The Great Booksale/E-Book Alert

Found a good source of cheap books? We want to know!

For Kindle owners in the UK: one of the Boxing Day specials is A Game of Thrones, the first book in the series by George R.R. Martin.

The price is FREE. Go a to a "Little Library" near you...
http://www.librarything.com/local/little

If there is one, Madeline! There is one in the entire state of Rhode Island, and when I schlepped off to take a look, it was empty...

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You're probably going to have to wait until we discover where the other Little Free Libraries are located. Only about 1/4 of those that exist are mapped.

It sounds as if the one in Rhode Island is either poorly maintained or not maintained at all. I'll post a comment to that LFL page here on LT. Maybe some BookCrossers might be kind enough to stock it.

Are you talking about the one on 164 Brown Street in Providence?

Yup, I think so -- at any rate, it's on College Hill. I checked it out back in August or September.

Here's another one I just added to the LT data base. Are you anywhere near Cranston, Rhode Island?

http://www.wpri.com/news/street-stories/street-stories-unique-library-offers-a-l...

That's a shame, Suz. There are quite a few near me. Zoe, Mark, and I did a tour of a few of them when they were here.

I've only found one ever that was not stocked (I found out later that it was being waterproofed and insect proofed. It was stocked afterward) and one that was nonexistent (I found out later that the entire box had been stolen). All of the others have been great. They're really cute to see in person.

I also read an online article about a few Little Free Libraries that have had their entire inventories stolen. I guess people think they're going to sell the books? To prevent that, I label all of my books with BookCrossing labels.

I've seen the pics, Madeline; look cute when with books!

Cranston isn't that far, but not really reachable without a car. Certainly not someplace I would venture on multiple buses without a definite need to go there.

I'll keep you posted. I know that the rest of the LFLs will eventually be mapped. I'm hoping it will be sooner rather than later. We've got about 2,600 identified on LT (and maybe a few more on the LFL website map). There are really closer to 10,000 of them.

Here's another one at Rhode Island College in Providence...

http://www.ric.edu/news/details.php?News_ID=2041

If anyone has followed Raymond Feist's Riftwar saga, the fifth and last book, Magician's End, is $1.99 TODAY ONLY 26 December. US Kindle people only, I'm afraid.

1> What an excellent idea for a thread! Thanks for the idea and to all who have posted and will post to help us all feed our addiction find great bargains.

Amazon US has all the Dennis Lehane ebooks for $1.99.

Another Amazon US deal today only is Lost in Shangri-La, a nonfiction look at a group of airmen rescued after their plane crashed in the waning days of WWII. It's been on my wishlist for a while so I couldn't resist picking it up at that price!

I'll be lurking through here as well, and will contribute when possible!.

I grabbed that one too, Richard! Also a couple of the Lehanes that I haven't read yet.

>16 rosalita: It was too good to pass up, eh what?

I am vexed beyond endurance. The terrible people at Amazon have put on sale the Kindle edition of a book I finally broke down and bought. Nos4A2 is $1.99 today. Some evil-hearted bureaucrat, no doubt on loan to Amazon from the IRS or the DEA, saw the "Shipped" message in my account and clicked the "Super One-Day Deal" button to make me gnash my teeth.

What? What do you mean it's not all about me? Of course it is, don't be ridiculous.

Picked that one up this morning, Richard. Amazon does price match within 7 days I think, so it might be worth a call!

Also on the daily deal are several of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole books.

>18 UnrulySun: Oh wow, I didn't know that! But I bought the tree book of Nos4A2, as I'm **highly** resistant to non-special-deal Kindle books.

*desperately ignores inducement to start Hole series*

Oh dear, Richard, I'm afraid it might be my fault, or rather Mark's. You see, I was talking about planning to re-read The Shining before I read Doctor Sleep, which I had picked up in a previous Kindle sale. Then Amazon put The Shining on sale, and Mark mentioned that it would be good to also read NOS4A2 before I read Doctor Sleep because there is apparently a reference to it. Then today, there it is on sale! I think someone at Amazon is reading Mark's thread.

I see it's time to assemble the army of torch-bearing pitchfork-wielding peasants for a road trip....

Barnes and Noble tends to lag on great ebook deals for the Nook, which I have, but they are doing better lately with the deals and they too have the Joe Hill NOS4A2 today for $1.99 along with a slew of other good stuff discounted.

>3 SqueakyChu: What a great idea! Thanks for sharing that, Madeline! There are a lot of LFLs in the Denver area, but none in Aurora. Once we find a place we want to stay for awhile, I'm going to see about starting one.

I snagged five $1.99 ebooks (including Doctor Sleep and the Feist book and 3 Georgette Heyers) thanks to Richard Derus's tip the other day. Yay me.

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none in Aurora

Oh, yes there is! :)

http://www.librarything.com/venue/90096
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68010601@N03/11488348496/

Great! Thanks! Guess I missed it on the website and on LT's "local" page.

It's a little far from me, but I'll go visit it, bring some books I've been meaning to give away. Aurora's pretty big and can use more than just one, though, so my hope to start another one remains.

ETA Okay, I just checked, and it's not that far from me. Only 4 miles. Can't wait till the snow melts on the sidestreets of my subdivision so I can take the car out and drive over.

It was just added to the LFL website recently, and I just now added it to the LT website. That's the problem. :/

The more there are, the easier it is for people to use them. I like to visit different ones so I'm happy that there are quite a few near me from which to choose.

I'm going to find my BookCrossing labels. I like the idea of labelling the books going to the LTLs. Besides helping prevent stealing, maybe people will check the books in to the BC site so they can be tracked. I find that fascinating!

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Actually very few books are journaled after they are taken, but when they are, it's really fun. There's a page on BookCrossing.com where Bookcrossers often tell others about the journal entries they've gotten. The BookCrossing server is now down, but I'll post that link (if I remember) after it comes back up.

Yes, it is fun! I've got the link, I think, but do post it if you remember.

It's the last forum on the list. I forgot what it's titled.

For UK readers who use Epub ebooks (or can cope with converting them to another format) the Hive Network - http://www.hive.co.uk/ - is a good alternative source of ebooks. It is linked to independent bookshops. I bought several Georgette Heyer detective novels for 81p each yesterday. One thing to be wary of is that the same ebook is often available at different prices. You will probably want to choose the cheaper price!

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ is having their annual year end sale. Some books are under $3 and shipping is still free at B&N with purchases of $25 or more. I purchased 7 books for $28 including tax

#32: I bought 6 books for $28, many from my wishlist! Thanks for the post.

Better World Books is having a flash sale, 20% off 5 used books or 40% off 10 used books. And they offer free shipping worldwide. I shop there more than I should :-)

I love Better World Books! (But I must resist the temptation to shop from there -- or anywhere else -- any more until I clear some space on my shelves!)

