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A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other

Author: Ralph Webster

Genre: Memoir / Biography

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $9.99
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Book Description:

Lutheran by baptism – Jewish by blood – My father’s compelling Holocaust journey

Near the edge of the Baltic Sea, in a small East Prussian town, lives a happy, prosperous, and quite ordinary family. They are patriotic Germans, faithful Lutherans with three daughters and a son: chatty Trude, fearless Lotte, careful Ilse, and precocious Gerhard. The decade-older sisters treat their young brother as their little prince. He is the apple of his father’s eye. Then suddenly, one day in 1933, their world falls apart. They have been identified as Jews, a heritage never denied, but a religion never embraced.

Follow this chilling true story as they struggle to survive a Nazi regime intent on their extermination. Even those that manage to flee will find themselves without a home or country to call their own.

From Edinburgh to Shanghai, they will travel the world in search of a place where they belong. Author and historical chronicler Ralph Webster deftly connects their story and survival to the struggles modern refugees face every day. A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other is not only a fascinating piece of history. It is a passionate call to protect and help the world’s refugees.

Click here to pick up your copy of A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

Award winning author Ralph Webster received worldwide acclaim for his first book, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other, which tells the story of his father’s flight from the Holocaust. Voted by readers as a Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards Nominee for Best Memoir/Autobiography, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other, his second book, One More Moon, and now his third book, The Other Mrs. Samson, are proven book club selections for thought-provoking and engaging discussions. Whether in person or online, Ralph welcomes and values his exchanges with readers and makes every effort to participate in conversations about his books. Now retired, he lives with his wife, Ginger, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the U.S.

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Monday’s Featured Kindle Book

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The Light in His Soul

Authors: Rebecca Shaper & Gerald Everett Jones

Genre: Memoirs & Biographies

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $15.99
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Book Description:

Call Richmond went missing. Twenty years later he showed up on a family member’s doorstep. He was homeless, broken, and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For the next fourteen years, his sister Rebecca took on the struggle to restore him as they faced the dark traumas and painful memories of their past. The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother’s Schizophrenia is her intimate memoir of helping Call as she learns that his extraordinary gifts are helping heal her and her family. Both Call and Rebecca bring light to the dark shadows of their past.The book recaps the story of the award-winning documentary film A Sister’s Call, supplemented by Rebecca’s insights about the soul contract she has with her brother.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Light in His Soul in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

Rebecca Schaper is an author, philanthropist, social activist, and filmmaker. With Kyle Tekiela, she co-produced and directed the award-winning documentary “A Sister’s Call.” Her memoir “The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother’s Schizophrenia” recounts the events in the film. Both works chronicle her mission to bring her brother Call Richmond Jr. back from the depths of homelessness and schizophrenia, all while seeking ways to heal herself and her family from the past. The book offers additional intimate personal reflections on recovering from trauma and developing spiritual insight. She makes her home with her husband Jim in Georgia.

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Wednesday’s Featured Kindle Book

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Two Dads and Three Girls

Author: Nick (Yu) He

Genre: Memoir

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $5.99
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Book Description:

One hundred percent made in China, Nick (Yu) grew up in an environment where being gay was not an option. The expectation from his parents and pressure from the society molded him into the “best student” and “best employee.” He made his family proud. But deep inside, he knew that something was missing, and he was different.

In this memoir, Nick (Yu) takes readers on his journey from growing up as a confused “straight” boy from China to today having a lovely husband and three girls through surrogacy. He invites readers to the experiences that he would rather have forgotten – from being sexually harassed by his desk-mate in middle school, through depression and a one-night stand in college, to losing a baby during pregnancy.

With ultimate honesty and absolute vulnerability, Nick shares the happiness and sadness on the journey to come out to himself, his parents and friends; learn about gay culture in America, cherish his Chinese heritage, find his first love, and create a family through surrogacy and the help of many amazing people.

Two Dads and Three Girls is a celebration of courage and love. It challenges each of us to dig deep into our soul to find what matters most to us, gain courage through the stories, and live our lives in truth.

