Not only are these twelve ebooks $1.99 until 5/27, but they were all selected as bookseller favorites on publication, so they come heartily recommended.
From our top shelf to yours, enjoy.
Book Club Girl is having a Baker’s Dozen ebook sale, where thirteen perfect-for-your-book-club titles are available for $1.99! Included in the sale are Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and Isabel Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea, but there are also titles from Cecelia Ahern, Katrina Kittle, Jodi Picoult, and more!
If your group is looking for their next great read, odds are you’ll find it here and for a freakin’ great price. But hurry—this sale ends April 15th.
All of these (and more!) are on sale for $2.99.
I know, I can’t believe it either.
We’re kicking off February in a nice way with a whole bunch of reduced price ebooks! Visit our facebook tab to find the perfect addition to your digital shelf. (I personally recommend some Justin Taylor, Jessica Anya Blau, or Yannick Murphy. Or Christopher Ryan. Oh, and Adriana Trigiani. And Willy Vlautin! Well this is just getting out of hand.)
Psst: we just added a bunch of titles to our facebook tab, so take a peek at what books you can get for $2.99 or less!
the average american male by chad kultgen
“Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was, but it’s not until she looks me in the eye and says in all seriousness, “You’re my soul mate,” that I realize I am not going to marry her.”
From The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen, on sale for 99 cents this month along with 19 other books.
flatscreen
“Maybe if I held her arm and corrected my posture she would see that we were in this together: this town, these stale life-lorn lives. But she would have shoved me off. I was her shame in my too-short pants. Fair enough. This was her world, not mine. She tried to follow its rules, she failed: my existence underscored her failure.”
From Flatscreen by Adam Wilson, on sale now with 19 other books for just 99 cents each!
the most beautiful walk in the world
“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world, except for that of the sea.”
From The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter, on sale now with 19 other books for just 99 cents each!
short story ebook sale: Vanishing by Deborah Willis
As you may recall from one of the many posts about it, we’re having an ebook sale with our friends at One Story, with some of our favorite short story collections on sale for the entire month of July for just $1.99. Today we’re highlighting Vanishing by Deborah Willis. 
In one sentence fragment, what is this book about?
Emotional and physical absences, the ways in which people leave and are left, and whether it’s ever possible to move on.
Have I heard of this author before?
The book was named one of the best of 2009 by the TorontoGlobe and Mailand won some awards. Deborah is a bookseller at Munro’s, a store in British Columbia.
You get paid to say this book is good. Who else liked it?
““Spare, haunting and insightful, these stories are wonderfully wrought snap shots about human frailty and loss that will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading.” —Calgary Herald
I am well aware of Deborah Wilis’s awesomeness and have already read this book. What’s her next project?
Nothing in the pipeline from us yet, but you can keep up with her on her website, where you can all see the equally great Hebrew cover for the book.
short story ebook sale: What He’s Poised to Do by Ben Greenman
Did you know that we’re having an ebook sale with our friends at One Story? We’ve got many short story collections on sale for the entire month of July for just $1.99. Here on our tumblr we’re going to highlight each collection individually, starting with Ben Greenman’s What He’s Poised to Do.
In one sentence, what is this book about?
Love, infidelity, and the vanishing art of letter writing.
Have I heard of this author before?
Ben is an editor at the New Yorker. His other books include Superbad and Celebrity Chekhov. He loves charts.
You get paid to say this book is good. Who else liked it?
“Ben Greenman’s What He’s Poised to Do is a terrific collection—a set of elegant, inventive dispatches that knock around space and time, and the wrenching gaps between people, to chart a world of previously unnamed moments and emotions.” —Jess Walter, author ofBeautiful Ruins
I am well aware of Ben Greenman’s awesomeness and have already read this book. What’s his next project?
Ben has a novel coming some time in summer 2013.
