Fifth Batch of Wednesday Free Books 9-5-2012

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Heiress of Lies by Cege Smith

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 16 votes
Category: Romance
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With the King of Altera on his deathbed, all eyes are on his only child, eighteen year old Angeline Robart. The crown princess spent the last two years finishing her studies in a remote convent far away from the capital city of Brebackerin and the prying public. After being called home to her father's side in preparation for her Ascension, Angeline is kidnapped en route by Connor, a mysterious rogue who has his own reasons for becoming involved in the high stakes game of intrigue.

As the last of the Robart bloodline, Angeline soon discovers that enemies long thought conquered have been doing nothing but lying in wait for just such an opportunity to turn things to their advantage. Worse yet, by uncovering those secrets Angeline is forced to confront the possibility that no one expected her to ever take the throne in anything but title only.

Facing the impossible consequences of a freak accident, Angeline must travel a dangerous path to regain control of her fate and her kingdom even if that means relying on Connor, who epitomizes everything her family hated and tried to destroy. But the more she learns about Connor, the more she realizes they have far more in common than she ever expected, and that could make him just the ally she needs.

Heiress of Lies is Book One in the Bloodtruth series. The Queen's Betrayal (Bloodtruth #2) is available now!

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Zack & Zoey's Alien Apocalypse by MJ Ware

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Children's, Humor, Middle Grade
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When hungry aliens begin their 'rain' of terror, break out the umbrellas--the aliens can't eat you with an umbrella shoved in their huge mouths.

Looking for yummy human tenders, Admiral Nact-bauk invades the local school. Zack and Zoey lead the counterattack armed with rulers, protractors, and dodge balls.

They might have a chance, if Nact-bauk didn't gulp down the only teacher brave enough to stand up to him. Even worse, he forces Zoey onboard the alien vessel for dinner--along with a bucket of honey-mustard sauce.

Zack will do just about anything to save her. If Principal Blathers won't help, Zack sees no choice but to 'borrow' the principal's car. Chasing the alien saucers, he meets up with a wrinkly WWII hero who thinks he knows the alien's weakness: electric toothbrushes.

Wielding only umbrellas and battery-powered dental weapons, things look grim. Even if the pair manage to rescue Zoey, there's the small matter of escaping a spacecraft flying at over two hundred miles an hour.

Can you say, Jetpacks?

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Jed's Escape by Zack A Tack

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Science Fiction
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Prince Jed of the small planet Jeddon flees from his Uncle Vexson’s coup and assassination attempts. Betrayed at every turn, Jed vows revenge over his mentor’s fresh grave. He must fight back and snatch the Badge of Ruling from his uncle. Yet the only way he and his friend can survive is to flee from their home planet on an illegal star-ship hidden in a secret valley. But first he must rescue his sister. Will the star-ship still be there when he returns?

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A Lovely, Indecent Departure by Steven Lee Gilbert

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 18 votes
Category: Literary, Thriller
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A Lovely, Indecent Departure is the riveting and emotionally-charged debut from a promising new voice in literary thrillers, and a captivating story of a mother's love and desperation set amidst the heart wrenching landscape of child custody.

Anna Miller wants only one thing, her son, and she will do anything to keep him. When a district court awards custody of Oliver to his father, she abducts the five year old and flees to Italy where with her family's help they disappear into the fabric of her native homeland. Told in prose that is both stripped-down and overpowering, Gilbert shapes the everyday conflict of child custody into a stunning search for sense of worth. Standing in the young woman's way is Evan Meade, the boy's guileful and mean-spirited father, who hires a private investigator when the efforts of the embattled local sheriff, Monroe Rossi, fail to track them down. But as the investigation draws them all closer to Anna, Evan's true nature betrays itself and the question of what's in the child's best interest becomes not so clear anymore.

Objectively detailed, in a voice that refuses to intrude on the minds of its characters, A Lovely, Indecent Departure, captures in stark detail a world in which modern archetypes are turned upside down and shows what an extraordinary splash Steven Lee Gilbert has made with his first novel.

