The Winner of the May $50.00 Amazon.com Gift Card is Beth-Ann T.!
If you didn't win this time, don't despair. We have another contest in June. :)These books are free at the time of posting. Amazon.com changes their prices all the time so before you click on the download button, make sure the price for the Kindle Edition (not the Prime Members cost) is $0.00 or £0.00.
Now on to the books . . .
Now on to the books . . .
CARROWAY BLUES by Tony Sullivan
Rating: 5.0 Stars with 4 votes
Category: Historical Romance
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In the 1950s Denis Ducane, halfway through his National Service, meets bookseller Martin Carroway and falls for his daughter Petra, a budding concert pianist. But Petra loves another. Demobbed, Denis attends university. He wants to bring middle-class culture to the working-class, but this is forgotten when he falls in love with academia and becomes involved in a ludicrous chase after a first-class degree. Some years later he meets the Carroways again. They are now eager to marry him to Petra, but the marriage is eventually spoiled by a revelation from her past. The couple separate but meet again some years later. However, their reunion is overshadowed by a tragic discovery.
Balancing the Carroway element is Denis’s closeness with his Liverpool family, especially with his younger sister Abigail. Another important theme is the cultural emancipation of the working class during twenty years, illustrated by Denis’s progress as an educator and that of his brother-in-law, a popular playwright and treacherous friend.
Slumber by Samantha Young
Rating: 4.5 Stars with 45 votes
Category: Young Adult Fantasy
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Molded by a tragic childhood, nineteen-year-old Rogan finds it extremely difficult to trust people. Now Haydyn, her best friend and the one person she does trust, is dying and only Rogan can save her.
Setting off on a journey to retrieve the plant that will cure Haydyn and subsequently the ills that will befall them all if she dies, Rogan is stuck in close quarters with a protector she distrusts above all others.
Wolfe Stovia.
The son of the man who destroyed Rogan’s family.
At a constant battle of wills with the handsome Captain of the Guard, Rogan just knows this adventure together will be fraught with tension. She never imagined, however, that the quest would be so dangerous… not least of all when she finds herself falling for a man she could have sworn was her no.1 enemy…
Mature YA fantasy romance (for older readers).
Jungle School Adventures by Gillian Rogerson
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Category: Children's
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These four short stories are perfect for reading to a child or for a newly confident reader to read alone. The main character is Zach Zebra. The stories are :
Fun At The Fair - Zach isn't having any luck on the funfair rides. Will he find the ride that is perfect for him?
Sports Day - Zach has never won a race on sports day. Will this year be different?
Tiny Terror - How can little Jimmy Gorilla cause such big problems for Zach?
Penguin Pal - Will Zach be able to help a special visitor enjoy their day at Jungle School?
Mars, The Bringer Of War by George P. Saunders
Rating: 4.1 Stars with 16 votes
Category: Science Fiction
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John Mars is the oldest astronaut in the fleet and the commander of Challenger II. His latest assignment from NASA is a top-secret shuttle mission to the moon to investigate a mysterious signal. What he finds is an alien robot that murders his crew and destroys the source of that signal - a deep-space probe. When John returns to Earth without his crew, the probe, or any evidence of what really happened on his mission, NASA forces him into retirement.
Humiliated and disgraced, John takes a job as a pilot for a commercial airline, unaware that his experience on the moon has marked him more than psychologically: in the battle to save his crew and himself, John Mars was injected with an alien tracking device.
One night, while flying his regular route, John and the occupants of his plane, including his fiancé Anna, are whisked aboard a gigantic ship and thrown into deep space toward the Andromeda Galaxy - home to an Alien species called "Sels". The Sels live for one thing only, colonization of all worlds in the known universe. And now they've got their sights set on Earth. But in order to decide if Earth is a worthy adversary, the Sels have something special planned for John - a kind of alien vetting program.
John, Anna and the rest of his group arrive on a Sel planet used for wargames, where alien life forms are pitted against one another - and the Sels - in death battles. One by one, John Mars' small group of survivors succumb to the Sels. But a larger problem looms for Mars - even if he can survive the Sel wargames, how could he ever get back home and warn Earth of impending invasion and assimilation into the Sel Empire?
