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Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut $1.99 on amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SEH1R8 |
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100 books you must read before you die
I realize this is yet another public domain collection, and the contents are probably available for free at so many places, plus, I'd rather have them all individually, but Bookhouse, has a 2 book set currently for free at Amazon Book 1 Book 2, and at Kobo Book 1 Book 2. They've had several other free PD collections, but I've never checked on their quality. There are several other non-free collections with similar names, I assume with the same PD list. I know I've seen most of them as the daily free PD ebook from Open Road Media over the last year or two as well.
If you're curious about the list, here it is: Spoiler:
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Fall of Giants by Ken Follett for $CDN 3.99
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Lost Walt Whitman Novel Discovered; Available FREE in PDF via Open Access!
I like to kid around and "cut up". But this is for real, as far as I can determine, and I've done some investigating in order to make sure that I don't have egg on my face.
A MobileRead member going by the user name doubleshuffle posted a thread, "Unknown Novel by Walt Whitman Discovered" on the "News" thread yesterday, I think that it was. I encourage you to read it. However, my intent in this post is to give you additional information, especially so that you may download and read it. As far as I am aware, this is acceptable--many people who follow this thread never check the "News" thread, I'm sure. A "lost" novel of Walt Whitman's recently (in 2016) has been discovered. Let me quote, first, from unglue.it: In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle appeared to little fanfare. Then it disappeared. No one laid eyes on it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress, where the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain waiting for generations. Now, after more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press is honored to reprint this lost work, restoring a missing piece of American literature by one of the world’s greatest authors, written as he verged on immortality. Amazing. It appears that a couple of organizations in the State of Iowa are heavily involved in reprinting and distributing the book. First, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review in Iowa Research Online is providing the book free, as a PDF, through Open Access. The University of Iowa Press has also published hardcover, paperback, and "ebook, perpetual ownership" (I do not know what the latter words mean) editions. As I said, Iowa Research Online is providiing the book free as a PDF. It appears, that in addition to the text of the Whitman book, the double issue of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review which contains the book, contains a wealth of ancillary matter that you can download. If you wish to download only the free PDF book, you can do that by navigating to unglue.it and clicking on the "Read It Now." The download webpage at unglue.it makes it clear that this book is in the public domain now. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 02-22-2017 at 10:11 PM. |
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Today at Kobo Canada, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi for $CDN 3.99
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/homegoing-2 Same deal at Amazon.ca https://www.amazon.ca/Homegoing-Yaa-.../dp/B01CWZFDM0 |
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A Harp in Lowndes Square by Rachel Ferguson originally published in 1936 Vere and James, twins gifted with ‘the sight,’ which allows them to see and even experience scenes from the past (including one, at Hampton Court, involving royalty). ‘It is only (now) that I realise how much … my work owes to the delicacy and variety of Rachel Ferguson’s exploration of the real and the dreamed of, or the made up, or desired.’ A.S. Byatt Probably not US. https://www.amazon.com/Harp-Lowndes-...dp/B01LYSGZM4/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harp-Lownde...dp/B01LYSGZM4/ https://www.amazon.ca/Harp-Lowndes-S...dp/B01LYSGZM4/ |
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^ Good in the States this time.
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This is for you, issy!
Sleep till Noon - Max Shulman - $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018V77JF2 |
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Bargain @ $1.99 each in Canada and presumably the US from HarperCollins, who seem to have marked down a bunch of Irish-themed literary/historical novels in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day (available at Kobo and likely matched in the usual other stores):
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Bargain @ $1.99 from HarperCollins e-books in Canada and probably also the US (available at Kobo and matched at all the usual retailers):
The Odyssey of Homer introduced and translated by the late Richmond Lattimore (Wikipedia), considered to be one of the classic translations. So classic it can get away with only having this for a blurb: The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English. |
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Bargain @ $1.99 from Random House's The Dial Press imprint in Canada & the US, probably just for today only (this is a Bonus Daily Deal at Kobo CA, and part of the Kindle Daily Deals at Amazon).
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut (Wikipedia), one of his literary satires originally published in 1965, which Wikipedia says has a musical adaptation. Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. |
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Dean Street Press, free
Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck ‘It’s a storm in a tea-cup, of course, but then we happen to live in a tea-cup!’ So begins Camilla Lacely’s charming, witty diary of life as a vicar’s wife in a mid-sized town outside of Manchester in the anxious, early days of World War II. The ‘everything and nothing’ that happens include a controversy swirling around the curate’s pacifist sermon (through which, alas, Camilla napped, making it difficult for her to discuss with outraged parishioners), servant problems, anxieties about Camilla’s son off training with his regiment, the day-to-day worries of friends, and a potential romance in the town … or are there two romances? First published 1940, readers of Bewildering Cares might well be reminded of the likes of E.M. Delafield or Angela Thirkell, but Peck offers her own distinct take—sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching—on the ironies and heartbreaks (not to mention the storms in teacups) of domestic life, community, faith and life during wartime. This new edition includes an introduction by social historian Elizabeth Crawford. Winifred Peck (1882-1962) was born Winifred Frances Knox in Oxford, the daughter of the future Bishop of Manchester. Her mother Ellen was the daughter of the Bishop of Lahore. A few years after her mother’s death, Winifred Peck became one of the first pupils at Wycombe Abbey School, and later studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Returning to Manchester, and under the influence of Christian Socialism, she acted as a social worker in her father’s diocese, as well as starting out as a professional writer. After writing a biography of Louis IX, she turned to fiction in her thirties, writing over twenty novels, including two detective mysteries. She married James Peck in 1911, and they had two sons together. James was knighted in 1938, and it was as Lady Peck that his wife was known to many contemporary reviewers. https://www.amazon.com/Bewildering-C...dp/B01LY7ZE9E/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bewildering...dp/B01LY7ZE9E/ https://www.amazon.ca/Bewildering-Ca...dp/B01LY7ZE9E/ |
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I am reading Lesson One: Revolution and I see that the author has two FREE short stories at Barnes & Noble.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Stua...equestid=53725 ONE of them (Wolf Block) is free on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...ary+J.+Witmore -JP_ |
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A number of Jimmy Breslin titles are $1.99 today.
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