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(I was aware you are an atheist -- I also got the impression that that would not stop you from trying out a *themed* book if it sounded interesting! Right?) Last edited by eschwartz; 03-04-2015 at 07:12 PM. |
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(Okay, not really, but you're right, I don't consider mere religious or other theming to be a deal-breaking barrier to my trying out stuff, unless there are other factors involved like the creators being very unsavoury persons whom I wouldn't want to give my time, much less my money, which is why I will never read or post certain freebies from Focus on the Family, no matter how much I like Viking stuff otherwise.) In case The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick was one of the ones that made your TBR, it's now 75% off as a Read an Ebook Week special from Bev Editions @ Smashwords. You can also get a freebie of of a Jewish-themed mystery novel by Howard Engel (Wikipedia), who has an Arthur Ellis Award (our top national crime writing prize) as well as an Order of Canada: The Whole Megillah, and Lita Rose-Betcherman's (one of our award-winning history writers) non-fiction about the rise of 30s fascism in Canada, is also 75% off with coupon, if you're interested, and the late Mordecai Richler gave this high praise: The Swastika and the Rose I think I might have one or two giftable Morley Torgov BevEditions books left from last year's RAEBW when they were freebies-via-coupon (not TOCOGM, though), and if you really want to try his writing before you maybe-buy, please let me know and I can dig around in my email archives and see if I still have them and didn't send them off to another MR member like IIRC doing to the Engel mystery last year. Also, a few more mystery/fantasy/graphic novel recommends if you're interested (some YA-ish or by YA-writing authors like Esther Friesner, but it would be pushing the point of this thread to post the lot as-is, so under the cut they go): Spoiler:
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03-09-2015, 03:00 PM | #18 |
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Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Even More Like Annabel by Alan Davidson, continuing the humorous tween adventures of the titular British schoolgirl, this installment originally out from Granada in 1985. "There'll be a reign of terror," Annabel tells Kate and Sheena, when the horrible Julia Channing is made a Monitor. And she's right. So now it's going to be up to The Silent Three to step out of the pages of an old comic and try to give Julia the fright of her life. As long as they're not recognised, of course...? And in the second of these two delightful comedies, Annabel takes on the Town Council over a condemned tree and makes a very unexpected TV debut. Even more like Annabel! |
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Thanks for the suggestions, will see if there is anything I like -- but at this point we may have just about pushed the thread too far.
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03-19-2015, 12:49 AM | #20 |
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X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread, since there's a YA in there for those looking for LGBT-friendly books potentially suitable for teen readers:
Free from the author's republishing consortium via KDP Select @ Amazon: Torch Song by Shelley Singer, an apparently YA sci-fi dystopian adventure thriller starring an apparently lesbian mercenary, originally out from Five Star in 2007. |
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Google Play has Suzanne Collin's Mockingjay, book three of The Hunger Games Trilogy, on sale for $3.99.
It's also been price-matched at Amazon, but not at Barnes & Noble or Kobo. |
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Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Me, Jill Robinson!: The Television Quiz by Anne Digby, another installment in her series of humorous tween adventure novels starring the eponymous schoolgirl, originally out from Dragon in 1983 and picked up for Penguin's Puffin imprint in 1990. Jill's adventures begin with all the excitement of a family move. New town, new house, new school, new everything! There, before long, she also finds herself with a new best friend. And Melinda Hill just happens to be the worst behaved girl in the class -- which pitches Jill into more drama. It's all to do with a television quiz.... |
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This month's Kindle for Samsung freebies selection includes a YA book. If interested, you may click the link to see details.
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X-link to the DRM-free megathread, where Wildside Press' Tuesday freebie is for vintage children's adventures written circa 1930:
Tahara Among the African Tribes by psychic researcher Harold Sherman, a set of globe-trotting adventures with supernatural elements in it |
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FREE Pdf in the Imagination Station Series--Voyage of the Vikings, Book 1.
On their website, Tyndale has a free pdf of The Imagination Station: Voyage with the Vikings, Book 1. It is 114 pages long.
The book is written by Marianne Hering and Paul McCusker, and illustrated by David Hohn. Speaking of illustrations, the ones in this pdf apparently are all black-and-white, although I have a feeling that they were originally in color. Here is the direct link: http://www.tyndale.com/blog/wp-conte...ithVikings.pdf. |
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X-link to the Comics megathread:
The new Humble Bundle is for Jim Henson works (of Muppets fame), and there's some kid-level Fraggle Rock and other comics in there. |
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X-link to the DRM-free megathread:
Humble School's Out Book Bundle presented by No Starch Press has large selection of kid-friendly LEGO and teach-your-kids computer programming guides, and a cartoony illustrated guide to the periodic table of elements, for the aspiring chemists in the audience. |
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X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread since there's some YA-compatible Arthurian fantasy and a vintage classic YA sci-fi adventure:
Bargain @ $2.99 each from Sourcebooks (couponable @ Kobo):
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