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😀 I still need to get The Surgeon anyway, though! But I’ll get the paperback, to add to my decor! I know this promotion of yours is different than the instance I’m going to ask about, but do you think giving away books online before the publication of a new book helps sales?
There were two books in recent months that were given away free online as a PDF, both by debut authors (I believe), but I’m not sure if it helped when they actually came out Just a publicity stunt, you think?
New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense, Harvest. She introduced Detective Jane Rizzoli in The.
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(January 2017) () The Reader's Digest Condensed Books were a series of hardcover collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine and distributed. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which were (or 'condensed') specifically for Reader's Digest. The series was popular; a 1987 New York Times article estimated annual sales of 10 million copies. Despite this popularity, old copies are notoriously difficult to sell. For most of their publication schedule, the volumes were issued four times each year, with the rate gradually increasing to a bi-monthly schedule by the early-1990s. The series was produced for 47 years (1950–1997), until being renamed. ( Note: UK editions seem to have been somewhat different from USA editions.
Pre-1992 Canadian editions also contain different titles). Occasional titles such as (Summer 1960), (Autumn 1960), and (Autumn 1970) were not written in English but published as abridgments of the translated versions. Going International English For Tourism Cd more. In a few cases, new editions of older works (, originally published in 1901 (Autumn 1960),, originally published in 1930 (Autumn 1951) or, originally published in 1934 (Summer 1961)) were also among the condensed selections. Volume 16 - Winter • Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story - with Pete Martin • - • Time and Time Again - • Heather Mary - Volume 17 - Spring • - • God and My Country - • - • The Best Cartoons from France - Edna Bennett, collector • The Young Elizabeth - Jennette & Francis Letton Volume 18 - Summer • - • General Dean's Story - with William L. Worden • - • The Power and the Prize - • 'The Duchess and the Smugs' ( A Wreath for the Enemy) - • Tomorrow!
- Volume 19 - Autumn • - • The Anatomy of a Crime - • Love is Eternal - • Around a Rusty God - • - 1955 [ ]. Volume 36 - Winter • The Admen - • - • - • - & • The White Room - • Woman of Straw - Volume 37 - Spring • The Secret Project of Sigurd O'Leary - • Dear and Glorious Physician - • Collision Course - • Jungle Girl - • Epitaph for an Enemy - Volume 38 - Summer • - • The Light Infantry Ball - • A Rockefeller Family Portrait - • 'Trail to Abilene' ( Born of the Sun) - • The Big X - Volume 39 - Autumn • 'West Wind to Hawaii' ( ) - • - • The Miracle of Merriford - • - • Flight from Ashiya - 1960s [ ] 1960 [ ]. Volume 48 - Winter • - • A Prologue to Love - • A Time to Stand - • Give It Back to the Lemongrowers! - • Kirkland Revels - Volume 49 - Spring • Captain Newman, MD - • Devil Water - • - • Nine Hours to Rama - • Watchers at the Pond - Volume 50 - Summer • The Tuntsa - with Elizabeth Maddox McCabe • - • 'Carol' ( The Blood of the Lamb) - • Since You Ask Me - • Star-Raker - Volume 51 - Autumn • - • 'Brickie' ( To Love and Corrupt) - • - & • 'The Wonderful World of School' ( The World Is Young) - • - • - 1963 [ ]. Volume 52 - Winter • Second Growth - • To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See - • I Take This Land - • - • 'Hell Creek Crossing' ( ) - • Two Hours to Darkness - Volume 53 - Spring • A River Ran Out of Eden - • Escape from Red China - with Humphrey Evans • The Surgeon - • Smith and Jones - • - •.and presumed dead - Volume 54 - Summer • The Artist - • - • The Moonflower Vine - • Florence Nightingale - • The Wild Grapes - Volume 55 - Autumn • The Tilsit Inheritance - • Stranger to the Ground - • Of Good and Evil - • - • The Battle of the Villa Fiorita - 1964 [ ]. Volume 76 - Winter • Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms - • The Hurricane Years - • The Wine and the Music - • On Reflection - with Sandford Dody • The Black Ship - Paul & Sheila Mandel Volume 77 - Spring • - • Bichu the Jaguar - • The Minister - • Mayo: The Story of My Family and My Career - Dr. • Torregreca - • - Volume 78 - Summer • A Place in the Woods - • The Death Committee - • The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson - • The Three Daughters of Madame Liang - • Snatch - Volume 79 - Autumn • The King's Pleasure - • The Day the World Ended - & • My Life with - • In This House of Brede - • The Black Camels - 1970s [ ] 1970 [ ].
