What if society was on the cusp of an android revolution and your father was the one who had created them? That’s exactly where 17-year-old Mandelie Miles and her android friend, Luke, find themselves at the beginning of “The Android Defense.” Learn more.
Experience Pipeline
Jump into surfing’s most famous and dangerous contest, the Pipe Masters event. In this ‘choose your own adventure’ style book you’re the surf star, and you’re competing against two other pros for the world title. The action is gripping and the waves are huge! With 300 possible storylines and 89 different endings, this book promises a new adventure on each short read.
The Belief in Angels
In the engrossing family saga “The Belief in Angels” Jules, a quirky girl growing up in a chaotic family in the ’70’s is forced to become her brother’s caretakers. Gut-wrenching and gritty, the story also transports readers to Jule’s grandfather’s harrowing and tragic experiences as a young man sentenced to the Majdanek death camp in the 1920’s. Learn more.
“The Best of Me” by Nicholas Sparks
Immortal Heart: Few Are Angels Prequel
More than a century after the tragedy of Hélène’s death and before Ella found Kale bruised and broken on her doorstep, Kale moved through the world in a haze of personal punishment allowing it to consume him. Until his friend, Detective Deacon a newly infected Chorý calls on him for a favor.
In this prequel, Kale is thrown into a world of human blood trafficking and is introduced to a Chorý that offers him a chance at happiness— in blood.
The Long Growing Season
“What was it about Travis Tucker that set my teeth on edge and made my heartbeat trip over itself? It had been fifteen years since he left me standing on my porch in that absurd pink prom dress; peering down the street, anxiously waiting for his car, which would never appear. Surely I was over that humiliation and school-girl heart break. Surely I had moved on. I was married to his best friend, Jack, after all…”
In the town of Fenton Hills, Connecticut, Jack and Sophia Lennox are close to royalty. He’s the clear choice for the next mayor, and she’s the girl next door. He’s charming and handsome, and she’s kind and graceful. The only thing that rivals their passion for their hometown is their devotion to each other.
But don’t believe everything you read.
When an old school friend suddenly returns to town, the cracks in the Lennox foundation begin to appear. In fact, Jack is behaving very oddly and Sophia is coming completely unglued.
Will Fenton Hills’s perfect couple be able to hold it together long enough to get through the election? And what is it about this one man’s presence that has everybody unraveling?
“Snow Bound” by Blake Crouch
Will’s wife vanished mysteriously during a nighttime electrical storm in the desert. Looking for answers, Will and his daughter set out on a journey that will take them from the desert southwest to the mountains of Alaska. Find out what happens in “Snow Bound.” Shop now.
Captured by the Hawk
A space operetta with humor and romance: Interstellar spy, Grey Kat, is captured by the enigmatic Black Hawk, renegade captain of the Rogue Star, who terrorizes the Emperor’s spaceships. He persuades her to assist in his next piracy attempt, which plunges them into a series of comical misadventures traveling through several ships and different planets. Will she discover the secrets of the mysterious Black Hawk before she suffers the fate of his unfortunate ex-wife? Learn more.
Memoirs of a Starving Artist
What if you risked everything to follow your dreams… and they didn’t quite come true? Would you regret having tried at all? How about if those choices led to a life full of freedom and adventure? This is the story of one man whose 25 years as a struggling writer meant learning to accept near constant rejection while at the same time traveling the world on a shoestring and reveling in all of the wonders that life has to offer. It is a tale of love and loss, hopes and aspirations, and ultimately the realization that true happiness comes not from succeeding on someone else’s terms, but in the ability to redefine success on one’s own.
“Memoirs of a Starving Artist” follows the author on a lifelong journey from Australia to Tahiti, Ireland to Estonia to Budapest and beyond. It is an inside look at what it means to be an ex-pat American writer in the era of the ebook revolution.
Erotica: “Generations”
Explore the volatility of the chemical reaction between lovers with a generation gap! Eagerness mixed with experience can make for some explosive and transformational lovin’. Come read our authors’ versions of the May/December relationship in quintessential eXcessica fashion!
Stories by Selena Kitt, Giselle Renarde, GR Richards, Kiki Howell, Deb Varva, Sommer Marsden and Dakota Trace.
The Moonlight Palace
Agnes Hussein is seventeen, a descendant of the sultan of Singapore, and the last surviving member of her immediate family. In the historical fiction novel, “The Moonlight Palace,” Agnes transforms from teenager to woman while trying to save the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent villa given to her family in exchange for giving Singapore to the British. Shop Now.
Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry
Stress relief can be elusive. With stress and anxiety so common, many people worry too much and wish the stress relief tips they’ve tried would work better. But while there is plenty of real, external stress, there is also what we do on the inside with stress, often without noticing it. Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry reveals the internal world of stress and lasting stress management. This practical book describes the internal stress traps you can fall into without even knowing it, and shows you how to get free from those traps for good. Combining psychology and wisdom from both East and West in clear, accessible language, psychologist Dr. Laura Maciuika describes 9 Stress Secrets that keep you stuck in stress and worry cycles, and reveals 9 Keys to Conscious Calm, with simple steps for lasting, natural stress relief.
