And the winners are… *Drumroll, please*

  Peggy H.-  Empire of Night, The Madman of Piney Woods, Diamond Boy

  Kim- A Memory of Violets, Dead Wake

  Sarah J.- The Book of Strange New Things, Dream Lover, What Alice Forgot

  Tiffany B.- The Mauraders, Irritable Hearts, Alive in Necropolis, Widow Basqiat, Blowing on Dandelions, Soul Healing Miracles, The Cuckoo’s Calling, Advent

  Bethany- The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, Love by the Morning Star, The Aviator’s Wife, Both of Me, The Mapmaker’s Children

….But wait! We still have several unclaimed books! Maybe you missed out on the giveaway the first
time around or simply didn’t list it as one of your selections in the
last round, but now’s your second chance to win!  Here are the titles up for grabs:

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
REALISTIC FICTION/NOVEL IN VERSE (Tween/Teen)
“Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with
highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his
declining health.”  –NoveList

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER & one of BCPL’s Best Books of 2014

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft
REALISTIC FICTION/ADVENTURE (Young adult/teen)
“Seventeen
year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of
the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring
drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.”  –Publisher’s Description

 
 Blowing on Dandelions by Miralee Ferrell
CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (Adult)
(2nd copy) “Widow and single mother Katherine struggles to run her Oregon
boarding house by herself, but she learns to find the faith, wisdom, and
courage to transform her life and relationships when she meets widower
Micah Jacobs.” –NoveList
 

The Love Playbook by La La Anthony
NONFICTION/SELF-HELP (Adult)
Subtitled Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness. The author is a television personality, actress, and wife of  New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony.

Soul Healing Miracles by Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha
NONFICTION/SPIRITUALITY/SELF-HELP (Adult)
(2nd copy) Subtitled Ancient and New Sacred Wisdom, Knowledge, and Practical
Techniques for Healing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical
Bodies.

Each book goes to the
first person to claim it with a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!). Please only
choose one book per day, but if a title remains unclaimed the following
day, you may choose another title. Ready…
Set…Go! 

Hello, strangers! Since posting our Best of 2014 lists in January, I’ve been on a bit of a reading hiatus due to the demands of work and school. Thus, with no time to read and even less time (or remaining brain power) to write a considered review, I’ve been lax about keeping up this blog. But that’s all changing now! I finish my degree this month, and I can’t wait to catch up on all the new books I’ve been eying enviously while I’ve been buried in text books.

In preparation for my reading binge, I’ve also been cleaning out the book shelves in my office and at home. I have finished copies and ARCs that I’m ready to part with. A few are remainders from our last giveaway that were never claimed, and others are highly anticipated new or forthcoming releases. So you know what that means: it’s Spring Giveaway time!

As always, the rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location within two months of notification or they will be returned to the stockpile for the next giveaway. Contest ends at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, May 26th.

So without further ado, here are our giveaways for Spring 2015:

Final Copies/Finished Publications:

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie The Haunting of Sunshine Girl #1 * Hardcover * Moving from Texas to Washington, Sunshine, an adopted sixteen-year-old, discovers that her new home is haunted and that the ghosts may have revelations about her past.. –NoveList

A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor * Trade Paperback * Soon after taking a job at a home for orphaned flower girls, Tilly Harper finds a notebook that tells the tale of two flower girl sisters, Flora and Rosie, who were heartbreakingly separated forty years before.. –NoveList

Advent  by James Treadwell Advent Trilogy #1 * Hardcover * Five centuries after a magician flees with a small ring that contains all of the world’s magic, fifteen-year-old Gavin is dispatched to the home of his aunt because of his ability to see things that others do not believe exist, a power he must use to stop evil from escaping into the world. –NoveList

Soul Healing Miracles by Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha * Hardcover * Subtitled Ancient and New Sacred Wisdom, Knowledge, and Practical Techniques for Healing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Bodies.

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty * Hardcover * Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves. –NoveList

The Love Playbook by La La Anthony * Hardcover * Subtitled Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness. The author is a television personality, actress, and wife of   New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony.

The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin * Trade Paperback * A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador’s daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim. –NoveList

Blowing on Dandelions by Miralee Ferrell Love Blossoms in Oregon #2 * Trade Paperback (2 copies available) * Widow and single mother Katherine struggles to run her Oregon boarding house by herself, but she learns to find the faith, wisdom, and courage to transform her life and relationships when she meets widower Micah Jacobs. –NoveList

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #1 * Trade Paperback* Private investigator Cormoran Strike has a day he’ll not soon forget. The 35-year-old, who lost a leg in Afghanistan, spends the night in his bare-bones London office after a relationship-ending fight with his girlfriend. That morning, he sports a cut on his face (she threw an ashtray) as he rushes out the door, barreling into a new temp secretary he can’t afford, almost sending her down a staircase. The forgiving temp, Robin, quickly proves useful when they get a case: a famous young model supposedly jumped from the top of her penthouse apartment, but her brother believes she was murdered. Entering the realm of the mega-rich, Strike and Robin question celebrities and fashionistas, trying to uncover the truth in a beautifully written book that was pseudonymously written by none other than J.K. Rowling.  –NoveList

Advance Reading Copies (ARCs), in order of publication:

The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy  *ARC – Book Release Date: May 2015 * When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril. Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar–the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance. Ingeniously plotted to a riveting end, Sarah and Eden’s woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way. –NoveList

Empire of Night by Kelley Armstrong  Age of Legends #2 *ARC – Book Release Date: April 2015 * Separated while trying to save the children of their village, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must draw on all their power and influence to defeat enemies of legend and avert war in the empire.  –NoveList

The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg  *ARC – Book Release Date: April 2015 * George Sand leaves her estranged husband and children to embark on a life of art in bohemian Paris. A talented writer who finds monetary and critical success, Sand adopts a man’s name, often dresses as a gentleman and smokes cigars. Through her writing, politics, sexual complexities and views on feminism, Sand is always seeking love. This novel has spurred me to learn more about George Sand, a woman truly ahead of her time.  –NoveList

Dead Wake by Erik Larson  *ARC – Book Release Date: March 2015 * In cinematic terms, this dramatic page-turner is Das Boot meets Titanic. Larson has a wonderful way of creating a very readable, accessible story of a time, place, and event. We get three sides of the global story–the U-boat commander, British Admiralty and President Wilson–but what really elevates this book are the affecting stories of individual crew and passengers. — Robert Schnell for LibraryReads.  –via NoveList

