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Ruby

Religious Fiction

Author: Lauraine Snelling

Ruby

Ruby Torvald and her young sister, Opal, have received an inheritance from their long-lost father who left home years ago to seek his fortune in the Black Hills. When they leave their comfortable situation in Chicago and arrive at the mining town of Medora to claim their inheritance, the sisters discover that rather than the legacy of gold they expected, their father has left them a shocking bequest. Ruby’s bold determination in the face of scandal leads the reader on a journey both heartwarming and inspiring.

Don Quixote

Fiction Classics

Author: Miguel de Cervantes, Gerald J. Davis

Don Quixote

This is the story that a Nobel Prize Committee survey of one hundred of the world’s best writers named “the greatest book of all time.” DON QUIXOTE is the biggest-selling book of fiction ever written. It has sold more than 500 million copies.

This edition is a translation for our time that is also mindful of times gone by. Davis’s ear is attuned to clarity and meaning while honoring the tradition and language of the past.

As Thomas Mann said, “What a monument is this book. How its creative genius, critical, free and human, soars above its age.”

City of Darkness (City of Mystery)

Historical Fiction

Author: Kim Wright

City of Darkness (City of Mystery)

In 1888 London, Jack the Ripper roams the streets with impunity and Scotland Yard seems helpless to stop him. The science of forensics may be in its infancy but a few detectives – Trevor Welles among them – recognize that they are dealing with a different sort of killer, a “modern criminal” who chooses his victims at random. If Jack is to be caught, he won’t be caught with Scotland Yard’s normal methods of deduction for there is no logic to this madness. The question is no longer “Why was the victim killed?” but rather “How was the victim killed?” For the first time in the history of detection, science is trumping deductive reasoning.

FAMILY PIECES

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Misa Rush

FAMILY PIECES

Karsen Woods’s life seems charmed, from her hunkalicious boyfriend to her picture-perfect midwestern roots. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home – a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade each immediate relative an interlinking charm. Each piece crafted in the shape of a puzzle piece, each one interlinking perfectly together. But when the unexpected death of her mother turns her world upside down, she discovers there is a missing piece of her treasured family tradition, and her life as she once knew it may never be the same.

Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom

Humor

Author: A. L. Haskett

Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom

Bill Fitzhugh, author of Radio Activity, Fender Benders, Pest Control (and others) described Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom best when he said: As God is my witness, ‘Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom’ is the first novel I’ve ever read where a frozen Cornish hen is used as a weapon. And that’s not the craziest part of the story. A.L. Haskett opens a can of worms by asking the age-old question: Where does a sensitive cowboy artist go to escape the clutches of his mother’s wealth so he can pursue his art in peace? Well, not Los Angeles, but Duncan Delaney doesn’t know this.

My Dead Friend Sarah: A Novel

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Peter Rosch

My Dead Friend Sarah: A Novel

Mere months into recovery, Max, an alcoholic with twisted control issues, meets Sarah – the same woman that for years he’s habitually dreamt will die after a botched abduction. “Doing the next right thing,” a popular AA phrase he’s picked up in the rooms, means befriending Sarah long enough to warn her and hope she takes him seriously. But when Sarah falls in love with Max, his newly sober thinking drives him to choose his overly devoted wife, and he abandons Sarah – even when it condemns her to death. When Sarah goes missing, the NYPD suspects Max’s dream may have been a pre-crime confession.

Secrets of a Working Dog: Unleash Your Potential and Create Success

Advice & How-to

Author: Bella the Boxer, Patrick Galvin, Ellen Galvin

Secrets of a Working Dog: Unleash Your Potential and Create Success

Written from the point of view of Bella, a happy and mischievous boxer, Secrets of a Working Dog: Unleash Your Potential and Create Success teaches readers how to live successful and well-balanced lives by tapping into their inner dog and adopting the techniques that come naturally to canines of all shapes, sizes and pedigrees.

Blending wit and wisdom with good old-fashioned canine intuition, Bella has created an easy yet powerful read that takes humans on a walk of self-discovery. This book is for anyone who seeks straightforward and simple advice on how to how to juggle the responsibilities and challenges of modern life and still have fun…from stepping up as leader of the pack to staying focused, shaking off setbacks, pursuing your dreams, building long-lasting relationships and living fully while balancing work and play.

Tea With Emma (The Teacup Novellas – Book One)

Religious Fiction

Author: Diane Moody

Tea With Emma (The Teacup Novellas - Book One)

Fresh from a Jane Austen tour in England, Maddie Cooper returns home to Texas, determined to bring a touch of “Austen to Austin.” She dreams of opening an authentic English tea room and, like Austen’s Emma, put into practice her self-proclaimed gift as a matchmaker. But an airport mishap with a cranky Englishman gets her off on the wrong foot (quite literally), especially when he moves into the university guest house across the street. Can Maddie find a love for her unapproachable new neighbor, or has she finally met her match?

