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BARGAIN eBOOK BLOCK #1 – {05-28-2013}
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Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be available or similarly priced outside of the United States. – Holly
Save Me from Myself by Brian Welch
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature, Composers & Musicians, Leaders & Notable People, Religious, Memoirs, Christian Books & Bibles, Health Fitness & Dieting, Addiction & Recovery, Substance Abuse, Humor & Entertainment, Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
T he amazing true story of an out-of-control rock star, his devastating addiction to drugs, and his miraculous redemption through Jesus Christ.
In February 2005, more than ten thousand people in Bakersfield, California, watched as Brian “Head” Welch–the former lead guitarist of the controversial rock band Korn–was saved by Jesus Christ. The event set off a media frenzy as observers from around the world sought to understand what led this rock star out of the darkness and into the light.Now, in this courageous memoir, Head talks for the first time about his shocking embrace of God and the tumultuous decade that led him into the arms of Jesus Christ. Offering a backstage pass to his time with Korn, Head tells the inside story of his years in the band and explains how his rock star lifestyle resulted in an all-consuming addiction to methamphetamines. Writing openly about the tour bus mayhem of Ozzfest and The Family Values tour, he provides a candid look at how the routine of recording, traveling, and partying placed him in a cycle of addiction that he could not break on his own.Speaking honestly about his addiction, Head details his struggles with the drug that ultimately led him to seek a higher power. Despite his numerous attempts to free himself from meth, nothing–not even the birth of his daughter–could spur him to kick it for good. Here Head addresses how, with the help of God, he emerged from his dangerous lifestyle and found a path that was not only right for his daughter, it was right for him. Discussing the chaotic end to his time in Korn and how his newfound faith has influenced his relationship with his daughter, his life, and his music, Head describes the challenging but rewarding events of the last two years, exposing the truth about how his moments of doubt and his hardships have only deepened his faith.Candid, compelling, and inspirational, Save Me from Myself is a rock ‘n’ roll journey unlike any other.
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Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Literary, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction
A ward-winning author Michael Malone’s The Last Noel is a beautiful gift to American fiction. In a deeply touching tale, The Last Noel captures the exuberance and poignance of a lasting friendship between a man and a woman from very different backgrounds. Noni Tilden and Kaye King grow up and grow close as their lives come dramatically together through four decades of tumultuous change in a small southern town.
The story begins in 1963 when Kaye first meets Noni on the eve of their seventh birthdays. On that Christmas Eve, Kaye climbs through her bedroom window to invite her to come sledding with him in a rare southern snowfall. Over the next thirty years on twelve days of Christmas, they meet to share the passion, the sacrifice and the romance of a lifetime. At once exquisitely written and tearfully joyful, The Last Noel is one of the great love stories of our time.
A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection
“Malone’s latest novel reaffirms his brilliance in crafting carefully plotted fiction with a literary burnish, most often through Southern manners and intrigue.”
-Denver Post
“A warm, engaging love story.”
-Booklist
“Malone writes with such quiet authority and clear understanding of the world his characters inhabit that the story strikes deep emotional chords.”-Washington Post Book World
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Forbidden Room by Joanne Lewis
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers
F ifteen years ago, in a mansion on Long Island, fourteen-and ten-year-olds Sara and Davey “Soldier Boy” Goldstein discover their parents shot to death. Murder? Suicide? Was that Uncle Charlie running from the scene? The children refuse to speak to the police and the crime is never solved.
Flash forward to the present and Sara – now an adult and the heiress to a very large fortune – is accused of killing Uncle Charlie. Soldier Boy has disappeared.
New attorney Michael Tucker has few clients, yearns to be like his famous grandmother and cannot afford to move out of his parents’ home. When Sara hires Michael, he gets the chance to defend an innocent person, a beautiful lover and notoriety like his grandmother. But is it more than he bargained for? Is Sara innocent or is she really a murderer?
Forbidden Room, a murder mystery, begins in the courtroom on the last day of Sara’s murder trial. The foreperson reads from the verdict form. “In The People of New York vs. Sara Goldstein, the defendant is found….”
Sara awakens in a hospital room where she was taken after fainting. Michael is by her side. Court is in recess until the following day. The verdict has not yet been announced. Told from the points of view of both Sara and Michael, Forbidden Room unfolds in complicated layers until the verdict is pronounced and Uncle Charlie’s murderer is revealed.
