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9/1/10
Freedom, A Novel by Jonathan Franzen Giveaway ends 9/26
Just released. This is the book everyone has been waiting for. Will shoot to #1 in a week or two. I also had the good fortune to listen to the audiobook from Macmillan Audio. It is read by David LeDoux and it is fantastic.
Critical praise:
- "Like all great novels, "Freedom" does not just tell an engrossing story. It illuminates, through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, the world we thought we knew."
-NY Times Sunday Book Review
- ..."the book has an addictive quality, the kind one usually associates with mysteries or thrillers."
-Time magazine
- "...there is no excuse for pessimism about the future of serious fiction when a writer such as Franzen is coming into his prime. [Freedom]...is an extraordinary work, which develops and deepens the immense talent so evident in The Corrections in a way that is at first troubling, then addictive - and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction." -The Guardian
- "It's a fair bet - as the marketers say - that if you liked "The Corrections," Franzen's 2001 National Book Award-winning family epic, you will love "Freedom." Here's another Midwestern family, another surgical exploration of the spent body and wretched soul of America, another - there's really no smaller way to put it - inquiry into the paradox of being human."
- San Francisco Chronicle
3 copies available for giveaway.
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Critical praise:
- "Like all great novels, "Freedom" does not just tell an engrossing story. It illuminates, through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, the world we thought we knew."
-NY Times Sunday Book Review
- ..."the book has an addictive quality, the kind one usually associates with mysteries or thrillers."
-Time magazine
- "...there is no excuse for pessimism about the future of serious fiction when a writer such as Franzen is coming into his prime. [Freedom]...is an extraordinary work, which develops and deepens the immense talent so evident in The Corrections in a way that is at first troubling, then addictive - and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction." -The Guardian
- "It's a fair bet - as the marketers say - that if you liked "The Corrections," Franzen's 2001 National Book Award-winning family epic, you will love "Freedom." Here's another Midwestern family, another surgical exploration of the spent body and wretched soul of America, another - there's really no smaller way to put it - inquiry into the paradox of being human."
- San Francisco Chronicle
3 copies available for giveaway.
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8/13/10
The Art of Devotion by Samantha Bruce-Benjamin Giveaway -CLOSED
WINNER : Sophia
Four women narrate their perceptions of a shared period of time, giving the reader a "Rashomon" like experience. We all see things so very differently.
The location is a posh Mediteranean island, and these inhabitants have one thing in common. They are very wealthy and have many secrets.
A young boy, Sebastian, dies in a drowning accident. His devoted sister, Adora, is left heartsick and empty following his death. How Adora's life proceeds and the happiness and pain she causes others captured my interest totally. All four of the women are fascinating characters, and like little Russian nesting dolls there is more and more under each surface.
We have the beautiful side of devotion, and a shady less admirable side residing together in the gentle splendid atmosphere of utter comfort.
The reader is lulled by the soft island breezes, and every so often stunned awake by a the sound of a shattering cocktail glass falling on the shiny green marble floor.
About the Author
Samantha Bruce-Benjamin was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she earned a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. A former BBC Editor, she began her editorial career at Random House. She now lives in New York.
1 Copy available for giveaway
Four women narrate their perceptions of a shared period of time, giving the reader a "Rashomon" like experience. We all see things so very differently.
The location is a posh Mediteranean island, and these inhabitants have one thing in common. They are very wealthy and have many secrets.
A young boy, Sebastian, dies in a drowning accident. His devoted sister, Adora, is left heartsick and empty following his death. How Adora's life proceeds and the happiness and pain she causes others captured my interest totally. All four of the women are fascinating characters, and like little Russian nesting dolls there is more and more under each surface.
We have the beautiful side of devotion, and a shady less admirable side residing together in the gentle splendid atmosphere of utter comfort.
The reader is lulled by the soft island breezes, and every so often stunned awake by a the sound of a shattering cocktail glass falling on the shiny green marble floor.
About the Author
Samantha Bruce-Benjamin was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she earned a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. A former BBC Editor, she began her editorial career at Random House. She now lives in New York.
1 Copy available for giveaway
8/7/10
The Help by Kathryn Stockett giveaway CLOSED
WINNER: Jenna
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
The individual narratives of several black maids set in 1960's Mississippi give voice to this time in history. When Skeeter, a young, white aspiring writer, wants to record their stories, drama ensues. Filled with humor as well as sorrow, you will have a hard time putting this book down as you find yourself involved in the lives of all the women in this story.