Click here to pick up your copy of Two Dads and Three GIrls in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

100% made in China, Nick was shipped to Durham, NC for his MBA at Duke in 2007. He has over 10 years experience in SAP, McKinsey, and Microsoft. In 2016, when their first daughter just turned one and their surrogate was pregnant with twins, Nick quit his job at Microsoft and devoted himself to real estate while preparing to raise his family with three girls. He is running two companies today. A real estate sales business, that is in the top 1% of agents in Washington state by sales volume. A property management business that manages over $200M assets.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Tuesday

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Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Riptide

Author: Michaela Thompson

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

A RIP-ROARING, PULSE-POUNDING FLORIDA PUZZLER…

As intricate as a fisherman’s net, Riptide fairly writhes with sinister delights—family secrets, family feuds, lost family fortunes, betrayals, puzzles, sunken treasure… and murder, of course. With a bit of illicit romance and treachery thrown in for seasoning. This rife atmosphere swirls around New york artist Isabel Anders, who’s summoned home to tiny St. Elmo, Florida to deal with an emergency: the aunt who raised her has been brutally—and mysteriously—injured.

Isabel arrives to find the family mansion in ruins, her aunt living in a trailer, and, dangerous as a cottonmouth, the lover she left at sixteen just where he used to be. Waiting for her. Except now he’s got a grudge against her, a secret of his own, and some unsavory companions. Just when Isabel’s aunt seems to be getting better (but before she’s able to talk again) she dies just as mysteriously as she was injured. Suspecting murder, Isabel quickly ties her aunt’s death to another.

But to find the killer, she has to hack her way through a small-town jungle of intrigue and several generations of interrelated secrets, producing hours of pulse-pounding delight for the confirmed puzzle fan.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Riptide in the Amazon Kindle store.

Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace

Authors: Jojo Godinez & Amanda Warner

Genre: Biography

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $7.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Jojo Godinez grew up in L.A. County surrounded by gangs. The night he joined one, he swore to represent his gang until death. Fights, shootings, and arrests followed, but his love of violence waned through the years as more and more of his friends died around him.

Amid the bloodshed, he met a homegirl, Dalia. At just 18 years old, they married in Vegas, but their honeymoon was interrupted when a crime Jojo committed brought him into court and eventually into a 45-years-to-life sentence. On the day he was found guilty, Dalia gave birth to their son.

Suicidal, Jojo lost himself in the evils of the jail, trying to forget his former life and even his family. It was during a stint in solitary confinement that he came to terms with his need for change. He asked God for forgiveness and resolved to never fight again.

Jojo’s nonviolent rebellion against the prison culture of hatred and racism was consistently met with death threats but he was willing to risk everything for his newfound faith. In prison after prison, Jojo spread peace, while his wife, Dalia, and their son faithfully waited for the day he finally came home.

The powerful true story of Jojo Godinez shows the incredible transformation of a man once written off as nothing more than a criminal.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace in the Amazon Kindle store.

Rise to Power

Author: Uvi Poznansky

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Here is the story of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. Rooted in ancient lore, his is a surprisingly modern memoir.

Notorious for his contradictions, David is seen by others as a gifted court entertainer, a successful captain in Saul’s army, a cunning fugitive, a traitor leading a gang of felons, and a ruthless raider of neighboring towns who leaves no witnesses behind. But how does he see himself, during this first phase of his life?

With his hands stained with blood, can he find an inner balance between conflicting drives: his ambition for the crown, his determination to survive the conflict with Saul, and his longing for purity, for a touch of the divine, as expressed so lyrically in his psalms?

If you like ancient historical fiction about court intrigue, this king David novel has a modern twist like no book you have read before.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Rise to Power in the Amazon Kindle store.

Once Upon a Rebel Fairytale Boxed Set

Authors: Various

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Cinderella has a dark secret. The Little Mermaid loses more than her voice. And Little Red Riding Hood isn’t so little anymore.

Join our heroes and heroines as they travel through the underworld to Mars, rescue damsels in distress, and battle deadly foes in ONCE UPON A REBEL FAIRYTALE, a limited edition collection of beloved stories from today’s bestselling authors.

