Tag: Classics

  • Friday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

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

    Like what you see? Got friends who like to read? Use Facebook to SHARE Pixel of Ink and share the joy!

    For non-U.S. readers, Kindle content availability and pricing will vary.

    The Last Laugh: A romantic comedy that will make you laugh and cry Jenny discovers her days are numbered at the same time she discovers her husband is having an affair…

    Frankly, she had enough on her plate already. Two tricky teenagers, her mother’s constant complaints, friends who aren’t up to the job and a career which has been spiralling downwards since she won ‘Sunseeker Tour Rep of the Season’ twenty years ago. 

    And now this. Enough is enough! Jenny vows to keep both revelations a secret. She takes her life into her own hands and decides to live as she did when she was happiest… in 1996. She plans a spectacular 1990s themed party in place of a wake that she herself will attend. But will she be able to keep her secrets for long enough to have the party of a lifetime?

    The Last Laugh is both hilarious and heartbreaking, a book about how to find happiness and live your life as though every day is your last.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (The Midwife Trilogy Book 1) Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey!

    Readers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London’s East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women – from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can’t speak English, to the prostitutes of the city’s seedier side.

    Based on Jennifer Worth’s bestselling memoirs, Call the Midwife is the true story behind the beloved PBS series.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Death by Dumplings: A Garden Girls Cozy Mystery (Garden Girls Christian Cozy Mystery Series Book 4) Upon returning home from her recent Smoky Mountain adventure, "Garden Girl" Gloria Rutherford wants nothing more than to relax and unwind on her farm. After a good night’s rest, she decides to catch up with her close friends, aka, The Garden Girls at their favorite hangout, Dot’s Restaurant.

    There’s just one small problem. As Gloria pulls into the small town of Belhaven, she finds Dot’s place swarming with cops and the restaurant itself taped off with crime scene tape. Someone at the restaurant has been poisoned after eating Dot’s famous Chicken ‘n Dumplings!

    Dot and her husband Ray, are devastated and now must try to clear their name. When they ask Gloria to help, she jumps right into detective-mode and is hot on the trail of another killer.

    The list of suspects widens as Gloria uncovers a pile of motives – some from residents in their own little town.

    Desperate to clear her good friends’ names, she discovers the killer may be a little too close for comfort.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Full Contact: A Worth the Fight Novel (Worth the Fight series Book 2) “Sidney Halston has another knockout with her latest release in the Worth the Fight series. Full Contact is a heavyweight contender in the world of MMA romances.”—Smut Book Junkie Book Reviews

    How could she have been so stupid? When Jessica Cross decides to give her violently jealous boyfriend—the otherwise influential and charming Dennis Stavros—a second chance, she very nearly becomes a statistic. After weeks of healing from a broken rib and collapsed lung, and with Dennis behind bars, Jessica finally feels ready to come out of hiding. But will she ever be able to take a chance on love again with someone new?

    Mixed martial arts fighter Slade Martin knows he has a bad reputation. Hell, he’s probably earned it. So it won’t be easy to convince beautiful, vulnerable Jessica that she can trust him—that from the moment she walked into his life, she’s been the only one he’s wanted. Powerful and confident, Slade knows he can honor his vow to protect Jessica body and soul. Winning her heart will be another matter… but a woman like Jessica is worth the fight.

    Click Here for the best price!


    The Babylon Idol (Ben Hope, Book 15) When a sniper leaves Ben Hope’s friend fighting for his life, the former SAS major declares war on the men responsible. But what begins as a straightforward revenge mission gets complicated when a mysterious letter reveals Ben to be the real target.

    And his isn’t the only name on a crazed killer’s list.

    Professor Anna Manzini has no idea she’s in grave danger from a man she’d thought dead. She’s on the cusp of a major discovery: the location of the lost Babylon idol, a golden statue of immeasurable value.

    But when word of Anna’s work reaches her enemies, it sets off a cat-and-mouse chase that will lead Ben and Anna halfway across Europe and into the heart of war-torn Syria.

    To reach the precious idol first, Ben must keep one step ahead of a powerful maniac. If he fails, it won’t just be Ben and Anna’s lives in danger, but the world…

    Click Here for the best price!


    Beautiful Bad: A Novel In the tradition of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train comes the psychological thriller everyone is talking about, a twisted novel about a devoted wife, a loving husband, and a chilling crime that will stun even the cleverest readers.

    There are two sides to every story… And every person.

    Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas, while she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo.

    From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.

    Click Here for the best price!


    The Dry Grass of August Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation, what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood – and for the woman who means the world to her…

    On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family’s black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there – cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father’s rages and her mother’s benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally.