The Marauders by Tom Cooper  *ARC – Book Release Date: February 2015 * After the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf Coast, the oddballs and lowlifes who live in the sleepy, working-class bayou town of Jeannette will do anything to reverse their fortunes, including Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one-armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte.  –NoveList

Irritable Hearts by Mac McClelland  *ARC – Book Release Date: February 2015 * In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the devastation of the earthquake. Back home, she finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence and can’t sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by her experiences in the other charged places she’d reported from. The bewilderment about this sudden loss of self-control is magnified by her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Haiti who despite their brief connection seems to have found a place in her confused heart. While we most often connect it to veterans, PTSD is more often caused by other manner of trauma, and can even be contagious–close proximity to those afflicted can trigger it in those around them.  –NoveList

Diamond Boy by Michael Williams  *ARC – Book Release Date: November 2014 * When Patson’s family moves to Marange region of Zimbabwe, he begins working in the mines, searching for blood diamonds, until government soldiers arrive and Patson is forced to journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister and a better life.  –From the Publisher, via NoveList

Both of Me by Jonathan Friesen  *ARC – Book Release Date: December 2014 * When her carry-on bag is accidentally switched with Elias’s identical pack, Clara uses the luggage tag to track down her things. At that address she discovers there is not one Elias Phinn, but two.  –From the Publisher, via NoveList

Basquiat by Jennifer Clement  *ARC – Book Release Date: November 2014 * An exploration of the achievements and tragic early death of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is presented through the story of his relationship with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk. –NoveList

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber  *ARC – Book Release Date: October 2014 * Called to perform missionary work on a world light years away where the natives are fascinated by the concepts he introduces, man of faith Peter Leigh finds his beliefs tested when he learns of natural disasters that are tearing Earth apart.  –NoveList

The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis Companion to Elijah of Buxton * ARC – Book Release Date: September 2014 * Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before–the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.  –NoveList

The Beekeeper’s Ball by Susan Wiggs Bella Vista #2 * ARC – Book Release Date: June 2014 * While transforming Bella Vista, her childhood home, into a destination cooking school, chef Isabel Johansen finds her plans interrupted by war-torn journalist Cormac O’Neill who has arrived to dig up old history.  –NoveList

Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan * ARC – Book Release Date: June 2014 * Mistaken for one another when they are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers on the brink of World War II, Hannah, a distant relative hoping to be welcomed by the family, and Anna, sent to spy for the Nazis, both unexpectedly fall in love.  –NoveList

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft * ARC – Book Release Date: April 2014 * Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.  –Publisher’s Description

Crossover by Kwame Alexander * ARC – Book Release Date: March 2014 * Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.  –NoveList NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER & one of BCPL’s Best Books of 2014

Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst * ARC – Book Release Date: July 2008 * Navigating adult responsibilities in a California city where the dead outnumber the living, rookie cop Michael Mercer becomes increasingly obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, an officer who believed he policed the dead.  –NoveList

1. To enter the drawing, you must complete two tasks. 
First, you must leave a comment at the bottom of this post
stating which titles you would like to receive. If you do not leave a
comment at the bottom of the post, I will not know which prize(s) to
give you if you win the drawing. You may choose as many titles as you like; you
are not guaranteed to win your top choices, but I do my best. Second, you must log in to the Rafflecopter Widget with your e-mail address or Facebook account and Click
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“Enter” on the widget only after you have posted your comment below. After
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2.  All ARCs must be picked up at a Bullitt County Public Library location. Contest ends at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, May 26th. Winners will be notified via e-mail and will be posted on this blog.
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And the winners are… *Drumroll, please*

  Holly-  Wild Rover No More, The Cuckoo’s Calling, Goat Woman of Largo Bay

  Kaci K- The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Book of Strange New Things, The Madman of Piney Woods, The Aviator’s Wife, Blowing on Dandelions

  Rebecca- The Cove, How to Be a Good Wife, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

  Jeannie- Frida & Diego, I Stand Corrected

  Sarah J.- The Saint, Saving Grace, Girl in the Garden

  Donna K.- The Greenglass House, The Aviator’s Wife

  Christin- The Beekeeper’s Ball, Love by the Morning Star, Blowing on Dandelions

  Beth- Buzz Kill

  Becky H.- The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Friends, Foes & Faux Friends

….But wait! We still have several unclaimed books! Maybe you missed out on the giveaway the first
time around or simply didn’t list it as one of your selections in the
last round, but now’s your second chance to win!  Here are the titles up for grabs:

Glorious by Jeff Gunn
WESTERN/HISTORICAL FICTION (Adult)
“Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth
in late 19th-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake
of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart from a woman from his past
only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.” –NoveList

Silver People by Margarita Engle
HISTORICAL FICTION/NOVEL IN VERSE (Middle grade/tween)
“Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face
discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American
recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the
great canal.” –NoveList

The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde
HUMOROUS FANTASY (Tween/Teen)
“The Mighty Shandar returns to the Ununited Kingdoms and vows to eliminate the dragons once and for all — unless sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekicks from the Kazam house of enchantment can bring him a legendary jewel: The Eye of Zoltar.” –NoveList

One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
REALISTIC FICTION/GLBTQ ROMANCE (Teen/Young Adult)
“When Alek’s high-achieving, Armenian-American parents send him to
summer school, he thinks his summer is ruined. But then he meets Ethan,
who opens his world in a series of truly unexpected ways” –Publisher

Each book goes to the
first person to claim it with a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!). Please only
choose one book per day, but if a title remains unclaimed the following
day, you may choose another title. Ready…
Set…Go!

Guess what I found on my doorstep yesterday? St. Martin’s Press sent me an Advance Reader’s Copy of Jane Green’s newest novel, Saving Grace, due for release on December 30, 2014!

Saving Grace seems to be a slight departure for this bestselling author of chicklit or women’s and domestic fiction. This one veers into the territory of psychological suspense. Check out the back-cover copy:

Literary power couple Ted and Grace Chapman are the envy of all who know them. But beneath the surface lies Ted’s temper and the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When they hire a new assistant, things begin to crumble, sending Grace on a dark journey that could cost her her marriage, her reputation, and even her sanity.


From the New York times bestselling author of Tempting Fate, comes a searing and emotionally charged novel about one woman’s search to find herself, and another woman’s obsession to make her disappear.

The description certainly caught my attention, and I thought that several of you might want the chance to read this before the late December release. So I decided to add it to our 2014 Fall Giveaway! As a result,  I have also extended the contest entry deadline until 12:00 AM on Wednesday, October 29th. For those who have already entered but would like a chance to add Saving Grace to their prize wish list, please just add a new comment to the original  Fall Giveaway Event blog post using the same post name and relisting your choices. Good luck!

