Winner: The Crystal Prince by Jeanette Clinger Hurley
The winner is:
Jasmyn
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Giveaway: Reamde by Neal Stephenson
Book Description:
Having fled to British Columbia decades ago to avoid the draft, Richard Forthrast then amassed a fortune transporting marijuana over the border to Idaho. Now he spends his time playing a power-wielding online fantasy game and his money buying viral gold and other necessaries from Chinese gold farmers and, finally, launching his own techie start-up. Alas, one of the gold farmers sets off a virtual war for dominance that could be the end of Richard.
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Giveaway: Falling For Me by Anna David
Thanks to Anna David, herself, I am giving away one copy of Falling for Me.
Book Description:
“Funny, smart, and compulsively likeable, Anna David is this decade’s answer to Carrie Bradshaw. There won’t be a single second you won’t root for her as she bravely tries to answer the resonating question: how can I be my best self?”—Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The Department of Lost and Found
The sex-and-relationship expert on G4’s Attack of the Show, author of Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of Reality Matters, Anna David is smart, successful, and single. Falling for Me is Anna’s provocative, eye-opening, and inspiring chronicle of the year she changed her life by following the advice of Cosmopolitan Magazine guru Helen Gurley Brown in her classic Sex and the Single Girl. Anna’s story of “How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love”—and her determination to either find “the one” or accept once and for all that it’s not in the cards—is touching and transformative, exhilarating and uplifting, and belongs on every bookshelf next to Eat, Pray, Love and The Happiness Project.
See the trailer here.
About Anna David:
Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007) and Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), and the editor of the anthology Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010); her memoir, Falling for Me—which covers her attempt to re-fashion her life around the recommendations Helen Gurley Brown made in 1962′s Sex and the Single Girl—will be released in October, 2011. She’s appeared on the Today Show, Hannity, Red Eye, Showbiz Tonight, and various other programs on Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E, written for The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Playboy, and Details, among others, and is the Executive Editor of The Fix, a website dedicated to addiction and recovery.
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The winner's mailing address: No P.O. Boxes
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Friday October 21st, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Mailbox Monday
Here are the books I received last week:
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Chickens by William Lychack
Anna drove by a farm that had baby chicks for sale and decide to buy a box of them, they were only 2 for a dollar. She figures that she has a big yard and it would be nice to have fresh eggs. When her husband, Bob gets home, he thinks it's one of her impulsive ideas and they never work out.
Anna said, "Could always be worse, couldn’t it? I told him. I mean, I have been thinking a lot about milk lately. Found myself following an ice cream truck through town the other afternoon."
Nonetheless, Bob helps her build a coup for her new project. However, his prediction came true.
Anna narrates: Next morning became next week became end of June became a dozen and a half roosters, one hen, and a sharp shining hatchet in our future. What started as two dozen of my sweetest little whims all sunny and cartoon-cute — peep, peep — soon became a nightmare of roosters all mottled and nasty and mean.
She went to the library and checked out chicken cookbooks. That night she made the rooster, Larry for dinner and called around to the Elks Club, the VFW, and theKnights of Columbus. They all claimed Bob wasn't there and she ate Larry by herself. He was tough and stringy.
She ended up eating a lot of the roosters herself. She also got through her pregnancy mostly by herself and to top it all off, the one hen never produced one egg.
You will have to read the story if you want to know the end. It is a story about spending time alone and a relationship that needs work. It is well written with a touch of humor and thought provoking. Though I don't believe in the eating of animals, this story works on many levels. If found a link where you can read it for free, here.
Did you review this story? Please leave the in the comments.
Short Story Monday is hosted by John at The Book Mine Set.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Winners: Cathy Maxwell 5 Book Giveaway
Thanks again to Cathy Maxwell and Avon Books for making this giveaway possible.
The winner of Cathy Maxwell's A Seduction at Christmas is:
Ann
The winner of Cathy Maxwell's The Earl Claims His Wife is:
Marie
The winner of Cathy Maxwell's The Marriage Ring is:
Holdenj
The winner of Cathy Maxwell's His Christmas Pleasure is:
Winne
The winner of Cathy Maxwell's newest book, THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL is:
Maria
Congratulations to all 5 of you! Please respond to the email I sent you within 2 days to claim your books.
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October Reviews for 2011 ARC Reading Challenge
Working Towards Bronze Level:
Debbie-5
Jessica-1
Working on Silver:
Amused-19
Donna -25Level Platinum:
Julie-94
Nicola-128
Sarah- 30Please post the books you read in June for the challenge in Mr. Linky, below:
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October Reviews for 2011 Books Won Reading Challenge
Honorable Mentions: Read 1-3 books won:
Bev- 2
Tea-1
Teddy-2
Bronze: Read 4-6 books you won:
Jessica- 5Julie-5
Gold: Read 10 or more books you won.
