A Discovery of Witches, a book I really enjoyed, is now in paperback. I have one copy to give away to a reader with a US or Canadian mailing address. Just fill out the form below by 11:59 pm central on Sunday, January 8.
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Yesterday a book was released that I’m really, really excited about. I’ll be reading it over the next few months, but I wanted to go ahead and offer a giveaway for you Right. Now. Here’s the description from the publisher:
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire.
Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class.
When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembarked to explore, Baret carried heavy wooden field presses and bulky optical instruments over beaches and hills, impressing observers on the ships’ decks with her obvious strength and stamina. Less obvious were the strips of linen wound tight around her upper body and the months she had spent perfecting her masculine disguise in the streets and marketplaces of Paris.
Expedition commander Louis-Antoine de Bougainville recorded in his journal that curious Tahitian natives exposed Baret as a woman, eighteen months into the voyage. But the true story, it turns out, is more complicated.
I have two copies available for readers with US and Canadian mailing addresses. To enter, please fill out the form below by 11:59pm Central on Wednesday, December 14th.
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What would you do if you suddenly found yourself back in 14th century England? How would you know what to eat? What to wear? How not to end up in the stockades?
Well, if you had read Ian Mortimer’s The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, you might just manage to survive the middle ages.
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is divided into eleven sections:
I read The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England back when it was out in hardcover and thoroughly enjoyed it. Now that it is out in paperback, the nice people at Simon & Schuster have been kind enough to give me TWO copies to give away. I’ll be mailing them out myself, so although one will be US-only, the other copy I will open up internationally. To enter, fill out the Google form below by noon Eastern (US) on Wednesday, December 7th.
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About It’s Hard Not to Hate You
“The hate in you has got to come out.” After being advised to reduce stress by her doctor, humorist Valerie Frankel realized the biggest source of pressure in her life was maintaining an unflappable easing-going persona. After years of glossing over the negative, Frankel goes on a mission of emotional honesty, vowing to let herself feel and express all the toxic emotions she’d long suppressed or denied: jealousy, rage, greed, envy, impatience, regret. Frankel reveals her personal History of Hate, from mean girls in junior high, selfish boyfriends in her twenties and old professional rivals. Hate stomps through her current life, too, with snobby neighbors, rude cell phone talkers, scary doctors and helicopter moms. Regarding her husband, she asks, “How Do I Hate You? Let Me Count the Ways.” (FYI: There are three.) By the end of her authentic emotional experience, Frankel concludes that toxic emotions are actually good for you. The positive thinkers, aka, The Secret crowd, have it backwards. Trying to ward off negativity was what’d been causing Frankel’s career stagnation, as well as her health and personal problems. With the guidance of celebrity friends like Joan Rivers and psychic Mary T. Browne, Frankel now uses anger, jealousy and impatience as tools to be a better, balanced and deeper person. It’s Hard Not to Hate You sends the message that there are no wrong emotions, only wrong ways of dealing with them.
If you get your hands on It’s Hard Not to Hate You, be sure to check out the hilarious (subversive) Reading Group Guide.
I have one copy of It’s Hard Not to Hate You to give away. To win, fill out the form below by 11:59 pm on Friday, September 16, 2011. The publisher will be sending out the prize, so you MUST have a US or Canadian mailing address to win.
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Now that you’ve read my review of Plugged by Eoin Colfer, you probably want to listen for yourself. I don’t blame you!
Guess what?
AudioGo actually sent me an extra copy of Plugged, JUST to give away to YOU!
All you need to do is enter your information on the form below by 11:59 PM Central on Thursday, September 15th. Because I will be shipping this prize out myself, this giveaway will be open internationally. If you have a mailing address, you can win!
Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2011An unfortunate number of lives are lived filled with regret, and in The Stuff That Never Happened, Maddie Dawson brings us the story of a woman who loves her husband of more than 26 years, but still wonders about the chemistry she had with another man. Need more information? Check out my review of the hardcover last summer.
Broadway Books is very excited about releasing this in trade paperback, and is offering three copies to readers with US mailing addresses. To enter, fill out the Google form below (or click here) by 11:59 pm Central on Thursday, August 18th.
Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2011For all you who don’t like your books too depressing, Susan Gregg Gilmore has got a book for you. The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove deals with feminism, classism, and racism, but at the same time remains a pretty little Southern belle of a book. Need more information? Check out my review of the hardcover last summer
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Broadway Books is very excited about releasing this (today!) in trade paperback, and is offering three copies to readers with US mailing addresses. To enter, fill out the Google form below (or click here) by 11:59 pm Central on Sunday, August 7th.
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I’ve read all three of the books in Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls series as they have come out, and overall have very much enjoyed each of them. Of course, you can read my reviews and see for yourself:
Maggie Stiefvater also guest posted on my blog about werewolves last year when LINGER was released.
In Maggie Stiefvater’s SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. In LINGER, they fought to be together. Now, in FOREVER, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.
Scholastic recently launched an online community called This Is Teen to connect readers with their favorite YA authors and books. Visit their page on Facebook for all the latest news on Maggie Stiefvater and FOREVER.
Scholastic is offering copies of FOREVER, plus a FOREVER keychain to two readers with US mailing addresses. Simply fill out the below Google form by 11:59 PM Central on Friday, July 22nd.
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Nearly three years ago I reviewed a very interesting piece of dual time period modern day/WWII historical fiction called Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. Overall I enjoyed it, although I was a bit put off by some of the modern storyline, it was a bit fluffy at times and felt incongruous with the historical storyline. The historical storyline, however, I found completely poignant and heartbreaking, I still catch myself thinking about it from time to time.
Now Sarah’s Key is going to be a movie starring Kristin Scott Thomas (website | trailer). It follows American journalist Julia Jarmond whose article for a piece on the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France completely upends her entire world. I’m not even going to tell you about the historical part of the storyline, because I think it is best if you experience the specifics for yourself, if they are anything like the book (which they appear to be). I predict lots and lots of crying. I’m very interested to see what they do with this adaptation, if perhaps the chick lit feel of the modern day storyline will be toned down a little, which I think would only improve the story as a whole.
The movie studio producing Sarah’s Key, The Weinstein Company (twitter | facebook), is offering one lucky reader a copy of the novel as well as a movie poster. This giveaway is open internationally. Please enter on the form below by 11:59 pm on Thursday, July 21st.
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Just in time for Bastille Day, Catherine Delors’ story of post-Revolutionary France, For the King is coming to paperback. As you may remember from last summer, I loved For the King, so I am thrilled to be able to offer two copies for giveaway to readers with US addresses, courtesy of Penguin.
If you want to know more about the history behind For the King, please check out the guest post that Catherine Delors wrote about the revolutionary group depicted in her book: “The Chouans and the Downfall of Napoleon.”
To enter, please fill out the form below by Sunday, July 10th at 11:59pm Central.
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