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Cold Crossover (Ernie Creekmore) by Tom Kelly
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Sports, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
L innbert “Cheese” Oliver, hard-luck high school basketball hero in the Northwest town of North Fork, is missing on a late-night ferry. And for real estate agent Ernie Creekmore, his father figure, friend and former coach, the news hits hard. Ernie’s suffered too much loss and pain in his life — his wife, a state basketball championship, a mysterious medical malady — and he just can’t accept the idea that Cheese might have taken his own life. Working with sheriff’s detective Harvey Johnston, Ernie uses his contacts in real estate and hoops to trace Cheese’s movements. Meanwhile, hints at possible foul play turn up in pieces of North Fork’s rough-and-tumble history in fishing, logging and railroading, and the past and the present violently collide in a series of heart-stopping moments that peel back layers of greed, secrets and twisted family ties that refuse to stay buried.
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October Girls by Scott Nicholson
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Urban Life, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Paranormal & Urban, Teens
F or fans of magic, romance, and fantasy.
OCTOBER GIRLS: CRYSTAL & BONE
Five days until Halloween and all hell is about to break loose.
And it’s all Crystal’s fault.
Momma warned her not to consort with the dead and tried to teach her the magic spells that would close the portal to the afterlife. But Crystal doesn’t want to be a trailer-trash witch like Momma. She has dreams of going to community college and escaping the Appalachian town of Parson’s Ford.
Her best friend Bone is only too happy to escape the afterlife and help Crystal break the rules. Bone died too young, and she’ll do whatever it takes to remain among the living.
Then a teen movie maker comes to Parson’s Ford, and he has a very special project in mind: a horror movie starring a real ghost. The kids who watch his movies turn into brainwashed zombies. And to totally complicate matters, Crystal thinks he’s kind of a hunk, and she’s afraid her boyfriend Pettigrew only loves her because of Momma’s magic spells.
Now it’s Halloween, the night when the portal to the afterlife is widest, and somebody’s been messing with Momma’s potions. The fate of the world is in Crystal’s hands, but she hasn’t been paying attention to her lessons. And a mysterious figure in the afterlife is urging Bone to stay loyal to her own kind instead of to Crystal.
The movie is rolling, the creatures are stirring, and the brainwashed teenagers are ready to welcome a new star from the other side of the grave.
Crystal and Bone must overcome drama queens, coffin cuties, and mangled magic if they want to remain best friends forever–but at this rate, forever may not last much longer.
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Scott Nicholson is author of 12 thrillers, including the bestselling Liquid Fear, Disintegration, and The Red Church, as well as the paranormal romance Cursed! and The Vampire Club with J.R. Rain. Learn more about his thriller, paranormal, and mystery novels at Author Central.
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BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #2 – {03-01-2013}
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
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Ghosts, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers
A lex was Ian’s five-year-old son: brilliant, earnest, and compassionate.
He is dead now, but Ian can’t let him go.
When his wife urges him to move on, he drives her away. His performance
at work collapses; his friends leave him. Six months later, alone in an empty
house, Ian starts to see his son again.
Every vision is a repeat of something the boy said or did in life: aching memories
replaying themselves for Ian’s eyes alone. Are these images of Alex real?
Has Ian’s son found a way back, to forgive or condemn his father?
Or has Ian’s sorrow metastasized into psychosis?
With a masterful hand, bestselling Kindle Horror author Adam J Nicolai paints a
picture of grief, madness, and the furious strength of a father’s love for his
son.
Amazon readers are saying:
“Mr. Nicolai maintains a sense of creeping disquiet and uncertainty throughout the narrative; I was unsure whether Ian was haunted by his son or slowly going crazy until the last few pages of the novel.”
- Uncle Progress – 5 stars
“I … found myself marveling at how well-crafted many sentences are. I would find myself stopping and re-reading them, just so I could savor their beauty a little longer.”
- Basil Owen – 5 stars
“Mr. Nicolai uses language beautifully. He paints very vivid images in very few words and he does so brilliantly.” – Tifainé N. Highly – 5 stars
“Mr. Nicolai’s brutally straightforward prose and clear love for his characters… combine into something vital and hungry (like the early works of – dare I speak his name? – Stephen King).”
- Ryan J. Holthaus – 5 stars
“[O]ften it is easy to see why any given writer had to self publish (and often seemingly without any editor). That is definitely not the case here. The writing was intense, compelling and intelligent.”
- Beth C – 4 stars
“[T]he ending was nailed perfectly.”
- Jason Plowman – 5 stars
“For anyone who has been near people in the depths of horrific and insatiable grief, Ian’s hundred mile an hour flight into emotional and physical self-destruction rings true.”
- Shawna B. – 5 stars
“During the climax of the story my 1.5 year old daughter read my emotions and instinctively curled up in my arms and remained there [for the] rest of the book. This was not just a story for me – it was an experience.”
- Ben – 5 stars
“If Alex [is] a sign of things to come, keep your eyes on this author. You will not regret it.”