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Second Batch of Monday Free Books 9-3-2012

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The 2006 Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO Incident by H.R. Phillips

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Category: Mystery, Non Fiction
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What hovered in the overcast skies at less than 2000 feet above the gates of Chicago's O'Hare Airport on November 7th, 2006? Was the observed craft man made or was it extraterrestrial? How and why did it violate the airspace of the airport?

IF this was a human built craft, was it us, them, or some rouge groups of nefarious humans with ties to no government? IF this was an alien built craft, was this an opening protocol? What alien intentions would be involved in sitting over one of the busiest airports in the world?

UFO blogger Rick Phillips brings the O'Hare UFO Airport Incident to life once again with these posts and analysis made when the story was hot. Much can be learned about how the mainstream media reacted to the first BIG UFO story of the new millennium - and how they would act differently afterwards.

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Outlaw Heroes by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 9 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Children's, Historical, Middle Grade
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Twelve-year old Will Long loves the old west and his favorite stories are ones about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When he was younger, Will and his father watched old western movies together and read books about old-time outlaws and lawmen. His father worked on a ranch and he and Will would ride horses together, rope cattle and attend rodeos. Unfortunately, this all ended the day his dad died suddenly and Will and his mother had to leave the ranch and move into town. After three years, Will still struggles with the death of his father and doesn’t like the new man in his mother’s life.

Will and his mother head west to Spokane, Washington on an Amtrak train to attend a family reunion and the one-hundredth birthday celebration for his great-grandmother. During the train ride, Will is suddenly awakened to find he’s been transported back in time and the train is being robbed by none other than Butch and Sundance. Will joins in with the outlaws and jumps at the chance to follow along with them despite Sundance's protests. Will follows the outlaws on some of their most famous robberies and also gets to meet the infamous Etta Place, Sundance's wife. But when a bank robbery goes sour, Will begins to wonder if being an outlaw is as exciting as he’d once thought.

Join Will as he learns life lessons along the way and discovers a family secret that has been hidden for decades.

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Torch Ginger by Toby Neal

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 24 votes
Category: Mystery, Romance
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"If J.D. Robb's In Death series went on location with Kaui Hart Hemmings' The Descendants, you'd have Toby Neal's Torch Ginger."

“Lei Texeira is both tough detective and vulnerable woman in this winning Hawaii crime series.” David Bishop, author of Who Murdered Garson Talmadge and other mysteries

The island of Kaua`i is remote jungle, golden beaches and ancient culture—but transients are disappearing in paradise, and only Detective Lei Texeira notices.

Fleeing a failed engagement, Lei transfers to the island of Kaua`i, where she uncovers a pattern of disappearances that may be related to a bizarre cult—or is it just one madman at work? In Lei's world, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

In Blood Orchids Lei battled her personal demons and won—but now they've come roaring back with reinforcements, including charming real estate magnate Alika Wolcott and former fiancé Michael Stevens. In the midst of the biggest case sleepy Kaua`i has ever seen, Lei must also discover who she loves.

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The Duke's Handmaid by Caprice Hokstad

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 23 votes
Category: Fantasy
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All the young outcast wanted was security in a world that destroyed her family and left her despised and rejected. Can the simple farmgirl find a new family through voluntary enslavement to the duke's household? Not if the prejudiced and conniving duchess has her way!

Crafted in a highly precise writing style so smooth it slips right from the page into your imagination, the fantastical story world of The Duke's Handmaid examines timeless social issues that inform global justice today.

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Fifth Batch of Saturday Free Books 9-1-2012

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The Meaning of Children by Beverly Akerman

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 15 votes
Category: Contemporary, Literary, Short Stories
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2010 David Adams Richards Prize Winner

2011 CBC-Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers’ Choice Contest Top 10

2012 Honourable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award Finalist (General Fiction)

The Writers' Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition Finalist 2005 & 2007, and many others.

