Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

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    Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Suspense, Biographies & Memoirs, Action & Adventure, Cookbooks, Science Fiction, Horror, Christian Fiction… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Holding Out for Christmas: A Festive Christmas Cowboy Romance Novel (The Christmas Tree Ranch Book 3) Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    She’s all he wants for Christmas. Maybe even forever…

    Conner Branch hasn’t stopping thinking about the sultry singer he spotted on stage during last year’s Cowboy Christmas ball. So imagine his surprise when he discovers the demure kindergarten teacher who comes home for the holidays to Branding Iron, Texas, is the very same woman. And once he’s up close and personal with the mesmerizing Megan, he’s downright determined to keep her by his side for good…

    If only Conner Branch were simply the star struck cowboy she once believed him to be, Megan wouldn’t have to worry about losing everything to the rugged—and wildly romantic—rancher. With Christmas in the air, it’s a little too easy to imagine spending the holidays, not to mention her whole life, wrapped in Conner’s loving arms. But this songstress has hopes for a big career back in Nashville. And no little holiday romance will ever get in the way of that. So what’s a woman to do when she finds herself facing down a love as big and bold as Texas itself?

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    Heaven Adjacent Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a bittersweet novel about healing old wounds and finding a new place to call home…

    Roseanna Chaldecott spent her life as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan. But when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, something snaps. Unsure of her future, Roseanna heads upstate on one tank of gas and with no plans to return.

    In the foothills of the Adirondacks, Roseanna discovers the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm. Its seventy-six acres are rich with possibilities and full of surprises, including a mother and daughter squatting on the property. Although company is the last thing Roseanna wants, she reluctantly lets them stay.

    Roseanna and the young girl begin sculpting junk found around the farm into zoo animals, drawing more newcomers—including her estranged son, Lance. He pleads with Roseanna to return to the city, but she’s finally discovered where she belongs. It may not provide the solitude she originally sought, but her heart has found room for much more.

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    Language Arts: A Novel
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    Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, his ex-wife, or his college-bound daughter, who has just flown the nest.

    He’s at the end of a road he’s traveled on autopilot for years when a series of events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and indecisions that have brought him to this point.

    With the help of an ambitious art student, an Italian-speaking nun, and the memory of a boy in a white suit who inscribed his childhood with both solace and sorrow, Charles may finally be able to rewrite the script of his life.

    From the national-bestselling author of Broken for You, Language Arts is an affecting tale of love, loss, and language—its powers and its perils.

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    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 1) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    An astonishing voice in psychological suspense.

    As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

    Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

    Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.

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    Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.

    Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O’Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, Jennifer exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the autism script with wit, candor, passion, and power. Her journey is one of reverse-self-discovery not only as an Aspie but–more importantly–as a thoroughly modern woman.

    Beyond being a memoir, Autism in Heels is a love letter to all women. It’s a conversation starter. A game changer. And a firsthand account of what it is to walk in Jennifer’s shoes (especially those iconic red stilettos).

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    The Courier: (A Ryan Kealey Thriller Book 6) A former CIA agent is on the hunt for a terrorist armed with a nuclear device in the New York Times bestselling author’s timely and intelligent thriller.

    Ryan Kealey now knows he’ll never really put the game behind him. But now the game itself has changed. Between tense interagency "cooperation" that gums the works, and an overreliance on data-crunching and wiz-kid tech, today’s US intelligence service has lost a step to its ever-bolder, viciously adaptable global enemies. And thanks to an incredible discovery in the Arctic, those enemies now have a nuke—capable of unleashing unthinkable terror.

    To hunt down the devastating package before it can be used, Kealey forms an unlikely partnership with the young Farsi-speaking nuclear physicist Rayhan Jafari. But once on the ground, with technology and their by-the-numbers command failing them, they’re on their own—trusting only their guts and each other—to conduct the dirty business of combating horrific destruction.

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    Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook for Two: 100 "Fix-and-Forget" Recipes for Ready-to-Eat Meals Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Cooking for two has never been easier. The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook for Two makes every meal a breeze with healthy, low-effort options. Minestrone Soup, Tofu Stir-Fry, Chicken Tikka Masala, and more—these irresistible slow cooker dishes take just 15 minutes or less to prep.

    Each recipe in this slow cooker cookbook comes complete with detailed nutritional information and helpful labels to let you know if it’s heart healthy, diabetes friendly, or gluten-free. In addition, these recipes feature handy tips for adjusting ingredients to avoid things like allergens and glutens.

    The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook for Two includes:

    • Healthy Recipes for Two—Forget about takeout thanks to 100+ scrumptious recipes perfectly proportioned for two.
    • Fast and Easy Prep—Discover the joy of fix-and-forget cooking with this slow cooker cookbook’s recipes that take 15 minutes or less to prepare.
    • Tips to Spice it Up—Get substitution and serving ideas that make it easy to modify recipes so you can keep them fresh.