#32 I've never heard of this site before. What a great deal! I bought 10 books for less than $25, including shipping and tax. I don't have to worry about that ugly empty space where I cleared off the bookshelf anymore!

Kindle people in the USA!! Terry Pratchett's NEW Discworld book, Snuff, is $1.99 today!

Also Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart, which I didn't fancy but many love immoderately.

UK Kindle

Romance Daily Deal (?!) Marilyn French, The Bleeding Heart £1.29 - I think I'll get it but romance? Really?
Also a book by Christian Wolmar on the history of the Trans-Siberian Railway

Some surprising sudden price drops

I just bought 7 books at 99p each and 1 at £1.52, including 3 of the Booker shortlist which I already had from the library (all the shortlist except the Colm Toibin are available for 99p including The Luminaries! I was also pleased to get The Guts which is Roddy Doyle's latest addition to his Barrytown series, Bellman & Black and The Ocean at the end of the Lane.

Books on offer that I already have include Life after Life, Saints of the Shadow Bible and The Goldfinch (and £1.99 seemed like a bargain for such a new book until now). Saints was already less half the price I paid for it at £2.99 before the latest cut, grrrr (although I have at least read that one before any drops).

I wrote that and didn't post a few hours ago. Also on offer for 99p, Margaret Drabble, The Pure Gold Baby and more.

ETA: And another that might be of interest if you're looking for WW1 books - Max Hastings, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

More goodies (UK Kindle again, sorry!) at 99p each

Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish - sort of memoir
Charlotte Mendelson, Almost English
Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
John Le Carre, A Delicate Truth

Elkiedee - thanks for the heads up about Catastrophe. It's on my First World War to-read list and it's great to have found a copy so cheaply.

Attention NOOK readers! They are having big a sale on selected first-in-series books.

I don't have a Nook, but I have the Nook app on my smart phone. Just what I need -- starting another series. (sigh)

I nabbed A Delicate Truth...

It's the last day to snag The Potter's Hand by A.N. Wilson on UK Kindle for 99p, and today's deal for UK Kindles is The Rehearsal, also at 99p.

Fans of historical crime fiction/mystery and crime short stories:

Constable and Robinson have suddenly offered loads of stuff at 84p

David Roberts Verity Browne and Edward Corinth - all 10 (1st Sweet Poison)
Barbara Cleverly Joe Sandilands 1-9 of 11 (The Last Kashmiri Rose)
Carola Dunn Daisy Dalrymple books 1-20 of 21 (1st Death at Wentwater Court)
Catriona McPherson 1-2 of 7 (1st After the Armistice Ball)
Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody (19 books) (1st the Crocodile on the Sandbank) and Vicky Bliss (5 books)
Mammoth short story anthologies - Mammoth book Crime brings up most of the interesting stuff

And another note entirely;

Ann Patchett's memoir This is the Story of a Happy Marriage is 99p

You can get a free monthly digital book from University of Chicago Press by signing up for their announcements here.

Thanks for the link, AuntieClio! I picked up the free digital book and then had to restrain myself from going wild and buying a whole passel of print books that are on sale through 2/28. I couldn't resist ROGER FENTON * JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: early British Photographs from the Royal Collection by Sophie Gordon, on sale for $9, and ordered it. *sigh* This place is dangerous.

OMG, Julia Margaret Cameron? I think I can justify that as a work expenditure.

Wow Luci, that's great mystery stuff! I snapped up the David Roberts books I don't already have on my US Kindle, and nabbed three of the Barbara Cleverly books that I think I might want to re-read; a couple of them were less compelling or else I recall the plot to well, like The Last Kashmiri Rose and The Palace Tiger. That's a big hole in my UK Kindle balance...

44> I seemed to have missed the sale. I guess it is tomorrow in GB already. Darn. Stupid paperwork that I felt I had to get done this evening before I looked at LT.

A bunch more goodies for UK Kindle people:

the following all seem to be 99p
The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Hitler's Furies by Wendy Lower
Glorious Misadventures by Owen Matthews
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang (still)
Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
Return of a King by William Dalrymple
Identical by Scott Turow
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
and a new novel by Donal Ryan.

Kindle sales are sooo much better in the UK than in the US... perhaps to compensate for book prices being generally higher??

#50 -- I don't think so, MDGentleReader. I just checked, and the David Roberts books are all still on sale. None of these (including the ones I listed) are part of the Daily Deals offers; they seem to be publisher offers. All the Booker nominees also still seem to be 99p, with one or two exceptions (Lahiri, The Kills)

I confess I ran completely amok.

Today's US Kindle Daily Deal is Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally. Since I only have the ARC, I added this one, too.

I just added that one also, Suzanne. It looks very good.

Thanks, Suz; I bought it, too.

UK, Kindle

A couple of Virago non fiction books

Wave: Life After the Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala is a memoir 99p

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke £1.29

I don't have a Kindle myself, but I always check the Deal of the Day every morning, and thought some of you all might be interested in this one:

Amazon's Deal of the Day: 80% off educational titles for the Kindle.

US Kindle: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is $2.99.

Double post. Sorry.

The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society for Kindle is $1.99 today on Amazon for those who've not yet experienced the pleasure! Click here for deal.

They keep running special deals on things I've already read!

On all ereaders, This Will Make You Smarter is only $2.99 today. Leapt straight from my wishlist to my Kindle.

Hi! Today I learned through BookBub that John Verdon's Think of a Number is on sale for various e-readers (Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Sony) for $1.99 now. I read this book on a whim a couple years ago -- no LT recommendation, just thought it sounded good -- and found the premise of the mystery to be one of the more original ideas I'd seen in a long time of mystery reading. Some of the family drama didn't totally work for me, but the mystery itself was a real page-turner. (I gave it 4 stars.)

ETA re: Think of a Number -- I double-checked, and my review at the time I read it was much as I wrote above. But there was one note I'll pass along for more sensitive LT-ers, for what it's worth: "Note: this book is not for those easily offended by profanity. Mind you, it's not used gratuitously; it fit with the characters and circumstances. But there was at least one phrase that made me cringe a little, and I'm not usually bothered at all by rough language."

Matt Haig's The Radleys is on sale for $1.99 for US kindles. Highly recommended!

http://www.amazon.com/Radleys-Novel-Matt-Haig-ebook/dp/B0042ESZOI/ref=sr_1_11?s=...

Amazon US has Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield for 1.99 today. I scarfed one up.

Jean> That's a great price on Bellman and Black, but I'm going to resist temptation because we have it at the library. It was also actually on the shelf at the public library today. I was surprised there wasn't a waiting list for it.

Amazon has a Kindle deal going right now: 25 children's book for $1 each. There's some good-looking books on the list:

http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gb1h_tit_c-4_0442_5e1d3bfb?node=8147566011&smid=...

