Bargain and Free eBooks for Wednesday (4/23)

The Business Idea Factory is an effective and easy-to-use system for creating successful business ideas. It is based on 10 years of research into idea-generation techniques used by the world’s best scientists, artists, CEOs, entrepreneurs and innovators. The book is entertaining to read, has plenty of stories and offers bits of wisdom necessary to increase the quantity and quality of ideas that you create multiple times. Once you begin applying strategies described in this book, you will create successful business ideas regularly and make your life more adventurous. You will realize that there are few things that can bring as much joy and success in business as the moment when an excellent idea comes to your head.

American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa to get away and resuscitate their ailing marriage. When robbed of their money and passports, they seek help from the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam on the very day Al Qaeda chooses to bomb it. In an eyeblink they are taken hostage and whisked across the border deep into the Congo, one of the last truly wild places left on earth. Battling terrorists, deadly wildlife, and cannibalistic rebels, Scarlett and Sal must find a way to survive in a violent, primeval world. And the only person who may be able to save them is the assassin sent to kill them.

After being blamed for her baby sister’s death, Dianne Rucker swore she’d never come back to Dentonville, Texas. But her Aunt Gloria, who took her in after the accident, is getting remarried. Going back home means Dianne must face her own demons as well as a drug-addicted mother who is now falling even further into schizophrenia.

But Dianne isn’t the only one struggling. Her two cousins must come to terms with their own issues after having grown up in this dysfunctional family of women. And Aunt Gloria may be hiding the biggest skeletons of all.

The women must look to their faith in God as they attempt to turn their lives around like Saul on the Biblical road to Damascus.

Sabre Orin Brown’s clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them–before it’s too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions–or if it’s something else at work. A conspiracy years in the making, secrets hidden for decades, and the twisted work of a mysterious society have all come together in the ultimate test of the strength of Sabre’s conviction.

For thirty-two-year-old Sarah Chizeck, marriage was not an option, but an expectation. She was raised to believe that a woman’s main focus is to get married and start a family, and she put everything else on hold to accomplish this goal.

So when she finally marries her boyfriend of five years, Sarah and her family are ecstatic. But underneath Sarah’s smiles, something else is lurking.

Sarah’s career and personal interests were not all she put on hold to pursue marriage. She also put her feelings on the backburner and buried her emotions. But when she reluctantly goes to Hawai’i for her honeymoon, these things come to the surface, and she is both pleased and alarmed by the sensory experiences she encounters.

Terrified by her attraction to a handsome young concierge, Sarah is forced to confront her new feelings, as well as what she previously ignored, and she ultimately comes to shocking revelations about her upbringing, marriage, and future.

Imperfect Paradise tells the compelling story of Sarah’s internal awakening and delivers a powerful message about hope, happiness, and finding your place in the world.

Jane wanders the small town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, asking everyone and finding no answers about the night her car disappeared, twenty years ago.

Find out what happened the night Jane’s car full of teenagers went through the ice in Lake Winnebago… the night Ziggy came home from Yale.

Nowhere to hide…

What should have been a relaxing vacation in Paris turns into another unwinnable situation for expert criminology consultant Leopold Blake. Caught in the cross hairs of a ruthless assassin and on the run from the police for a murder he didn’t commit, Blake and his team must fight to clear his name before it’s too late.

As enemies close in from all sides, Blake is about to learn who he can trust – and who is determined to destroy him – as The City of Light becomes a new hunting ground.

Her big brother’s best friend…

Amanda Jones is less than impressed when Scott Gregory arrives at the airport to collect her on his Harley Davison. Her big brother’s former best friend, Scott used to drive her mad when they were kids, and she’s never forgotten about the kiss they shared when she was sixteen.

Scott isn’t shy with women, but he knows that Amanda is firmly out of bounds. She is the little sister of his childhood best friend, and he knows her brother wouldn’t be impressed if he went there with the one girl he’s been warned away from since they were teenagers. But Amanda isn’t anything like the girl she used to be, and Scott has never run away from a challenge…

An old enemy resurfaces…

An employee kidnapped…

A new weapon created…

Cal Stokes’s good friend, Neil Patel, has disappeared. Following the trail to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Stokes and his men must find the culprit and rescue their colleague before it’s too late. The only problem is that the enemy lies in wait, hoping for a final showdown.

With an outside group of aggressors making a play for dominance, the former Marine must lead his team through the hazardous snow-filled mountains to eliminate their adversary.

How many bodies will be left when the snow melts?

The Mary Celeste Papers is a mystery novel with laugh-out-load consequences, which bubble up and explode out of the grit and grime of a dead-end railway depot in England. Every character you meet in the book is fully three-dimensional, with the possible exception of Billy who may even have a foot in the sixth dimension.

Follow the fates of a group of ultra ordinary railwaymen as one of them stumbles across a mysterious ship’s log and thereafter falls victim to an even stranger crime. Scooped up by a tide of events way beyond their control, an unlikely band of heroes become the focus of a full-blown, worldwide, media whirlwind and all the while Scotland Yard, the CIA and even the Mafia appear to be lurking on every corner. As the unanswered questions begin piling up and defeating the finest detectives at every turn, can it really be that the coolest head belongs to cook book fixated, Lynryd Skynyrd obsessed landlady, Francine?

A shadow steals across Eyri. One by one, the Lightgifters are snuffed out. When darkness strikes her family, Tabitha receives a dangerous legacy. Soon the Riddler walks beside her, but is he on her side?

The more she searches for answers, the further into treachery she is led. The more she tries to flee, the harder she is hunted. And the more she sings the ancient Lifesong, the more the world begins to change.

Can she grasp her gift before the darkness captures the last of the light?

Sara Alexi weaves an entrancing story of the burgeoning relationship that develops between two people from very different backgrounds and cultures, an English woman living in Greece and the Pakistani illegal immigrant who becomes her gardener and house boy. Each comes with their own problems, their own past baggage, and she explores these with sympathy and understanding as well as the many nuances of the differences in cultures as they become more and more dependent on each other.

The battle to live in sync with the environment may not be with the planet… A tale of love and other human achievements.

Set in an imminently possible future, cultures collide when two teenagers of a Rural Tribe are forced to deal with the arrival of Kali, a City Raider. Can she help their home avoid inevitable disaster, or is she bringing it upon them all?

Many, many years ago we had already mastered how to obtain the sustenance we needed from this Earth. We have continued to evolve our lives, technology and environment since, but to what benefit?

ADAPTATION is a social philosophy adventure dedicated to a new generation of readers, where again these questions are increasingly being asked of ourselves, and of each other. It is the adventure and common goals of survival that we all share together, despite our differences. Told from the perspective of teenagers enforced on a journey through our world’s contradictions, the tale is an allegory for the conflict, angst, failures and achievements experienced by all ages.

Haunted by the accident that killed their parents when they were children, Zane and Jack Baran grow apart and become vastly different young men. Jack is a successful corporate man while Zane has secretly dropped out of medical school in San Francisco. Zane is having issues with alcohol and the woman he loves. When his dying grandfather summons him to asks a favor, he gives him an unfinished manuscript written by Zane’s deceased father. Zane is lured to Nepal where a cascade of harrowing events railroads him on a collision course with his brother. In the stark landscape above Kathmandu, Zane tangles with a mysterious seductress who tests his love, an evil nemesis who saves his life, and an old man who changes the way he sees everything.

Zane discovers he has the power to escape the dark feelings that have haunted him for his entire life. He struggles forward on a path that frees him from the talons of our mind-numbing corporate culture. Zane’s Brain is a gripping story of anger, love, and transcendence. It is the story of a species on the edge.