Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

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    Romance, Mystery, Legal Thriller, Action & Adventure, Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Romantic Comedy, Time Travel… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Sweet Lake: A Novel (A Sweet Lake Novel Book 1) Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    Inn manager Linnie has breathed new life into The Wayfair. Now her life needs a makeover…

    Linnie Wayfair knows just how many people are counting on her. But knowing doesn’t make doing any easier.

    Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, wants her to muster all her business sense and return the Wayfair Inn to its former glory. Her parents hope she’ll forgive her scoundrel of a brother and reconcile the family. The eccentric Sweet Lake Sirens want her to open the inn—and her heart—to new possibilities. And her hilarious lifelong friends Jada and Cat are dropping none-too-subtle hints for her to ignite a romance with Daniel Kettering, the sexy attorney who’s been pining for her for years…

    Now a shocking turn of events will open old wounds and upend the world Linnie has carefully built. She has to make changes quickly—and the results, though not entirely what she expected, might be what she’s been yearning for all along.

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    McNally's Secret (The Archy McNally Series Book 1) Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders introduces his most disarming detective in this powerhouse novel of passion, murder, and unabashed greed

    Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach’s power elite. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally’s latest case.

    A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing from a high-society matron’s wall safe. Lady Cynthia Horowitz, now on her sixth husband, is a nasty piece of work who lives in a mansion that looks like Gone With the Wind’s Tara transplanted to southern Florida. McNally’s search takes him into a thickening maze of sex, lies, scandal, and blackmail. When passion erupts into murder and McNally must dig even deeper to uncover the truth, he unearths a shocking secret that could expose his own family’s skeletons.

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    Hard Evidence (Dismas Hardy Book 3) This Dimas Hardy thriller is “a compelling combination of courtroom drama and whodunit…Sparked with crackling dialogue and vivid scenes of its San Francisco setting.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

    When the bullet-ridden body of a Silicon Valley billionaire washes up on shore, assistant D.A. Dismas Hardy finds himself the prosecutor in San Francisco’s murder trial of the century. The suspect: a Japanese call girl with a long list of prominent clients. But when a bizarre series of events blows the case wide open, Hardy finds himself on the other side of the law—as a lawyer for the defense…

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    Masters File: The Rider Files, Book 2 With a twelve million dollar debt, there’s no escaping the mafia.

    When Jenna Masters embarks on a vacation to Antigua, she anticipates leaving behind her hectic job in the intensive care unit but doesn’t anticipate meeting an attractive stranger, Ryan Walsh, with a dark past. She turns down a romantic encounter not wanting to invite danger into her life. When Jenna is kidnapped, she discovers her own past has resurfaced to claim her and she turns to the one man she knows can help her—Ryan Walsh.

    Jenna and Ryan plummet into danger that threatens both of their lives. Can they free themselves from the wrath of a killer or will they find their lives cut short by those that seek to destroy them?

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    Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse (The Midwife Trilogy Book 2) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood’s most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century.

    Orphaned brother and sister Peggy and Frank lived in the workhouse until Frank got free and returned to rescue his sister. Bubbly Jane’s spirit was broken by the cruelty of the workhouse master until she found kindness and romance years later at Nonnatus House. Mr. Collett, a Boer War veteran, lost his family in the two world wars and died in the workhouse.

    Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. This is an enduring work of literary nonfiction, at once a warmhearted coming-of-age story and a startling look at people’s lives in the poorest section of postwar London.

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    The Seven Sisters: Book One Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss—the first in a unique, spellbinding series—Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talents like never before.

    Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, “Atlantis”—a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva—having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage—a clue that takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story.

    Eighty years earlier in the Rio of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela—passionate and longing to see the world—convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

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    Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.

    What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, Pfizer had high hopes for a new drug that would boost blood flow to the heart. As they conducted trials on angina sufferers, researchers noted a startling effect: while the drug did not affect blood flow to the heart, it did affect blood flow elsewhere! Now over six million American men have taken Viagra in their lifetime.

    Winston Churchill once said, “Men occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.” Within the scientific community, a certain stigma is attached to chance discovery because it is wrongly seen as pure luck. Happy accidents certainly happen every day, but it takes intelligence, insight, and creativity to recognize a “Eureka, I found what I wasn’t looking for!” moment and know what to do next. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!

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    Miss Kane's Christmas : A Novella (A Christmas Central Romantic Comedy Book 1) With Christmas only three days away, Carol Claus agrees to her father’s request that she leave the North Pole on a mission to help save Christmas. Joining single father Ben Hanson and his children for the holidays seems an easy enough task until Santa informs her that Ben is the man behind the disturbing new book Beyond Bah Humbug: Why Lying to Your Children about Santa Claus is a Bad Idea.

    Posing as Miss Kane, the children’s new nanny, Carol pulls out all the stops to show Ben how fun Christmas can be, all the while struggling to understand how one man could hate the holidays so much. How could she, Santa’s only daughter, be so attracted to a man who refuses to believe her father exists?

