Third Batch of Wednesday's Free Books 1-2-2013

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Smoothie Power! Recipes for Weight Loss, Vitality, & the Occasional Super Power by Diane Kidman

Rating: 4.4 Stars with 9 votes

Category:  Non Fiction

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What if, by simply drinking a delicious green smoothie each day, you could rewire your tastebuds to enjoy the healthiest foods? What if you were able to lose weight, gain energy, and reverse health conditions, even if you've had them for decades? Countless people have discovered the power of the green smoothie. In "Smoothie Power!" Diane Kidman shares her own story of how green smoothies gave her energy and provided unexpected relief from asthma. She also gives you over 100 smoothie recipes to start you on your transformation. And when you start craving even more healthy goodness, you'll love her soup and salad recipes.

Enjoy sweet green smoothies, tropical smoothies, refreshing and savory combinations, even dessert versions like Diane's favorite Chocolate Covered Cherry smoothie. The best part? They're all healthy, nutrient rich, and guilt free!

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Fighting the Storm (Cageside Chronicles: Tommy Knuckles Trilogy 1) by Jarrah Loh

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 3 votes

Category:  Action and Adventure, Young Adult, Sport 

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The young adult fiction series for the warrior at heart.

Exactly what UFC & MMA fans have been waiting for!

The saga begins with the lonely Mexican teenager, Tommy, who's been beaten up his whole life. But when ghosts emerge from his dead father's boxing past, a new world of adventure, love and pain awaits as he learns to fight his way across the border to his father's homeland, and into the famed cages of Las Vegas.

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Crossroads (Crossroads Saga) by Mary Ting

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 154 votes

Category:  Young Adult 

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Claudia Emerson has a good friend who shares the same first name and last name. That friend unfortunately dies in a tragic accident during homecoming dance. Claudia is distraught at the loss of her friend, but is even more disturbed by her dreams, which seem to take her to another place called Crossroads. Unknown to her, Crossroads is like a second heaven, a place between heaven and earth. It is where the souls of humans in comas or near death experiences may wander.
There, Claudia meets Michael, a nephilim, a half angel, half human, whom she often meets in her dreams. It turns out that this isn't her first visit to Crossroads, which is an enigma for no human can ever travel there until Claudia. Now the fallen and demons are after her, suspecting she must be special and it is up to Michael and the other nephilims to protect her.
Can Michael fight his growing feelings for Claudia and protect her as a guardian angel should? The answer awaits you! Follow the exciting path to Crossroads!

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Gravity (Gravity Series #1) (The Gravity Series) by Abigail Boyd

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 89 votes

Category: Mystery, Young Adult

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One night in the town of Hell, Ariel's best friend goes missing. Those around her believe Jenna ran away, but when Ariel is tormented by nightmares and paranormal activity, she realizes Jenna's disappearance was part of a bigger mystery. Ariel's obsession with haunted houses and horror movies makes her the perfect detective.

But to complicate matters, a handsome newcomer named Henry Rhodes plagues her with unwanted attention. Though he doesn't believe in the supernatural events, she enlists his help and that of quirky nerd Theo. What is making the lights at school flicker? And why did Ariel dream of the old abandoned Dexter orphanage? When Ariel finally discovers the truth, it's much worse than she ever feared.

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Fourth Batch of thursday Free Books 9-13-2012

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Breakfast in a Flash by Amy Clark

Rating: 3.7 Stars with 9 votes
Category: Non Fiction
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Who needs a good nutritious breakfast? Everybody. Who has time to make it? Certainly not everybody! But now with Breakfast in a Flash, the numbers should go up.

This book is designed for people who are looking for a quick breakfast that is tasty and nutritious before they head out the door for the day. You can be assured that your breakfast will be much better for you than stopping by the local fast food restaurant and spending way more money for way less taste and freshness.

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The Quick and Easy Guide to Mnemonics by Thomas C. Randall

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Non Fiction
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What would you do if you could memorize a hundred words without writing them down?

What would you do if you could recall a complex mathematical formula on top of your head?

What would you do if you had access to a method which will enable you to learn a foreign language in record time?

You can learn how to do all these and more in this book. From the author of bestselling memory book The Quick and Easy Guide to Memory Improvement, The Quick and Easy Guide to Mnemonics teaches you 15 powerful mnemonic devices that will help you memorize almost anything, be it long numbers, a list of 100 words or the name of the person you meet. It doesn’t matter if you are 70 years old or you failed arithmetic in grade school; these powerful techniques are guaranteed to work for anyone because they leverage the way your brain is hard-wired to organize and store massive amount of information.