LuAnn-22
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Giveaway: The Little Bride by Anna Solomon
Book Description:
Based on the fascinating, but little-known history of Jewish pioneers on the Great Plains, THE LITTLE BRIDE is a subtle, elegantly written and compelling read about a 16-year-old mail-order bride bound for America whose dreams of leaving poverty behind, are quickly dashed when she arrives in the desolate plains of “Sodokota” in the 1880s.
Her husband Max turns out to be nearly penniless, more than twice her age, rigidly Orthodox and recently abandoned by his first wife. Instead of a grand house, she finds herself living in a one-room sod hut with Max and his two teenage sons. The family has signed on to the Am Olam movement— a little known Jewish-American experiment in the 1880s and 90s in which wealthier, assimilated Jews decided to “help” the poorer immigrants who were flooding many American cities at that time by giving them the money and tools they needed to head West— and is now struggling to farm rocky land and grow the food they need to get through the coming winter.
THE LITTLE BRIDE is an immigrant story, a love story, and a coming-of-age story about a young woman caught in a world she is unprepared for, forced to draw on strengths she barely knows she has.
Anna Solomon received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. She is a former reporter and producer for National Public Radio. Solomon lives in Providence , RI with her family. The Little Bride is her first novel.
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The winner's mailing address: No P.O. Boxes
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Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Saturday October 15th, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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Giveaway: Forever’s Hope Ramsay and Bella Riley Blog Tour
Thanks to Jillian Sanders of Forever Romance, I am giving away 3 sets of both books.
Description of Home at Last Chance by Hope Ramsay:
You won't believe what's happened. My son Tulane has come back home! You remember Tulane? He'd set out to find fame and fortune in the big, wide world outside of Last Chance, and I'm mighty proud. But that's not the half of it-Tulane isn't only back, he's brought a young lady with him.
About Hope Ramsay:
Hope Ramsay was born in New York and grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, but every summer Momma would pack her off under the care of Aunt Annie to go visiting with relatives in the midlands of South Carolina. Her extended family includes its share of colorful aunts and uncles, as well as cousins by the dozens, who provide the fodder for the characters you'll find in Last Chance, South Carolina. Hope earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Buffalo and has had various jobs working as a Congressional aide, a lobbyist, a public relations consultant, and a meeting planner. She's a two-time finalist in the Golden Heart and is married to a good ol' Georgia boy who resembles every single one of her heroes. She has two grown children and a couple of demanding lap cats. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, where you can often find her on the back deck, picking on her thirty-five-year-old Martin guitar.
About Hope Ramsay:
Hope Ramsay was born in New York and grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, but every summer Momma would pack her off under the care of Aunt Annie to go visiting with relatives in the midlands of South Carolina. Her extended family includes its share of colorful aunts and uncles, as well as cousins by the dozens, who provide the fodder for the characters you'll find in Last Chance, South Carolina. Hope earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Buffalo and has had various jobs working as a Congressional aide, a lobbyist, a public relations consultant, and a meeting planner. She's a two-time finalist in the Golden Heart and is married to a good ol' Georgia boy who resembles every single one of her heroes. She has two grown children and a couple of demanding lap cats. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, where you can often find her on the back deck, picking on her thirty-five-year-old Martin guitar.
Description of Home Sweet Home by Bella Riley:
Ten years and two hundred miles. That's what separates Andi Powell from quiet, secluded Emerald Lake-and that's exactly how she likes it. But now her job brings her back to the hometown she's tried so hard to forget . . . and to Nate Duncan, the man she's never been able to.
About Bella Riley:
Bella Riley has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then nonfiction books, but as soon as she started her first romance novel, she knew she'd found her perfect career. Since selling her first book in 2003 (under the name Bella Andre), Bella has written more than twenty "empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publishers Weekly). Her books have been translated into German, Thai, Japanese, and Ukrainian, and two of her bestselling books have been Cosmopolitan Red Hot Reads. When she's not behind her computer, you can find her reading, hiking, knitting, or lunching with her favorite romance-writing friends. Bella and her fabulous husband and children divide their time between Northern California and a ninety-year-old lakefront log cabin in New York's Adirondack Mountains. To learn more about the Emerald Lake series, visit BellaRiley.com.
About Bella Riley:
Bella Riley has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then nonfiction books, but as soon as she started her first romance novel, she knew she'd found her perfect career. Since selling her first book in 2003 (under the name Bella Andre), Bella has written more than twenty "empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publishers Weekly). Her books have been translated into German, Thai, Japanese, and Ukrainian, and two of her bestselling books have been Cosmopolitan Red Hot Reads. When she's not behind her computer, you can find her reading, hiking, knitting, or lunching with her favorite romance-writing friends. Bella and her fabulous husband and children divide their time between Northern California and a ninety-year-old lakefront log cabin in New York's Adirondack Mountains. To learn more about the Emerald Lake series, visit BellaRiley.com.
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The winner's mailing address: No P.O. Boxes
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Saturday, October 15th, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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