    Enjoy easy, at-home meals with the Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook for Two.

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    Earthbound: Science Fiction in the Old West (Chronicles of the Maca Book 1) Marooned in 19th century Old West, an alien must survive on the violent planet and return to his homeworld to destroy his mortal enemies and avenge his people.

    During a raid to a Comanche camp he rescues Anna, a tall warrior woman. The two become friends and comrades, their fates forever intertwined. They find themselves together in the prairies of 19th century Texas, the bordellos of Civil War-era New Orleans, to Prohibition in the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the vastness of space.

    But will they survive hardships through history, the enmity of their southern neighbors and the Civil War, to be able to return to his home planet and exact his revenge?

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    American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
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    Now a major motion picture from Lion’s Gate Films starring Christian Bale!

    In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.

    Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

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    Heather (Hart Land Lakeside Inn Book 1) Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    Come and stay in one of the quaint and cozy cottages at Hart Land—but be warned, once you meet the family and delightful cast of characters, you may never want to leave.

    Brilliant cardiac surgeon Heather Preston has invested everything to achieve her dream of working at a world renowned hospital. When an unsettling call from her grandfather the retired general brings her back to her childhood lakeside home, she rediscovers the appeal of life in a small town, the joys of free-spirited youth—and Jake Harper.

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    The Ninth District: An FBI Thriller (Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The Federal Reserve has never been robbed… Yet.

    Suspense, intrigue, and dazzling plot twists power this tale of an FBI special agent and rookie investigator racing through the darkest layers of Minneapolis to chase a sinister Federal Reserve robber.

    FBI Special Agent Jack Miller, pulled into a high-profile case to mentor a new agent, finds himself in a clash with the toughest opponent of his career. The chase culminates in the bowels of the city, in the storm sewers and tunnels beneath The Ninth District Federal Reserve of Minneapolis.

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    When Ashes Fall (Moments In Boston) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time. You can’t split your heart, soul, and body in half. But I’m here to tell you, you can.

    Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm. Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day.

    Both are mine. But I can have only one.

    There are two sides to this tale. I’m here to tell you mine. If you think this story is about a cheater, you couldn’t be more wrong…

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  • Saturday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Romance, Cookbooks, Romantic Comedy, Biographies & Memoirs, Contemporary Fiction, Dystopian, Humor, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Mixtape Over 9,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Since the death of his twin brother, Oliver’s caught between pleasing his fans and finding himself. Emery finds him first.

    Emery has never felt more alone. Raising her daughter is both her pleasure and her pain as she struggles to hold on to her job as a bartender and keep a roof over their heads. With no one to help them—no support system—any unexpected expense or late bill could turn their whole world upside down.

    Reeling from the death of his twin brother and bandmate, rock star Oliver Smith is trying to drink his problems away. Apparently he isn’t very good at it; they follow him wherever he goes. Also in hot pursuit are the paparazzi, who catch Oliver at his lowest low.

    He could have walked into any bar in California, but he walked into hers. Emery helps Oliver lose the crowd, and they find themselves alone: two people whose paths are marked with loss and pain. However, they hold an unshakable hope for healing. They find solace together, but can their love withstand the world?

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    The Big Book of Breakfast: Serious Comfort Food for Any Time of the Day The acclaimed cookbook author shares more than 280 breakfast recipes from classic omelets and pancakes to quiches, frittatas, and more.

    The latest in Maryana Vollstedt’s popular Big Book series, The Big Book of Breakfasts starts the day right with every kind of breakfast food imaginable. Best of all, each recipe is so easy to make you can hit the snooze button before getting started!

    From classic blue-plate specials of Corned Beef Hash and Eggs to an innovative brunch of Spicy Orange Pancakes, here are frittatas and omelets, quiches and stratas, casseroles and skillet entrees, sandwiches and wraps, French toast and pancakes, waffles and cereals, meats and potatoes, breads, and fruits plus a bevy of beverages and helpful kitchen tips.

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    Only When It's Love: A Chick Lit, Romantic Comedy Novel: Holding Out For Mr Right Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Alex is tired of being single. After years of disastrous hook-ups and relationships that lead to the bedroom but nowhere else, Alex is convinced she’ll never find her Mr Right.

    Then her newly married friend Stacey recommends what worked for her: a self-help book that guarantees Alex will find true love in just seven steps. Sounds simple, right?

    Except Alex soon discovers that each step is more difficult than the last, and one of the rules involves dating, but not sleeping with a guy for six months. Absolutely no intimate contact whatsoever. Zero. Nada. Rien. A big challenge for Alex, who has never been one to hold back from jumping straight into the sack, hoping it will help a man fall for her.

    Will any guys be willing to wait? Will Alex find her Mr Right? And if she does, will she be strong enough to resist temptation and hold out for true love?

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    The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    The heartwarming, classic true story of a dog who didn’t understand he’s a dog—and the imaginative boy who loved him.

