The Great Booksale/E-Book Alert!

Found a good source of cheap books? We want to know!

Verso has 90% off all their ebooks until 1 January 2017: https://www.versobooks.com/

One of today's Kindle Daily Deals USA is Dark Matter, a good deal for scifi fans at $4.99.

In the US -- for e-book readers, seven of the Peter Wimsey titles are being offered for $1.99 by Open Road Media.

NEWSFLASH! How to Manage your Home Without Losing your Mind, reviewed by me here (http://www.librarything.com/topic/239304#5822582) and generating lots of discussion, is available today for Kindle in the US for $1.99!

The University of Chicago Press offers a free ebook each month. January's free ebook is Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood by Dori Katz.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is a very good one - 26 non-fiction books, each priced less than $3. There are some really good ones in there like The Worst Hard Time and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. I picked up Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild for just $2.99.

The Audible Daily Deal is The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham and narrated by Kate Reading, who does a fabulous job, for just $2.95. I listened to this audiobook last year and really loved it. I don't know if the daily deal is available to members only or if it is available to anyone, but that's a great deal.

I snagged it!

*grin*

Available today on Amazon and BN: Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson for $1.99.

This is the 'prequel ' to his current bestseller Road to Little Dribbling. Humorous and insightful. Many people loved his A Walk in the Woods

Today's Kindle Daily Deals is a collection of 40 books, all priced at $3 or less, that were top books from last year. For instance, In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, Before the Fall by Noah Hawley, Mischling by Affinity Konar, new books by Donald Ray Pollock, Ethan Canin, T.C. Boyle, etc. All at about $2 or $3, today (Saturday) only, and only for US Kindle users.

Here's a link to a site that is giving away a bunch of science fiction and fantasy ebooks through January 15. I haven't gone through the batch yet, and I don't know anything about the site, but I wanted to get this out as soon as possible in case anyone is interested. http://sffbookbonanza.com/freebooks/#fantasy

Louise Penny's Still Life, a favorite of many 75ers, is $2.99 today in the Amazon US Kindle store.

Tor.com is offering free downloads of Some of the Best From Tor.com: 2016 Edition worldwide through the 17th.

FREE. we I have an ARC copy of Find Her by Lisa Gardner I'd like to release to a loving home. Fromasmime-free and pet-free household. PM me if you are interested.

Amazon and Google have Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents for 25 cents today.

^There has been some continuing chatter about Rules of Civility lately and GUESS WHAT? It is an ebook deal today at 2 bucks. No-Brainer:

https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Civility-Novel-Amor-Towles-ebook/dp/B004IYJDVG/ref=...

David Halberstam's wonderful history of the civil rights movement, The Children, is on sale at Amazon and Kobo today.

Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter is on sale at Amazon for $1.99 today, in the US at least.

I saw that Talking to the Dead, the first in a mystery series that several people have been warbling about recently is current FREE for Kindle (at least int he US).

According to Book Riot, the BBC is offering The Underground Railroad FREE as an audiobook: http://bookriot.com/2017/02/21/bbc-releases-free-underground-railroad-audiobook?...

Here's a link straight to the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ff18j#play I hope this works for overseas people. As Book Riot is a US organisation I think it should.

Humble Bundle has a bundle of Doctor Who and Torchwood audio dramas starting at $1.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/doctor-who-torchwood-audiobooks

The UK Kindle edition of The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss, which was chosen for this year's Wellcome Book Prize shortlist, is currently on sale for £1.79.

I bought this book last year, and will start reading it today.

Jeanne Marie Laskas' excellent exposé of the NFL's concussion problem, Concussion is $1.99 for Kindle and Kobo right now. This book was the basis for the recent movie.

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks is on sale for $1.99 for Kindle (US). This is a fascinating look at an often misunderstood aspect of Islamic culture. I learned a lot from reading it; it's engaging and really well-written, to boot!

>26 katiekrug: I love Geraldine Brooks! I will add that it is also on sale at Kobobooks.com, for our international friends and weirdo Americans like me who have a Kobo e-reader.

The free ebook at University of Chicago Press this month is Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack.

Apparently Thoreau left a huge mass of notebooks with detailed observations of what happened when in Walden woods - and Primack got access to them, and compared current observations of ice breakup, bloom time of specific types of plants, the return of migratory birds, etc. Looks interesting.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

Tor is giving away a free download of Deathless by Catherynne Valente (U.S. and Canada only). Last day to download it (Mobi or ePub formats) is April 16. Get it here: http://ebookclub.tor.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=na&utm_term=na-tor...

Tor.com has a free download of Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway through April 26.

If anyone is near or in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, this is a great event!

My own Bookcrossing group, BCinDC, will have a booth at this festival in which we hope to give away hundreds of FREE* gently-used books. Check us out! Both the festival and parking are FREE. I hope to see many LTers, BookCrossers, and Little Free Library stewards there! Look for me (with my SqueakyChu name tag) at the Bookcrossing booth. :)

The Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Saturday, May 20, 2017, from 10am to 6pm.

*The price is right!

Code Name Verity is an ebook special for 99 cents at Amazon US and Kobo. Possibly other e-tailers as well; I didn't check.

Anne of Green Gables is free from all sources through Sunday, May 14! In the US at least...

Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm is an ebook special at Amazon and Kobo for $1.99.

Audible is having a two-fer sale for another week. I scored We Are Legion, which I've heard such good things about, and Black Echo, the first Bosch novel and one I've been wanting to get as an audio for awhile now, both for one credit. The sale is on for another week.