Award winning short story collection that captures pivotal moments—of childhood, adolescence, parenthood, and beyond--in the under-appreciated world of women. Disparate decades, genders, and narrative voices woven together by themes of sex, death, guilt, social prejudice.

And love, always love.

A girl discovers a fear of heights as her parents’ marriage unravels; a thirty-something venture fund manager frets over his daughter’s paternity; an orphan whose hands kill whatever they touch is accused of homophobia; a suicidal daycare worker has a very bad day; a mother of two can only bear to consider abortion in the second person; the wife of a retirement-aged professor finds him unconscious near his computer. The 14 stories of The Meaning Of Children speak to all who—though aware the world can be a very dark place—can’t help but long for redemption.

“Profound...a writer of such substance that she is obviously headed to the top echelon of writers of our time...a book of rare sensitivity and masterful creative writing [that] must surely be shared with as many friends and fellow readers as possible.”
~Grady Harp, Amazon.com Hall of Fame Reviewer, ***** (5 stars) on Amazon.com

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Prey For The Vampire by Michael Burnside

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Category: Horror
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In the country town of Gowanshire during the later half of the 19th Century, Dr Christopher Hoggons, a retired doctor from London, visits his nephew, Richard; the new police sergeant of the town. However, Richard has not being finding his new role quite as easy as he hoped.

Slaughtered farm animals, missing daughters and a horrific murder have all lead to the town’s folk to doubt Richard’s ability as sergeant. Suspicious minds and town gossip also point to the Baron, recently returned from travels in Eastern Europe. Could it be a man, like a Baron is responsible for the torment of Gowanshire?

A Hammer inspired gothic horror novella from Michael Burnside.

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Into the light by Luke Meier

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Children's, Science Fiction, Middle Grade
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"Into the light" is an amazing sci-fi adventure for middle grade children. The Story in itself has everything you would expect from the genre including droids, spaceships, rock-Monsters and many surprises - but what makes this book even more special is its author: Luke is just 8 years old and this is his debut novel (he is already working on part two of the series). Check out this book, it is going to be the next big thing.

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The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway by Fred Schäfer

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Literary
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"I can still see you" (PART 7 of The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway) was one of the winning entries in the 2001 Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short Story Competition by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. The Judge’s Report stated: “… you have to publish a story that ends with the lines 'Thanks Sybil. I can still see you with that big, black, stinking cigar in your mouth. Naked and very attractive”.

Henry Miller’s son Tony wrote about The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway: Dear Fred … I rushed immediately to the manuscript and began reading with wild abandon … I can see clearly your influences … And I really laughed out loud about our casual meeting. You have such a good way with words … I am totally delighted by your book. You have captured certain essences and smells and ways of doing things … I am sure The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway will be a wonderful success. All the best, Tony Miller

About this book:
Fred's single-minded search for a muse, his struggle with his demons and his refreshingly unique literary voice make his memoirs a brilliant book, a page-turner, provocatively humorous and acutely reflective.

Author’s Comment:
Everything about Mona, the girls, the toolmakers, IBM, boxing, Schopenhauer, sex and all the stuff that happened in Berlin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and in the Canadian woods is true – as true as these things can be.

Somewhere along the way Henry Hemingway joined me. Sometimes we travelled together, sometimes he was nowhere to be found. In Bon Echo we met Merrill Denison. He told us about Ernest Hemingway with whom he had worked at the Toronto Star. In Los Angeles we stayed with Anita Alma and her daughters Rosa and Martha. Without Anita’s hospitality things would have looked pretty bleak. We met Henry Miller’s son Tony in Pacific Palisades. This was a fateful meeting. Henry Hemingway had initiated it. In the background I could hear Tony’s father hammering away on a typewriter. Without Tony, who knows, Henry Hemingway may still be around today. He would probably be an alcoholic or a famous writer. Maybe both.

