Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner jspad for getting a free copy of The Alchemaster’s Apprentice by Walter Moers.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Man with Two Arms by Billy Lombardo. Baseball fanatic Henry Granville spends hours introducing his son Denny to balls of all sizes and shapes. He turns his basement into an indoor stadium and guides Denny’s behavior, ensuring that each action performed on one side is matched by an equal action on the other, from throwing a ball and swinging a bat to coloring and wiping his bum. Soon Denny can throw perfectly with either arm, a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. He skyrockets into the major leagues, breaking records held for decades. But when a journalist hungry for a scoop exaggerates Henry’s obsession and exposes him as a monster, the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to destroy the world that father and son have created. A baseball novel and much more, The Man with Two Arms explores the ways in which we protect, betray, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by The Overlook Press. The Overlook Press is an independent general-interest publisher, founded in 1971. The publishing program consists of nearly 100 new books per year, evenly divided between hardcovers and trade paperbacks. The list is eclectic, but areas of strength include interesting fiction, history, biography, drama, and design.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, January 15 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner PETER RICHTER. Try your luck again with David Carkeet’s From Away in the new Free Book Friday.