One copy Available for Giveaway.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
The individual narratives of several black maids set in 1960's Mississippi give voice to this time in history. When Skeeter, a young, white aspiring writer, wants to record their stories, drama ensues. Filled with humor as well as sorrow, you will have a hard time putting this book down as you find yourself involved in the lives of all the women in this story.
One copy Available for Giveaway.
8/2/10
FIT FOR LIFE by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond - giveaway CLOSED
WINNERS: Brandy, Kathy & Lazy Cat Lady
This is one of the most sensible eating programs I have ever followed. I also have the recipe book, and use it at least four times a week. It's the program that shatters all the myths: FIT FOR LIFE the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories...and still lose weight! The natural body cycles, permanent weight-loss plan that proves it's not only what you eat, but also when and how, FIT FOR LIFE is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are FIT FOR LIFE and begin your transformation with:
* The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy
* The FIT FOR LIFE secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
* A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise
* Delicious recipes and more.
3 copies available for giveaway.
This is one of the most sensible eating programs I have ever followed. I also have the recipe book, and use it at least four times a week. It's the program that shatters all the myths: FIT FOR LIFE the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories...and still lose weight! The natural body cycles, permanent weight-loss plan that proves it's not only what you eat, but also when and how, FIT FOR LIFE is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are FIT FOR LIFE and begin your transformation with:
* The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy
* The FIT FOR LIFE secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
* A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise
* Delicious recipes and more.
3 copies available for giveaway.
8/1/10
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin- giveaway ends Aug 1-CLOSED
WINNER IS; HAM 1299
Description
"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance--and even to some degree, friendships--believing that it is always safer not to expect too much. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined. In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.
About the Author
Emily Giffin is the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof and Love The One You’re With. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and three young children.
1 copy available - giveaway ends August 1.
Description
"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance--and even to some degree, friendships--believing that it is always safer not to expect too much. Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined. In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.
About the Author
Emily Giffin is the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof and Love The One You’re With. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and three young children.
1 copy available - giveaway ends August 1.
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom-giveaway ends Aug. 1st-CLOSED
WINNER IS; ANG
Born in Ireland, Lavinia, a bedraggled white girl is sent to a tobacco plantation in Southern Virginia as an indentured servant. It is there that she meets Belle, the illegitimate daughter of the Master, who is assigned to take care of her.
Lavinia works in the kitchen house, along with several plantation slaves. It is here that she finds friends and people who care about her for perhaps the first time.
The novel is narrated alternately by Lavinia and Belle. These narrations bring us very close to the dangers and horror of their world. They seemed to always be looking over their shoulders, because threats of punishment lurked everywhere.
What you are left with after reading this book is a deep respect for the love and loyalty expressed by a handful of wonderful people who Lavinia holds dear.
That is what I carried away from this book when I sadly had to close it at the end.
Excellent for book clubs, including my own. It will grip all readers and conversations are inevitable.
About the author
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated. The Kitchen House is her first novel.
1 book available for giveaway. Ends August 1st.
Born in Ireland, Lavinia, a bedraggled white girl is sent to a tobacco plantation in Southern Virginia as an indentured servant. It is there that she meets Belle, the illegitimate daughter of the Master, who is assigned to take care of her.
Lavinia works in the kitchen house, along with several plantation slaves. It is here that she finds friends and people who care about her for perhaps the first time.
The novel is narrated alternately by Lavinia and Belle. These narrations bring us very close to the dangers and horror of their world. They seemed to always be looking over their shoulders, because threats of punishment lurked everywhere.
What you are left with after reading this book is a deep respect for the love and loyalty expressed by a handful of wonderful people who Lavinia holds dear.
That is what I carried away from this book when I sadly had to close it at the end.
Excellent for book clubs, including my own. It will grip all readers and conversations are inevitable.
About the author
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated. The Kitchen House is her first novel.
1 book available for giveaway. Ends August 1st.
Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth (audiobook)- givewaway ends Aug. 1st-CLOSED
WINNER IS; MOZI ESME
The book market is flooded with helpful guides to lose weight. I think I have read most of them. The books generally have an emphasis on eating plans targeting either lower fat or lower carbohydrates. We conclude that following high protein diets provide the fastest results for losing weight, but we can't be on these diets too long because doing so can lead to illness.
This book is not about being on a diet. Geneen Roth offers a more realistic approach. Step by step we get in touch with the reasons “why” we overeat and with this very knowledge we master the ability to lose weight and keep it off. We learn that it is not enough to want to lose weight. We must also be aware that the reason we keep gaining weight is because we are so loyal to unhealthy foods we trust to make us feel better. To fill those emotional empty holes that never seemed to get full. Instead we feel worse, and suffer more guilt and lower self-esteem.
