Lucky 7 e-Book Sale!

The good folks at Algonquin Books are running another quality e-Book sale. The following e-Books are all on sale for $1.99 through March 25, 2012. They’re all available on our website, just like virtually every other e-Book out there, because it’s true, we sell e-Books. All of them. And we sell the majority of them to you at the same price as any other retailer. You can download the Indiebound E-Reader App to make supporting your indie bookstore while reading digitally all the easier.

Check out the deals:

Breakfast with Buddha
by Roland Merullo

When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he’d planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger—and amuse himself—he decides to show the monk some “American fun” along the way. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing.

Gossip of the Starlings
by Nina de Gramont

When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it’s on the condition that she reform her ways. But that’s before the beautiful and charismatic Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is in love with danger and the thrill of breaking rules, taking risks, and crossing boundaries, no matter the stakes. The problem is, the stakes keep getting higher, and Catherine can neither resist Skye nor stop her from taking down everyone around her.

The Resurrectionist
by Jack O’Connell

Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, “The Resurrectionist” is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have “resurrected” other patients who were lost in the void. What Sweeney comes to realize, however, is that the real cure for his son’s condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that envelops the clinic, Sweeny’s search for answers leads to sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying corners of darkness and mystery.

Rose’s Garden: A Novel
by Carrie Brown

Conrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, married the moment they had Rose’s parents’ consent, and defied the warning that young marriages age poorly. On the contrary, their marriage flourished right up to the time of Rose’s death more than fifty years after the wedding. So, at seventy-five, Conrad finds himself horribly alone, rejecting offers of consolation, neglecting Rose’s garden for the four months since her death. Even so, it’s there – in that ragged and overgrown paradise – that an apparation confronts the grieving, distraught widower one blustery fall night. Had it been Rose, Conrad might have found a way to follow her. It isn’t Rose, though— it’s someone else altogether. And the visitation is so startling that Conrad, who believed he would never want any human company beyond Rose’s, feels compelled to spread the news.

Rock On
by Dan Kennedy

In his outrageous memoir, Kennedy chronicles his misadventures at a major record label. Egomaniacs, wackos, incompetents, and executive assistants who know more than their seven-figure bosses round out this power-ballad to office life and rock and roll.

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
by Robert Goolrick

In the Goolrick home there was a law: Never talk about the family in the outside world, never reveal the slightest crack in the facade. To all appearances, they lived an almost idyllic life. Two respected, charming parents everyone loved. Three bright, smiling children. A lovely home on a quiet street nestled in a small college town. But behind the facade this family had created lurked secrets so dark, so painful for one little boy, that his life would never be the same. With devastating honesty and razor-sharp wit, Goolrick looks back at this seemingly serene time and at the parents who gave him life and then robbed him of it, who created his world and then destroyed it.

If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name:
News from Small Town Alaska
by Heather Lende

Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful place. Her offbeat chronicle brings us inside her busy life: we meet her husband, Chip, who owns the local hardware store; their five children; and a colorful assortment of friends and offbeat neighbors, including aging hippies, salty fishermen, native Tlingit Indians, Mormon spelunkers . . . as well as the moose, eagles, sea lions, and bears with whom they share this wild and perilous land.