Blue Christmas (The Moody Blue Trilogy | Book One)

Religious Fiction

Author: Diane Moody

Blue Christmas (The Moody Blue Trilogy | Book One)

Working late on Christmas Eve, college senior Hannah Brooks is in the midst of a full-blown pity party. When a last-minute customer brimming with holiday spirit invites her to a candlelight service and a late-night family dinner, Hannah reluctantly accepts. She has no idea this kindhearted woman is the mother of Jason McKenzie – leader singer of Out of the Blue, the hottest band in the country – and Hannah’s childhood idol. The evening ends with an innocent kiss (sans mistletoe) as Hannah is swept away by Jason’s unpretentious manner.


As I Close My Eyes

Romance

Author: Sarah DiCello

As I Close My Eyes

Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact. Danielle’s other life is as entrancing and romantic as her current one, and the contrast between the lifestyles is intriguing and enlightening, but what starts out as being dreamlike soon becomes real and strangely familiar.

Worse, whatever happens to her as Danielle seems to change the past, if it is a true past. And when she finds she is not alone in being able to flip between the two worlds, life, love and death become really disturbing.

Dying To Forget (The Station)

Teens

Author: Trish Marie Dawson

Dying To Forget (The Station)

Piper Willow dies the summer after her high school graduation but she doesn’t make it to Heaven or Hell…instead she finds herself in a spiritual terminal called the Station. She’s given only two choices: Return to Earth as the subconscious for a person in need of some outside assistance, or move on and spend an eternity lost in her own sorrow and pain.

Does Piper have what it takes to save a life – to be the nagging voice inside someone else’s head – or will she fail and end up lost and tormented in limbo…forever?

The Fall (The Rift Book I)

Fantasy

Author: Robert J. Duperre, Jesse David Young

The Fall (The Rift Book I)

An ancient evil, trapped in the ruins of a lost Mayan temple for centuries, has been unleashed. It takes the form of a deadly virus that causes violent insanity in the living and the recently departed to rise and walk. The blight spreads around the globe, throwing the world into chaos and war.

Regular people are hurled into an existence outside their control, left to deal with a terror they aren’t prepared to handle. Life becomes a nightmare, and that nightmare is spreading.

The Money Keys

Business & Investing

Author: Karen Russo

The Money Keys

For the investor, business professional, or entrepreneur already committed to building material wealth, this book helps you build spiritual mastery around money. By understanding and applying the principles and practices of The Money Keys, you exponentially increase your ease, satisfaction and results in financial matters. Use the money keys to:

  • Permanently eliminate worry about your finances and find peace
  • Release your resentments about money and be free
  • Immediately step into the flow of your prosperity
  • Discover the 3 questions you must ask before making any financial move
  • Create and enjoy a prosperous, intimate partnership, successfully combining love & money

Letters To Gabriella (Glebe Point)

Romance

Author: Patricia Paris, S.M. Ray

Letters To Gabriella (Glebe Point)

 

For Gabriella Fiorelli, starting a new life with her young daughter in the sleepy town of Glebe Point is just what she needs—no complications. But when she meets handsome lawyer Justin Morrison, complications are the least of her worries. As Gabriella comes to grips with a heartbreaking choice, will her world come crumbling down?

ALASKA BOUND: One man’s dream…One woman’s nightmare!

Biographies & Memoirs

Author: Tammy Jones

ALASKA BOUND: One man's dream...One woman's nightmare!

This exhilarating tale will take you on an unforgettable journey of fear, determination and triumph as Tom Jones’ dream to experience Alaska lures him and his wife from the sleepy coastal town of Raymond, Washington to the sun baked slopes of northeastern Oregon and ultimately to the pristine wilderness of The Last Frontier.

Travel with this motivated team as they leave the comforts of their new home to endure the elements while living off the land.

Quiet Ops – The Bob Burton Series

Action & Adventure

Author: L. J. Martin, Bob Burton

Quiet Ops - The Bob Burton Series

Brad Bennedict, adventurer, bounty hunter and P.I., lives quietly in Montecito, and works in a blender of crime, corruption, and killings. His job is manhunting, and he and his crew at Quiet Ops do it better than anyone in the land. When billionaire Grenwald Stanton calls to report his beautiful twin daughters have been ‘ruffied’ and hooked on heroine by rapper Jo Jo Bling and that he’ll pay large for their return, Brad and his boys, T-Rex and Cocoa are on the hunt, and his main lady bounty hunter, Monique, is in the middle of it all.

Impact (Wild Men of Alaska)

Romance

Author: Tiffinie Helmer

Impact (Wild Men of Alaska)

Alaska State Trooper Skip Ozhuwan has waited five years to reunite with Wren Terni, the woman he’s always loved. Flying back home for his sister’s wedding with only him and Wren in a chartered bush plane guarantees he’ll have her undivided attention.

