FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

^ A GREAT novel by an important writer!


I heartily recommend this book.

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The World According to Garp by John Irving is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon US.

Good find!!

[Kieran Seymour]

Couple of Jeffrey Archer novels going free in the UK at the moment. Only Time Will Tell has been free before.

Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles #1)

Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles begins the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol.

It is 1920, and against the backdrop of a world ravaged by conflict, Harry’s story begins with the words ‘I was told that my father was killed in the war’. Harry’s existence is defined by the death of his father and he seems destined to a life on the docks until a remarkable gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys school and entry into a world he could never have envisaged.

Over the course of twenty years, as the Second World War and the fight against Hitler draws nearer, Harry will learn the awful truth about his father’s death and of his own connections to a powerful shipping family, the Barringtons. And in doing so, he will change his destiny forever . . .

Richly imagined and populated with remarkable characters, the Clifton Chronicles will take you on a powerful journey, bringing to life one hundred years of family history in a story neither you, nor Harry, could ever have dreamt of.

Kane and Abel

Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel was a global phenomenon when it was first released, selling over one million copies in its first week of sale, and it has captivated readers worldwide ever since.

They had only one thing in common . . . William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant – two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.

Kane and Abel is the marvellous story, spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save . . . and finally destroy . . . each other.

Jeffrey Archer's international bestseller is followed by the enthralling sequel, The Prodigal Daughter.

[GA Russell]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCK65W/

(I remember reading that one time the Dodgers lost, maybe the World Series, and a sports writer wrote, "A tree grows in Brooklyn, and it is an apple tree.")

[Tarana]

Two Morland Dynasty books by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles are $1.99. This is a great historical fiction series that focuses on one family from the middle ages through the 1920s. This series is completed.

The Measure of Days (book 30)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GVFS8WU
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-measure-of-days
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mea...=9780748133178

The Phoenix (book 35 and final of series):
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GU2R3U2
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-phoenix-14
Barnes&Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...=9781405517157

[GA Russell]

The Best American Short Stories 2019 - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Best-American...dp/B07LC9915M/

[ZodWallop]

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Couple of Jeffrey Archer novels going free in the UK at the moment. Only Time Will Tell has been free before.

Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles #1)


Kane and Abel

Nice find! I've been wanting to read this author. Just grabbed both.

[ZodWallop]

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin is $1.99 at Amazon US.

In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice.

Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions–affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

[sufue]

Time and Chance is the second in Sharon Kay Penman's Plantagenets historical series. I've really loved Penman's short four-book historical mystery series - which this is NOT - not a mystery that is . But I haven't read any of her "normal" historical works. I keep meaning to, but they have yet to hit the top of my TBR pile.

In any case, Time and Chance is on sale for $2.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. Penman's books usually sell for a lot more, so if you think you might want it, grab it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Chance-P...dp/B002VXTB0O/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/time-and-chance-2

Spoiler:

The sequel to Sharon Kay Penman's acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance recounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.

He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. It was said he was Fortune's favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry and bloodshed. Only in one instance did Henry err: Elevating his good friend and confidant Thomas Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, he thought to gain control over the Church itself. But the once worldly Becket suddenly discovered God, and their alliance withered in the heat of his newfound zeal. What Becket saw as a holy mission-to protect the Church against State encroachments-Henry saw as arrant betrayal, and they were launched inevitably on the road to murder.

Rich in character and color, true to the historical details, sensitive to the complex emotions of these men and women, Time and Chance recreates their story with all the drama, pain, and passion of the moment.

[ZodWallop]

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is $1.99 at Amazon US.

“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

[sufue]

The Fiery Cross is the fifth in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It has dropped to £2.99 at Kindle UK. Some titles in this series have dropped as low as £0.99 before, but per eReaderIQ, this one hasn't been on sale at a lower price since eRiq started tracking it.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005H0CC9U

Spoiler:

THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES

Now a major TV series

1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.

Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from his beloved Scotland, he is at last possessed of the land he has longed for. By his side his extraordinary wife, Claire, a woman out of time and out of place, blessed with the uneasy gift of the knowledge of what is to come.

In the past, that knowledge has brought both danger and deliverance to Jamie and Claire. Now it could be a flickering torch that will light their way through the perilous years ahead - or might ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.

[tch65721]

A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick F. McManus - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074LBTBM

Humor. If you grew up camping, hunting, fishing or hiking I have no doubt you will relate to these stories.

“A hilarious compilation” (Los Angeles Times), A Fine and Pleasant Misery gathers twenty-seven witty, cautionary tales of the outdoor life from beloved humorist Patrick F. McManus in a collection edited and introduced by Jack Samson, long-time editor-in-chief of Field & Stream.

[Tarana]

The Shining by Stephen King $2.99

Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Shining-Ste...9162951&sr=8-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-shining-1

[Dr. Drib]

^ I think most readers would classify 'The Shining' as a horror novel.