"It made me cry and laugh and rage...A really important, timely book. Sheer brilliance." —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List"Thoughtful, smart and painfully true." —Cosmopolitan UKHe said he was looking for a "partner in crime," which everyone knows is shorthand for "a woman who isn't real."April is kind, pretty and relatively normal—yet she can't seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she's found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry. Until she realizes that men aren't looking for real women—they're looking for Gretel.Gretel is perfect—beautiful but low-maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not too easy. She's your regular, everyday Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl-Next-Door with no problems.When April starts pretending to be... Views: 657
It is December 1892, and a train carrying rival ranchers has become snowbound in Nebraska. If the blizzard doesn't kill the passengers on board the train, a mysterious killer will. As the body count rises and the tensions heat and the temperature drops, it is up to a vagrant and a reporter to find out the truth and save the West from another range war.The American West, December 1892: a vagrant wins a train ticket to Wyoming in a game of poker. However, the train is overbooked with danger. There are cattle ranchers, both rich and poor, aboard, who still have open wounds from a recent range war. As well, there is a disturbed killer being transported by marshals to Wyoming to face trial for his involvement in the conflict. When the train derails during a blizzard in Nebraska, the passengers face the looming specter of death, which becomes more real when the killer is found mysteriously dead. But the killer's death is only the beginning, as more and more passengers are found brutally murdered. As tensions rise, it is up to the vagrant and his new friend, the investigative reporter Nellie Bly, to find out the truth before another range war is triggered. Views: 655
For fifty years fear of the vanishing red house in the Jersey Barrens had warped the lives of Ellen and Pete Yocum.Old Pete swore that the house moved from place to place and that screams heard within it put a hex on anyone who ventured near.Meg Yarrow, raised by the Yocums since childhood, experienced the same terror until Nathan, the new farmhand, arrived. One day they started on a search for the red house in the Oxhead woods, only to encounter violent danger—whether due to natural or supernatural causes, they could not tell.How they found the house and unraveled its eerie secret forms the powerful climax of this outstanding mystery novel. Views: 651
Lucas is drawn to the chair. His is a sad story, but when he sits in the chair, he gets the answers he has been searching for.Lucas lost his parents at an early age. After twenty years, he still doesn't know what happened to them. When he comes across the most beautiful chair he has ever seen, his world changes and he gets his ansers. Views: 649
In the realms of Brodérunn, an ancient evil is about to find a way out of its prison, and without even knowing it herself, an elf-warrior, Amashanae, is about to become the key in what will the fate of the world become.In the realms of Brodérunn, an ancient evil is about to find a way out of its prison, and it is slowly collecting its powers in order to bring the world around it to the brink of destruction. Without even knowing it herself, an elf-warrior, Amashanae, is about to become the key in what will the fate of the world become, as she’s pulled into the vortex of the evil sorceress Raelia’s plans to rein the beast for her own uses to take over the entire Brodérunn. In this first book of the trilogy Amashanae embarks on a journey to find her destiny with an accidental band of companions, a farm-girl and a warrior, and it is a journey that will take her and everyone around her to much further than any of them could have guessed – both in body and spirit.So yes, it is another freakin' elf story. With dragons. Views: 583
