Dies Irae One of my favorite novellas, by Christine Fonseca is currently free. A haunting story of the things we sacrifice for love.
Publisher: Harlequin
Dear Cici and Father,
I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I'm more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home.
Compromised and wedded on the same day, Lady Miranda was fast finding married life not to her taste. A decaying manor and a secretive husband were hardly the stuff of girlish dreams. Yet every time she looked at dark, brooding Marcus Radwell, Duke of Haughleigh, she felt inexplicably compelled—and determined—to make their marriage real!
Product Details
- ISBN-13: 9781592125456
- Publisher: Galaxy Press, LLC
- Publication date: 2/22/2010
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Sales rank: 2,965
- Series: Stories from the Golden Age
- File size: 743 KB
by Donna Alward
- Publisher: Harlequin
- ISBN-13: 9781459202733
- Publication date: 3/15/2012
- Pages: 192
- Series:Try Harlequin Series #3954
Overview
Alexis Grayson is good at looking after herself—she's been doing it all her life. So what if she's alone and pregnant? She'll cope! But gorgeous cowboy Connor Madsen seems determined to take care of her. And Alexis can help him—he needs a temporary wife; she needs somewhere to live until the baby's born. A short-term marriage will solve all their difficulties!
As Alexis gets to know the courageous, honorable Connor, she realizes that she might have made the biggest mistake of her life. Because all this wife-for-hire wants is a marriage for real!
The Constantine Codex [Tyndale House]
Description:
Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon—a seasoned archaeologist—uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work to validate their find, it soon becomes clear that there are powerful forces who don’t want the codex to go public. When it’s stolen en route to America, Jon and Shannon are swept into a deadly race to find the manuscript and confirm its authenticity before it’s lost forever.
by Phil Bowie
- Publisher: Medallion Press, Incorporated
- ISBN-13: 9781605425221
- Publication date: 8/1/2006
- Pages: 357
- Series: John Hardin Series
- File size: 2 MB
Overview
Sam Bass is tall and lanky, loves old western movies, wears cowboy boots and drives a beat-up Jeep Wrangler. He has a gorgeous girlfriend, Valerie, a Cherokee widow with a young son, and he’s a hot shot pilot. A hot shot pilot with a past. And when Sam makes a daring and dangerous rescue of a couple lost at sea in a storm, he gets publicity he definitely doesn’t need. The Cowboy, as he’s known in certain circles, has finally been located and a hit team is dispatched to take care of unfinished business. A bomb is planted in the beat-up Jeep. But it isn’t Sam who drives it that day. Grief stricken, Sam visits Valerie’s grandfather in the North Carolina mountains to tell him he plans to avenge Valerie in the ancient Native American way of members of a wronged family seeking justice – with no help from the law. With only the old man’s help, Sam trains his mind and body for the task ahead. And then the bloody hunt is on.
- Publisher: Medallion Press, Incorporated
- ISBN-13: 9781605427416
- Publication date: 8/1/2005
- Pages: 371
- Series: Chad Wilbank Series
- File size: 2 MB
Overview
Celeste Brookstone has the perfect life. On the surface when her daughter takes a job with the Michigan Prison System, she fears for Pilar's safety. But she’s glad she’s away from the hell on earth Marcus Brookstone has created within his own home. Pilar Brookstone is an idealist. She thinks she can change things, Make inmates’ lives a little better. And never, ever make the mistake her mother made. Chad Wilbanks is a serial killer. He is serving life. Eight young women were his victims. Is he about to take his ninth?
A Sorcerer's Treason :A Novel of Isavalta, Book One
by Sarah Zettel
- Publisher: F+W Media
- ISBN-13: 9781440543746
- Publication date: 5/1/2012
- Series: Prologue Fantasy Series
- File size: 510 KB
Overview
1899, Sand Island, Wisconsin.
Bridget Lederle resides in the lighthouse she’s tended since her father died. Here, on the rocky shore of Lake Suprior, she’s alone with the bitter ignominy of her birth, the shame of her love child’s death, and the ghost of a mother she never really knew . . .
That all changes on the wintry night she rescues a mysterious, charismatic stranger whose boat is nearly dashed upon the rocks. After she’s nursed him back to health, he tells her a fantastical tale . . . of another world, where somehow only she can save the beleaguered Empress from sorcerous plottings to usurp the throne.
