FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Acataloger

However this is resolved, I hope we don't lose ATDrake's pithy genre/reviews that appear below the stickies. I enjoy those very much and would hate to see them folded into a mere one-word category.

I guess I'm in the minority here. I forget to go directly to the deals and freebies forum. I use tapatalk and I'm subscribed to the genre threads I'm interested in so I don't need to go to the forum. A lot of the posts are Christian and romance which I don't like anyway. Oh well.

[Little.Egret]

Repeat freebies

The Warrielaw Jewel by Peck,Winifred and Edwards,Martin

A Footman for the Peacock by Rachel Ferguson

A Chelsea Concerto by Frances Faviell

Evenfield by Rachel Ferguson


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...r=dean+street*

[GA Russell]

ATTENTION ISSY!!!

Anyone Got a Match? - Max Shulman - $2.09
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018V77IG2

[issybird]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

ATTENTION ISSY!!!

Anyone Got a Match? - Max Shulman - $2.09
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018V77IG2

Eventually I'll have them all! Thanks.

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour, free


The Wise and The Foolish Virgins by Marguerite Steen

In a large northern seaport in 1930s England, Catherine Malley, a delicate schoolgirl from an impoverished family of questionable repute, seeks solace in her studies, her daydreams and the cherished weekly privilege of cleaning Miss Gatty’s kitchen.

Miss Gatty, the long-standing disciplinarian and bully of Orange Street School, quick to pass judgement and to dismiss the potential, or indeed human worth, of any ‘slum’ child that comes under her rule.

A thrilling literary tale that chronicles the struggle to carve out a new life.

First published in 1932 by The Camelot Press Ltd, London and Southampton

https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Foolish-...dp/B06WP5TK9P/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wise-Foolis...dp/B06WP5TK9P/

https://www.amazon.ca/Wise-Foolish-V...dp/B06WP5TK9P/

[GA Russell]

Great Short Stories by American Women (Dover Thrift Editions) - 60 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Stories...dp/B00A73FI4I/

[Little.Egret]

Repeat freebies

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...r=dean+street*

Arrest the Bishop? by Winifred Peck

A Harp in Lowndes Square by Rachel Ferguson

A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell

Thalia by Frances Faviell

The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell

[ZodWallop]

A repeat bargain (I think), Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving is $2.99 at Amazon. I haven't read this one yet, but Irving is a terrific writer.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes*Last Night in Twisted River*is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A repeat bargain (I think), Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving is $2.99 at Amazon. I haven't read this one yet, but Irving is a terrific writer.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes*Last Night in Twisted River*is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Just a heads up to the voice in your head: Coos has two syllables. If you knew that, never mind!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by issybird

Just a heads up to the voice in your head: Coos has two syllables. If you knew that, never mind!

Huh. Good to know. I thought it was pronounced the same as a vulgar word I won't post here.

I wonder if Irving clears up the pronunciation in the book. I bought it in November. Maybe I ought to find out?

[ZodWallop]

John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America is $1.99 at Amazon.

I wasn't sure if I should list it as fiction or nonfiction. But Amazon lists it as fiction and there's likely more Steinbeck fans in this thread.

Worryingly, Amazon lists it as 21 pages. But I bought the book and it seems to be complete.

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition

In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.

His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.

Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.

[ZodWallop]

John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon.

This is an Irving book I haven't yet read, though I loved the movie adaptation, Simon Birch.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.

[ZodWallop]

Speaking of John Irving, his collection Trying to Save Piggy Sneed is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon.

Here is a treat for devoted fans of John Irving. First published twenty years ago, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by the author, beginning with three memoirs. The longest of the memoirs is "The Imaginary Girlfriend," his candid account of his twin careers in writing and wrestling, which, as the Denver Post observed, is filled "with anecdotes that are every bit as hilarious as the antics in his novels . . . [and] combines the lessons of both obsessions."

The middle portion of the book is fiction. Over a career that spans thirteen novels, these are the six stories that Mr. Irving considers finished. Among them is "Interior Space," for which he won the O. Henry Award. In the third and final section are three homages: one to Günter Grass and two to Charles Dickens. To each of the twelve pieces, he has contributed author's notes, which provide some perspective on the circumstances surrounding the writing of each piece.

[GA Russell]

Mr. Wicker's Window - free
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Wickers-Wi...dp/B004UKBU28/

(My sister gave me this when I was ten.)

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Mr. Wicker's Window - free
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Wickers-Wi...dp/B004UKBU28/

(My sister gave me this when I was ten.)

Only free in the US I think

PD in US

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28952

Carley DAWSON (1910 - 1977) so not PD in Life+X countries