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Sunday, August 15, 2021

E- reader books for 8/15/2021

 


Sip Lake
by Joe Basara
BARGAIN
Literary Romantic Comedy
Rating: 3.7


Owen Cloud has been talked into moving to Cypress Lake. "Sip Lake is what the locals call it," his friend says, only he wants Owen to go to work for him, selling real estate. But when Owen demurs, he gets him an orderly job at the local hospital, since "putting butts on bed pans" is more his speed.

On his first night at work, Owen sits alone in the dining room, eating a sloppy joe sandwich, while studying an unfinished painting on the wall before him. Drowsy, a young woman's "hello" startles him. She has just entered the room, but suddenly he finds that the painting has become his My Florida Coloring Book, that he was issued in first grade. Turning its pages, he sees Ponce de Leon searching for the Fountain of Youth, the Barefoot Mailman trudging down the beach, Flagler's railroad on its way to Key West, and many other images...


Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
BARGAIN
Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.7


Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force.

Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.


Her Forever Cowboys
by Jan Springer
BARGAIN
Western Romance
Rating: New Release


After spending years in prison, Milena Allen is unexpectedly paroled and given a job at a secluded Canadian horse ranch where she's instantly attracted to her three sexy cowboy bosses!

When Cowboys Online sends Mitch, Daegen and Paul a cute female ex-con to help out around their fledgling wilderness ranch, they realize life has been awfully lonesome without female companionship. Despite being without women for so long, they vow Milena is off limits, and they will treat her like one of the guys. When violence threatens her cowboys, Milena's nursing skills are put to the test, and she realizes she's falling head over cowboy boots for her sexy bosses. Soon she discovers all three men are interested in her too! But they keep treating her like one of the guys!


Living in Cleveland With the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
by Marc Sercomb
BARGAIN
Literary Fiction
Rating: 4.0


It's the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn's cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. "I want to tell my side of the story," Uncle Joe tells him. "They're giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away."

Calvin's life is falling apart at the seams. He's a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he's headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he's a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he's just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too...


Hidden Thrones
by Russ Scalzo
BARGAIN
Christian Fiction/Fantasy
Rating: 4.6


For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12

A powerful series with a 4.7 rating and over 600 reviews!
 As current as this morning's newspaper, this series will challenge the reader's belief system, introduce him or her to the invisible world of spiritual warfare, and ensure that the reader will never look at the world in quite the same light ever again.

The spirit world is astir as the coming of the Lord draws near. Author and prayer warrior Jack Bennett can see evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons. Jack's special ability makes him the FBI’s newest hire, serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. Together with Special Agent Frank Lederman, they investigate the improbable and the unexplainable.


Undercover Epicenter Nurse
by Olszewski Marie Erin
BARGAIN
Biography & Memoir
Rating: 4.6


What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it?

Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines--and this time, she found, the situation was even worse...


Fuel Your Faith
by Jean Wise
FREEBIE
Religious & Inspirational
Rating: 4.5


Does your faith need rekindled? Do you spend your days disconnected from God and yearn for a closer relationship with him? Too often Christians live a lukewarm existence mired in a rut of unfulfilled restlessness. How do we live with a vibrant faith?

Fuel Your Faith - a Practical Guide to Igniting a Healthy Spirituality is a guidebook to fan the flames of your faith. This book is not a deep theological discourse about spiritual disciplines, but a quick resource for ideas to stir the embers of belief God gives each of us.


Runaway Alex
by Natalie Keller Reinert
FREEBIE
Young Adult
Rating: 4.7


Horse racing isn’t for nice girls like Alex. She's been told again and again: stick to horse shows, stick to riding lessons, stick to the relative safety of the suburban equestrian center where she has been a working student since grade school.

But Alex can't shake the conviction that the Thoroughbred life is her destiny. When her unstable trainer cuts her off from horses, Alex finally has to obey her instinct to run away from the safe version of life. She heads to Ocala, where horse racing is king, with no plan and no leads on jobs...

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