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Before the Blight, becoming an adult was something teenagers looked forward to. But now, turning eighteen means certain death.

Unless you prove yourself worthy of the Cure.

On her seventeenth birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure—a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their eighteenth birthday.
Ashen has a chance to rise up from her former life of squalor and be granted a place in society, if the Panel—the mysterious group of powerful men and women in charge of the Arc—deems her year a success. She’s assigned to work for twelve months as a servant for a wealthy family whose son is the most alluring young man she’s ever met. At first, Ashen is grateful for the opportunity to earn her place in a society she’s always dreamed of inhabiting.

But as time passes and she begins to learn the truth about the people she admires so much and the home she left behind, she realizes she has a choice: Be part of the disease…Or be part of the Cure.

A gripping young adult dystopian romance with a strong female protagonist, for readers of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and the Selection.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08Z46Y2HF
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 4, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.2 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 326 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Book 1 of 5 ‏ : ‎ The Cure Chronicles
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 – 17 years
Best Sellers Rank: #24,601 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #4 in Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction & Dystopian Romance eBooks #17 in Teen & Young Adult Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic eBooks #75 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian eBooks
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Anti-Russian rebels receive a shipment of chemical weapons.
The Ukrainian military capture them.
The man at the center of the operation says one name during his interrogation: Jason Drake.

The only problem: Jason Drake is either missing or dead.

What unfolds is an action thriller unlike any other.
Full of non-stop, twist and turns, every page is exciting and dripping with suspense.

The Assassin’s Vengeance is the perfect novel for those who like roller coasters.

It continues the series many have called the best thing since Jason Bourne.

The Assassin’s Vengeance is the third entry in what is one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It has been created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp. The extensive series will see one new novel every four months.

Auston King is an avid reader, who has consumed every Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum book he could get his hands on and he wants to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08MB6DYHN
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 809 KB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Book 3 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Jason Drake Spy Thriller
Best Sellers Rank: #23,556 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #59 in Financial Thrillers (Books) #137 in Assassination Thrillers (Kindle Store) #142 in Terrorism Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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The President is shot.
The assassin gets away.
Jason Drake is the lone suspect.

Now he has forty-eight hours to prove his innocence.

To uncover the truth about the Inauguration Day Attack, Jason must rely on old friends.
He also must come face-to-face with his violent past.

But the closer Drake gets to the truth, the more perilous the situation seems to be.

Someone is pulling the strings, playing the world like’s it some game.

The Assassin’s Game is the second entry in what is one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It has been created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp. The extensive series will see one new novel every four months.

Auston King is an avid reader, who has consumed every Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Lee Child, Vince Flynn and Robert Ludlum book he could get his hands on and he wants to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B095WZB876
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8513048473
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
Book 2 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Jason Drake Spy Thriller
Best Sellers Rank: #84,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #49 in Financial Thrillers (Books) #571 in Military Thrillers (Books) #1,359 in Political Thrillers (Books)
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Jason Drake isn’t just ex-CIA.
He’s a wanted man.
And now he’s the world’s last hope to stop a world war.

A weapon equivalent to a small nuclear bomb is missing.
Not one intelligence agency in the world has a lead.
Everyone who gets close to the truth ends up dead.

With no one to trust at the Agency and knowing that time is of the essence, CIA Station Chief Kate Price turns to the only man she knows she can trust: disgraced covert operative and former assassin Jason Drake.

The problem? Drake is a wanted man.

What follows is a globe-trotting thriller ripped straight from the headlines. It’s a story of intrigue, non-stop action, friends turned enemies, and betrayal.

The Assassin’s Betrayal kicks off one of the most full-throttle CIA assassin series to hit bookstores in decades. It was created from the ground up to fill the space between Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp.

This series of espionage thrillers is ready to shake you to the core and keep you reading late into the night. Auston’s primary goal is to share stories that entertain, provoke, and leave you wanting more.

Are you ready to read the best thriller novel of 2023?