Enter the 2014 Fall Giveaway Event! »

It’s time for another giveaway! This time around, I have Advance Reading Copies (ARCs) of highly anticipated new releases, a few older ARCs, and several new,  finished copies of best-selling fiction titles.

As always, the rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location within two months of notification. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 22, 2014.   Update 10/15/14: Due to the addition of a new giveaway title, the contest has been extended until Wednesday, October 29, 2014!



So without further a do, here are our giveaways for Fall 2014:

Final Copies/Finished Publications:

The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin * Trade Paperback (2 copies available) * A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador’s daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim. –NoveList

Blowing on Dandelions by Miralee Ferrell Love Blossoms in Oregon #2 * Trade Paperback (2 copies available) * Widow and single mother Katherine struggles to run her Oregon boarding house by herself, but she learns to find the faith, wisdom, and courage to transform her life and relationships when she meets widower Micah Jacobs. –NoveList

The Cove by Ron Rash * Trade Paperback * Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who’s mute, but their love can’t protect them from a devastating secret. –NoveList

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #1 * Trade Paperback (2 copies available) * Private investigator Cormoran Strike has a day he’ll not soon forget. The 35-year-old, who lost a leg in Afghanistan, spends the night in his bare-bones London office after a relationship-ending fight with his girlfriend. That morning, he sports a cut on his face (she threw an ashtray) as he rushes out the door, barreling into a new temp secretary he can’t afford, almost sending her down a staircase. The forgiving temp, Robin, quickly proves useful when they get a case: a famous young model supposedly jumped from the top of her penthouse apartment, but her brother believes she was murdered. Entering the realm of the mega-rich, Strike and Robin question celebrities and fashionistas, trying to uncover the truth in a beautifully written book that was pseudonymously written by none other than J.K. Rowling.  –NoveList

The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair * Hardcover * A conflicted young woman seeks clarity about her impending marriage by remembering a childhood summer when she discovered a long-hidden secret while visiting her mother’s ancestral home in an Indian village outside a mysterious jungle. –NoveList

The Goat Woman of Largo Bay by Gillian Royes Shad Mysteries #1 * Trade Paperback * Working at the side of an American employer who would rebuild a Caribbean hotel, Shadrack, a bartender and amateur detective, encounters a woman on the run who is being targeted by a group of election riggers. By the author of Business Is Good.  –NoveList

How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman * Hardcover * In the tradition of Emma Donoghue’s Room and S.J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife–as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector’s aloof mother on their wedding day. But now, something is changing. Small things seem off. A flash of movement in the corner of her eye, elapsed moments that she can’t recall. Visions of ablonde girl in the darkness that only Marta can see. Perhaps she is starting to remember–or perhaps her mind is playing tricks on her. As Marta’s visions persist and her reality grows more disjointed, it’s unclear if the danger lies in the world around her, or in Marta herself. The girl is growing more real every day, and she wants something.  –Publisher’s Description

Advance Reading Copies (ARCs), in order of publication:

Saving Grace by Jane Green ARC – Book Release Date: December 2014 A literary power couple hides behind a carefree public face the painful realities of the husband’s raging mood swings and the wife’s past secrets until a too-good-to-be-true new assistant enters their lives, with dangerous consequences. ADDED TO GIVEAWAY on 10/15/14

Wild Rover No More by L.A. Meyer Bloody Jack Adventures #12 * ARC – Book Release Date: November 2014 * In 1809, just when it looks like Jacky Faber and her beloved Jaimy will finally find their romance, Jacky is accused of treason and must flee Boston while her friends attempt to clear her name. Of course that means wild adventures for our fun-loving heroine, who manages to secure a job as a governess–and run away with the circus. –Publisher’s Description

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber  *ARC – Book Release Date: October 2014 * Called to perform missionary work on a world light years away where the natives are fascinated by the concepts he introduces, man of faith Peter Leigh finds his beliefs tested when he learns of natural disasters that are tearing Earth apart.  –NoveList

The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde Chronicles of Kazan #3 * ARC – Book Release Date: October 2014 * The Mighty Shandar returns to the Ununited Kingdoms and vows to eliminate the dragons once and for all — unless sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekicks from the Kazam house of enchantment can bring him a legendary jewel: The Eye of Zoltar.  –NoveList

I Stand Corrected by Eden Collingsworth * ARC – Book Release Date: October 2014 * A fascinating fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well-versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China. During the course of her long and successful business career, no country has fascinated Eden Collinsworth more than China. After numerous business experiences that might best be called “unusual” by Western standards, she had a crucial insight: despite the growing status of China as a world economy and the unprecedented range of Chinese investments overseas, businessmen in mainland China–well-educated and speaking English–were fundamentally uncomfortable in the company of their Western counterparts. This realization spawned a Western etiquette guide for Chinese businessmen, which went on to be a huge best seller in China and formed the basis for new curriculum supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education. In I Stand Corrected, Collinsworth tells the story of the year she spent writing that book, creating a counterpart that both explains Chinese practices and reveals much about our own Western culture. She explores topics including the non-negotiable issue of personal hygiene; the rules of the handshake; making sense of foreigners; and that which is considered universally rude. She also scrutinizes some of the Western etiquette that has guided her own business career, one which has unfolded in predominately male company. At the same time, I Stand Corrected is a retrospective journey, a wry but self-effacing reflection on the peripatetic career she led while single-handedly raising her son. Like all parents, she didn’t always have answers, and here she details the many, often ludicrous, attempts to strike a balance that was right for both of them.  –NoveList

The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis Companion to Elijah of Buxton * ARC – Book Release Date: September 2014 * Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before–the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.  –NoveList

The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Friends, Foes & Faux Friends by Megan McCafferty Jessica Darling’s It List #2 * ARC – Book Release Date: September 2014 * Twelve-year-old Jessica Darling receives another cryptic list from her older sister, Bethany. While hosting a slumber party and planning a Halloween costume, Jessica tries to navigate the seventh grade social scene, with mixed results.  –Publisher’s Description

Greenglass House by Kate Milford * ARC – Book Release Date: August 2014 * At Greenglass House, a smuggler’s inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, on an adventure.  –NoveList

Frida & Diego by Catherine Reef * ARC – Book Release Date: August 2014 * A biography exploring the tumultuous lives, marriage, and work of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is illustrated with archival photos and full-color reproductions.  –NoveList

