Free Kindle & Nook books – 11/6/2010 no comments
Some more freebies in the Kindle Store and a children’s book free in ePub format:
John Wooden’s Winning Ways (Insights From Great Business Minds) by The Editors of New Word City (1 star/1 review) Leadership.
Crush by Alan Jacobson (4 stars/29 reviews) Thriller. Also available free at Barnes & Noble.
Dwight Eisenhower’s Leadership Lessons by The Editors of New Word City (5 stars/1 review) Leadership.
Long Time Coming by Vanessa Miller (5 stars/4 reviews) Faith-based fiction.
Certain Wolfish Charm by Lydia Dare (4 stars/29 reviews) Victorian paranormal romance.
Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Collins (2 1/2 stars/33 reviews) Historical fiction based on Jane Austen’s work.
Barnes & Noble and Amazon are both offering The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (4 stars/99 reviews at Amazon) for $2.99 for a limited time. The story:
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore–a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom’s boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan’s world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances–not to mention a stray relative or two–and leads him to a reckoning with his past.
Among the many twists in the delicious plot are a scam involving a forgery of the first page of The Scarlet Letter, a disturbing revelation that takes place in a sperm bank, and an impossible, utopian dream of a rural refuge. Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes "to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man." But life takes over instead, and Nathan’s despair is swept away as he finds himself more and more implicated in the joys and sorrows of others.
The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster’s warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving and unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.
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Children’s book author Jason Mark is offering
his children’s book Ghost Hunters Book 1: The Haunted House for free. This is the first title in a proposed series, and if you download it the author would like your feedback. If readers like the first title Mark will continue the series.
You can download Ghost Hunters at no charge from Gravity Switch in ePub format for Nook and Sony ereaders or for iDevices you can download it in iBooks. For Kindle you can purchase Ghost Hunters for $0.99 at the Kindle Store.
