Additional formats on free books:
- When We Touch (K/N/E)
- The Night Everything Changed (K/DF)
On OceanView Publishing's Facebook page, you can pick up a coupon good on their webstore (not for Kindle books, though) - mine was for 35% off.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Random Harvest ($1.99), by James Hilton.Book Description
A veteran’s comfortable life is upended when long-buried memories of his time in the trenches of World War I come rushing back
Charles Rainier’s family feared him lost along with so many of Britain’s youth during the First World War. But two years after he was reported MIA, he appears in a Liverpool hospital with no memory of his missing years. Even after marriage and a life of relative success, he can’t recall his time on the battlefield—until the first bombs of the Second World War begin to fall. Suddenly, his memories flood back. Recollections of a violent battlefield, a German prison, and a passionate affair all threaten to fracture the peaceful life he has worked so hard to create.
Random Harvest is a moving account of the trauma of war and the courage required to find redemption in the face of the most overwhelming circumstances.
Into the Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight ($2.49 / £1.59 UK), by Alexander Fiske-Harrison, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).Book Description
'I stopped halfway along the wall, slowly turned, put my hands on the safety-rail and looked down at the explosive paranoia of horn and muscle less than five feet away from me. I moved the little finger of my left hand and his head flicked towards it. Then I moved the little finger on my right, and his head shot towards that.'
Alexander Fiske-Harrison spent a season studying the matadors and breeders of famous "fighting bulls". He ran with the bulls in Pamplona and found himself invited to enter the ring with 500lb training cows. This developed into a personal quest to understand the bullfight at its deepest levels, and he undertook months of damaging and dangerous training with one of the greatest matadors of all, Eduardo Dávila Miura, to prepare himself to experience the bullfight in its true essence: that of man against bull in a life or death struggle from which only one can emerge alive.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Update: Now price matched on Kindle!
Book Description
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage.
At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane ($5.79 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Kate DiCamillo, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.Book Description
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost... Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. Along the way, we are shown a miracle--that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
Grade Level: 2 and up
