Arthur Slade tops today’s Buffet with Dust, his acclaimed horror novel that first appeared as a Harper Collins import paperback in 2001. This book has won too many awards to mention them all; suffice to say it was nominated for an Edgar and was named one of the “Best Books for Young Adults” by the American Library Association. Yes, it’s technically a “Young Adult” book, but it’s enjoyed every bit as much by adult readers. It’s a book that appeals to fans of Stephen King and Ray Bradbury.
Arthur is a native of Saskatchewan, Canada, and was raised in the Cypress Hills. He worked as a night auditor at a hotel before the publication of his first book, Draugr, in 1997. He now has 16 bestsellers to his name, including the “Northern Frights” series, “Jolted,” and “The Hunchback Assignments.” He lives in Saskatoon, Canada.
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Dust
Teen & Young Adult > Horror
Author: Arthur Slade
Imagine a depression-era town where it hasn’t rained for years. A pale rainmaker with other-worldly eyes brings rain to the countryside and mesmerizes the townspeople, but the children begin to disappear one by one. Only young Robert Steelgate is able to resist the rainmaker’s spell and begin the struggle to discover what has happened to his missing brother and the other children.
A Beautiful Lie (Playing with Fire, #1)
Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Tara Sivec
He saw her first, but his friend made the move.
She settled for the safer choice, but her heart knew the truth.
They love, they crave, they lie.
Garrett McCarthy, Annabelle Parker, and Milo Roberts were as close as friends could get. They shared in each other’s joy during graduations, promotions, and engagements. They consoled one another through heartache and loss.
When one of the friend’s life is tragically cut short, it’s up to the two left behind to pick up the pieces and find out the truth – no matter the cost. As they slowly start to uncover the nature of his deception, and the very powerful people behind it, they begin to question everyone and everything, even themselves.
Everyone has secrets – some do it for love while others do it for power. Those secrets can change perceptions, alter reality and sometimes destroy lives. What do you do when you find out your whole life has been a lie?
Country Girls
Women’s Fiction
Author: Karina Gioertz
It had been clear from the beginning, that Emma, Eli and Evey Wilson would be tied together by more than just a name and the blood that flowed through each of their veins. They would be bound for life by the secrets of their past and the lies that kept them hidden.
After a fire devoured their family home and left them orphaned at an early age, Emma, Eli and Evey found themselves being raised by their grandfather and learning the ropes of life on the ranch. A life that quite suited Emma and Eli, but left Evey desperate to seek out a way to escape and run off to the big city. An escape she soon found in Preston Mercer.
It wasn’t long after Evey rode out of town on Preston’s white horse that he revealed his true colors and what had been her dream come true became the stuff of nightmares.
The Wheat Free Solution: Low Cost, Easy Recipes to Lose Weight and Regain Your Vitality
Special Diet > Wheat Free
Author: Morgan White
You want to adopt a wheat-free lifestyle but the recipes you find are just too expensive?
Or just too complex? Here you will find more than 60 recipes: all of them are low-cost, easy, extra tasty and healthy. And all the ingredients are familiar.
In this book you will find recipes for: breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks. And I will go over the many wheat-free alternatives at your disposal for you to start creating your own low-cost, extra tasty recipes!
Either Side of Midnight
Women’s Adventure > Thrillers
Author: Tori de Clare
When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head. But the following day, she mysteriously awakes to find herself unharmed and secured to a bed. She’s in a beautiful bedroom in a secluded cottage in open countryside.
Only one person knows she’s there – the man in the balaclava who’s holding her, feeding her, revealing nothing. Naomi senses the unfolding of a plan. She should be on honeymoon in the Caribbean. Instead, she’s trapped with an emotionless psycho with no hope of escape . . . And his voice is chillingly familiar.
The Bionics
Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Alicia Michaels
The year is 4010. Nuclear war and the wasteful nature of humans have all but destroyed the United States. A new government regime rules the day with strict laws, rationed food, and careful control. When those injured in the nuclear blasts that rocked many of the nations largest cities are offered another chance by the Restoration Project, how could they refuse?
Little do they know that the robotic additions to their body will paint targets on their backs once the government decides that they are dangerous. At the forefront of the resistance is a girl with a bionic eye, Blythe Sol, who wants nothing more than to be a normal girl. Blythe has yet to realize that normal will never exist again for her, or anyone else.
Drowning (Tears of Sin Series)
Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Rachel Firasek
“I dare you.”