The Golem and the Jinni is $1.99 today on US kindles.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008QXVDJ0/ref=amb_link_398380062_8?pf_rd_m=ATV...

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis is available for Kindles from Amazon US for $2.99 today:

http://www.amazon.com/Rebellious-Life-Mrs-Rosa-Parks-ebook/dp/B008ED69XC/ref=tmm...

Did I say this was a good idea for a topic? I was wrong.

14, 62, 67, 68 & 69 all got me. I'm not in the UK, so that saved me from some of them. It is also fortunate that I don't always check this topic.

** stomps off muttering **

Today's US Kindle deal features four of George Orwell's lesser-known works: Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier, Keep the Aspidastra Flying and A Clergyman's Daughter, for $1.99 each. Nook has all of those plus Down and Out in Paris and London for the same price.

I'm jealous now - what editions are they? I wouldn't call Homage to Catalonia or Wigan Pier lesser known.

elkiedee, they are ebooks so I am unsure of the edition. I should have said "lesser known" as in "lesser known to me" not to people familiar with Orwell.

Ann Patchett's memoir This is the Story of a Happy Marriage was very briefly on sale before for even less, but it's currently available for £2.40 (for a very new book)

Pay what you want for a collection of audio books at Humble Bundle

The Nook Daily Find today is Stephen Puleo's fascinating Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 for $2.99. It's a well-written account of a little-known and freaky but deadly disaster.

Great deal on that, Terri. I may have to make sure I have one of my BN gift cards uploaded so I can download that! It's been on my wish list.

I grabbed Dark Tide late last year when it was a Kindle deal. It looks really fascinating.

A couple of good Kindle deals today -- Song of Achilles for $1.99, and the same price for The Stockholm Octavo. The latter was a great historical novel, set in Sweden in the late 18th century and the planned murder of its king. Recommended! There are several more, too, but those are the two that I'd be excited about. I added the latter novel to my Kindle, since I only have an ARC.

Thanks, Chatterbox! I picked up Stockholm Octavo. It sounds really good, and I'm looking forward to reading it!

OI!!!

OVER HERE!!!

American Kindle users (and permaybehaps Canadian Kindle users too)! Ecco Press, a little tentacle of the HarperCollins Empire, is offering SEVENTY-SEVEN TITLES!!!! for $1.99 on Kindle for another ~12hrs.

The Stockholm Octavo--a favorite read of mine!
Ham on Rye--great intro to Bukowski!
The Song of Achilles--so beautiful it hurts
Just Kids--who isn't interested in Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe's love affair?
The Tree--JOHN FOWLES writing about Nature?! Seriously, can you resist this for $1.99?!?

RUN!! RUN!! Many many more!!

This month's US Kindle book sale list includes The Taliban Cricket Club, which I rather liked, as well as some recent faves, Dogstar Rising by Parker Bilal (which got my vote for best new mystery series of 2013), 1492 by Fernandez-Armesto and The Republic of Love by Carol Shields. I think these range from $1.99 to $2.99 or $3.99. There are a few other goodies that looked appealing amidst the general "mehness" of the list if you look carefully.

Also, for any residual Jeffery Archer fans, the Clifton saga, thus far, is $1.99 apiece.

I loved Jeffery Archer back in the 90's. Haven't read anything of his since then. Now, might be a good time to check out his newer stuff.

The Bean Trees is $1.99 today on all ereaders!!

Out Stealing Horses is $2.99 today on Kindle and Kobo (probably Nook, too).

Monday's UK Kindle daily deals include The King's Hounds by Martin Jensen, a reasonably fun mystery set in early 11th century (pre Norman invasion) England, and good value at 99p. Year Zero by Ian Buruma is 1.59 pounds. I read and enjoyed both books last month.

http://stupefyingstories.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/announcing-2014-campbellian-anth...

A free (for now) ebook anthology of the writers eligible for this years John Campbell Award (best new writer). Go here to download (in your favorite format flavor).

Lots of goodies today:

Amazon's Kindle Store (US) has Turn of Mind by by Alice LaPlante for $1.99. The story is told from the POV of a woman stricken with early-onset Alzheimer's. I read this one and found it quite compelling.

The University of Chicago free e-book for February is I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, about the great Chicago bluesman of the 1930's.

Nook's Daily deal is Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar, for $1.99. It's about a hiking party who died mysteriously on a Russian mountaintop in 1959.

I can't attest to the quality of the last two books, but they sounded good enough that I grabbed them!

ETA to add University of Chicago is having a good book sale, too!

Eleven HarperCollins titles are $1.99 on all ereader formats until 4 March. The list is eclectic, and includes Zelda by Nancy Milford! I have, I am embarrassed to report, bought them all.

Also on sale on all ereader formats is Life Beyond Measure, actor Sidney Poitier's autobiography. It's on my Kindle but it cost me more than the $3.99 they're charging now. Boo.

Among other cross-platform e-deals are some books I highly recommend: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, The Sisters Brothers, Black Boy, The Bean Trees. Also interesting but I haven't read yet are A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Norman Conquest.

I went for two of those, Richard: the Carol Shields stories and the book about the making of the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie, which I've been eyeing for eons.

Talk about spoiled for choice, eh Suz?

yes and now. I'm only mildly interested in Zelda, and the "Miss Timmins" book I read in galleys and was "meh" about. The others didn't register that much.

I just ran across a reference to a site I was previously unfamiliar with for free audio books.

www.booksshouldbefree.com

I'm sure most of the 3000 books are older, public-domain books but, hey, there are 3000 of them!

A while back I found a website called NoiseTrade, which offered downloads of free music by all kinds of artists, mostly up-and-coming. The idea is that it is a platform for musicians to offer free music in hopes of catching fans who will later buy their stuff (and of course, collect email addresses for later direct marketing, which I have to say I haven't gotten a whole lot of). It's always free but there's a button on each download page so you can leave a "tip" if you want.

Today I got an email from them announcing that they are branching out into books, using the same model — free downloads of e-books, the option of leave a "tip" if you want, the ability to embed pages or share them on Facebook, Twitter — or LibraryThing!

I have only glanced through the book selections briefly, but there appears to be a mix of fiction and non-fiction and a decent selection for a new site. Most authors I have not heard of, but Cory Doctorow has a number of books listed. Anyway, if you're interested you can check it out here:

NoiseTrade Books

Amazon.fr has a number of discounted Kindle english ebooks until the end of the month, not much grabbed my attention though except Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente at 1€09.