The Saint by Tiffany Reisz The Original Sinners #5 * ARC – Book Release Date: July 2014 * Eleanor is determined to break from her Catholic upbringing, but when her life is saved by a priest she offers him complete obedience and enters into a world of desire as he reveals his deepest secrets to her.  –NoveList

The Beekeeper’s Ball by Susan Wiggs Bella Vista #2 * ARC – Book Release Date: June 2014 * While transforming Bella Vista, her childhood home, into a destination cooking school, chef Isabel Johansen finds her plans interrupted by war-torn journalist Cormac O’Neill who has arrived to dig up old history.  –NoveList

Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan * ARC – Book Release Date: June 2014 * Mistaken for one another when they are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers on the brink of World War II, Hannah, a distant relative hoping to be welcomed by the family, and Anna, sent to spy for the Nazis, both unexpectedly fall in love.  –NoveList

Glorious: A Novel of the American West by Jeff Gunn * ARC – Book Release Date: May 2014 * Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late 19th-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart from a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.  –NoveList

One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva * ARC – Book Release Date: May 2014 * When Alek’s high-achieving, Armenian-American parents send him to summer school, he thinks his summer is ruined. But then he meets Ethan, who opens his world in a series of truly unexpected ways.  –NoveList

Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey * ARC – Book Release Date: May 2014 *Seventeen-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Colton, to try to uncover who murdered head football coach “Hollerin’ Hank” Killdare–and why.  –NoveList

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft * ARC – Book Release Date: April 2014 * Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.  –Publisher’s Description

Silver People by Margarita Engle * ARC – Book Release Date: March 2014 * Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.  –NoveList

Crossover by Kwame Alexander * ARC – Book Release Date: March 2014 * Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.  –NoveList

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee * ARC – Book Release Date: January 2014 * Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.  –NoveList

1. To enter the drawing, you must complete two tasks. 
First, you must leave a comment at the bottom of this post
stating which ARCs you would like to receive. If you do not leave a
comment at the bottom of the post, I will not know which prize(s) to
give you if you win the drawing. You may choose up to ten titles; you
are not guaranteed to win your top choices, but I do my best. Second, you must log in to the Rafflecopter Widget with your e-mail address or Facebook account and Click
“+1” and
“Enter” on the widget only after you have posted your comment below. After
completing the first task, you can also earn bonus entries by following
the directions in the widget.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

And the winners are…
# 46  Margaret
# 53  Bambi B.
# 98  Stacie Downs
# 7 Britt A.
# 81 Tara
# 2  Britt A.
# 102  Stacie Downs
# 93  Tara
# 60  KarynsPlanit
# 83  Tara
# 74  Tara
# 34  Jada Redmon
# 12  Britt A.
# 39  Jada Redmon
#79 Tara

It looks like those bonus entries really paid off for some of you this time around! 🙂

….But wait! We still have one unclaimed book. For those of you who didn’t win, Mother, Daughter, Me by Katie Hafner
is now up for grabs. Maybe you missed out on the giveaway the first time around or simply didn’t list it as one of your selections in the last round, but now’s your second chance to win! The book goes to the
first person to leave a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!)

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Now that it looks like spring is here to stay—rain and all!—it’s time for our annual Spring Giveaway here on Book News and Reviews. Although I don’t have as many titles up for grabs as in some of our past giveaways, I do have some really, really good ones this go-around. Several are even still months away from their publication date, so this is truly an opportunity to read what could be the next big thing before it is discovered by everyone else!

As always, the rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. 

Here are the titles I have available:

Greenglass House by Kate Milford (August 2014) It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo’s home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House—and themselves. –Publisher’s Summary

Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life by Catherine Reef (August 2014) Nontraditional, controversial, rebellious, and politically volatile, the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are remembered for their provocative paintings as well as for their deep love for each other. Their marriage was one of the most tumultuous and infamous in history—filled with passion, pain, betrayal, revolution, and, above all, art that helped define the twentieth century. Catherine Reef’s inspiring and insightful dual biography features numerous archival photos and full-color reproductions of both artists’ work. –Publisher’s Summary

Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan (June 2014) Upstairs, downstairs, and in which lady’s chamber?    On the brink of World War II, two girls are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers. Hannah, the half-Jewish daughter of a disgraced distant relative, has been living an artistic bohemian life in a cabaret in pre-war Germany and now is supposed to be welcomed into the family. Anna, the social-climbing daughter of working-class British fascists, is supposed to be hired as a maid so that she can spy for the Nazis. But there’s a mix-up, and nice Hannah is sent to the kitchen as a maid while arrogant Anna is welcomed as a relative.    And then both girls fall for the same man, the handsome heir of the estate . . . or do they?   In this sparkling, saucy romance, nearly everything goes wrong for two girls who are sent to a grand English estate on the brink of World War II—until it goes so very, very right! –Publisher’s Summary

Graduation Day by Joelle Charbonneau (June 2014) Testing Trilogy #3 In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor, Cia Vale, vows to fight. But she can’t do it alone. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for – but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves—and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates… The stakes are higher than ever—lives of promise cut short or fulfilled; a future ruled by fear or hope—in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau’s epic Testing trilogy. Ready or not…it’s Graduation Day. The Final Test is the Deadliest!  –Publisher’s Summary

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (June 2014) In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, “The Ice Cream Queen” — doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. Lillian’s rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.   –Publisher’s Summary

Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey (May 2014) To Bee or not to Bee? When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, 17-year-old Millie is determined to investigate. She is chasing a lead for the school newspaper – and looking to clear her father, the assistant coach, and prime suspect. Millie’s partner is gorgeous, smart—and keeping secrets Millie joins forces with her mysterious classmate Chase who seems to want to help her even while covering up secrets of his own. She’s starting to get a reputation…without any of the benefits. Drama—and bodies—pile up around Millie and she chases clues, snuggles Baxter the so-ugly-he’s-adorable bassett hound, and storms out of the world’s most awkward school dance/memorial mash-up. At least she gets to eat a lot of pie. Best-selling author Beth Fantaskey’s funny, fast-paced blend of Clueless and Nancy Drew is a suspenseful page-turner that is the best time a reader can have with buried weapons, chicken clocks, and a boy who only watches gloomy movies…but somehow makes Millie smile. Bee-lieve it.  –Publisher’s Summary

A Creature of Moonlight by Rebecca Hahn (May 2014) As the only heir to the throne, Marni should have been surrounded by wealth and privilege, not living in exile—but now the time has come when she must choose between claiming her birthright as princess of a realm whose king wants her dead, and life with the father she has never known: a wild dragon who is sending his magical woods to capture her. Fans of Bitterblue and Seraphina will be captured by a Creature of Moonlight, with its richly layered storytelling and the powerful choices its strong heroine must make.  –Publisher’s Summary