Samantha Patterson wedding is the wedding of the year. She hires the top cake designer and florist in the business. It's no secret that they both have creative differences, but by the end they pull off some of the most beautiful weddings.Could it be love sparks that are finally happening between them or their usual creative bumping in to each other to get a wedding done to move on to the next?Caleb didn’t know that one night of bliss last spring with small town beauty Maya Brand had resulted in a pregnancy, until the blackmail attempt arrived on his desk in an unmarked envelope, complete with photos of Maya with a belly out to there.When he learns the truth, Caleb rushes back to Big Falls, determined to make it right despite what the scandal will do to his high profile career–the family legacy he had never truly wanted. All he wants is Maya, and their child. But can a girl whose father abandoned and betrayed her, ever truly believe in the goodness of a man who left town the morning after their one night stand? How can he convince her that he hasn’t stopped thinking about her since then, much less, do so with the whole world watching? He has to prove himself to a woman he’s not even sure he’s worthy of. But he has no idea how.The Oklahoma All-Girl Brands is a six-book, small town, contemporary romance series with shades of HOPE FLOATS and YOU’VE GOT MAIL. Spin off of the bestselling Texas Brand Series.The Oklahoma Brands:The Brands Who Came for ChristmasBrand-New HeartacheSecrets and LiesA Mommy For ChristmasOne Magic Summer Views: 582
A short story about love and ambition.'Hold On' won first prize in the Federation of BC Writers Literary Writes competition.They are the light against the darkness. The steel against the necromancy of the Druj. And they use demons to hunt demons…. Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King's elite Water Dogs is that they bind wicked creatures called daevas to protect the empire from the Undead. But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister. Scarred by grief, she's willing to pay any price, even if it requires linking with a daeva named Darius. Human in body, he's possessed of a terrifying power, one that Nazafareen controls. But the golden cuffs that join them have an unwanted side effect. Each experiences the other's emotions, and human and daeva start to grow dangerously close. As they pursue a deadly foe across the arid waste of the Great Salt Plain to the glittering capital of Persepolae, unearthing the secrets of Darius's past along the way, Nazafareen is forced to question his slavery—and her own loyalty to the empire. But with an ancient evil stirring in the north, and a young conqueror sweeping in from the west, the fate of an entire civilization may be at stake…Praise for The Midnight Sea"A spellbinding fantasy with some moral weight and a meatier narrative than usual, one likely to leave readers quite satisfied... Ross conjures an epic of demons and daevas, family, loss, and the turmoil of a kingdom in peril."-Kirkus Reviews"An addictive, action-packed, glorious page-turner!" -Am Kinda Busy Reading"For a world of shifting alliances and trusts, fully realized and multi-faceted characters, and a fantasy that takes place in a little touched upon setting in young adult literature, The Midnight Sea delivers on all fronts and starts off a new series of romance, magic, and a well-written and captivating story." -Bibliobibuli YA"GUARD YOUR HEART. For in The Midnight Sea, Kat Ross delivers a riveting fantasy of unparalleled proportions that stole a piece of mine." -Flylef Reviews"I really hate the word ‘epic’ because, let’s face it, it’s so overused and it’s lost its true meaning, but this book deserves that word." -Book Reader Chronicles"The Midnight Sea has everything I enjoy in a fantasy and more. I highly recommend it for readers who love elemental magic, kick-ass heroines and a captivating story." -Cover2Cover Reviews"Kat Ross creates a rich fantasy world, full of new and scary creatures, lots of magical powers, and an intricately woven plot that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page." -Book Briefs Views: 567
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences?
Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine.
Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future. Views: 551
Snapper Jack was rescued from Swamp Island. He meets Sizzer the Crocodile that sees two of everything. Lazy Susie who goes around in circles and a Bob tailed Lizard that thinks Jack is his dad!A northerner by birth, Willow moves south when she inherits her grandfather’s ice cream shop. From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow finds herself at odds with what most call “southern charm.” She becomes obsessed with cook-offs and bake-offs, wanting those trophies for her mantle. With the chili cook-off just around the corner, Willow manages to provoke one of the judges to a fit of road rage. When that judge ends up face down, dead, in a bowl of Willow’s chili, police chief Grice looks to the newest town resident as his number one suspect. Willow must find out who wanted Ms. Delonda Posey dead before the good citizens of Turtle, OK run her Yankee bottom out of town. Views: 542
In the frenzy of general elections, candidates were busy vying for media attention. The outcome had been ever so slightly manipulated by a sinister foreign hand. A calculated plan had been carried out,by a group, so bent to destroy the will of the people. Several forces, both from living and dead resonate and lead to uncovering of world's first bloodless plot.What is a home? It is a familiar base that protects you, provides for you, while making great demands on you as time goes on. The servant slowly becomes more of a master. Letting go of the past is a frightening thing, which is as it should be. That keeps us from racing into uncertainty with too much risk. But too much reliance upon a past home prevents a new one from having a chance to form. We push our children out of their nest as part of our parental duties. Who, then, will push us out when we are the only one in the nest? Views: 542
Abra, an intellectually gifted woman from a family with mentally retarded parents and siblings, is the family caretaker until she goes away to college severing all family ties. Sixteen years later she learns that her sister died starting her on a quest to understand why she abandoned her family. She falls in love with Adam who helps her cope with her view that she has "dirty genes."Abra, an intellectually gifted woman from a family with mentally retarded parents and siblings, is the family caretaker until she goes away to college severing all family ties. Her high school teacher helps her find a small college far from home where she begins to weave a fictitous life as an orphan. She becomes a successful psychologist and creates an independent life that she likes. Sixteen years after leaving home, she learns that her sister died. She decides to share her family secrets with her friends and colleagues as the starting point on her quest to understand why she abandoned her family. She falls is love with Adam, her high school teacher's nephew, who helps her cope with her view that she has "dirty genes" which should never be passed on. Views: 528
She owns a coffee and poetry shoppe, he's a musician and artist. Stopping in for coffee one day, they meet and sparks begin to fly from the first cup and their gaze. She asks him if he would play some songs on poetry Friday. He's modest and introverted like most artist, but through his music he is an open book ready to be read. Can she get him to open up to her?Painfully-shy accountant, Evan McCormick, is conservative with his money and tough on his body, yet the decent nest egg he’s amassed and the toned physique he’s formed isn’t enough to fulfill him. Evan’s starving for affection. As an introvert, bonding with others isn’t Evan’s best quality. When Dillon—an impeccable-dressed and debonair ad executive—joins the firm, Evan lets his guard down. An office scandal and sexually-overt billboards popping up all over New England bring the two together in this funny yet romantic tale.NOTE: Formatting errors in the initial version of this ebook have now been fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience. Views: 506
2 Book Bundle - Dark Fantasy / DystopianThis bundle brings a double dose of darkness in the form of two novels; one takes place in a brutal fantasy world, the other at the very beginning of the collapse of civilization.Bitch Berserker - A LitRPG Dark FantasyTrapped in a savage new reality!I'm a kind and gentle person.Or should I say, I was...As an interstellar surveyor, my job is to find and explore new star systems at the very fringes of humankind's reach. There are no conflicts, or even stress – it's simply a career which allows me to quietly drift through the cosmos, enjoying its endless beauty.Then I found myself trapped on a world like no other. Dark, bloody and brutal, I had to adapt quickly to this new reality, or me and my crew would never get a chance to escape. My life quickly morphed from one of peace, to one of pure savagery.And as I carved a blood-soaked path across this realm... Views: 499
When the invincible Zeus is killed, his daughter Athena must rally her chaotic family of gods against a rising darkness, one that will not stop until Greece’s beauty is in ashes.Zeus, the immortal King of Everything, has been ruled by a prophecy that only his firstborn can kill him and take his throne. In spite of his best efforts, Athena – a brilliant warrior – is born. Instead of killing her father, though, Athena loves Zeus as much as she hates the idea of becoming queen. Meanwhile, thousands of feet beneath the world, King Hades of the Dead is jealous of the power his brother Zeus has held over him. Hungry for revenge, Hades tricks Athena into killing her father and assuming the throne. With the royalty of the gods now in chaos, Hades plans an invasion of the world that can only end with him as the supreme god, finally unchallenged. And so, with Zeus imprisoned in the depths of the Underworld, Athena must convince her unruly and suspicious family to cooperate with her, else Zeus and the world they love will become lost forever. Views: 496