The Kindle version of soon-to-be-released Gilded by Christina Farley, a YA fantasy set in Korea, is free on Amazon Firsts this month, and I was wondering if anyone here has read it. I'll probably get it, since it's free, but I was just wondering. (Also on offer are two mysteries - Long Knives and The Rented Mule - and a celebrity memoir - Real Happy Family, none by authors I've heard of before.) If you're interested in checking them out, here's the link:(http://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/kindle/botm/?ref_=pe_605060_112590920)

Thanks, Mary! I always forget to check Amazon Firsts. I went ahead and got the fantasy.

I didn't even know it was there, Roni! Somehow I must have missed getting the email until now.

Salvage the Bones, one of my all-time favorites, is a Kindle (US) Daily Deal today, for $1.99. Wonderful, heartbreaking book.

I grabbed that one, Katie, as well as On Hallowed Ground, a history of Arlington National Cemetery, also for $1.99.

http://links.e.harpercollins.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NjA5ODg1MAS2&r=MzE3NDUw...

Book perks for today only:

their Eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Thurston
Being read and well reviewed by several
Here on 75ers

keep the change by Steve Dublanica memoir of waiter depicting man's inhumanity to waitstaff

From iPhone hope link works

101 Julia, I won an ER copy of On Hallowed Ground when it was first published. I thought it was great! I meant to post here that it was on Daily Deal -- I didn't get to it, glad you mentioned it!

I'm glad to hear that, Terri! I always check LT when I'm on the fence about a book, and I saw that one had been an ER selection and had good reviews, so I was hopeful. I'm even more so knowing that you liked it.

Today's two book perks worth noting are:

Burning Bright by Ron Rash
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles

each $1.99 on the ereader platform of your choice.

I snagged Death in Venice and Song of Achilles today in a sale at Kobo (likely other platforms as well) for $1.99 each.

Kindle UK: The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt is free at the moment, and several of her books are £1.79-£2.29

Today, the US Amazon Kindle store has 4 books in honor of President's Day. One of them is Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk, for $1.99. I read it a while back and gave it 4 1/2 stars, and the overall rating on LT is just over 4 stars. Not only is it a fascinating look at one of the most famous US presidents, it can also be an inspiration for anyone who has tended to battle depression.

The Bean Trees is also on sale on Amazon today for $1.99 on the Kindle. I haven't read it yet but have heard good things about Kingsolver's books.

Thanks for the tip, Terri. I picked up Lincoln's Melancholy. It looks very interesting.

I found it fascinating, Julia! I hope youy like it!

Barracuda by the author of that highly controversial novel The Slap is 99p.

I got to knock one off the wishlist with THE RACE FOR TIMBUKTU! All platforms, only $1.99.

Oh boy! Two books are on sale today, all ereader formats, that I very very much enjoyed.

Black Boy is Richard Wright's wrenching and frightening tale of growing up in a world that hates more than it loves a child whose one besetting sin is his skin color. Worth your eyeblinks even after a half-century of progress. $2.99

And on a completely different plane of cultural existence comes Miss Timmins' School for Girls, a murder mystery-ish magical mystery tour of India forty years ago. It's a fun-house mirror world in many ways, British missionaries and small-town India and sex-drugs-rock'n'roll and fish out of water coming of age tale...and it's just as easy to read and savor as anyone could want. Unchallenging pleasure reading for $1.99, all formats.

AAACK!! And I got smacked by another book bullet (exclusive to Kindle, though): Light of the World by James Lee Burke for $2.99

I like Dave Robicheaux novels.

UK Kindle:

Helen Dunmore, The Lie (very new) only £1.69

Kindle half term sale
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_bw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

I've bought some railway history books by Christian Wolmar for 99p each, Purple Hibiscus and The Palace of Curiosities for £1.99 and some others.

Uk Kindle: Peter May, Entry Island is £2.56

All ereader formats, $1.99:

American Son: My Story is the memoir of Oscar de la Hoya, whose public humiliating meltdown was so poignant from a major international boxing figure

To Have and to Kill is the first of Mary Jane Clark's Piper Donovan mysteries, very cozy and very quick reads

aaaaaannnnnnnnnnnd Carlos Ruiz Zafon's novel The Prisoner of Heaven!

I adore sales.

That Ruiz Zafron novel has been on e-sale for a while now, and I keep eyeing it. But I've only read the first, and the second is not on sale, so ...

More UK Kindle bargains today, some for the first time at that price

99p

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

Jo Baker, Longbourn

Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

Sian Busby, A Commonplace Killing

Peter Robinson, Children of the Revolution

Paula Byrne, The Real Jane Austen, A Life in Small Things

Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

#120 Thanks, Luci. Longbourn has been at the top of my shopping llist for a while!

120: Do get it, it's excellent. I was also really impressed by Paula Byrne's The Real Jane Austen when it was on the radio last year, and that's 99p as well.

Oh what I'd give to have an Amazon UK account today!

All platforms, each $1.99:

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. is the story of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the film, as told by the makers, the movers, and the shakers involved in it. I'm a hopeless Hepburnian, and this book brought me a lot of pleasure.

Collected Stories of Carol Shields...well, you like her already or you don't, but if you've never dipped in the waters this is the time and the way to do it. Two bucks! Who *cares* if you hate it!

Knocked Up: The Shooting Script is what it says. I read screenplays and shooting scripts like I take painful shots. They're teaching tools. And this movie didn't even raise a smile off of me. But it made a zillion bucks at the box office, so it pays to pay attention to the how....

#120 Bother. I paid £3.49 for Longbourn a few days ago and I didn't even like it that much...

125: If it was less than a week ago you could return it and buy it again at the lower price (or not buy it).

124: My turn to be jealous of the Carol Shields Collected.

#126 Oh, thanks for the tip Luci.

In USA today's Kindle Daily Deal is Deborah Crombie's latest Duncan Kincaid/Emma James mystery, The Sound of Broken Glass. YAY!

This Steinbeck letter, released or publicized for his birthday today, is his take on falling in love. It is *marvelous* and a quick read.

AND!! AND!! For all ereader platforms, there is a $1.99 sale today on a book I loved immoderately when it was first released: Further Adventures by Jon Stephen Fink. It came before the (distinctly inferior, IMO) Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, telling much the same sort of story...well, with an admixture of Redshirts, the Scalzi novel.

As this was long Before LT, I've never reviewed or rated it, but will soon because I enjoyed it so much in 2000.

128: lucky you!

Snagged A Commonplace Killing for my UK Kindle; today's US freebies also include a classic Victoria Holt novel.

Oh, Perfect by Rachel Joyce is also available for 99p on the UK Kindle site. That's a price I'll pay... (I didn't love "harold fry"...)

>132 Chatterbox: You're very much more forgiving than I am.