Inside these pages, you’ll find 25 action-packed fairytale retellings that rebel against tradition, from dark and gritty paranormal romances to sexy and thrilling supernatural fantasies.

The princesses, queens, kings, and villains of your childhood return in these adrenaline-spiking spins on your favorite bedtime tales.

But reader beware: these fairytales are not for the faint of heart.

Featuring stories from:

New York Times bestselling author, Jamie Campbell
Tate James writing with C.M. Stunich
G. Bailey
USA Today bestselling author Ivy Quinn writing with Megan Hussey
USA Today bestselling Carysa Locke writing with Lucy Smoke-Author
USA Today bestselling author, Isra Sravenheart
RITA Award Winner Sharon Ashwood
Liz Gavin
Mary E. Twomey
Russell Nohelty
Adrienne Woods
Erin West writing with Nicole Kelley
Helen Scott
Stephanie Morris
Madeline Freeman
Sadie Carter
India Kells
Cailin Briste
Elle Middaugh
Tigris Eden writing with Misha Elliott
Caroline A. Gill
Siera London
Grace White
Rebekah R. Ganiere
Chrishaun Keller-Hanna

Click here or type in http://geni.us/kzkc8zk into your web browser to pick up your copy of Once Upon a Rebel Fairytale Boxed Set in the Amazon Kindle store.

Western Seduction

Author: Brenda Jernigan

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

In Brenda Jernigan’s spellbinding novel, a surprise bequest offers three women a fresh start in America, new hope, and the romantic adventure of a lifetime… This is Shannon’s story.

Shannon McKinley flees Scotland to America hoping for a new life. She has answered an ad to be a nanny at Star Ranch in the Texas Territory. It doesn’t matter that she has never been a nanny. If she can handle men…she can handle children. As Shannon tames Luke Griffin’s two wild children, Luke proves a little more difficult as he still mourns his dead wife. Shannon will never accept being second best. As she begins to melt the ice from Luke’s heart, can he really let the past go and take a chance on love?

When a feisty Scot steps out of the stage in Cottonwood, Texas, Luke Griffin can do nothing but stare. He advertised for old and ugly, but this woman doesn’t fit that description at all. And she is much too small to survive in Texas. He will send her back on the next stage. But for now, Luke will take her to the ranch and ignore the heat that runs though his veins every time she is near him.

In this wild and rugged land, will Shannon’s dark secret endanger the family she has come to love?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/western into your web browser to pick up your copy of Western Seduction in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Tell All

Author: Libby Howard

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

The town party planner has a secret, and it’ll be the death of her.
Good thing amateur sleuth, Kay Carrera is on the case!

Life at sixty isn’t quite what Kay Carrera expected. She’s working as a skip-tracer for a PI who is desperate to land his own reality TV show. She has a new roommate who arrived with more than the usual amount of baggage. And her attempts at knitting are less than stellar – way less than stellar. Worse, the cataract surgery that restored her sight has also delivered an unexpected and disturbing side-effect.

Kay sees ghosts. And when the dead turn to her for help, she just can’t say no.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/thetellall into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Tell All in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Wednesday

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Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Wednesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Highland Path

Author: JoHannah Reardon

Genre: Religious Fiction

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Julia has always longed to make her life count. She can hardly believe that she has ended up as an administrative assistant for an insurance agency. But when Jake walks into her insurance office, her life takes a drastic turn.

Is she crazy to join Jake in a remote village in Venezuela? And if she marries him, can she handle the kind of life she would have there? Will her journey into the jungle lead her into the life she always wanted, or will it be a tragic mistake?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Highland Path in the Amazon Kindle store.

Long Lost

Author: S.S. Lange

Genre: Suspense

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Charlotte Hayes has waited her entire life to meet her long-lost half-sister. Though Jen Hayes seems to be everything Charlotte hoped for in a sister, the truth of Jen’s past and her menacing fiancé shatter Charlotte’s once sought out dream.

Dragged into the dangerous world of drugs and prostitution by her sister, Charlotte is manipulated into becoming an unknowing pawn for an FBI investigation. With more than just her life on the line, Charlotte fights back, even after the ropes are cut.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Long Lost in the Amazon Kindle store.