Ever since Skip arrested her five years earlier, Wren vowed never to lay eyes on him again. She’s gotten sober and made a life for herself that she’s proud of. Seeing Skip now throws her into a tailspin. When the plane crashes, they are forced to battle a violent arctic storm, outwit predators, and dispose of a dead body.

Stiletto Safari

Romance

Author: Kate Metz

Stiletto Safari

Zara Hamilton has it all – a glamorous New York lifestyle, a gorgeous (and seriously rich) boyfriend and a job as a lawyer in a prestigious city law firm. But when Zara’s boyfriend is accused of insider trading her perfect world implodes. Thrown out of work by security and stalked by the press, Zara’s life can’t get any worse. Or can it? A snap decision (and a few wines too many) sees Zara fleeing to Africa to work as a temporary wildlife volunteer.

Footnote to Murder

Mystery & Thrillers

Author: L. A. Taylor

Footnote to Murder

Marge Brock is a divorced mother of three teenagers trying to make a living in Boston as a researcher. When an author hires her to research unsolved murders, she is grateful for the assignment. However, as she gathers information about a series of unsolved murders in Great Britain and in Boston, she begins to wonder whether one of the members of the circle of friends that she had in Great Britain, and now has in Boston, might be the killer.

Ravenscraig

Historical Fiction

Author: Sandi Krawchenko Altner

Ravenscraig

Nothing is more important to Rupert J. Willows than the image he has built to hide the deep secret of his true identity. A master manipulator, the ruthless and charismatic Rupert buys his way into the upper class when he purchases the opulent mansion, Ravenscraig Hall.

Malka Zigman is a survivor. Orphaned in London, she sails to Canada to join her Uncle Zev and his family. With family resources stretched thin, Malka takes a risk. Armed with an English accent that belies her Jewish roots, she reinvents herself as Maisie Rosedale to gain entrance to the exclusive world of “the English” as the new maid at Ravenscraig Hall.

To Find A Mountain

War

Author: Dani Amore

To Find A Mountain

When Benedetta’s house is taken over by the German Command and her father is forced to fight for the Germans at the front lines, she is left alone to protect her family and survive the violent, battle scarred German soldiers living in her home.

Ultimately, Benedetta engages in a very real fight for her own survival, with the lives of those closest to her hanging in the balance.

How To Catch Happy – Live Stress Free & Die Happy (A Self-Help Short Story To Getting Your Mind Right)

Advice & How-to

Author: Jim Kukral

How To Catch Happy - Live Stress Free & Die Happy (A Self-Help Short Story To Getting Your Mind Right)

Are you happy? Do you want to be? How To Catch Happy is a quick read and reminder of how to reconnect with the the inner happiness inside you. This short read will inspire you to take another look at your life and career and reexamine your priorities.

The Feedstore Chronicles

Humor

Author: Travis Erwin

The Feedstore Chronicles

In the spring of 1989, I went to work at Pearl’s Feed and Seed for a man named Doyle Suggs. On the surface Doyle and I had little in common: I was a rosy-cheeked boy of sixteen; he was a twice-divorced, thirty-year-old high school dropout. I had yet to go on my first date; he was trading sex for horse feed in the back room. Sure, Doyle was a lout, a liar, and a lecherous derelict. The Feedstore Chronicles is a mostly true account of those days and when murderous ex-wives, well-hung bulldogs, and feed room fornication were all part of a normal day at Pearl’s.

How I Roll: Life, Love, and Work After a Spinal Cord Injury

Biographies & Memoirs

Author: J. Bryant Neville Jr., Raquel B. Pidal, Foster Winans, Dan Gottlieb PhD

How I Roll: Life, Love, and Work After a Spinal Cord Injury

An unflinching look at what it’s like to be a quadriplegic. This is the inspiring story of a Virginia country boy—J. Bryant Neville, Jr.—who became a quadriplegic thirty years ago after a car wreck, and how he refused to accept the medical sentence of a life unrealized. Hard work, devoted family, a caring community, and a determination to live as fiercely as his body would allow helped Bryant Neville earn two college degrees, become a respected banking executive, a loving husband and provider, an adoptive parent, and a biological father.

Murder With Sarcastic Intent (The 2nd Mary Cooper Mystery)

Mystery & Thrillers

Author: Dani Amore

Murder With Sarcastic Intent (The 2nd Mary Cooper Mystery)

Los Angeles based private investigator Mary Cooper is hired to track down a missing child. The case quickly leads her into the seedy underworld of LA’s pornography industry where Mary’s on again off again boyfriend Jake Cornell has been working undercover for the LAPD.

As Mary investigates, she soon uncovers a world in which no one is who they claim to be. Armed with her .45 and a heavily sarcastic wit, Mary vows to rescue her client’s daughter and bring her captors to justice.

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