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 Barbara S. for getting a free copy of Evangeline by Ben Farmer.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Windward Passage by Jim Nisbet. In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor’s sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to international conspiracy.
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 Barbara S. for getting a free copy of Noir by Robert Coover.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Evangeline. Inspired by Longfellow’s eponymously titled epic poem, Evangeline is a brilliant novel by Ben Farmer. As the British drive the French out of mid-eighteenth century Acadia (present day Nova Scotia), the beautiful seventeen-year-old Evangeline Bellefontaine is torn by British soldiers from her fiance, Gabriel Lajeunesse, on the eve of their wedding. Heartbroken but determined, Evangeline along with illegal trapper Bernard Arseneau and priest Felician Abadie sets out on a ten-year journey to the French-Spanish colony of Louisiana to seek her long-lost love. War and the collision of imperial interests are among the forces the characters confront throughout their expulsion from their homeland and their hard-won survival in exile. Evangeline’s epic quest to find Gabriel brings her and her companions across North America’s colonial wilderness, through the French and Indian War, and into New Orleans rebellion against Spanish rule. It is the strengths and failings of the individuals that drive this grand tale, leading them to bitter confrontations in their search for connection and struggle for survival in a world torn asunder.
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 Clifton for getting a free copy of Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Noir by Robert Coover. You are Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. A mysterious young widow hires you to find her husband’s killer. If he was killed. Then your client is killed and her body disappears. If it was your client. Your search for clues takes you through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from jazz bars to a rich sex kitten’s bedroom, from yachts to the morgue. “The Case of the Vanishing Black Widow” unfolds over five days aboveground and three or four in smugglers’ tunnels, though flashback and anecdote, and expands time into something much larger. You don’t always get the joke, though most people think what’s happening to you is pretty funny.
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 SMD for getting a free copy of Gents by Warwick Collins.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Point Dume by Katie Arnoldi. Set in Malibu, Point Dume is cast with a fascinating crew of characters – among them, the thirty-something surf goddess Ellis, Pedro the weed poacher who deals out of his camper, over-privileged Frank who takes pride in his mansion and vineyard, and the illegal immigrant Felix who makes the dangerous journey from Mexico to work at a cartel-run pot farm in Southern California. The fictional narrative in Point Dume is firmly rooted in pertinent issues that are all too real today. Arnoldi writes with authority, informed by her own extensive and revelatory research including many hikes into active cartel-run marijuana grow-sites with the U.S. Park Police. With experience and expertise, she takes on the death of surf culture, human trafficking, drug cartels, and the environmental devastation caused by illegal pot farms on public lands. She addresses the transformation of a once blue-collar suburb into a billionaire’s playground with secret large-scale marijuana farms right in their backyards.
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 Peter Richter for getting a free copy of The Man with Two Arms by Billy Lombardo.
This week, we are giving away a copy of From Away by David Carkeet. David Carkeet’s previous novels have been covered in glory by critics and gained him a loyal following, but in From Away he has created a masterpiece—a brilliant comic novel that is also a finely wrought mystery. Denny Braintree, a wisecracking loner devoted to model trains, finds himself stranded in late-winter Vermont. His night at the hotel begins with promise, but then his prospective one-night stand walks out on him. Leaving town, Denny is mistaken for lookalike Homer Dumpling, a popular native son who mysteriously disappeared from town three years earlier. Instead of correcting the mistake, Denny dons his new identity as easily as a Vermonter’s winter fleece, and a good thing too—the woman he had hoped to sleep with has turned up dead, and Denny is the chief suspect. As Denny tries to unravel the mystery, he struggles to hide his true identity from Homer’s increasingly suspicious circle of family and friends, including Homer’s prickly girlfriend. In Denny, Carkeet has crafted a fast-talking bumbler whose instinct for survival will face the ultimate challenge, with readers cheering him on all the way.
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.
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 SA for snagging a free copy of The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Alchemaster’s Apprentice by Walter Moers. The first three books set in Zamonia—the mythical land created by the genius of Moers, whose work has been compared to J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silverstein—have achieved raucous critical acclaim and created hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans here and all over the world. Now Moers returns with a fourth “relentlessly whimsical” fantasy (Library Journal). When Echo the Cat’s mistress dies, he is compelled to sign a contract with Ghoolion the Alchemaster. This fateful document gives Ghoolion the right to kill Echo at the next full moon and render his fat, which he hopes to brew into an immortality potion. But Ghoolion has not reckoned for Echo’s talent for survival and his vast ability to make new friends.
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 Jess for scoring a free copy of The Best of Philadelphia Stories from PS Books.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill. In this fourth and most compulsively readable installment of Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler crime series, The Vows of Silence, the enigmatic and brooding Inspector returns to investigate an execution-style killer who is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. This unhinged murderer hunts and shoots his victims – all of whom are young brides – leaving Simon and his colleagues stymied by the apparent absence of viable clues as panic spreads throughout the town. The Vows of Silence is not just the story of a crime in need of solving, it is an exploration of the dark mind of the criminal. As Susan Hill exposes each piece of the plot’s puzzle with masterful and tantalizing control, readers are also presented with complicated issues of illness, isolation, family drama and death both natural and unnatural. Hill’s perfectly crafted character studies and relentless plot twists challenge the genre as she proves that the consequences often of crime tell more of a story than the crime itself.
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