House of Royals

Author: Keary Taylor

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

When the sun goes down, proving loyalty means far more than blood.

Every town has its history and skeletons, but Silent Bend, Mississippi’s are darker than most. Ruled from the shadows by the House—the immortal Born and their aging, enslaved Bitten—everyone knows not to go out after dark and that the police will never look into crimes involving blood.

Alivia Ryan didn’t know the man who claims to be her father through a will even existed until she inherits the Conrath plantation. Instead of the sleepy house she expects, she finds a mansion and a staff who look at her with fear in their eyes.

Ian Ward tried to kill Alivia the first time they met, and then insisted he train her to defend herself against the House, who he claims will try to manipulate and take her in for their own political reasons. And the growing attraction between them will threaten their lives—Ian is a sworn enemy of the House.

In Silent Bend, people disappear, the threat of a demented King and the legend of his resurrecting Queen hang over everyone’s heads, and proving loyalty means far more than blood. You’d better watch who you trust in this town…

Click here to pick up your free copy of House of Royals in the Amazon Kindle store.

A Killing At The Track

Author: Janet Dawson

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

THE LURE OF THE TRACK, A RIDE ON THE WILD SIDE, AND DANGER AT EVERY TURN…

Intrepid Jeri Howard, Janet Dawson’s savvy female private eye, steps into the Winner’s Circle in Dawson’s NINTH action-packed mystery, set almost entirely at a track seething with intrigue. Author Dawson takes us to the fascinating and forbidden backside, where you practically need a hotwalker for the humans, as owners fret, jockeys throw fits, and vets sweat to hold overworked horses together with duct tape.

Overworked is a hazard of the job, but “injured” can result in lost fortunes or death—and not just death for horses, as Jeri soon finds out. You don’t have to be a detective to know that if it’s a track, there’s always a bad actor out there, looking to make a killing the easy way. And if they have to kill to do it, our intrepid PI’s not going to rest until the desperation stakes.

So here’s how it goes—one dead jockey, then two dead jockeys, three exotic poisons, and several possible payoffs—Jeri’s positively in a lather! But you can wager she’s going to show her stuff in the stretch and take home the purse. (She’s reliable that way.)

Dawson’s complex plot is a pleasure, but the rich backside lore makes this one a sure thing. When you can practically feel the breeze as the horses sweep by, you know you can’t lose!

Click here or type in http://geni.us/akilling into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Killing At The Track in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Shift

Author: Maryanne Connor

Genre: Memoirs & Biographies

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

A memoir of overcoming pain, fear and doubt, and allowing faith to lead the way to a miraculous life.

You can only resist God’s call for so long. Ask Moses, ask Paul… ask MaryAnne Connor.

As the owner of a successful real estate marketing firm, MaryAnne Connor, appeared to have it all. A happy marriage, the respect of her peers and a thriving career. But denial was her stronghold, and her enemy. She suffered from chronic pain, a dependency on pain medication and her marriage was failing.

And then there were God’s whispers. They were getting louder. He wanted her to shift to a life of helping others. But how could He use her when she was so broken?

After years of resistance, she surrendered to His call, left everything behind and stepped onto the darkest streets of her city. There she found a kinship with other broken-hearted souls and the burning desire to help the poor and hungry. And so the genesis of NightShift Street Ministries began, along with an incredible series of miracles to conquer every obstacle put in her path.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/theshift into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Shift in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Cowboy and the Heiress

Author: Jacqueline Diamond

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

She’s posing as a stranger’s wife—at a marriage weekend!

Fun-loving heiress Maddy Armand gets more adventure than she bargained for. First, a misguided magic spark makes her fall for a bounty hunter in a Stetson. Next, he accidentally kidaps her.

Oh, and would she please pretend to be his wife at a marriage weekend, so he can catch a killer?