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft (April 2014) Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family. Adios, Nirvana author Conrad Wesselhoeft, takes readers from the skies over war-torn Pakistan to the dusty arroyos of New Mexico’s outback in this young adult novel about daring to live in the wake of unbearable loss. –Publisher’s Summary

Cold Calls by Charles Benoit (April 2014) Three high school students—Eric, Shelly, and Fatima—have one thing in common: “I know your secret.” Each one is blackmailed into bullying specifically targeted schoolmates by a mysterious caller who whispers from their cell phones and holds carefully guarded secrets over their heads. But how could anyone have obtained that photo, read those hidden pages, uncovered this buried past? Thrown together, the three teens join forces to find the stranger who threatens them—before time runs out and their shattering secrets are revealed . . . This suspenseful, pitch-perfect mystery-thriller raises timely questions about privacy, bullying, and culpability.  –Publisher’s Summary

Crossover by Kwame Alexander (March 2014) “With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering,” announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he’s got mad beats, too, that tell his family’s story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander (He Said, She Said 2013).    Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story’s heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.  –Publisher’s Summary

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle (March 2014) One hundred years ago, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood—and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands lost their lives, and those who survived worked under the harshest conditions for only a few silver coins a day.    From the young “silver people” whose back-breaking labor built the Canal to the denizens of the endangered rainforest itself, this is the story of one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, as only Newbery Honor-winning author Margarita Engle could tell it.  –Publisher’s Summary

Unhinged by A.G. Howard (January 2014) Splintered #2 (Warning: Summary contains possible SPOILERS for Splintered) Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school. That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs. Could she leave Jeb and her parents behind again, for the sake of a man she knows has manipulated her before? Will her mother and Jeb trust her to do what’s right? Readers will swoon over the satisfying return to Howard’s bold, sensual reimagining of Carroll’s classic.  –Publisher’s Summary

Mother Daughter Me by Katie Hafner (2013) A health and technology journalist documents the author’s efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.   –NoveList

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver (2013) Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.   –NoveList

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers (2012) His Fair Assassin #1 In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a violent destiny.  –NoveList

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Grace Doll by Jennifer Laurens Cover Description: Grace Doll had everything a girl could want:       Fame. Fortune. Beauty. Everything except her       freedom. So when a powerful movie producer       forces an experimental treatment on Grace–one       that’s purported to make beauty immortal–she       stages her own death to escape him. With the       help of trusted friends, Grace slips into hiding.         She’s forever flawless. Forever young, and       forever pursued by her past.        But when a stranger arrives on her doorstep,         holding the key to a life she thought she’d        left behind, Grace must decide   between the       safety she’s known…and embracing the role       she was born to play.

And the winners are…
# 127  Jada Redmon
# 53  Pinky028
# 62  Pinky028
# 56  Pinky028
# 6 Bethany
# 65 Pinky028
# 68  Kari Crum
# 134  Jada Redmon
# 85  Anonymous (Jen)
# 135  mrsshreve
# 80  Anonymous (Jen)
# 18  Jessica Cooper
# 88  Anonymous (Jen)
# 103  Kayla Druin
# 140  Catherine Spann
# 93  Anonymous (Jen)

….But wait! We have an extra giveaway available. For those of you who didn’t win, Grace Doll by Jennifer Laurens
is now up for grabs.The book goes to the
first person to leave a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!) Ready…
Set…Go!

I just finished my annual Fall cleaning, and guess what I found? A handful of ARCs (Advance Reading Copies), just waiting for you to claim them!

Rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2013.


Here are the titles I have available:

Enon by Paul Harding (September 2013) A devastating portrait of a father desperately trying to come to terms with the loss of his beloved thirteen-year-old daughter, killed in an accident. –NoveList

The 100 by Kass Morgan (September 2013) When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.   –NoveList

Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole (July 2013) A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.   –NoveList

Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant (July 2013) A tale inspired by the lives of Borgia siblings Lucretia and Cesare traces the family’s rise in the aftermath of Rodrigo Borgia’s rise to the papacy, during which war, a terrifying sexual plague, and the family’s notorious reputation forge an intimate bond between brother and sister.   –NoveList

Mother, Daughter, Me by Katie Hafner (July 2013) A health and technology journalist documents the author’s efforts to promote family bonds and healing during a haphazard year spent sharing a home in San Francisco with her complicated octogenarian mother and teenage daughter.   –NoveList

The Village by Nikita Lalwani (July 2013) Traces the efforts of a team of journalists to understand and document life in an experimental open prison where convicted murderers share their lives in a humble village, a site that becomes increasingly and dangerously subject to the dubious moral codes of its drama-seeking visitors.   –NoveList

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (June 2013) Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.   –NoveList

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver (June 2013) Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended.   –NoveList

Transatlantic by Colum McCann (June 2013) A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.   –NoveList

Walking with Jack by Don J. Snyder (June 2013) Documents the author’s efforts to fulfill a promise to caddy for his son if the latter qualified for a professional tour, describing his training at age fifty-seven to study caddying in Scotland, where he lived like a monk.   –NoveList

Icons by Margaret Stohl (May 2013) Icons #1 After an alien force known as the Icon colonizes Earth, decimating humanity, four surviving teenagers must piece together the mysteries of their pasts–in order to save the future.  –NoveList

Wasteland by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan (April 2013) Wasteland Trilogy #1 In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone dies at age nineteen and rainwater contains a killer virus, loners Esther and Eli band together with a group of mutant, hermaphroditic outsiders to fight a corrupt ruler and save the town of Prin.   –NoveList

Game by Barry Lyga (April 2013) I Hunt Killers #2 After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo’s Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.   –NoveList Read Tracy’s review of Book 1, I Hunt Killers.

A Week in Winter by Paul Harding (February 2013) Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.   –NoveList

Niceville by Carsten Stroud (June 2012) Niceville Trilogy #1 When a young boy literally disappears before security cameras while walking home from school, an ensuing search is conducted by ex-Special Forces veteran Nick Kavanaugh, who with his lawyer wife encounters an ancient malevolent power linked to a deep crater.   –NoveList

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1. To enter, use the Rafflecopter widget below. To be eligible for the drawing, you are required to log in to the widget with your e-mail address or Facebook account AND leave a comment at the bottom of this post
stating which ARCs you would like to receive. (Choose up to ten. You
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“Enter” on the widget only after you have posted your comment below. After
completing the first task, you can also earn bonus entries by following
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2.  All ARCs must be picked up at a Bullitt County Public Library location. Winners will be notified via e-mail and will be posted on this blog. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2013.

