Catherine Cooper of Shropshire, England, is being hailed as “the next J.K. Rowling” and her award-winning “Adventures of Jack Brenin” series is making waves in Wales, Cheshire and Staffordshire — and over on this side of the pond, too. Book 1, The Golden Acorn, has already sold 500,000 copies on Kindle, and today it’s free — look for it at the top of the Buffet.
Catherine is a 55-year-old former elementary school teacher who might never have had the chance to write one book, except that two serious health issues intervened: breast cancer and degenerative bone disease. Those diagnoses, delivered on her 50th birthday, forced her to retire from the classroom after 29 years.
Today Catherine works at home with her husband Ron, the co-illustrator of her books. She sketches her plots on long rolls of wallpaper with pencil and ink. Only after she’s happy with each chapter heading does she begin writing.
Even if you’re not a fan of magical adventures, myths or legends, you’ll find plenty worth reading on the Buffet — I was barely able to hold it under 100 books today. As usual, each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the “Kindle Daily Deals” on page 3). Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link “See Kindle price at Amazon” to verify that the book is still free. (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)
The Golden Acorn: Book 1 (UK EDITION) (The adventures of Jack Brenin)
Children’s eBooks
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The Golden Acorn is the first book in the best-selling Jack Brenin series. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass, little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking ravens and mischievous Spriggans, The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining and exciting tale from a very talented new author.
The Golden Acorn can be read as a stand-alone or as the first book in an ongoing adventure. Jack’s adventures continue in Glasruhen Gate and Silver Hill.
Dear Coca-Cola
Humor
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Ravenscroft homes in on the Food & Drink industry. Household names such as Heinz, Ryvita, Tesco, Cadburys and of course the Coca-Cola Company are the targets for his entertaining epistles, resulting in a laugh-out-loud series of letters. And you don’t want to know what he asks Jacob’s Biscuits for! But you will when you’ve read his letters to them.
You will never look at the contents of your fridge or kitchen cupboards in the same way again.
It’s Not All About “Me”: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
Advice & How-to
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Despite the age-old saying, individuals everywhere still have a hard time realizing that it’s not all about them. Robin Dreeke uses his research and years of work in the field of interpersonal relations and behavior to help readers focus on building relationships.
As the head of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program within the Counterintelligence Division, Dreeke has used the techniques within the FBI as well as with sales professionals, educators and individuals across the country and world.
How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children: Meeting The Five Critical Needs of Children…and Parents Too! Updated Edition
Advice & How-to
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Failure to support our children’s emotional health at home and in schools is jeopardizing their future and that of our nation. The book shows parents and teachers how to nourish emotional health at home and at school. Failure to meet these emotional needs of our children is one of the most serious and under-recognized problems facing our country.
Babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, parents and grandparents all have these same emotional needs. Meeting these needs in childhood provides the foundation for success in school, work, relationships, marriage and life in general.
City of Redemption
Contemporary Fiction
Partly to blame for her young son’s death and abandoned by her husband, Liz Mackay leaves Scotland in disgrace, hoping for a second chance at love and life. Arriving in San Francisco during the Summer of Love, she soon joins a commune. Her new family is a curious mix: Black Panthers trying to change the world, a Vietnam vet seeking inner peace, a flamboyant hairdresser ready for fame and love, a flower child and her drug dealer boyfriend who changes girlfriends often.
Rise of the Dibor (The White Lion Chronicles)
The Dairne-Reih haven’t been seen in Dionia for generations—their kind and their king, Morgui, banished long ago from haunting paradise. But when creation shows signs of deterioration, the kings of the seven realms converge in the sacred Gvindollion gathering to arrive at one inexplicable conclusion: Morgui has returned.
In the hopes of entrusting Dionia’s brave history and perilous future to a generation that has never known war, the kings decide to raise up their young sons as an elite group of warriors, known only as the Dibor.
This Blood: (The Grace Allen Series, Book 1 Paranormal Romance)
Fantasy
When Grace Allen discovers a valuable ring in a gutter, she thinks it’s her lucky day, but, fate has other ideas. Now, Grace finds herself not only the keeper of tremendous power, but the only person in the world able to wield it.
Battling fantastic creatures as well as her raging libido, Grace’s resolve is tested. Will she succumb to a life of lavish entrapment, or escape for an uncertain freedom?
Neverdark
Contemporary Fiction
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The Faeries of Southnut are in big trouble. Lord Darkwater is up to no good.
The White Castle of Doru is under attack by the greatest army Princess Fiera’s ever seen. Lord Darkwater is poised to crush her tiny kingdom unless the king gives her up to become his wife. Well, fffungus! She’s having none of that!