Just when it seems Maddy and Jon will pull it off and that their feelings for each other might be real, matters go wildly astray.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/cowboyheiress into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Cowboy and the Heiress in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Saturday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

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Irreverent Forever

Author: David Feldman

Genre: Memories & Biographies

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Drop in on the world’s zaniest people … newspapermen and women from the hick town of Douglas, Arizona, to the sensuous beaches of Honolulu and even Europe’s high-brow (and low-brow) colorful locales.

Dave’s tales include old shoes that saved a life, a colleague who caught fire on the operating table, a roadrunner named Rodney, and much more. Plus, there are talks with two Pulitzer Prize winners and tales of fabulous cars like a Model-T Ford named Heathcliff.

Trace the good old (happy) newspaper days to today’s (unhappy) newsrooms. There’s a love of those old days, which were filled with rapscallions, inebriates, and a few decent souls. The author’s family proves equally fascinating.

This often-hilarious memoir offers up a love of authors (two Pulitzer winners), a love of cars (a French Gangster car named Jean-Pierre) and a love of those crazy, weird, off-beat newspaper folks from yesterday and today.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Irreverent Forever in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Wednesday’s Featured (and FREE!) Kindle Book

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Courage in a White Coat

Author: Mary Schwaner

Genre: Memoirs & Biographies

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $5.49
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Prison camp, starvation, execution…all threaten her little family.
A true wartime drama based on the experience of Dorothy Joy Kinney Chambers M.D. and her family.

This sweeping biographical novel brings to life the dramatic experience of a valiant woman who, armed only with the white coat of her profession, found the courage to live her life on the razor’s edge and survived it. It’s a captivating story of service and sacrifice, of love and the searing emotions that gripped this missionary doctor throughout her imperiled course.

Dorothy Kinney had found herself in remote India in 1928, a medical missionary charged with building up a hospital for the women and children of Assam. The fledgling doctor began her practice in Gauhati, where her surgeries were performed by the light of a kerosene lamp in an open-air clinic with no electricity, no running water, and no sewer system. She left it ten years later a fully functioning modern hospital, with running water, electricity, and the complete devotion of the people of Assam.

It was there she fell in love.

Pregnant with their second child, Dorothy, her missionary husband Fred Chambers, and their daughter Carol Joy, set out on a voyage that would take them to their new missionary post in Iloilo, on the Philippine island of Panay. One day later War was declared in Europe.

She could not know that by the time her unborn baby turned eighteen months old her little family would be swept into a Japanese internment camp. With four thousand other prisoners of war she struggled to feed her little family in the prison at Santo Tomas, a place where hundreds died and most starved. Had General MacArthur’s bold rescue not liberated them, the entire camp would have been lost.

Many remember Dorothy Chambers in her white coat of courage, doctoring the children of the camp, never knowing that her little family would come within just twenty-four hours of execution.

This is her story.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Courage in a White Coat in the Amazon Kindle store.

 

About the Author:

Granddaughter of a concert violinist, Mary Potter Schwaner began her musical career in elementary school with the family string quartet, but gave up the violin to study opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She devoted much time in her early career to performing, directing and promoting musical endeavors throughout Alabama, California and Nebraska. She was Founder/Artistic Director of the Young People’s Pocket Opera in Alabama. A move to California resulted in four years as Founder/Artistic Director of the Lake Forest Showboaters, a community music theatre company.

In Mary’s “other life” she was a computer tech support and graphic arts specialist and worked as Web Developer for the Nebraska Legislature, HDR Architecture and Engineering, for The National Arbor Day Foundation, and as Director of Web and Media Arts for St. Mark’s United Methodist Church.

In her retirement she is a published author, writing novels of historical suspense under the name Bailey Bristol. Courage in a White Coat is her first biographical novel.

She lives in Nebraska with her husband of nearly five decades and joins him in doting on her grandchildren who, along with their parents–Ryan and Melissa and their spouses–are her dearest treasure.

Mary’s enduring motto remains: “May you have the vision and the voice to find new songs to sing.”

You can visit Mary’s Amazon author page if you click here.

