As we get closer to the holiday season what better way is there than to spend the evenings curled up with a book? Here are some great books at amazingly low prices that you should add to your reading list!
Project Zebra: Roosevelt and Stalin's Top-Secret Mission to Train 300 Soviet Airmen in America
Top-Secret Project Zebra was/is the only time in history that Soviet airmen were trained in America by Americans. Their mission: to fly a state-of-the-art amphibious warplane produced in Philadelphia. Incredibly, 185 of these huge, heavily-armed PBN-Nomad, painted with bright Red Army stars, were then ferried to the sleepy, patriotic town of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, without a single media leak.
There, 11 hand-picked Naval officers befriended and trained 300+ Soviet airmen over a period of 18 months before the planes were dispatched to the Atlantic and Pacific theaters where they destroyed numerous Nazi U-Boats and Japanese submarines without losing a single plane.
Saving Spade: WWI has ended but the battle to save a horse has just begun
Aboriginal Trooper Lewis Dunbar of the Australian 2nd Light Horse Brigade should be elated. The war said to end all wars is finally over and he is being sent home after two years of battle in the Arabian deserts…but he’s not!
“The horses are staying!” came the order.
He cannot abandon Spade, the horse he reared, drove cattle on and faced death in many battles with. He will desert the army and ride off into the Sinai desert to find a new life together.
The Salad Oil King: An American Tale of Greed Gone Mad
A uniquely American tale of Greed-Gone-Mad. Inspired by real events that took place in the 1940-60's. An unpretentious, diminutive Manhattan-born high school drop-out named Alfonso Gravenese morphs into one of the great scam artists in American financial history.
Watch “Fonso” graduate from a modest childhood scam into an executive who initially steals hundreds of millions of dollars from Federal domestic and international aid programs. And ultimately becomes a cunning entrepreneur who creates a $14 billion Wall Street scam that halts NYSE trading and destroys two venerable brokerage firms.
GOOSE HUNT
Sixty-four years have passed since the end of WWII and the rampart walls of the former Jewish Ghetto, TEREZÍN, have yet to divulge all the secrets they were built to hide.
That is until graffiti dauber Briney Ruza begins having connections with the walls she paints on. Each graffiti is posted on social media as part of her own cheeky game. One particular painting catches the interest of ageing Ghetto surviver Evzen Kravitz, who has never given up hope of one day finding the one item stolen from the parents he lost boarding a death train to Auschwitz.
Christmas Best
Santa's workshop devolves into chaos when five of his best elves leave their posts for what they think will be greater and more glamorous careers. Going from one job misadventure to another, they recognize their own true talents and realize that every job is important when it is done well.
When Santa assures them that they are each very special and contribute to making the world a brighter place, they happily go back to doing their “CHRISTMAS BEST.”
Come Back Strong: Balanced Wellness after Surgical Menopause
Menopause, even the surgical kind, is not a disease. A woman’s body was created to go through this transition naturally, without interference. However, many women report challenges and symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, and a roller coaster of emotions that leave them feeling overwhelmed, highly stressed, and out of balance. This affects their health, their relationships, and even their passion and sense of purpose. The more symptoms women have, the more hopeless and powerless they feel.
QuickBooks Made Fast and Simple
This book is for Contractor's Wives using QuickBooks who need to learn cash basis accounting.
Are you a contractor's wife who dreads the hassle of sitting down every year to go over your husband's paperwork, just so you can file your taxes on time? We help contractor's wives eliminate that hassle.
Do you need a way to make the year end process less painful for you and your husband? Our method of accounting will allow you to take the pain out of the year end process.
Life on the Porcelain Edge
Tessa Tarrington's life is swirling out of control. No job. No apartment. Sick Dad…And she's back in high school! Teaching at her Gibson's Run alma mater would be tolerable, except she's sharing purgatory with her mortal enemy, Ryland Jessup. But eight years post-high-school, and after tragedies she can barely understand, Ryland no longer fits her mental image of the over-sized bully he once was. In fact, much to her disgust, he's finding his way into her heart.
After the sudden death of his wife, Ryland hung up his professional shoulder pads and picked up a whistle. Now he's focused on coaching the high school football team and raising his daughter.