I have recorded the conversations with these people exactly the way I remember them. All other names in this story are invented. For those who think they recognize themselves, may I suggest that you pretend everything is fiction. That worked for me. It still works for me and is also pretty true.

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Friday Free Books 8-17-2012

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Grimsley Hollow by Nicole Storey

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 13 votes
Category: Fantasy, Middle Grade
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Grimsley Hollow is the home of all the magical creatures who once lived on Earth. Evil forces are trying to take over this realm, and destroy the peace and respect which has existed between different races. Eve, a young witch, records in her journal the events which lead them to seek the one person who can help them survive: The Chosen One.

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Choose Your Future by Stephen Livingston

Rating: 3.5 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Contemporary, Literary, Short Story
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An award winning short story about the near future. First published in the anthology ""Scotland into the New Era"" this story was a winner of the inaugural Canongate Prize for New Writing. It is written in the second person and explores themes of art, science, politics and self determination.

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Blood Run, First Promise by Christine Dougherty

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Science Fiction
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It is 1985 and the United States is reeling from a disease that has taken huge, bloody bites out of the country as people are changed into vampires. The survivors have grouped together in remote outposts and the National Guard is the lifeline that runs between the outposts, bringing news and supplies.

In Wereburg, New York, a young woman named Destiny Riser has lost her parents in the plague but saved her little brother, Chance. But the outpost she brings him to is still young and learning and in an accident of fate, it is ravaged by vampires. Destiny sees her brother bit and changed and from that moment on, rechristens herself ‘Promise’ and vows to release Chance from his nightmare, nighttime existence.

With the assistance of her black horse, Ash, she combs the barren forests surrounding Wereburg and even her old development, Willow’s End, searching for Chance; desperate to end his misery. But then the National Guard brings a stranger to Wereburg, a man who is purportedly a fabled ‘half and half’–someone who has been bit but who has at least a partial immunity to the disease. That man will change everything that Promise believes.

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Paris Maps by Tony Craze

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Category: Contemporary, Literary, Thriller
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Paris Maps tracks the journey of Mackie Kaplan as 40 years on he searches for the identity of a 1968 bomber responsible for an outrage in Paris of which Mackie was always suspected.

Set against a present day Paris-wide sans papiers arrest operation, Mackie is joined in his search by young Congolese sans papiers, Bala.

Across a landscape of activism and Gendarmerie assaults far from the black and white picture of ’68, Mackie’s search is forced to encompass both that for his mysteriously missing son and his grand chagrin d’amour of 40 years ago.

Deftly guided by Bala through political territory he thought he knew so well, Mackie finally finds reunification with his son and through him resolves both the identity of the bomber - and the truth of his lost love affair.
The work of award winning writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .'

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Fourth Batch of Wednesday Free Books 8-15-2012

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Three Guys And A Cake by Sue Fleckenstein

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Non Fiction
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Three Guys And A Cake is a collection of 15 cake recipes that the three guys in my life love, being my husband and two sons.

These are all tried and true recipes that I have made countless times over the last 20 years.

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Naked In Detroit by Jas Hacker

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
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NAKED in DETROIT'—a strong-willed Nordic beauty, Frista Hiimstead, uses her contract seaplane pilot skills to launch a medical mission of revenge against an insane gaggle of Colombian drug-lords who threaten her lover, her Mafia benefactor and secret society. Set in South Florida and the out-back islands of the Caribbean, Frista must use her wit, her guile, seduction and her handy supply of high explosives.
 

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Arboregal, The Lorn Tree by DG Sandru

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Middle Grade, Action and Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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An experiment causes four young Americans, Nathan, Perry, Melissa, and Michelle to appear in a strange and desolate world. Trees as large as mountains, scattered across the land like oases, support all life, safe from the monsters that patrol the night fog on the ground. Races of people living in medieval societies populate the giant trees. Known as the Lorns in this particular tree, they welcome the four kids into their world—until Hellferata, the evil spirit descendent of Medusa, intrudes upon their beloved tree.

