luency (Confluence Book 1)

Science Fiction > First Contact
Author: Jennifer Foehner Wells
FREE

Fluency (Confluence Book 1)

NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it.

The ship itself remained silent, drifting.

Dr. Jane Holloway is content documenting nearly-extinct languages and had never contemplated becoming an astronaut. But when NASA recruits her to join a team of military scientists for an expedition to the Target, it’s an adventure she can’t refuse.

Final Notice: A Damaged Goods Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Jennifer L. Hart
FREE

Final Notice: A Damaged Goods Mystery

She’s serving up mayhem in the Magic City….

FINAL STRAW
Dishing out bad news is Jackie Parker’s job until her boss grabs her assets one time too many and she serves him her notice and hopes he chokes on it. There must be a better way for a certified process server to make a living in Miami than working for a lousy lecherous lawyer. Whatever Jackie decides, her number one priority is spending time with her husband, Luke, preferably without his brother Logan—AKA the Dark Prince.

Mind Machines (Human++ Book 1)

Thrillers > Medical

Author: Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
FREE

Mind Machines (Human++ Book 1)

With billions in the bank and my own venture capital firm, I’m living the American dream. My only problem? A car accident that leaves my mother with memory problems.

Brainocytes, a new technology that can transform our brains, could be the answer to all of my problems—but I’m not the only one who sees its potential.

Plunged into a criminal underworld darker than anything I could’ve imagined, my life-saving technology might be the death of me.

My name is Mike Cohen, and this is how I became more than human.

Damaged: Damaged Duet Book 1

Women’s Fiction > Action & Adventure
Author: W. Winters, Willow Winters
FREE

Damaged: Damaged Duet Book 1

Lies are what destroy marriages or even just hiding the truth.
I love my husband more than anything and that’s what hurts the most.

I thought he lied.
I thought he’d cheated and so I kicked him out.

I said goodbye to the one man I ever loved even while he begged me to trust him. The hardest part is throwing away true love.

And that’s what we had.

With secrets I couldn’t have possibly imagined, I was torn between what’s right and what was right for us.

But let me start at the beginning.

The Orlando File (Book One)

International Mystery & Crime
Author: Ian C.P. Irvine
FREE

The Orlando File (Book One): A Gripping Mystery & Detective Medical Thriller Conspiracy

When Kerrin Graham, a retired cop and now an investigative journalist with the Washington Post, receives a call in the middle of the night, his life is about to be turned upside down.

Six of the world’s leading geneticists have all ‘committed suicide’ in the past seven days, his brother-in-law being the latest to die. Establishing that those who died were all employees of the Gen8tyx Company, a secretive research company based in Orlando, Kerrin sets out to discover the truth behind their deaths.

Discovering that those who died were killed to stop them unveiling the results of their revolutionary stem-cell research, a discovery that could usher in a new age of hope and health for all humanity, Kerrin vows to find who was responsible for their deaths and to uncover the powerful secret they were killed to protect.

Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

Horror > Dark Fantasy
Author: Jeremy Laszlo, Carlos Cara
FREE

Left Alive #1: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel

The world is dead. Plants gone. Animals gone. The air is thick with dust and ash. Water has turned to murky cesspools of death and decay. Life and Earth as we know it are gone—at least all the good parts.
It’s been almost a year since the first signs that we killed our planet began to arise. Order and humanity are gone now, replaced by vigilante justice and survival at all costs. Nine months have passed since the quarantines were put in place. Six months since we realized it was too late, and just after that the governments of the world fell.
That was nearly seven billion people ago, and now Charles has decided it is time to pack up and leave in search of the one thing still worth living for—his daughters.

Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Middle Eastern
Author: Donia Bijan
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Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

For Donia Bijan’s family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California’s Bay Area, where the familiar flavors of Bijan’s mother’s cooking formed a bridge to the life they left behind. Now, through the prism of food, award-winning chef Donia Bijan unwinds her own story, finding that at the heart of it all is her mother, whose love and support enabled Bijan to realize her dreams.

From the Persian world of her youth to the American life she embraced as a teenager to her years at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris (studying under the infamous Madame Brassart) to apprenticeships in France’s three-star kitchens and finally back to San Francisco, where she opened her own celebrated bistro, Bijan evokes a vibrant kaleidoscope of cultures and cuisines.also a reminder of the women who encourage us to shine.

