FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {03-09-2021}

Catching Chickens: Reflections Of A Poultry Herderby Lawrence Wilson

This collection of humor, satire and memoir has it all. Sex, religion, politics. What life was like and what it might have been had things been different. It’s about growing up, growing older and just plain growing.
Seventy tales of phobias, winning the lottery and somethig about Jesus. There’s a fishing story, a getting knocked out story and yes, even one about chickens.
‘Checking Out’ takes a humorous look at dying while ‘Friends’, considers the life of soldiers returning from war and maybe wishing they wouldn’t have.
There is a poem about a trip to Mardi Gras, and being propositioned on the streets of the “Big Easy”. Others on bullying and an award-winning, ’69 Springs’.
Growing up in a small town, business ventures and jumping out of airplanes.

How to Eat a Cupcake: A Novelby Meg Donohue

Author Meg Donohue has cooked up an absolutely scrumptious debut novel, How to Eat a Cupcake, that explores what happens when two childhood friends, Annie and Julia, reconnect as adults and decide to open a cupcakery. But success in their new baking business venture will depend upon their overcoming old betrayals, first loves, and an unexpected and quite dangerous threat. Donohue’s How to Eat a Cupcake is contemporary women’s fiction at its smartest, sweetest, and most satisfying, joining the ranks of The Recipe Club, The School for Essential Ingredients, and Joanne Harris’s classic Chocolat by proving once again that fiction and food make an unbeatable combination.

Pay Up Hot Stuffby Weston Parker

He’ll wipe out my debt if I play house with him? Seriously?

The hottest guy I’ve seen in forever is giving me an offer I can’t refuse.

No really, I can’t refuse it because I slammed my Kia into his Lamborghini and now I’m in deep sh*t.

Apparently, his mother is on his back about settling down, and he thinks I’m just the girl for the job.

I can’t say I’m not intrigued about how far this might go.

He’s got another think coming if he thinks I’m sleeping with him. I’m not that type of girl.

Not yet at least.

Unfortunately for me, he’s president of the alphahole billionaire club.

I mean, he would be if there was one.

It’s just a few months, and besides, I could use a break from my grocery-store job to taste the life of the rich and famous.

Even though he’s the worst thing that ever happened to me, he’s growing on me–fast.

So I’ll be his fake fiancée and give him a run for his money.

This boy’s going to pay up, hot stuff.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston

Secrets of a Duke’s Daughterby Samantha Holt

A duke’s daughter must be prepared for whatever life–and love–throws her way…

Lady Cassandra Fallon is finally ready to take control of her life and join her late mother’s investigative society. She’s more than confident she can do the job–even when her first case involves a potentially deadly scandal. What she’s not quite prepared for is her brother’s attractive (and increasingly distracting) friend acting as her self-appointed bodyguard…

When Lord Luke promised his best friend he’d keep an eye on Cassie, he meant it. But the brazen and entirely too alluring woman she’s become is a far cry from the mischievous, freckled girl she used to be. Luke knows a lowly viscount has no business longing for (or touching) a duke’s daughter. But against all reason…he does…

She craves independence. He only craves her. An epic battle of the sexes is at hand. But will love be enough to get them to happily ever after? Cassie and Luke will soon find out…  

Sundaysby A. Robert Allen

Dustin Murphy’s blocked memory of childhood trauma is the key to unravelling a modern-day threat. Can he remember in time to prevent disaster?

Haunted by the ghosts of his childhood, Dustin doesn’t understand why he is so disconnected to the world. His mother suggests he may find answers by studying their family’s past, which takes him back to:

˃˃˃ 1934 Harlem

His Great Aunt Rita is a fixer in the numbers racket. She works side by side with Bumpy Johnson and runs the bank for the operation while her family struggles to be accepted in New York because of the color of their skin.

˃˃˃ 1815 Nevis

Dustin’s early ancestors are split between the planter elite and the slave population. Their actions during these final years of slavery set the tone for the family for years to come.

Dustin uncovers long-suppressed family secrets while he learns about his own problems from the past. Everything comes to a head in Charlottesville, Virginia, when he and his sister participate in a rally that pits White supremacists against all those who oppose them. Can he unlock his memory in time to prevent disaster?

Being Authentic: A Memoirby Morhaf Al Achkar

⚠ Our existence is fragile. I learned that in many intricate ways, so I do not take today for granted. I do not know what tomorrow will bring. I do not even know if tomorrow will come. ⚠

◆ On the eve of Thanksgiving 2016, I received the diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer. Next to dying, I fear the spread of cancer to my brain and losing my ability to think, speak, or write. This loss would be devastating to me. ◆

• The fragility of our life made me want to be authentic. Therefore, I am writing this memoir to be authentic–we become our true selves when we author who we are.
• I am afraid of being forgotten. Death does frighten me. But more than dying, I am scared of having no one remember me or, even worse, of being recognized differently from who I was. At the same time, I have never thought that I was entitled to ask others not to forget me. But, not to be forgotten is precisely what I yearn for. ★
• While I am writing for the other, I am simultaneously writing for myself. I am one of the readers and will test the subject as it gets written. My criteria are stricter. I want to say, “This is my narrative.” 

♥ I need to be able to say, “This is my narrative.” ♥

Across Lvivby Will Ballantyne

Take a trip to somewhere in between.Have you ever thought about teaching abroad? Where would you go? In a country torn apart by corruption and violence, the idealistic Scottish author takes up a teaching post in an English language school in Ukraine circa 1996 determined to make a difference. Through a series of interconnected stories of deceit, betrayal, love and loneliness before the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, the author encounters the people of Lviv in a time and place, though harsh, filled with romance, humour, and hope for the future.