As the kids search for a way home, Hellferata searches for the prophesized mortal superhero she must battle to the death. Suspecting Michelle for this golden-haired superhero, Hellferata sends her son, Dracu Mort, into the Lorn Tree to kill her. Fearful of the evil spirit the Lorns move to expel the four Americans from their tree. Thinking quickly, the youngsters devise a plan to avoid the monsters roaming the land and travel to the next tree, where it is rumored there may be a path back home. Will their ingenuity, cunning, and courage help them make it to the Cascade Tree and find a way home, or will Hellferata and Dracu Mort mete out their wrath before they can escape?

A dramatic and heroic escape into a world full of excitement and danger, Sandru brings to life a beautiful landscape dramatically different than our own yet living from the same heartbeat. Arboregal: The Lorn Tree is a spiritual quest of hope and friendship that exposes the inherent power we all share.

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Patchy and Calico's Summer Vacation by Greta Burroughs

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Category: Children's
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Patchwork Dog has a knack for getting into trouble and his best friend, Calico Cat usually winds up right in the middle of the mess with him. Calico would rather spend her days sleeping in her nice comfortable bed, staying safe and worry free. She knows better than to follow Patchy when he is out looking for a new adventure, but she tags along anyway just in case…

On the other hand, Patchy is very curious and is always investigating new sights, sounds and smells. He follows his nose wherever it goes. Sometimes that leads to trouble but other times it gives Calico a chance to play a trick on her not so smart friend.

Children will laugh out loud when the two lovable creatures go to the beach where Patchy comes nose to claw with a fiddler crab, or when they take a walk through the woods and meet a not too friendly bear who can not decide whether to help the two lost campers or eat them.

In the other stories, children will enjoy reading about how Patchy and Calico accidentally join the circus, take an unplanned boat ride and get caught sneaking into a school classroom.

Patchy and Calico’s Summer Vacation has illustrations at the beginning of each chapter that hint at what the new adventure will be about. Other pictures are included at the end of each story along with some questions for the child to answer. Older children can read the stories themselves or it would make a wonderful bedtime story book for younger kids. The five tales will entertain children of all ages with the antics of the title characters and hopefully teach youngsters some valuable lessons working together and staying out of trouble.

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Two Days of a Dream by Kathryn Gilmore

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 4 votes
Category: Romance
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Kelly Goins’ life didn't match her four-point plan.

1. College at eighteen
2. Career at twenty-two
3. Marriage at twenty-four
4. Kids at twenty-six

Everything in its right order. Except, for Kelly, life didn’t follow the order after step two. After a hard day of corporate climbing in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelly slips into a vintage nightgown and goes to sleep. The next thing she knows she’s in a dream ... maybe.

The frustrating, stone-cold Captain Duran maybe just what she’s not looking for, but what she needs. She knows it's only her subconscious creating the commanding and handsome man who orders his way into her heart so she dreads when her alarm clock will wrench her from her heart’s desire.

In Iraq, Duran had come to grips with the fact that he would be alone for the rest of his military career, but Kelly turns his orderly life upside down when she appears in his tent. The woman is more than interesting, but is also crazy. He doesn't want to like the hard-nosed woman that keeps popping up in his cot, but maybe he's crazy too.

The Frog Who Would Be Prince by Norm DaPloom

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Middle Grade/ Fantasy/ Humor
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Did you know that every 60 seconds another prince is turned into a frog? The Prince of Capitol City was in danger of becoming just another statistic when young Tom discovered him croaking on his bedroom windowsill. Now, with a little help from a cranky old dwarf, an overly optimistic dragon, and a wise-cracking library book, Tom must restore His Majesty to mammal-hood, and that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Along the way they’ll face witches, monstriches, the horrifying (but eminently literate) Bookwyrm, and the dastardly pirate captain Dirty Beard Daggert, with his notoriously bad hygiene and his chronically ill parrot, Admiral Petey. They’ll swim through the innards of a giant sea turtle, witness the unbridled ferocity of a traditional Dwarven meal, and explore the tranquil beaches of Insignifica, where the world’s tiniest armed forces don’t take kindly to trespassers. And – who knows? – they may even learn a thing or two about sniggling while they’re at it.