You can use these memory aids to improve your test scores, prevent memory loss, or enhance your professional performance. With these easy-to-learn, yet powerful techniques, you will be amazed to experience the long-lasting benefits in every area of your life. Pick up this book now and learn how you can:

* Better remember appointments
* Use the secret memorization method of a World Memory Champion
* Apply the memory system ancient Greeks and Romans used to memorize hours of speech
* Memorize 100 words, and expand the system to memorize hundreds more
* Remember people’s names better
* and much, much more!

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Lily Out of Bounds by Andrea Montalbano

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 10 votes
Category: Young Adult, Sports
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Lily James is a Soccer Sister. With the Brookville Bombers, her super competitive-and super skilled-soccer team, 13-year-old Lily plays hard and wins big. She and her teammates, including best friend Vee Merino, have hit the top of the league by running fast, passing straight, and following the Soccer Sisters Code, a list of ten unbreakable rules that keep the game clean and the victories sweet. But when Colby Wrangle joins the Bombers, everything changes. Colby's got crazy soccer skills, dyed hair, fake tattoos, and tons of attitude. She's the coolest thing that Lily's ever seen-and on the field, she'll do anything to win. Off it, she'll do anything to have fun. Soon Lily is sneaking out, lying-and trying to remember what made soccer so beautiful to begin with. With a huge tournament in Montreal looming, she's got tough choices ahead. They'll affect her family, her friends, the game she loves...and the future of the Soccer Sisters Code. Lily Out of Bounds includes a special message from soccer icon Brandi Chastain, the Official Spokesperson of the Soccer Sisters Series.

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City of the Falling Sky by Joseph Evans

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 74 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Children's, Science Fiction, Thriller, Young Adult
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When Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends.

Fortunately, the marvels of the city do a good job in distracting Seckry from his anger and homesickness, and it isn’t long before he’s competing at Friction (the city’s most popular multiplayer video game), slurping awe-inspiring multicoloured milkshakes, and getting butterflies on his first date.

Then, when a mysterious email asks Seckry to break into the headquarters of the Endrin Corporation and steal a container full of worms for a hefty sum of money, his anger resurfaces, and he can’t resist the revenge he promised himself.

Alone at night, Seckry creeps through the sewers whilst wondering what experiments Endrin might be doing on the worms, and emerges into the silent complex. But the worms aren’t the only thing that he finds. Staring at him through the darkness, with wide, innocent eyes, is something that makes Seckry’s heart almost stop.

A girl.

She’s shaking, petrified, and has no recollection of who she is or what she’s doing there.

Floodlights bleach the area and Seckry has no choice but to grab a hold of the girl and escape with her.

Suddenly the question of what Endrin were doing with a few worms becomes the last thing on Seckry’s mind. What were Endrin doing with a human?

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Fifth Batch of Monday Free Books 9-10-2012

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Homecoming Game by Blake Sebring

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 11 votes
Category: Literary, Sports
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After two years, Lars Preston and Max Curry hoped their controversial past as football players at Indiana Western University was finally behind them. They'd found a new place to play and a fresh start at UC-Camarillo, a smaller school they'd help build into a Division I-AA powerhouse.

During the summer before their senior season, IWU's athletic director calls UC-Camarillo asking for help and offering a huge payday. The Sagamores have run into a scheduling problem and suddenly need a fill-in game, and who better to ask than the former heroes who led IWU to a huge upset three years ago?

Despite the doubts of Preston and Curry, the Thunderbolts are flying to the Midwest to play the No. 6-ranked Sagamores on their home field. By revisiting their past, all the ultimate underdogs hope for is a fair chance, but is it for revenge or redemption?

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A Dance of Light of Darkness by Niki-Rai Tolliver & Ryan Traynor

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Category: Horror, Thriller
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Noel Brighton had it all... or at least he thought he did. Before he knew what was coming, Noel was blindsided by betrayal, torn from his family and forced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. These unfortunate circumstances land him in an insidious place known as Pulaski Correctional Facility where he goes on to experience amazing supernatural events including exorcisms and the resurrection of his fellow inmate. Luckily, Noel received a massive inheritance, which allowed him to aid others and gave him the opportunity to transform Pulaski into a model prison system.