UK Kindle: 2 literary non fiction books are 99p each

Lara Feigel, The Love-Charm of Bombs is about several writers in London during WW2, including Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay and Elizabeth Bowen

Andrew Wilson, Mad Girl's Love Song - yet another Sylvia Plath biography

My latest Book People catalogue is offering sets of VMC reissues by Barbara Comyns and L M Montgomery's Emily trilogy for £4.99 each (and they probably still have Angela Thirkell and Edith Wharton, which I just bought - cheapest way to get the two books I didn't have and I'm sure someone will give the others a good home).

Jenny Milchman's Cover of Snow is $1.99 for Kindle -- not sure for how long. I read that via paper as an ER book, and quite liked it (4 1/2 stars from me), though the reviews and ratings on it are all over the place..

Many terrific books for the Kindle on sale for under $2.99 in Amazon's Goldbox today. I snagged All the King's Men. Also saw Life of Pi, The Silence of the Lambs, No Country for Old Men, Gone, Baby, Gone, Mystic River and Wonder Boys, all of which I can vouch for as good reads.

Also available for Kindley peeps is America's Women by Gail Collins. Enjoyable, well in a weird sort of way, recounting of the many roles women have had in the Land of the Free. ::eyeroll::

At $1.99, it's a good way to get edjumakatid.

Any mystery addicts out there? Dana Stabenow's first Kate Shugak mystery is FREE!! A Cold Day for Murder is free on Kindle today. I found these addictive, with Alaska as a backdrop so vivid as almost to be a character.

>120 elkiedee:, >138 richardderus: Thanks very much, elkiedee and Richard -Longbourn and Stabenow have been on my radar for a while.

Today's US Daily Deal: The Secret Life of Pronouns by James W. Pennebaker. I know nothing about it, but for $1.99.....!

For those LT ers in Ontario, Bookcity in Toronto is closing the Bloor St store( near Bathurst) and books are 40 percent off the list price- very sad-This was a great store to find interesting books and a great place to browse. The store will close sometime in March and the stock is going down( I have been there twice)

>140 LizzieD: thanks! It was on my TBR list.

ETA: new feature.

The Nebula Award Finalists were just announced. In celebration, Tor is giving away ebooks of 2 of the novellas; Wakulla Springs and Burning Girls

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/03/free-ebook-editions-of-nebula-award-finalist-no...

>143 mahsdad: ...enabler...

Pot, >144 richardderus:, meet kettle >143 mahsdad:.

Drama: An actor's Education, haven't read it, but the reviews mention good writing, humor, honesty, love of family. I thought it was worth 1.99USD to check it out. Amazon.com. 2.99USD at bn.com (Nook)

Won't read it for a bit, though. Apparently it talks about his father's death. My father died in December. Not ready to read about someone's father's death yet. Wanted to warn anyone in the same place.

>143 mahsdad: - Thank you kindly for the link. Those two are safely on my Kindle.
And you are welcome, Gentle Reader.
(I have fooled around and can't make the new thingy work. Back to the help.)

>145 MDGentleReader: Moi? A guilty enabler? Never! I merely comment in an informative fashion to the interested reader. HE incites lustful envious acquisitiveness with his warblings about irresistible books!

>147 LizzieD: Peggy, I think what you did was put my username in with the post #. Just do the >post_number and let LT do the rest.

>148 richardderus: Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Back the truck up. I warble? I might gesticulate wildly saying look at me, look at me. But I do not warble, sir. Besides, isn't the point of THIS thread to share where people can get free or cheap books?

Also, if YOU hadn't told me that Wakulla Springs should win the Nebula, I wouldn't have even cared to get these 2 novellas. Not usually my bag, baby.

Okay I'll stop now, RD, you may be right, damn it, I just might be warbling.

Don't you wish there was a sarcasm font? I know I do :)

>149 mahsdad: Yet another challenge conquered. Thank you, Jeff.
Now I have to go back to look at Wakulla Springs..... As a matter of fact, my cousins live in Wakulla here in eastern N.C.

>150 mahsdad: The prostitution rests. I mean, prosecution.

>151 LizzieD: It's a very good novella, Peggy. I hope you'll enjoy it.

>143 mahsdad: Thanks! I snagged both and look forward to reading them soon.

Sale books alert!

By Myself and Then Some is Lauren Bacall's memoir. It's $1.99 on all ereaders and quite appealingly name-droppy, as one would expect.

THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT yes, complete!, as in "all of 'em" complete, are 99¢! I about had an attack. It's Kindle only.

Isabel Allende's Island Beneath the Sea is $1.99 on Kindle, and while I'm no fan of the book, it's got some interesting things to say.

Now seriously ladies and gentlewomen. Who here doesn't enjoy a mystery? Agatha Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence book, the only realistic detectives she ever wrote about!, is The Secret Adversary and it too is a mere 99¢ today! Kindle only, apparently.

To my surprise, James Michener's epic Hawaii is 99¢ today as well, on Kindle...Michener moved to my hometown, Austin, when he was researching and writing Texas and a craze for his books gripped the whole place. I read this in one summer week and remember it most fondly.

>154 richardderus: Thanks, Mr. Book-Warbler! I got three of them (already had the others). Great deals!

ETA that I was able to get The Secret Adversary for free! I then spent 99 cents for the audio feature, which I have been wanting to try.

>155 Storeetllr: Harumph! Book-warbler indeed. Information-sharer! I do not lead people into a life of book addiction and hoarding, unlike SOME I could name.

>154 richardderus: My summer memory of reading Hawaii includes a pretty severe sunburn. I was engrossed.

Re: Christie, Don't believe in the little grey cells? I do enjoy Tommy and Tuppence. Haven't read on e in years.

Thanks, Mr. Book-warbler.

* ducks behind stack of books recommended by Mr. Book-Warbler *

>157 MDGentleReader: *harrumph* Book-warbler I swear you'd think I wasn't performing a public service

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! The first book of the 5 book series sequel to The Deed of Paksennarion is on sale for the Kindle today for 99¢. It's Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon. Excellent fantasy!

Naked in Death, the first Eve Dallas mystery, is $2.99 for Kindle today.

I feel like a crack merchant opening a booth at the AA meeting.

>160 richardderus: - Very apt analogy. I never thought those books would be something I'd like, but I'm totally hooked. They are good fun.

What the heck happened to the UK version of the Kindle monthly deals? They appear to have vanished...

No, there is a list - it came out late and it's hard to find, and most of the books have been on offer before:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=sr_aj?node=4363389031&ajr=0

I bought books by Helen FitzGerald, Augusten Burroughs and Charlie Brooker

>160 richardderus: Just you keep on supplying the good stuff, mate.
Imagine what we would be like if we weren't getting our fix here! I don't think the world is ready for that, so you're really performing a public service. :0)

>154 richardderus: Grabbed the Allende with thanks, Richard. Today's KDD, US version is House of Morgan by my man Ron Chernow, a truly worthwhile way to spend $1.99. *I* don't have a book problem!

