Books tagged: road novel

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Birthday Girl    by Diane J Wright
Price: $9.99 USD. 114660 words. Published by Seedpod Publishing on December 3, 2009. .

Sixteen-year-old Tracey Burns has been confined to a single room for two years. One night, amid chaotic spring winds, she slips to freedom and inadvertently sets herself on a journey that takes her further away from the one thing she wants most: to find the mother who left her behind.
Famous Potatoes    by Joe Cottonwood
Price: $1.99 USD. 77270 words. Published on March 25, 2010. .

A classic road novel from the 1970s, now an ebook. Willy, a nice boy from the suburbs, is framed for murder and goes on the lam. With hopeful heart and broken balls he joins the people of humble cafes and dusty bars, underground, where life is basic. “An engaging, warm, well-told story of a likable character with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”—Publisher’s Weekly
Y3K    by Stan Kahn
Price: $4.20 USD. 152780 words. Published on November 11, 2010. .

Y3K is a look back from the year 2999 at Entropy Gaia, the world's coming ecological disaster. It's a novel of protest, a defense of ancient forests and an exploration of commune life. Y3K is a novel of ecotopia and a treatise on mysticism and the occult. It's also a story of unconventional love and romance and a road novel that nearly circles the world. Come along, it's a fun ride
The Ungettable Joke    by Bill Dargen & Dave Squires
Price: $0.99 USD. 81420 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Mysterious encounters with phantom elements of an ancient tribal culture are the main snares used by an intelligence that wants two young professionals to know something about the universe. The Ungettable Joke is a fantastical, humorous, and intellectual adventure that readers have said they “would like to believe is true”.
At all cost    by John Liu Kamina
Price: $4.99 USD. 48200 words. Published on March 20, 2011. .

Chris (12) and Laura (9) ran away from the father who didn’t wanted them to go to the mother they longed for six years. Criminals caught them in the juggernaut’s trailer they hid from the father. Criminals planned to sell them to Mr. Charlie to export them outside the country. Charlotte, the pretty lady, escaped with the kids to rescue them. Criminals hunted them in order to kill them all.
Scattershot    by Richard Goodwin
Price: $9.99 USD. 82310 words. Published by Seedpod Publishing on May 18, 2011. .

Fed up with low-paying, menial jobs that infringe on his boozy, loafing lifestyle, Wicker sets off on a road trip to Las Vegas, where the drinks are free, the slots are loose, and a megajackpot could solve his problems forever. On his pilgrimage he finds exactly what he wasn't looking for in Edna, a wayward geriatric with an agenda of her own.
Beautiful Wasteland    by Kirryn Lia Todd
Price: $1.99 USD. 51650 words. Published on August 12, 2011. .

Star, nineteen, insular and dreamy. Joshua, almost ten years older, a living thunderstorm. When the two meet, dream-deserts and sunsets spring into being and music lays a path beneath their feet. The only hitch being that Joshua's married... A story of music, memory, a little bit of magic, and what happens when perfect love really can drive out all fear.
MiG-23 Broke my Heart    by AK Dawson
Price: $0.99 USD. 98740 words. Published on November 11, 2011. .

The year is 1988. Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, an aspiring artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.