Tag: Literary Fiction

  • Book of the Day: The Queen’s Gambit

    The Queen's GambitThe Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis

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    Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​

    When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted.

    At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits…

    Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

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    Romance, Action & Adventure, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cookbooks, Mystery, Contemporary Fiction… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Dakota Skies: A Bestselling Romance (The Dakota Series)
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    Together for the first time in one volume, two classic tales of romance and second chances set in Buffalo Valley, only from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.

    Like many small towns, Buffalo Valley is dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks are cracked, houses are in need of a coat of paint. But despite all that, there’s a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The few people still left here are fighting for their town.

    Lindsay Snyder is an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life. And soon after she arrives, she meets a local farmer named Gage Sinclair…

    Lindsay’s decision to stay marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley and for her. Because in this broken little town she discovers the love and purpose she’s been seeking.

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    River Run: A Mystery Thriller Adventure (The Forensic Geology Series Book 5) There are plenty of ways to die in the Grand Canyon.

    Forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws investigate one way: trouble on the canyon’s Colorado River. Stranded raft. Life vests unused. Rafters missing.

    The only clue to the fate of the rafters is a bag of pebbles caught in the bowline. Following that clue, the geologists uncover a hellish scheme. Not only are the rafters in peril, but the river itself is under attack.

    The race to stop it takes Cassie and Walter deep into the canyon, and onto the mighty river, putting their own survival at stake.

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    Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything Is it possible to embrace suffering as a privilege, rather than a punishment? Beloved authors Katherine and Jay Wolf offer readers the bold invitation to trust a known God with an unknown future, as well as practical insights into surviving anything by redefining how we think about everything.

    After miraculously surviving a near-fatal brainstem stroke at age 26, as told in their memoir, Hope Heals, life for Katherine and Jay Wolf changed forever – and so did the way they viewed God, the world, and themselves in it. There was no going back to normal after such a tragedy. Yet Katherine and Jay learned that suffering is not the end, but rather the beginning of a new story.

    In Suffer Strong, they invite us into this new story as they share universal lessons and helpful practices that will help us to:

    • Recognize we are being equipped for an uncommon assignment, not cursed by our story.
    • Transform our unmet expectations into brave anticipations.
    • Disrupt the myth that joy can only be found in a pain-free life.
    • Rewrite the narrative of hard circumstances by turning our definitions of suffering into declarations of strength.
    • And, ultimately, thrive even in the lives we never imagined living.

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    Lines of Departure (Frontlines Book 2) Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…

    Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.

    After surviving a disastrous space-borne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony – and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun.

    In this sequel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species… or bear witness to humanity’s last, fleeting breaths.

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    Queenie Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    For fans of Luster and I May Destroy You, a disarmingly honest, unapologetically black, and undeniably witty debut novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.

    Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.

    As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

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    The Bastard (The Kent Family Chronicles Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    One man’s quest for his destiny leads him to the New World and into the heart of the American Revolution.

    Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied his birthright and left to build a life of his own. Seeking all that the New World promises, he leaves London for America, shedding his past and preparing for the future by changing his name to Philip Kent. He arrives at the brink of the American Revolution, which tests his allegiances in ways he never imagined.

    The first volume of John Jakes’s wildly successful and highly addictive Kent Family Chronicles, The Bastard is a triumph of historical fiction.

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    The Southern Vegetarian Cookbook: 100 Down-Home Recipes for the Modern Table Whether you’re a devoted plant-eater or a steadfast omnivore, The Southern Vegetarian Cookbook shares recipes to make vegetables the main course of any meal. Eating your vegetables has never been more delicious!

    Discover modern recipes that evoke the flavors of traditional Southern cooking, with techniques and ingredients loved so dearly throughout the region:

    • Lemon Zest and Thyme Pimento Cheese
    • Grilled Watermelon and Tomato Salad with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
    • Okra Fritters with Creole Mustard Sauce
    • Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice with Andouille Eggplant
    • Roast Beet Salad with Sea Salt Granola and Honey Tarragon Dressing
    • Grilled Peach Ice Cream

    You might struggle with the idea of a Southern vegetarian. After all, isn’t the South one big feast of meaty indulgence, where vegetables play a supporting role to the likes of fried chicken and bacon? Justin Fox Burks and Amy Lawrence turn that notion on its head by recasting garden bounty as the headlining act on a plate.