His tale is wildly fanciful, yet Bridget feels somehow drawn to his world, to the empire of Isavalta. Kalami, her handsome, charming patient, transports her with him from Lake Superior to a dazzling world that seems like a dream . . .
But if Isavalta is a dream, Bridget’s new life is a nightmare. Caught in a magical crossfire between the powerful Dowager Empress, her daughter-in-law, an the sorcerers who serve their mistresses and other more subtle ends, she doesn’t know whom to trust, whom to beware . . . With the fate of an empire at stake and her heart torn by conflicting desires, she becomes a reluctant player in a deadly game of politics and magic with rules as hard to untangle as the knots in a silken tassel or the threads of a woven rug.
As she attempts to see beyond the masks of power and discover truth in a world where magical spells can take almost any form, each hour she spends in the luxury of Isavalta’s court bunds her more tightly in the seductive embrace of secrets from her own past and of unfulfilled yearnings she can’t deny. A stranger in this bedazzling place, she must find a path to salvation - for herself and for her new, otherworldly home - but that path seems rockier than the Lake Superior shore she left behind.
by Sami Lee
- Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
- ISBN-13: 9781605042602
- Publication date: 12/9/2008
- Pages: 123
Overview
When the sun goes down on their erotic encounter, who will be left standing?
After an unsettled childhood, Sidney McCall has finally found a home in Graceville. This dream town comes with a dream boyfriend. Drew Buchanan is charming, romantic, completely devoted to her—and he cooks! Now if only the whole commitment thing didn’t give her night sweats…
Drew, a professional chef, wants nothing more than to give Sidney everything she’s ever dreamed of, both in and out of bed. Even if it means serving up her most secret wish complete with a whipped-cream topping: a tryst with two men. His best friend Brody Nash is the missing ingredient, and the only man he trusts with the woman he loves.
What starts out as a little harmless sexual play quickly boils over into something none of them expected. An emotional minefield that could forever change the course of their lives.
These are all first time freebies, I believe. :-)
The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price
by Lynn O'Shaughnessy
- ISBN-13: 9780132944694
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 5/7/2012
This bestseller has been completely updated to provide you with the answers that you need to find wonderful colleges and universities at more affordable prices. The second edition of The College Solution, which contains approximately 90% new material, is aimed at helping parents and teenagers become empowered consumers as they navigate through the college process. Billions of dollars are available to pay for college, but not everybody gets their share. It's not always the families with the brightest students or the parents who are struggling financially who receive the most money. The College Solution shares the secrets of how you can capture some of this money for your own family. The book provides advice on such topics as financial aid, merit scholarships, athletic scholarships, admission hooks, the important differences between colleges and universities, college rankings, the best student loans and the latest online tools to evaluate the generosity of schools. O’Shaughnessy presents an easy-to-use, proven road map for getting past the ratings, and finding the right schools at the right price. No other book offers this much practical guidance on choosing and paying for college now – and no other book will save you as much money!
Danny Gospel
by David Athey
- ISBN-13: 9781441205001
- Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
- Publication date: 4/1/2008
Sing a Song of Hope and Love with Danny Gospel
As a boy he performed concerts singing old-time hymns with his family and got so famous he's still known around Iowa as Danny Gospel. But since then, things haven't worked out quite the way he planned. And now Danny prays for just one thing: a normal, happy life.
What he gets instead is a kiss.
He wakes one morning to a perfectly lovely woman dressed in white who leans down, kisses him on the lips...and then disappears. The next moment, Danny finds himself launched into a quest to find this woman he's sure is his true love. He is an everyday hero on anything but an everyday journey--dreaming impossible dreams and, no matter how much he must suffer, pursuing romance and heavenly glory.
Funny, poignant, and revelatory, this elegiac and luminous debut by David Athey introduces a character you won't soon forget. A man who seeks God's leading at every crossroads and believes that sometimes paradise is as close as an Iowa cornfield
Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
by Ross Parsley
- ISBN-13: 9781434705068
- Publisher: Cook, David C.
- Publication date: 7/1/2012
When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social organization that does good things for the community? Pastor Ross Parsley believes that neither of those pictures is God’s desire. Instead, God wants His church to function as a family—a group of real people who love each other and care for one another’s needs, no matter how messy. Our culture is dying for the kind of community that only the church can provide—if we are living as God intended: as a family, protecting one another, extending grace, and loving unconditionally. We are not called to be consumers who ask what the church can offer us. We are called to love deeply, fight fairly, and bring hope to a generation of people starving to belong to something greater than themselves. Welcome to the family. You belong here.
Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World
by Jon Queijo
- ISBN-13: 9780131372405
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 3/11/2010
- Series: FT Press Science Series
10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible
• The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more
• What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today
• A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor
• For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...
Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In Breakthrough!, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind 10 of history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the world–and, quite likely, saved your life.
The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business
by Colin Cook, Yoram (Jerry) R. Wind
- ISBN-13: 9780132716086
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 2/13/2006
50,000 copies sold, now in paperback... If you can think impossible thoughts, then you can do impossible things!!
- The power of change: create new thinking for new solutions!
- Includes a new introduction demonstrating the "power of impossible thinking," plus access to exclusive book summary and authors' interview at the book's companion Web site.
The Power of Impossible Thinking is about getting better at making sense of what's going on around you so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. This bestseller reveals how mental models stand between you and the truth and how to transform them into your biggest advantage! Learn how to develop new ways of seeing, when to change to a new model, how to swap amongst a portfolio of models, how to understand complex environments and how to do "mind R and D," improving models through constant experimentation. Jerry Wind and Colin Crook review why it's so hard to change mental models and offer practical strategies for dismantling "hardened missile silos". Finally they show how to access models quickly through intuition, and assess the effectiveness of any mental model. Purchasers of this book gain access to audio summaries on a companion web site, along with a new half-hour interview with the authors.
Richard Templar's Rules: The Complete Compilation (Collection)
by Richard Templar
- ISBN-13: 9780133038903
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 3/26/2012
- Series: Richard Templar's Rules
The complete Templar Rules! 6 amazing books packed with bite-size, easy-to-follow rules for greater happiness, fulfillment, and success.
Life just isn’t as hard as it looks! Again and again, the most successful, happiest people use the same strategies. You can learn and use those strategies – and they work! In six amazing books, international best-selling author Richard Templar brings together hundreds of bite-size strategies for success… all of them stunningly smart, quick, and practical! The Rules of Money, Expanded Edition identifies 107 “golden behaviors” that create wealth and make it grow: indispensable insights for saving, spending, investing, thinking about, and even enjoying money! In The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition, Templar uncovers learnable attitudes and easy techniques for becoming more contented, more fulfilled, more enthusiastic about life. Templar’s The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition reveals “secrets” of people who seem naturally great at their jobs: those rare individuals who always say and do the right thing, get raises, get promoted – without compromising their principles, or even seeming to break a sweat. The Rules of Management, Expanded Edition covers all you need to get results as a manager: from setting realistic targets to holding effective meetings; finding the right people to inspiring loyalty. In The Rules of Love, Templar offers a complete personal code for finding love, sharing it, and making it last: 100 simple rules for finding a partner you can love for a lifetime (and keeping your partner just as happy). Finally, in The Rules of Parenting, Templar offers adaptable, flexible principles for becoming a better parent, from your child’s birth through boyfriends/girlfriends, driving lessons, college – and beyond! Six classic books packed with simple, common-sense, easy-to-follow rules that will change your life!
These have been free previously.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
by Dev Patnaik
- ISBN-13: 9780137153909
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 1/23/2009
In this essential and illuminating book, top business strategist Dev Patnaik tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other people. When people inside a company develop a shared sense of what’s going on in the world, they see new opportunities faster than their competitors. They have the courage to take a risk on something new. And they have the gut-level certitude to stick with an idea that doesn’t take off right away. People are "Wired to Care," and many of the world’s best organizations are, too.
In pursuit of this idea, Patnaik takes readers inside big companies like IBM, Target, and Intel to see widespread empathy in action. But he also goes to farmers' markets and a conference on world religions. He dives deep into the catacombs of the human brain to find the biological sources of empathy. And he spends time on both sides of the political aisle, with James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun, and John McCain, a national hero, to show how empathy can give you the acuity to cut through a morass of contradictory information.
Wired to Care is a compelling tale of the power that people have to see the world through each other’s eyes, told with passion for the possibilities that lie ahead if leaders learn to stop worrying about their own problems and start caring about the world around them. As Patnaik notes, in addition to its considerable economic benefits, increasing empathy for the people you serve can have a personal impact, as well: It just might help you to have a better day at work.
