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Gossip Girl meets The Great Gatsby in this week’s Free Fridays selection: Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen.
Lust, jealousy, glamour, ambition, heartbreak: In New York City, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Godbersen’s rich, evocative writing brings flapper-era Gotham to life through the eyes of two small-town girls trying to make their way in the Big Apple. This fun romp follows the young women as they celebrate in speakeasies, strive for stardom, and side-step an occasional scandal. The plucky protagonists would be at home in today’s New York social scene, but the 1920s-period detail makes for a unique and nostalgic adventure.
This bonus free edition of Bright Young Things features an excerpt from the upcoming sequel Beautiful Days and an exclusive piece from the author on “How to dress like a lady.”
Free Fridays Recommends
Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Anna Godbersen recommends:
"I read Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford's biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, as research on the 1920s, but it's so exquisitely researched, so richly written, that it never felt like work. This is a story about what it is to be a woman and an artist, a girl, a lover, a genius, and an exceptional and flawed human being. That is: my idea of the perfect book."
NOOK owners: go to shop and search for “Anna Godbersen” to download her captivating books.
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Here's a list of other freebies found since last friday (all free at the time of posting, please check prices before clicking):
Fiction/Novel:
Summer of Fire by Linda Jacobs
From Ashes to Honor by Loree Lough
A Time to Heal (Quilts of Lancaster County Series #2) by Barbara Cameron
Against the Gates of Hell by Mylow Young
Romance:
Sweet Baklava by Debby Mayne
Fatal Destiny by Marie Force
Christian:
Powerful Prayers for Troubled Times by Stormie Omartian
When all Hail Breaks Loose by Pat Day
Cookbook:
Circle of Friends Cookbook 25 Burger Recipes by Gooseberry Patch
E-commerce:
Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time by Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Other non-fiction:
Math for Grownups by Laura Laing
Buck-Naked Faith by Eric Sandras
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Looks good. Thank you for the bonus list of freebes spec! I download a couple that look very interesting.
Thanks again, Love Free Friday and my Nook!
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Thanks for posting the additional freebees spec! I can always find something on your list that I like. Free Fridays is a great thing! Between the free books from B&N and the electronic resources at the library I always have something to read. I love my nook!!
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Fantastic free Friday choice. Thank you! :-)
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Sounds like a Nookbook I will definitely enjoy! As always thank you for all the great offers and wonderful suggestions...and ALL THE FREEBIES!!!!!!!!!
Happy Friday to all!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I all the great offers and suggestions. I teach transitional math at a community college and I just know "Math for Grownups" is going to be very helpful! Plus, I loved most of the fiction offerings!
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Love my Nook! Love ebooks! (especially the free ones) I don't have time to seach for free ebooks on my own so I really appreciate B&N Free Fridays and spec listings. Gotta go read!
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@momgee:
This is actually pretty common practice with the Free Fridays titles, and I don't see a problem with it.
The point of Free Fridays is to feature interesting free titles, not for B&N to dig into their marketing budget to subsidize our reading habits.
Besides, at least with with Agency publishers, they pretty much have to, by contract, offer the title at the same price to everyone in general, including when they offer it for a free promotion. Sometimes this means the offer goes live before it's announced in this blog. So what?
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Spec, you rock. Great selections for everyone. I've found three or four books to download every time since you started this listing.
Jeremy did a good job today too!
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Hope you all enjoy this one! Have a great weekend.
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