    In a region distinguished by ideal growing conditions and generations of skilled farmers, Southern-style vegetarian cooking is more than possible–it’s brimming with vine-ripened possibility.

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    She's Got the Guns (The Suite #45 Series Book 1) What could possibly be worse than being beaten, broke, and on the run from a dangerous criminal? What if that criminal is your ex and works for the FBI?

    Oh, and then there’s the tiny matter of landing a job. Not so easy for a woman on the run.

    Which is why when Emily Rockford gets a gig, answering the phone for a “pest control” company, she thinks her luck is turning.

    Until…she discovers the business is a cover.

    For hit men. A big, dangerous, deadly group of them.

    It’s just about the last place Emily wants to be, but as she’s about to find out, once you’re in, you’re in. There is no out. There is no quitting.

    Will she embrace the dangerous world she’s stumbled onto? Or will she find a way to outrun them all?

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    Raspberry Truffle Murder (A Maple Hills Cozy Mystery Book 1) A new chocolate shop owner in a cozy Vermont town, a hit and run leaves a man dead, and unexpected twists no one saw coming…

    When Nikki’s husband of 20 years decided that he wanted a different life in Los Angeles it spawns a new life for her as well. Leaving behind Atlanta and her Journalism career there, she and her college bound son move to the small and tightknit town of Maple Hills, Vermont. With a bustling tourist season, the thriving community seems the perfect place to set up her new Chocolate Shop… yet opening day proves more deadly than profitable.

    A hit and run right outside her shop door leaves a man dead and questions swirling. When the victim is identified as Steven Denforth, the most hated and reviled man in town, it resurrects the fissures that had recently torn Maple Hills apart.

    Now he is dead and everyone is a suspect, including Nikki. As both a former reporter and an FBI Consultant, Nikki instinctively knows the dirt in Maple Hills is piled high and if she doesn’t get to the bottom of it, and to the murder, then her stay in the quaint Northern Town may very well be short lived.

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    The Obituary Society: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (An Obituary Society Novel Book 1) When Lila Moore inherits her grandfather’s house, she finds herself in a small Midwestern town where margarine is never an acceptable substitution for butter, a coveted family recipe can serve as currency, and the friend who will take your darkest secrets to the grave will still never give you the secret to her prize-winning begonias.

    Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue-eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson. But when strange things begin to happen, Lila realizes some of her new friends are guarding a secret like it’s a precious family heirloom. It’s a dangerous secret, and it has come back to haunt them. Lila is caught in the middle, and her life may depend on uncovering it. But even if she can, can she stay in Auburn when not everyone is what they seem, and even the house wants her gone?

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    Yes Please Over 2,500 5-Star Reviews!

    Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central’s Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes ceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy’s one-liners?

    If your answer to these questions is “Yes Please!” then you are in luck. In her first book, one of our most beloved funny folk delivers a smart, pointed, and ultimately inspirational read. Full of the comedic skill that makes us all love Amy, Yes Please is a rich and varied collection of stories, lists, poetry (Plastic Surgery Haiku, to be specific), photographs, mantras and advice. With chapters like “Treat Your Career Like a Bad Boyfriend,” “Plain Girl Versus the Demon” and “The Robots Will Kill Us All” Yes Please will make you think as much as it will make you laugh. Honest, personal, real, and righteous, Yes Please is full of words to live by.

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    Dead Man's Fancy: A Novel (Sean Stranahan Mysteries Book 3) Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout.

    As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress’s spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that’s been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal? With painter, fly fisherman, and sometimes private detective Sean Stranahan’s help, Ettinger will follow clues that point to an animal rights group called the Clan of the Three-Clawed Wolf and to their svengali master, whose eyes blaze with pagan fire.

    In their most dangerous adventure yet, Stranahan and Ettinger find themselves in the crossfire of wolf lovers, wolf haters, and a sister bent on revenge, and on the trail of an alpha male gone terribly wrong.

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    The Dressmaker: A Novel Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet.

    After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar.

    Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat—the town’s only policeman, who harbors an unusual passion for fabrics—and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance. But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly’s mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion.

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    The Prince of Tides: A Novel
    Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again.

    At the behest of Savannah’s psychiatrist, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to travel to New York City and aid in his sister’s therapy. As Tom’s relationship with her psychiatrist deepens, he reveals to her the turbulent history of the Wingo family, and exposes the truth behind the fateful day that changed their lives forever.

    Drawing richly from Pat Conroy’s own troubled upbringing, The Prince of Tides is a sweeping and powerful story of how unlocking the past can be the secret to overcoming the darkest of personal demons.

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    Rocky Mountain Miracle No Christmas will ever be the same after Cole and Maia meet on a snowy western ranch—find out why in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s romantic holiday e-novella!

    When Cole Steele, a womanizer rumored to have killed his father, meets Maia Armstrong, a veterinarian rumored to practice magic, the sizzling romance could melt all the snow on his Wyoming ranch. And when an injured horse brings them together, Cole can’t help but believe that Maia casts spells on animals—and men. What else could explain the burning passion he feels for her and the thawing of his heart just in time for Christmas?

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    Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and producer offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.

    Four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss—who has worked on The Simpsons continuously since episode one in 1989—shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America’s most iconic cartoon family ever. Reiss explains how the episodes are created, and provides an inside look at the show’s writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests. He answers a range of questions from Simpsons fans and die-hards, and reminisces about the making of perennially favorite episodes. In his freewheeling, irreverent comic style, Reiss reflects on his lifetime inside The Simpsons—a personal highlights reel of his achievements, observations, and favorite stories.

    Springfield Confidential exposes why Matt Groening decided to make all of the characters yellow; dishes on what it’s like to be crammed in a room full of funny writers sixty hours a week; and tells what Reiss learned after traveling to seventy-one countries where The Simpsons is watched (ironic note: there’s no electricity in many of these places); and even reveals where Springfield is located!

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    Unlovely: A Tale of Madness (Tales of Madness Book 1) The safest and most dangerous place to be is in your own head…

    After escaping her abusive parents, eighteen-year-old Cora, who suffers from body dysmorphia, rents an isolated cottage in a backward town to live the rest of her life in peace. But just as everything is going well, she starts hearing voices inside her head and a mysterious young man begins to court her. The problem is, however, he lives on the other side of the mirror, and a series of sinister events all seem to be linked to him.

    As Cora loses grip on reality, she plunges head-over-heels into an alternate dimension of bizarre fantasy and horror. Will she be able to figure out this haunting man’s intentions before it’s too late?

    Is he even real?

    This waking nightmare will steer you along the surreal dreamscapes of one tragically ill girl, whose fragile mind was ruined by the indelible traumas of her upbringing.

    A literary portrayal of a person’s descent into madness.

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    After Happily Ever After Nine best-selling authors have come together to imagine what happened after the happily-ever-after in some of Ylva’s most popular lesbian books.

    Discover the irresistible magic of the morning after, or the month after, or even years later. What happens when it’s not just about discovering new love, but letting love settle a little? What are these passionate lovers, fighters, executives, and explorers up to now?

    These charming, funny, and entertaining short stories can each be read as standalone pieces to whisk you into new and different worlds…or immerse you in universes you already know and love, and can’t wait to revisit.

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    Two Days Gone (Ryan DeMarco Mystery Book 1) The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now.

    What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect.

    DeMarco knows—or thinks he knows—that Huston couldn’t have been capable of murdering his family. But if Huston is innocent, why is he on the run? And does the half-finished manuscript he left behind contain clues to the mystery of his family’s killer?

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    Hate to Date You (Dating Series Book 4) From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a funny, sexy love story about what happens when your best friend’s brother becomes your new roommate. Oh, and you two still haven’t talked about that one night stand you had a year ago…

    Stella Ricci isn’t normally the kind of girl who does one-night stands–especially with her best friend’s brother. It’s a secret she plans to take to the grave. She’s certain Carter feels the same, since they haven’t talked about it once in the past year. Not that they’ve ever been much on talking. The two can hardly stand each other on a good day. If there is a single worse idea than sleeping with her off-limits enemy, it’s inviting him to move in with her…

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