FREE/BARGAIN - General Fiction, Literature - 2014

[murg]

Originally Posted by Froide

Wildside's new FREE EBOOK MONDAY Release! (For December 1, 2014)

The Christmas MEGAPACK™: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories

Christmas muzak for the eyes...

Vuzac?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by murg

Christmas muzak for the eyes...

Vuzac?

Got it.

Thank you.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by murg

Christmas muzak for the eyes...

Vuzac?

Good analogy.

[BelleZora]

Free today: Decades by Ruth Harris. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1974. Not free in Australia.

THREE WOMEN. THREE DECADES. Spanning the years from the optimistic post-War 1940s to the Mad Men 1950s and rule-breaking "Make Love, Not War" 1960s, DECADES is about three generations of women who must confront the radical changes and upended expectations of the turbulent decades in which they lived.

Evelyn, talented but insecure, is a traditional woman of the 1940s. She is a loyal and loving wife and mother whose marriage and family mean everything to her.
Nick, handsome and ambitious, a chameleon who changes with the changing times, is her successful but restless husband.
Joy, their daughter, confused and defiant, a child of the 1960s, needs them both but is torn between them.
Barbara is the other woman, younger than Evelyn, accomplished but alone. She is a transitional woman of the 1950s who wonders if she can have everything--including another woman's husband.

DECADES, sweeping in scope yet intimate in detail, is the emotional, compelling story of family, marriage, crisis, betrayal and healing.

"The songs we sang, the clothes we wore, the way we made love. Absolutely perfect!" --Publisher's Weekly

Amazon CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B004H1TCXO/

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004H1TCXO/

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004H1TCXO/

Kobo US: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/decades-4

[ATDrake]

^

Thanks. That looks interesting, and it's nice to see a backlist freebie that isn't exclusively on Amazon.

Well, for those of you who enjoyed the "squalid circus" literary historical coming-of-age novel upthread , here's another from the same author.

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

Crimson China by Betsy Tobin, a literary multicultural journey of self-discovery thriller with romantic elements involving organized crime, originally out from Short Books in 2010. This quotes a lot of blurb praise from UK newspapers.

On a freezing night in February, a woman wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to commit suicide. Braced for death, she finds herself instead saving a man’s life: a young Chinese cockle picker, one of the only survivors of a tragic mass drowning. For Wen – now missing, presumed dead – Angie provides an unexpected sanctuary. They share neither language nor experience, but she agrees to let him stay with her and ‘disappear’. Soon their unlikely pairing blossoms into something darkly passionate.

But Wen’s past soon catches up with him, for he is still in debt to the snakeheads who brought him out of China. Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a dangerous hidden world that runs in parallel to our own.

[Little.Egret]

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Yes, D.H. Lawrence has been dead over 70 years so out of copyright in UK

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q733H04/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Q733H04/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00Q733H04/

[BelleZora]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Yes, D.H. Lawrence has been dead over 70 years so out of copyright in UK

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q733H04/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Q733H04/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00Q733H04/

If you want a different cover, here is the dust jacket to the Grosset and Dunlop 1st unexpurgated American edition (ca 1939). It was one of my happier thrift store finds.

[peachiekene]

Originally Posted by BelleZora

If you want a different cover, here is the dust jacket to the Grosset and Dunlop 1st unexpurgated American edition (ca 1939). It was one of my happier thrift store finds.

That cover is beautiful!
---And I just clicked through and saw the Kindle cover.... oh lord. Lol, what were they thinking with that?! Even a generic cover would be nicer.

[Little.Egret]

Pyrrhus now has 72 freebies

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...lisher=Pyrrhus

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

Only a few are fiction.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Matter of Grace by Jessica Barksdale Inclán, a contemporary literary/women's fiction inter-family drama novel originally published by Penguin's New American Library imprint in 2002.

Booklist praised Her Daughter's Eyes as "a modern-day depiction of familial disintegration with offbeat twists and luminous sparks of hope." Now, Jessica Barksdale Inclán reveals the closely intertwined lives of four women-their struggles to be good wives, mothers, friends-and the troubled secrets they hide.

Every summer, Felice, Helen, Stella, and Grace meet at Oakland View Swim and Tennis Club, watching their children learn to swim, slowly becoming friends. After seven years, there is no reason to think things will ever change-until the summer Grace's illness returns. On the brink of crisis, as the women try to help Grace confront a trauma that begins to seem quite different from what she claims, they are forced to examine their own lives...and face a painful truth. That they don't really know Grace-or themselves-at all...