15 Expert Lessons for Retirement Planning (Collection)
by FT Press Delivers, Trent A. Hamm, Liz Weston, Bonnie Kirchner, Steve Weisman
- ISBN-13: 9780132693615
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 12/21/2010
- Series: FT Press Delivers Collections
Everything you need to know to build a financially secure retirement, starting today!
These 15 concise, expert, easy-to-use mini-guides cover every aspect of retirement financial planning! Systematically reduce your retirement risk… save more wisely… protect IRAs and 401(k)s…assess where you stand, and what Social Security will and won’t deliver… decide when to retire… budget and plan for life after retirement… and much more!
Improve Your Business Communication (Collection)
by Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz, Terry J. Fadem, Jerry Weissman
- ISBN-13: 9780132617710
- Publisher: Pearson Education
- Publication date: 11/2/2010
- Series: FT Press Delivers Collections
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts . . . now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
Get answers, get action! Supercharge your business writing, question asking, presentation delivery, and more!
Three full books of proven solutions for supercharging personal effectiveness by improving the way you communicate! Master 52 proven, bite-size, easy-to-use business writing techniques for improving everything from emails to proposals . . . discover how to ask better questions, and get better, more actionable answers . . . learn how to make presentations that win, from the world's #1 presentation expert
Talking Dogs, Aliens and Purple People Eaters (Talking Dog, Book One)
by Shelley Munro
- ISBN-13: 9781843609674
- Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
- Publication date: 1/1/2004
Janaya is a bodyguard on a mission. She must protect her Aunt Hinekiri from mercenaries and then return to Dalcon in time to take her captain's exam. A simple assignment for an officer of her caliber—except nothing goes as planned. Their spaceship crash lands on Earth. No spare parts available. Big problem.
Janaya is stuck on a tiny outpost called New Zealand. She's going to stuff up her promotion chances. And because she neglected to have her travel inoculations in her urgent hurry to protect her aunt, Janaya has bonded with an Earthman.
Police officer Luke Morgan seeks a quiet life. No press. No nosy reporters. No women. Just lots of fishing and fresh country air.
Luke doesn't count on meeting a pair of aliens and a talking dog and participating in a shootout with purple-suited aliens. Nor does he expect the surge of lust he feels for Janaya. Suddenly a routine callout turns into a big problem that Luke suspects might only be the tip of the iceberg.
Premonition (Tarot Café)
by Lynn LaFleur
- ISBN-13: 9781419914799
- Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
- Publication date: 2/8/2008
Kari Winchester considers her visions a curse. She can't understand why she has visions when she's never able to help anyone. This time, she prays Brenda Blackstone's case will be different and she'll find the teenager before it's too late.
Slade Blackstone left the Reno police force after ten years and started his own private investigation business. With his father owning the largest, most successful hotel and casino on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, he's seen his share of con artists. Kari Winchester tops them all. He's going to put a stop to her little scheme before she has the chance to get money out of his father.
He hadn't counted on falling for her with one look.
Torch Red: Color Me Torn
- Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
- ISBN-13: 9781615214709
- Age range: 13 - 17 Years
- Series: TrueColors Series #3
- File size: 350 KB
- Category: Teen Fiction
Overview
When jock-boy Justin Clark asks Zoe out, she wonders if he could finally be The One. Nate, a diehard Christian and real friend, encourages Zoe to consider exactly what it all means before she makes a life-defining decision.
But will Zoe learn before it's too late?
This third book in the teen fiction series TrueColors deals with sex, relationships, and identity.
Feeling like she is the only virgin on the planet, a high school junior wrestles with questions about love and sex before ultimately choosing to give herself to God instead of her boyfriend.
B&N is offering 6 free ebooks for their Nook for Web promotion. Ends 7-26-2012.
Sex and the City - NOOK for Web
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This quirky and bittersweet coming-of-age story, set in the 1980s, is getting rave reviews at Amazon.
Girl Unmoored [Fiction Studio]
Description:
Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike, who’s suddenly everywhere, until she’s stuck in church with him one day. Then something happens—Apron’s broken teenage heart blinks on for the first time since she’s been adrift.
Mike and his boyfriend, Chad, offer her a summer job in their flower store, and Apron’s world seems to calm. But when she uncovers Chad’s secret, stormy seas return. Apron starts to see things the adults around her fail to—like what love really means, and who is paying too much for it.
Apron has come unmoored, but now she’ll need to take the helm if she’s to get herself and those she loves to safe harbor.
