Free and discounted ebooks

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Kobo is having a Boxing Week sale with up to 80% off on selected books. I suspect many of these are also discounted elsewhere.

eta: The Ebook Reader has a much more thorough breakdown of Kobo holiday sales for the US, UK, Canada, AU, and NZ.

These are all Amazon-only:

• Zen Cho's novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is free until Wednesday the 26th. This delightful historical romance about a Malaysian writer in London in the Roaring Twenties is one of my favorite reads of 2012. Disclosure: Zen is a friend and also I read a version of this in draft, although I do not believe I said anything helpful or, probably, in a timely fashion.
• Barbaral Samuel's The Sleeping Night is also free right now. This is another historical romance, this time about a black WWII vet and a white woman in small-town Texas. I haven't read this yet, but I was impressed with how well Samuel handled race in some of her earlier novels, with non-exoticized Latino characters in some of her category romances as Ruth Wind and in the historical Dancing Moon. (Required disclosure on this one is that I read it in the 90s; I have learned a lot more about race since then and may have been completely wrong about how well Samuel handled things. But I trusted my good feelings enough to buy this book a few months ago.)
• Silent Dances and Silent Song by A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley are discounted to $2.99. These are part of Crispin's StarBridge series, but stand alone. Crispin also wrote Star Trek tie-in novels, and in a lot of ways these feel like Star Trek world expansion novels with the serial numbers filed off: the Starbridge academy teaches smart kids from a variety of species and sends them out as explorers and ambassadors to newly discovered or contacted planets. This paired set of novels was the first sf I read that featured Deaf culture (there still isn't a lot). The protagonist is a Deaf woman and to the best of my recollection the books never discuss "curing" her and eradicating deafness or Deafness. (Again, I last read these in the early 90s, so I may be misremembering.)
• Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man is also $2.99, though I think this price is permanent. This novel about a world where magic re-entered the world during World War II opens with a physician autopsying his own corpse and goes into family love and family dysfunction from there. It's the book that first brought Stewart significant critical attention in sf/f circles, and the first in a loosely connected set of novels taking place in a modern world altered by magic's high tide and eventual ebb. (My favorite is The Night Watch, but most people seem to prefer Resurrection Man or Galveston.)

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