Brandenburg by Glenn Meade is also a Kindle daily deal today -- good suspense yarn.

So many great deals in the Amazon Gold Box today, books that inspired our passion for reading at $2.99 or less, including the tenth anniversary edition of American Gods if you haven't gotten it yet for the group read.

I nabbed a collected short stories by Flannery O'Connor as part of the same deal -- yum!

>167 sturlington: AND the complete Marple short stories for $1.99 AND Cryptonomicon for $1.99 AND 100 Ray Bradbury short stories for $1.99 AND Sarah, Plain and Tall for $1.99...

...not that I noticed, or took advantage of the sale, you understand, but one hears gossip on the streets.

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor is absolutely amazing; she's my favorite short story writer (so far). I purchased On the Rez by Ian Frazier.

I nabbed the short story collections of Miss Marple and Flannery O'Connor (now there's an unlikely pair of ladies), Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Natural, and On the Rez. The last two plus The Natural were also on sale at Kobo so I picked them up there. And thanks to Amazon for reminding me I had already bought Native Son when I tried to buy it again. I wavered on The Alchemist but ultimately decided against it since I wanted the others more. If anyone can give me a rave for it, I'll go back and get it.

It's not called 'Gold Box' on Amazon.ca, but most of the books are on sale here in Canada too as Daily Deals. We even have 41 for the US site's 36. So many great titles, many of which I already own, so I limited myself to:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (for a reread)
Flannery O'Connor: Complete Stories
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
The Natural
Bradbury Stories

I see several other titles I think I may have heard good things about so I will investigate further on LT and might pick up a few more by day's end.

eta: Also got Ahab's Wife. Highly recommend Brazzaville Beach which was my introduction to William Boyd.

Not an ebook, but Signals has classic hardcover kindle covers on sale, marked down from $49.95 to $22.98, here:

http://www.signals.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=DETAIL&ITEM=HN9012



Besides P&P, they have Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes.

>173 ronincats: Those are gorgeous Roni!

>172 Smiler69:: Thanks for mentioning Brazzaville Beach, Ilana. It's been on my wishlist for ages and the other day I almost ordered it at $15.00! Today I have downloaded it for $1.99.

>175 DeltaQueen50: Glad to help! I hope you love it as much as I did Judy.

>172 Smiler69: beautiful.

>169 richardderus: I, Ahem, also heard a rumor about Dandelion Wine, just in case there is anyone other than myself who has not read it.

old Yeller, Jacob I have Loved and others - Kindle. 2.99USD and under, books that inspired reading. Amazon.com.

Also, Tuxedo Park, about Alfred Loomis and his "Secret Palace of Science" that had a huge influence on the outcome of WWII. And Ladies of Liberty, it's been on my TBR list for awhile - so has Alan Turing:Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle, Touchstones don't work.

See this is why I ***ahem*** love Amazon - while I can see the kindle books in daily deals under my logon, once I click said book it becomes "unavailable" .... no doubt these deals are only for the US .... if so then give me the UK deals ... having none is just not on ...I thought we lived in a global economy??? maybe not

Audible is having a special on Hounded for 3.99

>178 MDGentleReader: I've reviewed Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma, in my thread...post #52.

I'm all in favor of recognizing the wrongs done to people in the past, under different laws and different codes of "morality." But the story behind the recent pardon granted posthumously to Turing is as queasy-making as his original persecution for the "crime" of being gay.

>181 richardderus: well said, Lord Quirk, indeed.

Well, at least the pardon didn't involved hormone therapy. Queasy making indeed. I had not read the details of the pardon, but almost mentioned the pardon when I mentioned the book. Much better to not have enforced a bad law in the first place. Far too late for that, though.

>182 MDGentleReader: Far too late. And far too late for those who died with their "crime" hanging over their lives and families' lives. Disgusting.

The NYRB Winter Sale: 50 Books at 50% off:

http://www.nybooks.com/books/wintersale2014/?insrc=adb

>184 DorsVenabili: Thanks for posting! So many lovely books.

>184 DorsVenabili: Lept:
The Backward Day
Hickory
The Little Woman Wanted Noise
Wolf Story
Terrible, Horrible Edie

E. C. Spykman and Palmer Brown are authors I've been wanting to check out. All five of them are so very pretty, come to mamma, my precious ones...

* retreats to corner to fondle Tasha Tudor and Adrienne Adams illustrated books while anxiously awaiting the books that will join them on the shelf *

Ooh, interesting - I have two of the other 3 Edie books.

>187 elkiedee: Terrible, Horrible Edie US$8.47

Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup, NOOK Book US$0.99
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung NOOK Book US$2.99
Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter by Betty DeGeneres, NOOK Book US$1.99
The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose, NOOK Book US$2.99

Two more:
Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright, NOOK Book US$2.99
Sandra Day O'Connor, Joan Biskupic , NOOK Book US$1.99

>189 MDGentleReader: and >190 MDGentleReader: - Many, if not all, of these are available at the same price for Kindle.

>191 katiekrug: Ah, I didn't check, was trying to provide a slightly different source.

No worries. I don't normally look but somebody mentioned to me that often it's the publisher discounting the price so it's across all platforms.

Better World Books is having another one of their Bargain Bin used book sales -- 33 percent off already cheap books, and their always-free shipping. I'm having a hard time resisting . . .

Everyone else in the world seems to like this guy's stuff, but Beautiful Ruin left me icy-freezing-cold and annoyed as hell. Still, many many more people love it than feel as I do. I bring this up because on all ereaders, that horrible book...excuse me, that title...is only $1.99.

"Enjoy."

Kindle daily deal today: A Murder Is Announced for $1.99

Probably U.S. only the Kindle version of Hounded by Kevin Hearne is on sale today for .99

Hah! I already read a library copy of Hounded but just bought the Kindle version just so I can have it and maybe read it again someday. Also so I can push it on friends who haven't read it yet. :) Thanks, Roberta!

#198 by @Storeetllr> you sound like a drug book dealer :)

Today on Amazon's Daily Deals for Kindle: 5 books by Italo Calvino.

>200 sturlington: We only get two Calvinos in Canada, but I'm happy all the same with Italian Folk Tales and Marcovaldo.

Thanks for the notice. I've just downloaded three of them.

Barnes and Noble has some Calvino titles as their Nook Daily Find that are not part of the Amazon Daily Deal.

Just got City of Thieves as a Kindle Daily Deal.

>204 Smiler69: Me, too, Ilana!

Loads of DD choices today for Kindle, but a look at the covers didn't inspire me much. I'm not really interested in christian chick-lit and already have more paperback thrillers than I know what to do with, but if anyone has gems to suggest among the lot, I'm listening!