Listening to Ms. Roth’s reassuring voice while sharing her experiences and what she has learned left me with an extremely positive attitude. One that makes me believe that it can be done. We can be the women we’ve dreamt so long of being.
About the author
Geneen Roth is the author of the bestseller, When Food is Love and seven other books. She has conducted workshops for over thirty years and has lead retreats for the past ten. Roth is a frequent contributor to many publications including Salon.com, Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping and has appeared on numerous national shows from Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, and The View, to Primetime Live and NPR's Talk of the Nation.
1 audiobook available for giveaway-ends August 1st
The book market is flooded with helpful guides to lose weight. I think I have read most of them. The books generally have an emphasis on eating plans targeting either lower fat or lower carbohydrates. We conclude that following high protein diets provide the fastest results for losing weight, but we can't be on these diets too long because doing so can lead to illness.
This book is not about being on a diet. Geneen Roth offers a more realistic approach. Step by step we get in touch with the reasons “why” we overeat and with this very knowledge we master the ability to lose weight and keep it off. We learn that it is not enough to want to lose weight. We must also be aware that the reason we keep gaining weight is because we are so loyal to unhealthy foods we trust to make us feel better. To fill those emotional empty holes that never seemed to get full. Instead we feel worse, and suffer more guilt and lower self-esteem.
Listening to Ms. Roth’s reassuring voice while sharing her experiences and what she has learned left me with an extremely positive attitude. One that makes me believe that it can be done. We can be the women we’ve dreamt so long of being.
About the author
Geneen Roth is the author of the bestseller, When Food is Love and seven other books. She has conducted workshops for over thirty years and has lead retreats for the past ten. Roth is a frequent contributor to many publications including Salon.com, Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping and has appeared on numerous national shows from Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, and The View, to Primetime Live and NPR's Talk of the Nation.
1 audiobook available for giveaway-ends August 1st
7/13/10
Blue Nude by Elizabeth Rosner -upcoming paperback Sept. 2010
Danzig is an artist from Germany. Merav is a studio model from Israel. They are both expatriates, and live with dark memories and a sense of hopelessness.
Alternating between the past and present the author skillfully explains the intricate internal wounds and scars these fragile people try to overcome.
The author is a poet, and she creates these artists in a wordless communication that allows them to transcend the past.
It is love that allows them to remove the invisible shackles that bound them to memory and embrace their new lives with passion and trust.
About the author
Elizabeth Rosner is a graduate of Stanford University and received a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.
An excellent book. The paperback will be available Sept 2010.
Alternating between the past and present the author skillfully explains the intricate internal wounds and scars these fragile people try to overcome.
The author is a poet, and she creates these artists in a wordless communication that allows them to transcend the past.
It is love that allows them to remove the invisible shackles that bound them to memory and embrace their new lives with passion and trust.
About the author
Elizabeth Rosner is a graduate of Stanford University and received a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Poetry East, Southern Poetry Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.
An excellent book. The paperback will be available Sept 2010.
6/6/10
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst giveaway ends 7/15 CLOSED
2 WINNERS ARE LESLIE AND AUTUMN
Olivia Frost is a successful novelist who has come up with an imaginative idea for her most recent book. It is a compilation of the endings of her previous books, rewritten the way she wishes they had concluded. Her general equanimity is rattled when she finds out her estranged son Milo is being held as a murder suspect. The present tale of Olivia and Milo’s attempt to establish a new relationship and the “short stories,” alternate with each chapter. Although the flow is somewhat interrupted by these “revised endings” if you allow them their own significance you will find yourself appreciating them immensely. The book is about looking the truth in the face, accepting it and making it work for you. Accepting that your past, the past, need not be rewritten to be satisfying. This was an enjoyable read and I recommend it. 2 copies available for giveaway.
Olivia Frost is a successful novelist who has come up with an imaginative idea for her most recent book. It is a compilation of the endings of her previous books, rewritten the way she wishes they had concluded. Her general equanimity is rattled when she finds out her estranged son Milo is being held as a murder suspect. The present tale of Olivia and Milo’s attempt to establish a new relationship and the “short stories,” alternate with each chapter. Although the flow is somewhat interrupted by these “revised endings” if you allow them their own significance you will find yourself appreciating them immensely. The book is about looking the truth in the face, accepting it and making it work for you. Accepting that your past, the past, need not be rewritten to be satisfying. This was an enjoyable read and I recommend it. 2 copies available for giveaway.
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