Those words would change adrenaline junkie, Alice Harrison’s life forever. She’s a party girl that doesn’t believe in love until she meets a man that only writes about it.
Seth James escaped his overbearing father and moved into one of the James family’s vacant condos, hoping to create the music he loves in peace. But the fragile calm he’s envisioned shatters when a tiny woman with a world full of energy bounces out of the elevator and nearly takes him out.
With the patience of a saint, Seth seeks the dark that keeps Alice from enjoying life. He challenges her to exorcise the demons in her past in order to discover the true meaning of love.
TODAY’S BARGAINS……………What’s this?
The Back Road
Mystery > British Detectives
Author: Rachel Abbott
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99
From the author of the bestseller Only the Innocent.
In a quiet country village, secrets abound.
When a young girl, Abbie Campbell, is knocked over and left for dead on the back road of the village of Little Melham, waves of shock ripple through the small community and a chain of events, which threatens to expose long-kept secrets, is triggered.
For Ellie Saunders, the truth about that night puts both her marriage and the safety of her children in jeopardy–she has to protect her family, no matter what the cost. And Ellie isn’t the only one with something to hide. She and her sister Leo believe they have put their troubled childhood behind them, but Leo’s quest for the truth reveals a terrible secret that has lain hidden for years.
Ellie’s neighbour, former detective Tom Douglas, has escaped to Little Melham in search of a quiet life, but finds himself drawn into the web of deceit as his every instinct tells him that what happened to young Abbie was far more than a tragic accident.
The Real McCoy
Romance > Contemporary
Author: Sheryl Leonard
Regularly $9.99, Today $0.99
Stephanie Hays, RN, has been infatuated with the handsome, well-respected Dr. Peter Granville since her days in nursing school. And now she has the good fortune of working alongside the “Great Granville” in his hospital unit. There, she spends her days longing for precious scraps of his attention, even if they’re won only by her legendary clumsiness.
Dr. Luke Carter is Granville’s senior resident—and a man who attracts women like ants to a picnic. But the only woman he wants is Stephanie, and she’s blinded by her attraction to Granville. She fails to see him through Luke’s eyes: as a cold, egocentric bully who’ll do anything to get to the top.
Determined to make Stephanie realize the unsettling truth about her idol, Luke conceives a plot to reveal Granville for who he really is. Is this the ticket to winning Stephanie’s heart at last…or will it drive her straight into Granville’s arms?
The Casquette Girls
Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: Alys Arden, Marissa van Uden
Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99
After the Storm of the Century rips apart New Orleans, Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return to the city following the mandatory evacuation.
Adele wants nothing more than for life to return to normal, but with the silent city resembling a mold-infested war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal will have to be redefined.
The Storm has passed, but as the flood waters recede, the body count continues to rise – Mother Nature couldn’t drain the joie de vivre from New Orleans, but someone or something is draining life from its residents.
Amidst the mayhem, strange events – too unnatural even for New Orleans – lead Adele to an attic where she accidentally opens a Pandora’s box – one that has been sealed for three hundred years. The chaos she unleashes threatens not only her life but everyone she knows.
Mass Destruction: Featuring guest appearances by Betrayed’s Brandt, Davidson, and Lopez
Technothrillers
Author: Carolyn McCray
Regularly $3.99, Today $0.99
Book 1 of the Nuclear Threat Thriller Series
Did you know that over four DOZEN times a year nuclear material is either lost or stolen? That is where the UN’s NMRT (nuclear materials recovery team) comes in. Tracking down rogue spears, broken arrows and suitcase nukes, add in Brandt’s team’s tendency toward explosive action, and you’ve got quite a thriller.
Wonderfully Dysfunctional: It Must be Genetic
Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Buffi Neal
Regularly $9.99, Today $4.99
The true story of… A gypsy mother who refused to wear a bra and a father who refused to leave his first wife. A brother who slept under the coffee table and a sister who was kidnapped. A cheating minister, a missing uncle and a feisty red-headed grandmother who was longing to leave it all.
I always knew my family was unusual, but I was lucky enough to have escaped that gene. Or was I? In a nursing home, seated next to my dying grandmother, I looked around at my family and it occurred to me that I fit right in. No bra, dirty sneakers and two ex husbands. Maybe it really is genetic – maybe I never had a chance. With the help of my siblings, I began a journey of self discovery as we recalled stories of our youth including juicy family secrets, inappropriate practical jokes and betrayal.
On a journey to find normal, I found myself instead.
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