Nick Marsh
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Biographies of Medical Professionals
When Alan Reece qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the dawn of the new millennium, he had a plan: save the world, one animal at a time. 🐾
Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy, and Alan soon discovers he has far more enemies than he was expecting – aside from vicious pets, difficult owners, surly farmers, and children from hell, he finds himself working with an unhinged and jealous surgeon who makes it his personal mission ruin Alan’s life. 😰
Battling long hours, life and death decisions, tragic cases, a complaint from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and an unexpected love triangle, Alan’s hopes of saving the world are quickly replaced with a simple question: 💔
Can he even last a year in practice? 🏥
Once Bitten… is the story of a young vet’s first few months in practice, and how they changed his life forever. ✨
Here’s the deal: Nick Marsh delivers a brutally honest, hilarious, and heartbreaking account of a young veterinary surgeon’s baptism by fire, where idealistic dreams crash into the reality of vicious pets, difficult people, workplace sabotage, and the emotional toll of life-and-death decisions. If you loved “All Creatures Great and Small” but want the unvarnished truth about veterinary medicine, this memoir is essential reading!
Lindsay Buroker
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Epic Fantasy
His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. 🏴☠️ That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.
Yanko White Fox doesn’t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. ⚡ With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he’s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it’s the only sure route back into the Great Chief’s good graces. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not.
Long before he’s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. ⚔️ Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief’s son. Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives… or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war. 🔥
What drew me in: Lindsay Buroker launches the Chains of Honor series with this epic fantasy that follows a young mage burdened by his mother’s disgrace, forced to prove himself on a desperate quest that could redeem his family or destroy everything, all while wielding powers better suited to nurturing than warfare. Perfect for readers who love reluctant heroes, complex magic systems, and high-stakes adventures where failure means more than just personal loss!
Hailey Shore
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Contemporary Romance
He’s the billionaire Beast of Calico Cove and I’m his sacrificial lamb… I mean, his new employee. 🏰
Malcolm Bettencourt is a recluse with a nasty scar across his face and a bad attitude. 😤 He has a bone to pick with my family over a loan my dad can’t pay back, so in order to save our lobster business, I agreed to live in his house as his housekeeper and cook.
We have nothing in common and there’s no reason to think he would want anything to do with someone like me. 💔 Except I can’t stop thinking about him and he can’t stop looking at me.
Author’s Note: This beauty and the beast retelling includes a grumpy hero, a sassy heroine looking to lose her v-card and a Pretty Woman moment with a black Am-Ex. 💳 Oh and an age gap romance with someone who may or may not be her lobster. 🦞
Here’s why this matters: Hailey Shore delivers a steamy Beauty and the Beast retelling set in coastal Maine, where a scarred billionaire recluse and the daughter of his debtor discover that sometimes the Beast isn’t the one who needs taming, and true beauty reveals itself when walls come down. Perfect for fans of grumpy/sunshine pairings, age gap romance, forced proximity, and heroines ready to embrace their desires!
The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
David Amerland
Regularly $19.99, Today $2.99
Business Decision Making
The Sniper Mind from David Amerland is the first book to examine the learned skills necessary to become a sniper and teach readers how to apply those skills in business and in life. 🎯
Snipers are exceptional. 💪 The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge, situational awareness, knowledge of ballistics and physics, and soft skills such as emotional stability, empathy, and a stoic acceptance of the hardships associated with a particular set of circumstances. There are countless instances where a single sniper, embarking on a secret mission, would have to improvise, operate beyond any hope of support, and yet still manage to carry out the mission and get back home unharmed even though the enemy was actively hunting him. 🔍
For the first time ever, The Sniper Mind reveals the practical steps that allow a sniper’s brain to work in this superhuman precise, calculated way. 🧠 It teaches readers how to understand and apply these steps, whether they are stuck in a cubicle facing mounting piles of work or sitting in a corner office making industry-defining decisions.
Through the explanation of advanced military training techniques and cutting-edge neuroscience, David Amerland’s book provides concrete strategies and real-world skills that can help us be better: 📈 -At our jobs -In our relationships -In our executive decision making -In the paths we choose to take through life
By learning how snipers teach their minds to eliminate fears and deal with uncertainty we can also develop the mental toughness we need to achieve the goals that seem to elude us in business as well as in life. 🚀
What drew me in: David Amerland bridges military training and neuroscience to decode how snipers eliminate fear and make life-or-death decisions under extreme pressure, then translates these techniques into practical strategies for business executives and anyone facing high-stakes choices. If you’re looking to develop mental toughness and precision thinking, this is your tactical guide!
David Grossman
Regularly $9.49, Today $2.99
Historical Literary Fiction
One man attempts to come to terms with his family’s history with the Holocaust in this “dazzling work of imagination” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). 💔
“A phantasmagoric novel . . . that successfully merges history, personal mythology, and literary experiment. . . . A tour de force: difficult, elusive, circular, and a triumph.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ⭐
In this powerful novel by one of Israel’s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents’ history. 😔 Determined to exorcise the Nazi “beast” from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him—the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp—Momik, too, becomes “infected with humanity.” 💡 David Grossman’s masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.
“In a few nearly mythic books, such as Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Gabriel García Máquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, large visions of history get hold in innovative ways. See Under: LOVE may be a worthy successor to this small but awesome canon.” —Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review 📚
“A world-class work of fiction, one of the most profound, compelling, and ingenious novels that I have read in years.” —Tom LeClair, USA Today ✨
“An incredibly original and imaginative novel by one of Israel’s truly gifted young writers.” —Library Journal 🌟
Here’s the deal: David Grossman, one of Israel’s most celebrated writers, crafts a phantasmagoric exploration of Holocaust trauma across generations that critics have compared to Faulkner, Grass, and García Márquez for its innovative merging of history, mythology, and literary experimentation. This is world-class literary fiction that doesn’t shy away from darkness but ultimately finds humanity in the most unexpected places!
Felicia Slattery
Regularly $17.99, Today $3.99
Natural Foods
Learn to dish up perfect plant-based meals with an Instant Pot 🥘
It’s easy to eat a plant-based diet when there’s an Instant Pot in the kitchen. 🌱 Able to steam, sautee, and pressure cook all in one pot, this electric pressure cooker makes it simple to cook fresh vegetables to perfection. And the best part? It’s as easy as tossing the ingredients into the pot, setting it, and forgetting it until it’s done. Award-winning home cook Felicia Slattery shares her recipes that show why the Instant Pot was made for plant-based dining. ✨
This plant-based cookbook includes: 📚
PLANT-BASED BASICS—Discover the different approaches to plant-based eating, why it’s so healthy, and how it’s a perfect fit for the Instant Pot. 💚 INSTANT POT ESSENTIALS—This beginner-friendly choice in Instant Pot cookbooks makes it easy to start cooking amazing dishes as soon as you get your Instant Pot out of its box. 🎯 EASY, WHOLESOME RECIPES—Find simple and nutritious plant-based meals that highlight the garden-fresh flavors of veggies, like Southwestern Taco Bowls and Portobello Pot Roast. 🌮
Enjoy easy, healthy meals every night with this plant-based diet cookbook designed for electric pressure cookers. 🍽️
What you’re getting: Award-winning home cook Felicia Slattery proves the Instant Pot was practically designed for plant-based cooking with 80 set-it-and-forget-it recipes that range from Southwestern Taco Bowls to Portobello Pot Roast, complete with beginner-friendly guidance for new Instant Pot owners. Perfect for anyone looking to make healthy, whole-food meals without spending hours in the kitchen!
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