Volume 84 - Winter • The Crossing - • Kinds of Love - • The Antagonists - • - • Another Part of the House - Volume 85 - Spring • Halic: The Story of a Gray Seal - • - • Six-Horse Hitch - • - • A Woman in the House - Volume 86 - Summer • The White Dawn - • Risk - • Lifeboat Number Two - • Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of - • - • The Possession of Joel Delaney - Volume 87 - Autumn • A Timeless Place - • The San Francisco Earthquake - & • - • People I Have Loved, Known or Admired - • Summer of the Red Wolf - 1972 [ ]. Volume 92 - #1 • - • - • - • Stanfield Harvest - • - Volume 93 - #2 • - • The Camerons - • The Japanese - • - Volume 94 - #3 • Sadie Shapiro's Knitting Book - • The Years of the Forest - • - • The Curse of the Kings - • Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian - Volume 95 - #4 • La Balsa: The Longest Raft Voyage in History - with Enrique Hank Lopez • The Sunbird - • State Trooper - • The Search for Anna Fisher - • Mrs. Starr Lives Alone - Volume 96 - #5 • All Creatures Great and Small - • The Salamander - • A Thousand Summers - • Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle - and 1974 [ ].
Volume 97 - #1 • - • - • Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir - • The Mountain Farm - • The Thirteenth Trick - Volume 98 - #2 • A Member of the Family - • - • In Darkness - • - Volume 99 - #3 • The Will of Magda Townsend - • Forever Island - • Thirty-Four East - • The Diddakoi - • Lion in the Evening - Volume 100 - #4 • The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun - • The Good Shepherd - • The Property of a Gentleman - • His Majesty's U-Boat - Volume 101 - #5 • The Other Room - • - • All Things Bright and Beautiful - • - • A Daughter of Zion - 1975 [ ]. Volume 102 - #1 • Our John Willie - • - • Harlequin - • Eric - Volume 103 - #2 • Lost! - • Baker's Hawk - • The Physicians - • God and Mr. Gomez - • Eagle in the Sky - Volume 104 - #3 • Mrs. 'arris Goes to Moscow - • - • The Massacre at Fall Creek - • Collision - Volume 105 - #4 • Where are the Children?
- • Earthsound - • - • Daylight Must Come - • The Wind at Morning - Volume 106 - #5 • Lord of the Far Island - • Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the - with Patrick Watson • Minnie Santangelo's Mortal Sin - • A Sporting Proposition - • Power - 1976 [ ]. Volume 117 - #1 • Snowbound Six - • The Summer of the Spanish Woman - • Elephants in the Living Room, Bears in the Canoe - Earl & Liz Hammond with • Arrest Sitting Bull - • I Can Jump Puddles - Volume 118 - #2 • Jaws 2 - • - • The Practice - Dr. • Excellency - Volume 119 - #3 • - • The Miracle of Dommatina - • The Last Convertible - • Such a Life - Volume 120 - #4 • My Enemy the Queen - • The Good Old Boys - • - • Breakpoint - Volume 121 - #5 • Summer Lightning - • Tara Kane - • - & John Castle • Raquela; A Woman Of Israel - • The Snake - 1979 [ ]. Volume 127 - #1 • Domino - • Passage West - • Horowitz and Mrs. Washington - • To Catch a King - Volume 128 - #2 • Emma and I - • - • The Capricorn Stone - • Flood - Volume 129 – M • Amanda/Miranda - • Ice Brothers - • The Small Outsider - • The Silver Falcon - Volume 130 - #3 • Thursday's Child - • Random Winds - • A Very Private War - • Control Tower - Volume 131 - #4 • Sadie Shapiro, Matchmaker - • The Cradle Will Fall - • - • and: An American Love Story - • The Wolf and the Buffalo - Volume 132 - #5 • No Job for a Lady -, V.M.D. • - • The Old Neighborhood - • A Piano for Mrs. Cimino - • The Gold of Troy - 1981 [ ].
Volume 133 - #1 • The Aviator - • - • Hope - • Bullet Train - & Volume 134 - #2 • - • Banners of Silk - • The Gentle Jungle - • Reflex - Volume 135 – M • Lincoln's Mothers: A Story of and Sally Lincoln - • The Last Step - • All the Days were Summer - • Flight to Landfall - Volume 136 - #3 • Still Missing - • - • The Warfield Syndrome - • The Dam - Volume 137 - #4 • - • An Exceptional Marriage - • Texas Dawn - • Crossing in Berlin - Volume 138 - #5 • Vermilion - • Totaled - & • and: The Story of the General and His Lady - & • The Dark Horse - • Fortress - 1982 [ ]. Volume 139 - #1 • Through the Narrow Gate - • - • The Judas Kiss - Volume 140 - #2 • Alone Against the Atlantic - (with Marlin Bree) • A Green Desire - • Going Wild: Adventures of a Zoo Vet - • - Volume 141 - M • - • The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 - • Gilded Splendour - • Twice Shy - Volume 142 - #3 • - • Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier - • No Escape - • - Volume 143 - #4 • - • A Parting Gift - • The Big Bridge - • Last Quadrant - Volume 144 - #5 • Jane's House - • China: Alive In The Bitter Sea - • Promises - • Outrage - 1983 [ ]. Volume 145 - #1 • - • Indian Summer of the Heart - • Touch the Devil - • The Winter of the White Seal - Volume 146 - #2 • Pacific Interlude - • The Whip - • Open Heart - • Banker - Volume 147 - M • The Girl of the Sea of Cortez - • Jedder's Land - • - • Impressionist: A Novel of - Volume 148 - #3 • Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station - • The Brea File - • - • Octavia's Hill - Volume 149 - #4 • The Secret - • Talk Down - • Jewelled Path - • A Solitary Dance - Volume 150 - #5 • - • The Suitcases - • The Time of the Hunter's Moon - • Stalking Point - 1984 [ ].