Meanwhile, his wife takes their daughter and moves across the country to start over in San Antonio. All the while, Lilith grows into a teenager completely unaware of who her father was or where he resides. Throughout the story, she is drawn to the occult, which begins when she uses the Ouija board for the first time. In her dreams, an evil entity lures the young girl and will stop at nothing to seduce her. She meets a few troublesome characters who only cause her to stray further towards the dark side only to wind up in worse trouble than she could ever imagine.

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Eating Healthier: Volume 6 of 10 by Len Paul

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Category: Non Fiction
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“A must read for all those really interested in nutrition and how it can directly benefit your everyday life.”

Does the subject of nutrition confuse you, intimidate you, scare you? We all realize (or should) the importance and need to eat a healthy diet.

But so many of us avoid the subject because it can be overwhelming and challenging, forgetting the obvious fact that we are what we eat.

We must fuel our bodies with food it responds to positively. But too often we take the easiest, fastest way out.

How much did you learn about nutrition in school? How much are even doctors taught?

One has to seek out the knowledge…You don't know what you don't know, and what you don't know can be very harmful to you.

Contained in this 10-volume series is enough nutritional information for you to start making more informed decisions about what and how you choose to eat.

Making the right choices will develop a healthier body and mind, help you sleep better, improve your sex life, and provide you with more energy to help you meet the challenges of your day.

Please scan the table of contents for all 10 volumes to discover all the valuable information that can help you make all the right choices.

In addition, please check out my other two series Living Healthier 13 volumes and Improving Your Fitness 5 volumes to further assist you in improving the quality of your life..

“This book is invaluable. A great resource that is just a click away.”

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Free for the Wedding by Laura Briggs

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Romance
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One year and 25,000 sales later, comes the sweet and lighthearted follow-up to the romantic comedy novella, Late to the Wedding ...

Fifteen years ago, Valarie McCray answered a love letter from the boy of her dreams. The problem? It was meant for someone else.

While Val's only motive was to save a friendship, the note's words have sparked an engagement between her two closest friends and prompted questions in her own heart about whether their wedding is meant to be. Setting off for a planned reunion just days before the wedding, Val is determined correct the mistakes of the past-- and to show everyone from her past how much she's changed.

But a string of obstacles lands Valarie in an impossible situation: sharing the last available rental car with inept but well-meaning salesman Riley Cohen. He detours her for a business meeting, where his quirky and desperate attempts to land a sale result in a zany disaster only Val can fix.

Worse yet, he insists on tagging along to the wedding out of gratitude for her help and his attempts to convince Val's old friends - including the groom-to-be - that she's the perfect woman backfire in comparison to the careful approach Val had in mind for facing her romantic regrets.

With hours before the wedding (and big doubts about happily-ever-after in the wedding couple's mind), Val finds herself admitting the truth to her childhood sweetheart ... and finds herself wondering if her heart is really free for the wedding.

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Fifth Batch of Thursday Free Books 9-6-2012

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The Chesapeake by Ken Rossignol & Larry Jarboe

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 5 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Historical, Humor, Literary
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Join us as we visit the pages of The Chesapeake for action, fun and adventure in The Chesapeake region. Murder, Mayhem and Mystery along with blues, rockfish and Serendipity Seranades to convince fish to jump onto the hook.

From Jack Rue, Fred McCoy and Pepper Langley come great stories about the Twentieth Century in Southern Maryland, from the Potomac to the Patuxent. Learn about the early days of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and the boomtown of Lexington Park, called the Walled City. From Lou Clements to Steven Gore Uhler, our collection of short stories is sure to keep you entertained. Cap'n Larry Jarboe's expertise in fish stories knows no equal!

Join us as we explore the adventures of St. George's Island as it breaks away from the mainland and drifts into the Potomac.

The adventures of sailing are brought to life by Mark Robbins while Mel Brokenshire shows us the ways of the world.

This first volume of the best of The Chesapeake won't leave you hanging and will have you running to your Kindle to learn when we will pull together the next round of prose and baloney.

For those who thought Ocean City was the only destination in the summer, Alan Brylawski brings to life the glory days of the Point Lookout Hotel.

And remember, only The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men!

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Letters & Lockets by JL Davis

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Category: Historical, Romance, Sports
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A man uncovers mysteries about himself when he discovers letters written by him almost a century ago to a beautiful young woman in a portrait. He must discover the truth about who he is and find a way back to 1919 Chicago. Once there he finds love people only dream about while they court through the 1919 World Series, silent films and Municipal Pier. Then the action really begins.

