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

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

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.

I suppose so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_a_Crime

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Crime-J...dp/B00ILHLP8U/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nature-Crime...dp/B00ILHLP8U/
http://www.amazon.ca/Nature-Crime-Jo...dp/B00ILHLP8U/

[GA Russell]

The Night Before Christmas - free
http://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Befo...dp/B00QW8ZBFI/

[Alastair_S]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Night Before Christmas - free
http://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Befo...dp/B00QW8ZBFI/

Also free at Kobo (at least in the UK).

[murg]

Originally Posted by Alastair_S

Also free at Kobo (at least in the UK).

And at Kobo Aus.

It's public domain, so probably free everywhere...

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Women of Courage by Tim Vicary, an omnibus edition of 3 of his historical drama novels set in the UK and Ireland, some of which we've previously received free in individual editions: The Blood Upon the Rose set in 1919 Ireland during The Troubles (Wikipedia), originally out from Simon & Schuster in 1992, Cat and Mouse set in 1914 England and Ireland during the outbreak of WWI, originally out from Simon & Schuster in 1993, and The Monmouth Summer, set during the titular English rebellion (Wikipedia), apparently a newly-written tale.

In Cat & Mouse, British suffragette Sarah Becket faces prison for demonstrating for women's right to vote. When her sister Deborah comes to rescue her, the sisters expose a serious sexual scandal at the heart of the British political establishment, which Sarah's husband, Jonathan, is determined to keep secret at all costs. It is 1914, and the threat of the Great War rumbles closer.

Five years later, in The Blood Upon the Rose, the young Irish aristocrat and medical student, Catherine O'Connell-Gort , fights for an end to British rule in Ireland. She is in love with a young IRA Volunteer, but her father, a senior officer in British military intelligence, insists that she marry a scarred war veteran, a dangerous assassin on a secret mission to murder the IRA leader Michael Collins. What secrets can she keep, and who will she betray - her family or her lover, her country or her class? And what results will flow from her dreadful decisions?

In The Monmouth Summer, young Ann Carter is torn by equally agonizing choices. In 1685 the Puritan people of her Devon village rise up in revolt in support of the Duke of Monmouth against the Catholic king of England, James II. They are hugely determined, but poorly armed and led. Ann's father, Adam, fears if he dies he will leave his wife and daughters destitute, unless Ann marries her solid, dependable childhood sweetheart, Tom Goodchild. But although Ann loves her father, she is dazzled by the rich Royalist officer, Robert Pole. She knows this love is sinful, but when her father is captured and sentenced to death, she can think of only way to save him ...

Each book is based on careful research. These three women - Sarah Becket, Catherine O'Connell-Gort and Ann Carter - are all imagined characters, but the historical events in their stories really happened, and women like Sarah, Catherine and Ann faced real choices every bit as dramatic and difficult as those described in these stories.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Rabbit Died by popular mystery author Sue Ann Jaffarian (SYKM), 1st in her Holidays From Hell series of humorous short stories about dysfunctional family life. Jaffarian is regularly published by Llewellyn's Midnight Ink imprint and we've received a couple of her books as official publisher promo freebies in the past, so if you liked her style in those, you might like this as well.

Zelda Bowen isn’t big on family holidays, but this Easter has all the makings of a world-class disaster. Her father has recently run off with the bimbo at his office, leaving behind the question: who will wear the Easter Bunny costume and pass out the baskets to the kids? A job that, until this year, was always his.

This humorous yet touching story opens with Zelda and her sisters arguing over who should wear the bunny suit and carry on the family tradition. To the delight of her nieces and nephew, Zelda dons the costume, while her mother, toked-up on medicinal marijuana, shoots daggers at the oversized bunny. As emotions and antics ramp up, the day becomes one of those memorable "holidays from hell" many of us have experienced.

[GA Russell]

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor - $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Hard-Othe...dp/B003PDMN18/

[Little.Egret]

I'll Storm Hell by Noel Gerson

Historical novel

While tensions grow between the British Crown and its American colonies, precocious tearaway `Mad' Anthony Wayne studies the victories of Hannibal, Caesar and the Duke of Marlborough, in the hope one day leading an army of his own.
Then in 1774, inspired by the call-to-arms of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, he raises a battalion of militiamen; a rag-tag bunch of farmers, but tough Pennsylvanian Patriots nonetheless.
By 1775 the colonies have declared themselves the United States of America, and Anthony Wayne is marching his men to expel the Redcoats and protect a new country's independence.

But as war drags on, the challenges facing the Americans evolve.

Washington knows the capture of Stony Point, a formidable British redoubt, could be the turning point of the war.
Despite the odds, Anthony Wayne believes he can storm it.

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was a prolific American author, who wrote 325 books under his own name and under several pseudonyms. He channeled his own wartime experience in military intelligence into many of his novels, as well as writing widely about American history. His titles include `Liner', `The Conqueror's Wife', `The Great Rogue: A Biography of Captain John Smith' and `Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Shelley'.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TS76FBO/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TS76FBO/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00TS76FBO/

[Ricky D'Angelo]

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law authorizing the removal of southern tribes to Indian Territory in the west. In 1838, the Trail of Tears occur when the remaining people are forcibly removed and marched a thousand plus miles on foot.

George Massey, a twenty year old Cherokee, finds himself being force-marched to Indian Territory during the winter of 1838. One day he collapses and the Army escorting the Cherokee assumes he’s dead. When he comes to later, he gets lost in the Kentucky woods and finds a family of Scots, the McGregor’s, who take him in.

