FREE/BARGAIN - General and Historical Fiction, Literature - 2016

[Little.Egret]

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A Room with a View (1924) by E.M. Forster (1879-1970)

One of E. M. Forster's most celebrated novels, A Room With a View is the story of a young English middle-class girl, Lucy Honeychurch. While vacationing in Italy, Lucy meets and is wooed by two gentlemen, George Emerson and Cecil Vyse. After turning down Cecil Vyse's marriage proposals twice Lucy finally accepts. Upon hearing of the engagement George protests and confesses his true love for Lucy. Lucy is torn between the choice of marrying Cecil, who is a more socially acceptable mate, and George who she knows will bring her true happiness.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GW4RURI/

Public domain in the USA.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GW4RURI/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01GW4RURI/

Hmm.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free

A Room with a View (1924) by E.M. Forster (1879-1970)

One of E. M. Forster's most celebrated novels, A Room With a View is the story of a young English middle-class girl, Lucy Honeychurch. While vacationing in Italy, Lucy meets and is wooed by two gentlemen, George Emerson and Cecil Vyse. After turning down Cecil Vyse's marriage proposals twice Lucy finally accepts. Upon hearing of the engagement George protests and confesses his true love for Lucy. Lucy is torn between the choice of marrying Cecil, who is a more socially acceptable mate, and George who she knows will bring her true happiness.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GW4RURI/

Public domain in the USA.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GW4RURI/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01GW4RURI/

Hmm.

If it was published in 1924, why is it in the public domain in the US? It shouldn't be.

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by HarryT

If it was published in 1924, why is it in the public domain in the US? It shouldn't be.

According to Wikipedia (which I hate) it was published in 1908.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

According to Wikipedia (which I hate) it was published in 1908.

Yep, my eye skipped, it was A Passage to India that was 1924

My Hmm was because it is still in copyright in UK and Canada - Ozymandias Press and Amazon haven't noticed.

[GtrsRGr8]

It's apparently a self-pub (I went to the publisher's website and found that it was solely devoted to this one book). However, this book won the the Mississippi Library Association 2015 Fiction Award, and has received many other awards and accolades. See the book webpage at Amazon to learn about all of them (be sure to notice the Kindle store sales rankings for the ebook). And, it's very highly rated (4.8 stars) at Amazon.

I know what some of you are thinking--"Yeah, but it's from the state of Mississippi. Can any book from there be any good?" Ever heard of Welty, Faulkner, Grisham, or Winfrey? They're all from Mississippi.

The Poppy Field Diary. By Carey Richard. Rated 4.8 stars from 46 reviews, at Amazon. Print list price $12.99; digital list price $3.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Bonhoeffer Publishing, publisher. 500 pages. https://www.amazon.com/Poppy-Field-D.../dp/B00MTYQAIG.

Book Description
From award winning author Carey Richard comes his debut literary fiction—a compelling journey through the beautiful fields of the human heart. Kirkus Reviews describes it as, "A highly personal story that mines the psychology of betrayal and forgiveness . . ."

Afghanistan was a beautiful land until greed and ambition pillaged its fertile valleys. She was beautiful too. Betrayed and broken, she journeyed through forty years of nomadic longing as her picturesque village disintegrated along with her hope. Unlike her beloved land, she at last discovered her place of rest.

Hers is a story for everyone who has ever loved. We dream, we hope, and we fall in love, only to hurt the thing we cherish most. But a few rare and beautiful relationships survive that lonely journey through the minefields of passion to discover intimacy, kindness, and forgiveness.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

It's apparently a self-pub (I went to the publisher's website and found that it was solely devoted to this one book). However, this book won the the Mississippi Library Association 2015 Fiction Award, and has received many other awards and accolades. See the book webpage at Amazon to learn about all of them (be sure to notice the Kindle store sales rankings for the ebook). And, it's very highly rated (4.8 stars) at Amazon.

I know what some of you are thinking--"Yeah, but it's from the state of Mississippi. Can any book from there be any good?" Ever heard of Welty, Faulkner, Grisham, or Winfrey? They're all from Mississippi.

The Poppy Field Diary. By Carey Richard. Rated 4.8 stars from 46 reviews, at Amazon. Print list price $12.99; digital list price $3.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Bonhoeffer Publishing, publisher. 500 pages. https://www.amazon.com/Poppy-Field-D.../dp/B00MTYQAIG.