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Updated on 10/18/13 to add:

Apparently there is still some confusion about entry. Basically, there are two separate steps which MUST be completed to finalize your entry.

#1 Make sure you leave a comment at the bottom of this post stating which ARCs you would like to receive. Otherwise, I will not know which prize(s) to give you if you win the drawing.

#2 Log in to the widget above and click “Enter.” (See image below.) You must log in with your e-mail or Facebook account so that I will be able to contact you if you win. I began using the Rafflecopter widget for two reasons: 1) to protect contact information of participants; only I will see your e-mail address as opposed to if you were required to post it with your comment and 2) to facilitate multiple prize entries and select winners randomly.

There are also additional tasks, such as liking the BCPL Facebook page or commenting on another post on this blog. You will earn extra entries for completing these tasks

This 2013 Spring Sampler includes excerpts from: Things We Saw at Night by Jacqueline Mitchard (January 2013) Who Done It? (February 2013) Contributors to this anthology include Jon Scieszka, Adam Gidwitz, Sara Shepard, Rebecca Stead, and others The Shot by Helen Fitzgerald (March 2013) Strangelets by Michelle Gagnon (April 2013) The Sweet Dead Life by Joy Preble (May 2013) Escape Theory by Margaux Froley (June 2013)

And the winners are…

Entry #123 Kari
Entry #18 Bethany
Entry #94 Anonymous (Erica)
Entry #50 Christin
Entry #54 Christin
Entry #71 Penny McCracken
Entry #133 Jessica Cooper
Entry #149 Michelle Tidwell
Entry #79 Penny McCracken
Entry #10 Bethany
Entry #114 Kari
Entry #164 Krissy Gray
Entry #4 Dawn Burke
Entry #16 Bethany
Entry #34 Jada Redmon
Entry #172 Krissy Gray
Entry #154 Michelle Tidwell
Entry #138 Jessica Cooper
Entry #160 Krissy Gray
Entry #80 Penny McCracken
Entry #166 Krissy Gray
Entry #102 Jada Redmon
Entry #22 Bethany
Entry #33 Robin Cobble
Entry #52 Christin

All winners have been notified by e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].

….But wait! We have an extra ARC available. For those of you who didn’t win, Soho Teen: Spring 2013 Sampler
is now up for grabs. It contains excerpts of some of this spring’s most anticipated titles from Soho Press. The sampler goes to the
first person to leave a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!) Ready…
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Yay!… As of 7:02 this morning, it is officially spring! Which means it’s time for our annual spring cleaning! Lucinda and I have once again bravely faced up to the piles of Advance Reading Copies (ARCs)  invading our offices and homes, and we’ve ruthlessly decided to
part with the bulk of them. The good news for you? We’ve got 25 ARCs up for grabs, just waiting for you to claim
them!

Rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location. Contest ends at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10, 2013.


Here are the titles we have up for grabs!

The Wednesday Daughters by Meg Waite Clayton (July 2013) Companion Novel to The Wednesday Sisters In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Karen Joy Folwer, Meg Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with an enthralling new novel of mothers, daughters, and the secrets and dreams passed down through generations. –Excerpt from Publisher Overview

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (July 2013) Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn’t exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family’s real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a crush on Yinghui, a poetry-loving, left-wing activist who has reinvented herself as a successful Shanghai businesswoman. Yinghui is about to make a deal with the shadowy Walter Chao, the five star billionaire of the novel, who with his secrets and his schemes has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel’s characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants. –From Publisher Overview

Second Suns by David Oliver Relin (June 2013) “Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives,” from the author of Three Cups of Tea.

Transatlantic by Colum McCann (June 2013) Three iconic transatlantic flights—Newfoundland, 1919; Dublin, 1845 and ’46; and New York, 1998—are interconnected in this latest from the National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin.

The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom (June 2013) The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr. The Blood of Heaven is a remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. It is a startling debut. –Publisher’s Overview

Crime and Privilege by Walter Walker (June 2013) In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together. –Excerpt from Publisher Overview

Fox Forever by Mary E. Peterson (March 2013) Jenna Fox Chronicles #3 Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.

Criminal Enterprise by Owen Laukkanen (March 2013) Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere novels #2 When a secretly unemployed man begins robbing banks in a desperate struggle to hold onto his once-successful life, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens approach the case from respective angles and reconnect when the robber develops a taste for violence.  –NoveList

The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp (March 2013) Relates how the author’s hopes for her infant son were shattered when he was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disorder at nine months, and describes how she coped with her grief by studying great works of art, literature, philosophy, and theology.  –NoveList

A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee (March 2013) Forced back into the working world after her corporate lawyer husband’s spectacular downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, now a movie star who needs her professional assistance. –NoveList

A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff (February 2013) “Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever. –Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes

The Ambassador’s Daughter by Pam Jenoff (February 2013) Margot Rosenthal is brought by her father, a diplomat, to a peace conference in Paris where she meets Georg, who gives her a job and a reason to question everything she thought she knew about where her true loyalties should lie.  –NoveList

Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman (January 2013) Describes the author’s experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings, during which the author met and fell in love with her current husband. –Novelist

Everything Was Good-Bye by Gurjinder Bastan (January 2013) The story of an Indo-Canadian woman as she struggles to compromise the demands of her tradition and culture and her wish for a Canadian lifestyle. –NoveList *Two Copies Available!*

The Intercept by Dick Wolf (January 2013) Jeremy Fisk #1An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TV’s Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York City’s last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack. –From the Publisher

Accelerated by Bronwen Hruska (2012) Single dad Sean Benning begins to question the ethics and motives behind the administration at his son’s accelerated school for the gifted and talented when he is pressured to put his son on medication for ADD. –NoveList

The Dog Lived (and So Will I) by Teresa J. Rhyne (2012) Recounts the author’s journey nursing her adopted beagle Seamus through his cancer treatment as she learned to deal with medical situations, unknowingly preparing herself for her own later triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis. –NoveList

The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams (2012)  When a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, the press christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead, and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself. –NoveList

Other Waters by Eleni N. Gage (2012) Her happy life in New York shattered by a property dispute in India that culminates in her father’s claim that a curse has been placed on them, Maya rejects family superstitions until a series of misfortunes prompts her to visit relatives in India to break the curse.  –NoveList

The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams (2011) Offered a second chance by the Atlanta Police Department to catch a serial killer who has eluded them for years, former FBI profiler and alcoholic Keye Street begins a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with an adversary who has taken a personal interest in her. –NoveList

Wildefire by Karsten Knight (2011) Wildefire Series #1 After a killing for which she feels responsible, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde moves cross-country to a remote California boarding school, where she learns that she and others have special gifts that can help them save the world, but evil forces are at work to stop them. –NoveList

Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey (2011) Marie Antoinette Triligy #1 Imagines the early life of the doomed eighteenth-century queen, who at a young age learns from her mother, the ambitious Empress of Austria, that she must leave her coddled life in the Austrian court to marry the dauphin of France. –Novelist

The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy (2011) As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do the pressures on Vivienne. Food and resources grow scant, and the restrictions placed upon the residents of the island grow with each passing week. Though Vivienne knows the perils of her love affair with Gunther, she believes that she can keep their relationship- and her family- safe. But when she becomes aware of the full brutality of the Occupation, she must decide if she is willing to risk her personal happiness for the life of a stranger–From book cover.

