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Books on Sale: Goldfinches, Time Travel, Women’s Fiction, and Hard Time

Book The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is $7.50 at Amazon, which is the lowest price I've seen for this book. This was The Book Everyone Was Talking About (and Still Is). It won the Pulitzer, and the hold list for it at my library is about eighteen miles long. It's part mystery, part literary fiction, and part coming-of-age novel, and many people have made Good Book Noise about this novel – including Shauna Summers in our recent podcast. If you've been thinking about reading it, $7.50 is not bad – especially if you've got settlement money to spend. 

The New York Times Book Review Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.

It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

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Book Hard Time

Hard Time by Cara McKenna is $3.79/3.99 – which is the regular price for this book, I believe. But so many people have said this book is terrific that under $4 is a great price either way. This is an erotic contemporary romance between a prison librarian and an inmate, (did someone's catnip alarm just go off?) and reviews say it's both powerfully hot and terribly emotional, too. 

In this all-new novel from the author of Unbound, a woman with a rocky past finds romance in the last place she’d ever expect…

Annie Goodhouse doesn’t need to be warned about bad boys; good sense and an abusive ex have given her plenty of reasons to play it safe. But when she steps into her new role as outreach librarian for Cousins Correctional Facility, no amount of good sense can keep her mind—or eyes—off inmate Eric Collier.

Eric doesn’t claim to be innocent of the crime that landed him in prison. In fact, he’d do it again if that’s what it took to keep his family safe. Loyalty and force are what he knows. But meeting Annie makes him want to know more.

When Eric begins courting Annie through letters, they embark on a reckless, secret romance—a forbidden fantasy that neither imagines could ever be real…until early parole for Eric changes everything, and forces them both to face a past they can’t forget, and a desire they can’t deny.

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Book More Than you Know

More Than You Know by Nan Rossiter is $2.99 right now (or $2.51 if you're Amazon). This is women's fiction, and possibly also Adirondack Chair P0rn (TM Jane). This is contemporary women's fiction/romance about three daughters putting their mother's affairs in order after her death – and finding out there were a lot of things she never told them. This book has a 3.9 star average on GoodReads.

New York Times bestselling author Nan Rossiter weaves a poignant, empowering novel in which three sisters gather to celebrate their mother's life–and find new inspiration for living their own…

Losing her father on the night she was born could have torn Beryl Graham's family apart. Instead, it knitted them together. Under their mother's steady guidance, Beryl and her older sisters, Isak and Rumer, shared a childhood filled with happiness. But now Mia Graham has passed away after battling Alzheimer's, and her three daughters return to their New Hampshire home to say goodbye.

Swept up in memories and funeral preparations, the sisters catch up on each other's lives. Rumer and Isak have both known recent heartache, while Beryl has given up hope of marriage. But surprising revelations abound, especially when they uncover Mia's handwritten memoir. In it are secrets they never guessed at–clandestine romance, passionate dreams, joy and guilt. And as Beryl, Rumer, and Isak face a future without her, they realize it's never too late to heed a mother's lessons–about taking chances, keeping faith, and loving in spite of the risks.

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Book Blue Skies

Blue Skies by Tamara Allen is .99c until tomorrow – so limited time only. This is a unique book – it's part time travel and part contemporary and part historical, with a m/f and m/m set of parallel stories, too. This book was emphatically recommended to me (I haven't read it yet, though) by Ann Somerville, who said it's extraordinary. It has a 3.6-star average on GR, and was just recently released.

In modern day Manhattan, preservationist Susan Lennox saves history for a living. Her long-standing battle with developer Joe McGowan brings a fragile Bowery rowhouse to her attention, and she’s as determined to protect it as he is to tear it down. During an inspection, Susan discovers just how unique the property is when she comes across a frightened and apparently homeless man bearing a tale of time travel neither she nor her brother Neil believes—until they find they themselves have traveled three days into the future.

Professor Robin Winfield learns too late the mistake he made in agreeing to help Joe’s great-great-grandfather Victor McGowan decode a family journal connected to the rowhouse, a place once used as a laboratory for electrical experiments. When Robin is inadvertently transported one hundred and twenty-six years from home, Neil and Susan take him in, hoping to get him back where he belongs before anyone else learns of his presence. But Victor’s will has already spilled those beans and Joe thwarts the attempt to send Robin back—only to end up trapped with Susan in 1887.

Broke and homeless in the not-so-ideal past, Joe and Susan struggle to find common ground—and they aren’t the only ones, as Neil and Robin join forces in a desperate search to rescue Susan before Victor figures out the secret to time travel. But a secret Victor’s keeping is the one destined to change the future—Neil and Susan’s—for all time to come.

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  1. Miranda says:

    Personally, I HATED Goldfinch, and I liked Tartt’s other work, especially The Little Friend. Your milage may vary.

    It’s hard to articulate problems without spoiling the book, but it’s extremely slow moving, and I didn’t find much in the way of a plot payoff.

  2. Vasha says:

    May I also point out that Tamara Allen is offering her novella “If It Ain’t Love”—- which I recommend—for free on Smashwords.

  3. laj says:

    Blue Skies sounds good: Sold!

    I read Goldfinch in my book club, we were split pretty much down the middle LOVE/HATE…..me I was bored out of my mind. Guess I’m not very literary……

  4. Dread Pirate Rachel says:

    This is an erotic contemporary romance between a prison librarian and an inmate, (did someone’s catnip alarm just go off?)

    Why, yes, my catnip alarm DID just go off. Hello there, catnip! How you doin’?

  5. Heather S says:

    I’m reading “Blue Skies” right now and am really enjoying it. Her novella, “If It Ain’t Love”, is free on Amazon. 🙂 I need to keep closer tabs on the GLBTQ romances when they go on sale!

  6. Ova says:

    The Goldfinch is on my TBR pile.  I loved The Little Friend and I liked The Secret History.  From the sound of the buzz I’m going to have to read this before the movie gets made and subsequently spoiled on the internets.

  7. Emily says:

    Hard Time is so freakin’ good. I love Cara McKenna, no other person that a know personally reads any of the genre fiction that I do and some times I wish I had an actual human say “why yes, I think Cara McKenna is a brilliant writer.”

  8. Bianca says:

    A new Cara McKenna!!!!!!! 🙂

  9. Bianca says:

    Yay a new Cara McKenna!!!!!

  10. Kilian Metcalf says:

    Don’t know how it will end, but I’m half way through The Goldfinch, and I am hooked through the gills. I checked out the audio version to listen to on a long drive. I was so engaged, I bought the Kindle version because the trip ended before the book did, and I just had to know what happens next. I hate Dickens, so it’s a good thing I hadn’t seen the Dickens comparisons. I never would have picked up the book if I had known. I was more reminded of Margaret Atwood than Dickens. If it ends badly, I’ll be very disappointed.

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