New York Times bestselling author Dianna Love writes high-octane thrillers and urban fantasy, including a popular collaborative series with author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
In 2013, Dianna released a new romantic suspense series, Slye Temps, and the first installment tops today’s Buffet: Last Chance to Run. The story proceeds at a breakneck pace with heart-stopping suspense and real characters.
When not touring the country on her BMW motorcycle, Dianna lives in the Atlanta area with her husband (who is a motorcycle instructor) and with a tank full of unruly saltwater critters.
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Last Chance To Run (Slye Temp)
Romantic Suspense
Author: Dianna Love
To an undercover agent, she’s a Person of Interest. He’s interested.
Escaping the compound of a deadly international felon–with a fortune in rare, stolen coins hidden on her body–elite athlete Angel Farentino has to make the most important run of her life. Literally. With her father in prison, where he belongs, and a prior undeserved conviction hanging over her head, she has nowhere to turn and no one to trust. Definitely not law enforcement who railroaded her through a judicial nightmare. One step ahead of lethal men and dogs on her trail, she runs into the arms of a dark stranger willing to help her if she’d let him. But that would only get the sexy pilot killed.
Between figuring out who’s sabotaging his undercover work for the DEA and trying to save his baby sister from herself, Zane Jackson has enough on his plate. The last thing he needs is to get entangled with a woman who’s treading on the wrong side of the law. But when the long-legged distraction races into the middle of his operation and stows away on his plane, a primal need to protect forces Zane to risk everything, starting with his heart.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Business & Investing >Industrial & Product Design
Author: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
This book introduces readers to the “Hook Model,” a four steps process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive hook cycles, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly — without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.
Hooked is a guide to building products people can’t put down. Written for product managers, designers, marketers, startup founders, and people eager to learn more about the things that control our behaviors, this book gives readers:
– Practical insights to create user habits that stick.
– Actionable steps for building products people love.
– Behavioral techniques used by Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and other habit-forming products.
The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers Series)
Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: G. P. Ching
When 15-year-old Jacob Lau is pulled from the crumpled remains of his mother’s car, no one can explain why he was driving or why the police can’t find his mother’s body. Made a ward of his uncle and thousands of miles from home, a beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, offers to use her unique abilities to help him find his mom. In exchange, she requires Jacob to train as a Soulkeeper, a gifted warrior charged with protecting human souls.
He agrees to her demands, desperate for any clue to the mystery of his mother’s disappearance. But soon Jacob finds himself trapped in a web of half-truths, and questions Dr. Silva’s motives for helping him.
Traditional British Jubilee Recipes. 4 Book Collection – Cakes, Puddings, Scones and Biscuits
Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Biscuits, Muffins & Scones
Author: Jane Romsey
Traditional British Cake Recipes. You don’t need to be British to enjoy the delicious traditional cakes found in this collection of 20 recipes. Traditional British Cake Recipes are fun, simple baking recipes.
Traditional British Pudding Recipes with 22 yummy puds. Experience a culinary tour of Britain with these 22 delicious traditional pudding (dessert) recipes. Learn how to make Proper English custard from scratch, good old English Sherry Trifle and the world famous, Spotted Dick.
Traditional British Scone Recipes. The Great British Scone; once tasted, never forgotten. Plain, unadorned and simple, scones are a quintessential part of the British way of life. If the only scone you have ever tasted was bought in a cafe or bakery, then you are in for a treat when you taste the real thing.
Traditional British Biscuit Recipes. Another great British tradition. Put the kettle on, brew a pot of tea and settle down with a good plate of bickies.
Rain and Revelation
Contemporary Fiction
Author: Therese Pautz
On the rugged, rain and windswept coast of Ireland, twenty-year-old Eliza Conroy’s predictable life is shattered when she returns home to find her mother bathing in her own blood. Eliza sets out to understand the events leading up to that fateful day and discovers that she has been deceived her entire life by those she loves and trusts the most.