The Sweetapolita Bakebook: 75 Fanciful Cakes, Cookies & More to Make & Decorate

Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking
Author: Rosie Alyea
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The Sweetapolita Bakebook: 75 Fanciful Cakes, Cookies & More to Make & Decorate

Paint, doodle, and sprinkle your way to stunning one-of-a-kind sweets.

The world of Sweetapolita is sparkly and sprinkly and charming as can be, with 75 recipes for everything from pretty homemade cookies to decadent layer cakes. But what really sets these treats apart are interactive designs that let everyone in on the fun of decorating: Painted Mini Cakes are served with edible “paint” for guests to personalize at the table, the fondant-covered tiered Chalk-a-Lot cake is paired with homemade edible “chalk,” and Rainbow Doodle cookies are made for kids to go to town on with edible markers.

Tails of the Apocalypse

Fiction > Anthologies
Author: David Bruns, Nick Cole, Edward W. Robertson, E.E. Giorgi, David Adams, Deirdre Gould, Michael Bunker, Jennifer Ellis, Steven Savile, Stefan Bolz, Harlow C. Fallon, Hank Garner, Todd Barselow, Adam Hall, Chris Pourteau, Mary Buckham
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Tails of the Apocalypse

Nobility. Self-Sacrifice. Unconditional Love. These are the qualities of the heroic animals in this collection.

The Walking Dead meets The Incredible Journey in 14 amazing tales by today’s most talented independent authors. Seven stories set in all-new dystopian landscapes. Seven stories set in the bestselling post-apocalyptic worlds of David Adams’s Symphony of War, Michael Bunker’s Pennsylvania, Nick Cole’s Wasteland Saga, Hank Garner’s Weston Files, E.E. Giorgi’s Mayake Chronicles, Deirdre Gould’s After the Cure, and Edward W. Robertson’s Breakers.

When the world ends, the humans who survive will learn an old lesson anew—that friendship with animals can make the difference between a lonely death among the debris and a life well lived, with hope for the future.

I Am Pusheen the Cat

Humor & Entertainment > Cartoons
Author: Claire Belton
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I Am Pusheen the Cat

Who is Pusheen? This collection of oh-so-cute kitty comics—featuring the chubby, tubby tabby who has taken the Internet by storm—will fill you in on all the basics.

Things you should know about Pusheen.

Birthday: February 18

Sex: Female

Where she lives: In the house, on the couch, underfoot

Her favorite pastime: Blogging, sleeping

Her best feature: Her toe beans

Her favorite food: All of them

An Imaginative Experience: A Novel

Literary Fiction > Romance
Author: Mary Wesley
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An Imaginative Experience: A Novel

London publisher Sylvester Wykes is traveling home from work when he hears the sudden squeal of brakes. As the train screeches to a halt, a figure leaps out to save a sheep lying near the tracks. Wykes is fascinated by this mysterious young woman dressed all in black.
Their paths are fated to cross again when Wykes hires a housekeeper, unaware that she is the stranger from the train. Her name is Julia Piper, and she’s in mourning for the husband and son she lost in a tragic accident. Julia is also being plagued by anonymous calls . . . and the feeling that someone is stalking her.

Along the Cane River: Books 1-5 in the Inspirational Cane River Romance Series

Religious & Inspirational Fiction
Author: Mary Jane Hathaway
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Along the Cane River: Books 1-5 in the Inspirational Cane River Romance Series

A family saga set in Louisiana, it follows a tight-knit group of friends as they survive heartbreak and find love while holding fast to the traditions of the Cane River Creole people. 

Over 700 total reviews with a 4.7 star average!
This boxed set includes the first five full length novelsfrom Mary Jane Hathaway’s best-selling Cane River Romance series. Each book includes recipes.

The Pepper in the Gumbo
Paul Olivier, founder of a gaming company, clashes right from the start with the beautiful Creole bookstore owner who is determined to keep him out of Natchitoches’ historical district. But nothing is ever as it seems, and when shocking secrets are revealed, they must decide whether they can overcome their differences and embrace true love.
A romance that brings the humor of You’ve Got Mail and the deep friendships of 84, Charring Cross Road, this novel will touch the classic literature lover in everyone.

