the once-great nation, Nefol. You can find the other books in the series here:
Book 1: The Gift of Flame (Free for Kindle) http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Flame-Dreigiau-Book-ebook/dp/B007RXPYXQ
Lunch from a Cannon (Children’s Poetry, Unillustrated First Edition) by Sef Daystrom
Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Literature & Fiction, Poetry
F or the noble purpose of bringing joy, “Lunch from a Cannon” fires away with 62 poems, including a brand new take on the English folktale “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Poems range from the humorous to the wondrous and profound.
HER HONOR’S BODYGUARD, A ROMANTIC SUSPENSE by JOHNNY RAY
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Police Procedurals, Romance, Romantic Suspense
D o first loves ever really die? While reunions can take many forms, there is always one question that has to be answered sooner or later–what happened?
Vance had always been extremely proud of Noella, and just because his life had been ruined, he saw no reason why she had to have the same faith. When his dad died, leaving him and his mother penniless, he dropped out of law school and ended his relationship with Noella, but in doing so, he stopped a scandal that could have ruined her family. These secrets he would never let her know. Ironically, years later, he would have never guessed she would be instrumental in ruining his career with the Tampa police force.
After Noella finished law school and started pursuing her goal of working up the ranks in judgeships, she never considered inviting another guy into her life. As such, when someone attempts to threaten her into vacating her seat on the bench, and by force if necessary, she knows of no one else she really trust as much as Vance, who now has a successful bodyguard and private detective business.
She knows that Vance might hate her for her part in having him dismissed from the police force, but what he will never know is that she actually saved him from going to prison. Additionally, she now thinks he was framed, and perhaps by the same people who are threatening her. She had to talk him into taking her on as a client . . . but would he agree to her request?
As the number of attacks on her life increases, Vance soon has no choice but to offer her his protection, and in spite of everything, when they see each other again their old attraction for each other returns. She wants the truth. He wants the truth. However, making the ultimate sacrifice is not always easy to understand, whether given or received. Ultimately . . . could they now trust each other with these secrets? While their lives depend on discovering the truth to their past, these truths are locked in deep secrets that could also destroy them.
Deception in Savannah by Charles Dougherty
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Lawyers & Criminals, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense
D eception in Savannah is a humorous crime novel, written in the tongue-in-cheek style of Mark Twain.
A prominent physician, driving while intoxicated, kills a pedestrian in a late-night hit and run accident. The only eyewitness is a would-be entrepreneur with attention deficit disorder. He also has a photographic memory, but his memories surface randomly and quickly slip back beyond his conscious grasp. His instincts as a street hustler keep him from coming forward, especially since he can’t quite focus on what it is that he needs to tell the authorities.
The driver’s casual reaction to the accident is a tipping point in his rocky relationship with his business partner and long-time mistress. She decides to break off their relationship and demands a large cash settlement for her interest in their bogus diet clinic in exchange for her silence. Her blackmail scheme lands them in trouble with the clinic’s major investor.
Unbeknownst to them, the investor is a drug king-pin using the clinic to launder money. Confused by the antics of the mistress and her alcohol-addled, porn-addicted lawyer, the mobster thinks that his empire is under attack by an unknown rival. His lethal attempts to eliminate the imagined threat to his business are frustrated by chance and the incompetence of his subordinates.
Eventually, the police find the somewhat befuddled eyewitness, who finally stumbles across his clear but misplaced recollection of the accident, and everyone’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel with comical results.
A Letter to Brody by R.S. Guthrie
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living, Health Fitness & Dieting, Death & Grief, Grief & Bereavement, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Fatherhood, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Faith
T his is a letter, written in lieu of a eulogy by a grieving father to his son, who died at two months of age from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It is a heartfelt tribute, meant to resonate with any parent who has lost a child; a beacon, perhaps—a suggestion of light and hope within the maelstrom of unimaginable, devastating loss.
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