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KGQV8KH
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 30, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.4 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Book 1 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Jason Drake Spy Thriller
Best Sellers Rank: #7,002 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #13 in Financial Thrillers (Books) #22 in Assassination Thrillers (Kindle Store) #54 in Espionage Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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Beth Duke, Author of #1 Best Seller It All Comes Back to You, delivers an emotional and inspiring novel about family, from the roots that ground us to the branches that allow us to take flight.
“Beth Duke is a poet disguised as a Southern novelist. Tapestry made me laugh, made me think and in the end, made me cry. Tapestry delivers on ALL counts.”
-Dan Brown, Author of Reunion

Twenty-one-year-old Skye Willis lives in Eufaula, Alabama, a tourist mecca of stately homes and world-class bass fishing. Her childhood friends are either stuck at dead ends or have moved on to accomplish Big Things.

Skye’s grandmother, Verna, insists on being called “Sparrow” because she suspects her ancestors were Muscogee Creek. She dresses in faux deerskin and experiments with ancient Native American recipes, offering a myth or legend to anyone who will listen.

Skye has no idea what to do with her life. She’s smart as hell, but she has no faith or knowledge there’s something out there she was “born to do.” Nor does she know much of anything about her father, who died in Afghanistan when she was a toddler. He and his family are a mystery her mother won’t discuss.

But when Sparrow sets out to confirm her Creek ancestry through genetic testing, Skye joins in.
The results hit like a DNA bomb, launching them both on a path filled with surprises and life-changing events.
Skye learns a harder truth than she ever expected.

Alternating chapters between Skye’s Alabama life and an intertwining tale of greed, deceit, and control in Texas, this story offers proof that all life is a woven tapestry of past, present, and future.

In Beth Duke’s uplifting and soul-singing voice, TAPESTRY is Southern Fiction at its best; you will cry, you will laugh out loud, and you will wish you were a member of the beautiful, matriarchal family Duke has created for her readers. This book is a must-read for fans of Fannie Flagg, Rebecca Wells and Anne Rivers Siddons.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084HLLNM2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Art of Dixie
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 2, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #141,283 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #21 in Cultural & Regional Humor eBooks #69 in Parenting & Family Humor #237 in Native American Literature (Kindle Store)
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OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED BY KIRKUS REVIEWS: “Our Verdict: GET IT!”
Winner of the prestigious 2025 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award General Fiction Medal
★★★★★ Five Stars from Publishers Weekly’s Readers’ Favorite and The US Review of Books

She has a perfect life in 2101. She has a destiny in 1969.

Baezy loves her world. Born on the Centennial of Woodstock in 2069, she lives in a future where peace is real, AI has solved humanity’s hardest problems, and the 1960s are back in style. She was raised on the rhythms of Sly and the Family Stone, a “Centennial Baby” obsessed with the era that started it all.

So when she gets the impossible chance to travel back 130 years, she takes it—not to escape, but to explore. She wants to see the mud and magic of Woodstock for herself. She wants to meet her great-great-great-grandmother, the pioneer who helped build the utopia Baezy calls home.

She went looking for history. She found Jack.

Jack Warren is a high school math teacher with a charming smile, a stubborn streak, and a draft card in his pocket. He is flesh-and-blood reality in a world Baezy only knows from history books. And unlike her safe, curated future, Jack’s world is on the brink of fire. The shadow of Vietnam is looming, and his time is running out.

As the festival music fades and the timeline blurs, Baezy finds herself torn between two paradises: The safe, beautiful future she belongs to, and the doomed, messy past where her heart now lives.

She faces an impossible choice: Return to the perfect life she loves and let history take its course? Or shatter the laws of time to save the man who was never meant to be hers?

130 years apart. One impossible love.

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Outlander.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DK7QLHFZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Art of Dixie
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 14, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 22.2 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #416,483 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #536 in Metaphysical Science Fiction eBooks #945 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Kindle Store) #1,013 in Time Travel Fiction
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“It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can’t. It becomes attached to you, a part of you.”
– Dan Brown, Author of Reunion

Alabama, 1947. War’s over, cherry print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing. Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world. Everybody loves her.

