FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {01-28-2022}

A Matter of Course by Jody Wenner

Bobby Davis discovers a bag of money on a job site, and what he does after becomes the undoing of everyone seated around him on the Orange Line: Marigold Winter is a thirtysomething assessing strangers on the train with perfect accuracy while lacking clarity about her own self; Lark Brooks is heading to a job interview for a position he thinks will fix all of his problems; an octogenarian is searching for someone to continue her life’s work; a young mother is contemplating a divorce; and an oblivious teenager is attempting to write a new song for his punk band. Then Bad Bobby stands up and forces them all to face their fears, whether they’re ready to do so or not.A MATTER OF COURSE is a multi-point-of-view butterfly effect of one man’s mental downslide. It offers a dose of mystery, a touch of romance, and a good bit of what real life throws at us.

The Liar: A Novel by Stephen Fry

An “outrageously hilarious” novel about a young man who has trouble with the truth (The Boston Globe).

Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every moment. And worse, he does it wonderfully, imaginatively, brilliantly. He lies to buck the system, to express his contempt for convention, but mostly because he just plain likes to. It’s fun.

He invents a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and, for himself, a career as a Piccadilly rent boy, hireable by the hour. But Adrian’s lies eventually bring true danger, as he finds himself caught up in the machinations of a shadowy network that puts his own life at risk, in this “clever and entertaining novel that will appeal to Anglophiles with a twisted sense of humor” (Library Journal).

Cursebird On A Wire: The Alchemist's Agent: A Novella by E.M. Burnham

The wine’s gone off
The ale’s musty
The cheese turned green on the spoon
How do you solve a curse when it’s no more
than they deserve?

Ibram Ucalegon is an arm-for-hire with a slight problem. He’s committed the mortal sin of working for one noble while poking through the house of another. Worst of all, he was caught!

In return for his freedom, Ibram swears to supply Lord Halfrey with an introduction to his employer, Lady Azadiya Hobon, alchemist extraordinaire. All Lord Halfrey has to do is let Ibram out of his cage.

But on the day of Halfrey’s introductory gala, a cursebird flies in the face of everybody’s plans. Can Lady Azadiya discover the culprit and save the party before Ibram trades in his smooth sailing for another hard landing?