BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {01-28-2013}
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Chain Gang Elementary
Jonathan Grant
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.3 – {15 Reviews}
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In the first place, God created idiots. This was for practice. Then he created School Boards.” –Mark Twain
After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a “school of excellence.” When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions explode. Welcome to Chain Gang Elementary, home to vast right-wing conspiracies, 3rd-grade gangsters, testing scandals, and bake sale embezzlers–where toxic childhood secrets boil over, reformers go stark raving mad, and culture wars escalate into armed conflict. A tale of war that is poignant, timely, and brutally funny, Chain Gang Elementary is a One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest for the K-6 world.
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“ON HONORS DAY, Alicia Rodriguez sobbed and searched the crowd for a friendly face. She found Richard Gray and gazed at him plaintively. They both knew the deal. He had coaxed her off the bus on the first day of school. Malliford was great, he told her. She would make lots of friends. But those were lies. Now the seven-year-old was in tears, publicly humiliated. How could he allow this after making such promises?
And there he had it: The little girl was a human sacrifice to test scores, and her treatment was a brutal refutation to Miz Rutherford’s clichés about diversity. This was wrong, and Richard had to do something, even if it was loud and stupid.
It was a Popeye moment. Richard couldn’t stand any more. If he’d had a can of spinach, he would have swallowed it in one gulp. Instead of a whistle blast from a corncob pipe, there was a scratchy squeak of chair legs as he stood. Three hundred people in the auditorium turned to stare at the PTO president, wondering what the crazy fool who used a yo-yofor a gavel would do next.”
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Butchered
Bradley Convissar
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 3.8 – {5 Reviews}
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Butchered” contains 2 new short stories from the author of “Dogs of War”, “King of the Merge”, and the Pandora’s Children collection of short stories.
“The Butcher”- A mass murderer discovers that he may have bitten off more than he can chew when he abducts his latest victim (3,700 words)
“Drop House”- A trio of men patrolling the Arizona border discover something terrifying while searching for a group of illegal immigrants (7,700 words)
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Just Remember to Breathe (Thompson Sisters)
Charles Sheehan-Miles
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
Rating: 4.5 – {153 Reviews}
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lex Thompson’s life is following the script. A pre-law student at Columbia University, she’s focused on her grades, her life and her future. The last thing she needs is to reconnect with the boy who broke her heart.
Dylan Paris comes home from Afghanistan severely injured and knows that the one thing he cannot do is drag Alex into the mess he’s made of his life.
When Dylan and Alex are assigned to the same work study program and are forced to work side by side, they have to make new ground rules to keep from killing each other.
The only problem is, they keep breaking the rules.
The first rule is to never, ever talk about how they fell in love.
The Thompson Sisters
Just Remember to Breathe is part of a series of novels centering around the Thompson sisters. Though the books center on the same family, they are standalone novels and can be read in any order.
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Eleven (Brandon Fisher FBI Series)
Carolyn Arnold
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Police Procedurals, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.0 – {69 Reviews}
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Arnold’s imagination and attention to detail do not leave any loose ends. Exciting.”–MIAMI BOOKS EXAMINER’S “Top 12 Fiction Books of 2011″ list.
Book Overview:
Eleven Rooms. Ten Bodies. One Empty Grave.
Brandon Fisher never expected this when he signed up as a Special Agent for the FBI. Working in the shadow of Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper of the Behavioral Analysis Unit his career seemed set. But when the team is called to a small rural town where the remains of ten victims are found in an underground bunker, buried in an unusual way, Brandon knows he’ll never return to his normal life.
With one empty grave, and the case touching close to home, he fears he’s become the target of a psychotic serial killer who wants to make him number eleven. Only thing is, everything Brandon thinks he knows is far from the truth.
Length: 103,000 words**Includes a sneak peek of TIES THAT BIND (A Madison Knight Novel)PEARLS OF DECEPTION (A Short Story) is also available for purchase
*BOOK TRAILER also available – see Carolyn Arnold’s Author page under “Author Video” in the bottom right-hand corner.
Are you looking for another mystery series? You may also want to check out the 3 available Madison Knight Novels: Ties that Bind, Justified, and Sacrifice.
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High Life (Matthew Stokoe)
Matthew Stokoe
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.5 – {17 Reviews}
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ne of the most brutal Los Angeles crime novels ever written.
Obsessed with celebrity gossip magazines and Entertainment TV, Jack moves to Los Angeles hoping to become a TV presenter. But, like a million others before him, he finds that dreams can die a slow death in the City of Angels. Two years later, working in a donut store and married to Karen, a prostitute who cares little for him, he figures he’s destined for life’s scrapheap.
But when Karen is found murdered – dumped in a drainage ditch and eviscerated – Jack is forced by this violent crime to reject the mainstream, workaday Californian world, and begin a journey through the underbelly of Hollywood as he pursues his twin goals of becoming a celebrity and finding Karen’s killer.
In this neo-noir nightmare, Jack works as a hustler, turning tricks on the street and in the homes of the Hollywood wealthy, all the time trying to stay one step ahead of Ryan, a rogue cop intent on framing him for Karen’s murder.
At a party for filmdom’s elite, Jack meets Bella, a beautiful woman wealthy enough to make his TV dreams come true. But there’s something about Bella and her ex-surgeon father that isn’t quite right, something dark and sexual and drenched in blood. Something that might just unlock the secret of Karen’s murder.
Matthew Stokoe’s High Life takes Los Angeles noir to another level. Fans of mysteries and thrillers, and aficionados who like their crime fiction violent and sexy will find more than they bargained for in this dark masterpiece.
“Stokoe proves himself a worthy heir to the great tradition of California noir. Brutal and unflinching in its depiction of violence and sex, his book is like an unholy hybrid of Raymond Chandler’s best work and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.”
–Henry Flesh, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Massage.
Soaked in such graphic detail that the pages smell, Matthew Stokoe’s High Life is the sickest revision of the California crime novel, ever.”
–Paper Magazine
“All of the classic ingredients of Californian noir are here, but Stokoe takes things further than most . . . The plot is skillfully worked, the elements of crime writing are not jettisoned in the mounting horrors that he describes. There’s also a certain grim humor on display, at times it is impossible not to laugh, even when Stokoe is making us wallow in filth. One can’t help but feel that he’s enjoying himself immensely . . . This is a compelling and gripping novel.”
–Black Star Reviews
“High Life shows an author of awesome ability . . .”
–Barcelona Review
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