Tag: Thriller

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

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    Loving Day: A Novel From the author of the critically beloved Pym comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia.

    “In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s house.”

    Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she’s been raised to think she’s white.

    Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers.

    A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love.

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    Circle of Friends: A Novel Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents… Eve—the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother’s wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny—they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager’s lace curtains… except their own.

    It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor’s handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a… Circle Of Friends.

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    Kill For Me His Target…

    Aspiring model Sandee Rozzo’s big mistake was being kind to Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the ‘roided-up ex-con’s advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her.

    His Weapon…

    That’s when he turned to 19-year-old Ashley Laney. She had fallen in love with Humphrey, her personal trainer, and would do anything for him. On their wedding night, he made a strange request–one that would end with eight gunshot wounds and a dead body.

    His Scheme…

    The police knew Humphrey was the likely suspect, but he had an alibi for the time of the shooting. How could they prove that, even if he didn’t pull the trigger, he was the manipulative psychopath behind Sandee’s murder? It would all come down to a prison escape, a manhunt for a killer, and an explosive trial.

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    Everything She Lost After suffering a mental breakdown that nearly destroyed her marriage, Nina Taylor works hard to maintain her tenuous hold on sanity and be a good mother to her two young daughters. Despite her best efforts, she questions the possibility of a full recovery.

    Single mom Deja Johnson struggles to overcome her troubled past and raise her young son. But her friendship with Nina brings more complications. What Deja is hiding could not only destroy relationships, but endanger lives.

    One traumatic night threatens to shatter Nina’s mind. With Deja’s help, she strives to maintain her mental balance. But as events spiral out of control, the women must find out if Nina is losing her sanity or if someone is plotting against her.

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    If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this “richly satisfying mystery…that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own” (Los Angeles Times).

    Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad…
     
    Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba’s exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life. But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days…

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    The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen In all of Frances Mayes’s bestselling memoirs about Tuscany, food plays a starring role. This cuisine transports, comforts, entices, and speaks to the friendly, genuine, and improvisational spirit of Tuscan life. Both cooking and eating in Tuscany are natural pleasures. In her first-ever cookbook, Frances and her husband, Ed, share recipes that they have enjoyed over the years as honorary Tuscans: dishes prepared in a simple, traditional kitchen using robust, honest ingredients.
               
    A toast to the experiences they’ve had over two decades at Bramasole, their home in Cortona, Italy, this cookbook evokes days spent roaming the countryside for chestnuts, green almonds, blackberries, and porcini; dinner parties stretching into the wee hours,  and garden baskets tumbling over with bright red tomatoes.
               
    Lose yourself in the transporting photography of the food, the people, and the place, as Frances’s lyrical introductions and headnotes put you by her side in the kitchen and raising a glass at the table. From Antipasti (starters) to Dolci (desserts), this cookbook is organized like a traditional Italian dinner.
           
    Throw on another handful of pasta, pull up a chair, and languish in the rustic Italian way of life!

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    Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel A mysterious plane crash… a dangerous trek through the Idaho wilderness… a smoldering attraction… and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

    Bailey Wingate’s scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their father’s will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war ensues. A year later, while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine sputters–and then fails.

    Cam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot, manages to crash-land the aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness, and struggling to douse her feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her side, Bailey begins to wonder whether this was a mere accident. Who tampered with their plane? Who’s trying to reunite Bailey and her husband in the afterlife? Cut off from the world, and with little hope of rescue, Bailey must trust her life–and heart–to Cam, as they battle the harsh elements to find a way out of the unforgiving wilds and back to civilization… where a killer may be waiting to finish the job.

    Sexy, suspenseful, and lightning fast, Up Close and Dangerous showcases a beloved author at her dazzling best.

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    I Know Where She Is: a breathtaking thriller that will have you hooked from the first page On the tenth anniversary of her daughter Autumn’s abduction, Francine receives an anonymous note containing just five words: I KNOW WHERE SHE IS.

    When a young woman approaches her the next day claiming to have sent the letter Francine wants to dismiss it as a cruel, twisted joke.

    But the stranger knows things that only Autumn would know.

    It soon becomes clear that Francine must go to dark places in order to learn the truth about her child’s kidnapping.

    She will discover that danger comes from unexpected sources. She will do things she never imagined herself capable of.

    But will Francine get her daughter back – or is it too late?

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    Mindspeak (The Mindspeak Series Book 1) She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it.

    Seventeen-year-old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates – she’s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people’s thoughts.

    But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything-but-simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality – her abilities reach much further than speaking to the minds of others.

    After Lexi’s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can’t decide whether to fall into Jack’s arms or run and hide.

    As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling than anything her science books can teach. And letting Jack into her life of secrets is not only a threat to her very existence, but it just might break her heart wide open.

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    The Sydney Rye Mysteries Box Set (Books 1-3) (The Sydney Rye Mysteries Box Sets) Do you love powerful characters, gritty adventures, and heroic dogs?

    Because this series will keep you up past your bedtime while you promise just one more chapter. Be warned, the Sydney Rye Series causes major book hangovers. But luckily, there are ten books with number eleven on the way so while you may need a week off work when it’s over, the adventure is worth it because these books are addicting!

    UNLEASHED (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #1)
    One of Joy Humbolt’s dog walking clients turns up dead, and she begins to look into the crime, first out of curiosity and then out of anger. As she digs deeper into the secrets of Manhattan’s elite, Joy gets too close to the killer with disastrous consequences.

