If you like scary, true stories, you’re in luck today. The late Constance Westbie won the 1977 National Writers Club Award for Nonfiction for her collaboration with the late Harold Cameron in writing Night Stalks the Mansion, which tops today’s Buffet.
The book is a true account of how the Cameron family survived for almost two years in a home they shared with ghostly manifestations in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. For decades, a wide swath of readers has raved this is one book you “can’t put down” until you’ve read the last page. For more details about the story, check out the official website, where you can read about plans for a video game and a movie based on the book.
A new hardcover of this book will cost you $75, and the Kindle edition normally sells for $16.95, but today it’s free.
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Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family’s Ghostly Adventure
History > Occult > Supernatural
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A supernatural detective story. This true story recounts a Philadelphia family’s encounter with a supernatural presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, they investigate, unearthing the mansion’s tragic past and changing their beliefs about the supernatural world.
Elly’s Ghost
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: John R Kess
Jay Tessier returns home from Afghanistan yearning for the solitude of his beloved Montana forests. Suddenly, he finds himself on the run when he disrupts the attempted kidnapping of pop star Elly Wittenbel. Jay’s survival and combat skills as a Force Recon Marine, or “Ghost,” are tested as Elly and Jay flee through the vast wilderness while the FBI investigates her disappearance. The two must learn to trust each other despite their completely different backgrounds.
Jay and Elly’s relationship grows as he deals with the effects of war and losing his best friend, and she strives to overcome a drug addiction and to regain control of her chaotic life.
Accounting Comes Alive: The Color Accounting Parable
Business & Investing > Accounting
Author: Mark Robilliard
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The story of an ambitious man being taught accounting and business by his wise grandfather. The parable brilliantly simplifies how accounting and business truly work, in such a way that anyone can really ‘get it’. Color Accounting strips away obscure detail and jargon – leaving you to focus on the essence of what you really need to know.
You will literally see how accounting works in the many colorful diagrams that lead you through the setting up and running of a business – clarifying principles that you can apply to your own life and workplace.
An Idiot in Love
Humor > Parodies
Author: David Jester
Kieran McCall has never been lucky in love. This socially awkward, intellectually impaired Romeo has had his fair share of relationships, but none of them have ended well.
There was the time behind the bike-sheds, his first time, when he kissed little Kerry Newsome, promptly vomited on her and then received an arse-kicking in the cloakroom. The time he found himself embroiled in an animal murdering plot after trying to acquire his first girlfriend. The ‘bulge’ incident in front of a naked class of showering classmates, and then there was the time he lost his virginity to an unenthusiastic sociopath in the supermarket stockroom; but these things were merely incidental in comparison to the others, because as bad as growing up was for this persistently unlucky idiot, adulthood was worse.
Autism – A Practical Guide for Parents
Parenting & Relationships > Special Needs
Author: Alan Yau
Theory is great, but as a busy parent of a young child with autism, what you would really like is a practical guide: with ideas, tips and strategies that you can use right away.
Oh, and you want a book that is concise and easy to understand, right?
This book is what you’re looking for.
Think of this book as a collection of sparks. Real sparks ignite fires. The sparks in this book will ignite ideas in your head about how to teach your child with autism.
Collide (A Collide Novel)
Romance > Futuristic & Science Fiction
Author: Shelly Crane
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Sherry has always known there was something out there. She’s eighteen, works for a tabloid newspaper in Chicago, and has a brother, Danny who is a lazy mooch. They live a pretty normal, dull life. Then the moon disappears and people start to go missing only to reappear later…but different.
Sherry has an abusive ex-boyfriend who shows up on her doorstep and claims to be one of these beings. He’s no longer the same person in that body. He tells her he has come to protect her and her brother and takes her underground, against her will, to save her. There they meet others like them.
Stalk me. (The Keatyn Chronicles)
Teens > Mysteries & Thrillers
Author: Jillian Dodd
Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She’s popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table.
She’s just not sure she wants it anymore.
Because, really, things aren’t all that perfect.
Frozen Past
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Police Procedurals
Author: Richard C. Hale
Luke is only fourteen. Eliana is his whole world and for a fourteen year old, the burden is immense. You see, Eliana is being stalked. Stalked by a madman who wants nothing more than to see her dead. The madman knows things that no one should know and sees things that no one should see. He tells them if they say a word to anyone, they will both die. And Luke can’t let that happen.
Eliana’s past is catching up with her and Luke must do anything to save her. Anything.
First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us
Humor > Essays
Author: Ben Nesvig
A collection of short humorous essays and rants from a man who knows suffering. It is comedy that borders on tragedy.
What are First World Problems? A First World Problem is a trivial issue that afflicts people in wealthier nations declared to be in the “First World.”
Have you ever bought so much food at the grocery store that it molded before you could eat it? Did you buy an iPhone one week before the new model was announced? You’re suffering from First World Problems.
Millicent Marie Is Not My Name
Children’s eBooks > Social Situations > Bullies
Author: Karen Pokras Toz
Twelve-year-old Millicent Marie does not like her name. After all, she was named for a woman who died more than fifty years ago and was not the most loveable member of the Harris family. Her friends call her Millie, but when she writes in her diary she refers to herself as Amanda – the name she always wished she had.
When Millie’s younger brother finds her diary on her computer, he decides to publish it as a blog for the entire world to see, including the boy Millie has a crush on. In the midst of all the mayhem, Millie/Amanda discovers she is suddenly Springside Elementary’s most sought after sixth-grade mystery gossip and advice columnist.
Memoirs of a Gothic Soul
Genre Fiction > Horror > Occult
Author: Rebekah Armusik
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Nadija Fey is weeks away from graduating college and is eager to escape small-city life. She feels suffocated by her eccentric Slovak family, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and a drug-addicted childhood friend. To her, life seems empty, lonely, and stale. The only consolation she has is a dream to move to Prague and start a new life.
Despite her grandmother’s warnings and the pleas of friends and family to stay, she embarks on her journey to find herself, but to her dismay, Prague seems to harbor more pain and suffering than she anticipated. She is forced to accept a life she never would have chosen for herself—a life her grandmother fought desperately to shield her from.
Nadija quickly finds herself caught in a celestial world struggling to maintain its delicate balance—a balance contingent upon her acceptance of her destiny. And though she finds the love she has always desired, it comes with an awful price—her life.
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