Volume 157 - #1 • Lovestrong -, MD & • Stillwatch - • Crescent City - • The Wild Children - Volume 158 - #2 • Julie - • - • Polsinney Harbour - • Proof - Volume 159 - M • The State of Stony Lonesome - • At The Going Down of the Sun - • Callanish - • Find a Safe Place - & Volume 160 - #3 • In Love and War - & • Ringo, the Robber Raccoon - • This Giving Heart - • - Volume 161 - #4 • Robert, My Son - • The Bannaman Legacy - • The Cheetahs - • This Shining Land - Volume 162 - #5 • Voices on the Wind - • Trauma - & • The Donkey's Gift - • The Double Man - & 1986 [ ]. Volume 163 - #1 • Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha - • Wildfire - • Arnie & a House Full of Company - & • Take Away One - • The Two Farms - Volume 164 - #2 • An Ark on the Flood - • - • Come Spring - • Break In - Volume 165 - M • - •: An American Courtship - • In A Place Dark and Secret - • The Summer of the Barshinskeys - Volume 166 - #3 • Lie Down with Lions - • Tree of Gold - • The Deep End - • Cry Wild - Volume 167 - #4 • Silversword - • - • Bracken - Volume 168 - #5 • The Judgment - • - • Unnatural Causes - • Queen - 1987 [ ].
Volume 175 - #1 • Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle - • - with • The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall - • O Come Ye Back to Ireland - & Volume 176 - #2 • Hot Money - • Jenny's Mountain - • Trespass - • Sara Dane - Volume 177 - M • Wolf Winter - • Johnnie Alone - • Man With a Gun - • Winner - Volume 178 - #3 • - • Just Another Kid - • Rockets' Red Glare - • Brownstone Facade - Volume 179 - #4 • Tsunami - • The Harrogate Secret - • - • A Walk in the Dark - Volume 180 - #5 • The India Fan - • Mannequin - • Lady of No Man's Land - • Wildtrack - 1989 [ ]. Volume 187 - #1 • Tiebreaker - • What was Good About Today - • California Gold - • Monkeys on the Interstate - w/ Volume 188 - #2 • Straight - • No Roof But Heaven - • The Evening News - • The Courtship of Peggy McCoy - Volume 189 - M • The Lady of the Labyrinth - • The Himmler Equation - • Flying Free - • A Time to Love - Volume 190 - #3 • - • The Flight of the Swan - • The Estuary Pilgrim - • Manifest Destiny - Volume 191 - #4 • Cold Harbour - • Circle of Pearls - • The Bear - • Finders Keepers - Volume 192 - #5 • harvest - • Purpose of Evasion - • Snare of Serpents - • - 1991 [ ]. Volume 193 - #1 • Trial - • - • The White Puma - • and the Whirling Dervish - Volume 194 - #2 • Longshot - • The Women in His Life - • Crackdown - • Something to Hide - Volume 195 - #3 • - • Payment in Full - • Final Approach - • Home Ground - Volume 196 - #4 • - • Home Mountain - • MacKinnon's Machine - • Seal Morning - Volume 197 - #5 • - • Aspen Gold - • The Ice - • Lightning in July - Volume 198 - #6 • Loves Music, Loves to Dance - • Lost and Found - • Condition Black - • Escape Into Light - 1992 [ ]. Volume 205 - #1 • Every Living Thing - • All Around the Town - • Colony - • Death Penalty - Volume 206 - #2 • Driving Force - • Sotah - • The Doll's House - • The Bears and I - Volume 207 - #3 • Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too - • - • November of the Heart - • Shooting Script - Volume 208 - #4 • - • Sweet Water - • Slow Through Eden - • The Longest Road - Volume 209 - #5 • Thunder Point - • The Venetian Mask - • Final Argument - • Whispers - Volume 210 - #6 • - • Homeland - • Tell Me No Secrets - 1994 [ ].