[GtrsRGr8]

I'm not a fictionista, but so that no one can say that I'm not in the Christmas spirit, I am making this post to this fiction thread. That, and the fact that I enjoy Dickens' A Christmas Carol (well, the audio and theatrical versions of it, anyway), even though it is a work of fiction. Who knows, maybe I'll even like this one, too. I do hope that it's available in audio or video somewhere, though.

There is a website which is offering Charles Dickens' The Haunted Man or the Ghost’s Bargain. It's in pdf, which "format" some of you may not like. Like I said, I generally don't like fiction. So, I'm not aware if this book is available elsewhere, and I didn't check around to see.

I got the following information from this site: http://www.mbird.com/2011/12/dickens...e-haunted-man/. There is much more information there about the book than what I'm putting in this post.

Some say that Charles Dickens invented Christmas as we know it. At least, that A Christmas Carol rescued the celebration from post-Cromwell piety and prompted the Victorians to introduce many of the traditions that we have come to cherish: the tree, the presents, the holly and the ivy, etc. A little less well known is the fact that A Christmas Carol rescued Dickens’ career as well, proving so popular that he would go on to write four more Christmas novellas, three of which had supernatural elements but only one of which was an out-and-out ghost story a la A Christmas Carol. Oddly enough, despite the lasting popularity of A Christmas Carol, one of the Victorian traditions which has been lost in our Halloween-saturated culture is the propensity for telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve being the darkest day of the year, both spiritually and daylight-wise, the time when the boundary between the living and the dead was at its thinnest and ghosts could roam free. (As an aside: regardless of what the haters say, early Christians were not somehow unaware that they were aligning Christmas Eve with Winter Solstice. It was not an arbitrary decision. If you are celebrating light coming into the world, when better to begin than on the day after the darkest day of the year?!).

Anyway, Dickens would return to the ghost story model for his final Christmas novella, 1848’s The Haunted Man or the Ghost’s Bargain. It’s a bit more grisly than A Christmas Carol, and while certainly less iconic, contains an explicitly Christian potency that cannot be ignored (or is ignored for that reason…) . . . .

The link for the book, on the website that I gave the URL for above, is tiny and is buried amongst a lot of text. So, let me give you that link here. It's http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uplo...12/haunted.pdf.

I hope that this post is useful. If it is, I might even consider posting on a fiction thread more often. Naaaaah!

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

They Say She Tastes Like Honey by Michelle Sawyer, a humorous lesbian literary fiction novel with romantic elements, originally out from LGBT specialty publisher Alyson Books in 2003.

The blurb and cover for this say that it was a 2003 Lambda Literary Award finalist.

Can love trump sex and tequila in the life of an unruly New York lesbian?

Meet Macy Delongchamp, sophisticated lipstick lesbian and travel entrepreneur. Macy has led a charmed life, reveling in dozens of spicy sexual liasons and jetting about the world. At 40-plus, however, things are beginning to unravel. Her best friend, Trish, is dying; her drinking is out of control; and she's no longer the fresh-faced sweetheart of the chichi Manhattan scene. Just as she realizes her life is falling apart, she falls in love with Faith, a beautiful young woman on roller skates. But is Macy ready for the kind of life she's spent years ridiculing? More important, will she ever get over Faith's acid-washed jeans?

Join Macy on a roller-coaster ride of zany urban adventures--of muggers, mail-order monkeys, freak accidents, and fashion crimes; of infidelity, vandalism, and frequently, yes, heroism.

[GtrsRGr8]

HarperCollinsPublishers: 15 ebooks for $1.99/ea.: http://www.harpercollins.com/salespromotion.

[Fbone]

The Dogs of March by Ernest Herbert is FREE today. It was originally published in 1979 by Viking/Penguin but reissued by University of New England Press. Biographical. "By turns tormented, funny, poignant, and appalling" (The New York Times Book Review)

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=FolQBAAAQBAJ

http://smile.amazon.com/Dogs-March-D...+dogs+of+march

Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches mingle with a bullet-riddled washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures, and several junk cars. Howard, anti-hero of this first novel in Ernest Hebert's highly acclaimed Darby series, is a mixture too.
Howard's battle against encroaching change symbolizes the class conflict between indigenous Granite Staters scratching out a living and citified immigrants with "college degrees and big bank accounts." Like the winter-weakened deer threatened by the dogs of March -- the normally docile house pets whose instincts arouse them to chase and kill for sport -- Howard, too, is sorely beset.

[AwfulWaffle]

Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates is $2.99 on Google Play

Big Edit: Middle Age, Missing Mom, A Bloodsmoor Romance, Marya, American Appetites, Black Girl/White Girl, Sourland, Mudwoman, The Tattooed Girl, Wild Nights! are all $1.99 or $.99. Two of her nonfiction books are also $1.99.

Also, A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan (author of The Last Werewolf) is $.99.