    Funny and poignant, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be is a lively portrait of an unorthodox childhood and an unforgettable friendship. Growing up in on the frontier of Saskatoon, Canada, the legendary adventurer and naturalist, Farley Mowat, received a gift from his mom: a dog she bought for four cents. Farley quickly named him “Mutt.”

    Mutt displayed skills at hunting and retrieving that were either pure genius or just plain crazy—once going so far as to retrieve a plucked and trussed ruffed grouse from the grocer. Mutt also loved riding passenger in an open car wearing goggles and climbing both trees and ladders — the perfect companion for a child with a love for animals and misadventures.

    Originally published for young people, this is a memoir by the author Never Cry Wolf that will delight dog lovers of all ages.

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    American Fever: A Novel On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama.

    A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down.

    American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.

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    1984
    Over 50,000 5-Star Reviews!

    With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition.

    “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker

    In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

    Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

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    Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.

    There’s nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that’s been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it’s a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they’d better figure out what’s going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.

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    Where I Left Her: A Novel From the author of When I Was You comes a spine-tingling new thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare come true, when her teenage daughter goes to a sleepover and doesn’t come back.

    Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the yellow roses in front.

    But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door—Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house. As Whitney searches for Amelia, she uncovers a trail of lies her daughter has told her—from the Finsta account to rumors of a secret relationship. Does she really even know this girl she’s raised? And Amelia’s not the only one with secrets. Could Whitney’s own demons have something to do with her daughter’s disappearance, and can Whitney find her before it’s too late?

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    Nightingales Under the Mistletoe: (Nightingales 7) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet.

    With shortages everywhere, and every news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightingale Hospital is suffering too.

    Millie is recently widowed and dealing with the demands of her family’s estate. It’s not long before her old world of The Nightingale begins to beckon, along with a long-lost love…

    Jess is struggling with her move from East London to the quiet of the countryside.

    Effie finds herself exiled to a quiet village, but the quiet doesn’t last for long as she soon finds excitement in the shape of a smooth-talking GI.

    As Christmas approaches, even the shelter of the countryside can’t protect the girls from heartache.

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    The First Harm: A Medical Thriller A first-year medical student determined to do everything right… discovers something very wrong. Now somebody wants her dead.

    Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.

    Tanna believes her discovery is the tip of a terrifying secret that goes far deeper than a single corpse. But when her investigation leads to a brutal murder, a lethal cover-up threatens to destroy the future she once dreamed of.

    And now she’s the next target.

    Afraid and on the run, Tanna must expose the truth before more lives are lost—including her own. Or is it already too late?

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    Sweet Saboteur: A Small Town Culinary Cozy Mystery (The Cozy Café Mysteries Book 1) The Cozy Café mysteries are light, cozy mysteries featuring a family-focused café owner who discovers she’s a talented amateur sleuth–and a magnet for animals.

    Someone’s out to ruin the café!

    Hounded by deadly gossip and the power hungry mayor, Scarlett’s determined not to give in to the pressure to close the family business. She intends to turn things around and give her sisters a better life.

    When a murder in Cozy Hollow points to the café as a likely cause, she must put all fears aside to solve the mystery before everything she’s fought to keep is lost. Or worse!

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    FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE an unputdownable psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist (Totally Gripping Psychological Thrillers) Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Young mother Claire confesses to the gruesome double murder of her newborn son and husband. But why? And did she really do it?

    Her best friend, Morgan, has always been there for her and now she refuses to believe that Claire is a killer.

    But Claire’s picture-perfect life isn’t what it seems.

    She had it all: a handsome chef husband Guy Bolton, a happy life on the coast, and a beautiful baby boy. Then, days after the christening, Claire’s husband and baby are murdered.

    Claire confesses to the crime. The evidence against her is damning. The police are convinced they have their killer.

    Morgan doesn’t think she did it… but is she ready to put her life at risk to find out?

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    Logical Magic: YA Contemporary Fantasy (Archimage Series Book 1) Sophia is learning everything she thought she knew is a lie… Not only is magic real, she’s a powerful Mage.

    Her powers have been bound since birth, but the Mage suppressing them passed away and now her magic has been unleashed. As everything she thought she knew begins to unravel, she realizes her life will never be the same, no matter how much she wishes she could go back and unlearn the truth of her magic power… or the jeopardy her life is now in…

    Because if she’s found, she’ll be imprisoned or worse.

    Logan never asked to be a protector, but he wasn’t given a choice.

    With the Archimage’s powers suddenly free, he is duty-bound to protect her at all costs. With his whole life derailed and his own painful past getting in his way, he’s not up to the task of protecting her. And when she develops feelings for him, things only get more complicated. He’ll never forgive himself if he loses her…

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  • Book of the Day: The Sun Does Shine

    The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death RowThe Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

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    A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.

    In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.

    But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence—full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon—transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.

    The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy.

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