FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {11-20-2021}

The Korean Word For Butterflyby Jamie Zerndt

Set against the backdrop of the 2002 World Cup and rising anti-American sentiment due to a deadly accident involving two young Korean girls and a U.S. tank, The Korean Word For Butterfly is told from three alternating points-of-view:

Billie, the young wanna-be poet looking for adventure with her boyfriend who soon finds herself questioning her decision to travel so far from the comforts of American life;

Moon, the ex K-pop band manager who now works at the English school struggling to maintain his sobriety in hopes of getting his family back;

And Yun-ji , a secretary at the school whose new feelings of resentment toward Americans may lead her to do something she never would have imagined possible.

The Korean Word For Butterfly is a story about the choices we make and why we make them.

It is a story, ultimately, about the power of love and redemption.

Miamiby Joan Didion

An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.

In Miami, the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and pastel architecture to explore the murkier waters of a city on the edge.

From Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion to Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination to Oliver North and the Iran–Contra affair, Joan Didion uncovers political intrigues and shadowy underworld connections, and documents the US government’s “seduction and betrayal” of the Cuban exile community in Dade County. She writes of hotels that offer “guerrilla discounts,” gun shops that advertise Father’s Day deals, and a real-estate market where “Unusual Security and Ready Access to the Ocean” are perks for wealthy homeowners looking to make a quick escape. With a booming drug trade, staggering racial and class inequities, and skyrocketing murder rates, Miami in the 1980s felt more like a Third World capital than a modern American city. Didion describes the violence, passion, and paranoia of these troubled times in arresting detail and “beautifully evocative prose” (The New York Times Book Review).

A vital report on an immigrant community traumatized by broken dreams and the cynicism of US foreign policy, Miami is a masterwork of literary journalism whose insights are timelier and more important than ever.

FALSE FLAGSby Noel Hynd

From the author of FLOWERS FROM BERLIN, FIREBIRD and TRUMAN’S SPY….

A tough hard spy story, tough, hard-hitting, based on cold war history, actual events and real spies. A gritty in-your-face espionage thriller…

“Noel Hynd knows the ins and outs of Washington’s institutions, public and private.” Publishers Weekly (on ‘The Enemy Within”)

From the author of FLOWERS FROM BERLIN, CONSPIRACY IN KIEV and two dozen other best selling thrillers, comes a newly revised ‘endgame’ spy story, based on the events of 1983 that were all too real.

It is 1983, the freezing point of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Behind the headlines, unknown to most private citizens, the two super powers bumble toward nuclear confrontation….and in the back streets and back alleys of world capitals, spies and recalled spies fight for a part of a missile guidance system that could tip the balance during nuclear confrontation. And at the center is a woman with a terrible secret.

Noel Hynd takes you on a journey into the world of espionage in both the 1960’s and 1980s. Based on fascinating real life detail, some of it autobiographical, the story teams with real life characters from Andropov to Profumo and spawls across CIA stations in London and Paris as well as Parisian night spots and journalistic/spy haunts such as Harry’s New York Bar in Paris. The times were deadly, but riveting, the mood intoxicating but frightening.

Mustang Playerby Eva Haining

Mustang Player is a STANDALONE, small town, rock star romance.

Johnny Reed is a music god and recovering drug addict. After an overdose that almost cost him his life, he’s been struggling to find his way, and being on the road doesn’t hold the same allure it once did. Although he doesn’t want to give up living the dream of fame and fortune, Johnny finds himself increasingly drawn to the small town of Kingsbury Falls.

Dr. Ellie Sawyer is an accomplished New York psychiatrist, and even though she has built a successful private practice of her own, she’s looking for something more out of life. When the offer comes to run and expand the Mustang Ranch horse therapy center, she jumps at the chance.

Johnny and Ellie each come to Kingsbury Falls eager to leave their old lives behind and stop making the same mistakes, but when their worlds collide, their chemistry is explosive.
Will Johnny risk his sobriety for love?

Will Ellie cross the line for a chance of happily ever after?

Black Flag: Surviving the Scourgeby Dave Klapwyk

The Scourge is sweeping the globe.
People are dying.
The world is descending into chaos.
This is the riveting, action-packed adventure
of an unlikely group of survivors as they struggle
to stay alive while society crumbles.