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    Agent of Time: A Time Travel Thriller (In Times Like These) How do you race a clock that runs backward?

    Special Agent Stella York watched a man die in the middle of the Interstate. But he didn’t stay dead for long…

    When a rookie FBI agent is tasked with solving a series of bizarre murders, her case is going nowhere. The evidence is contradictory, the timeline is impossible, and if she doesn’t solve it now, the killer will become unstoppable.

    Agent of Time is a mind-bending multiverse thriller. If you like twisting time travel and heroes who won’t quit, you’ll love this novella length adventure in the world of In Times Like These.

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    The Buzz Kill (A Honeybee Cozy Mystery Book 1) When a man is found dead near middle-aged beekeeper Alice Townsend’s beehives, it sets the town abuzz!

    When Alice installs eight hives in Christchurch’s red zone, she expects her bees will pollinate the bounty of fruit trees in the area. Instead, just one day later, a dead body is found nearby covered in stings. Now the police believe a killer used her bees as their murder weapon.

    Desperate to keep her hives safe from destruction, Alice sets out to solve the murder. Between an argumentative wife, a neighbor embroiled in a property dispute, and a workplace stalker, she’s soon busy as a bee finding suspects.

    As if having a potential murder conviction hanging over her hives wasn’t enough of a worry, Alice’s aging dog Chester is feeling under the weather. Trouble just seems to make a beeline to her door…

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  • Monday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Historical Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Biographies & Memoirs, Romance, Nonfiction, Paranormal, Thriller… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Whispers of War Three friends struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II.

    In August of 1939, as Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany, three childhood companions must choose between friendship and country. Erstwhile socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office’s Air Raid Precautions Department, matchmaker Hazel tries to mask two closely guarded secrets with irrepressible optimism, and German expat Marie worries that she and her family might face imprisonment in an internment camp if war is declared. When Germany invades Poland and tensions on the home front rise, Marie is labeled an enemy alien, and the three friends find themselves fighting together to keep her free at any cost.

    Featuring Julia Kelly’s signature “intricate, tender, and convincing” (Publishers Weekly) prose, The Whispers of War is a moving and unforgettable tale of the power of friendship and womanhood in the midst of conflict.

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    Whiskey For Breakfast: An Addison Holmes Mystery (Addison Holmes Mysteries Book 3) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    The Private Investigator’s Handbook:

    Rule #1: Don’t break the law

    Rule #2: See Rule #1

    …And then there’s Addison Holmes, who makes up her handbook as she goes along.

    Addison is licensed to carry and she means business. The only thing getting in her way is a sexy detective, a neighborhood watch from hell, a dead billionaire, a black market sperm bank, and a long lost heir.

    Piece of cake…

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    Flight to Redemption (A Samantha Starr Thriller, Book 1) Cleared by the NTSB of any fault when a mid-flight explosion demands a white-knuckle emergency landing of a Boeing jumbo jet, twenty-six-year-old pilot Samantha ‘Danger Magnet’ Starr heads to the Scottish Highlands for rest and relaxation.

    But peace and serenity quickly fade when Sam rescues a boy named Charlie from being abducted by a political terrorist organization.

    Arriving at the nearest police station with the intent of returning Charlie to his powerful and influential father, Sam discovers the police are in cahoots with the abductors, and she’s the one being fingered for kidnapping.

    Now, dodging terrorists, corrupt police, and haunted by her younger brother’s kidnapping and murder years prior, Sam will do anything to protect Charlie in a thrilling Flight to Redemption.

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    Paris Echo: A Novel A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks.

    American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan.

    Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected connection with the young man. Yet as Tariq begins to assimilate into the country he risked his life to enter, he realizes that its dark past and current ills are far more complicated than he’d anticipated. And Hannah, diving deeper into her work on women’s lives in Nazi-occupied Paris, uncovers a shocking piece of history that threatens to dismantle her core beliefs. Soon they each must question which sacrifices are worth their happiness and what, if anything, the tumultuous past century can teach them about the future.

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    This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is offered the chance of a lifetime—a two-year assignment in Havana.

    For David Ariosto, the island is an intriguing new world, unmoored from the one he left behind. From neighboring military coups, suspected honey traps, salty spooks, and desperate migrants to dissidents, doctors, and Havana’s empty shelves, Ariosto uncovers the island’s subtle absurdities, its Cold War mystique, and the hopes of a people in the throes of transition. Beyond the classic cars, salsa, and cigars lies a country in which black markets are ubiquitous, free speech is restricted, privacy is curtailed, sanctions wreak havoc, and an almost Kafka-esque goo of Soviet-style bureaucracy still slows the gears of an economy desperate to move forward.

