Don’t Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde leads Self-published Bestsellers List this week.
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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of May 1, 2014
1. Don’t Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde: “Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen.”
2. Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott: “When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst; this isn’t the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate this family again, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence suggests that she was here, in the family home, that morning.”
3. Operation Cowboy by Stephan Talty: “In the final days of World War II, with the ravenous Red Army marching across Czechoslovakia, a wily band of American soldiers did the unexpected: they teamed up with the Nazis and went behind enemy lines to save the world’s rarest horses from imminent extinction at the hands of the Russians — including the exquisite white Lipizzaner, whose bloodlines date back to Genghis Khan.”
4. The Fixed Trilogy by Laurelin Paige: “All three books of the NY Times Bestselling Fixed Trilogy are included in this bundle.”
5. Alpha by Jasinda Wilder: “The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. Mom’s hospital bills. My baby brother’s tuition. My tuition. Rent. Electricity. All of it on my shoulders. And I had just lost my job. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. No return address. My name on the front, my address. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars.”
6. Bender (The Core Four) by Stacy Borel: “All Keegan wanted was a roommate who was quiet, minded their own business, and paid for part of the rent. Instead, she got Camden Brooks. Camden, with his sinful body, sharp tongue, and the inability to stay out of Keegan’s personal space, couldn’t seem to curb his interest in the new girl who wouldn’t put up with his domineering ways.”
7. The Resistance by S.L. Scott: “You don’t choose when. You don’t choose where. And you don’t get to choose who you fall in love with. The minute he opened his sexy mouth, Holliday Hughes should have known Jack Dalton was trouble. His smooth pickup lines, broad shoulders, and ridiculously handsome face charmed her right out of her clothes. She gave into her desires, the instant attraction blinding her to the obvious.”
8. Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello: “Book 3: Bedding the Billionaire (Legacy Collection) Lil Dartley’s life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling billionaires or paparazzi.”
9. A Bird Died by Chautona Havig: “The late evening sky, streaked with a golden pink, darkened with each passing minute. Sprinklers sprayed lawns; the hum of leaf blowers and weed trimmers filled the air, racing against daylight to finish their Saturday evening chores. On the street, kids played or clustered in groups around streetlights as if waiting for them to glow in the coming twilight.”
10. The Proposition 4: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward: “Blackmail. Sex. Ferro. There are some mistakes that are too big to fix. I’ll never recover from this one. Damn it, I called Bryan an addict and treated him worse. Maybe it was wrong for him to approach me the way he did. Maybe it wasn’t right for Bryan to just take what he wanted, consequences be damned. I can’t blame him, though–not now that I know the truth.”
Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of May 1, 2014
1. Kevin Trudeau’s Road Kill Victims “He” Doesn’t Want You To Know About By John Foster
2. Crossroads of the Gods: The Wiccan Way of the King By Bear Heart
3. Flip That Sh!t By Bonafide Hustler
4. Republic By Lindsay Buroker
5. Knight in Shining Suit By Jerilee Kaye
6. Principles of Written English, Workbook 3 By Maggie Sokolik
7. Spinward Fringe Broadcast 8: Renegades By Randolph Lalonde
8. Learning Punch Software(R): Basic & Advanced Training By Patricia Gamburgo
9. Conflict of Interest By Jae
10. WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web, Third Edition By Alan B. Johnston