>205 DeltaQueen50: Here's wishing we both enjoy that one when we manage to get to it Judy! :-)

Us Kindle deals I succumbed to today:

The Fifth Witness is one of Michael Connelly's Lincoln Lawyer series. I'm a fan of the Harry Bosch books, and frankly can't wait for the new Prime series, but Connelly's a good procedural writer and all his stuff to date has made me happy I've read it. $2.99? Sign me up.

Lisa Scottoline isn't quite as familiar to me, I've read maybe one or two, but $1.99 for Final Appeal sounded like a safe bet.

Another sale! All ereaders can, in the US and Canada (it looks to me like that), get a $1.99 copy of the gripping and very sad non-fiction tale Last Hours on Everest by Graham Hoyland. I'm fascinated by Everest stories.

And on Kindle only, War and Peace illustrated with period artwork and "formatted for the Kindle" (ie, file effed around with so you can see the illos) is a whopping 99¢.

Oh, dang. That was too much to pass up. The illustrations look as if they'd be delightful. I may spend some months reading this one. "thanks" Richard!

Today I'm completely bulleted!

The Secret of Chanel No. 5 by Tilar Mazzeo is one of the microhistories, the tight close-up looks at a slice of world culture that I so enjoy. I know this author wrote The Widow Clicquot some time ago, and that wasn't the best-reviewed book; but like that subject, this one sounds too intriguing to miss! $2.99 on all ereaders.

Also $2.99 on all ereaders is Drama, a "personal history" by the delightful John Lithgow. I don't have any idea what the difference is among personal history, memoir, or autobiography, but I have so enjoyed all the Lithgow performances I've seen that I can't say no to this.

5 Agatha Christie novels on sale today on the Kindle-- $1.99 each.

Today's book-crack is aimed at mystery addicts: Louise Penny's Still Life, first in her Three Pines-set series featuring Inspector Gamache is only $2.99 for US Kindle users.

I'm deeply addicted to this series. This first book isn't anywhere near as polished or well-made as the later entries in the series are, but that's to be expected, isn't it? And it's not bad at all, just not as smooth as later ones.

And it's the first of the month, which means a brand new batch of month-long discounts on Kindle! Aa usual, a lot of dreck but some gems hidden in there, including Richard's rec above. The sale is HERE.

Kindle deals this month for $1.99 include Dancing at the Rascal Fair, The Uninvited Guests, and Lost Cat. I have the first two and am looking forward to reading them but I can wholeheartedly recommend Lost Cat to any cat lovers out there. I have the hard cover and read it last year. It's delightful!

Offers here include

Ann Cleeves, Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves, Dead Water
Ian Rankin, The Impossible Dead
Rainbow Rowelll, Eleanor and Park
Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE
Yrsa Sigursdottir, The Day is Dark
Kristina Ohlsson, Silenced
Dana Stabenow, Bad Blood
Penny Vincenzi, No Angel and Into Temptation
Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass
Alistair Darling's memoirs....

Even with quite a lot I've already bought in previous deals, it's quite a good month here, especially for crime fiction readers.

>215 elkiedee: Jealous of the Cleeves books available, even though I've already read them...

Took the bite on Amazon.fr for Anathem by Neal Stephenson and Among others by Jo Walton, also eyeing Let the right one in by John Ajvide Lindqvist and Purge by Sofi Oksanen.

Among Others is great (and is also on offer in the UK).

I was on my away here to mention Among Others too, having snapped that one up for myself quickly. It has had very good reviews from several 75ers.

The third book in Greg Iles' Penn Cage series is on sale for $1.99 on Kobo and Kindle and presumably Nook as well. The first book in the series The Quiet Game, was very good.

Another Jo Walton book, Farthing, is currently available for 99p - it's the first in the Small Change trilogy. I've also ordered the set in paperback from the Book People - I will pass on the first book and hang on to the others for the moment - though I've found that sometimes the same books come up as offers from both sources.

Not really a sale, but Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature WITH LINKS. This seemed like a good place to post this.

Amazon UK Kindle Spring Sale has started:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_hps_ft_clnk?node=2611393031,!425597031,!4255950...

There is some rubbish and some stuff which has been oon offer a lot but there are some more interesting offerings. I really liked Susanna Jones' novel When Nights Were Cold.

There is quite a bit on offer from indie publishers including Salt (fiction and poetry), Parthian, Europa Editions, Daunt books reprints (several are also VMCs). Non fiction by Muriel Spark - a book on Mary Shelley and a collection of essays.

A bio of P L Travers, Mary Poppins She Wrote

There's a Michael Connelly on deal of the day for today (4 April) and several other books in his Harry Bosch series seem to be £1.49, not part of the spring sale or monthly deals so I don't know how long for.

I've been rummaging around on the UK Spring sale. Picked up a couple of mysteries, including an early financial thriller by Michael Ridpath.

>223 elkiedee: Thanks Luci. The Muriel Spark book on Mary Shelley was on my wishlist and I'm also considering the P. L. Travers bio and The Rabbit Back Literature Society from Pushkin Press.

Amazon US has Miss Buncle Married for $2.99 in today's Kindle Daily Deal.

>226 lauralkeet: And not only that, but Miss Buncle's Book is only $2.51 - a real deal!

>227 LizzieD: Thanks Peggy! Those who haven't yet met Miss Buncle will want to start with Miss Buncle's Book.

>226 lauralkeet:, >227 LizzieD:. Two of my favorites. Well worth the price IMO.

>228 lauralkeet: I agree.

Today's all ereader platforms deal that I must *squee* about is Maurice Druon's The Iron King. It's historical fiction about medieval France in all it violent and passionate glory. It's the inspiration for A Game of Thrones. And unlike that, it's cheap, only $1.99!

Squee indeed.

Although *the* inspiration? I would say AN inspiration. Martin ran amok in sources of inspiration for GoT, methinks...

Sweet! Thanks, RD. I started it as a library book last month but got behind and had to return it. Now I can read it anytime!

The dystopian fantasy Red Rising is on sale today for 1.99 from Google/kobo/B&N.

ETA: Kindle now also.

Indeed, AN inspiration is correct, Suz.

And today? Today the inner Beavis and Butthead fan is served by an all-ereaders sale of Go, Mutants!. Several chuckles, a lot of smiles, nothing that will appeal to the Serious Reader.

The Abomination, OTOH...well, no, never mind, but the combination of Venice celebrating La Befana (the Italian Santa is a witch) and a dose of virtual reality makes this thriller a bit more substantive than the snack food above.

Each is a whopping $1.99.

Red Rising is really well done.

One of the best books I've read recently is a Kindle Daily Deal! A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash is only $1.99 today!

This would be an appropriate read for Autism Awareness Month, as the great tragedy of the story involves a young man never described with the word autism, but exhibiting the classic symptoms. (In the time and place of the story, he would have been unlikely to have been properly diagnosed, thus the lack of label.)