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Dangerous Secrets by Lisa Renee Jones

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 35 votes
Category: Romance
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Being a divorce attorney for the rich and famous isn't all it's cracked up to be. Julie Harrison has learned that love doesn't last, and she's sworn never to make the same mistakes as her mother, or her clients. She uses the games men play to keep them at a distance. The only man who managed to break down her walls was Luke Walker, a Navy SEAL who loved her and left her, and changed her forever.

When Luke arrives back in New York, running Walker Security with his brothers and having left his Navy SEAL days behind, he sets his sights on Julie, the woman he's always wanted and couldn't have. Except, she runs from him every time he gets close.

But now, one of Julie's clients, a powerful judge, gets involved with a dangerous cartel, and his soon-to-be-ex wife ends up dead. Julie's next on the list, and she finds herself on the run from those who believe she knows too much, and counting on Luke to keep her alive. In the deepest, darkest moments of the night, passion will bring them together while danger threatens to tear them apart. Can Julie and Luke trust each other and find their happy ending before they find ... the end?

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Footnote to Murder by L. A. Taylor

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Mystery
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Marge Brock is a divorced mother of three teenagers trying to make a living in Boston as a researcher. When an author hires her to research unsolved murders, she is grateful for the assignment. However, as she gathers information about a series of unsolved murders in Great Britain and in Boston, she begins to wonder whether one of the members of the circle of friends that she had in Great Britain, and now has in Boston, might be the killer. Her suspicions only increase as she begins to notice that she is being followed, and her apartment is broken into and ransacked. Can she find out who the killer is before she becomes a victim herself?

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Featured Book! Touchback by Don Handfield

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 19 votes
Category: Contemporary, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sports
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"Handfield's novel about a fallen football star and second chances will resonate with readers. The author's treatment is engaging and will appeal to readers looking for a feel-good summer read."" -Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)

""A new and welcome page in the redemption-through-football playbook... Friday Night Lights hands it off to H.G. Wells in this winningly unique tale."" -KIRKUS REVIEWS

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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GOT A SECOND CHANCE?

When Scott Murphy scored the winning touchdown in the 1991 state championship game, it should have launched a golden future—the full scholarship to Ohio State, the million-dollar signing bonus, marriage to the beauty queen, and NFL glory.

Instead, it all ended with a sickening pop as his leg shattered in four places. The next twenty years would be a study in Murphy’s Law—whatever could go wrong did. Just when things seem at their worst—he's losing his farm, his relationship with his wife is crumbling—a miracle happens: Murphy gets a chance to reboot his life.

Back in his teenaged body in 1991, he realizes by changing his past, he can have the future he always wanted. Everything he lost is within his reach, even his high-school sweetheart.

But what about the devoted wife he left behind? Torn between two women—two lives—he can only choose one future. Murphy must decide if getting everything he’s ever wanted is worth giving up everything he’s ever had…

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Second Batch of Sunday Free Books 8-26-2012

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse by Rob Price

Rating: 4.0 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Sports, Non Fiction
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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse is the most comprehensive and up-to-date lacrosse-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round lacrosse-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.

No other lacrosse book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players increasing strength, speed, and flexibility resulting in harder checks, more accurate shots, and the ability power past defenders all game long. From the opening face-off you will be able to dominate the game like never before and maintain your intensity until the final whistle.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.

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Binky Meets Some New Friends by Nicole Adams

Rating: 3.5 Stars with 6 votes
Category: Children's
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Binky Meets Some New Friends is a delightful, captivating tale of the charming cat - Binky and her journey to making some new friends while subtly educating your child to count. A thoughtful tale with beautiful illustrations to keep your child amused while educating them.

This story has multiple uses as a great first book for learning to count and a bed time story.

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The Fall of Billy Hitchings by Kirkus MacGowan

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 59 votes
Category: Mystery, Thriller
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The John Reeves Creed: "Kill them with kindness. Unless you have a gun."

John Reeves, an ex-Marine, drives to Myrtle Beach to confront his fiancée, hoping to repair their damaged relationship. Instead, he finds her unconscious in the hospital, the victim of an unexplained explosion at a local restaurant.

During his investigation, Reeves meets Billy Hitchings, a teenager who knows more about the explosion than he should. Their questions lead to an ancient legacy best left alone.

Pulled into yet another crossfire, John Reeves fights to protect his friends and keep a primeval power from falling into the wrong hands.

