Kindle Freebie: Tourists by Lisa Goldstein

[Melanti]

There's several by Goldstien that are free today.

Open Road Books is having some sort of giveaway. Thousands of books are free that aren't usually.

If you're in the US, it's worth going through your wishlist for Open Road books and taking a look.

I've spotted some by Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, John Gardner, Rudolfo Anya, Eden Robinson, Nancy Springer, etc. etc.

There's so much free that I don't even know wht to focus on... In the meantime, I've just been grabbing any book/author that sounds vaguely familiar and I'll worry about sorting it out later.

Here's a link (I think it works, at least): https://smile.amazon.com/s/?url=searc...

[Margaret]

Wow, I just added way too many books to my kindle.

[Melanti]

Me too!
I know a lot of them I probably won't ever read, but I'd rather grab something and have to delete it later than pass something up and get interested in it in a year or two from now and have to buy it full price.

[Margaret]

I did the same thing!

I had to stop after awhile. It was getting exhausting!

[Melanti]

Rumor has it, they'll be free until the 20th or 21st so you can continue browsing later.

I've grabbed everything/everyone I recognized off the bat and a handful more with interesting covers/titles. I might go in for a second round and actually look at some of the titles/descriptions and see if anything else looks likely.

Maybe we could list the books/authors we recognize and/or like?

[Margaret]

These are the ones I got.

Plumage Springer, Nancy *

Serafina's Stories Anaya, Rudolfo

False Dawn Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn *

Travellers in Magic Goldstein, Lisa

Dragonfield and Other Stories Yolen, Jane *

The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era Salmonson, Jessica Amanda

Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre

Gods, Demigods & Demons: An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology Evslin, Bernard

Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic: Tales of the Western Isles Leodhas, Sorche Nic

Femininity -Brownmiller, Susan

Moon Called Norton, Andre

Dec 16, 2016

Approaching Oblivion Ellison, Harlan

Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories Hand, Elizabeth

Paingod and Other Delusions Ellison, Harlan

On Writers and Writing Gardner, John

Ellison Wonderland Ellison, Harlan

Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman Gruber, Ruth

The Dragon's Boy Yolen, Jane *

Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader Shulman, Alix Kates

The Changeling Snyder, Zilpha Keatley

Living by the Word Walker, Alice

Troublemakers: Stories by Harlan Ellison Ellison, Harlan

Tourists Goldstein, Lisa

[Margaret]

Thanks! Added many more to my list.

[Leann]

Thanks for the heads up! My grab so far:

ghosts go haunting
Song of Time
Serafina's Stories
Tales of Wonder
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
Banana Rose
Kinds of Love

[Melanti]

I think I went a bit more hogwild than you guys did... I just grabbed everything by authors I recognized...

I'm seeing most of what I was really eager about mentioned already...

One by Yolen that I didn't see mentioned is Merlin's Booke, which I really enjoyed. Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories also has a bunch of fairy tale retellings in it- including the original "Snow in Summer" - which has a much better ending than the novel version.

I saw The Jaguar Princess deals with Aztecs and is listed in the fairy tale category - so I grabbed it mostly because I can never think of any central/south American tales.

Barbara Hambly's The Ladies of Mandrigyn is excellent. I haven't read the rest of the series though I've heard its not quite as good.

Eden Robinson - Traplines and Blood Sports - This is the same author that wrote Monkey Beach that most that did the Endicott Group read seemed to like.

R. A. MacAvoy - Damiano's Lute and Raphael - books 2 + 3 in a trilogy that I enjoyed the first 2 books of. Fantasy with a faith-based magic system. Book 1 seems to go on sale fairly regularly.

Norton's The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania was a teenage favorite, as was Octagon Magic

[Margaret]

Hopefully I like Andre Norton, because I now have a whole bunch of her books!