    Bright and curious, Jubie takes note of the anti-integration signs they pass, and of the racial tension that builds as they journey further south. But she could never have predicted the shocking turn their trip will take. Now, in the wake of tragedy, Jubie must confront her parents’ failings and limitations, decide where her own convictions lie, and make the tumultuous leap to independence…

    Click Here for the best price!


    Windrush (Jack Windrush Book 1) Burmese War, 1852. Unable to join the famous Royal Malverns, Jack Windrush is commissioned into the despised 113th Foot.

    Determined to rise in the ranks and make a name for himself, he is sent with the 113th to join the British expedition. But when they get involved in the attack of Rangoon, Jack realizes that war on the fringes of the Empire is not as honorable and glorious as he expected.

    After a chance meeting with a renegade British soldier, Jack witnesses the true terrors of war, and begins to question the whole framework in which he has grown up.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Caught in Between (The In-Betweens Book 1) She’s not like the others…

    Sixteen-year-old Sadie is a vampire who faints at the sight of blood, trips over her own feet, and can only, at best, be called cute. As the imperfect middle child in a perfect vampire family, she struggles to fit into a world where she is different from everyone else.

    Plagued by a series of embarrassing failures, Sadie is kicked out of University and must face reality: she doesn’t belong with vampires. And when a mysterious elder vampire seeks her out with vague and cryptic conversation, she’s even more convinced that something is amiss.

    With no other acceptable choice for her future, Sadie must convince her traditional vampire parents to let her do something unheard of for vampires her age. But questions continue to plague her. Is she truly a vampire? Or is she something else?

    Click Here for the best price!


    War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement.

    Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or you can download a Free Kindle Reading App for your computer or mobile device!

    * * *

    Prices are subject to change without notice. For non-U.S. readers, Kindle content availability and pricing will vary.

  • Saturday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Mystery, Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Classics, Nonfiction, Thriller… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

    Like what you see? Got friends who like to read? Use Facebook to SHARE Pixel of Ink and share the joy!

    For non-U.S. readers, Kindle content availability and pricing will vary.

    Dog Collar Crime: Misadventures of a Frustrated Mob Princess (A Lucie Rizzo Mystery Book 1) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Out of work and down on her luck, Lucie Rizzo is forced to do the one thing she’s long avoided—come home to her nutty, mob-infested family. A move that brings her back into the tempting arms of Frankie Falcone, the smoldering Italian ex who’s no stranger to living with the mob.

    When Lucie parlays her temporary dog-walking gig into a legit career, Frankie becomes her number one supporter. Suddenly, shaking her mob princess reputation doesn’t seem so crazy… until three of her clients are dogjacked.

    Despite help from the on-again, off-again Mr. Fix-It in her life, Lucie is thrown into a criminal conspiracy straight out of a gangster movie. One that, if she’s not careful, could leave her sleeping with the fishes.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Girl in Translation Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

    When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

    Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Everly Academy: Book One of Everly Academy When Molly Dillinger is offered a position at Everly Academy, a mysterious school with an elite student body, the opportunity seems surreal. She gets to live in a magnificent mansion where all her wants are catered to while teaching ten brilliant girls. Of course, when something seems to good too be true, it most probably is.

    Molly soon discovers that her new students are no ordinary girls at all. They each have a back story that is eerily similar to a fairy tale, only there is no happy ending for these girls. They’ve been cursed by a coven of witches and the deadline is quickly approaching before the curses become unbreakable.

    The head mistress of Everly Academy has tasked Molly with an impossible feat. She must crack the code to break the curses before time runs out. As if that isn’t enough of a challenge, there are only five elixirs and ten girls. Things are on the verge of becoming cutthroat as enemies are made and alliances are formed…

    Click Here for the best price!


    Once a Midwife: A Hope River Novel It’s Call the Midwife set in the U.S. homefront during World War II. If you loved Patricia Harman’s Midwife of Hope River you’ll love Once a Midwife!

    The women of Hope River trust midwife Patience Hester, whose skill in delivering babies is known for miles around. But though the Great Depression is behind them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war…and it can only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray.

    And while some are eager to join the fight, Patience’s husband, Daniel, is not. Daniel is a patriot—but he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War, and has vowed never to take up arms again.

    His stance leaves Patience and their four children vulnerable—to the neighbors who might judge them, and to the government, who imprison Daniel for his beliefs.

    Patience must support their family and fight for her husband’s release despite her own misgivings. And with need greater than ever, she must also keep her practice running during this tumultuous time…

    Click Here for the best price!


    Delayed Death (Temptation in Florence Book 1) Have you met the Mantonis? This eccentric Italian family has a fatal tendency to fall over dead bodies, and their unique reactions to murder will keep you giggling all through the night.

    In this first book of the series, the sudden death of the grandfather, Nico, threatens to put a stop to Emma’s opulent wedding. Unacceptable, says the bride, and in true Mantoni style, she hides the body until the festivities are over.