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Cold by Martin Pond

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Category: Contemporary, Literary, Thriller
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No workplace relationships (they get messy). And no relationships with married men (they get messy too). Lisa broke both these rules when she met Daniel. But when their affair ends, and Lisa realises she cannot get him back, she decides to get even instead, and exacts her revenge in a series of acts that start small but quickly escalate. And as the old saying goes, revenge is a dish best served... cold.

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Featured Book: MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY: 1969 by Jeff Rasley

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Sports, Historical
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Was this ragtag band of precocious intellectuals the worst, or the most courageous, team in college football? From 1892 until the 1930s the legendary Monsters of the Midway dominated college football. However, in 1939 the University of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten and killed its varsity football program.

But now, it's 1969 and football is back. The resurrection of Chicago football hasn't brought the Monsters back to life. The team plays more like the lab mice of the Midway. The new Maroons are called "the worst team in college ball" by People Magazine. But this under-sized and outnumbered team is also compared to the hero of Troy courageously facing Achilles. They lose game after game. Yet, guys whose IQ is greater than their weight refuse to give up their mission to win one for their old coach, Wally Hass. Wally's goal is to win one more game before he retires which would make his 100th victory as a coach.

Sex, drugs, rock and roll, the Draft Lottery, the Anti-War Movement and student rebellion on college campuses in the late 60s -- the University of Chicago is swimming against the cultural tide by resurrecting its football program. Jack Blair is a small town Hoosier kid who just wanted to go to the best college in the Midwest. In Chicago Jack encounters characters as disparate as Muhammad Ali, Milton Friedman, and George Halas.

Jack joins the team for resume-building. His goal is to win the Rhodes scholarship and maybe a football game.Along with his teammates he is swept into the tumult of the late 1960s. He falls in love with a radical feminist who demonstrates against the return of football to Chicago. He rooms with a secular Jewish kid taking ballet whose father has begun manufacturing something called a computer chip.

Jack's teammates reflect the wackiness of the times. There is the 135 pound nose guard and the 295 pound Sumerian scholar. On the team bus the Maroons blast The Mothers of Invention on an 8-track, smoke pot and worry about a friend's suicide attempt.

An assistant coach rides Jack for not fully committing to the team.His favorite professor chides him to concentrate on his studies. Jack comes of age in a bewildering cultural milieu of frats, jocks, hippies and Marxist radicals. But his greatest challenge is whether he can learn to love and make an authentic commitment.

The book is inspired by the author's experience of playing on the resurrected University of Chicago Maroons a/k/a the Monsters of the Midway. Jeff Rasley is also the author of five other books, Bringing Progress to Paradise; Light in the Mountains; False Prophet?; Islands in my Dreams and Nepal Himalayas in the Moment.

Thursday Free Books 8-16-2012

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Athletic Scholarships by Athletic Scholarship Info

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 4 votes
Category: Non Fiction, Sports
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How are college Athletic Scholarships offered? Contrary to what you may think, college sports recruiting is a process that you can easily implement. However, it is a system that very few high school athletes or their parents know about.

The truth is, if your dream is playing college sports, you have to be proactive in the recruiting process. Athletic Scholarships is the athlete's guide. It shows you step-by-step how to get recruited. It shows you how to get noticed by the coaches and also how to ""recruit"" the college coach. In short it tells you all about scholarships for athletes.

Every year, thousands of talented student athletes make the mistake of thinking the college coach will automatically come knocking on their door to recruit them. This is total myth! A college coach rarely hounds down an athlete. Not only are NCAA scholarship rules governing recruiting getting stricter, but budgets for recruiting are being severely limited by some schools.

Unfortunately, you can't sit back and wait and hope to be recruited, and you can't depend on your high school coach to take care of it for you either. Learn how to get noticed by the coaches and get on their college recruiting radar.

Find out what will help you get an offer and also what will instantly keep you from getting college sports scholarships. There are certain things you must avoid if you want to stay in the running.

One of the main keys in the process of getting recruited for these coveted athletic scholarships, is to start the process early.

Don't give up on your dreams. Start now so that you land a spot on the college team of your dreams. Do what is necessary to get recruited. Let signing day be your biggest joy, not your biggest disappointment. Whether you are interested in football recruiting and football scholarships, or any sport, this guide can take you all the way to signing day.

Becoming a college athlete with an athletic scholarship allows you to play the sport you love and get a college education at the same time.

