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Amazon Prime’s Reading program is one of the lesser known perks to your prime membership and can be a little tricky to navigate. Here we’ll walk you through the different reading benefits and give you our best tips for finding the best Amazon Prime ebooks to read.

With Prime Reading, you can score thousands of free ebooks just for being a Prime member. Read on for a list of some of our current favorite recommendations to try.

As I listened to my father relate family stories to a group of tourists, the reader in me desired to know how characters of the 1770s lived, interacted, worked, ate, and faced the war. Before long, my curiosity became Hold Me Close, Revolutionary Faith book one (1773).

If you are anything like me, you love to curl up with a good thriller to pass the time. But, if you read a lot of thrillers, you might be thinking, are there any good ones left? Of course!

Is there anything better for the appetite of the voracious reader than to devour a good book? Well, there just might be if that book contains references to mouthwatering foods and the recipes to back them up.

Here is my journey to becoming an author, and the exciting sequence of events that resulted in the short film for my first book, Sleeping with the Blackbirds.

When writing historical romance, research is imperative to make the story believable. Research is such fun!

If you’re reaching for a dictionary at the word “mixtopian,” don’t bother: I confess I made it up. I figure it’s one of those terms that should exist but doesn’t. It does, however, beg the question, how does a mixtopia differ from “normal life”?

If you’re trying to decide whether or not to spend money on an ebook, especially if you aren’t familiar with the author, here are some tips to help you determine whether that ebook is a good book.

The opening line of a novel should pull you in, and there a lot of books out there that do exactly that. Here are 22 powerful opening lines that we love.

I first stumbled across this book in 2015. I picked up a copy from my local library and started to read it. And then the unexpected happened. I instantly fell in love with the story.

Do you love a good pirate romance? Discovering how pirates pillaged the Mediterranean, looted Asia under the command of Madame Ching Shih, and even pirated American rivers is another way to enjoy swashbuckling tales.

If you’ve been unable to lose yourself to the fictional world due to stress, work overload, work underload, or depression, I encourage you to find a book and forget.

Here are my “Team Expectations” (aka classroom rules) as they were posted in the back of my classroom, along with a book suggestion for teaching and learning each.

My challenge, as an author, is to make alternate worlds believable. The more fantastical the world, the more important it is to include details that help readers suspend their disbelief.

This clean romance has just the right amount of mystery to keep you turning the pages. When the past collides with the present, will Hailey and Dylan’s relationship survive? Pick up this enthralling, standalone romance to find out!

Usually the biggest question for anybody interested in real estate investing is “how do I get started in investing in real estate?“ The answer is to read as much as you can about the topic, starting with the books in this post.

Dan Brown shot to fame with The Da Vinci Code. But once you have finished his eight novels, what do you read? Paula Wynne shares a list of books for fans of Dan Brown.