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Monday, January 31st
“KILLER” by Stephen Carpenter
Price: $2.99 / Lending enabled
After the suicide of his fiancee, writer Jack Rhodes descends into a 15-month alcoholic stupor before recovering and becoming a bestselling author. Now the FBI wants to know why most of the murders in Jack’s novels have already happened, and who might be the next target. Read the first chapter online.
Saturday, January 29th
“Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire” by Ruth Downie
Price: $0.00
Note: This was free earlier this month, then went up to regular price. It’s temporarily free again if you missed it the first time. Gaius Petrius Ruso, a Roman military doctor stationed in Britain during the rule of Emperor Trajan, finds himself living with vermin, rescuing an abused slave girl and investigating a series of murders of local prostitutes. Reviewers say Downie’s first book is vividly imagined, hilarious and suspenseful. Read the first chapter online.
Friday, January 28th
“Lethal People (A Donovan Creed Novel)” by John Locke
Price: $0.99 / Lending enabled
When Donovan Creed isn’t working for Homeland Security killing suspected terrorists or testing out torture devices, he moonlights as a hitman for the mob. A few reviewers aren’t impressed by the over-the-top tone, but most say it’s funny and action-packed. Read the first chapter online.
Thursday, January 27th
“Stalina” by Emily Rubin
Price: $0.99 expired
“After the fall of the Soviet Union, Stalina Folskaya’s flees St. Petersburg in search of a better life in America. A trained chemist, she becomes a maid at The Liberty, a “short-stay” motel on the outskirts of Hartford, and convinces her boss to let her transform it into a fantasy destination.” Read the first chapter online.
Wednesday, January 26th
“Cyberdrome” by Joseph and David Rhea
Price: $0.99 / Lending enabled
“As a deadly plague ravages humanity… the survivors use an experimental technology to escape into a virtual world, hoping to unravel a mystery that could be the key to their salvation. But when programmer Alek Grey’s ex-fiancee becomes trapped in the very technology that is supposed to save her, how far will he go to rescue the woman he still loves?” Read the first chapter online.
Tuesday, January 25th
“Brittle Shadows” by Vicki Tyley
Price: $0.99 / Lending enabled
A personal assistant in Melbourne finds her fiancé’s naked corpse hanging in their apartment, and soon after she kills herself, six weeks pregnant and in possession of more than $1 million in shares. Her grieving sister Jemma is determined to find out what really happened, even if it puts her own life at risk. Read the first chapter online.
Monday, January 24th
“Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk” by Angie Sage
Price: $0.00 Currently unavailable
“Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born. That same night, the baby’s father comes across an abandoned newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps raise her as their own, but who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus?”
Friday, January 21st
“The Arrival (BirthRight Trilogy)” by Nicole MacDonald
Price: $0.99 / Lending enabled
“Cat, Kassie, Sian and Loi are anything but damsels in distress. Fed up with a lack of decent male specimens they cast a love spell in the hopes of finding their soul-mates. And inadvertently land themselves on another planet where the threat of civil war looms thanks to the girls’ very unexpected ‘gifts’. Oops.” Read the first chapter online.
Thursday, January 20th
“The American Book of the Dead” by Henry Baum
Price: Free on Feedbooks
“Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter is doing porn and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he wonders if his novel is real as well.” Update: The author offers this book for free on Feedbooks, or you can support him by buying it from Amazon.
Wednesday, January 19th
“Falling Star (The Watchers)” by Philip Chen
Price: $0.99 / Lending enabled
Mysterious objects are discovered at the bottom of the ocean. When they begin to send out signals, a former U.S. government agent is called in to investigate–but he soon discovers his old agency has been infiltrated by a network of deadly KGB moles. Reviewers are praising the highly detailed writing as much as the plot. Read the first chapter online.
Tuesday, January 18th
“Saying Goodbye to the Sun” by David McAfee
Price: $0.99 $2.99 / Lending enabled
This sequel to McAfee’s biblical vampire novel “33 A.D.”