The Frog Who Would Be Prince is a 60,000 word novel designed for middle readers with an interest in humorous fantasy adventure, but its quirky, off-beat humor will inspire a laugh from readers of all ages.

Killer Twist by C.A. Larmer

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Mystery
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No one bats an eyelid when a bag lady washes up on the shores of Sydney, minus five fingers and decked out in designer couture; nor is anyone too perturbed when socialite Beatrice Musgrave plunges to her death soon after. No one, that is, except ghostwriter and Merlot-lover Roxy Parker. She’s been writing Beattie’s 'autobiography' and has just stumbled on a secret that’s worth killing for.

With slick black hair, tortoise-shell glasses and a penchant for cheap plonk, Roxy Parker is a sassy new female detective … except she’s not strictly a detective. Rather, she’s a writer with a taste for the morbid and mysterious—and this time her little sideline may get her in way over her head …

In the first book of the Ghostwriter Mystery series, Roxy is hired to ghostwrite the life story of department store heiress Beatrice Musgrave. Beatrice has promised Roxy a secret worth writing about, but before she gets the chance to tell all, the socialite is found ripped to shreds at the bottom of a cliff. The police say it's suicide but Roxy knows better—there are too many people looking way too relieved.

And so she embarks on an investigation of her own. From the posh suburbs of inner-city Sydney to remote outback Australia, Roxy finds herself lured into a web of deceit where time has healed no wounds and no one is who they appear to be. One thing, however, is crystal clear: chasing headlines can be a deadly occupation. Roxy must also act fast—there's a menacing stranger threatening her life, a handsome best friend growing increasingly impatient, and her mother is really starting to get on her nerves.

Killer Twist is a fun, fast-paced adventure for anyone who loves a good cozy mystery with a little wine swilling and fashionable accessories on the side.

FEVER DREAMS by Bruce Elliot Jones

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Paranormal Mystery
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Elliot Bledsoe has a university teaching career, a new screenwriting book, and a gorgeous fiance, Rita. He's also a cynic with phobias about everything from Rita's cat Garbanzo to drowning, but he's learned to live with that.

Enter Katie Bracken, a paranormal investigator from New York who's convinced that Elliot holds the secret to her latest case, the twenty-year-old disappearance in the Louisiana swamps of a kidnapped girl that the local officials never solved. Now the little girl seems to be haunting not only her mother and the local voodoo queen but Elliot as well! And to make matters worse, he is stuck with Garbanzo, his mortal enemy, when Rita decides to visit her parents and Katie harasses him into accompanying her to New Orleans and helping her investigate the case.

Is this the start of a beautiful friendship or a horrible nightmare? Humorous, terrifying, realistic and filled with colorful characters, FEVER DREAMS is the first in the Bracken and Bledsoe Paranormal Mystery series and will make a believer out of you!

Second Batch of 6 Free Books 5-7-2012

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The Book of the King by Jerry B. Jenkins & Chris Fabry

Rating: 4.7 out of 5.0 Stars with 7 votes
Category: Middle Grade/ Fantasy
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“Nothing special” is the best way to describe Owen Reeder—at least that's what he's been told all his life. When a stranger visits his father's bookstore, Owen's ordinary life spirals out of control and right into a world he didn't even know existed. Owen believes the only gift he possesses is his ability to devour books, but he is about to be forced into a battle that will affect two worlds: his and the unknown world of the Lowlands. Perfect for readers ages 10 to 14 who enjoy a fast-paced story packed with action, fantasy, and humor.