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New Releases on Kindle

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Included in this post are relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

It’s Not Over

Author: Grahame Claire

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Daniel

I have two lives.
One with the woman who owns me. The other tied to a past I can’t escape.
For eight years, I kept them separate, knowing one day their collision was inevitable.
That day has come.
She’ll have to accept it.
It’s over.

Vivian

He has two lives.
A beautiful one with me. Another shrouded in ugly secrets.
It didn’t matter, until now.
I don’t know why he’s destroyed us,
But fighting for him will be the battle of my life.
It’s not over.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/itsnotover into your web browser to pick up your copy of It’s Not Over in the Amazon Kindle store.

Vampire Princess

Author: Rosemary A. Johns

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Angel World is no heaven…

Held prisoner, Violet never anticipated her long-lost mother would be the poisonous Queen of Angel World. Or that she’d be forced to rule as a corrupted princess or risk a perilous escape.

When a harem boy angel draws Violet into the dark court’s twisted sports, she’s thrown into deadly trials that even her monstrous powers may not be able to overcome. If she refuses, both the snarky angel and geek vampire she loves will be enslaved to a powerful cult.

No matter what she chooses, she’ll be facing the dangers of Angel World on the eve of war…

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Impact: A Memoir of PTSD

Author: Jane Ann McLachlan

Genre: Memoirs & Biographies

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:

For readers of The Glass Castle, Half Alive, and Wild, an inspiring, intimate memoir about family, loss and finding one’s way, that shimmers with truth and heart on every page.

On a sunny spring morning, Jane Ann McLachlan was driving her daughter Caroline, newly home from university, on a routine errand. Their affectionate banter was suddenly broken when a jeep barreled into their car. The impact trapped McLachlan in the car with multiple injuries and resulted in severe PTSD.

McLachlan takes us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey through PTSD. She is forced to surrender her illusion of control and re-evaluate what it is that gives a life value. In telling her story, she captures the impact of PTSD on its victims and their families, and shines a light on the unacknowledged truth that PTSD is not something that only happens to war veterans or victims of abuse, but something that can happen to anyone.

Impact is the story of how a life can be shattered in the blink of an eye, and of how to begin again.

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The Sudden World

Author: Brian Olsen

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:

The world before is coming back…

Yesterday, the world was magic. Yesterday, the world was at war. Yesterday, the world’s greatest sorcerers rewrote reality in a desperate effort to stop the Common King, the most powerful mage the world had ever known, who rained death and destruction upon the land and threatened all magical creatures with extinction.

Today, Chris Armstrong is an ace student, a lacrosse hero, and a drama club superstar. He’s the golden boy of Charlesville Academy and life is perfect. That’s about to change.

Chris has a nightmare of something monstrous, something evil, something waiting. He wakes, shaken, to a dangerous new ability he can’t control. Chris is a logomancer, able to manipulate awesome magic with the power of one single word.

He’ll have to learn to control this word fast, because he’s not the only logomancer in town. His friends and teachers awake to powers of their own, but only Chris can protect them from the return of evil magic from the world before. The Common King is clawing his way back into reality, seeking to rule our world as cruelly as he did the last…and hiding behind the face of someone Chris loves.

By the night of Chris’s seventeenth birthday, he’ll learn that his perfect life is a terrible lie. And the Common King is closer than he thinks…

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Berry The Dead

Author: Nancy McGovern

Genre: Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

Busy planning for her 55th birthday celebration, Nora is thankful for the wonderful friends & family with whom she has been blessed. She’s also grateful for how long it has been since finding herself knee-deep in a murder mystery. For years, her days have been filled with delicious baking & fantastic times with loved ones. Life is good!

Then her housekeeper is found dead, poisoned by berries…

To make things worse, the new sheriff seems determined to brush her death off and move on. But Nora knows this wasn’t an accident. And, if she wants to see the killer brought to justice, she also knows it’s time for her to spring into action.

So, with the help of her friends, Tina & Simone, Nora jumps headlong back into the murder game. And this time she’s older, wiser and in more danger than ever!

