FREE/BARGAIN - General Fiction, Literature - 2014

[Froide]

Today's Open Road Media freebie:

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

At:

• Amazon.com
• BN.com
• Probably also at Kobo.com

Overview:

First published in 1908, The Wind in the Willows chronicles the adventures of four friends drawn together by their love of the Thames River valley: mild-mannered Mole, refined Ratty, solitary Badger, and irascible and reckless Toad. More than a century after Kenneth Grahame first imagined his tale as bedtimes stories to tell his son, The Wind in the Willows remains one of the best-loved classics of children's literature.

...

One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales--of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars.

[Little.Egret]

50 freebie reprints from Nisyros, about half are classic fiction. half history

See all
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Nisyros

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...lisher=Nisyros
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...lisher=Nisyros

Scenes of Clerical Life a novel of English life by George Eliot


The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle

Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery

Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

At the Hawk's Well by W.B. Yeats

Ideas of Good and Evil by W.B. Yeats

The Wind Among the Reeds by W.B. Yeats

The Celtic Twilight by W.B. Yeats



The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell

Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell

My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell

[Little.Egret]

And 9 from Heraklion Press

Includes

Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson


See all
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...sher=Heraklion

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...sher=Heraklion
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...sher=Heraklion

[peachiekene]

Free

This is a "Nook Free Friday" offering and looks like to be exclusive to B&N.

The Cutting Edge by Ace Collins

Leslie Rhoads may have grown up in a small town but is on the verge of becoming a supermodel in the Big Apple, when the 24-year-old is chosen to grace the cover of Style magazine and star in the controversial Passion Nights’ perfume ads. But before she can step into the spotlight, Leslie is assaulted by a drug gang and disfigured with a broken scotch bottle. Without her perfect face, she is lost and no amount of surgery can ever make her what she once was.

Now trying to hide her face from the world, Leslie encounters more trouble as she seeks to rebuild her life: unrequited love, thoughts of suicide, and her assailant out to finish the job. Little does she know that a young girl named Angel will turn it all around, showing Leslie the joy and potential in life and the fact that love truly is blind.

B&N

I couldn't really figure out where this book went, but b&n has it listed as "People & Cultures" and since that was the former title of this thread...
Hope it's okay.

[Text edited - MODERATOR]

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $2.99 for Canadians, from Penguin Canada (not couponable), probably just for today (Oct 18th) as the Kobo Deal of the Day (may end up being price-matched elsewhere, or not*):

Lives of Girls and Women by Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro (Wikipedia), a literary fiction coming-of-age novel-length short story cycle originally out in 1971, which happens to have its own Wikipedia entry.

Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience.

As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body's insistent desires, and tries desperately to fall in love, she grapples with the crises that mark the passage to womanhood.

* Normally, when Penguin/Random House puts Munro's books on sale, they only go to $4.99 and occasionally Kobo discounts them further as the Daily Deal which Amazon apparently doesn't bother to price-match all the way down to $2.99 (they didn't for the last Munro story collection which got offered up).

[Purple Lady]

Day After Night: A Novel
Anita Diamant

$1.99 at Amazon. Also supposed to be at at B&N, but since you can't always download anymore I won't post a link.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...cm_cd_asin_lnk

Diamant's bestseller, The Red Tent, explored the lives of biblical women ignored by the male-centric narrative. In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at Atlit, a British-run internment camp set up in Palestine after WWII. There's Tedi, a Dutch girl who hid in a barn for years before being turned in and narrowly escaping Bergen-Belsen; Leonie, a beautiful French girl whose wartime years in Paris are cloaked with shame; Shayndel, a heroine of the Polish partisan movement whose cheerful facade hides a tortured soul; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor who is filled with an understandable nihilism. The dynamic of suffering and renewed hope through friendship is the book's primary draw, but an eventual escape attempt adds a dash of suspense to the astutely imagined story of life at the camp: the wary relationship between the Palestinian Jews and the survivors, the intense flirtation between the young people that marks a return to life. Diamant opens a window into a time of sadness, confusion and optimism that has resonance for so much that's both triumphant and troubling in modern Jewish history.

[ATDrake]

It's LGBT History Month and Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo) has a selection of sale titles, presumably good until the end of October, including literary and genre and YA fiction by LGBT authors or with LGBT themes marked down to $1.99 and $2.99, including some things by notable authors such as historical novelist Mary Renault (Wikipedia) and mystery writer Lawrence Block (Wikipedia).

Linkage to their special promotion page, where the discounted titles are mostly marked (although some things which are going at lower prices don't seem to have the special discount stickers on them, but that may just be a regular price for those).

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

Day After Night: A Novel
Anita Diamant

$1.99 at Amazon. Also supposed to be at at B&N, but since you can't always download anymore I won't post a link.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...cm_cd_asin_lnk

Diamant's bestseller, The Red Tent, explored the lives of biblical women ignored by the male-centric narrative. In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at Atlit, a British-run internment camp set up in Palestine after WWII. There's Tedi, a Dutch girl who hid in a barn for years before being turned in and narrowly escaping Bergen-Belsen; Leonie, a beautiful French girl whose wartime years in Paris are cloaked with shame; Shayndel, a heroine of the Polish partisan movement whose cheerful facade hides a tortured soul; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor who is filled with an understandable nihilism. The dynamic of suffering and renewed hope through friendship is the book's primary draw, but an eventual escape attempt adds a dash of suspense to the astutely imagined story of life at the camp: the wary relationship between the Palestinian Jews and the survivors, the intense flirtation between the young people that marks a return to life. Diamant opens a window into a time of sadness, confusion and optimism that has resonance for so much that's both triumphant and troubling in modern Jewish history.

