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BARGAIN eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {04-29-2013}
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Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
Love Drunk Cowboy (Spikes & Spurs) by Carolyn Brown
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, United States, Romance, Contemporary, Historical, Western, Westerns
P raise for Carolyn Brown’s Honky Tonk series
“Fun, sassy, and fast-paced romance.”–RT Book Reviews, 4 stars
“Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and Brown’s fans will be pleased to reconnect with her trademark cast of quirky characters.”–Booklist starred review
“Funny, witty, heartfelt, and sexy…a sizzling series!!!!”–Book Junkie
She’s a self-made city girl…
High-powered career woman Austin Lanier suddenly finds herself saddled with an inherited watermelon farm deep in the countryside. She’s determined to sell the farm, until her new, drop-dead sexy neighbor Rye O’Donnell shows up…
He’s as intoxicating as can be…
Rancher Rye O’Donnell thinks he’s going to get a good deal on his dream property–until he meets the fiery new owner. Rye is knocked sideways when he realizes that not only is Granny Lanier’s city-slicker granddaughter a savvy businesswoman, she’s also sexy as hell…
Suddenly Rye is a whole lot less interested in real estate and a whole lot more focused on getting Austin to set aside her stiletto heels…
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Spiritual Anorexia: How Contemporary Worship Is Starving the Church by Doug Erlandson
Genre(s): Christian Books & Bibles, Worship & Devotion, Rites & Ceremonies, Arts & Photography, Music, Musical Genres, Religious & Sacred Music, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Clergy, Worship
I n Spiritual Anorexia: How Contemporary Worship Is Starving the Church, Dr. Doug Erlandson presents a balanced but devastating critique of the contemporary-style worship model that the modern church has adopted and shows how this type of worship deprives Christians of the feast that true corporate worship should be
Drawing from personal experience and extensive research into the history of Christian worship, Dr. Erlandson analyzes the motivations for this type of worship and assesses its strengths and weaknesses. He argues that corporate worship should be a reverential dramatic presentation of the Gospel, with the theme of the redemption of God’s people and the rejuvenation and restoration of creation.
Historically, Christian worship has included certain distinctive elements that help make this presentation. These include the call to worship, the recitation of creeds, readings from each of the major divisions of Scripture, prayers, confession of sin and absolution, Christ-centered preaching, the Lord’s Supper, and the exhortation and benediction. By use of concrete examples Erlandson shows how contemporary-style worship either eliminates these entirely or includes them in a truncated fashion; thus, the elements that made traditional worship a true feast have disappeared. In their place the church has substituted slick musical performances and therapy-style preaching that blurs the central message of the Gospel.
Erlandson examines contemporary praise choruses that have replaced the theologically-rich hymns, demonstrating that the problem with the lyrics is not so much bad theology but lack of meaningful content. The music is often hard for the congregation to follow, having been written for well-trained musicians and not for congregational use. The greatest problem arises from treating the music as a performance by the worship team rather than as congregational worship.
Spiritual Anorexia also contrasts the historical role of preaching as the proclamation of the Gospel with various contemporary models (e.g., the moralistic, therapeutic, and teaching models) and shows how these models deprive the congregation of spiritual nourishment.
A chapter of particular interest is the one on physical symbolism, which argues that by doing away with symbols such as the cross and the pulpit the contemporary church has substituted the sterility of the modern auditorium for the rich symbolism of the historical church building.
The final chapter of Spiritual Anorexia examines the justifications typically given for contemporary-style worship, shows why they are unpersuasive, and argues that whatever value it might have is far outweighed by the spiritual starvation that results.
Throughout, Dr. Erlandson challenges the church to worship with the excellence of which it is capable so that it will truly offer its worship to the glory of God and will experience the feast that corporate worship should be.
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Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Genre(s): Teens, Love & Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Romance
J odi Lynn Anderson explores the world of Neverland and the elation and heartbreak of first love in her dark, romantic, and very original YA novel Tiger Lily.
Tinkerbell narrates the magical, bittersweet love story between Tiger Lily and Peter Pan. Tiger Lily has never been truly accepted by her tribe, and now the elders have decreed marriage to a man she doesn’t love. She spends more and more time alone in the woods, where she meets wild, fearless Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys.
Tiger Lily is intoxicated by the freedom she feels with Peter, and falls under his spell. Their love is all-consuming, and she risks everything to be with him.
Then Wendy Darling arrives in Neverland.
Tiger Lily has been optioned for television!
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The Hum and the Shiver (Tufa Novels) by Alex Bledsoe
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, World Literature, Mythology
N amed one of the Best Fiction Books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews, The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is an enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills. . . .