What Belongs to You: A Novel

Literary Fiction
Author: Garth Greenwell
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What Belongs to You: A Novel

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.

Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella Baseball Collection)

Literary Fiction
Author: W. P. Kinsella
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Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella Baseball Collection)

Ray Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly voice of a baseball announcer who says to him, “If you build it, he will come.” Needing no further explanation, Kinsella immediately sees in his mind’s eye a baseball field that he is being asked to create in the middle of a corn field. The voice will speak only two other things to Ray: “Ease his pain” and “Go the distance,” and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what he is supposed to do. He knows that digging up the corn field in the back of his house will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series.

Miss Silver Deals with Death (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 6)

Mystery > Cozy
Author: Patricia Wentworth
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Miss Silver Deals with Death (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 6)

Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue.
There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived; her husband did not. Then there’s Ivy, a sleepwalking maid with a curious past. And last there is Mrs. Underwood, a snobbish woman dreadfully embarrassed that she is being blackmailed by another resident. And all that drama in just one flat. There are many secrets in Vandeleur house, and it will take the full force of gentlewoman detective Maud Silver’s intuition to unravel them.

The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People

Christian Living > Professional Growth
Author: Kevin Leman, William Pentak
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The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People

A heartwarming, contemporary parable, The Way of the Shepherd offers a fresh perspective on the art of leadership in this account of a cub reporter who lands the interview of a lifetime with the most respected CEO in America. Through the interview, the businessman shares seven proven management principles that, while ancient in origin, are readily applicable in today’s fast-paced, high-tech world.Compelling and challenging, these uncommon, age-old principles require leaders to focus on their own hearts, character, and priorities, and to give their best in order to receive the best from others. Readers also discover insights and techniques for engaging and energizing their workforce, and for leading people in a way that helps them see their work as a calling rather than merely a job, as a place to belong rather than just a place to work.

The Silent Woman: A gripping historical fiction full of drama

Historical Fiction > British
Author: Terry Lynn Thomas
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The Silent Woman: A gripping historical fiction full of drama

Would you sell your secrets?

Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans.

Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Someone is selling secrets to the other side, and the evidence seems to point right at her.

Can she clear her name before it’s too late?

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Social History > Gay & Gender Studies
Author: Megan Marshall
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life.

Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others.

The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

Christian Living > Women’s Issues
Author: Sheila Walsh
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The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

Women feel the storm activity all around. We find ourselves teetering somewhere between everyday chaos and crisis.

We can feel a storm brewing, we are in the middle of a storm, or we are facing the aftermath of a storm. But don’t be afraid because it is possible to grow through turbulent times.

Storms show you what’s really going on inside, reveal what you really believe, and actually make you stronger. In this powerful book Sheila will help you:

  •  Redefine your failures as a new beginning instead of an end.
  • Replace the words always and never in your life with positive declarations of hope.
  • Know with confidence how to help a friend in chaos or crisis.

The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

Christian Living > Personal Growth
Author: Lee Strobel
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The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives (Case for ... Series)

Now, in The Case for Grace, Lee Strobel crafts a compelling and highly personal experiential case for God, focusing on God’s transforming work in the lives of men and women today.

Writing with unusual candor, Lee draws upon his own journey from atheism to Christianity to explore the depth and breadth of God’s redeeming love for spiritually wayward people. He travels thousands of miles to capture the inspiring stories of everyday people whose values have been radically changed and who have discovered the “how” and “why” behind God’s amazing grace. You’ll encounter racists, addicts, and even murderers who have found new hope and purpose.

The Drowning: A Novel

International Mystery & Crime
Author: Camilla Lackberg
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The Drowning: A Novel

From worldwide bestseller Camilla Läckberg: a new novel from a reclusive Fjallbacka resident has enraptured the community—but what secrets and tragedies are lurking behind the pages and threatening to come to life?

Christian Thydell’s dream has come true. His debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever?
When crime writer Erica Falck, who helped Christian discover and develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the young author mysterious past. Then, one of Christian’s closet friends, Magnus, goes missing.

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