Book Description
From award winning author Carey Richard comes his debut literary fiction—a compelling journey through the beautiful fields of the human heart. Kirkus Reviews describes it as, "A highly personal story that mines the psychology of betrayal and forgiveness . . ."

Afghanistan was a beautiful land until greed and ambition pillaged its fertile valleys. She was beautiful too. Betrayed and broken, she journeyed through forty years of nomadic longing as her picturesque village disintegrated along with her hope. Unlike her beloved land, she at last discovered her place of rest.

Hers is a story for everyone who has ever loved. We dream, we hope, and we fall in love, only to hurt the thing we cherish most. But a few rare and beautiful relationships survive that lonely journey through the minefields of passion to discover intimacy, kindness, and forgiveness.

This looks wonderful. Got it.

Thank you!

[GtrsRGr8]

I created a message and thought that I had posted it last night. But I looked all over and didn't find it. I must have navigated away from the webpage where I was composing the message (I do that quite a lot. Arrrghhh!). Anyway, the message seems to have disappeared into cyberspace. Instead of recreating it (I hate doing things over!), I'll give you the short version.

Murder Mezzo Forte, by Donn Taylor. FREE. Must have a Kindle ereader, with Kindle email address. http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u...&id=62a86587de.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I created a message and thought that I had posted it last night. But I looked all over and didn't find it. I must have navigated away from the webpage where I was composing the message (I do that quite a lot. Arrrghhh!). Anyway, the message seems to have disappeared into cyberspace. Instead of recreating it (I hate doing things over!), I'll give you the short version.

Murder Mezzo Forte, by Donn Taylor. FREE. Must have a Kindle ereader, with Kindle email address. http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u...&id=62a86587de.

No, you, or someone at least, posted it somewhere here last night or so, because I tried it this morning.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

No, you, or someone at least, posted it somewhere here last night or so, because I tried it this morning.

Thanks for that info. I actually did a search for "GtrsRGr8" just before I went ahead and made the abbreviated post above, today, and didn't see the post. This was after manually checking all of the threads where I could conceivably have posted it.

So, I'm putting out an APB (All Points Bulletin) . . . . If someone finds the original post somewhere, please PM me or let me know on the open thread, and I'll delete the post above.

ha

[GA Russell]

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[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks for that info. I actually did a search for "GtrsRGr8" just before I went ahead and made the abbreviated post above, today, and didn't see the post. This was after manually checking all of the threads where I could conceivably have posted it.

So, I'm putting out an APB (All Points Bulletin) . . . . If someone finds the original post somewhere, please PM me or let me know on the open thread, and I'll delete the post above.

ha

I've solved the mystery. It's in that thread.

[sufue]

Haven't found much recently...

A very few (mostly repeat) Kindle Countdown deals:

Meltdown is the 7th in the Richard Mariner series by Peter Tonkin. It's at $0.99 for about 2 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Pete.../dp/B01FFXVFUA

Spoiler:

‘Equals the best of James Clavell’ – Daily Telegraph

A mission to complete. A war to avert. A nation to save ...

It is spring in west Africa.

Richard Mariner of the Heritage-Mariner Shipping Company has delivered the great iceberg, codenamed Manhattan, to the drought-stricken country of Mau.

Now, with his associates in the United Nations, he stands ready to release the life-giving water it represents to the parched heartlands.

But disaster is always close at hand and the political situation threatens to ruin everything when a military coup sparks a bloody tribal war.

The diplomatic situation also becomes critical as war hungry neighbours, illicitly armed with the most advanced weapons, are tempted into the fray.

There are those who suspect that the gigantic ice-island has been contaminated with the top-secret results of a desperate gamble to avert total meltdown at Chernobyl.

Suspicion soon turns apparent friends into secret enemies who cannot let Mariner succeed, no matter what terrible price his failure might cost…

As the torrid heat of a tropical summer begins to build, Richard Mariner must carry out an epic experiment; one which will prevent Manhattan from melting, and thereby avert a massive social, moral and financial disaster.

But he only has sixty-six days in which to do it and time is quickly running out…

Meltdown is a thrilling adventure novel set on the perilous high seas.