No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Enigmatic and suspicious of outsiders, the Tufa live quiet lives in the hills and valleys of Cloud County. While their origins may be a mystery, there are hints of their true nature buried in the songs they have passed down for generations.
Bronwyn Hyatt, a pure-blood Tufa, has always insisting on doing things her own way, regardless of the consequences. Even though Tufa rarely leave Cloud County, she enlisted in the Army to escape the pressures of Tufa life–her family, her obligations as a First Daughter, and her dangerous ex-boyfriend. But after barely surviving a devastating ambush that killed most of her fellow soldiers, Private Hyatt returns to Cloud County wounded in body and in spirit. But danger lurks in the mountains and hollows of her childhood home. Cryptic omens warn of impending tragedy, and a restless “haint” lurks nearby, waiting to reveal Bronwyn’s darkest secrets. Worst of all, Bronwyn has lost touch with the music that was once a vital part of her identity.
Now Bronwyn finds the greatest battle to be right here at home, where her obligations struggle with her need for freedom, and if she makes the wrong choice, the consequences could be deadly for all the Tufa. . . .
“A sheer delight.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
At the publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
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My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters…and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n’ Roll by Jon Glaser
Genre(s): Arts & Photography, Music, Musical Genres, Rock, Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Parodies, Satire, Literature & Fiction, United States
W ith this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about music’s biggest names, Jon Glaser–a writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and the creator and star of Adult Swim’s Delocated–is about to rock the world of, well, rock and roll. The long-buried (or possibly, never-yet-imagined) dreadful secrets of music’s most notable talents–including Prince’s bar mitvah remixes, Fleetwood Mac’s deals with McDonald’s, and more–are, in the vein of John Hodgman’s More Information Than You Require and The Onion‘s Our Dumb Century, a wry and blasphemous tribute to the popular culture icons we hold dear.
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FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #2 – {02-26-2013}
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Lethal Circuit: Explosive Spy Action for Mystery Thriller Fans (#1) by Lars Guignard
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue, Technothrillers
W ARNING: “You will not be able to let it go until you read to the very last page.”
From Bestselling Amazon Author, Lars Guignard, comes the #1 turbo-charged, Action Spy Thriller, Lethal Circuit.
A Chinese satellite is on a crash course with Earth.
It contains enough plutonium to irradiate a large city.
And that’s the good news…
Michael Chase is a twenty-six year old backpacker, a recent college graduate, an amateur. He flew to Hong Kong to find his missing father. Four hours later, he’s running for his life. The Chinese Secret Police want him dead. The Conspiracy wants him dead. And the one person who he thinks is on his side, may want him dead too. If Michael is going to live, he’ll need to find a hidden piece of Nazi technology lost since World War II. And he’ll have to do it before anyone else. Because if he doesn’t, a little plutonium is going to be the least of his problems.
Can Michael Chase team up with a beautiful but deadly MI6 agent to locate a lethal piece of Nazi technology that will save the world?
If you can’t get enough of the action of Lee Child and Vince Flynn, the intrigue of Robert Ludlum, and the adventure of Clive Cussler and James Rollins, you are going to LOVE Lethal Circuit!
*When you finish, Lethal Circuit, read the newly released sequel, Blown Circuit – The action is about to blow sky high!
**If you were looking for a chilling paranormal mystery try Lars’s, Brood. It’s a wild and frightening ride deep into the Alaskan wilderness where fish are being bred for more than their meat.
***If you’re a kid or a kid at heart, try Lars’s children’s chapter book, Ghost Leopard. Join Zoe and Zak as they journey high into the Himalayas in a magical adrenaline fueled adventure to a place few have been, and even fewer have returned to tell about it.
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Pancho Land (Class H Trilogy) by Raul Ramos y Sanchez
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Political, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers
A cclaim for the Class H Trilogy:
“Provocative”-USA Today “Sweeping, intense”-Publishers Weekly “Thrilling and vibrant”-New York Times Best-selling author James Rollins
“I would really like to see this book made into a movie.”- Edward James Olmos, Books-Into-Movies Awards
PANCHO LAND: Sarah Evans was once the hostage of Latino insurgents. Now she’s returned. Not for vengeance, but for love.
Author Highlights:
- Best Novel Award Winner – International Latino Book Awards
- Violet Crown Awards Fiction Finalist – Writers League of Texas
- Books Into Movies Award Winner – presented by Edward James Olmos
- USA Today Summer Reads Author
The Zombie Wilson Diaries by Timothy W. Long
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Parodies, Literature & Fiction
I t should have been the perfect vacation. A beautiful island without a soul in sight. Blue sea so clear I can see the reef. Palm trees swaying in the wind, and a girl with barely a scrap of clothing on.