Midnight Confessions: The World as Seen Through the Eyes of an Autistic Poet with MS
The Band 4: The Air We Breathe
Marguerite is on holiday in London, finally free after 27 years of feeling like a hostage to her strict and overbearing parents. Also in London, and struggling with his thoughts of freedom, is Chase Martin―one fourth of the most successful band on the planet―who knows that freedom can only come at the expense of his band-mates.
They come from completely different worlds, but when those worlds collide―on a rainy night in a small coffee shop―nothing will ever be the same again. Before ever laying eyes on him, his pain and anxiety somehow reaches her, and she feels moved to alleviate it… to offer comfort, which he desperately needs.
The Fire Escape Belongs In Brooklyn: A novel based on The Fire Escape Stories (Volume 3)
The year is 1968. The world is crumbling around Mike Burns, a disillusioned Brooklyn youth attending his second year of college. His cousin and constant childhood companion, Sally-Boy, went missing two years ago. The two were incredibly close—they called themselves twins because they were born the same day—and Mike still thinks about Sally-Boy relentlessly, even talks to him…but nobody needs to know about that.
Billy's Search For The Healing Well
When young Billy wakes up feeling seasick on a ship in the middle of the sea, he is at a loss to know what has happened. Slowly the memory comes back into his mind, of him running away from his gran's house to travel to Ireland in search of the mysterious Healing Well.
Billy, staying with his grandmother while his mum is ill in hospital, has listened to her tales of life in Ireland; of leprechauns, fairies, the mystical Rainbow Bird of Glendalough and the amazing Healing Well. Maybe the waters from the well can heal his mum? Taking only his gran's prize cream pot, Billy sets out to find the well, not realising the adventures he is to face along the way.
Who Controls America
Who creates economic depressions and recessions? Why was Thomas Jefferson afraid of banks? Who advises our leaders to go to war? Why does our government secretly want an uneducated populace? In this stunning new book, Mark Mullen takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of secret partnerships created by wealthy ideologues designed to acquire more of the nation’s wealth. In Who Controls America, Mullen shines a light on Wall Street-backed politicians who place corporate profits above the well-being of middle-class Americans. Big banks, insurance companies, lobbyists, and the Washington Blob fear transparency and fair play.
Fighting Parkinson's…and Winning
Howard Shifke fully recovered from Parkinson’s Disease. This memoir presents Howard’s story of getting Parkinson’s and provides a detailed account of how he won the fight against it.
The memoir tells the story of what it was like for Howard to live day-to-day with Parkinson’s, getting through the daily challenges and misgivings as well as how he looked toward the future with hope.
Howard suffered with internal tremors; extremely poor balance; Bradykinesia (walking — hunched forward, shuffled feet, arms did not swing); rigidity (arms, legs and upper back were tight and extremely painful); constipation; inability to stand up straight, to get out of a chair without using arms, to go up and down stairs without holding railing; difficulty getting a utensil to his mouth when trying to eat; falling asleep in middle of the day; frozen face; inability to write or to type with two hands; extreme fatigue.
Whispers of Truth
This powerful memoir tells the story of a small child who is attacked and wounded by her mentally ill father. She endures a long hospital stay and lasting injuries to her throat, but as a scrappy, gifted adult Pam Pearsall is elected Tax Assessor in her hometown.
Accepting the job with integrity and the faith that has strengthened her, she confronts the pressure and corruption of politicians in league with wealthy landowners.
Lessons in Leadership
Lessons in Leadership explores the chaotic first 230 days of Donald Trump’s presidency and turns each blunder; gaff and tweet into real life lessons that anyone in a leadership role can learn from. Ann Andrews challenges:
- Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ marketing slogan
- His promise to drain the swamp
- His never-ending ‘blame’ games
- His supposed ‘deal making’ abilities which are pure bully tactics
- His penchant for throwing his closest advisors under a bus
- His determination to put people into roles they are neither suitable for nor trained for
A Broken Shell of a Man
The Legg family are a nightmare, and Peggy Legg has many issues.
A homeless and hungry gypsy visits Peggy’s cafe to beg for food, but Peggy is uncharitable. When the gypsy puts a spell on Peggy, everything in her dysfunctional life that was already awful, gets even worse. Domestic violence, heavy drinking, drugs, junk food and cigarettes are the staples of everyday life.
An unholy interest in eggs only adds a surreal twist to the misery Gregg Legg has to put up with. He’s been bullied throughout his life, but when he marries Peggy, the bullying only gets worse.
The 45th Nail
