FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

Here is a direct link to the Fadedpage site and to a free* download of the original 1929 version of "The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner.



* This book is in the public domain in Canada. Please reference your copyright laws before downloading.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Canada is a life+50 country, but I believe all of the EU is life+70.

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If this is an unauthorized edition, and Random House notifies Amazon, Amazon has a history of removing them from purchaser's Kindle libraries.

After the 1984 business, Amazon promised not to do it that way again.

Maybe just no more sales and the purchase money to the author's estate?

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour's imprint The Odyssey Press, free

Silk Purse by Jerrard Tickell

Jacky Collins was not born to greatness…
Born instead to a mother whose interests lie elsewhere and saddled with a stepfather who doesn’t want him, his life stretches out before him, bleak and miserable.
By the age of twelve, he becomes the ringleader of a boys’ gang and starts a life of crime, one that seems likely to inevitably land him in the nick.

The course of Jacky’s life changes dramatically when he goes to London on a whim.
Eager to bilk as many rich Londoners of their money as possible, he doesn’t think about the future until it comes time to bed down for the night, desperately alone, cold, and frightened.
The last thing P.C. Patrick Doyle expects to find on his rounds is an unhappy little boy, so thin that his ribs stick out.
Upon hearing Jacky’s sad story, P.C. Doyle takes the boy home to his wife.

And so begins a new future for young Jacky Collins, leaving behind the ugliness and squalor of Hartlepool for the comfort and love of Uncle Pat and Aunt Bridget’s home in Theobald’s Road.
This new life is full of surprises for Jacky, from Aunt Bridget’s insistence that he regularly wash his face to having his tonsils out to attending a posh school.
But what changes his life most of all is meeting Miss Cathleen Joyce, the granddaughter of Lord Slieve Aran, with whom he falls instantly in love — at the grand age of twelve — before being promptly sent back home.
Yet as clever Jacky works his way through school, to Oxford, and into the world of advertising, gradually becoming the bright and distinguished John Sinclair Collins and beginning to make his mark on the world, he never forgets Cathleen Joyce…

First published in 1937 by William Heinemann.

Jerrard Tickell's books, a number of which have been made into successful movies, include Moon Squadron, Island Rescue/Appointment with Venus and Hussar Honeymoon


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU91Z4M/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MU91Z4M/

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MU91Z4M/

[Little.Egret]

Free

The Mules of Borgo San Marco by W. H. Canaway

In the little mountain village of Borgo San Marco, the gallant German Major Trommel and his batman, Private Wohlhaber, continue their occupation despite being the only members of their unit left in residence.
For Trommel, desperate to be a hero and forever denied due to the malformation known as a ‘pigeon chest’, the posting is a disappointment.
For Wohlhaber, occupying Borgo San Marco means he stays far, far away from any action at the front…and he’s willing to pretend to be an imbecile if it means he can stay.
Nearby, the equally gallant English Major Widdicombe, just arrived in Italy, is en route for the Eighth Army, accompanied by three cook-reinforcements.
A slight error takes him up to Borgo San Marco — where both he and Trommel soon find themselves cut off from both of their armies.
On the plain below, they can see the battle rage; as the fortunes of war favour first one side and then the other, the two majors satisfy military honour by taking each other prisoner and sharing the spoils of victory — the chief of which is the ever-willing Countess of San Marco.
But the Countess has her own agenda…
A mule-train, bearing indispensable olive oil for her beleaguered village, has gone missing.
And without it Borgo San Marco faces ruination.
Exercising every wile available to her, she persuades the two heroes to set out through the mountains to find her mules and bring them back.
But dangers await them in the mountains, where the two majors and their men are captured and sentenced to death by Communist partisans…while the fate in store for them when the encounter a party of man-mad Amazons might just put them all out of commission.
Nevertheless, Majors Trommel and Widdicombe are determined they will not return without the mules of Borgo San Marco…

W. H. Canaway wrote eighteen novels in thirty years. His novel Sammy Going South was made into a film in 1963.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYCDV1J/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MYCDV1J/

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MYCDV1J/

[maddz]

There's 12 Roald Dahl titles at 99p each in todays Big Deal on Amazon.co.uk:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Dail...ode=5400977031

Unfortunately, the See More link doesn't load any books, but you can use the scroll arrows on the Daily Deal page.

War
Fear
Innocence
Deception
Madness
Trickery
The Magic Finger
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
James and the Giant Peach
Danny the Champion of the World
The Witches
Fantastic Mr Fox

[ReadingManiac]

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran on price drop to .99 today!

https://www.amazon.com/Nefertiti-Mic.../dp/B0038QN2BC

[GA Russell]

How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDS798A/

[bfisher]

east of Eden by John Steinbeck is on sale at amazon.ca today for $CDN 1.99
https://www.amazon.ca/East-Eden-John.../dp/B001BC5HXG

The price was set by the publisher (Penguin) so it may be on sale elsewhere.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by bfisher

east of Eden by John Steinbeck is on sale at amazon.ca today for $CDN 1.99
https://www.amazon.ca/East-Eden-John.../dp/B001BC5HXG

The price was set by the publisher (Penguin) so it may be on sale elsewhere.

As I type this, it's $16.99 from Penguin in the USA for the eBook! It's a great book, but not good enough for me to pay a stupid price!

[Strether]

It was offered for $1.99 in this country on August 27th, so they're rotating the offer.

Jim

[BetterRead]

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera is currently $1.99.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 10 Up — No one understands what Griffin is going through after Theo, his ex and the love of his life, dies. No one, perhaps, except Theo's new boyfriend, Jackson. In a narrative that alternates between past and present, Silvera offers a gem of a story about first love and great loss. Griffin's voice is strong and affecting, and as readers come to know Theo's history and the depth of Griffin's love, the loss becomes more and more poignant. Griffin has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and while his illness is a sensitively portrayed and central part of his life, it is not the defining theme of the novel: his grief and loss are the focus. Griffin's transformation as he moves from resentment and rage at Jackson to compassion and connection is profound to witness. But perhaps most memorable is the protagonist's slow, dawning realization of Theo's deep imperfections. It is so easy to idolize a first love, and even easier to idolize someone who has died. Griffin's gradual awareness of Theo's flaws is the true heart of this standout title.

VERDICT: With a cast of beautifully realized characters, a powerful narrative voice, and genuine portrayals of complex teen situations, this work is a must-have.

https://www.amazon.com/History-All-Y.../dp/B01EQ2O3CS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/his...781616956936#/

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/his...ll-you-left-me

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by Strether

It was offered for $1.99 in this country on August 27th, so they're rotating the offer.

Jim

I've just put a watch on it. I'd like to read that one.

[GA Russell]

In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7] - 49 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Search-volume...dp/B074SL1VQT/

[bfisher]

Len Deighton's SS-GB is on sale today at amazon.ca for $CDN 1.99
https://www.amazon.ca/SS-GB-Len-Deig.../dp/B00362XLDM

The price was set by Harper Collins; may be on sale elsewhere.

The amazon blurb:
"In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…

For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it’s ‘business as usual’ at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.

But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.

This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it."

The Goodreads page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/510539.SS_GB

[GA Russell]

The Mandelbaum Gate - Muriel Spark - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ELLCZU

(I had this for freshman English.)