Friday, December 9, 2011

Friday Freebies: Skipped Parts, O Little Town, The Santa Shop


It’s Friday Freebie time. This week Barnes and Noble is offering ‘Skipped Parts’ by Tim Sandlin. This is a young adult coming-of-age story. You can see reader reviews at Goodreads, where the book gets. 3.93 stars. Here is the synopsis from Goodreads.
Banished to the hinterlands of Wyoming, rebellious Lydia Callahan and her thirteen-year-old son Sam have no choice but to cope. But while Lydia drinks and talks to the moose head on the wall, Sam finds a friend in local girl Maurey Pierce.
One of the wildest, raunchiest, most heartfelt coming-of-age novels of the past thirty years, Skipped Parts puts Tim Sandlin in the upper echelon of contemporary comic novelists.. 
You can pick it up in any of these formats.
Be sure to check that it is still a freebie before adding it to your cart!
Kindle          Nook
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Another freebie being offered this week is ‘O Little Town’ by Don Reid. This is Christmas story, if you haven’t guessed. You can see reader reviews at Goodreads , where the book gets. 3.72 stars. Here is the synopsis from Goodreads.
Christmas, 1958: Elvis is on the radio, Ike is in the White House, the Lord is in his holy temple...but there is no peace in Mt. Jefferson.
In a small town where everybody seems to know everybody, there are still a few secrets. Three families find they are connected in ways they never suspected: an angry teen, a dying man, a lonely wife, a daughter in trouble...just ordinary people, muddling their way through ordinary challenges. Illness. Marriage. Bad decisions. Friendship. Faith. Forgiveness.
Spanning three generations, O Little Town is a tender tale of love and redemption...and a lonely gravesite where roses mysteriously appear every Christmas. It will touch your heart.
You can pick it up in any of these formats.
Be sure to check that it is still a freebie before adding it to your cart!
Kindle          Nook
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The last freebie this week is ‘The Santa Shop’ by Tim Greaton. This is another holiday story! You can see reader reviews at Goodreads, where the book gets. 4.37 stars. Here is the synopsis from Goodreads.
A homeless man's journey from despair back to life and Christmas. Secrets revealed lead to an emotional and magical holiday. The perfect present: hope between two covers. Skip Ralstat is a man so steeped in grief and despair that life seems no longer possible. After the death of his wife and child, Skip blames himself. He has given up his friends, his job, and even his home. Now, homeless, he survives on the mean streets of Albany. He knows it can't go on, that life must end. But will it.Come join him on his most unusual road to redemption. The salvation of one life...lies along this road.Let the healing from "The Santa Shop" begin.
You can pick it up in any of these formats.
Be sure to check that it is still a freebie before adding it to your cart!
Kindle          Sony Reader          Kobo
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