Monday, January 17th
“To the Rescue: Stories from Healthcare Workers at the Scenes of Disasters” by Nancy Leigh Harless
Price: $0.00 Currently unavailable
These true stories from rescue workers are “intimate tales from the frontlines about the people they meet and the remarkable obstacles they must confront in order to care for patients under extraordinary circumstances.” This is one of the books being offered for free from Kaplan, so after today the price may jump up to $9.99. Read the first chapter online.
Friday, January 14th
“Ancient Awakening (The Ancient)” by Matthew Laube
Price: $0.99
“Seven ancient demons have awakened in New Jersey after a hundred years. Fortunately for Mike and Ann, so has the one man who can stop them, Joseph Miller. Trapped in a hospital filled with mythical monsters, only together can they unravel the mystery of the Cursed and escape with not only their lives but their very humanity.” Read the first chapter online.
Thursday, January 13th
“Crime Beat (a novella)” by Scott Nicholson
Price: $0.99
John Moretz takes a job as a reporter in a small town, and crime skyrockets–which is great for the paper’s circulation, but not for the townsfolk who start turning up dead. A 21,000 word novella from the author of “The Red Church” and “Disintegration.” Read the first chapter online.
Wednesday, January 12th
“Terra Incognita” by Ruth Downie
Price: $0.99
To escape the fallout of the first novel, Roman medic Gaius Petreius Ruso volunteers for a new post on the northernmost border of Roman Britannia–which happens to be the homeland of his rescued slave Tilla. Soon a soldier is beheaded, and Ruso must prove the innocence of Tilla’s former lover. Read the first chapter online.
Tuesday, January 11th
“English Grammar For Dummies” by Geraldine Woods
Price: $1.99 expired
Moar writing books! This one is a “fun and easy” grammar book with “strategies that can help you when you’re faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between ‘I’ and ‘me,’ ‘had gone’ and ‘went,’ and ‘who’ and ‘whom.’” Read the first chapter online.
Monday, January 10th
“How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing” by Paul J. Silvia PhD
Price: $1.99 expired
“All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, or grant proposals. In this practical and light-hearted book, Paul J. Silvia shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks, and gives detailed advice on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles; how to improve writing quality; and how to write and publish academic work.” Read the first chapter online.
Friday, January 7th
“Silence” by Thomas Perry
Price: $1.93
“Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.” Read the first chapter online.
Thursday, January 6th
“Take Your Shirt Off and Cry” by Nancy Balbirer
Price: $1.81 expired
“Without sparing the embarrassing details, Balbirer chronicles the two decades she spent as a struggling actress, from studying under David Mamet at NYU Drama School to her bizarre 1 a.m. Saturday Night Live audition for Lorne Michael.” Read the first chapter online.
Wednesday, January 5th
“Cupcakes, Lies, and Dead Guys” by Pamela DuMond
Price: $2.99 / Lending enabled
Annie Graceland, baker and reluctant psychic, has just moved to Los Angeles to start a family with her actor husband. After she discovers he’s having an affair, the lover ends up dead–and the evidence all points to Annie. The lone negative customer review complains that there’s TMI on fluffers and “repeated references to the ghost’s thong,” which of course is what convinced me to post it. Read the first chapter online.
Tuesday, January 4th
“Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire” by Ruth Downie
Price: $0.00 expired
Gaius Petrius Ruso, a Roman military doctor stationed in Britain during the rule of Emperor Trajan, finds himself living with vermin, rescuing an abused slave girl and investigating a series of murders of local prostitutes. Reviewers say Downie’s first book is vividly imagined, hilarious and suspenseful. Read the first chapter online.
Monday, January 3rd
“Zombocalypse Now” by Matt Youngmark
Price: $2.99 / Lending enabled
“You’re a stuffed bunny and it’s the end of the world. Between you and your objective are forty or fifty zombies.. If you disguise yourself as one of them and try to sneak past the feeding frenzy, turn to page 183. If you grab a tire iron, flip out and get medieval, turn to page 11. The zombie apocalypse has never been this much fun.” Or ridiculous. Read the first chapter online.
