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If you eat and you read, you’ll love our featured ebook today: The Mindful Carnivore by Tovar Cerulli. Beloved by vegans, vegetarians and carnivores alike, Tovar Cerulli is a popular blogger who gained a large following in recent years for his meditations on the ethics and ecology of food. And his perspective has certainly changed a lot over the years—once a strict vegan, Cerulli is now a hunter who kills and prepares the animals for his table.

In The Mindful Carnivore, Cerulli traces his relationship with food—eating McDonalds as a child, experimenting with vegetarianism in college, going vegan, ...

Today marks the release of six new ebooks from Pegasus Books and Open Road Media. Featured titles include Fun Inc., a fascinating exploration into the culture, artistic value, and transformative potential of gaming; Germs Gone Wild, a shocking exposé of the unchecked proliferation of domestic biodefense and how it threatens America; Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, a celebratory anthology of stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, one of the foremost magazines of mystery and suspense; The Uninnocent, an emotionally enthralling short story collection by one of the most potent voices in contemporary fiction; ...

On December 1, Susan and Peter Straub and Pegasus Books hosted a launch party for Bradford Morrow's The Uninnocent, on sale as an ebook today. The event marked the end of an eventful year for the prolific author.

The year began with the January publication of the widely acclaimed The Diviner’s Tale. February brought The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, which Morrow edited with David Shields, featuring essays by Annie Dillard, Geoff Dyer, Jonathan Safran Foer, and seventeen others. Also in February, Open Road Media published five of Morrow’s backlist titles, including The Almanac Branch...

Today marks the release of five new ebooks from Pegasus Books and Open Road Media. Featured titles include Why Can’t Elephants Jump?, an exploration of the weird and wonderful margin of science from the editors of New Scientist; Speak No Evil, the latest in the addictive contemporary noir series by Martyn Waites; Lawyer Trap, an exciting blend of police procedural and legal thriller by trial attorney and novelist R. J. Jagger; The Heavens Are Empty, a unique story about redemption and discovery that takes place in the setting for Everything Is Illuminated; and Empires ...

Today marks the release of four diverse new ebooks from Pegasus Books and Open Road Media. Featured titles include The Schoolmaster’s Daughter, a gripping historical novel set during the American Revolution; By Accident, a poignant novel spanning themes of love, loss and grieving; The Story of Brutus, a heart-warming story of a man and his 800-lb grizzly bear; and Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth, a witty celebration of great eccentrics whose dangerous experiments have benefitted humankind.

In the tradition of Sally Gunning’s Bound and Diana Gabaldon’s A Echo in the ...

In this week's installment of Mystery Thursday, the Danish crime writer Sara Blædel explains how she came to write her novel Call me Princess.

My new book, Call me Princess, is about women hoping to find their one and only loves through net-dating. I find it fascinating how a dating profile allows people to reinvent themselves and create the personalities they really want others to recognize in them.

Many women are so anxious to meet Mr. Right that they willingly invent flirtatious and mystifying characteristics in order to make themselves appear more attractive. This makes it very hard to know ...

In Call Me Princess, the American debut of Danish crime queen Sarah Blaedel, a young woman is the victim of a brutal sexual assault in her home in Copenhagen.  Inspector Louise Rick is called to the scene and quickly deduces that the rapist was met online.  In her ensuing investigation, Louise immerses herself in the online dating world in search of the attacker, exploring every nook and cranny for the man who calls himself “Prinzz.”  Enjoy a free excerpt of the full first chapter below.

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Today marks the release of four diverse new ebooks from Pegasus Books and Open Road Media. Featured titles include Call Me Princess, the American debut of Danish crime queen Sara Blædel; Eden to Armageddon, the definitive and epic account of World War I in the Middle East; The First War of Physics, an epic story of science and technology; and Henry VIII: Wolfman, a fast-paced paranormal retelling of the story of the bloodiest king ever to have sat on the throne.

Call Me Princess is the thrilling, consistently suspenseful crime novel ...

Black Ops: The Rise of Special Forces in the CIA, SAS, and Mossad explores the evolution of Covert Ops in three of the world’s most advanced militaries. Author Tony Geraghty, a former soldier, airman, and war correspondent, details the increasing prominence of Special Forces in Western military strategy and provides a comprehensive view of its progression in the past fifty years.  Enjoy a free excerpt below.

At around 1600 hrs on 24 March 1985, Major Arthur D. (“Nick”) Nicholson, Jr., a U.S. Army intelligence officer, became the last professional, regular soldier to die in the “bloodless” conflict known as the ...

Good news if you’re based in California: there are lots of fantastic upcoming events and opportunities to meet Dr. Ying-Ying Chang, the author of the newly released memoir, The Woman Who Could Not Forget.

The Woman Who Could Not Forget is a moving and illuminating work about the life of world-famous author and historian, Iris Chang, as told by her mother. The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang’s bestselling book, forever changed the way we view WWII in Asia. Now, Dr. Ying-Ying Chang provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, cementing Iris’ legacy as one of the ...

Last week’s excerpt of Sean Connery: A Biography featured a man whose image overtook his life.  This week’s begins the story of a girl blind to hers.  Winner of the Drouot Literary Prize, Michéle Halberstadt’s The Pianist in the Dark is a sensual, evocative tale inspired by the life of Maria-Theresa von Paradis, a blind virtuoso and friend to Mozart.  Pressed by her father into painful, experimental treatments to cure her condition, she finds solace in the piano and in the arms of a hypnotist, Franz-Anton Mesmer, who helps her discover the passions she’s been shielded from.

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Today marks the release of six diverse and exciting ebooks available from partner publishers Pegasus Books and Open Road Integrated Media. A mix of crime, general fiction, and biography, these titles are available for instant download across all reading devices:

The Pianist in the Dark is a novel inspired by the life of pianist Maria-Theresa von Paradis, a blind virtuoso who was a contemporary of Mozart and Salieri. Despite Maria-Theresa’s immense musical talent, her father is unable to accept her condition, so he hires a hypnotist who helps her discover the passions and emotions missing from ...

Today marks the release of seven new and exciting ebooks available from partner publishers Pegasus Books and Open Road Integrated Media. A mix of military history, biography, and current affairs, these titles are available for instant download across all reading devices:

          

What happens to a man when the images he creates take over his life? Our featured Excerpt of the Week comes from Sean Connery: A Biography. Spirited, argumentative, and sardonically celebratory, Christopher Bray's Sean Connery is the story of an actor learning his craft on the job and, ...

Today's Excerpt of the Week is one of my new favorite books. The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness is a memoir written by Mark Rowlands, author and philosophy professor. When Rowlands was a young professor in his twenties at the University of Alabama, he noticed a classified ad in his local paper advertising wolf clubs for sale and decided he had to investigate, if only out of curiosity. It was love at first sight. More than just an exotic pet, his wolf Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands both as a ...