What could be more exciting or more rewarding?

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The Vengeance Squad by Sidney W. Frost

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 22 votes
Category: Mystery, Religious, Thriller
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When Chris McCowan's fiancée, 24-year-old Sarah Eason, is killed during a bizarre robbery near Austin, Texas, an unlikely trio teams up to find those responsible for her death. The trio, Chris, a 31-year-old computer science professor, Percy "Tex" Thompson, a 40-year-old wheelchair bound ex-con student of Chris', and 65-year-old head librarian Liz Siedo, pool their talents to find the criminals after local law enforcement agencies have given up.

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Protector by Vanna Smythe

Rating: 4.7 Stars with 13 votes
Category: Fantasy
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An epic fantasy series dealing with themes of friendship, love, power, control, and the world ending...PROTECTOR (ANNIVERSARY OF THE VEIL, BOOK ONE)

Kiyarran only wanted to become a Protector of the Realm, a member of an elite order of fighters. Strange and powerful magical abilities awaken in him as this wish comes true. The Priesthood that secretly controls the realm see his skills as a threat, and Kiyarran begins to learn that little about life as a Protector is what he hoped it would be.

Princess Issiyanna faces and arranged marriage, but she has been dreaming of another man, her one true love. Now her long gone mother is calling to her, promising she will return and take Issiyanna to meet the man from her dreams.

The world is split in half by a barrier called the Veil. A terrible sacrifice was made to put it in place and now, as the 1000th Anniversary of the Veil draws near, a second sacrifice is called for to keep it in place.

Both Kiyarran and Issiyanna are needed for the Anniversary. Even though they only just learned of the Veil and neither know the role they must play ...

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The Body in the Parking Structure by Jerold Last

Rating: 3.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Action and Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
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In this new hard-boiled mystery, Suzanne Foster discovers the body of a Bolivian scientist. The police treat the killing as just another drug deal gone bad. P.I. Roger Bowman, Suzanne, and his team investigate the murder, which seems to be linked to a small biotechnology company and a new anti-cancer drug they are developing. The reader is off on a whirlwind tour of Los Angeles and Westwood in search of clues. The clues are all there: Can you figure out whodunit before Roger does? This fast-paced novelette features characters from the author's popular South American mystery novel series working on a murder case at home in Los Angeles.

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Arctic Wargame by Ethan Jones

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 19 votes
Category: Action and Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
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Canadian Intelligence Service Agent Justin Hall—combat-hardened in operations throughout Northern Africa—has been demoted after a botched mission in Libya.

When two foreign icebreakers appear in Canadian Arctic waters, Justin volunteers for the reconnaissance mission, eager to return to the field. His team discovers a foreign weapons cache deep in the Arctic, but they are not aware that a spy has infiltrated the Department of National Defence.

The team begins to unravel a treasonous plan against Canada, but they fall under attack from one of their own. Disarmed and stripped of their survival gear, they are stranded in a remote location. Now the team must survive the deadly Arctic not only to save themselves, but their country.

Arctic Wargame is an action-packed spy thriller in the bestselling tradition of Portrait of a Spy, Rules of Betrayal and The Bourne Identity. Readers will enjoy a great tale of courage, fear and betrayal.

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Enter Sandman by Michael Edward

Rating: 4.2 Stars with 15 votes
Category: Horror
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Every town has their history, their legends.

For Eric and his friends it is no different. Bored one cold winter night and without much thought, they decide to fill their time by going to 'the wall' and testing the town legend.

The legend of the Sandman:

Sign your name on the wall and the Sandman will come for you. You will have three choices: Sacrifice yourself...sacrifice a loved one...or he will take both.

Enter Sandman is a short story that is part One in a series titled The Wall.

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Rescue of the Heart by Joel Wilson

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote
Category: Action and Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Sabotage and a violent storm worked together to keep Stacy's plane from reaching its destination. It went down in the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. No one could have survived the crash. Her body was never found. She was declared to be dead and a memorial service was held. Her husband, Jonas, was devastated. It had been a year since he had seen his wife, Stacy. She was on her way to join him when the tragedy struck. Jonas could not accept that she had died and was always on the watch, hoping that she would one day show up. Time and her absence took its toll on Jonas heart and he found himself falling for another woman who resembled Stacy. Through it all, though, Jonas could not let Stacy go and he decided to search for her himself.

