The first book in the list is now available as an EPUB, while the rest are now free for US Kindle customers:
The AmazonEncore edition of
The Land of Later On (
$0.99), by Anthony Weller, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
Kip—a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological disease—returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife. Resembling the world as he knows it, but unlimited in space and time, it’s unlike any eternity he has contemplated. Its residents are those who choose not to reincarnate, which would erase all memory of who they once were. Kip has a quest: to find his beloved Lucy, a yoga teacher who shared his apartment for years but died of leukemia before he took his own life. Is she still here? Has she waited for him, or “gone back” to become someone else? In his odyssey across centuries and locales (Istanbul to the Marquesas Islands, India to Oklahoma and New Guinea) to find her, Kip is guided by Walt Whitman—who urges him to write this memoir on his return.
Last Train from Liguria (
$1.56 / £0.99 UK), by Christine Dwyer Hickey, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $5.65).
Book Description
From the bestselling Irish novelist comes a sweeping historical novel, a tale of consequences, spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s
In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family's summer home, Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge, and find friendship with Maestro Edward, his enigmatic music teacher.
But as the decade draws to an end and fascism tightens its grip on Europe, the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella and Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy - one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive...
How to Back Up a Trailer...and 101 Other Things Every Real Guy Should Know (
$3.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Kurt Anderson, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Motor oil, beer, and charcoal-that's what real men are made of. A real man should be able to swap out the car's spark plugs and change its oil as his freshly caught fish smokes on open flame-all while shotgunning a beer. For how-to instructions on these and other equally manly activities, you need How to Back Up a Trailer. It's the ultimate guide to everything you better know how to do, like:
- Rotate your car's tires and change its brake pads
- Swing a bat like a homerun hitter
- Build and light a campfire during a rainstorm
- Install an electrical outlet in your home
- Tap a keg for the perfect beer flow
Read it. Learn it. Live it. With How to Back Up a Trailer, you'll never have to stop and ask for directions again.
Today's backlist/indie free books on Kindle (not likely to be free for long):
- Help, Mom's Stuck on Spin Cycle: 31 Days to Laugh Your Way through Motherhood, by Cheryl Moeller
- Loki, by Mike Vasich
- Flowers for Her Grave, by Jean Sheldon
- To Live & Die In LA, by Terry L. Wroten
- Jimmy the Racing Frog, by M. Sterling Jones (Author, Illustrator) and Charles Snook (Illustrator)
- Burly and Grum and the Secret City, by Kate Tenbeth and Rob Jones (Illustrator)
- Sweet Ophelia, by Kenneth Rosenberg
- The Erotica Writer's Husband and Other Stories, by Jennifer D. Munro
- Wings of the Soul, by Pauline Edward
- The Counterfeit Gypsy (Kit Marlowe Mysteries), by Sarah D'Almeida
- Dead America: Zombie Noir, by Luke Keioskie
- Teller (The Rootworld Cycle), by Chris Howard
- That's Amore, by Carol Grace
- Cassidy's Cowboy (Search For Love), by Karen Rose Smith
- Five books by David Barker
