Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

  • Book of the Day: The Brave Ones

    The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military ServiceThe Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service by Michael J. MacLeod

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    How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger—and lives on the line—in America’s War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the armed forces at age forty-one. What he observed and experienced as an embedded reporter and a serving soldier makes for an unflinching and inspiring portrait of endurance, sacrifice, discipline, and courage.

    From the trials of basic training on the home front to the ranks of the legendary 82nd Airborne Division to taking fire in the hot zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, MacLeod chronicles the soldier’s evolution as only one who’s been in those boots can. Candid, wise, and powerful, his memoir takes readers on an unforgettable journey through war and allows them to witness bravery firsthand.

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  • Saturday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Fantasy, Nonfiction, Thriller, Christian Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, War, Action & Adventure, Romance… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Wee Free Men (Discworld Book 30) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    The first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.

    A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality…

    Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men—a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men.

    Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself…

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    Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could decode people? You need to learn the science of people.

    As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive us. And she’s cracked the code.

    In Captivate, she shares shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone—and a completely new approach to building connections.

    Just like knowing the formulas to use in a chemistry lab, or the right programming language to build an app, Captivate provides simple ways to solve people problems.

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    Darkroom: A Thriller (Kelly Durrell Book 1) Talented but unstable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell’s Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs someone to keep an eye on her. Kelly needs someone to draw her out of her stable but not spectacular life. The arrangement works for both of them.

    Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There’s no note, no phone call. Day’s car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless.

    No one seems to care. The police certainly aren’t interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn’t just leave.

    Alone, Kelly traces Day’s last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day’s enigmatic photographs.

    If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear…

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    An Amish Year: Four Amish Novellas
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    Spend a year in Amish country with four sweet romances.

    Rooted in Love
    Rosemary Lantz is doing her best to run her family’s household. She excels at all her tasks except one: gardening. Saul Petersheim has pursued Rosemary for years, but Rosemary keeps turning him down. What Saul doesn’t know is that she has good reason—something no one can know—especially not him.

    A Love for Irma Rose
    The year is 1957, and young Irma Rose has a choice to make. Date the man who is “right” for her? Or give Jonas a chance, the wild and reckless suitor who refuses to take no for an answer?  Irma Rose steps onto the path she believes God has planned for her, but when she loses her footing, she is forced to rethink her choice.   

    Patchwork Perfect
    Eli Byler has been a widower for two years when he chooses to make a fresh start in Paradise, Pennsylvania. As Eli juggles the admiration of two women, he meets Miriam Fisher—the most unconventional Amish woman he’s ever met. She doesn’t fit the mold for what Eli is looking for, but it isn’t long before Eli realizes that Miriam is everything he wants. But Miriam has no plans to get married—ever.  Will Eli be able to change her mind?

    When Christmas Comes Again
    Katherine knows the first Christmas without Elias will be hard for her and the children. But when a mysterious Englischer appears with photographs of her late husband, Katherine begins to wonder what other blessings Christmas could have in store.

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    The Perfect Husband: A nail biting gripping psychological thriller He was the perfect husband. Until he wasn’t.

    When Shelly’s marriage ends in divorce, she’s left completely devastated and feeling like she’s never going to find love again.

    Until she meets Eric.

    Shelly can’t believe her luck. The first person she meets after (reluctantly) joining online dating, and he’s handsome, caring, everything she ever wanted and more. From romantic dates to expensive gifts, it’s as if she’s in a dream.

    But just when Shelly thinks she’s finally found her happily ever after, she begins to realize that all is not as it seems. As the cracks start to develop, perhaps Eric isn’t the perfect man she thought he was. Will her dream become a nightmare?

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    My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, two unspeakable losses that occurred in less than twenty-four hours. The stunned public turned for solace to Debbie’s only remaining child, Todd Fisher, who somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief.