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MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY: 1969 - Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and Football by Jeff Rasley

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes
Category: Historical, Humor, Sports
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Was this ragtag band of precocious intellectuals the worst, or the most courageous, team in college football? From 1892 until the 1930s the legendary Monsters of the Midway dominated college football. However, in 1939 the University of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten and killed its varsity football program.

But now, it's 1969 and football is back. The resurrection of Chicago football hasn't brought the Monsters back to life. The team plays more like the lab mice of the Midway. The new Maroons are called ""the worst team in college ball"" by People Magazine. But this under-sized and outnumbered team is also compared to the hero of Troy courageously facing Achilles. They lose game after game. Yet, guys whose IQ is greater than their weight refuse to give up their mission to win one for their old coach, Wally Hass. Wally's goal is to win one more game before he retires which would make his 100th victory as a coach.

Sex, drugs, rock and roll, the Draft Lottery, the Anti-War Movement and student rebellion on college campuses in the late 60s -- the University of Chicago is swimming against the cultural tide by resurrecting its football program. Jack Blair is a small town Hoosier kid who just wanted to go to the best college in the Midwest. In Chicago Jack encounters characters as disparate as Muhammad Ali, Milton Friedman, and George Halas.

Jack joins the team for resume-building. His goal is to win the Rhodes scholarship and maybe a football game.Along with his teammates he is swept into the tumult of the late 1960s. He falls in love with a radical feminist who demonstrates against the return of football to Chicago. He rooms with a secular Jewish kid taking ballet whose father has begun manufacturing something called a computer chip.

Jack's teammates reflect the wackiness of the times. There is the 135 pound nose guard and the 295 pound Sumerian scholar. On the team bus the Maroons blast The Mothers of Invention on an 8-track, smoke pot and worry about a friend's suicide attempt.

An assistant coach rides Jack for not fully committing to the team.His favorite professor chides him to concentrate on his studies. Jack comes of age in a bewildering cultural milieu of frats, jocks, hippies and Marxist radicals. But his greatest challenge is whether he can learn to love and make an authentic commitment.

The book is inspired by the author's experience of playing on the resurrected University of Chicago Maroons a/k/a the Monsters of the Midway.

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Keeping the Peace by Hannah Hooton

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 7 votes
Category: Contemporary Romance/ Sports
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London waitress, Pippa Taylor has no interest in horses or country-living. But when she inherits Peace Offering, a hopeless racehorse, she embarks on a career change in order to see her late uncle’s wish to run him in the Grand National come true.

But having talked her way into a job as racing secretary to champion National Hunt trainer, Jack Carmichael and moved to the West Country, Pippa finds herself faced with more daunting obstacles than even the Grand National can throw at her.

The most challenging of them all is her relationship with her new boss.

Jack, although easy on the eye, is moody and fiery-tempered and certainly not easy on the ear. After a Christmas they would both rather forget, danger and deception threaten Pippa’s life in the country and as her time at Aspen Valley Racing Stables draws to its conclusion she discovers Peace Offering is not the only thing she must fight to keep.

UNIDENTIFIED by Billie Sue Mosiman

Rating: 5.0 Stars with 3 votes
Category: Suspense
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From an Edgar and Stoker Nominated author comes a true novel of suspense.

Karl LaRosa is living the good life as a Hollywood agent. He's got the best clients, the finest car and home, plenty of lovers, and the world by the tail. Then someone starts stalking him, running him off the road, vandalizing his house, and so much more. Why was his life crumbling right before his eyes? What had he done to deserve such an enemy?

What he doesn't know is that the events in his life follow the script of a murder movie being filmed, a film he's involved in. Can Karl solve the mystery of his increasingly bold assailant before he falls victim to a particularly gruesome death? His stalker is Unidentified. Which one of those involved with the new film is a killer? Karl LaRosa is presented with a paradox he needs to solve--he has to--his life depends on it.

Never Too Far by Thomas Christopher

Rating: 4.8 Stars with 9 votes
Category: Young Adult Dystopian/ Adventure
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A harrowing story of love and survival.

In a future of scarce resources, where the possession of gas and diesel is punishable by death, a teenage boy and a pregnant girl must find a way to save their impoverished family. They risk their lives on a terrifying journey to sell stolen fuel on the black market.