There is only one problem. She is a zombie and she wants to eat me.
That’s right. My only companion is a creature with a hunger for human flesh. I should bash in her brains and toss her in the ocean but I don’t have a volleyball to talk to.
All I have is this diary and my own Zombie-Wilson.
Covert Dreams by Michael Meyer
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers, Suspense
T HIS INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED SUSPENSE THRILLER by Michael Meyer has been compared to Robert Ludlum’s Bourne series, and the writing style has been compared to that of Dean Koontz. #2 on Recommended Thriller/Suspense list at Goodreads
Imagine waking up remembering intimate details about a country in which you have never traveled and fluently speaking a language that you have never spoken. B.J. is living the ideal life. He has a great wife, a wonderful job. And yet he is experiencing life-like vivid dreams of Munich, a city he has never visited.
Stan Halsey is a professor in Saudi Arabia, who sends for his wife to join him. She arrives, and, in the blink of an eye, she vanishes, leaving no trace of ever being alive in either the United States or in Saudi Arabia.
COVERT DREAMS is a fast-paced international suspense thriller that moves from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia. What is real, and who is responsible for the terrifying nightmare?
EXCERPT
The Munich all around her was bustling with activity. She could hear it from all directions. Munich was a wonderful city, a fun-loving place, the live and let live ebullience of the city emanating from its every nook and cranny. She had had a lovely stay here. All of it had been so adventurous, so new, so unlike life back home in Arizona. She could vividly recall the first time she had ventured into a Munich beer garden, where the liter mugs had been so huge that she had had to lift hers with both hands, and the giggles, from him, until he too had had to use both hands.
The fumbling noises he had been making came to an abrupt halt. He began stroking her cheek again. Gus looked so happy, so young, so full of life. It was so hard to imagine that he could be so heavily involved in all this horror.
Gus smiled at her once more. His eyes were soft, so gentle, so caring, so loving.
Maybe this was some kind of huge mistake. Maybe he wasn’t going to kill her after all. Maybe everything would turn out happily ever after. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
But then suddenly she saw it clearly. It was no fairy tale. There would be no maybe. This was real, as real as the mixture of sadness and fear that now flooded her brain.
And then she died, with her eyes wide open, challenging, piercing his to the end.
Finding Alice (Alice Clark Series) by Andrea DiGiglio
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal
C ursed with an intense version of empathy Alice runs from a wasted life to start a new one somewhere no one will know her; Hell, Michigan. Alice works at a hole-in-the-wall bar in the middle of nowhere mostly keeping to herself to avoid the overwhelming emotions of those around her. She allows her best friend to convince her into taking a few college classes without realizing it would drastically change her life forever. From her first day of class she was hooked on him; his scent, his eyes, the way he talked to her inside her head.
Throughout her struggles she learns about true love, true pain and the truth of her own heritage. Alice must quickly find out who she is because after all everyone else is out to find her. With Angels and Bounty Hunter’s in constant pursuit she finds protection within a group of Fallen Angels. These Fallen Angels vow to do anything to protect her; for it is their belief she will save their kind and all of mankind.
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Dinner? You Got This! – Super Easy Recipes for Tasty Dinners that Anyone Can Prepare by Leslie Sertell
Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine, Quick & Easy, Meals
H ow would you like to make a tasty dinner of Perfect Meatballs, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Cheesy Busy Day Enchilada Casserole or Juicy Baked Pork Chops with Rice in under an hour with very little fuss in the kitchen? This book of dinner recipes shows you how!
If you’re a new cook, a college student, a busy mom or someone on a hectic schedule, this collection of dinner recipes shows you how to get a delicious meal on the table with ease, even on a busy weeknight You’ll spend less time in the kitchen with these slow-cooker, one-pot and oven cooked time-saving recipes.
These easy recipes for delicious dinner meals will quickly become favorites that you’ll go to again and again. You’ll save time and money with these simple recipes and avoid expensive take-out and fast food.
If you love tasty dinners and easy weeknight meals, but think you don’t have the skills to make great meals, these simple recipes are created for you!
Educating the Average Joe: 101 Love & Romance Ideas for the Average Joe by R.K. Booker
Genre(s): Health Fitness & Dieting, Relationships, Love & Romance, Self-Help, Happiness, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body
T he Average Joe Doesn’t Know a Thing About Romance
Romance is as important to a woman as sex is to the average Joe. Does that help you get the big picture?
Love and romance are at the top of the list of key ingredients for happiness in a woman’s life.
