Orangeberry FreeMe #288
Thursday, 11 April 2013
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Betty’s Child - Ronald R. Dempsey
Genre - Memoir, Family Relationship
Rating - PG13
5 (24 reviews)
Free until 10 April 2013
In the tradition of Frank McCourt and "Angela's Ashes," Donald Dempsey chronicles one boy's ordeals with poverty, religion, and physical and mental abuse as he attempts to come of age with only his street smarts and sense of humor to guide him.
Twelve-year-old Donny is a real-life cross between Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield. Donny is doing his best to navigate the world he shares with his cruel and neglectful mother, his mother's abusive boyfriends, churchgoers who want to save Donny's soul, and a best friend who wants Donny to go to work for a dangerous local thug doing petty theft and dealing drugs.
Donny does everything he can to take care of himself and his younger brothers, but with each new development, the present becomes more fraught with peril--and the future more uncertain.
Unintended Consequences - Marti Green
Genre - Legal Thriller
Rating - PG13
4.5 (139 reviews)
Free until 11 April 2013
How much would a father sacrifice for his child?
Nineteen years ago, Indiana police found the body of a young girl, burned beyond recognition and buried in the woods. They arrested George Calhoun for murdering his daughter, and his wife testified against him at the trial. The jury convicted him. Now his appeals have been exhausted, and his execution is just a few weeks away.
George said he didn’t do it. That the body isn’t his little Angelina. But that’s all he’s ever said – no other defense, no other explanation.
Dani Trumball, an attorney for the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to believe him. After all, there was no forensic evidence that the body in the woods was George’s daughter. But if the girl isn’t Angelina, then who is it? And what happened to the Calhouns’ missing daughter?
For nineteen years, George Calhoun has stayed silent. But that’s about to change, and the story he tells Dani—if it’s true—changes everything.
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Halestorm - Becky Akers
Genre - Historical Fiction
Rating - PG
4.5 (47 reviews)
Free until 13 April 2013
Handsome, brilliant, memorable: he was the wrong man for the wrong assignment. No wonder his first mission behind enemy lines was also his last. But from his failure came the hope and determination that birthed a new nation.
Meet Nathan Hale, the most endearing hero of the American Revolution. Halestorm presents the true—well, mostly true; OK, partially true—story of the legendary 21-year-old spy who hanged after regretting he had only one life to give for his country.
Early death ought to be enough disaster for any guy, but Nathan also has a spirited sweetheart, a penchant for puns—and a deadly rival for his lady’s hand.
Filled with love and conflict, murder and betrayal, Halestorm stirs our deepest emotions as it transports readers to the exotic world of Revolutionary America and asks, “What would you choose: love, honor, or freedom?”
Good Girls - Joycey Ann Crutchley
Genre - Chick Lit
Rating - R
5.0 (11 reviews)
Free until 15 April 2013
GOOD GIRLS is a feel good, fast-paced, thought provoking novel about four heroines. Four best friends who epitomize the newly evolved 21st Century Woman. The woman who dares to be different, the woman who dares to rebel.
Straight-laced CAT steps out of character when she secretly flies all the way to Sydney to 'boil her soul mate's rabbits'!
JULES embraces singledom and commitment phobia, so when she falls in love with an actor 10 years her junior, in the space of twenty four hours, a spanner is well and truly thrown into her perfect life.
KIZZY also meets the man of her dreams and much to her mother's chagrin they plan to spend all summer together. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to everyone, the man is actually her father.
There's only so much sexist behaviour a woman can take. So bitter and twisted, EM leaves Japan and her boyfriend behind and embarks upon a journey that will not only avenge the male race, but hopefully put her back on her correct and spiritual path.
Rise of the Fallen - Ivory Autumn
Genre - YA, Fantasy
Rating - PG13
3.9 (14 reviews)
Free until 13 April 2013
Some people's fates are written in the stars. Andrew's was written before the stars
were.
All ANDREW GRIGGS had anticipated on the day of his sixteenth birthday, was to grow one year older, and perhaps wiser. However, with it came death, fire, slavery, and whole new identity. Gifted with a compass, a cryptic letter, and a map, questions about Andrew's past, his future and his true lineage haunt him. Forced to work in the dark mines of Nookpot, alone, with only his friends, TALIC and FREDDIE, for company, Andrew risks his life to save dozens of slaves like himself, only to be thrown into a confusing web of trouble, and incriminated as a killer. A plant killer---someone who could cause famine, destroy entire crops of grain and turn giant trees into sticks of dry wood. Sentenced to death, Andrew discovers life, new purpose, and a chance to prove his worth. Laden with a huge task, Andrew sets out, with the help of his friends, to keep The Fallen from heralding in the darkest age of history known to mankind.
ANDREW AND THE QUEST OF ORION'S BELT, Rise of the Fallen, is an epic tale that will appeal to fantasy fans who love the adventure of delving into magical worlds filled with great opposition, populated with brave souls and clever characters.