Burial To Follow by Scott Nicholson

Rating: 3.7 Stars with 33 votes
Category: Horror
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When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, it's up to Roby Snow to make sure his soul goes on to the eternal reward. The only way Roby can do that is convince the Ridgehorn family to eat a special pie. Lurking in the shadows is a mysterious figure named Johnny Divine, monitoring the crossroads between the living and the dead. Southern Appalachian funeral customs get crossed when Roby has to perform miracles...or else.

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Elizabeth Rose by Janus Gangi

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Category: Apocalyptic Fiction
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When vampires and angels join forces against humanity nothing matters but survival. The final stand on ancient ground, when blood saturates desert sand and the only sounds are the walls falling and mothers wailing with their children... is this the end?

We never thought it was possible, yet here it faces us and there's no way out. The Eye of Ra is all that's left between us and obliteration - goddess save us!

Another Man's Treasure by James V. O'Connor

Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 Stars with 12 votes
Category: Contemporary Romance/ Mystery
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Handsome home organizer Ted has a double dilemma.

As a devoted husband, he’s struggling to resist the charm and seductive flirtations of Janet, a divorced client. Circumstances keep bringing her back into his life, fueling his wife’s suspicions and inciting threats from Janet’s jealous ex-husband.

Ted must also deal with the ire of James Smith, a demanding client who is convinced his eccentric father died leaving something of great value hidden in his cluttered and mysterious Victorian mansion.

Together, Ted and Janet interpret clues that lead to two surprising discoveries—one that captures the imagination of the city, and one that determines their fate.

Replica by Lexi Revellian

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.0 Stars with 21 votes
Category: Science Fiction/ Romance
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REPLICA is a fast-paced thriller/romance you will find hard to put down.

Beth Chandler, bright, attractive but unassertive, is accidentally replicated in a flawed experiment at the government research institute where she works. A second Beth comes into being, complete with all her memories. To Sir Peter Ellis, MI5 chief, the replica is an embarrassment that must be hushed up and disposed of. Overhearing him, Beth Two goes on the run. With no official existence, homeless, penniless and pursued by Sir Peter's agents, she has to find the inner strength and aggression to survive on icy London streets.

Meanwhile the original Beth, unaware of what has happened, becomes romantically involved with Nick Cavanagh, the spec op she believes is there to protect her. In fact, he's hunting her double. Nick refuses to face his moral doubts about Beth Two - as far as he's concerned, it's not his problem. As events unfold, and the situation grows more complicated, he has to decide whose side he is on.

Hetaera by Suzanne Tyrpak

Rating: 4.6 out of 5.0 Stars with 19 votes
Category: Historical Fiction/ Suspense
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Born a bastard and a slave, Hestia has a gift: the power to read people's hearts. And yet, the secrets of her own heart remain a mystery. Hestia's keen intellect makes her a match for any man. But even a literate slave has little control over destiny. Sold to a prominent statesman with sadistic tendencies, Hestia becomes his hetaera (consort). As her wealth and fame increase so does her despair. She dreams of freedom, but she faces enemies at every turn. When Hestia is accused of murder, the mystery of her past unravels and fate takes another turn.

Hetaera: Agathon's Daughter was awarded third place in the Maui Writers Rupert Hughes writing competition.

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PAYDIRT by Paul Levine

Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 Stars with 8 votes
Category: Crime/ Sports
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Bobby Gallagher has it all...a great job, a loving wife, and an adoring son...
Then he's fired; his wife divorces him; and he goes bankrupt... Now, to reclaim his life, all he has to do is rig the Super Bowl, win a huge bet, and avoid getting killed.

Dead Reckoning by Ronie Kendig

Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0 Stars with 73 votes
Category: Christian/ Suspense/ Romance
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Dead Reckoning is the story of a young woman anxious to abandon the crushing effects of her father’s espionage career only to find herself tangled in the very web of mystery and intrigue that consumed his life. Underwater archeologist Shiloh Blake is consumed with passion for the water and inflamed at the injustices of life, blaming her secret agent father for her mother's death. When her first large-scale dig traps her in the middle of an international nuclear arms clash, she flees for her life and is followed by an unknown man. Who is he? How is he always one step ahead? Reece Jaxon is a former Navy SEAL, who now serves his country as a spy. His mission is threatened by the beguiling Shiloh Blake as he hunts down the sources to a nuclear dead drop in the Arabian Sea. The only way to end this nightmare and prevent a nuclear meltdown is for Shiloh to join forces with Reece. Will Shiloh violate her vow to never become a spy like her father? Will she reconcile with her father? Will her trust issues destroy her chance for love? And will she allow God to help her through this ordeal?