FREE/BARGAIN - General and Historical Fiction, Literature - 2015

[Apache]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Bank Robber by Robert Broomall, a Texas-set western historical adventure originally out from Fawcett Gold in 1985.

The story of an outlaw on the run, the girl he meets in the desert, and the posse that's chasing him -- led by his best friend.

Swede Burdette is a legend in Texas -- as a Texas Ranger, soldier, Indian fighter. Things went bad while he was away at the war, though, and when he came back, he turned outlaw. John Kirby is a Texas Ranger who always brings in his man, usually dead. When Swede robs the bank in Temperance, Kirby leads the posse that goes after him. Kirby was Swede's boyhood friend, but now he's vowed to put an end to Swede's depredations. He also married the woman Swede loved. Swede is on the run to Mexico when he encounters a girl named Rosie, a prostitute, the only survivor of an Indian raid. If Swede leaves Rosie in the desert, she'll die, so he takes her with him, even though she'll slow him down enough that the posse is bound to catch him . . .

Thanks for posting this one. I like Robert Broomall's westerns. My favorite is The Dispatch Rider. Even though it is listed as part of the K Company Series it can be read alone.
Apache

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour reprint

Darkness and Day by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1951)

When Sir Ransom Chace is reunited with his god-daughter Bridget, and her husband Edmund Gaunt, long dead secrets start to creep out of the wood-work.
Chace and Gaunt both have two daughters borne out of happy marriages, but both have also fathered another daughter out of wedlock.
As aging Chace debates age, life, and morality with his best friend and two daughters, he realises he wants to clear his conscience before he dies.
Meanwhile the two young Gaunt daughters overhear a shocking secret about their parents relationship...
What happens when a dignified man comes to believe that his wife is also his daughter...?
Conveyed almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett's novel was ground-breaking for its time, experimenting with style and content.

"[my own writing is] much inferior to the bitter truth and intense originality of Miss Compton-Burnett" - Virginia Woolf

"Everyone in it is either protecting himself from the truth or unearthing it...the reader is exhilarated - by the author's iron courage and by her austere diction, which can rise to poetic grandeur ..." - Sunday Times

"Miss Compton-Burnett is totally unlike any other novelist. Wit and melodrama have never been so combined before, and the combination is a brilliant success.... She is a unique figure in modern English literature." - Philip Toynbee

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a contemporary of Virginia Woolf. Her own tragic experiences of family life provided some of the material drew on as a novelist. Her books are about money, power, status, incest, adultery, murder, homosexuality, about which she was years ahead of her time, and all the passions and stresses of family life, described with brilliant wit and perception.

Oops, added links

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TE8IJWU/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TE8IJWU/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00TE8IJWU/

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Endeavour reprint

Darkness and Day by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1951)

When Sir Ransom Chace is reunited with his god-daughter Bridget, and her husband Edmund Gaunt, long dead secrets start to creep out of the wood-work.
Chace and Gaunt both have two daughters borne out of happy marriages, but both have also fathered another daughter out of wedlock.
As aging Chace debates age, life, and morality with his best friend and two daughters, he realises he wants to clear his conscience before he dies.
Meanwhile the two young Gaunt daughters overhear a shocking secret about their parents relationship...
What happens when a dignified man comes to believe that his wife is also his daughter...?
Conveyed almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett's novel was ground-breaking for its time, experimenting with style and content.

"[my own writing is] much inferior to the bitter truth and intense originality of Miss Compton-Burnett" - Virginia Woolf

"Everyone in it is either protecting himself from the truth or unearthing it...the reader is exhilarated - by the author's iron courage and by her austere diction, which can rise to poetic grandeur ..." - Sunday Times

"Miss Compton-Burnett is totally unlike any other novelist. Wit and melodrama have never been so combined before, and the combination is a brilliant success.... She is a unique figure in modern English literature." - Philip Toynbee

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was a contemporary of Virginia Woolf. Her own tragic experiences of family life provided some of the material drew on as a novelist. Her books are about money, power, status, incest, adultery, murder, homosexuality, about which she was years ahead of her time, and all the passions and stresses of family life, described with brilliant wit and perception.

at Amazon.com

[ATDrake]

Free from the author('s publishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Too Much Sun by Lee Olds, his vintage coming-of-age novel starring an Alaskan runaway kid, originally out from Vanguard in 1960 and later picked up by Bantam Books. This quotes praise from various outlets in the blurb, and was apparently a Book of the Month club selection back in the day.

Discover TOO MUCH SUN, the 60s best-selling classic by Lee Olds, the beautifully written tale of Barry Douglas who runs away from his stifling home and rich parents to live by his own means in the freedom and beauty of the wild frontier of Alaska. Barry gets a tough job cutting brush at a remote mining camp and finds release from the gruelling labor with sex, cold beer, and jazz. In the local town he meets Mary, a half Eskimo prostitute with whom he discovers both love and tragedy. This is the unputdownable novel of a young man coming to terms with himself and his world. A great read which will delight and surprise you.