Butterflies Are Free - Nicole Renee Wyatt
Genre - Women’s Fiction
Rating - R
4.7 (23 reviews)
Free until 13 April 2013
What if you had the perfect life? Imagine being married to a rich, handsome, powerful attorney while living in a beautiful expansive home. Your friends envied you – even wished they were you. To all who knew you, you were living the ultimate American dream. This was Mary Franklin's life. Meanwhile, hidden behind her smiles was a mountain of sorrows. Secretly, the most horrendous crime that can happen to another human was committed against her. Fear and dread consumed her – taunted her. Her dream life was nothing more than a stage with dark curtains hiding her nightmarish reality.
When Mary discovers that her husband, Roger, was behind the most unspeakable act in her life, it becomes undeniably evident that she can’t stay with him or feel safe even in the same city! In desperation, she assumes a different identity and flees Tucson to a small southern town in Georgia, all while towing her most prized possession in a horse trailer. In Georgia, she finds a simpler existence, yet she faces more challenges than she could have ever imagined. One such challenge begins when she meets country music star, Alan Brooks.
They are instantly attracted to each other, but they’re each tethered to their hidden secrets. Everything that Mary left behind seems to haunt her, and Alan struggles to face the stark reality that he’s been living a lie. Knowing that their pasts are rapidly threatening to overtake them, can they fully embrace who they have become? Can Mary allow herself to love and be loved again? Will she ever be free of the fear of Roger?
The Apology - Essa Alroc
Genre - Romantic Suspense
Rating - PG13
4.0 (8 reviews)
Free until 12 April 2013
It was just supposed to be an opportunity to make amends. Jesse simply wanted to apologize to the girl he'd tortured in high school, clear his conscience and move on. Instead, he is confronted by a girl who is nothing like he remembers and who doesn't remember him at all.
Gabrielle has bigger things to worry about than what happened in high school. After learning about her husband's criminal connections, she is on a desperate race to get out of the country before he can find her and silence her for good. So when some random guy shows up on her doorstep, begging for forgiveness, she is quick to play along and hitch a ride out of town.
Unfortunately for both of them, Gabrielle's escape and Jesse's apology are complicated by an animal loving criminal mastermind, a diamond smuggling operation and her husband's relentless pursuit. But neither of them are prepared for the biggest complication of all. Love.
A Clean Kill in Tokyo - Barry Eisler
Genre - Thriller
Rating - R
4.2 (166 reviews)
Free until 16 April 2013
Name: John Rain.
Vocation: Assassin.
Specialty: Natural Causes.
Base of operations: Tokyo.
Availability: Worldwide.
Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why...
Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter of his latest kill.
There Comes A Season - John Kachuba
Genre - Historical Fiction
Rating - PG
4.7 (3 reviews)
Free until 12 April 2013
There are consequences of war that remain hidden, buried deep within the minds and hearts of not only the soldiers, but those who wait for them, those who may be many miles removed from the front lines. In two volumes, There Comes a Season tells the stories of some of these people, such as the jaded newspaper reporter who is shaken to his core by the massacre of Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890; or the personal photographer of Adolf Hitler, who fears for his Jewish wife in 1930’s Germany; or the young man who faces being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Here, also, is the story of the WWII infantryman who returns to Anzio, Italy only a few years after the war to find out why he didn’t die there; the African-American Vietnam vet who returns to an America that has no use for him; the New York deli-store owner who feels threatened in the wake of “9-11,” and the man who is haunted by the memory of his brother, a U.S. Marine who committed suicide in Iraq. Yet, There Comes a Season remains hopeful that, through stories such as these, we may know that war is never the answer.
Bad To The Bone - Vivi Anna
Genre - Erotic Romance
Rating - R
3.7 (63 reviews)
Free until 15 April 2013
After a terrible accident in the ambulance, EMT Olivia Jordan didn't expect to wake up chained to a bed. The tall dark sexy man holding her prisoner is not what she expected either. But Garrick Blackthorn's not your every day kidnapper, no, there's something extraordinary about him. Something that attracts Olivia. Something dark and secret.
Something that might end Olivia's life...
Evaleen - From Rags to Riches - Sandra Rector
Genre - Historical Fiction
Rating - PG
4.6 (5 reviews)
Free until 13 April 2013
In Evaleen - From Rags to Riches, Eva Doyle, a shy teenager, decides to make and sell beauty creams from an old recipe book, given to her by her grandmother who was known for having a beautiful complexion even into old age. Eva's goal is to support her desperately poor parents. Unfortunately nobody seems to want something as useless as beauty creams. Worse, she is definitely not a beauty herself, there's her father's untimely death, her mother's mental decline and her hopeless crush on a rich young man who barely knows she is alive. But then she decides to become somebody else, somebody named Evaleen.
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