What she uncovers threatens to destroy her family and tight knit community and Eliza is forced to choose between the cost of speaking the truth and remaining silent.
Deliver Me From Negative Self Talk: A Guide To Speaking Faith-filled Words
Christian Living > Self Help
Author: Lynn R Davis
Deliver Me From Negative Self Talk: A Guide to Speaking Faith-filled Words is a quick read, but it packs a lot of punch and can literally change your life. Negative self talk destroys lives, but it doesn’t have to. Deliver Me gives examples of negative self talk and offers a guide to stopping negative self talk by replacing them with positive faith-filled words.
UnEnchanted (An Unfortunate Fairy Tale)
Fantasy > Fairy Tales & Folklore
Author: Chanda Hahn
Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated; that is until she saves her crush’s life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light.
For Mina is a descendant from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business which includes trying to outwit a powerful Story from making her its’ next fairy-tale victim.
To break the fairy tale curse on her family and make these deadly occurrences stop, Mina must finish the tales until the very Grimm end.
Magic of Thieves (Legends of Dimmingwood, Book 1)
Fantasy > Sword & Sorcery
Author: C. Greenwood
In a province where magic is forbidden and its possessors are murdered by the cruel Praetor, young Ilan, born with the powerful gift of her ancestors, has only one hope for survival. Concealment. In the shadow of Dimmingwood, she finds temporary protection with a band of forest brigands led by the infamous outlaw Rideon the Red Hand.
But as Ilan matures, learns the skills of survival, and struggles to master the inherent magic of her dying race, danger is always close behind. When old enemies reappear and new friendships lead to betrayal, will her discovery of an enchanted bow prove to be Ilan’s final salvation or her ultimate downfall?
Hint of Desire (The Desire Series)
Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Lavinia Kent
An Enigmatic Duke . . .
Arthur Alexander DeWolf, the eighth Duke of Westlake, lacks for nothing in life . . . except a woman who will stir his blood for longer than one night. Until fate steps in on his morning ride and he stumbles across Lily St. Aubin, Countess of Worthington.
A Desperate Young Woman . . .
It is on the worst day of her life that Lily meets the imperious duke. Helpless and unable to resist, she has no choice but to trust that this dangerously handsome man will protect her and newborn son. But, as trust begins to grow between them, danger lurks ever closer . . . danger that could destroy Lily. And their newfound love.
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Naked in Death
Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: J.D. Robb
Regularly $7.99, Today $1.99
In a world of danger and deception, she walks the line–between seductive passion and scandalous murder… Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she’s seen it all–and knows her survival depends on her instincts.
And she’s going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire–and a suspect in Eve’s murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rules of their own, and it’s up to Eve to take a chance in the arms of a man she knows nothing about–except the addictive hunger of needing his touch.
Rapture in Death
Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: J. D. Robb
Regularly $7.99, Today $1.99
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common–and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious.
And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims. Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve’s investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual reality games–where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction…
Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)
Science Fiction > Steampunk
Author: Gail Carriger
Regularly $8.00, Today $1.99
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.
Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire — and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
All Creatures Great and Small
Biographies & Memoirs
Author: James Herriot
Regularly $14.99, Today $2.99
The stories of a young veterinarian making his way in the rugged English countryside—and of the people and animals he met along the way.
In the rolling dales of Yorkshire, a simple, rural region of northern England, a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger in a strange land, he must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and livestock alike.
This witty and heartwarming collection, based on the author’s own experiences, became an international success, spawning sequels and winning over animal lovers everywhere. Perhaps better than any other writer, James Herriot reveals the ties that bind us to the creatures in our lives.
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Comic Strips & Cartoons
Author: Bill Watterson
Regularly $12.99, Today $2.99
Now available for the first time as an e-book. The cartoons in this e-book have been specially formatted for optimal viewing. The e-book will only work on color tablets and is not intended for viewing on desktop apps or black and white tablets.
Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box),Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.
Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin’s tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbescollections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.
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