But, the average Joe is clueless about what a woman thinks is romantic, not because we’re dumb or idiots. It’s because we weren’t taught about it.
To a woman a romantic gesture is the expression of your love for her and confirmation that she is loved.
That’s why romance is a very big deal to women.
This book will help you learn what a woman thinks is romantic (and sorry, it has nothing to do with getting more sex, although, when your woman knows you love her and you show her you love her, she’ll feel a deeper relationship with you which may lead to more sex).
CAUTION! USE SPARINGLY!
The ideas and suggestions in this book are like water for a flower. Needed, but don’t over water or these ideas will lose their power.
PS: This book is for the average Joe only. Ladies, you can get one for your average Joe, but NO PEEKING!
Home Remedies from Weeds and Wild Flowers (Herbal Medicine from Your Garden or Windowsill) by Frann Leach
Genre(s): Health Fitness & Dieting, Alternative Medicine, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body, Herbal Remedies
N ot all of us are into formal gardening. A good solution is to make a wildlife garden, with a wild flower meadow and patches of important food plants for wildlife. So you end up with a garden full of weeds and other wild plants. Can you make home remedies from such unpromising material? Yes, you can.
Natural remedies go back into antiquity, and if you think about it, there wasn’t the range of plants available which we now expect to find. None of the culinary herbs we all know and love – most of them were taken to the UK by the Romans some 2000 years ago, brought to the New World with the Pilgrim Fathers in the 1600s.
It’s believed that even many common weeds originated with the Roman Empire, so now you know who to blame! But they didn’t carry these plants with them for no reason. They had a purpose – and that purpose was for use as natural cures for common ailments, most of which we still suffer from today.
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What’s in this book:
One man’s weed is another man’s wild flower
Why organic growing methods are important
Safety first
Remedies in this book which can be used during pregnancy
Details for the following herbs: spiny amaranth, wild basil, lady’s bedstraw, greater celandine, German chamomile, chickweed, coltsfoot, comfrey, white deadnettle, curled dock, sweet flag, fumitory, European goldenrod, goosegrass, wild lettuce, great mullein, nettles, wild onion, American pennyroyal, poppy, herb Robert, selfheal, thoroughwort, Indian tobacco, blue vervain and wormseed
Alphabetical Index of Remedies
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
O riginally published as A MATTER OF TRUST by Zebra Books.
“Erotically charged and emotionally heartwarming…”
~ RT BOOK REVIEWS
Dr. Dolittle meets Northern Exposure….
Gordon closed the door behind her and walked woodenly to the bed.
He wanted to forgive Taylor. Desperately. But he couldn’t trust
her. If he allowed himself to trust her, she’d have the power to
hurt him. No matter what, he couldn’t give her that power ever
again.
The floor creaked just beyond Gordon’s door, and he held his
breath as the doorknob turned. His heart thundered and he wanted
desperately to call out to her.
Slowly, the door opened, and Taylor stood framed by firelight.
“Dear God.” His gaze drifted down the length of her, savoring
every inch of bare leg. His body sprang to life even as his mouth
formed the words, “Taylor, don’t…”
“I’ve been lying awake, and I can’t stop remembering.” She padded
barefoot to his bed. “Look at me, Gordon.”
He raised his lashes and met her gaze. Something bright and hot
and dangerous burned in her eyes. “Do you know…”
She put her knee on his bed and cupped his cheek with one hand,
then brought her other knee onto his bed and framed his face with
both hands. “I only know this,” she whispered, leaning closer to
cover his mouth with hers.
Gordon held his breath as she pulled him closer, stroking his
lips with her tongue until he growled and wrapped his arms around
her to tug her down on top of him.
He should hate her. He should fight this.
He couldn’t.
An Idiot in Love (a laugh out loud comedy) by David Jester
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Parodies, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Biographical
K ieran McCall has never been lucky in love. This socially awkward, intellectually impaired Romeo has had his fair share of relationships, but none of them have ended well.
There was the time behind the bike-sheds, his first time, when he kissed little Kerry Newsome, promptly vomited on her and then received an arse-kicking in the cloakroom. The time he found himself embroiled in an animal murdering plot after trying to acquire his first girlfriend. The ‘bulge’ incident in front of a naked class of showering classmates, and then there was the time he lost his virginity to an unenthusiastic sociopath in the supermarket stockroom; but these things were merely incidental in comparison to the others, because as bad as growing up was for this persistently unlucky idiot, adulthood was worse.
An Idiot in Love is a laugh-out-loud comedy written in an autobiographical style; a devilish rom-com with a myriad of twists and turns.


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