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (2009) Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in an Italian convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds the convent’s doctor of her own unhappy early years. –NoveList

 
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Congratulations to the winners of our Fall 2012 Giveaway!

A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois (May 2012) “Thrilling, thoughtful, strange, gorgeous, political, and deeply personal, Jennifer duBois’s A Partial History of Lost Causes is a terrific debut novel. In prose both brainy and beautiful, she follows her characters as they struggle to save each other. This is a book to get lost in.” –Elizabeth McCracken

Entry #57 Kayla Druin
Entry #106 Rachel C.
Entry #211 Tiffany Holbert
Entry # 75 Kayla Druin
Entry #114 Michelle Tidwell 
Entry #17 Kari
Entry #122 Tiffany Holbert
Entry #131 Nikole Seay
Entry #128 Tiffany Holbert
Entry #177 Bethany
Entry #56 Anonymous (June M.)
Entry #129 Nikole Seay
Entry #224 Sami H.
Entry #83 MaryBeth G.
Entry #180 Bethany
Entry #136 Jessica
Entry #227 Anonymous (Rachel M.)
Entry #45 Marissa L. Sanders
Entry #19 Kari
Entry #144 Jessica
Entry #175 Bethany
Entry #153 Barbara P.
Entry #222 Sami H.
Entry # 149 Barbara P.
Entry #212 Dasha
Entry #88 Cindy H.
Entry #132 Mary Ann

All winners have been notified by e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].

….But wait! We have one more ARC available. For those of you who didn’t win, A Partial History for Lost Causes
is still up for grabs. It’s a contemporary fiction novel with a historical twist and a dash of political intrigue. The ARC goes to the first person to leave a comment below (be
sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!) Ready…
Set…Go!

It’s time for our annual Fall Cleaning—because once a year just isn’t enough! Lucinda and I have once again bravely faced up to the piles of ARCs invading our offices and homes, and we’ve ruthlessly decided to part with the bulk of them. The good news for you? We’ve got dozens of ARCs up for grabs, just waiting for you to claim
them!

Rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location. Contest ends on Friday, October 12, 2012.


Here are the titles we have up for grabs!

Adult Fiction 

Live By Night by Dennis Lehane (October 2012) In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. –NoveList

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (October 2012) Classic Morton: 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson sits dreaming away in her childhood tree house when she spies her mother speaking to an unknown man. Later, Laurel witnesses a terrible crime. But it’s not until 50 years have passed that she can ask her mother the pertinent questions—which leads to a story involving three strangers in wartime London. Morton’s best-selling work is always classy and nuanced; great for reading groups.  –Library Journal

The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony (October 2012) In this stunning debut from the pseudonymous Anthony, King Louis XIII’s ban on lace gives rise to a black market that weaves together the lives of four women in 17th-century France and Flanders. Katharina Martens is a Flemish lace maker who considers it her God-given duty to craft the “exquisite, beautiful” fabric, never mind that her work—often conducted without firelight or lanterns, in order to keep the lace clean of soot and ash—has left her hunched and nearly blind. As the end of her lace-making career draws nigh, to be followed by the sordid existence of former craftswomen relegated to a life of “doing… vile things,” her sister, Heilwich, struggles to save enough money to buy Katharina’s freedom from the abbey where she works. Meanwhile in France, Lissette Lefort and her cousin Alexandre must procure a length of forbidden lace to pay off the conniving count of Montreau, who threatens to reveal Lissette’s father’s role in an attempted assassination of the king. As beautifully fashioned as the sought-after lace, this story is sure to impress.  –Publishers Weekly

The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde (October 2012) Thursday Next #7 Forced into semi-retirement after an assassination attempt, Thursday Next finds her recuperation challenged by the personal and professional struggles of her children and Goliath’s constant attempts to replace her with synthetic duplicates. –NoveList

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (September 2012) In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger. –NoveList

Thy Neighbor by Norah Vincent (August 2012) Losing himself in drugs and alcohol for years after the violent deaths of his parents, Nick Walsh pursues a relationship with an enigmatic woman while conducting a spying campaign on his neighbors as part of his obsessive drive to come to terms with what happened. –NoveList

The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams (August 2012)  When a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, the press christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead, and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself. –NoveList

The 500 by Matthew Quirk  (June 2012) Former con artist and Harvard Law student Mike Ford accepts a position with the DC-based Davies Group, a consulting firm whose specialty is pulling strings for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway. –NoveList

A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King (July 2012) Tom King’s debut novel opens in an imaginative world of comic book superheroes struggling to take on normal lives after sacrificing their powers to save the world. –From the Publisher

Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon (May 2012) Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life. –NoveList

A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois (May 2012) Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington’s disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia. –NoveList

Arcadia by Lauren Groff (May 2012) In a haunting story of the American dream, Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. –NoveList

Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (March 2012) When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen’s wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect and reconnect throughout 25 subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays and tragedies. –NoveList

Wayward Saints by Suzzy Roche (2011) Mary Saint, the rule-breaking, troubled former lead singer of the almost-famous band Sliced Ham, has pretty much given up on music after the trauma of her band member and lover Garbagio’s death seven years earlier. Instead, with the help of her best friend, Thaddeus, she is trying to piece her life together while making mochaccinos in San Francisco. Meanwhile, back in her hometown of Swallow, New York, her mother Jean struggles with her own ghosts. When Mary is invited to give a concert at her old high school, Jean is thrilled, though she’s worried about what Father Benedict and her neighbors will think of songs such as “Sewer Flower” and “You’re a Pig.” But she soon realizes that there are going to be bigger problems when the whole town–including a discouraged teacher and a baker who’s anything but sweet–gets in on the act. –NoveList