The story follows George as he gets to know the family, goes to Indian Territory to find out what happened to his clan, returns and marries the McGregor daughter, Ellie. Later on, they’re one of the first to travel by wagon train to California. In California, they get involved in the War with Mexico and the Gold Rush. After the Gold Rush, they return to Kentucky when news of Ellie’s father’s death reaches them, where they have to decide what to do next in this first novel in the “An American Journey” series.

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Journey-A.../dp/B00UVXEOUI

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/lon...78717969?mt=11

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...=2940151229975

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...orical-fiction

https://www.scribd.com/book/25938772...orical-Fiction

[GA Russell]

Flunking Chemistry: The Baseball Players - free

Oops! It looks like this was self-published.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law authorizing the removal of southern tribes to Indian Territory in the west. In 1838, the Trail of Tears occur when the remaining people are forcibly removed and marched a thousand plus miles on foot.

George Massey, a twenty year old Cherokee, finds himself being force-marched to Indian Territory during the winter of 1838. One day he collapses and the Army escorting the Cherokee assumes he’s dead. When he comes to later, he gets lost in the Kentucky woods and finds a family of Scots, the McGregor’s, who take him in.

The story follows George as he gets to know the family, goes to Indian Territory to find out what happened to his clan, returns and marries the McGregor daughter, Ellie. Later on, they’re one of the first to travel by wagon train to California. In California, they get involved in the War with Mexico and the Gold Rush. After the Gold Rush, they return to Kentucky when news of Ellie’s father’s death reaches them, where they have to decide what to do next in this first novel in the “An American Journey” series.

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Journey-A.../dp/B00UVXEOUI

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/lon...78717969?mt=11

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...=2940151229975

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...orical-fiction

https://www.scribd.com/book/25938772...orical-Fiction

Amazon has this as a preorder until March 30th.
Apache

[itisbomb]

Pope Joan: A Novel
by Donna Woolfolk Cross

is $1.99 at

Kobo https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/pope-joan

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Pope-Joan-Donn...7201669&sr=8-1

Below is the blurb:
"Engaging . . . Pope Joan has all the elements: love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

For a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.

When her older brother dies in a Viking attack, the brilliant young Joan assumes his identity and enters a Benedictine monastery where, as Brother John Anglicus, she distinguishes herself as a scholar and healer. Eventually drawn to Rome, she soon becomes enmeshed in a dangerous mix of powerful passion and explosive politics that threatens her life even as it elevates her to the highest throne in the Western world.

"Brings the savage ninth century vividly to life in all its alien richness. An enthralling, scholarly historical novel."
--Rebecca Fraser, Author of The Brontës

[GA Russell]

The President's Killers - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/The-Presidents...dp/B00FML0SMW/

*****

Force 10 from Navarone - MacLean - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Force-10-Navar...dp/B004JHYTHU/

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Condor's Feather by Margaret Muir, an historical adventure/suspense tale with romantic elements involving an expedition to South America in 1885, originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 2009.

Intrigue and adventure combine with a touch of romance in this unconventional story set in 1885.

With her thirst for adventure, Cynthia Beresford refuses to be constrained by the standards demanded of her by aristocratic Victorian society. She not only rides like a man, but desires other privileges enjoyed by the gentlemen of her era. Searching for excitement, she forgoes the luxuries of life at Huntingley and embarks on a riding expedition across the Pampas of Patagonia.

Though little is known of that inhospitable land, she is undeterred and boards a steamer in Liverpool bound for South America. Accompanying her on the voyage are her father and twin brother, her brother’s friend – a playwright, and her faithful Newfoundland dogs.

On the outward passage, Thia meets a mysterious Welshman, Euan Davies and when the party disembarks from the steamer on the Strait of Magellan, Davies agrees to accompany them on the ride and act as their guide. But after only a week in the saddle, his disturbing secret starts to unravel. Soon Thia’s party find themselves embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a group of dangerous prison escapees.

Beset by Indians, inhospitable terrain, pampas winds and mountain lions, is it possible this mismatched group of travellers can survive their adventure at the tail end of the world?

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Sarah: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt by Joel Gross, a biographical novel about Exactly Whom It Says In The Title (Wikipedia), originally out from HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint in 1987.

An historically detailed account of the life of an actress, based on the true story of Sarah Bernhardt whose career began in Paris during the 1860s and brought her 60 years of world-wide fame.

ETA: Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman's Tale of Life on the Prairie by Linda K. Hubalek, an historical novel about the 19th century Sweden-to-Kansas immigrant experience of Exactly What It Says In The Title, 1st in her eponymous series, originally out from small press Hearth Pub in 1992.

Swedish immigrant Kajsa Svensson Runeberg fights to survive and build a homestead on the Kansas prairie as she and her family faces the trials of weather, disease, accidents, and loneliness.

This historical fiction, written in the form of diary entries dating 1868 to 1888, is based on the actual woman who homesteaded the author's childhood home. True stories gathered on this Swedish family and community show the determination these pioneers had, to face and overcome the conflicts and tragedy that happened in their lives.

[PandathePanda]

THis is currently free at amazon.

Straight Curves by Christopher Figueroa

Book Description:
To the outside world, the Williams' seem like the regular American family. Behind closed doors, the story is much different. Journey into the life of a gay teenager named Bruce Williams Smith. Destiny placed him in a society that doesn't accept people like him; due to his sexual preference he is obligated to face obstacles that make his life almost impossible to live. Inside of this emotionally challenging book, Christopher A. Figueroa paints an explicit picture of the real treatment our society forces on homosexual teens.

Beware it ain't an easy read