Today's Kindle Daily Deal in the USA is Delany's Babel-17. I didn't have it yesterday, but today I do.

Barbara Pym's Quartet in Autumn is currently 99p on Kindle in the UK.

>237 LizzieD: I got it too!

>238 Eat_Read_Knit: Purchased, thanks Caty.

UK: first in Scandicrime Van Veeteren series The Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser is £1.19 for Kindle - I bought it for £1.79 yesterday (so have just returned it and bought it again, as is my normal practice when the price falls below what I paid within 7 days.

You can also do this if you start reading a book straight away or very soon after purchase and decide you don't like it. Of course, I hoard books and rarely start them that quickly, and I also hardly ever give up permanently on anything, but it's worth knowing if you normally apply a limit on trying a book.

The Nook Daily Find today is Stoner, which has very good reviews on LT and was highly praised by a number of my 75er comrades. It's $2.99 at B&N and also Amazon, but sadly not Kobo.

On sale today at Amazon for $1.99 each, all of the books in the 2001: A Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke.

ETA for the Kindle on Amazon.com

Ye gawds.

Mind of the Raven is $1.99 on all ereader platforms! I love ravens and crows, the smartest birds around, and this is a scientific study of their intelligence.

The Zane Grey Megapack has 42, yes forty-two, of his novels for 99¢!! Listen, it's dated and it's pulpy, and it's a buck. Why not? The reason there are 42 of them is that they're good stories. (He wrote hundreds, so he was doing something right.) Kindle only.

Also only on Kindle is a megapack of 200, TWO HUNDRED!, Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales complete with Dulac illustrations, for 99¢.

I just got the eBook for Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith for only $1.99. Same price on Amazon.ca and iBooks.

The Kindle edition of Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev (NYRB) is currently available at $3 on Amazon.ca.

I don't know how they're deciding what ebooks to put on sale over at HarperCollins. A new book, one I've been noodling over as a summer read, is now $1.99 on all ereaders: A Garden of Marvels, about a frustrated home gardener's researches into botany. Since that's almost identical to how I operate (dang that didn't work now lemme see here where are the books about it), how could I resist?

Damned crack merchant publishers.

The first Liam Campbell (Fire and Ice), the first Kate Shugak (A Cold Day for Murder), and the first Star Svensdotter (Second Star) by Dana Stabenow are all free on Amazon Kindle right now.

Thanks, lesmel! I just picked up the first and third of the freebies you menntioned. (Already had the second.)

Two excellent non-fiction books are $1.99 each on ALL EREADER PLATFORMS (so STFU about Amazon):

The 100 Thing Challenge is a call to arms for a less materialistic, more value-centered manner of living. It's excellent, but then again, for me there's a huge chance of confirmation bias coloring my opinion.

Farmacology is another bias-confirmer for me...I know not everyone can afford organic produce...I sure as hell can't...but everyone can learn at least a little bit about how to introduce a little freshness into their diet.

Yes, thanks, lesmel, I also picked up two of the three, I love freebies!

UK: Rafaella Barker has 7 books on offer at £1.54, down from £1.99 each last week - luckily they cut the price in 6 days so I've just returned them all and bought them again - petty, moi? Maybe, but £3.15 is worth the hassle - I have quite a few books on my wishlist that cost less than that.

I applaud your frugality, Luci! And I hardly ever buy anything for more than the equivalent of £3.15!

Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World as a Stage is currently £1.07 on Kindle UK.

252: Peggy, I'm not sure it's really frugality, given I've still spent nearly £11 on those books, and originally spent nearly £14.

Better World Books is having a sale. This one ends tomorrow at 11 a.m., I believe, and is for 40% off used books from their bargain bin.

ETA to add five or more books, that is!
>256 MDGentleReader:, thanks!)

>255 tymfos: Lept. The sale is for 5 or more books. I went through my TBR books for which I have not been able to find an ebook and found the below. One is going to be converted to a PDF.

The Foolish Gentlewoman
Dolphin Adventure: A True Story
Alex in Rome
Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations
Queenie Peavy

>256 MDGentleReader: Oops! I forgot to mention the five or more rule. (I'm used to them doing that.)

Did the e-books count on the sale too? I've only bought hard-copy used books from them.

>256 MDGentleReader: Yes, it did. They are converting a paper copy to PDF.

>258 MDGentleReader: I do recall seeing something about that on their website, now that you remind me. I'm kind of surprised that they are allowed to do that, with all the copyright rules and all.

Oh my heck.

The Lives of Tao
The Deaths of Tao
Two novels by one of the nicest guys ever to write science fiction are each $1.99 on US Kindles. They're snarky fun books, and even those poor benighted souls who don't like SF should read them.

Flight Behavior is a good Barbara Kingsolver novel for $1.99 on US Kindles.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (which I hated but everyone else seems to like a lot) is $1.99 today on US Kindles. Personally, I think he should pay you, but YMMV.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is $2.99!!!!!!!!! *fanboy squee*

One of those dreadful, treacly Mitch Albom things is on sale, too, but I can't bring myself to type any more about it. *shudder*

Guilty Confession Time: I read Hazardous Duty, first of the Squeaky Clean mystery series, in a few hours. Then I bought the rest. They're silly, frothy fun tales about a crime-scene cleaner who solves crimes. The first one is free.

I feel like a crack merchant handing out samples.

Lastly, a flawed memoir with enough good points for me to recommend spending 99¢ on it: State-Sponsored Sex and Other Tales of International Misadventure isn't gonna win any Pulitzers. It will, if taken in doses, make you snicker. Many days that's enough.

I loved Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, for whatever that's worth. You have not convinced me on the SF books and I have never had good luck with Kingsolver. All of which is merely to say, ain't it a wonderful world with books for every taste?

US Kindle today has a bunch of books that it says are "book club picks". There is some stuff that folks might find worthwhile taking a glance at.

I picked up three of today's daily deals:

The Stockholm Octavo
The Color of Lightning
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

I avoided the Mitch Albom, but Richard's description of his writing style induced a snicker, and I thank you for that. ;)

Thanks, RD! I picked up the Tao books.

The Stockholm Octavo is fascinating....

I picked up The Stockholm Octavo during another Daily Deal mega sale they had a couple of months ago. Glad it's got your stamp of approval Suz, being the historical fiction connoisseur you are. I should look and see what other deals can be had for us Canadian from the US offerings.

The Stockholm Octavo is excellent!

UK Kindle: The Penguin complete novels of Nancy Mitford is £1.99 - grrr I paid £10 for that!

>268 elkiedee: Thanks, Luci. It's now on my kindle.

>268 elkiedee: I paid £7 - oh well, still pretty good value for 8 books.