BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {01-24-2013}
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Siren
John Everson
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Fiction
Rating: 4.5 – {17 Reviews}
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van is entranced by the alluring song of the beautiful naked woman he saw in the surf one lonely night. But this is no mere seductress. She is a siren, one of the legendary sea creatures who prey on unsuspecting men. And she has claimed Evan as her next lover.
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The Mobster’s Wife
Tammy Capri
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Urban Life, Fiction
Rating: 4.7 – {18 Reviews}
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wenty-five year old Heaven Cullens is the wife of Jovious (Jovi) Cullens, a mobster who owns the popular gambling spot called The Dungeon. While at “The Dungeon” players can get more than just a lucky roll! Ready to take his establishment to the next level, Jovi sets out to collect from anyone who owes debt to his business; either money or blood. Heaven’s life was perfect, but when the love of her life, Jovi, is murdered, and her six year old son, Dominic, is kidnapped by her husband’s murderer, she is forced to continue the job that Jovi started. Now on a mission to get her son back, Heaven learns first hand that anybody can be bought, even the ones closest to her! After losing almost everything, Heaven is determined to get it all back! Buckle up and prepare for a ride, as Heaven uncovers a shocking ending!
“The Mobster’s Wife by author Tammy Capri is action packed, full of twists and turns and sure to keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time wondering what’s coming next. This author is a great story-teller and this story is told vividly! Just as clear as a high-definition movie!” – National Best-Selling and Award Winning Author of Daddy’s Little Girl & The Black Diamond Trilogy, Brittani Williams
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The Sword
Bryan M. Litfin
Genre(s): Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Christianity, Christian Fiction, Westerns
Rating: 4.0 – {91 Reviews}
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his novel of page-turning action and adventure poses the question, “If a society had no knowledge of Christianity, and then a Bible were discovered, what would happen?”
Four hundred years after a deadly virus and nuclear war destroyed the modern world, a new and noble civilization emerges. In this kingdom, called Chiveis, snowcapped mountains provide protection, and fields and livestock provide food. The people live medieval-style lives, with almost no knowledge of the “ancient” world. Safe in their natural stronghold, the Chiveisi have everything they need, even their own religion. Christianity has been forgotten–until a young army scout comes across a strange book.
With that discovery, this work of speculative fiction takes readers on a journey that encompasses adventure, romance, and the revelation of the one true God. Through compelling narrative and powerful character development, The Sword speaks to God’s goodness, his refusal to tolerate sin, man’s need to bow before him, and the eternality and power of his Word. Fantasy and adventure readers will be hooked by this first book in a forthcoming trilogy.
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The Good Plain Cook
Bethan Roberts
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 3.5 – {6 Reviews}
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t’s summer 1936, and the world is on the cusp of change, but there’s little sign of this in rural Sussex. So when Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for ‘a good plain cook’, she has no idea what she’s in for. For starters, her employer is an American called Ellen Steinberg who believes in having the staff call her by her first name and sunbathing in the nude. Then there’s Ellen’s eleven-year-old daughter, Geenie, a bright, unhappy little thing, and Mrs Steinberg’s gentleman friend, Mr Crane, who’s said to be a poet – even though he doesn’t have a beard and doesn’t actually write much poetry. Rich bohemians imagining themselves as communists, Steinberg and Crane see themselves as champions of ‘the people’ – not that they know the first thing about how the people actually live. Kitty is in no position to criticise – after all she claimed to be a good plain cook, despite hardly knowing how to boil an egg. Utterly out of her depth, she is relieved to have the gardener, Arthur, to talk to. Otherwise she’d never last a summer in this madhouse. Ellen Steinberg wants life to run as smoothly as the love story she imagines her lover George Crane to be writing. But as Kitty arrives, the dream is on the edge of falling apart.
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The Sound of Building Coffins
Louis Maistros
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Horror, Literary, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.1 – {27 Reviews}
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One has to write with considerable authenticity to pull off a story steeped in magic and swamp water that examines race and class, death and rebirth, Haitian voodoo, and the beginnings of jazz in 1891 New Orleans. Maistros’s gritty debut novel follows the interconnected lives of the Morningstar siblings–all lovingly named by their father after disease– as they wrestle with a powerful demon, con outsiders, kill and die, die and are reborn. The plot is complex and magical, grounded in the history of the city, without being overly sentimental. There is a comfort with death as a part of life in this work that reveals deep feeling for the city and its past. Of course, every novel about New Orleans must have a good hurricane. Like the one in Zora Neale Hurston’s classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, this hurricane destroys the city while making hope possible. Highly recommended for all fiction collections, especially where there is an interest in jazz.”
–Library Journal
“This book sings out in true jazz fashion — wildly inventive, oddly formed yet perfectly made, and never a sour note.”
– The Anniston Star
“Louis Maistros has written a lyrical, complex, and brave novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. He is a writer to watch and keep reading, a writer to cherish.”
– Peter Straub
Maistros creates a city that is part dream, part hallucination. His New Orleans embodies both the grim reality of a particular time and the city’s eternal, shimmering beauty. And, with the book’s title, he provides us with a new and unforgettable metaphor for the sound of hammers at work, whether boarding up for a storm or rebuilding after one.”
– Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune & USA Today
“(The Sound of Building Coffins is) a macabre and utterly hypnotic feat of literary imagination, an extended tale of voodoo and jazz in the Crescent City, circa the turn of the 20th century. The novel is so fluently delivered that it sometimes feels as if it were being channeled via the same spirits – evil and good – that inhabit these richly drawn characters. Maistros, a New Orleans record-store owner and former forklift operator with no formal training as a writer, has crafted a work spiked with historical characters and events, so striking and original that it probably deserves a place on the shelf of great fiction from his adopted hometown.”
– Phillip Booth, St. Petersburg Times
The Sound of Building Coffins is set in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, where, explains Maistros, residents have ‘a long and curious relationship with death, a closeness, a delicate truce.’ In spite of all of the death and violence and betrayal, Coffins is also filled with love. Love moves characters to commit terrible acts, but it also drives them to right their wrongs. Love offers second chances, sometimes in this life and sometimes in the one beyond.”
– Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since A Confederacy of Dunces has done such justice to New Orleans.”
– Donald Harington, winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award
“The Sound of Building Coffins is easily one of the finest and truest pieces of New Orleans fiction I’ve ever read.”
– Poppy Z. Brite
“A writer of lesser ability would have been swallowed up in the swirling complexity of such a plot, plunging it to the level of a silly period piece regional novel. However, The Sound of Building Coffins is different. Maistros keeps his head above water and pulls off an admirable story because of his keen research into the history of New Orleans and his compelling style that is fired by his use of foreboding imagery.The Sound of Building Coffins is riveting. It is a good read and a remarkable first novel.”
– Endtype: A Canadian Literary Magazine
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