SOMEWHERE MY LOVE (Somewhere In Time)
Romance
Two hundred years ago Captain Cole Wentworth, the master of an elegant Virginian home, was murdered in his chamber where his portrait still hangs. Presently the estate is a family owned museum run by Will Wentworth, a man so uncannily identical to his ancestor that spirit-sensitive tour guide Julia Morrow has trouble recognizing Cole and Will as separate. As Julia begins to remember the events of Cole’s death, she must convince Will that history is repeating, and this time he has the starring role in the tragedy. The blade is about to fall.
Last Stop This Town
Humor
It’s the last weekend before high school graduation, and as they prepare to go their separate ways, four life-long friends spend a wild and raucous night in New York City that forces them to face their fear of growing up… and growing apart.
They spend their days testing how fast they can drive on the local residential streets, bribing homeless dudes to buy them beer, and attending crappy house parties. So when Dylan proposes that they spend their last weekend of high school in New York City attending an underground rave, the guys are ready to make some serious memories.
Wyvern
Action & Adventure
Headhunters, sorcerers, pirates and Indian princes thrive in this exciting and poetic tale of a young outcast in Borneo. Born in 1609, son of a native woman and a Dutch sea captain he never knew, Jaki Gefjon grows up in the jungle as a sorcerer’s apprentice. Later kidnapped by pirates, he befriends his captor, Trevor Pym, notorious for his dreaded man-of-war, Wyvern. The scientific marvels on the European privateer become the young soul-catcher’s passion—until he falls for Lucinda, the headstrong daughter of Pym’s sworn enemy.
The ABC of Sales: Lessons from a Superstar
Business & Investing
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Milstein shares eight secrets for consistently reaching high sales levels and lays out in clear understandable language what it takes to be a sales superstar. You’ll peer inside the mind of a successful sales talent so rare that universities will use this book for their business classes. Milstein has been recognized as the #1 mortgage originator in the nation, has been among the top 40 financial professionals in America for 10 years and has achieved more than $3 billion in personal career mortgage sales.
The Gathering: Book One of the Lia Fail Chronicles
Fantasy
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The final world war has happened, and everything we knew is now gone. No more countries. No more government, only survivors who have created a new world made up of small colonies.
It is thirteen years later and the village of Lia Fail sits peacefully above the Hollywood Reservoir in the Santa Monica Mountains. The settlement is making ready for the fall Gathering, a time when every six months the other colonies from various parts of what was once Southern California visit for ten days of fun and reminiscence. The Gathering begins as any other, new loves, dancing and general merry making, but that soon changes.
Unscrambled Eggs
Poetry
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This book and 60-poem collection enlightens and speaks the way of life and the world. Unscrambled Eggs was written over a five year period and is an honest and thought-provoking book that deals with everyday life issues. It is a stirring compilation of poems about living your dream and finding one’s purpose.
BECOMING: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet
Poetry
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Becoming is a rousing composition of poems about utilizing your God-given talents and gifts in such a way that leads to a life of fulfillment.
After searching, comes knowing — Becoming: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet is a small collection of inspirational poems and articles and is the follow-up to the award-winning book Unscrambled Eggs.
Don’t Let an Old Person Move Into Your Body
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If you didn’t know when you were born, how old would you be? Are you ageless – full of energy and ready to go – no matter what your birth certificate says? Or does the prospect of middle age leave you deeply concerned about what lies ahead?
Donovan shows you how to make the rest of your life, the best of your life — whether you’re in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s or beyond.
Hero’s Curse (The Paladin Files)
Advice & How-to
I don’t care who you are or what you believe—Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, Atheist, anything and everything. You’re all wrong. The following is a story of my life after I got drafted by God to fight the minions of darkness. Jehovah of the Holy Bible exists and holy warriors are needed to defend us.
If you’re wise, you’ll set this book down now and walk away. Keep your illusions; they won’t hurt you. Learn too much, open the door that is better left closed, and you’ll be fighting by my side.
Destined, a novel of the Tarot
Fantasy
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This is the year Emily Ross takes control of her destiny and learns to deliberately shape the future. Emily has always known she is different. She attracts spirits, has prophetic dreams and can sense people’s thoughts. Lonely and longing to fit in, she hides her true self. But all this changes when she finally gets the courage to walk away from her safe routine and takes a job at “Paradise,” a fabulous curio shop owned by Henry Paradis, the occult scholar who becomes her spiritual mentor. Recognizing her talents as the valuable gifts they are, Henry teaches Emily to accept her magical nature and “look forward.”