    DEATH IN THE DARK (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #2)
    The daughter of a close friend is brutally murdered in the desert and Rye turns away from her mentor to seek revenge. Her quick temper and deadly intentions lead Sydney Rye into a trap where she will need all of her new skills to survive.

    INSATIABLE (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #3)
    When a dangerous man from her past calls, Sydney Rye finds she cannot turn him away. Robert Maxim explains the daughter of a powerful friend is missing, and he wants Rye to find her. In exchange, he offers her something she gave up hope of ever having: freedom from her past.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Bluebird, Bluebird

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 03/30/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Bluebird, BluebirdBluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

    Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire.

    When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules – a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the Lone Star State, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.

    When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders – a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman – have stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes – and save himself in the process – before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.

    A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America.

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  • Tuesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Thriller, Classics, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Don't Tell a Soul: A gripping crime thriller that will have you hooked (Detectives Kane and Alton Book 1) The floor was stone cold on her bare skin. Her heart pounded in her chest. ‘Not a soul knows where I am,’ she thought as she took in the darkness around her. And then she heard his footsteps…

    When a body is found stuffed into a barrel at the local dump, covered in long red cuts, Detective Jenna Alton and her new deputy, David Kane, rush to the scene.

    Nothing ever happens in the small town of Black Rock Falls, so Jenna believes the victim must be one of two recent missing persons, and she fears for the life of the other.

    Both were strangers to the town, but there’s nothing else to link them. Jenna knows someone must have seen something, but no one’s talking; how well does she really know the people around her?

    Then a disturbing clue makes Jenna suspect a connection with other disappearances in the town’s history. Just when she begins asking the right questions, she realises she’s being followed. Is she next on the killer’s list?

    In a race against time, Jenna and David must unlock the dark secret at the heart of the town, before it’s too late…

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    On the Road Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac’s years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, “a sideburned hero of the snowy West.”

    As “Sal Paradise” and “Dean Moriarty,” the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.

    Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “Beat” and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago.

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    Tagged for Death (A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Book 1) Starting your life over at age thirty-eight isn’t easy, but that’s what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany.

    Sarah’s self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town of Ellington, Massachusetts. If only she could turn her love for bargain hunting into a full-time career.

    But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt… that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, who now happens to be Ellington’s chief of police. If that’s not bad enough, it seems Tiffany has gone missing. Now it’s up to Sarah to prove that her cold-hearted ex is not a cold-blooded killer…

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    Baumgartner Generations: Janie (The Baumgartners Book 8) Janie Baumgartner has big dreams of trying to make it as a writer in New York, and between that and her job as a nanny, working for family friends Ronnie and TJ, her life is incredibly full.

    That’s when she meets him. In spite of the compromising situation, Josh, who just happens to be an agent, sees great potential in her—and not just as an author. Josh finds Janie utterly irresistible and he’s the kind of man who aggressively pursues what he wants.

    But—plot twist—Janie is already in a complicated, polyamorous relationship with her benefactors.

    What happens when she finally reveals this to Josh? Will she lose him? Will she be forced to make an impossible choice?

    Or will she find that the capacity for the human heart to love is, indeed, endless?

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    Walking Shadow (Spenser Book 21) A murder draws Boston PI Spenser into the dramatic world of theater in this New York Times bestseller in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series.

    In a shabby waterfront town, an actor is shot dead onstage. Granted, the script left much to be desired. But there’s more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic—and Spenser and Hawk are combing Port City’s underworld to find it…

    “Great fun…[Spenser] is still the cockiest and wittiest P.I. on the block.”—The New York Times

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    Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo series Book 2)
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    Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    This is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling WOOL series. It combines the three Shift books (First Shift, Second Shift, and Third Shift) into a single e-book.

    In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate.

    In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.

    At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.

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    Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, Book 1) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Meet shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock in the first novel in the New York Times bestselling series that captures “the essence of urban fantasy” (SF Site).

    Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katies’s Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who’s killing other vamps.

    Amidst a bordello full of real “ladies of the night,” and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal desire, Jane must stay focused and complete her mission—or else the next skin she’ll need to save just may be her own…

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    Along Came a Ranger (Texas Lawmen Book 3) No cowboys allowed. That is Stacy Smith’s motto. Having overcome a rough childhood, she vows to not repeat the same mistakes that her mother made. Writing bestselling romance novels as Sabrina Noelle, she is happy to stay in her ivory tower, creating perfect worlds for her heroes and heroines that keep her busy and her heart whole.

    Texas Ranger Davis McKenna handles crisis situations on a regular basis. But when he is stranded in a hotel elevator with a gorgeous woman on the verge of panic, he soon realizes that there’s more at play than just his protective instincts.

    Take one determined Texas Ranger and one equally stubborn romance author and there is bound to be a showdown at high noon where desires and hearts are concerned. Can Stacy risk opening her heart to the man who represents everything she never wanted?

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    Alive and Killing (David Wolf Book 3) Just for a day, Colorado Sheriff David Wolf trades slogging through murky meltwaters and even murkier small-town politics for an overnight camping trip in the wilderness with his son.

    But when a man with fresh burns turns up on their trail, falling from the heavy load in his backpack and running wild from something, Wolf suspects his father-son camping trip may have just taken a turn for the worse.

    Unfortunately his instincts are spot on, and Wolf is forced into action with the last person he wants by his side in a deadly battle — his only son.

    When news of their disturbing episode travels through the valleys, local FBI agents want to take over Wolf’s investigation, hoping to halt murder and corruption originating 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Wolf ignores the FBI’s order to stand down, even if the case involves a matter of national security. Not when his son’s safety is at stake…

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