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‘Maude’ Leads the Self-Published Bestsellers List

By Dianna Dilworth 

maudeMaude by Donna Mabry leads the Self-published Bestsellers List this week.

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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of January 7, 2015

1. Maude by Donna Mabry: “In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes. She said, “You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?””

2. One Night Stand by J.S. Cooper: “It was only supposed to be one night! We met at a wedding. He was hot. And I’d been in a year’s drought.”

3. Gone- Part Three by Deborah Bladon: “Lilly Randall had overcome a past filled with heartache and loss. She’d moved to Manhattan and was building a new and exciting life for herself. She was falling hard and fast for Clive Parker and now that she had a dream job, everything was exactly as it should be. When her past showed up to taunt her, the reality she thought she knew was suddenly stripped away.”

4. Gone – Part Two by Deborah Bladon: “The second part of GONE, a three-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Lilly Randall had finally landed the job of her dreams. She couldn’t have imagined that when she started working for Clive Parker at Corteck, that she’d end up in his bed.”

5. The Lady and the Mountain Man by Misty M. Beller: “Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe place to hide, and finds herself accepting a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory. But when Leah arrives at the mountain ranch, she learns her intended husband was killed by a grizzly, leaving behind a bitter older brother and a spunky younger sister.”

6.  Gone – Part One by Deborah Bladon: “The first part of GONE, a three-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Sending a half-naked picture to a stranger she met online, seems innocent and fun to Lilly Randall. After spending the past four years working towards an honors degree, she needs a distraction and flirting with a man she doesn’t know can’t hurt, right?”

7. Corps Security: The Series by Harper Sloan: “The entire Corps Security series is together for a limited time box set. Titles included are Axel, Cage, Beck, Uncaged, Cooper and Locke. Years after the Marines brought them together, the men of Corps Security are together again. These six novels follow their lives as they take a chance at love. Can love truly conquer all?”

8. RAZE by Tillie Cole: “One man stripped of his freedom, his morals… his life. Conditioned in captivity to maim, to kill and to slaughter, prisoner 818 becomes an unremorseful, unrivaled and unstoppable fighter in the ring. Violence is all he knows. Death and brutality are the masters of his fate.”

9. Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You by Kasey Michaels: “Shelby Taite, restless and bored with her high society life, decides to go on an adventure and see how the other half lives. She hops a bus (dragging no less than five suitcases) and ends up in her chauffeur’s hometown of East Wapaneken. Quinn Delaney (ex-cop turned bodyguard) is sent to watch over and protect Shelby, but not interfere with her great adventure. What ensues is a laugh-a-minute good time.”

10. Tiger’s Eye by Karen Robards: “Lady Isabella St. Just is shocked to learn the identity of the daring champion who comes to her aid — for the man who rescues her from desperate felons is none other than Alec Tyron, the notorious king of London’s underworld. Now she is beholden to an outlaw who is respected and feared throughout the city and stunned by her own intense desire for this dark man of mystery.”

Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of January 7, 2014

1. Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills By 

2.  20/20: A Clear Vision for America By 

3. How the Light Gets In: An Interview with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee By 

4. Private Practice Preparedness – The Health Care Professional’s Guide to Closing a Practice Due to Retirement, Death, or Disability By  & 

5. Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volumes 1-4 (Introduction, Planets in Signs, Planets in Houses, Planets in Aspect) By 

6. The Generous Qur’an: An accurate, modern English translation of the Qur’an, Islam’s holiest book. By 

7. My P90x Nutrition Plan: Menus and Shopping Lists for Fat Shredder, Phase 1, Level II By 

8. More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory By  & 

9. The Liar The Cheat and The Thief – Deception and the Art of Sword Play By 

10. Patterns in the Dark (Dragon Blood, Book 4) By Lindsay Buroker