THE DEADLINE
Religion & Spirituality
The story of David Grossman, a Baby Boomer approaching sixty who loses his high-paying corporate job and decides to embark on a quest to write the Great American Novel. To buy time to fulfill his lifelong dream, he makes a deal with his loving but bottom-line conscious wife: he has one year to write his book and get it published; otherwise, it’s back to the corporate grind, “a life lived under the steady lash.” At first, one year seems like ample time, but he had not counted on the elusiveness of finding the right storyline, the difficulties of writing page after page, and the numbing frustrations of finding a publisher.
Magic BPO Success Secrets – The Only Book You’ll Ever Need To Learn The Truth About BPO’s
Get Cory’s step-by-step blueprint for closing real estate deals on autopilot. Stop spinning your wheels and finally reach your financial and personal goals.
He started out being a “bird dog” finding good deals on properties and getting paid a finders fee for it. That fee was usually $500 – $1,500. After he learned how much money the investor was making selling the houses, he quickly learned how to assign, wholesale and flip distressed properties.
Behind Jane Austen’s Door
Drama
From drawing room diva, to mother, wife and savvy housekeeper, Jane Austen’s women lived fascinating lives in their homes.
Socialize To Monetize: Engaging Your Online Communities Across Multiple Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Instagram, Flickr, … Yelp, Ning, Klout, Social Link Building)
Business & Investing
The opportunity to reach a wider community and customer base, grow your network and to stay abreast of social media trends is key to driving success. But this can also be a confusing world where new networks and fads are literally springing up daily. It can be tempting to join an overwhelming number of social media sites without any real idea of how to make the most of your online presence. While most of these platforms are valuable to your brand, it is essential that you know how and when to use them effectively for maximum return.
The Absolutely Amazing Adventures of Agent Auggie Spinoza
Children’s eBooks
Auggie Spinoza is a ten-year-old boy with a secret: he is a special agent who can travel through time. Now, he finds himself locked in a desperate battle against evil forces trying to change the course of history. To defeat them, Auggie must pursue a dangerous quest to find a set of mysterious clues hidden in the past.
With the help of a clever new friend and advice from a cast of famous characters with names like Jefferson, Darwin, and Plato, Auggie fights to fulfill his destiny and save his world from ruin.
Thursday at Noon
Action & Adventure
Cairo, 1962. Richard Thomson was already having a very bad day when someone left a corpse lying on the rear steps of his hotel. Its head had been lopped off like a ripe melon and had been posed so it could look back down at its own body. Thomson is a burned-out CIA Agent and the body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief who tried to sell him photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. What the photos have to do with a dead Israeli Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists, the fanatical Moslem Brotherhood, and two missing Egyptian tank regiments could start the next Arab-Israeli War or stop it.
Squirrel Cage
Biographies & Memoirs
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What happens when you hold a secret your whole life that can never be shared? What happens when your faith abandons you to pray your problem away? What happens when you destroy a complete generation of your family? This is the story of David, born into the Mormon faith who faces the insurmountable to become Cindi. Her life crumbles before her as she is pushed into an untenable position. Her family is destroyed as well as her career. She manages to pull herself through these agonizing events to rebuild her life and reconnect with her family.
All I Need to Know I Learned from KISS: Life Lessons from the Hottest Band in the Land
Arts & Entertainment
Author and AOL Music journalist Chris Epting was recently interviewing rock legends KISS when it suddenly flashed before his eyes that, bizarre as it might seem, the band he had loved since childhood actually played a huge part in shaping how he looks at the world. In that instant, he decided to write about his life long journey with the band, starting out in the early 1970s when he joined the KISS Army and continuing until today. Epting takes us through the history of KISS, weaving in historic tidbits and trivia with his personal observations, while laying out the rules for living that he absorbed from “the hottest band in the land.”
The Spider and the Fly
Science Fiction
For nearly ten years Jenavian Vale has faithfully served the Convectorate as a Spider, tracking down and capturing potential telepaths before their powers grow out of control. But when she finally catches up to her latest target, she realizes he is more than just another rogue “Fly”— he is none other than Markus Coveri, her former partner and the only Spider to have ever defected. And he holds the key to an ancient secret that could change the course of human history.
As the chase begins, Jen must pit her loyalty for the Convectorate against the fate of her own beleaguered species…and her loyalty to the Spiders against the life of her only friend.
Is Stress YOUR Silent Killer? How to deal with stress and achieve permanent stress relief
Advice & How-to
Most people will have encountered one or more episode of stress in their lives and in many cases with sensible stress management techniques, will have learned how to deal with it and will have suffered no long term ill effects. But what happens if you have many episodes of protracted stress in your life and your body is unable to cope with the constant rush of adrenalin into the blood stream? Stress relief is far more difficult to achieve when you are suffering from chronic stress. It is also time maybe to reassess your life, and discover what is really causing you to be stressed. You may be surprised!