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Peyote Spirits

Author: Ron Schwab

Genre: Western

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
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Book Description:

A thrilling ride is set in motion when a sergeant’s wife is murdered at Fort Sill and Broken Wing, a young Comanche brave, is found at the murder scene, dazed and chanting. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, fighting the U.S. government over his tribe’s refusal to adopt the white man’s laws and forsake polygamy and the use of peyote, requests his lawyers, Jael and Josh Rivers, to represent the young brave. As the Rivers duo begins investigating the murder, it quickly becomes clear there is no open and shut case against Broken Wing.

In Peyote Spirits, a novella set amongst the backdrop of the popular Law Wranglers series, the bloody conflict between the U.S. Army and the Comanche has ceased . . . but learning to live together spawns a whole new set of battles.

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Saturday’s Featured Kindle Book

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One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini!

Author: Ralph Webster

Genre: Memoir / Biography

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: $1.99

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Book Description:

Goodreads Choice Nominee Ralph Webster tells the true story of his grandmother’s desperate journey from her life at the Pensione Alexandra in Naples to America – after Mussolini and the Fascists join with Hitler – and as countries across the world close their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing the spread of Nazi evil.

In 1934, at age fifty-one, Elsa’s comfortable life in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy changes remarkably when she and her husband, Paul, purchase the Pensione Alexandria overlooking the Mediterranean in Naples. Though German Jews, they are embraced by their Italian neighbors, and for the next several years, the pensione flourishes and becomes their perch to observe the world’s events. Travelers from across Europe and America come to the door, each with their own story, mystery, or surprise. Nearly all have been touched in some way by the ominous changes occurring to the north, in Nazi-controlled Germany.

When war breaks out in Europe and Italy sides with Germany, Elsa and her family’s fears are quickly realized. The growing sense that the atrocities in German-occupied lands will soon occur in Italy forces them to give up their pensione and attempt a desperate journey to safety in America. The way seems impossible. Day by day, war makes travel increasingly difficult as countries begin closing their doors to refugees.

Told in Elsa’s words and written by her grandson, One More Moon is the extraordinary story of a woman and her family’s often harrowing experiences in the years before and during World War II.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/onemoremoon into your web browser to pick up your copy of One More Moon: Goodbye Mussolini! in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Award winning author Ralph Webster received worldwide acclaim for his first book, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other, which tells the story of his father’s flight from the Holocaust. Voted by readers as a Goodreads 2016 Choice Awards Nominee for Best Memoir/Autobiography, A Smile in One Eye: A Tear in the Other and his second book, One More Moon, are proven book club selections for thought-provoking and engaging discussions. Whether in person or online, Ralph welcomes and values his exchanges with readers and makes every effort to participate in conversations about his books. Now retired, he lives with his wife, Ginger, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Friday

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Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

A Mersey Mariner

Author: Brian L. Porter

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

The aging cargo liner Alexandra Rose steams into the Mersey Estuary, enveloped in thick fog that delays her entry into the port of Liverpool. When one of the ship’s passengers is found dead in his cabin, a chain of events is set in motion that leads to one of Detective Inspector Andy Ross’s most baffling and complicated cases to date.

The first death is soon followed by another, and Ross discovers that his case has its roots in the depths of the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil. A billionaire entrepreneur, passengers who may not be exactly who or what they say they are, a team of medical researchers and a team of vicious mercenaries combine to confound and complicate what begins as a simple death aboard a nondescript and insignificant ship.

Ross and his team from the Merseyside Police Specialist Murder Investigation team need all their skills in order to solve the case of the ‘Mersey Mariner.’

Click here to pick up your free copy of A Mersey Mariner in the Amazon Kindle store.

