Anthony Bruno tops today’s Buffet with Devil’s Food, the first book in his new “Loretta Kovacs” mystery series. The book was published just two days ago.
Anthony’s big break as a writer came when his crime novel Bad Guys was published in hardcover in 1988. It was the first in a series of novels (Bad Blood, Bad Luck, Bad Business, Bad Moon, and Bad Apple) about FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons, odd-couple partners whose prime targets are New York and New Jersey wiseguys.
Basing his stories on actual Mafia figures and their criminal activities, Anthony pioneered the territory that made “The Sopranos” a monster hit. Rave reviews compared him to Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake. People magazine called Gibbons and Tozzi “the best fictional cop duo around.”
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Devil’s Food: A Loretta Kovacs Novel (Book 1)
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Anthony Bruno
In Devil’s Food, the first book in the Loretta Kovacs thriller series, it’s make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta when she’s assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat farm in order to nab an embezzler who’s a perfect size 2.
Far Horizons (The Emigrants Trilogy)
Historical Romance > Scottish
Author: Kate Hewitt
The Highlands of Scotland, 1819: On the eve of his departure for the New World, Allan MacDougall asks his beloved Harriet to wait for his return, when he will be established and able to marry her. When his father discovers his intent he insists it is dishonourable, and so Allan must free Harriet from her promise even as he vows to remain faithful himself. Through years of hardship, heartache, tragedy, and betrayal, Allan and Harriet cling to the love that first brought them together–yet it is the treacherous doubts of their own hearts that could prove to be their undoing, and drive them farther apart than ever.
Far Horizons is a sweeping saga that will take you from the Highlands of Scotland to the untamed Canadian wilderness and the bustling streets of Boston. Based on actual events, it celebrates the strength of a promise and the enduring power of love.
Wanted: Dead or Undead (Zombie West)
Westerns > Horror > Young Adult
Author: Angela Scott
Trace Monroe doesn’t believe in luck. He never has. But when a fiery-headed cowgirl saunters through the saloon doors, wielding shotguns and a know-how for killing the living dead, he believes he just may be the luckiest man alive.
Trace wants to join Red’s posse, but she prefers to work alone–less messy that way. In order to become her traveling companion, Trace has to agree to her terms: no names, no questions, and if he gets bit, he can’t beg for mercy when she severs his brain stem.
He agrees, knowing only that Red is the sharpest shooter he’s ever encountered. The fact she’s stunning hasn’t escaped his attention either.
What he doesn’t know, is that Red has a very good reason to be on top of her game. She not only has the answer for how they can all outlive the plague taking over the wild, wild west, she IS the answer.
Prince Charming Wanted; Dowry Seekers Kiss Off!
Romantic Comedy
Author: Vidya Samson
Nisha Desai is a young Indian woman who pines for romance in a country where love is in the same class as malaria, and where mates are selected using a calculator.
Normally deluged with ghastly suitors of her father’s choosing, she suddenly finds herself on the short list for a bride-seeing tour by a rich and handsome nephew of a neighbor. This is the stuff of which dreams are made.
A nightmare materializes when a very un-Indian ruffian moves in next door, complete with beard and obnoxious Harley motorcycle. He might play the bad boy in one of Nisha’s beloved romance novels, but in real life, he terrifies her.
So she tries to ignore the thundering engine of the bike while anxiously awaiting the arrival of Prince Charming–or at least, Prince Rich.
But arriving first is a long-lost black-sheep American aunt and her trouble-magnet teenage daughters.
Exclusive (A Tisha Ariel Nikkole Novel)
Genre Fiction > Urban
Author: Yasmin Shiraz
How much access do you need to have a serious relationship with the most desirable bachelor in the country? Journalist Tisha Ariel Nikkole and music executive Jordan Ellis are about to find out. As the story opens Tisha is on her way to interview a private and mysterious artist and has decided that she’s gonna make him love her. But, with his lust for groupie companionship and easy sex, does he have other plans?
Vindictive Jordan can’t keep her mind off the same bachelor and is willing to hurt anyone who comes near him. Add in a high-powered, short-fused publicist to the mix and a professional call girl and this book delivers more excitement on every page. By the end of this drama someone’s on life support but who will it be?