A Tall Man in Ray-Bans is the first in the John Tall Wolf by Joseph Flynn, with ties (at least in later books) to Flynn's Jim McGill series. Flynn started out with a number of conventionally published titles, but is now into self-publishing via his own Stray Dog Press. I've read many of his books, both conventionally published and self-published, including this one, and have enjoyed them all regardless. Tall Man is at $0.99 for about 3 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007FIQMHU/

Spoiler:

Out for a day’s adventure exploring the dry bed of Lake Travis in Austin, Texas, two young boys stumble upon a skeleton. It might be all that remains of a fugitive named Randy Bear Heart. Wanted for robbing three banks and killing three cops, Bear Heart was never brought to justice.

The FBI is called on to determine how the outlaw avoided arrest for twenty-five years and who put him in the lake wearing chains. The BIA — Bureau of Indian Affairs — gets the very same job. Special Agent John Tall Wolf is put on the case because one of the dead cops was a Native American who worked at the Mercy Ridge Reservation.

The FBI wants John to “coordinate all your efforts” through SAC Gilbert Melvin. John is having none of that, saying, “I’ll conduct my investigation as I see fit.” He doesn’t even get along with his own boss, Marlene Flower Moon, head of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.

While interviewing John for his job, Marlene was amused by his assertiveness, and asked him, “What do you want, a license to take scalps?” John said, “Yeah, that’d be good.”

Three titles by Julie Smith:

Huckleberry Fiend is the second in the Paul Mcdonald series, at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Huckleberry-F.../dp/B00D7O87U6

Spoiler:

“A deftly plotted mystery…a delightful book.”—San Antonio Express News
“A literary romp…a bright, light, cleverly written tale.” —Cincinnati Post
A RISIBLE TREAT FOR THE RIGOROUS BIBLIOPHILE
(AND ANYONE ELSE WHO LOVES A GOOD PUZZLE) …
The most priceless American manuscript in existence has unceremoniously dropped into Paul Mcdonald's hands--now what?

In between much-needed therapy sessions, Paul's neurotic friend Booker the burglar stole it from his dad’s girl friend’s roommate, and now wants sometime-sleuth Paul to find its rightful owner. Because he’s pretty sure the roommate's not it.

Paul is so awed he can hardly bring himself to touch it. It’s none other than the missing holograph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Beverly the roommate's no librarian, she’s a flight attendant, so Booker suspects chicanery. He’s only too right: Beverly, it turns out, is dead. Murdered for the manuscript, if Paul’s guess is right.

He finds out it’s in high demand from a zany collection of collectors, Huckleberry Fiends of all stripes of crazy, every single one of them capable of murder. Suddenly he’s the protagonist of A Literary Nightmare, surrounded by Mysterious Strangers, playing out A Double-Barrelled Detective Story involving A Stolen White Elephant and pretty much Roughing It with the bullying Homicide Inspector Howard Blick.

It’s truly, A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage….no, not a marriage, a manuscript! But Paul does have his eye on tough and savvy Sardis Kincannon…

The liberally-sprinkled Mark Twain quotes and references make this witty yarn a treat for the literary-minded, and better yet, the twisty plot will satisfy the pickiest mystery fiend.

Fans of mysteries about books will especially like it--Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series, John Dunning's Cliff Janeway books, the Death on Demand books by Carloyn Hart, and Joan Hess's Claire Malloy series.

Kindness of Strangers is the sixth in the Skip Langdon series, at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days
link: https://www.amazon.com/Kindness-Stra.../dp/B008I7SGOY

Spoiler:

"A breathless thriller " -Los Angeles Times
A MADMAN, A COP OBSESSED, AND A WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE LOVE AFFAIR…
Kindness of Strangers is the SIXTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith.
“ like a good Grisham: taut, fast, and thrilling. But with a lot more heart and soul.” -The Clarion-Ledger

Politics makes the strangest bedfellows of all and in New Orleans, a psychopath’s running for mayor. Not just the usual harmless megalomaniac—a murderer and a monster. His supporters and a good proportion of would-be voters think he’s just a kindly preacher-man and handily crucify anyone who says otherwise. Enter Detective Skip Langdon, who met the Rev. Errol Jacomine on a case, finds him pretty much the personification of evil, and can point to a pile of corpses to prove it.

But Langdon’s fresh out of street cred. On administrative leave after shooting someone, she’s become the Cassandra of the police department—everything she says gets put down to paranoia. So finding the proof to discredit Jacomine becomes her obsession until he kidnaps a couple of kids she cares about—and then it turns into a mission from hell.