    But life in Cuba is indeed changing, as satellite dishes and internet hotspots dot the landscape and more Americans want in. Still, it’s not so simple. The old sentries on both sides of the Florida Straits remain at their posts, fists clenched and guarding against the specter of a Cold War that never quite ended, despite the death of Fidel and the hand-over of the presidency to a man whose last name isn’t Castro.

    And now, a crisis is brewing…

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    The Christmas Countdown: The perfect cosy feel good romance Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the two people she loves the most, she flees to her eccentric Aunt Clara’s cosy cottage to hide away over the winter season. But kind, impulsive Aunt Clara has other ideas… She’s not about to see her favourite niece wallowing in sadness during the most wonderful time of the year. So, with the help of her close circle of friends and plenty of gin, she creates a handmade advent calendar for Holly.

    Every day in December, Holly opens a new door and has a different task to complete. She soon finds herself asking out a complete stranger – gorgeous, cheeky pub landlord, Finn Jackson. But as handsome Finn gets involved in her festive challenges, Holly’s determination to avoid romance is put to the test. Still, Finn’s far too carefree and single for true love, isn’t he?

    As Holly begins to embrace each day – a complete makeover, building the biggest snowman she’s ever seen, singing in a karaoke contest – Finn is there adding fun and laughter to every moment. Holly starts to realise that she can become the person she’s always wanted to be…

    But a secret from Finn’s past threatens to turn Holly’s Christmas upside down and makes her question everything she has experienced in the last few weeks. Will Finn open up to Holly in time to show her how he really feels? And will she complete the advent calendar challenges and fall in love this Christmas?

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    Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness In this lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering, the beloved author of The Happiness Project shows us how to take control of our stuff—and, by extension, our lives.

    Gretchen Rubin knows firsthand that creating order can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. But for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution doesn’t work. When we tailor our approach to suit our own particular challenges and habits, we can find inner calm.

    With a sense of fun, and a clear idea of what’s realistic for most people, Rubin suggests dozens of manageable tips and tricks for creating a more serene, orderly environment, including:

    • Never label anything “miscellaneous.”
    • Ask yourself, “Do I need more than one?”
    • Don’t aim for minimalism.
    • Remember: If you can’t retrieve it, you won’t use it.
    • Stay current with a child’s interests.
    • Beware the urge to “procrasticlear.”

    By getting rid of things we don’t use, don’t need, or don’t love, we free our minds (and our shelves) for what we truly value.

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    Academy Obscura - The Flame Within: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance A flawed heroine. A twisted magical college. Three sexy teachers.

    I didn’t know magic existed…until I found my birth family after a life in foster care. They tell me there are rules, but I don’t believe them. Naturally, I break one of those precious rules on the night of a full moon, and am forced to enroll at Academy Obscura. But I don’t fit in. After all, I’m not a witch, vampire, fae, werewolf, or shifter. Am I?

    Worse, the penalty for messing up at the Academy? Death. My only chance of survival lies in the hands of three frustratingly hot teachers. Jaxon, a powerful but untrustworthy witch. Liam, a fae who avoids my flirtations. And Angel, the alpha werewolf who enthusiastically tears apart my enemies, but openly broods when I’m around.

    I am drawn to all of them. But, how can one woman have three men?

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    A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.

    Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed ‘Mister Whisper,’ earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.

    Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow’s Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.

    And what he did.

    When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack is sent to lead the investigation and bring the boy home.

    But as similarities between the two cases grow, could it be that Jack caught the wrong man all those years ago?

    And, if so, is the real Mister Whisper about to claim his fourth victim?

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    The Secret of Seaside (Paige Comber Mystery Book 1) Welcome to Seaside! A sleepy, island village filled with sandy beaches, colorful characters… and murder!

    Paige Comber dreams of running off to Paris to train at the Cordon Bleu, but fresh out of college, she is stuck running her granny’s coffee shop in the small town of Seaside. It looks like a lousy summer until a handsome stranger named Nate arrives.

    He’s here to help his Uncle Byron with his affairs, but when his uncle’s body washes up on the beach and Nate is thrown into prison, it is up to Paige to find out who might have been crazy enough to do it.

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  • Book of the Day: Freckled

    Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in HawaiiFreckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii by TW Neal

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    For fans of The Glass Castle comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.

    We never call it homeless. We’re just "camping" in the jungle on Kauai…

    We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf…but we’ve been "camping" for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river.

    Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, clinging to my sister as we face the tractor, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal.

    But Mom and Pop are addicted. Addicted to Kauai’s beauty, to drugs, to surfing, to living a life according to their own rules out from under their high-achieving parents’ judgmental eyes. I’m just their red-headed, mouthy, oldest kid. What I want doesn’t matter.

    But I’m smart. I will make a different life for myself someday if I keep up my grades no matter what happens.
    No matter how often we run out of food.
    No matter how many times I change schools…or don’t go to school at all.
    No matter how many bullies beat me up for the color of my skin.

    I might be growing up wild in Hawaii, but I have dreams I’m going to reach, no matter how crazy things get.

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