[Fbone]

Repeat action/adventure

Blood Price by Jon Evans. HC 2005

http://smile.amazon.com/Blood-Price-...ds=blood+price

[Little.Egret]

Complete Canadian Family Saga free

Princes of the North 1909 by Cindy Bouchard

Our Lady of the Snows 1910 (Princes of the North Book 2) by Cindy Bouchard

Wildest Dreams 1911 (Princes of the North Book 3) by Cindy Bouchard

The Promised Land 1912 (Princes of the North Book 4) by Cindy Bouchard

Dream Castles 1913 (Princes of the North Book 5) by Cindy Bouchard

For All We Have and Are 1914 (Princes of the North Book 6) by Cindy Bouchard

The Kingdom Was Lost 1915 (Princes of the North Book 7) by Cindy Bouchard

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...Cindy+Bouchard

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...Cindy+Bouchard
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...Cindy+Bouchard

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Instant When Everything is Perfect by Jessica Barksdale Inclán, a contemporary literary fiction novel originally out from Penguin's New American Library imprint in 2006.

Mia thought she had everything-a thriving career, a wonderful husband, and two beautiful sons. But illness shakes her out of her comfort zone when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. At her mother's bedside, she meets someone whose presence seems to fill a void in her, a void she wasn't even aware existed.

Robert is happily convinced he's going to spend his life alone until he meets Mia, who makes him question everything. As a surgeon, he's helped many women put their lives back together. And despite his compelling feelings about Mia, he doesn't want to make hers fall apart.

[GA Russell]

The Cat's Pajamas *and* Witch's Milk - Peter De Vries - $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N5E57C4/

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Horsemen by Gary McCarthy, 1st in his Horseman series of post-Civil War western adventure series, this installment originally out from Diamond Books in 1992. The cover blurb says that the author is a Western Writers of America Spur Award winner.

After the Civil War devastates their home, the Ballous, a Tennessee horsebreeding family, relocate and start anew in the West where their new neighbors could become lasting friends or tomahawk-toting enemies. Another fine action adventure western from one of America's finest historians and authors...and a horse lover.

[ATDrake]

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The Black Thread by Margaret Muir, a coming-of-age literary suspense drama set in 1890s Yorkshire in northern England, originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 2007.

I've actually read this one, as it was a past Fictionwise purchase from Belgrave House before the rights reverted (it was categorized as a mystery/thriller over there, but isn't really, IMHO), it looks like, and it was an okay story which is heavy on the coming-of-age and light on the suspense and romantic elements, which it did include.

Set in the north of England in 1895, and reflecting the style of a Catherine Cookson novel, THE BLACK THREAD is: “A well written story with mysterious twists and shocking turns that gives a feeling of factuality rather than fiction.” Jean Beven, “Canal Cuttings”.

Amy Dodd has never met her father but longs for the day when he will come home. But when that day finally arrives her real nightmares begin. After the death of her mother, she alone suffers her father’s abuse. Unable to survive under such conditions, Amy runs away and after trudging for days along the tow path of the Leeds/Liverpool Canal, she is taken in by a passing barge. For a while, she finds safety with the bargee and his wife, and is befriended by a young engineer who worked at the mill. But Amos Dodd is a cunning man and his intentions are evil. He pursues his daughter relentlessly and will stop at nothing until he finds her.

But when Amy is suddenly confronted by the shocking facts of the mystery surrounding her past, she is compelled to return along the tow path to Leeds, even if it means stepping back into the lion’s den.

THE BLACK THREAD is a dramatic story, set in the dark days of the Yorkshire canals in 1895.

[AwfulWaffle]

Google's End of the World Books sale. Quite a few literary books. Likely PMed elsewhere.

https://play.google.com/store/recomm...&c=books&hl=en

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross, his standalone sweeping Jewish historical family saga literary epic novel centred around five centuries' worth of women bearing the titular name, originally out from Seaview Books in 1979 and later picked up by Penguin's New American Library imprint.

The Books of Rachel is a fictional microcosm of 500 years of Jewish history. Since the 15th century, in the Cuheno family, the first daughter born to the family is given the name Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond. A saga sweeping from the Spanish Inquisition to the birth of a Jewish homeland.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the General/Literary megathread:

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross, a sweeping Jewish historical family saga epic ranging from 15th century Spain to the present day (for 1970s values of "present").

[Little.Egret]

I quite like Joseph Conrad but I didn't know he ever collaborated with anyone, let alone Ford Madox Ford and still less on a quasi-SF/ Fantasy novel.

The Inheritors (1901) by Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Hueffer

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0084BCMX0/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0084BCMX0/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0084BCMX0/

It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the effect of the 20th Century on British aristocracy appeared to predict history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inh..._Madox_Ford%29

Also Romance by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_%28novel%29

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UKB3LQ/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004UKB3LQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B004UKB3LQ/

They also collaborated on _Seraphina_ but it doesn't seem to be available.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

They also collaborated on _Seraphina_ but it doesn't seem to be available.

Do you mean The Nature of a Crime? While it was written in 1909, I think the first publication date was 1924, and therefore public domain pretty much everywhere except the US and Mexico.