The Color of Lies
Contemporary Fiction
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Forty-year-old widow Molly Culpepper believes her hometown is a place of harmony and white picket fences–until a colleague chalks a racial slur on the blackboard during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In the uproar that follows, a citizens’ group files a lawsuit alleging discrimination against the high school where Molly teaches. To address the lawsuit’s concerns over academic weaknesses, Molly joins forces with a black minister to plan curriculum improvements and a fundraiser for equipment upgrades. The town’s racial divide becomes personal when Molly clashes with a new black student, J.D. Marshall.
RACE
Contemporary Fiction
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Parking Officer Jon Rupret wants desperately to move up from handing out parking tickets. An impulsive act from his past throws him into Operation Anti-RACE–a unit set up to stop RACE. He is partnered with veteran detective, Phillip Beadsworth, who doesn’t much like Rupret and knows more than he reveals.
Can Rupret stop RACE before they release their deadly drug? Is Rupret in way over his head?
Adjusting Journal Entries (Book Three of Eviscerating the Snake)
Mystery & Thrillers
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. But when it comes to human emotions, the reaction is never equal. No one understands this lesson better than the partners at the prestigious accounting firm of Winscott & Associates. Greed, power, money and sex left six people dead and four in the hospital.
Audra Tanner never realized how far and deep the ripple she created in her revenge pool would extend. Now as the dust settles on the explosion that rocked not only her life, but the lives of countless others, Audra must fight to gain control over her life.
Couples Money – What Every Couple Should Know About Money and Relationships
Advice & How-to
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Written by a married couple in the financial serives industry, Marlow and Chris Felton. They share their personal story of financial transformation and insights they have gained from thousands of couples they have worked with over the last 12 plus years. Couples Money is an introspective look at a leading cause of divorce; money. Most couples think they are alone in their financial struggles and they have the stories to prove they are not.
Alien in the Delta
Biographies & Memoirs
You are taken on a journey that highlights the life experiences of a boy from the age of six through manhood. He grew up on the Mississippi River in the Arkansas Delta, but felt out of place in that environment. Prejudice and inequality were practiced openly, in his home town. His escape from the Delta was not realized until he went abroad. He takes you on his adventures in the rural south and throughout Europe. He shares with you a variety of emotions including fear, sadness, happiness, and amusement. Alien in the Delta is a memoir about overcoming adversity.
The Breakup
Contemporary Fiction
Aja Rain has sliced all ties with her controlling boyfriend. She accidentally used a knife, and now she has become something of a media sensation. Her family wants her ex-boyfriend to pay an even steeper price for his transgressions against Aja, but she won’t be a part of it.
To escape the media attention and the conflict between her family and Stephen, her ex-boyfriend, Aja flees to Italy. There she finds vineyards, golden landscapes, Marco and Pietro. It is time to put her life back together.
Childs Abduction (A Victoria Childs Novel)
Mystery & Thrillers
As fall sets in over the quiet town of Brenton, Illinois, Vic receives the exciting news, from her sweet and sexy Detective, that she will be accompanying him “down home,” to a Varner family wedding. The fun starts sooner than anticipated though, when someone breaks into her apartment. She quickly learns she may be the new target of a local sicko. She thinks the trip to New Orleans can’t come soon enough. Surely the weirdo won’t follow her there. Well, at least not on the same plane.
Samantha Hatches the Chicken Egg (Samantha Series of Chapter Books)
Children’s eBooks
Samantha and her best friend Gerti find some chicken eggs while visiting a farm. Samantha decides to make sure they hatch. How hard can it be to play mother hen? You’ll have to read to find out how Samantha Hatches The Chicken Egg.
Samantha Hatches the Chicken Egg is a children’s chapter book filled with fun and adventure while teaching about the latest urban pet, the Chicken.
The Countess’ Lucky Charm
Romance
Saucy pickpocket Simone Dougherty relies on her nimble fingers and quick mind to work London’s streets. However, using her wits to survive in the East End is one thing. Using her wits to pose as the wife of the attractive Lord Temple Wellington is another thing altogether. Especially when her rebellious heart refuses to listen to reason.
Restless and bored with the life he’s carved out for himself, black sheep Lord Temple Wellington determines to turn over a new leaf. Somehow he never imagined embarking on a new life would involve marriage to a fetching thief with a penchant for trouble. A thief with mysteries of her own.