FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Get it before they split it!

Now available with its own axe! (Do not try this at home.)

[SomeSteve]

Exhalation (Stories) by Ted Chiang is $2.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/Exhalation-St.../dp/B07GD46PQZ

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/exhalation-4

[sufue]

The Sea and the Sand, which is the second in the McGann historical adventure series by Christopher Nicole, is aJoffe Free Friday book, and it's still free as of right now, Sunday morning, in California.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017KJOV3U
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017KJOV3U

Spoiler:

The Caribbean, 1800.

The spirit of Harry McGann lives on in his son Toby. Protecting Yankee shores from rogue French ships, he’s seen more action in his nineteen years than his father ever saw in a lifetime. But his destiny is set to diverge from his father’s in more ways than one. A chance meeting with the beautiful Felicity Crown, daughter of British navy-Captain, sets him on a path of reuniting the family with his father’s old foe.

Times have changed, however, and a new threat to American interests stalks the seas. Barbary pirates operating out of Tripoli have cast their net wide over the Mediterranean, disrupting trade, plundering merchant ships and placing men and women into captivity. When Felicity’s ship is over-run and Felicity herself sold off to harems across North Africa, the war with these pirates becomes deeply personal for Toby. He believes Felicity is alive and he is prepared to cross the sea and the sand to find her. But Felicity’s cruel masters will not relinquish her without a fight...

The Sea and the Sand is the second book in the McGann saga. A perfect novel for fans of Robert Louis Stevenson and Daniel Defoe.

[salty-horse]

Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King is $2 in the US. (Kobo, Amazon)
Historical fiction. Ancient Rome. Was on my wishlist.

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.

On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond measure, obsessed with a taste for fine meals from exotic places, and a singular ambition: to serve as culinary advisor to Caesar, an honor that will cement his legacy as Rome's leading epicure.

Apicius rightfully believes that Thrasius is the key to his culinary success, and with Thrasius’s help he soon becomes known for his lavish parties and fantastic meals. Thrasius finds a family in Apicius’s household, his daughter Apicata, his wife Aelia, and her handmaiden, Passia whom Thrasius quickly falls in love with. But as Apicius draws closer to his ultimate goal, his reckless disregard for any who might get in his way takes a dangerous turn that threatens his young family and places his entire household at the mercy of the most powerful forces in Rome.