Thanks for the heads-up on the book. However, please don't refrain from posting NOOK book links, as some of us enjoy reading on our NOOK devices.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Froide

Thanks for the heads-up on the book. However, please don't refrain from posting NOOK book links, as some of us enjoy reading on our NOOK devices.

YW. I just don't want anyone to pay for a book that they can't use because of something I post.

Edit: you may not even be able to read it using Mantano which supports B&N drm.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

YW. I just don't want anyone to pay for a book that they can't use because of something I post.

Edit: you may not even be able to read it using Mantano which supports B&N drm.

But NOOK books can still be read on NOOK devices, in NOOK apps, and via NOOK for Windows. The ability to read NOOK books hasn't disappeared, despite BN's elimination of the Download button and the hurdles BN's raised to prevent people from stripping DRM and then reading the "disinfected" books.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Froide

But NOOK books can still be read on NOOK devices, in NOOK apps, and via NOOK for Windows. The ability to read NOOK books hasn't disappeared, despite BN's elimination of the Download button and the hurdles BN's raised to prevent people from stripping DRM and then reading the "disinfected" books.

If you use Mantano, that's always been a legal way to read drm books. So the ability to read NOOK books on some devices has disappeared.

[koland]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

If you use Mantano, that's always been a legal way to read drm books. So the ability to read NOOK books on some devices has disappeared.

Also, the ability to download, then load onto other nook devices that are not on that account (or any), so long as the name and CC are entered and stored on the device, has always been legal (and encouraged and touted as a feature, allowing adults to share books and parents to control kid's devices better and not worry about them running up the CC bills).

This is also no longer allowed.

Other legal ways of reading, without stripping DRM, which now don't work: using Adobe's own ADE and using any other Adobe ADE based reading apps that supported B&N's DRM (which is what I used on at least a couple of tablets - just as I never use Kobo's readers attached to an account or their apps, due to their horrid library management and permanent deletion of my books).

B&N's overreaction doesn't even stop their supposed reason for accusing all of their customers of breaking laws and being pirates.

[Dr. Drib]

Here's the B&N link to "Day After Night: A Novel," by Anita Diamant:



http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/day-...=9781439166246


It's $1.99

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Wakefield Hall by Francesca Stanfill, a sort of hybrid gothic romantic psychological suspense thriller heavy on the classic literature allusions and which the blurb likens to the Brontës, so overall it sounds like a litfic, especially since it didn't come out from one of the dedicated genre imprints. Originally out from Random House's Villard imprint in 1993.

Called “a born writer” by Lawrence Durrell, Francesca Stanfill weaves a rich tapestry of romance, gothic suspense, and literary divertissement in her new novel, Wakefield Hall. Here is a sensuous evocation of late 1980s New York City-where a facade of jewels, couture, luxurious residences, and exquisitely arranged dinner parties cloaks a treacherous fin de siecle world of shadows, deceptions, and darkly charted ambitions.

Wall Street Journal reporter Elisabeth Rowan is authorized by the family of Joanna Eakins, a famous Shakespearean actress, to write a posthumous biography. The research begins at Wakefield Hall, a splendid estate in the Berkshires, which Joanna had not merely renovated but re-created as a monument to her troubled life and career. At Wakefield assemble the people who adored, worshiped, and hated the great star: the urbane London theater director who discovered her; her third husband, a Wall Street lion and collector of art and famous women; her stepdaughter, whose classic beaUty belies a shocking hardness; and her best friend, a sophisticated New York hostess with a mysterious past and a talent for orchestrating others’ lives.

Yet only Wakefield itself may reveal the truth about its mistress’s tortured genius; within its manicured grounds, Joanna constructed a tantalizing Shakespearean maze with statues of the heroines that constituted her greatest roles. Do these ladies of stone disclose what Joanna never could during her lifetime?

Propelled by her discoveries at Wakefield, Elisabeth embarks on a dangerous quest for the truth hidden far beneath the elegant, civilized surfaces of New York, London, and Paris. In the labyrinthine twists and turns of the actress’s legacy, Elisabeth discovers passion, terror, jealous fury, madness, and-ultimately-an astonishing secret.

[ATDrake]

Well, something for the circus lovers in the audience.

Free from the small press re-publisher Accent Press via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Bounce by Betsy Tobin, a literary fiction journey-of-self-discovery-ish novel set in Victorian England, originally out from Headline in 2003. This has quoted blurb praise from The Independent and other UK newspapers.

From the award-winning author of BONE HOUSE...An extraordinary novel of love, death and lions, set in the glamorous and squalid circus world of London in the 1870s.

Nineteen-year-old Nathan crosses the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him as a young child. He takes a job in a circus south of the Thames, where he is quickly caught in a complex web of desire.

THE BOUNCE is gripping, vivid, powerfully evocative: a stunning story of mothers and sons, rejection and belonging, and the treacherous pull of love.