Langdon has to bull her way through a hurricane to find the small army of Jacomine’s thugs who’ve got 15-year-old Sheila, the closest thing she has to a niece, and Sheila’s friend, who’s having the mother of inappropriate love affairs—with someone dangerously close to Jacomine.

“As usual, Smith serves up a gritty, gripping story along with a big helping of action and a pinch of humor, all appropriately seasoned by the wonderfully steamy steaminess of New Orleans.” -Booklist

House of Blues is the fifth in the Skip Langdon series. It's at $0.99 for about 1/2 a day more.
link: https://www.amazon.com/House-Blues-A.../dp/B008NOY09W

Spoiler:

House of Blues is the FIFTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon Series by Julie Smith.
"One of the best of the Skip Langdon series" -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"...two-fisted action, tender romance, and nail-biting suspense..." -The Jackson Clarion Ledger
DISTURBING FAMILY SECRETS, A CURIOUS KIDNAPPING, AND COLD-BLOODED MURDER HAUNT THIS GRITTY AND MYSTERIOUS SOUTHERN DRAMA.

Sugar Hebert arrives home from a ten-minute errand to find her husband shot to death and the rest of her family missing—including her daughter Reed, heir apparent to the Hebert restaurant dynasty, and Reed's eleven-month-old daughter.

Detective Skip Langdon’s hunt for a murderer and the missing Hebert heirs embraces worlds within worlds—splendid but dangerous Garden District digs, Faubourg Marigny drug dens, broken-down projects, lowdown bars, an elegant hangout for crooked politicos, and a dealer’s crib masquerading as a sultan’s palace, harem and all. A palm reader warns Langdon of danger, but it comes when she's least prepared for it. Before long, the mob’s involved (maybe there’s a reason Hebert’s Restaurant won the lucrative casino contract), and so are family secrets so ugly they’d make Tennessee Williams wince. Everyone has them—the Heberts, the mob princess, even the crooked cop.

And Langdon finds she should have listened to the damned palm reader.

"The real star of this superb effort is New Orleans, which has never seemed more dangerous or alluring—or less easy." -Publishers Weekly

"Smith brings the city strikingly alive." -Boston Sunday Globe

“...proves once again that Julie smith is one of our most talented mystery writers and that Skip Langdon is one of the most engaging modern detectives to have appeared on the American scene in the last two decades." -The Clarion Ledger

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

I've solved the mystery. It's in that thread.

What thread is "that thread"?

[GtrsRGr8]

ADDENDUM: I forgot to mention--you do not have to have a Kindle ereader or Kindle email address to get these books, as you did with the previous Lighthouse Publishing ebook that I posted earlier.


Here are three more free books from the same publisher, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, as Murder Mezzo Forte, which I posted earlier.

When you follow the link, you will see that there are actually five books. The last two are devotionals, which I didn't have any interest in posting on the "Christian Interest" thread. So, I'm going to say that there are just three books.

With the name of the publisher having the word "Lighthouse" in it, you might surmise that it does religious publishing. I know that the publisher does, in fact, publish some religious books, but I don't know whether there is anything religious in these three books or not.

Here are the authors and titles of the freebies:
Jason Brannon--Maze.
Pat Patterson--Tested by Fire.
Lisa Lawmaster Hess--Casting the First Stone.

Here's the link.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this post won't disappear like the one, by the same publisher, that I posted last night. ha

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

ADDENDUM: I forgot to mention--you do not have to have a Kindle ereader or Kindle email address to get these books, as you did with the previous Lighthouse Publishing ebook that I posted earlier.


Here are three more free books from the same publisher, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, as Murder Mezzo Forte, which I posted earlier.

When you follow the link, you will see that there are actually five books. The last two are devotionals, which I didn't have any interest in posting on the "Christian Interest" thread. So, I'm going to say that there are just three books.

With the name of the publisher having the word "Lighthouse" in it, you might surmise that it does religious publishing. I know that the publisher does, in fact, publish some religious books, but I don't know whether there is anything religious in these three books or not.

Here are the authors and titles of the freebies:
Jason Brannon--Maze.
Pat Patterson--Tested by Fire.
Lisa Lawmaster Hess--Casting the First Stone.

Here's the link.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this post won't disappear like the one, by the same publisher, that I posted last night. ha

It's still here. Thanks for posting. FYI, five (5) books are available as of this posting. The others are:
The Cheese Devotional
Answering the Call