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 Andy for getting a free copy of The Children’s Day by Michiel Heyns.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Hot Springs by Geoffrey Becker. Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. She convinces her boyfriend, Landis, to help carry out her plan, but once the abduction is accomplished, Bernice—whose own mother was given to manic episodes and strange behavior—is plagued with doubts. Will Landis stay with her, given her volatile personality and his own drifter past? Will she and Landis both end up in jail for this crime? And, perhaps most importantly, will she fail at being a mother? Dovetailed with this is the story of the conservative Christian adoptive parents, Tessa and David, and the effect the kidnapping has on their troubled marriage. As Bernice and Landis journey across America, from Colorado Springs to Tucson to Baltimore, Bernice must confront her past and the secrets she has kept.
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 Margaret for getting a free copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Children’s Day by Michiel Heyns. This unforgettable first novel evokes a young South African boy’s rite of passage in the 1960s. In a deceptively simple narrative, Simon observes a series of newcomers to his small home town and gradually pieces together truths about love, life, politics and sex: realizations which crystallize as a result of a disturbing encounter at the novel’s climax. The confusions of adolescence and the absurdities of South African politics are keenly observed, as Simon struggles to define the world and understand adult certainties – only to discover the dark ambiguities at the center of so much in 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 Gabe for getting a free copy of Erased by Jim Krusoe.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time. Translators include Nick Allen, Keith Gessen, Anna Gunin, Ellen Litman, and others. The work in this anthology reminds us that Russia’s greatest commodity and its greatest contribution to the world has not been oil and gas and armaments. Rather, it’s been the successive generations of Russian writers capable of examining life in all its emotional and intellectual restlessness, in all its complexity and intensity.
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 Traci for getting a free copy of From Away by David Carkeet.
This week, we are giving away a copy of Erased by Jim Krusoe. In Erased, Theodore Bellefontaine, the owner of a mail-order gardening-implement business, receives a postcard from his dead mother. “I need to see you,” the first card reads. At first, Theodore does what any sensible person would: he ignores it. But when he gets a second, even more urgent card, Theodore leaves his quiet home in St. Nils for a radiantly imagined Cleveland, Ohio, to track down his mother. Aided by Uleene, the last remaining member of Satan’s Samaritans, an all-girl bikers club, he searches for clues within the worlds of women’s clubs, art, rodent extermination, and sport fishing. Abandonment, life, death, and, oddly, Cleveland are explored in the hilarious second installment of Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about resurrection.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Tin House Books. 
