At the age of 14, Jenny Swift is torn from her home deep in the forest
to become apprenticed to the master alchemist Richard Antrobus. Jenny’s
mother was a healer from the East who has taught her well and from whom
she inherits her exotic looks. But this difference means that she faces
suspicion and distrust as she is unwittingly drawn into a plot to throw
the world into chaos.
Jenny finds herself amidst treachery,
murder and intrigue. Her friendships and loyalties are tested to the
full. Forced to seek the key to the greatest secrets of the alchemists,
Jenny discovers the power that lies within her - skills which could make
her the greatest alchemist of any age.
Brimstone, the first book
in the Earth, Air, Fire and Water series, is a thrilling adventure that
will enthral young adult and grown-up readers alike.
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Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!The Industrial Revolution has escalated
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The Santina Crown... Royalty has never been so scandalous!
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A prequel novella to The Santina Crown series.
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Comedy writer and award-winning novelist Laurel Osterkamp has written a
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Preston Brown is one of the most elegant and upcoming stars in the
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Although, very intelligent
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The first of a three part series will
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Rebecca has everything she ever prayed for and more, and is living like
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Ever since Laci was a little girl she's been growing out her pretty,
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It's just one of the things
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to each other, but closer to God as well.
David finds himself content in every way, but when tragedy strikes David must struggle to find his way back to God.
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“The Hot Girl’s Friend”
How can a plain Jane find love when her best friend is a curvy blond man-magnet?
Jane
usually busies herself during a night on the town, fending off the men
lusting after her gorgeous friend Miranda. When Brady the bartender
overhears her inspired, ludicrous excuses, he resolves to hook up Jane
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Rock Star's Daughter (The Treadwell Academy Novels) by Caitlyn Duffy
At the age of 15, Taylor Beauforte has only met her father twice in
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constantly on the cover of music magazines and giving interviews on MTV.
He pays for Taylor to attend the Treadwell Academy, a prestigious
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Hollywood lifestyle, studious Taylor is happiest on the other side of
the country in Massachusetts with her nose buried in a book.
When
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junior year, she receives a crash course in fame. She has no choice but
to join her father and his new family on their summer concert tour
before she has even had a chance to mourn the loss of her mother. Life
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to her childhood before being thrust into the limelight, Taylor is
suddenly finding herself in situations she could have never imagined
before this summer.
With no one else to turn to, Taylor falls head
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and the suspicious relationship between his mom and her own father, but
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Taylor has to decide – should she carve out her own way in the world, or
try to repair the relationship she has with her only living parent?
Over
the course of the summer with the band, Taylor learns the depths of her
own strength, the difficulty of overcoming loss, and that the
definition of family means much more than shared bloodlines.
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FREE -- US ONLY Kindle Edition -- For Love of Livvy (Book 1) (the Esposito series) by J. M. Griffin
After her favorite aunt is found dead and an alarming box is
mysteriously left on the doorstep of her aunt's house now legally hers,
Lavinia Esposito wants explanations. But, having cleared the package of
explosives, the local cops are dumbfounded by the precious stones which
came without an explanation, just an address...her Aunt Livvy's.
Frustrated by the cops' refusal to share their theories, criminal
justice instructor Lavinia Esposito, a.k.a. Vinnie, takes investigation
matters into her own hands. Vinnie is soon dragged into situations
beyond her control, finding herself in hot water with the law, the
crooks, and her Italian father. Willing to put her life at risk to find
out what really happened to her beloved Aunt Livvy, and why jewels would
be addressed to her aunt, Vinnie plunges ahead with her usual tenacity,
bravery, and keen wits to solve and survive this mystery.
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These two short stories will delight the lover of historical romance!
The Art of Seduction
Clara
Cameron will do anything to escape her impending marriage to the odious
Lord Desmond, even if it means posing nude for artist Brendon Evans,
the man she once loved. It’s been years since they’ve seen each other,
but Clara’s love for Brendon hasn’t diminished. Will Brendon recognize
Clara and admit his feelings for the woman before Lord Desmond comes
calling, claiming Clara for his own?
Meant For Me
For
years Cynthia Shaw has replied to Gabriel Baston’s letters, pretending
to be his fiancé, Cynthia’s wretched cousin Helen. When Gabriel appears
at a masked ball and mistakes Cynthia for Helen, she can’t help herself
and gives her innocence to the man she has loved for years. Will Lord
Kennwick realize Cynthia was meant for him before it’s too late?
This anthology is approximately 30,000 words and is appropriate only for adults!
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- What She Doesn't Know(Romantic Suspense) by Tina Wainscott, Jaime Rush
A psychologist with intimacy issues. A man with dark secrets. And murder
amid the madness of New Orleans Mardi Gras, where no one is what they
seem, and evil is only a whisper away.
Tina has unforgettable
female protagonists and action-packed, almost haunting plotlines. –
Janet Evanovich New York Times bestselling author
Rita Brooks has
her life in control, with a satisfying job and an Internet relationship
with a man a safe distance away. But before she can meet Brian LaPorte
in person, Rita is nearly killed in a horrific accident. She emerges
from a coma remembering a cryptic message given to her by another soul.
When Brian’s brother, Christopher, shows up, demanding to know what part
she played in his suicide attempt, she’s sure that soul was Brian. To
make sense of his urgent message, she must go to New Orleans.