- Grace McDonough – 5 stars
Alex, by Adam J Nicolai. You will not sleep tonight.
The Devil’s Grin (Kronberg Crimes) by Annelie Wendeberg
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, British, Historical, Genre Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, British Detectives, Historical Fiction
A mazon’s #3 British Detective Mystery
At the turn of the 19th century, bacteriological research has made a tremendous leap. When epidemics were still untamed and claimed thousands of lives, Pasteur and Koch isolated deadly bacteria and developed vaccines. Now, it was but a small step towards bacterial warfare…
In Victorian London’s cesspool of crime and disease, a series of murders remains undiscovered until a cholera victim is found floating in the city’s drinking water supply. Dr Anton Kronberg, England’s best bacteriologist, is called upon to investigate and finds evidence of abduction and medical maltreatment. While Scotland Yard has little interest in pursuing the case, Kronberg pushes on and crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes. The detective immediately discovers Kronberg’s secret – a woman masquerading as a man in order to practice medicine – a criminal deed that could land her in prison for years to come. But both must join forces to stop a crime so monstrous, it outshines Jack the Ripper’s deeds in brutality and cold-bloodedness.
Women of Uncommon Strength by Gladney B. Darroh
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Domestic Life, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Life
I n the midst of crisis, strong women are all that keep their families intact. Margaret McAllister is a widow whose son has returned home from war with a terrible injury and self doubts. Yesenia Hernandez, homemaker, deals with her husband’s inability to cope with tragedy. Nine-year-old Emily Fleming fights bravely to protect her younger sister, Chloë, after their world is turned upside down by the senseless death of their parents. Mrs. King is the charismatic Director of The Children’s Sanctuary. Elena Hernandez, a dedicated teacher, wonders when she will meet that special someone while living with deep personal loss. The sensible sister, Dr. Kathryn McAllister-Mason, is determined to keep her brother on track. Dr. Patricia Fleming’s love reaches beyond the grave. A victim of spousal abuse, Nadine Slagg finds the courage to make the ultimate mother’s sacrifice. Against this backdrop is a country beset by the greatest economic instability since the Great Depression, but these women and their families put everything on the line for the sake of doing the right thing. Along the way their struggles are intensified by corruption, prejudice, and evil men bent on destroying everything good and innocent to advance their own insatiable greed. But threading through these women’s lives is a young man, a gifted artist, who becomes the catalyst for resolution while rediscovering his own life’s meaning and finding true love.
This is a profoundly moving story about women whose everyday acts of love and devotion bind their families together. Emotional and compelling, it is a beautiful love story that will touch your heart and make you laugh and make you cry. Most of all it is a story about faith, reaffirmation of faith, and the redeeming power of love.
Ten percent of the author’s royalties from the sale of this book is being donated to the Boys and Girls Harbor. For those who wish to make an additional donation, please visit: www.boysandgirlsharbor.org
Your Gift to Me by Bonnie Bartel Latino
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, War, Romance, Contemporary
A chieved Amazon’s #1 Top Rated War Fiction and #1 Top Rated Contemporary Romance in 2012 and 2013.
TOP GUN meets STEEL MAGNOLIAS in an award-winning love story that crosses genres and touches hearts. Filled with unexpected twists . . .
Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Air Force widow Emily Ann Meade clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession … until she meets F-16 pilot, Colonel Ted Foley in Hawaii. Although they are mutually attracted, the charismatic widower’s fighter wing in Japan recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes.
Allowing her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can’t afford the emotional mortgage, Emily lowers her barriers. She discovers Ted’s greatest virtue: he makes the ordinary feel sublime. Healing in shared confidences solidifies their bond. When another crash reignites her fears, the relationship shatters.
Unless Emily finds a path through her emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by example and from the front. And that man’s life could be in danger!
Brooklyn NY: A Grim Retrospective by Jerry Castaldo
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature, Entertainers, Leaders & Notable People, Political, Regional U.S., Mid Atlantic, Health Fitness & Dieting, Recovery, Substance Abuse, Humor & Entertainment, Self-Help, Motivational, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body
T his explosive autobiographical volume is a gripping account of entertainer Jerry Castaldo growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, NY, his agonizing descent into the darkness of the city’s underbelly and his desperate struggle back to normalcy.
Celebrated NY Post columnist, author and playwright Chip Deffaa edited this dark, yet highly inspirational story.
“Heartbreaking,” “surprising,” “emotionally charged.”
“Shocking,” “volatile,” “riveting” and “just plain scary.”
Those comments are from readers of this book who cut a wide swath across a varied demographic–men, women; young, old; and who are from varying socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and locales.



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