    But when it turns out Nico was poisoned, the attractive commissario, Stefano Garini, is called in to solve the case. Taciturn and sardonic, he couldn’t be more different from the exuberant Mantoni clan. But they say opposites attract… and Carlina, his prime Mantoni suspect, certainly makes his heart beat faster than allowed. Will they find the murderer while falling in love?

    Click Here for the best price!


    Jane Eyre (Golden Deer Classics) Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.

    The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice.

    Ever since its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman’s quest for self-respect.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Life on Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness.

    Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn’t matter how much wind is in your sails if you’re not steering toward a harbor—an ultimate purpose in your life.

    Going beyond the fads, opinions, and false hopes of “expert” self-help books, Life on Purpose explores the incredible connection between purposeful living and the latest scientific evidence on quality of life and longevity.

    Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience, as well as his experience in public health research, Dr. Vic Strecher reveals the elements necessary for a purposeful life and how to acquire them, and outlines an elegant strategy for improving energy, willpower, and long-term happiness, and well-being. He integrates these core themes into his own personal story—a tragedy that led him to reconsider his own life—and how a deeper understanding of purposeful living helped him not only survive, but thrive.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Dark Path Practicing Buddhist and retired forensic pathologist Bodhi King seeks peace. But death keeps finding him.

    After solving a series of unexplained deaths and exposing a sordid political scandal, Bodhi retreated from the limelight. Permanently, he thought. But now he’s called out of early retirement to help investigate a death cluster on a private island in the Florida Keys.

    Healthy residents of a ritzy assisted living facility are dying in the middle of the night… their faces frozen in terror.

    Bodhi arrives on Golden Island to find a community gripped by fear. And beneath the surface, conflict simmers, threatening to boil over. The charismatic leader of the Golden Island Church, the dying Cuban-Americans, and the local Catholic priest all have secrets to protect.

    It’s up to Bodhi to bring the truth to light… before another resident dies.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Spirit of Lost Angels: 18th Century French Revolution Novel They drowned Victoire’s mother, claiming she was a witch. Then her father died beneath the wheels of a nobleman’s carriage.

    Forced to leave her village, Victoire finds work in Paris. But domestic employment comes at a high price and the orphaned girl suffers gruesome abuse at the hands of a diabolical aristocracy.

    Accused of a heinous crime, they imprison her in the depraved lunatic asylum, La Salpêtrière.

    With the help of ruthless seductress, Jeanne de Valois –– conwoman of the Necklace Affair that brought down Marie Antoinette –– Victoire must find the strength to join the revolutionary force storming the Bastille.

    Can she survive a chilling betrayal and rise above her impoverished peasant roots to take her place in this new, post-revolutionary France?

    Click Here for the best price!


    Blood Ties Given the trainwreck my life has become, I’ve earned my cynical attitude. I’m trapped in a dead-end job at the County Sheriff’s Office—a position I took out of desperation after the brutal murder of my Lakota half-brother. Three years have passed, his case is cold, and my coping mechanisms—tequila, cigarettes and dubious men—no longer serve as excuses for my grief; they define who I am.

    Welcome to my world—Julie Collins, harbinger of doom and a sucker for lost causes.

    So when the body of a 16-year-old white girl surfaces and the death details are alarmingly similar to my brother’s murder, Kevin Wells—my best pal and local PI—admits he’d been hired to find the missing kid before she turned up dead.

    But the killer is willing to kill again to make sure these secrets stay buried. And this time, I’m in the crosshairs.

    Click Here for the best price!


    Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or you can download a Free Kindle Reading App for your computer or mobile device!

    * * *

    Prices are subject to change without notice. For non-U.S. readers, Kindle content availability and pricing will vary.

  • Book of the Day: Mary Poppins

    Mary PoppinsMary Poppins by P. L. Travers, Mary Shepard

    ⭐⭐⭐ TODAY ONLY ⭐⭐⭐
    Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    The first four books featuring the world’s most beloved nanny, plus delightful bonus features!
     
    Since the 1934 publication of Mary Poppins, stories of this magical nanny have delighted children and adults for generations. This collection includes the first four tales by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, and Mary Poppins in the Park.
     
    Also including a foreword by Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, who explores the significant differences between the book and movie versions, and an essay by P. L. Travers about the writing of Mary Poppins, this collection lets you travel with Mary on the east wind to Cherry Tree Lane in these stories that inspired films, a stage show, and young imaginations the world over.
     
    “When Mary Poppins is about, her young charges can never tell where the real world merges into make-believe. Neither can the reader, and that is one of the hallmarks of good fantasy.” —The New York Times

    Click Here to Start Reading!

    * * *

    Prices are subject to change without notice. For non-U.S. readers, Kindle content availability and pricing will vary.