Christopher
is the shadow to Brian’s light, everything that intimidates … and draws
her. Unfortunately, she needs his help, because Brian had shadows, too,
and someone is trying to kill her to keep those shadows secret. Amidst
the chaotic revelry of Mardi Gras, she is plunged into a bizarre
masquerade where masks conceal dark secrets, deep longings … and
murderous intent.
Note: This book was published as The King of Nothing. Originally published by St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1) by Dana Stabenow
Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling
acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone
missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage
DA’s department must turn to their reluctant former investigator, Kate
Shugak. Shugak knows The Park because she’s of The Park, an Aleut who
left her home village of Niniltna to pursue education, a career, and the
righting of wrongs. Kate’s search for the missing men will take her
from self-imposed exile back to a life she’d left behind, and
face-to-face with people and problems she'd hoped never to confront
again.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Donovan's Angel (The Donovans of the Delta) by Peggy Webb
Donovans of the Delta Series, Book One (Special Holiday Price)
When
Martie Fleming breezed into small town Pontotoc, Mississippi,
determined to settle down and teach jazzercise in her home studio, she
never expected to land next door to the minister. She never expected her
playful golden retriever to steal his shorts right off the clothes
line. And she certainly never expected to fall in love.
Everybody
in town would agree they are so wrong for each other - everybody but
Paul Donovan. With her gypsy outfits, her lively music and her
irrepressible spirit, Martie is exactly the angel the preacher needs.
But can he convince her? Can their love and his career survive the small
town gossip and the fireworks Martie creates wherever she goes?
This
is the first of a 5-book romantic comedy series originally published by
Loveswept - Donovan's Angel (1), Sleepless Nights (2), Hallie's Destiny
(3), Any Thursday (4), and Higher Than Eagles (5).
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Reason to Breathe (The Breathing Series) by Rebecca Donovan
"No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was
the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could
Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?"
He
knows there’s something more to the girl sitting in the back of the
class the moment he sees her. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and athletic
– but she slips quietly through the crowded halls, trying not to exist.
Determined to get to know the elusive girl, Evan soon discovers…
Emma Thomas is hiding a terrible a secret.
Reason
to Breathe is an electrifying page turner from start to finish, a
unique tale of life-changing love, unspeakable cruelty, and one girl’s
fragile grasp of hope.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Shadow Feeders by David Brookover
An electrifying new thriller from the critically acclaimed author David Brookover.
For
millions of years, carnivorous creatures have visited earth and
devastated its life forms. During the last millennium, the North
American Indian tribes knew their identity. Their terrible powers. And
their vile secret. A secret too horrible to be contemplated.
A
rookie FBI agent, Rance Osborne, stumbles across these hideous
barbarians— shadow feeders — in 1978 after his closest friend, June, and
her children mysteriously disappear. Threats to murder his wife force
him to abandon his investigation.
Decades later, Rance’s dying
wife makes him promise to reopen this cold case and locate June, because
she suspects that her friend is still alive. Now the FBI Director,
Rance elicits help from his former FBI Orion Sector colleagues, Nick
Bellamy, Neo Doss, and Crow. During the investigation, the three
supernatural investigators become targets of these brutal, fiendish
beings and their allies, vicious shape-shifting mutants created by
Nick’s genius, but sinister father over 200 years ago!
Nerve-jangling
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the process. Against so many formidable enemies, Nick must decide
whether to roll the dice and risk unleashing his newly developed powers,
or watch as the shadow feeders abandon the cover of night to destroy
mankind. The clock is ticking.
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FREE -- US ONLY Kindle Edition -- Is It Nice? Manners For Kids by Casey Chapman
Is It Nice? Manners For Kids was written to help young children behave
in different situations. Its wonderful illustrations and easy to
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do in everyday life. What should you do after you burp? Is it nice to
yell or whine when you want something? These questions and others are
answered for a great learning experience.
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Homicide detective Adam Garrett is already a rising star in the Boston
police department when he and his cynical partner, Carl Landauer, catch a
horrifying case that could make their careers: the ritualistic murder
of a wealthy college girl that appears to have Satanic elements.
The
partners make a quick arrest when all evidence points to another
student, a troubled musician in a Goth band who was either dating or
stalking the murdered girl. But Garrett’s case is turned upside down
when beautiful, mysterious Tanith Cabarrus, a practicing witch from
nearby Salem, walks into the homicide bureau and insists that the real
perpetrator is still at large. Tanith claims to have had psychic visions
that the killer has ritually sacrificed other teenagers in his attempts
to summon a powerful, ancient demon.
All Garrett's beliefs
about the nature of reality will be tested as he is forced to team up
with a woman he is fiercely attracted to but cannot trust, in a race to
uncover a psychotic killer before he strikes again.
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FREE -- US ONLY Kindle Edition -- Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
The actual remedies were written in 1915. The book starts with extensive dictionary of medicines and terms.
The
book is organized in chapters, each one addressing a number of issues.
For example, a section on babies consists of more than 500 questions.
The answers are written in plain language, useful and to the point. The
section on herbs provides a description of common roots and plants, with
recommendations when to collect them, and how to use them.
Unfortunately, the illustrations are not part of the Kindle publication.
In addition to mother's remedies some sections have Physician's treatment section.
The book is nicely organized with an index, so you can find topics by either by decease or by remedy.
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An exclusive free edition of Brian McGilloway's acclaimed short crime-story, featuring Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin.
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