Free/Bargain General Fiction & Literature in April 2014

[Gazella]

Saving Max By Antoinette Van Heugten

Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder.

Attorney Danielle Parkman can't deny her son's behavior has been getting worse—drugs and violent outbursts have become a frightening routine. But the diagnosis she receives from a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that Max is deeply disturbed—and dangerous—is too devastating to accept.

Until she finds Max, weapon in hand, at the bedside of a fellow patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.

$4.99 (originally $7.99)


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[Gazella]

Mosaic By Jacqui Henderson

Roberta Flanders is ill in hospital and wants to spend what time she has left at home, so at the end of the summer term, Louise collects her daughter Megan from school and they drive to the old farmhouse in the country, which has been in the family for generations.

Roberta’s life has not been easy and once back at home and in her own bed, ghosts from the past start to reveal their secrets, causing her to question some of her beliefs. As Lillian shares her story, Louise and Megan come to realise just how much the past still affects the present, although as always, Roberta has her own point of view.

Free (originally $2.99)


Amazon

[Gazella]

Anne of Green Gables Stories: 12 Books, 142 Short Stories By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Included books from the Anne of Green Gables Series:

Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne's House of Dreams
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
Chronicles of Avonlea
Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Additional material from Lucy Maud Montgomery includes:

* A collection of 142 short stories
* The Story Girl
* The Golden Road
* Kilmeny of the Orchard
* The Watchman and Other Poems

The most complete collection of Lucy Maud Montgomery's writing assembled for the Kindle, offering hours of enjoyment through the Anne of Green Gables series and numerous other stories.

$0.99

Amazon

[peachiekene]

Bargain

$2.99
White Girl Problems by Babe Walker

Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab-that's what happens when you spend $246,893.50 in one afternoon at Barneys. Now she's decided to write her memoir, revealing the gut-wrenching hurdles she's had to overcome in order to be perfect in every way, every day. Hurdles such as:

I hate my horse.
Every job I've ever had is the worst job I've ever had.
He's not a doctor, a lawyer, or a prince.
I'll eat anything, as long as it's gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie, sugar-free, and organic.
In an Adderall-induced flash of inspiration, Babe Walker has managed to create one of the most enjoyable, unforgettable memoirs in years.

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[peachiekene]

Bargain

$1.99
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's I've Got Your Number.

Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better....

Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it.

Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bank -- letters with large red sums she can't bear to read -- and they're getting ever harder to ignore.

She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something...

Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life--and the lives of those around her--forever.

Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our times -- and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood's hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.

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[kg3]

FREE:

Sweet Water: A Novel - Christina Baker Kline
-HarperCollins, 1993 & 2010 reprint edtion

Amazon US----B&N
-Not available at Amazon UK, not FREE at Kobo US, this is also the Nook Friday Freebie

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a beautifully wrought novel about a daughter's search for the truth about her mother's death. Both a Southern literary saga and a psychological thriller, “it will grab readers from the first line" (Chattanooga News-Free Press).

From Publishers Weekly
Kline's first novel is a captivating read. When a grandfather she never knew bequeaths her a house and 60 acres of land in Sweetwater, Tenn., a restless young artist leaves New York to recover her past and rethink her future. Cassie Simon's mother Ellen died when Cassie was only three; raised in Boston by her grieving father, she never knew her maternal relatives. Unprepared for the thick veil of mystery that surrounds them, Cassie is especially bewildered by her brusque grandmother, whom rumor credits with hiding a terrible secret about Ellen's death. In alternating sections told from their respective points of view, Cassie and her grandmother fight their separate battles to cope with the truth about the tragedy. Kline perfectly renders each woman's voice: Cassie's, probing and often uncertain, propels the narrative and creates an appropriate level of psychological suspense; the grandmother's quavers with the weight of memory as Cassie's search forces her beyond family myth to a painful and perhaps dangerous truth. The result is a powerful, immensely readable tale of loyalty and betrayal, family and memory, made fresh by Kline's often beautiful and always lucid prose.

[Pangolin]

Thanks chaps, some good stuff here : )

[peachiekene]

Bargain

$1.99
Serena (P.S.) by Ron Rash

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.

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[Difflugia]

An annotated edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility from Bethany House is free at the moment at Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Amazon. The same edition is $5.24 at Google.