FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {11-23-2019}

Shattered Shield: Cole Cameron Thriller Series Book 1 by Camden Mays

Terrorism looms in this international thriller as a jaded CIA Officer must stop a terrorist unit with destructive designs on the United States. Cole Cameron is drawn into the corporate espionage scheme of a former CIA colleague when a research center in Tucson Arizona is attacked, setting in motion a string of terrifying events. But when Cameron finds himself drawn to FBI Special Agent Hannah Jacobs, he sees a possibility of happiness. But their dreams could be shattered by the gravity of their
mission. Cameron must now overcome his inner demons and lead the agency against the group he has analyzed for years.

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

The harrowing true story that inspired the critically acclaimed film
The son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York. In the spring of 1841, he was offered a job: a short-term, lucrative engagement as a violinist in a traveling circus. It was a trap. In Washington, DC, Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years on plantations in Louisiana, enduring backbreaking labor, unimaginable violence, and inhumane treatment at the hands of cruel masters, until a kind stranger helped to win his release. His account of those years is a shocking, unforgettable portrait of America’s most insidious historical institution as told by a man who experienced it firsthand.
Published shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Northup’s memoir became a bestseller in 1853. With its eloquent depiction of life before and after bondage, Twelve Years a Slave was a unique and effective entry into the national debate over slavery. Rediscovered in the 1960s and now the inspiration for a major motion picture, Northup’s poignant narrative gives readers an invaluable glimpse into a shameful chapter of American history. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. 

The Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad Ardalan

Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes across the story of Ali, the Gardener of Baghdad, Adnan rediscovers through a memoir handwritten by the gardener decades ago that beauty, love and hope can still exist, even in the darkest corners of the world.