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Science fiction | Fiction Cerulean Rising - Part I: Beginnings by Justin Sewall $0.99 YOU SAVE 75% BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list ON SALE FROM 01/20/2016 - 01/27/2016 AVERAGE RATING 4.4 based on 21 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 100 There are those who are natural born leaders. Others are forged in the fiery crucible of battle. Some are just built that way. Emerson Avery was already exceptional, when suddenly, events would conspire to thrust the mantle of leadership into his young hands. Stationed at a secret military facility on the edge of human controlled space, the war was simply a fact of life. But in one fateful moment, Emerson’s world would be torn apart, changing his destiny and the future of the entire galaxy forever.       Young adult | Fiction Mindspeak by Heather Sunseri Free BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list None AVERAGE RATING 4.3 based on 508 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 392 She was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it. Seventeen-year-old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates — she’s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people’s thoughts. But after new student Jack DeWeese heals her broken arm with an anything-but-simple touch, he forces Lexi to face a new reality — her abilities reach much further than speaking to the minds of others. After Lexi’s father goes missing and she receives threatening emails, she can’t decide whether to fall into Jack’s arms or run and hide. As Lexi seeks answers to what she and Jack are, she discovers a truth more unsettling than anything her science books can teach. And letting Jack into her life of secrets is not only a threat to her very existence, but it just might break her heart wide open.       Mysteries | Fiction A Season to Kill by Michael Mucci $0.99 YOU SAVE 80% BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list ON SALE FROM 01/18/2016 - 01/25/2016 AVERAGE RATING 4.9 based on 27 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 310 A small town. A cold blooded murder. A string of disappearances. One man stands between the hunter and the hunted. Chris DeAngelo is a good cop with a bad reputation. Appointed as the new sheriff of the small hunting town of Macon, Pennsylvania, DeAngelo uncovers a mysterious series of cold cases, and in the process, unwittingly unravels layers of treachery and deceit that infect his town. As DeAngelo gets closer to discovering the deadly secret so many have tried to keep hidden, he finds a target on his own back -- right in the middle of hunting season -- A Season to Kill.       Thrillers | Fiction The Billion Dollar Heist by Ben Lovejoy $0.99 YOU SAVE 80% BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list ON SALE FROM 01/22/2016 - 01/28/2016 AVERAGE RATING 4.5 based on 15 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 506 A billion dollars in crisp, newly-printed bills – the sum transferred daily from the Bureau of Engraving and Print in the run-up to the launch of a new bill design. The BEP vault is the most secure in the world. No human being ever enters it: not even the President of the USA could gain access. Only pre-programmed robot vehicles pass through the 22-ton, 10-feet thick blast-proof door. The array of technology needed to unlock that door is utterly unparalleled. The transfer operation involves the most heavily- armed convoy ever seen, from M2 Bradleys on the ground to Apache attack helicopters and F-16 fighter jets overhead. Twelve squads of Marines provide close-order protection. Sullivan and her entirely unarmed team plan to steal the cash. All of it. Pritchard and Daniels are the Secret Service agents tasked with the job of stopping them. Only one team can succeed.       Biography / memoir | Nonfiction A Rose for Sergei by K. Kidd $2.99 Regular Low Price BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list None AVERAGE RATING 4.8 based on 22 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 175 A search for independence and a career with the federal government led me on a journey that far surpassed my desire for mystery and intrigue. I was twenty-one when I met Sergei Kourdakov at my office in Washington D.C. The handsome former KGB agent and Soviet naval intelligence officer left behind a life he could no longer face when he defected from the Soviet Union. The moment we met, the immediate attraction surprised us both. ''You could be spy,'' he whispered after our first date. A Rose for Sergei is the heartfelt true story of our time together.       Religious fiction | Fiction The Lutheran Ladies Circle: Plucking One String by Kris Knorr Free BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list None AVERAGE RATING 4.1 based on 295 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 222 If you're looking for a sweet book about dealing with change — this isn't it. The Lutheran Ladies are sassy, and have strong-spined opinions. They deal with change, sometimes poorly, but with humor and heartache, they're journeying life's bumpy roads. In Book One, Vera Henley has pulled the strings of the Lutheran Ladies Circle for years; now everything is unraveling. A new, young pastor is altering traditions, and the independent Circle women are cheering the changes — all except for Vera. When her high-maintenance, crazy aunt introduces even more rebellion and chaos, Vera must choose which thread of change to pluck — and which to let go.       Romance-historical | Fiction The Drifter's Mail-Order Bride by Cassie Hayes Free BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list ON SALE FROM 01/19/2016 - 01/22/2016 AVERAGE RATING 4.2 based on 197 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 232 ''Scrawny Bonnie'' grew up in the shadow of her two beautiful sisters, and when they become mail-order brides, she’s once again the last to be picked. Bart Dalton has no intention of becoming a husband, but when Bonnie proposes a business arrangement, he can’t refuse. Will he go back to his drifter ways, or is the elusive thing he’s been searching for all his life sleeping in the next room?       Fantasy-urban | Fiction Faerie Blood by Angela Korra'ti $2.99 Regular Low Price BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list None AVERAGE RATING 4.5 based on 25 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 279 Kendis Thompson of Seattle thinks she’s as normal as the next computer geek, and up till now, she’s been right. But her world is about to turn on its ear, for she is the daughter of a Seelie Court mage and her mortal husband—and her faerie blood is awakening. Suddenly the city she’s known all her life is transforming before her eyes. Trolls haunt the bike trails. Fairies and goblins run loose in the streets. An old woman who is not what she seems and a young wanderer running from his past stand ready to defend Seattle—and Kendis—from magical assault. She will need those allies, for the power rising within her is calling her fey kin to the Emerald City to find her. And kill her.       Business | Nonfiction Global Asset Allocation by Mebane Faber $2.99 Regular Low Price BUY NOW:   Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Kobo   Apple   Smashwords   Google Play   Add to your Goodreads list None AVERAGE RATING 4.6 based on 235 reviews AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NUMBER OF PAGES 117 With all of our focus on assets -- and how much and when to allocate them -- are we missing the bigger picture? Our book begins by reviewing the historical performance record of popular assets like stocks, bonds, and cash. We look at the impact inflation has on our money. We then examine how diversification through combining assets works to mitigate the extreme drawdowns of risky asset classes. But we go beyond a limited stock/bond portfolio to consider a more global allocation that also takes into account real assets. We track 13 assets and their returns since 1973, with particular attention to a number of well-known portfolios, like Ray Dalio’s All Weather portfolio, the Endowment portfolio, Warren Buffett’s suggestion, and others.