FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #5 – {11-21-2012}
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claire-obscure (The Claire Quartet)
Billie Hinton
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.3 – {29 Reviews}
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onely, unfulfilled, and envious of her best friend who has moved to Italy, Claire Caviness heads out to the same old club one night but takes a right turn out of her usual routine and meets Finn Weston, a mysterious and disturbed medical student who lures her into a folie a deux – a shared madness that forces Claire to look at the things she’s tried desperately to leave behind. When Claire’s friend Lucy is found dead and Finn is implicated in the murder, Raoul Duras, a Delta Force operator with a penchant for rescuing prostitutes, offers a way out of the madness. In a raw, edgy journey from trauma to restoration, Claire examines her deepest fears: grief for her distant mother and gay father, the awakening of her conflicted sexuality, and the darkness that pulls her to the intrigue and danger of two very different – and dangerous – men.
REVIEWS:
CRIME BOOK BEAT: Crime writers are generally like war correspondents, but Ms. Hinton doesn’t require a flak jacket. Her writing is literate, evocative, and perceptive – even mesmerizing. Her mysteries aren’t solved, they’re dangled just ahead, just out of reach.
EIGHT CUTS GALLERY: I’ve come across some real gems on Kindle, and Billie Hinton’s Claire-Obscure is one of the shiniest gems. What drew me to the book was the most primordial thing – the power of an image (and the beautiful title with its evocative double meaning), a cover that evokes the opening of Belle de Jour, and Renoir’s painting Parapluies (my favourite in the whole world). I’m glad I was drawn because Billie Hinton is a wonderful writer, and Claire-Obscure a delightful, enigmatic masterpiece.
PRAISE FOR CLAIRE-OBSCURE:
“claire-obscure is sophisticated, eerie, fascinating, literary. It has a spare, sexy Duras feel and a Donna Tartt-like magnetic quality.”-Peggy Payne, author of Revelation and New York Times Notable Book Sister India
“In claire-obscure, Billie Hinton creates three amazing and mysterious characters, in a fresh voice that has echoes of Donna Tartt and Sylvia Plath. Couldn’t wait to see how it turned out, hated for it to end.”-Dale Edgerton, author of Goneaway Road
“Simply brilliant; a lyric dreamsong.”-J.S. Kindrick, former Special Operations soldier and author of Spirit Horses
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Second Chance
Katie Kacvinsky
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary, Teens
Rating: 4.4 – {10 Reviews}
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an two drastically different, imperfect people be perfect for each other?
It’s been four months since Gray and Dylan have seen each other. Dylan’s been traveling in Europe, while Gray has college, baseball, and a life rooted in one place. Gray’s determined to forget Dylan, the girl he fell in love with in FIRST COMES LOVE. Besides, how do you make a relationship work with an independent loner?
Just when he decides he’s over her, Dylan makes an unexpected entrance back into his life, hoping their steamy romance can start right where it left off. Gray realizes you can tell your mind to do one thing, but you can’t always convince your heart to follow. Dylan realizes she finally has to make a choice between freedom and her relationship with Gray.
Hilarious, intense, inspiring, and emotional, SECOND CHANCE shows that love is a journey, and there are never clear road signs or maps to guide you along. You can only navigate with your heart.
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Saying Yes to Change: 10 Timeless Life Lessons for Creating Positive Change
Alex Blackwell
Genre(s): Self-Help, Motivational, Advice & How-to, Health Mind & Body
Rating: 4.1 – {20 Reviews}
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aying Yes to Change: 10 Timeless Life Lessons for Creating Positive Change is a heartfelt recounting of Alex Blackwell’s best advice on building healthy relationships, learning to love yourself and being a positive force in the world. From Prepare Your Soul for Change to Let Faith Be Your Guide, the book provides ten timeless life lessons for finding happiness and the sense of peace that comes with true self-acceptance.
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The Queen Gene
Jennifer Coburn
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Ghosts, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.4 – {39 Reviews}
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Entertaining… fresh, fast, and unpredictable…I didn’t want it to end!”
– Jennifer Lancaster, author of Bitter is the New Black
“Outrageous, hilarious – I loved it!”
– Pamela Redmond Satran, author of Suburbanistas
“Hilarious…you’ll laugh out loud long after you’ve turned the final page.”
– Liz Ireland, author of How I Stole Her Husband
After selling her home in the suburbs, Lucy Klein decides to pursue her lifelong dream of starting an arts community in the Berkshire Mountains. She envisions a creative oasis where struggling painters, sculptors and musicians visit from around the world. But the dream soon becomes a nightmare when the artists arrive and not a single one can create anything — except trouble, that is.
To make matters worse, Lucy’s ultra-high-maintenance mother, Anjoli is singularly focused on finding a holistic cure for her teacup Chihuahua’s obsessive compulsive, hair-pulling disorder. Rebirthing, acupuncture and white light therapy just aren’t helping poor little Paz. But Anjoli soon has new problems to contend with, like the NYU sorority house going up across the street from her.
Then there’s Lucy’s gorgeous cousin Kimmy who recently married herself in a dress made of disco ball mirrors, and now wants to get pregnant with Ivy League sperm. Deciding sperm banks have too many rules, she decides to go about things the old fashion way — with a roundtrip train ticket to Princeton and a change of panties in her designer purse.
Lest we forget about Lucy’s 84-year-old Aunt Bernice who is grieving the loss of her sister who recently died at Red Lobster. Though she misses her Floridian counterpart, Bernice is not going to let anything stand in her way of exploring brave new worlds –and Brazilian bikini waxes.
Enjoy a wild ride through the world of way over-the-top kiddie birthday parties, puppy psychotherapy and “performance art” weddings with a family so nutty, it will make you appreciate your own!
Between Lucy’s relatives and the artists from hell, it’s a wonder she can focus on her own life.
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The Silk Weaver’s Daughter
Elizabeth Kales
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.4 – {14 Reviews}
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he year is 1685 and when King Louis XIV of France, threatens death to all Huguenots, a silk weaver and his family flee the country only to discover that nowhere is life without danger. Pierre and Jacques Garneau are cousins, brought up together by their grandfather in a small Huguenot village. At a family reunion, Jacques warns the devout Pierre that he must soon make the decision to revoke his religion or risk death. Pierre decides that, with Jacques’ help, he will try to get his family to England. But Pierre’s beautiful daughter, Louise and Jacques’ son, Marc are in love, and they have their own ideas of what their future will hold. Set in this turbulent time in French history, how will the choices each family member makes, weave the tapestry of their lives? “The Silk Weaver’s Daughter” is partially based on the author’s twenty years of Family History research, as well as her travels to France and England investigating her Huguenot Heritage.
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