Book Giveaway-The Blue Star,by Tony Earley

ENTER TODAY FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!

5 Copies of The Blue Star by Tony Earley will be raffled off. Good luck everyone!!

THE BLUE STAR
By Tony Earley
286 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $23.99.

The Summary from Hachette's Site

Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two.

Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven, and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a favorite novel for thousands of readers, Tony Earley has fashioned another nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time--making it again even realer than our own day.

This is a timeless and moving story of discovery, loss and growing up, proving why Tony Earley's writing "radiates with a largeness of heart" (Esquire).



About the Author: (from the Hachette website)

Tony Earley is the author of Jim the Boy, Here We Are in Paradise, and Somehow Form a Family. He lives with his family in Nashville, TN, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.








Rules:
1. Follow my site on Google..One chance.
2. Make a comment on this site..Once chance.
3. Blog about the contest on your site with my blog and link back. Once chance.
4. Drawing will be on August 31st. Make sure you leave your email address so that I may contact the winners.

As usual, books will be mailed directly to the winners from Hachette. So, please leave an email contact in your comment, so that I may contact you for further information.
The contest is open to US residence who have a regular mail address. ( No PO Boxes are allowed. )

Book Giveaway-I Can See You by Karen Rose

Three copies of I Can See You
will be raffled off at midnight on August 14th. You must be a resident of the US, no PO boxes please.

To enter the contest, please make sure you are a follower on my blog,(1 chance),post a comment on this post with your email (1 chance), mention this contest on your blog and link back to me, (1 chance).



The winners will be notified via email and on this blog, so make sure I can contact you. Books will be mailed directly to the winners from the Hachette Book Group. Thanks to Hachette for sponsoring this contest.

Summary from the book jacket....

Eve Wilson's face was once scarred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she escaped to the online realm, where she could choose the face she allowed people to see. Years later, her outer scars faded and inner scars buried, Eve has fought her way back to the real world and is determined to help others do the same. .....Karen Rose delivers her latest pulse-pounding suspense novel, where the line between the virtual world and everyday reality blurs when it comes to murder.

Good luck to everyone!!

Congratulations to Winners of Off Season

Congratulations!!! Woo Hoo!!
The following people won a copy of Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons.






Jill from Rhapsody in Books
Carol M.
Diane from The Book Resort
Debbie from Debs Desk
Kara T.

Thank you all for sending me your addresses so quickly. I have forwarded them to The Hachette Group. You will be receiving your book directly from them shortly.
Thanks to The Hachette Group and Valerie Russo for providing the books for this giveaway.

Thanks to everyone for participating and keep your eyes open for the next book contest.

Winners!!!! Birthday Celebration Picks!!!!

The Winners have been selected by the CalPoly Random Picker.....



Congratulations to the following five winners who each won a copy of
Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts.

1. Anna, Diary of an Eccentric
2. Naida, the bookworm
3. liane 66
4. Tiffany 819
5. Anita Yancey



Congratulations to the following five winners who each won a copy of
Testimony by Anita Shreve.

1. Scottsgal
2. jemscot 425
3. The Book Resort
4. Carlene
5. Brooke

Thanks to The Hachette Group for their generosity in providing the books for this great giveaway event. Please send your regular mail address to me at
tekeygirl (at) gmail (dot) com by June 1st. so that your book will be sent direct from The Hachette Group.

Congratulations to All!!!

Sunday Salon--Book Raffles Ending Tomorrow!!

Happy Sunday Salon to everyone and thanks to all who have sent their words of encouragement to me. I am making slow progress where I can now read again. Yippee!!!
Although, I tire very easily. I'm optimistic and looking forward---not backward so all your messages mean sooooo much to me. You are all very special to me. Thank you for being my blogger friends. Wisteria

Hachette Group Giveaways

Don't forget the two contests that are ending on May 25th. Good luck to all who enter.


Testimony-5 Winners will be chosen.

Made in the USA-5 Winners will be chosen.

Book Review

This is a review of the book Daddy's Little Spy that was originally published in Historical Novels Online. Check out the author Pamela Strange on this site that will connect you to a short bio, her website, youtube video and more.

DADDY’S LITTLE SPY--ISABELLA

Isabella Rose, Upfront Publishing, 2007, $18.50, pb, 286pp, 9781844264728

It is unimaginable, unthinkable, unrealistic, and impossible to fathom how any mother could instill the painful abuse and verbal threats of harm to her daughter. Yet, in Daddy’s Little Spy-Isabella, that is exactly what happened to Isabella. Classified a novel, it is based on the true story of one girl’s survival during World War II in England. Her mother practices witchcraft and takes great pleasure devising clever new ways to inflict pain on her daughter and then covering up her demonic deeds. Isabella called her mother Mummy Witch, and hated her too, but in a twisted way really just wants to be loved. Her mummy offers Isabella as a child sacrifice at the tender age of six. Fortunately, the warlock of the coven sends her away until she reaches the age of nine.
Her father, at first an ally, comes back from the war a changed man. Isabella can't wait for her father’s return but when he does, he will not save her. She wonders why he has changed and why is he protecting the Mummy Witch? Isabella is tragically alone and made to look like a child with problems. Her only solace is from her Angel Feebee and her Nana who are not always there to protect her. Always on guard, forced to keep the family secret, living with the pain of bruised and battered bones and frequent bloody injuries, Isabella must learn to live with her evil Mummy Witch or she will certainly die.
The story takes place between 1939 and 1949, a time when witchcraft is against the law and the treadle sewing machine is the rage. Otherwise, this is a timeless, horrifying tale of despicable acts of hatred and evil that will keep you awake. Short, abrupt sentence structure mimics the speech of a child talking, which can be bothersome at times. It’s difficult to believe someone is capable of such acts; this book will shock even the strongest of hearts.

1/2

Jantsen's Gift by Pam Cope-- Hachette Giveaway

Jantsen's Gift
A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Grace
by Pam Cope with Aimee Molloy
Grand Central Publishing
The Hachette Group
April 16, 2009
0446199699,
HC 320 pages.





I have five copies of Jantsen's Gift to raffle off in a giveaway. All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog with a reason why you think you might like to read this book. All winners will be chosen in a random drawing not by content. Please leave an email address so that I may contact you. (This is open to US residents only).
The drawing will take place on April 27th, to celebrate my one year anniversary blogging. This is open to US residents only.


From the Hachette Website:
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780446199698_Description.htm

Nine years ago, Pam Cope owned a cozy hair salon in the tiny town of Neosho, Missouri, and her life revolved around her son's baseball games, her daughter's dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home.

Then, on June 16th, 1999, her life changed forever with the death of her 15-year-old son from an undiagnosed heart ailment.

Needing to get as far away as possible from everything that reminded her of her loss, she accepted a friend's invitation to travel to Vietnam, and, from the moment she stepped off the plane, everything she had been feeling since her son's death began to shift. By the time she returned home, she had a new mission: to use her pain to change the world, one small step at a time, one child at a time. Today, she is the mother of two children adopted from Vietnam. More than that, she and her husband have created a foundation called "Touch A Life," dedicated to helping desperate children in countries as far-flung as Vietnam, Cambodia and Ghana.

Pam Cope's story is on one level a moving, personal account of loss and recovery, but on a deeper level, it offers inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered great personal tragedy or those of us who dream about making a difference in the world.

Good Luck!

Thanks to Anna Balasi and The Hachette Group for this generous giveaway.