    The son of "America’s Sweethearts" Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Todd grew up amid the glamorous wealth and pretense of Hollywood. Thanks to his funny, loving, no-nonsense mother, Todd remained down to earth, his own man, but always close to his cherished mom, and to his sister through her meteoric rise to stardom and her struggle with demons that never diminished her humor, talent, or spirit.

    Now, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with deeply personal stories from his earliest years to those last unfathomable days. His book, part memoir, part homage, celebrates their legacies through a more intimate, poignant, and often hilarious portrait of these two remarkable women than has ever been revealed before.

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    In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II
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    Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal.

    World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.

    As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls?

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    Gone Forever (Jack Widow Book 1) Jack Widow, elite undercover NCIS agent, is out for answers in his first explosive appearance.

    They shot his sheriff mother for working a case that they wanted buried. Now, elite NCIS Agent Jack Widow returns home from an undercover assignment to find out why. To make it right.  
     
    Taken-to-be a worthless drifter, Widow’s investigation leads him to the lake town of Black Rock, Mississippi, where he finds a distraught husband, a missing wife, and townspeople harboring a deadly secret–a secret they’ll die to protect. 
     
    Good thing that Widow will kill to find out what.

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    EMP: Heading Home The struggle to survive took all of David’s effort in the months after the EMP. Caring for his ailing parents gave him both a purpose and duty to the small farm town he grew up in.

    Now that his responsibility is over, he bets his life, and the lives of his friends, on a risky trek through the brutal winter to find and save his family in Chicago.

    Fierce blizzards and arctic winds challenge their arduous journey as do the warlords and tyrants who hold fast to the remnants of civilization.

    It is through this wasteland of suffering and death that David must face the odds and save his wife and daughter.

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    Romance, Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, Action & Adventure, Nonfiction, Thriller, Young Adult, Mystery… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Resisting the Rancher (The Hills of Texas Book 2) Rusty Walker has spent her entire life trying to earn her tough, ranching father’s respect and approval by learning the business inside and out. But now her uncompromising parent has decreed she must marry if she wants to inherit. Worse, her husband has to be someone who can help her run the business. As if she needs it!

    Williams Hill kissed Rusty in a bar in an act of temporary insanity, and lost his heart to her on the spot. Despite the complications to his own rodeo stock business, he agrees to marry the feisty red-head, hoping to woo her once they’re hitched. But she only views him with suspicion and resentment.

    Can this soft-spoken Texas cowboy convince his proud wife, who’s never known unconditional love, that she is everything he wants?

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    Golden Age (The Shifting Tides Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    The first book in an epic fantasy series by James Maxwell, author of the bestselling Evermen Saga.

    War is coming to Xanthos. The king refuses to face the truth, but his overlooked second son, Dion, can see the signs: strange warships patrolling, rumors of a new tyrant across the sea, and the princess of a neighboring land taken hostage…

    The princess, Chloe, refuses to be a helpless pawn in this clash of nations. She and Dion will need allies to turn the tide of war – and there are none more powerful than the eldren, a mysterious race of shapeshifters who live in the Wilds.

    As a world-spanning conflict begins, a king is betrayed, a prophecy is fulfilled, and Dion learns a secret about his past that changes his life forever.

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    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley’s most audacious entrepreneur.

    Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family and friends, the book traces the entrepreneur’s journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world. Vance spent over 40 hours in conversation with Musk and interviewed close to 300 people to tell the tumultuous stories of Musk’s world-changing companies: PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity, and to characterize a man who has renewed American industry and sparked new levels of innovation while making plenty of enemies along the way.

    Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our time: can the nation of inventors and creators which led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk–one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history–is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.

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    Tell Me How This Ends Well: A Novel Why is tonight different from all other nights?

    Tonight we kill dad.

    In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz’s demise, and years of resentment boil over as they debate whether to go through with the real reason for their reunion: an ill-considered plot to end their father’s iron rule for good. That is, if they can put their bickering, grudges, festering relationships, and distrust of one another aside long enough to act.

