Today's Featured Books

Free online: Nature's Wonders - Meet the Author. Nature’s Wonders is a mix of evocative writing, beautiful photographs, and facts that serve as an inspiring guide to connecting with nature. Author Jane V. Adams has been featured in BBC Countryfile Magazine and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Tuesday, June 6, 2 PM CDT. 

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” ~Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

A lovely coffee table book incorporating poetry and illustration. Written especially for seniors, this book is about all of the caring, hard work, and thoughts still felt by an aging population. "I hope this book will be a keepsake on a bookshelf to read when someone needs some inspiration or comfort. It will bring back some memories of how life flourished years ago." -Arlene Kinnavy. From $22.42 SHOP NOW / 

Free online this weekend: Meet the Indie Author Project Award Winners from Logos & Mythos: Florida Indie Author Project Award Winner J.S. Farmer, Nevada Winner J.A. Curtis, Missouri Winner Annie Lisenby, Illinois Winner Alina Rubin, and Louisiana Winner Joy E. Rancatore. One attendee will win a Book Swag Prize Pack. Sunday, June 4, 7 PM CDT.

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"I love the storyline and the writing...there is nonstop action!" -Modupe Hendricks, Vine Voice. The starship Freedom was once a mighty warship. Today she's a tourist attraction. The space wars ended long ago. The Freedom is now a flying museum. The tourists love it. The Changing of the Guard, the starfighter aerobatics, the starboard cannon salute...it's the best show in the galaxy. Until the aliens attack... Battlestar Galactica meets Starship Troopers in this sci-fi adventure from Daniel Arenson, the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise. 4.1 stars, 2200+ ratings. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

A powerful story of one ordinary family thrown into darkness when an EMP shuts off the power to the entire U.S. mainland and throws the country back into the 1800s in seconds. A family must quickly amass a group of friends and neighbors for an 800-mile trek from north Texas to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Character-driven, the story twists and turns and doesn’t let up until the end. A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series Volume 1. 4.4 stars, 960 ratings. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW / 

Every relationship is like a shelter. But not every relationship is meant to be a home. Allie has always thought that when you find "the one," everything in life will fall into place. That love will always find a way in the end. But soon, she realizes that loving someone isn't enough to make a relationship succeed. And, sometimes, loving someone too much can ignite a relationship as quickly as it could extinguish one. Her self-discovery journey began with her first crush in high school and continues today with the man she calls her home. From 6.99 SHOP NOW / 

What do you remember about 2020? "A gripping account of real people before, during, and after Covid. Watching this unfold on the 24-hour news, it was easy to forget the often brutal impact it had on ordinary people." -Amazon review. Winner of a grant from the Raleigh United Arts Foundation for the production of an audiobook, the audio version is voiced by over fifteen actors and brings back the immediacy of 2020 even more clearly. Ebook: FREE. Audiobook: $13.08. SHOP NOW / 

Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parent’s hidden corpse. Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime. But hunting a murderer in the tight-knit small town could leave her exposed as the culprit starts sizing up more victims… FREE - SHOP NOW / 

What if someone you love is a serial killer? While investigating a series of murders, DCI Eric Shaw, leading a forensic team at Scotland Yard, notices a possible relation to a cold case involving a person he cares for. But he ignores that the details of similar crimes are described in an anonymous blog. “The opening of the novel immediately throws the reader into the heart of the story, and the expectation grows in the following pages.” -Thriller Nord. From $0.99 SHOP NOW / 

Free online event: Sand, Sun and Stories. Make summer reading fun with tips from this one-hour workshop. Families will learn simple, effective strategies they can do at home to make reading together fun and engaging for the whole family. Thursday, June 1, 11 AM CDT.

"Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr. Seuss

In the dark world of the relentless .40 Caliber Killer, FBI super-profiler Agent Meredeth Connelly fights to stop him before he massacres another family. As she meticulously collects evidence and the body count rises, it becomes clear that this ruthless murderer knows her intimately. After two decades spent hunting serial killers, Agent Connelly thought she had seen it all. But delving deeper into the maze of clues dead-ends produces strange occurrences within her, awakening fragmented dreams and unsettling hallucinations. Book 1 in the Meredeth Connelly Mind Hunt Thrillers series. 4.3 stars, 200+ ratings. From $0.99 SHOP NOW / 

He hunts women. She hunts him. FBI Agent Meredeth Connelly tracks The Savannah Strangler by day. At night, she mimics his prey. She has little to go on. He's crafty and smart - he dumps bodies in the Savannah River after stoning his victims to death. But he won't escape. She won't let him. She will do anything to make Savannah safe again. She will do anything to stop him. The dead pile up. Pressure, a hellish headache, desperate secrets. Heat, stiletto heels, fear. She won't let anything stop her. A Meredeth Connelly Mind Hunt Thriller. 4.2 stars, 1100+ ratings. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

"An absolute blockbuster of a tale." -Readers' Favorite. They hacked her brother’s brain. Then sent him into the simulation. Sky must now get to him first…the future of reality is at stake. Replika is a highly original and fast-paced sci-fi thriller with a convincing and thought-provoking vision of how simulated reality will change our lives. "A complex thriller about power and hope whilst never missing a beat." -K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite. 4.1 stars, 37 ratings. From $0.99 SHOP NOW / 

A knight in over his head. A scribe caught dabbling with magic. Each is doomed unless they can join forces across worlds. Kyrus Hinterdale had never remembered his dreams. But when magic leaks from those dreams into his waking hours, the floodgates of his memories open. He remembers bits and pieces of a life in another world, and as those pieces fit together, he realizes that the world is as real as his own. When his experimentation in magic runs afoul of superstitious townsfolk, he finds himself facing being burned at the stake. Book 1 in the series. 4.3 stars, 350+ ratings. From $0.99 SHOP NOW /