ExtraNormal by Suze Reese

Rating: 4.4 out of 5.0 Stars with 9 votes
Category: Young Adult/ Romance/ Science Fiction
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Mira Johns is pretty much like any other teenage girl. Except that she knows how to harness electro-magnetic energy to communicate without words. And she's really, really far from home. Her assignment as an emissary to Earth sounds fairly simple: blend in, observe, and stay away from the planet’s primitive males. But after she finds one mysterious boy too irresistible for stupid rules, she realizes the real reason she's supposed to keep her distance: mates from her world can die if separated. But a series of serious accidents make it clear that someone wants to force her return. Mira decides her only hope is to uncover the truth to why she, the most mediocre of candidates, was actually chosen for this assignment—before the agency discovers her secret and sends her back home.

Ninth Crossing: Discovery by Kate Gordon

Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 Stars with 7 votes
Category: Fantasy/ Romance
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When a woman says she loves a man more than her own life, it’s understood she’s speaking metaphorically. But then, she just might be serious.

Reagan Sullivan is a thoroughly modern woman. She’s thirty-one, an honors graduate of Yale, and a six year veteran of the Secret Service, sworn to protect the vice president of the United States—who happens to be a widower. A good looking widower. Despite these accolades—and distractions—Agent Sullivan is a no-nonsense woman in every respect.

Her younger sister, Heather, currently a Rhodes Scholar PhD. candidate and an Olympic rowing medalist, is also a product of the twenty-first century. Together they’re an unbeatable combination … and not bad on the eyes either.

When Reagan meets two Irish elves—one of whom kidnaps her from a ladies bathroom in Oslo, Norway—all bets are off. These elves are nothing like you imagine. Both are well over six feet and strikingly handsome. And both think Reagan is quite fetching herself. And they’re not guarding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but they do have a twinkle in their eyes and romance in their hearts.

If that wasn’t enough, when Reagan meets her fifth great grandmother, Eimile, born in Ireland in 1630 … and she turns out to be the current-day queen of the Western Realm … and she puts Reagan’s life in danger to save the kingdom … well, things get a little more airy-faerie.

But not everything is so calm in the Western Realm. A Civil War is brewing, the vice president of the United States is in danger, and Reagan has to come to grips with a discovery that changes her life forever. Humor and light-hearted romance, yes, but a serious story about corruption, power, and the length to which men - and women - will go to achieve their ends. Elf or human.

Discovery is Book One of the Ninth Crossing series by Kate Gordon, the pen name of authors Gordon Ryan and Kate Armitage.

Mozart's Wife by Juliet Waldron

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.0 Stars with 28 votes
Category: Historical Fiction
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Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's debts, provide for their children, and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Nevertheless, prominent among the many mysteries surrounding the composer's untimely death: why did his much beloved Konstanze never mark his grave?

The Valley of Shadows by Mark Terry

Rating: 4.4 out of 5.0 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Thriller/ Action
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A raid on a Pakistan Al-Qaeda cell recovers two laptops. When the computers' booby-traps are defused and the computers decrypted and translated, they indicate that Al-Qaeda has planned a series of simultaneous attacks in five U.S. cities involving potential dirty bombs, biological weapons and maybe even a nuclear weapon-on Election Day. Derek Stillwater, troubleshooter for the Department of Homeland Security, is assigned to a multi-jurisdictional Special Terrorism Activity Response Team (START) to locate the weapon and terrorists in Los Angeles and prevent the attack. They have two days. But as they close in on their targets, Derek begins to think that the intelligence they gathered is a sideshow to distract them from the real target-one of the two candidates for President of the United States.

Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar

Rating: 4.8 out of 5.0 Stars with 83 votes
Category: Christian/ Historical Fiction
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Can a Canaanite harlot who has made her livelihood by looking desirable to men make a fitting wife for one of the leaders of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible's answer is yes.

Pearl in the Sand tells Rahab's untold story. Rahab lives in a wall; her house is built into the defensive walls of the City of Jericho. Other walls surround her as well-walls of fear, rejection, unworthiness.

A woman with a wrecked past; a man of success, of faith ... of pride; a marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another's worth and find healing in God.