    And God help them if their mother finds out…

    Tell Me How This Ends Well presents a blistering and prescient vision of the near future, turning the exploits of one very funny, very troubled family into a rare and compelling exploration of the state of America, and what it could become.

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    King's Reign (The Xander King Series Book 4) An unimaginable crime. A desperate betrayal. It was an easy payday… until he got involved.

    South of the border the bad guys have kidnapped seven young American girls. One man, former Special Operations legend, Xander King, has the skills and the resources to stop them before the girls are sold into slavery.

    However, compromised agents, faulty intel, and ex-military mercenaries leave Xander in a fight for his life, and the fate of the innocent, literally dangling from his fingertips…

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    Choose to be Happy Do you want to choose how you feel? Wayne Froggatt has already taught hundreds of people in New Zealand to do just that. Choose to Be Happy is the result of his experience. In it, he applies his methods to a comprehensive range of common human problems and areas of personal growth, including: worry, fear, anxiety, guilt, anger, depression, unassertiveness, perfectionism, decision making, self-motivation, disapproval and criticism.

    Do you want to be your own therapist? You can learn to help yourself – with a proven method of psychotherapy that emphasizes the use of your own reasoning powers to achieve personal control and growth. this book introduces the method step by step, allowing you to understand and change the way you react to events in a rational and realistic manner.

    Choose of Be Happy offers more than inspiration and ‘positive thinking’. It holds out the prospect of permanent change.

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    Her Final Hour: An absolutely unputdownable mystery thriller (Detective Gina Harte Book 2) Melissa Sanderson is the perfect wife and mother. She dotes on her daughter, and lives in her dream home in a quiet cul-de-sac in the suburbs.

    But looks can be deceiving.

    Something is amiss in that house – all the neighbours think so. Some say Melissa is having an affair. Others say she’s been drinking too much.

    Then one night, sirens wake up the whole neighbourhood.

    Melissa Sanderson is dead.

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    The Cowboy's Secret Bride (Turners vs Coopers Chance Creek Book 1) Never step into the middle of a family feud—

    Millionaire Carl Whitfield has set his sights on small-town chef Camila Torres, but she won’t have him until he can prove he means to settle in Chance Creek for good. He’s spent the last three years searching for the perfect ranch. She’s spent the last three years keeping him at arms’ length. Now Carl will do anything to secure a spread—including siding with the Coopers in their ages-old feud with the Turners, a move that could make his dreams come true—or destroy them for good.

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    Diary of Anna the Girl Witch: Foundling Witch What if everything you thought about yourself was false?

    Anna Sophia always knew she was different. Her past is a mystery. Discovered living with wild bears in Russia as a baby, she’s not like everyone else in the Swiss orphanage where she now lives. But it’s not until she turns thirteen that she finds out her secret.

    A letter from her long-dead mother explains the truth: Anna Sophia is a witch. She can use her magical powers for good or evil, and if she isn’t careful, the darkness will come from within and can damage her soul. When a serious danger threatens Anna and her friends, she must use her powers, no matter what the cost.

    Anna Sophia can ignite things. She can fly in a bucket and stop time — but can she save her friends without sacrificing her soul in the process?

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    Marvels, Mochas, and Murder (Comics and Coffee Case Files Book 1) The only suspect to his best friend’s murder…

    When Kirby Jackson’s friend Ryan is found dead in the comics and coffee shop the two co-own, Kirby quickly becomes suspect number one.

    Perhaps things wouldn’t look so bad had Kirby not been planning to cut Ryan out of the business.

    The only witness to the crime, Ryan’s stubborn dachshund, might hold the keys to solving the case. But his attitude toward anything and everything that isn’t his warm doggy bed is less than helpful.

    With a local detective and former high school crush investigating the murder, it’s up to Kirby to put together the clues. Otherwise, he’s doing twenty-five to life.

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