This book also includes a free, downloadable Action Steps guide to help you transform stress and worry into greater calm, inner peace and happiness.
Kids Book: Emma Learns to Sprout
“Emma Learns to Sprout” is a children’s picture book which describes with fantastic illustrations how Emma, a kindergartner, learns to sprout legumes with her mom.
Sprouting is a great way to get more vitamins, minerals and nutrients into our bodies…and it doesn’t require anything but basic dishes available in every kitchen. Sprouting makes a great parent-child activity. Learn more.
Paint Me Gone
Private Investigator Genevieve Delacourt is hired to find a missing sibling, but it proves to be a convoluted task. The search is complicated by two things: the woman was thought to have committed suicide over twenty years before, and she was the only suspect in a stranger’s murder before she disappeared. Read more.
Thirst: Tales of Vampire Romance
The Awakening
Did you ever dream or fantasize about what it would be like to one day awaken in a young, healthy body all alone on a deserted island except for a sexy, attractive person beside you to fulfill your every desire. If you have, you are definitely not alone. Like you the main character in the story, John Smith, has had that fantasy ever since he was a young man and he has never forgotten or abandoned it for his entire life! Then one day he dies and is reanimated into a world where his fantasy finally becomes true, or does it? $2.99 on Kindle.
Romantic Suspense: “Entangled Dreams”
When Alexandra was eight years old, she thought she was a princess in a fairytale, but she didn’t know she was one tragedy away from reality.
Now twenty-two, disaster strikes again and she’s determined to change her life. Unfortunately, one night of indiscretion propels Alexandra into a situation that will force her to make choices that will eventually endanger her life.
It’ll all come down to two men, one decision, and a final encounter that will change their lives forever.
Food Addiction and How You Beat It
I know that you have heard a lot about how dieting can help you attain anything in life be it great health, losing weight, enhancing your skin complexion or transforming the appearance of your hair. With so many diets out there to choose from, you may probably wonder what makes one superior than others. The answer to this is fairly simple; everyone is different, so does the manner in which we respond to various foods.
Hello Love by Karen McQuestion
Two strangers find a second chance at happiness and love when an extraordinary dog comes into their lives. Read more.
Dream Warriors
Joseph Colafranceschi is a fifteen-year-old, self-described geek, living in the Bronx. The second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy, Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given to him by his father, endows him with power to control his dreams.
After his brothers throw him down a manhole, Joey is drawn into a hidden society of warriors who have been battling a reincarnated Egyptian Pharaoh for over 3,000 years. In the dream world, everyone is not what they appear to be, and it’s impossible to tell who to trust. As Joey slips deeper into a world of gladiator battles and clandestine missions within other people’s dreams, he catches the eye of a beautiful Egyptian princess.
The only thing that keeps him grounded in reality is his best friend Alex, but even she may not be who he thought she was.
The Jonas Trust Deception
Thomas Gunn is ex-British Special Forces, with a talent for infiltration and assassination. Skills that a year ago he reluctantly called on, to expose an international conspiracy that led to the murder of his father and death of his best friend. He thought it was all behind him. But a desperate call from his journalist friend Morgan, propels him into an even more sinister plot that threatens global politics and the security of the United States. Racing to follow her cryptic clues, Thomas and his partner Julie are thrust into the deadly path of Mexican drug cartels, corrupt politicians, the CIA, FBI, MI5 and ruthless Wall St brokers. What evil end-game binds these unlikely players together? It appears the shocking truth lies in the painful memories of Thomas’s past during covert operations in Afghanistan at the height of the war. A past he had hoped to forget but will not forget him.
Best Friends, Fantasy Lovers
Tommy and Capri have different backgrounds, goals, and motivations.
He’s an Irish guitarist in a new band with dreams of being a rock star, and not one serious bone in his body outside of playing music.
She’s an American valedictorian, who takes her responsibilities seriously, and dreams of being at the top of her profession.
Despite Tommy and Capri’s initial attraction to each other, both know a relationship is doomed from the start. In lieu of romance, they become best friends who share everything, including their ambition to succeed, their desire to make each other laugh, even their hidden secrets and darkest fantasies. When they begin to act out their fantasies with each other, non-platonic feelings start to creep in, and they must decide whether their friendship can survive what neither of them wants–being in love.
The Human Forged
In an escape from the tethers of modern technology, former Army Specialist Nick Corrigan ventures into an underground rave in an abandoned Estonian prison. There, he is abducted and cut off from the rest of the world, including his fiancée. He unwittingly becomes embroiled in a biotechnological nightmare and embarks on a dangerous adventure to return home. The only person that might be able to help him is a man Nick never knew existed—his clone.
Back in Washington, CIA analyst Sara Monahan makes a startling discovery while tracking the use of biological weapons in an ongoing war in Africa. She races to uncover a global conspiracy that may shake the very essence of what it means to be human.
Reservoir Cats
Meet Squirt, a Somali cat who believes that having a pedigree means that he is just a bit better than the rest! He is conceited, irreverent and opinionated but also the most loyal friend anyone could wish for.
Squirt brings you his unique view of the world with diary extracts, acute observations and some interesting (if somewhat strange) ideas.
Reservoir Cats is a romp of a read for animal lovers!