Detour from Normal

Author: Ken Dickson

Genre: Biography / Memoir

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $6.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

This harrowing memoir tells the true story of a beloved family man and respected engineer who undergoes a life-saving surgery, reacts to medication and improper treatment, and lands in a high-security psychiatric ward. There, psychiatrists pronounce him persistently and acutely disabled and a danger to himself and others. What will happen to him and will he ever regain his former life?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Detour from Normal in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Chain of Lies

Author: Debra Burroughs

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Sassy small-town private eye Emily Parker teams up with the hot new police detective in town and a few of her closest friends, to solve a murder mystery and fight to save girls from a sex slave ring operating nearby. (Think “Stephanie Plum” meets “Nancy Drew”)

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Wilder: The Guardian Series The Complete Collection

Author: G.K. DeRosa

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $7.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Two mysterious, gorgeous brothers. One typical high school girl. A key that unlocks a family secret…

All that Celeste Wilder ever wanted was to find someone who would sweep her off her feet like she had seen in countless romantic movies. When she meets the gorgeous and mysterious Constantin brothers her senior year of high school, she gets much more than what she had bargained for. As they introduce her to an exciting supernatural world that she never imagined existed, she makes a startling discovery about her own family legacy and is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/wilderguardian into your web browser to pick up your copy of Wilder: The Guardian Series The Complete Collection in the Amazon Kindle store.

Rebecca

Author: Adam J. Nicolai

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
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Book Description:

Sarah loves her baby.

Yes, the constant crying is hard. Maybe even the worst part. The baby screams day and night. Sarah doesn’t sleep anymore.

And sure, Sarah used to be popular. She used to be pretty and smart. Now her friends don’t call, and her body is unrecognizable. Her own mother has kicked her out of the house, and she lives in an oppressive, tiny apartment, alone with the screaming.

Sometimes she dreams of an angel who tells her the baby was just a mistake, and that mistakes can be fixed. “Little ones die in their sleep all the time,” he tells her. “It could happen to yours. It could look like an accident.”

Sometimes, when the baby screams, Sarah screams too.

It’s all right, though. No one hears. And if they did, they’d have nothing to worry about. Everything is fine in the apartment at the end of the hall.

Sarah loves her baby.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/rebecca into your web browser to pick up your copy of Rebecca in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Unexplainable Collection

Author: Ninie Hammon

Genre: Religious Fiction

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: $2.99

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Book Description:

This can’t POSSIBLY be happening! But it is.

In this collection of four stand-alone suspense novels—each with its own cast, a unique setting and a story unconnected to the other three—all the characters start out believing that the universe operates in a predictable manner, that there are immutable laws and a natural reason for everything. The problem with that thinking is that some things aren’t natural. They’re supernatural. There are forces at work we can’t see, with power we can’t begin to imagine and plans we don’t understand.

What that means is that smack in the middle of their ordinary lives these people will encounter the unexplainable…and it’s always the game-changer.

Black Sunshine
Will Gribbins survives a coal mine explosion that kills 27 miners, and for twenty years keeps a secret about another tragedy that occurred in the mine that day after the explosion—a secret that devastates two decades of his life. Now, he has returned home to seek forgiveness and to confess what he did, only to have the fate of another crew of innocent miners placed in his hands. To save them, he must uncover what really happened in a mile-deep hole under Black Mountain twenty years ago, a story told in statues carved by a handicapped boy—that depict the past, the present and the future.

When Butterflies Cry
Grayson Addingtom returns from combat in Vietnam to find his wife in his brother’s arms…and a mysterious, battered orphan named Maggie in his living room. When Maggie runs away with Grayson’s two-year-old daughter, Sadie, the waring brothers must team up to look for them. They find Sadie trapped in the rocks out of reach–beneath a dam about to collapse. Grayson will have to watch his little girl drown right before his eyes … unless the child called Maggie was never really there at all.

The Last Safe Place
A psychotic fan stalks author Gabriella Carmichael, determined to take her as his bride and murder her son. She escapes his first attack and runs away with her family to hide in a cabin called St. Elmo’s Fire on Mount Antero in the Colorado Rockies. If he finds them there, only one thing will stand between them and the brutal cruelty of a madman—the power of a 2,000-year-old tree.

Five Days in May
A monster twister hurls across the prairie toward a small Oklahoma town where it slams into the lives of four people who have already set up appointments with death in some form that day. One of them is a death row inmate called Princess who has looked into Pastor Mac Mcintosh’s life through the eyes of another person, and who speaks truth into the minister’s heart from an unexplainable goodness in hers. She knows the “Big Ugly” is coming to eat up the world and she tells Mac to run! But it’s too late.

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