One of my favorite books of all time, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, is a $1.99 ebook special at Amazon, Kobo, B&N, iBooks, and Google.

>36 rosalita: If I didn't already have it in print AND as an audiobook, I'd buy it!

>37 Storeetllr: I know, right?!

Today's US Kindle Daily Deal is Six Wakes.

Joan Didion's luminous collection of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, is just $1.99 at all the usual e-tailers.

>40 rosalita: Thanks, Julia! I snagged it!

>41 Crazymamie: Yay! I did, too.

*grin*

The excellent $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America is $1.99 today. This was an eye-opening read for me, and I'm not very naive or uneducated about poverty in this country. And in light of *ahem* certain budget proposals being made, it's an even more important read.

Hexed, the second book in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series, is on sale today at Amazon for $1.99.

>45 Storeetllr: Ooooh. If it's also on sale at Kobo, my May book-buying budget is going in the red.

Edited to add: Yep, in the red. Oh, well. I'll just buy fewer books next month. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

UK Kindle books: All 12 Poldark novels are 99p each - I had 7 already but was missing the middle of the series.

This month's free Tor.com’s eBook of the Month Club is Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Check it out here.

>48 Storeetllr: Your "check it out" link isn't working, Mary.

If you click it, then clean off the LT stuff at the beginning (up to %0A), it works.

Stupid link. I swear I checked it before posting. I'm sorry, apparently it's no longer available, but you can sign up for future monthly free ebooks here: www.tor.com.

Tor.com has free downloads of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel's Dart through July 19th.

A specialized interest to be sure, but dramatically marked down to only $1.99 for the ebook version, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies.

The excellent historical nonfiction Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is $1.99 at Amazon and Kobo right now.

Penguin Random House Audio has free downloads of Tad Williams' City of Golden Shadow available for 48 hours.
http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/blog/free-audiobook-city-golden-shadow/

Brandon Sanderson has Aether of Night, an unpublished novel, available through his website.
http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/you-can-now-get-aether-of-night-on-17...

Verso has 90% off all their ebooks until tomorrow night https://www.versobooks.com/

Radium Girls is $2.99, Kindle and nook, US.

>58 Copperskye: Also Kobo, where it's actually $2.90.

>59 rosalita: Even better! :)

>61 LizzieD: Heh heh heh

You have an hour to get today's USA Kindle Daily Deal: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace - $2.99 CHEAP!

I've long wanted to read Green Dolphin Country and have just spotted a new e-edition at just £1.99/$2.59.

Also, Dark Quartet and Only a Novel are currently 99p/$1.29 each.

There are a few Elizabeth Goudge books at 99p, £1.99 and £2.99 for Kindle.

Amazon has a fine list of Labor Day Deals for Kindle - 80% off, they say. I snagged copies of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and The Radium Girls, both for under $3. I'm happy.

I stumbled across the Miss Seeton series the other day and liked the look of them and the e-edition of Picture Miss Seeton is currently FREE at Amazon.

At least some of the reissues of the science fiction anthology series There Will Be War (edited in part by Jerry Pournelle) apparently will be available as free Kindle downloads from Amazon this week in honor of Mr. Pournelle. It looks like Volume I (with the original "Ender's Game") is free today, and Volume II is as well.

Several books by Elizabeth Jane Howard, including the Cazalet Chronicles, are available for £1.09 on Amazon UK at the moment.

^The Leavers is currently available on Kindle for 2 bucks. A steal. I really liked this novel and it has been nominated for the National Book Award, to boot. What are you waiting for?

https://www.amazon.com/Leavers-Novel-Lisa-Ko-ebook/dp/B01JKHTNCY/ref=as_li_ss_tl...

The time-travel tale, The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn, is available electronically for $1.99 today, a nice discount!

Of particular interest to those who like reading Virago Modern Classics, Persephone books and early to mid 20th century fiction - Dean Street Press, and its wonderfully named Furrowed Middlebrow imprint, is offering a few freebies today on Amazon Kindle, by Frances Faviell, Rachel Ferguson and Winfred Peck. Heather (souloftherose) enjoyed and reviewed some of Frances Faviell's work a few months ago.

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, a WWII historical fiction novel is now $1.99 on Kindle and Nook

Tor.com has free downloads of Ruthanna Emrys’ Winter Tide when you signup for their monthly newsletter. It's available worldwide until 12 PM EST on October 20th.

Two of my favorite ebooks are on sale right now, at Amazon and Kobo and other e-sellers: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters is $2.99, and The Cellist of Sarajevo is just $1.99. The Sarajevo book in particular is one of my all-time favorites.

Two more ebooks on sale: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Brunelleschi's Dome, a nonfiction history. Both available at multiple ebooks retailers in the U.S., at least.

I second Julia's rec for The Cellist of Sarajevo. Such a wonderful book.

Laura Hillenbrand's masterful Unbroken is a $2.99 ebook special today at the usual U.S. etailers: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble.

And a couple more: David Allen's productivity bible Getting Things Done is just $1.99 in ebook form, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is just 99 cents.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction in Britain, is available in ebook form for 99¢ today!!

Verso Books has 90% off all of its ebooks until 1 January https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3543-verso-end-of-year-sale

Best books of the month are Kindle Daily deals, including Provenance, Anne Leckie's latest.

>81 Carmenere: Yes! I purchased Magpie Murders and Young Jane Young!