Rising
Fantasy > Fairy Tales
Author: Holly Kelly
In a war between the humans and the inhabitants of the sea—humans will lose. Xanthus Dimitriou—the most lethal Dagonian to rise from the ocean—is on a mission to save mankind from annihilation. But first there’s one small thing he needs to do… kill a beautiful young woman in a wheelchair.
Killing her doesn’t start out as part of his plan. He entrenches himself deep in the human world. Aligning himself with his enemies, he prepares to send them to Triton to face their punishment. Then Sara Taylor rolls onto the scene. Xanthus knows at once she’s a criminal. And her crime? Being born. She’s a human/Dagonian half-breed, an abomination. Killing her should be an easy job. All he has to do is break into her apartment, slit her throat, and feed her body to the sharks. Simple, right? Wrong. If only she weren’t so beautiful, so innocent, so sweet…
Saving the world may have to wait. It appears Xanthus has a woman to save. But protecting her may cost him his own life.
Longmire: From Book to Screen Free Deluxe Teaser
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Craig Johnson
A look into Season 2 of LONGMIRE, A&E’s hit drama series.
Longmire, A&E’s contemporary crime thriller set in Big Sky country, is based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by bestselling author Craig Johnson. The series stars Australian actor Robert Taylor (The Matrix) as Walt Longmire, the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, along with Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Gallactica) as his right-hand deputy Vic Moretti, Lou Diamond Phillips (Numb3rs), Bailey Chase (Damages), and Cassidy Freeman (Smallville).
The Season 2 premiere of Longmire is based loosely in part on a storyline from Hell Is Empty, the seventh book in the Walt Longmire mystery series. In Longmire: From Book to Screen, find a short introduction from the author about his experience seeing his books adapted for the A&E series as well as the first chapter of Hell Is Empty, the Season 2 trailer, and a teaser from Johnson’s next book in the series.
Cooking in a Cup: Easy recipes for muffin tin meals (Cooking with Kids Series)
Baking > Biscuits, Muffins & Scones
Author: Debbie Madson
Cooking with Kids Series with easy recipes using muffin tins and silicone cups.
Kids love to cook! And cooking is not only a fantastic way for parents and kids to enjoy doing something productive together, it is also the best way to understand good nutrition. This book shows you how to help your kids make a wide range of snacks and meals, in a muffin tin and/or using silicone cups.
Your kids will have fun, and the snacks you prepare together will be exactly the right size for your little chef to eat and enjoy. Our recipes are tailored to be simple enough for a child to follow, easy to clean up afterwards, with delicious results for the whole family to enjoy.
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A Plain Disappearance: An Appleseed Creek Mystery
Christian Fiction > Suspense
Author: Amanda Flower
Regularly $2.99, Today $0.99
It’s Christmas time in Amish Country, and Chloe Humphrey has begun settling into her life in Appleseed Creek excited to see where her new relationship with Timothy Troyer will lead. Unfortunately it leads to murder when the couple discovers the body of Amish teenager Katie Lambright while on their first date.
Near the scene there is evidence that Timothy’s friend and auto mechanic Billy Thorpe is involved with the crime. The police reveal Billy is not really who he said he was and has been living the last decade in Knox County under a stolen alias. Now, Chloe and Timothy must find Billy, bring him to justice, or prove his innocence.
Invisible Cities
Literature & Fiction > Classics
Author: Italo Calvino
Regularly $14.00, Today $1.99
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
“Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his.” So begins Italo Calvino’s compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which “has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be,” the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.
The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
Sustainable Agriculture > Do-it-Yourself
Author: Carleen Madigan
Regularly $2.99, Today $1.99
Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done. And when the harvest is in, you’ll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.
From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts.
Snow Hunters: A Novel
Literary Fiction > Historical
Author: Paul Yoon
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99
Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.
In Snow Hunters, Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness.
Flying Changes
Women’s Fiction > Domestic Life
Author: Sara Gruen
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99
Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer’s days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva’s dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm’s way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught.
It is a time of change at Maple Brook horse farm, when loves must be confronted head-on and fears must be saddled and broken. But it is an unanticipated tragedy that will most drastically alter the fragile world of one remarkable family—even as it flings open gates that have long confined them, enabling them all to finally ride headlong and free.
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