In 2012, she’s still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.

Veronica “Ronni” Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest, only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year.

As she’s drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It’s an irresistible journey filled with revelations, some of them about men Ronni knew as octogenarians at Fairfield Springs.Struggling, insecure, flailing at the keyboard, Ronni juggles her patients, a new boyfriend, and a Samsonite factory of emotional baggage as she tries to craft a manuscript before her deadline.

But then the secrets start to emerge, some of them in person. And they don’t stop. Everything changes.

Alternating chapters between Homecoming Queen Violet in 1947 and can’t-quite-find-her-crown Ronni in the present, IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU is Southern Fiction at its hilarious, warm, sad, outrageous, uplifting, and stunning best. In the tradition of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and Olive Kitteridge, Duke delivers an unforgettable elderly character to treasure and a young heroine to steal your heart.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GVN38FX
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Art of Dixie
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5.3 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Book 1 of 2 ‏ : ‎ It All Comes Back to You
Best Sellers Rank: #205,650 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #27 in Cultural & Regional Humor eBooks #54 in Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Humor #304 in Southern Fiction
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Magnolia Square in South London was a friendly and vibrant place to live, not at least for Kate Voigt and her father. Carl Voigt had been a WWI prisoner of war who had married a cockney girl and never gone back. Now widowed, he and Kate were part of the London life of the square with all its rumbustious and colorful characters. Then came the war.Suddenly it seemed the Voigts were outcasts because if their German blood. When Carl was interned, Kate’s only support was her best friend Carrie, and Toby, the R.A.F. pilot whom she loved. Finally when Toby was killed, and even Carrie turned against her, she found herself pregnant and totally alone.Late one Christmas Eve, during the Blitz, she was approached by a wounded sailor asking for lodgings. Leon Emmerson, like Kate, was also a lonely misfit because of his parentage. It was to be the beginning of a new friendship, of startling and dramatic events in Kate’s life. And as the war progressed, as the Londoners fought to help each other while their city was bombed and burned, so the rifts in the community were healed, and Kate and those she loved became, once more, part of Magnolia Square.

The Best Simple Recipes offers more than 200 full-flavored easy-to-prepare recipes that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less in an easy-to-read paperback format.

Just because time is short, it doesn’t mean you have to settle for a can of soup or a sandwich for dinner, or making one of the many boring and flavorless fast recipes (which often aren’t even as fast as they promise). Our test cooks have created more than 200 recipes that keep the ingredients and cooking time to a minimum and offer tons of flavor and plenty of variety.

By combining steps, minimizing pans, and employing a little test kitchen trickery, our test cooks have made naturally fast recipes even faster, and they’ve made recipes that traditionally take hours ready for the table in half an hour. And while they used a minimum of ingredients, one thing they didn’t minimize was flavor.

The instant New York Times bestseller from acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger—a warm, nostalgic, intimately reported account of golf’s greatest generation, and “maybe the best golf book I’ve ever read” (Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal).

With “exceptional insight into some of America’s greatest players over the last half-century” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Men in Green is to golf what Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer was to baseball: a big-hearted account of the sport’s greats, from the household names to the private legends, those behind-the-curtain giants who never made the headlines.

Michael Bamberger, who has covered the game for twenty years at Sports Illustrated, shows us the big names as we’ve never seen them before: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Curtis Strange, Fred Couples—and the late Ken Venturi. But he also chronicles the legendary figures known only to insiders, who nevertheless have left an indelible mark on the sport. There’s a club pro, a teaching pro, an old black Southern caddie. There’s a tournament director in his seventies, a TV director in his eighties, and a USGA executive in his nineties. All these figures, from the marquee names to the unknowns, have changed the game. What they all share is a game that courses through their collective veins like a drug.

Was golf better back in the day? Men in Green weaves a history of the modern game that is personal, touching, inviting, and new. This meditation on aging and a celebration of the game is “a nostalgic visit and reminiscence with those who fashioned golf history…and should be cherished” (Golf Digest).