A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison (2011) Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister, Sita, are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, where they endure a torturous existence before they are helped by a Washington, D.C. attorney who is able to combat human trafficking. –NoveList

The Rafters by A.C. Montgomery (2011) Sonambulist Saga #1 The Rafters visits an arcane world, where at crucial intervals, Callings of varying power and purpose are brought into being. Unaware, each is connected to a Messenger who alone can lead them to their true identity. Follow a Calling, who due to memory loss, runs ever further from his Messenger, into an underworld hungry to claim his power for its own villainous purposes. The scenery and elaborate personalities construct a complex web of plotting and intrigue. –NoveList

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011) The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past.  –From the Publisher

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (2011)  A continuation of “Shanghai Girls” finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation’s intolerant Communist culture. –NoveList

Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth (2009) In 1914, as the nations of the West are making a play for political power and oil in the Middle East, Somerville, a British archaeologist, finds his excavation of a long-buried Assyrian palace threatened by construction of a new railroad to Baghdad. –NoveList

So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwartz (2008) Thirty years after a vengeful plot destroys a family, the implications of that act continue to reverberate as Jon must decide whether to end his affair or his marriage, and his wife becomes involved with an older man linked to their families’ past. –NoveList

The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (2008) Follows the dual stories of two men–young Eugene, a passionate reader who devotes himself to an adventurer writer, and elderly Mr. Schmitz, who in a series of ominous letters to a missing friend describes his growing desperation about his wife’s deteriorating health. –NoveList

Adult Nonfiction

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor (January 2012) Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist. –NoveList

Death in the City of Light by David King (2011) Documents the World War II effort to catch a physician serial killer in Paris, describing the covert information network that the chief French detective built with such groups as mobsters, nightclub owners, and Resistance fighters. –NoveList

Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever who Saved Him  by Luis Carlos Montalvan (2011) “Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me–even the straight, stiff way I carry myself–that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left hand, that is, and the way I lean on it every few steps. Then they realize my stiff walk and straight posture aren’t just pride, and that Tuesday isn’t just an ordinary dog. He walks directly beside me, for instance, so that my right leg always bisects his body. He nuzzles me when my breathing changes, and he moves immediately between me and the object–a cat, an overeager child, a suspiciously closed door–any time I feel apprehensive. Because beautiful, happy-go-lucky, favorite-of-the-neighborhood Tuesday isn’t my pet; he’s my service dog.” Captain Luis Montalvan returned home from his second tour of duty in Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three broken vertebrae. But the pressures of civilian life and his injuries proved too much to bear. Physical disabilities, agoraphobia, and crippling PTSD drove him to the edge of suicide. That’s when he met Tuesday – his best friend forever. Tuesday came with his own history of challenges: from the Puppies Behind Bars program, to a home for troubled boys, to the streets of Manhattan, Tuesday blessed many lives on his way to Luis. Until Tuesday unforgettably twines the story of man and dog.” – Provided by publisher.

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson (2011) The author details what happened when her husband of over twenty years told her he wasn’t sure he loved her anymore and wanted to move out. And while you might think you know where this story is going, this isn’t the story you think it is. Laura’s response to her husband: I don’t buy it.

Love Is a Four-letter Word edited by Michael Taekens (2009) Presents true stories of heartbreak and bad relationships, reflecting on the contributors’ breakups with humor, regret, insightfulness, and nostalgia. –NoveList

The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson (2009) The humorist and advice columnist for “Ask Amy” describes her inspirational, haphazard experiences with divorce, traveling throughout the country, and resettling in her hometown, where her extended family helped her to raise her daughter. –NoveList

Fiction for Kids & Teens

What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton (October 2012) *2 Copies Available* Before the ski trip, sixteen-year-old Cassidy “Sid” Murphy was a cheerleader, a straight-A student, and a member of a solid trio of best friends. When she ends up on a ski lift next to handsome local college boy Dax Windsor, she’s thrilled, but Dax takes everything from Sid—including a lock of her perfect red curls—and she can’t remember any of it. Back home and alienated by her friends, Sid drops her college prep classes and takes up residence in the AV room with only Corey “the Living Stoner” Livingston for company. But as she gets to know Corey (slacker, baker, total dreamboat), Sid finds someone who truly makes her happy. Now, if she can just shake the nightmares and those few extra pounds, everything will be perfect…or so she thinks. –Book Jacket

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (October 2012) Astrid Jones copes with her small town’s gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she’s sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they’ll know what to do with it. Maybe it’ll make them happy. Maybe they’ll need it. Her mother doesn’t want it, her father’s always stoned, her perfect sister’s too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There’s no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she’s trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love–and asking the right questions–will affect the passengers’ lives, and her own, for the better. –From the Publisher

The Golden Door by Emily Rodda (October 2012) Three Doors #1 At night the skimmers fly over the Wall looking for human prey and the people of Weld huddle in their houses, but after his two brothers set out through the magic doors in an attempt to find the Enemy and don’t come back, young Rye knows that he must follow and find them. –NoveList

Every Day by David Levithan (August 2012) Every morning A wakes in a different person’s body, in a different person’s life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. –NoveList

Soulbound by Heather Brewer (June 2012) Legacy of Tril #1 Seventeen-year-old Kaya, a Healer who wants to learn to fight, must attend Shadow Academy where fighting by Healers is outlawed, and so she asks two young men to train her in secret, leading to a choice that will change their lives forever. –NoveList

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage  (May 2012) Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. –NoveList

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (January 2012) Lunar Chronicles #1 As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. –NoveList Lucinda’s Review

The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011) When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in 1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with the help of their secret society of fellow orphans. –NoveList

Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne (2011) When life at home becomes too difficult, eight-year-old Noah sets out to see the world and have an adventure, and in the forest he meets a toymaker who has a story and some advice to share. –NoveList

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (2011) When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.

Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce (2010) Fairy Tale Retellings #1 After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman’s son. –NoveList

The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2009) Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. –NoveList

Spellbinder by Helen Stringer (2009) Spellbinder #1 Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England, teams up with an always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why all of the ghosts in the world have suddenly disappeared. –NoveList

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Congratulations to the winners of our 2012 Spring Giveaway!

Dark Parties by Sara Grant (2011) Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies and deceptions. –NoveList

Entry #94C.

All winners have been notified by e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected].

….But wait! We have one more ARC available. For those of you who didn’t win, Dark Parties is still up for grabs. It’s a dystopian thriller that might appeal to fans of Suzanne Collins, Scott Westerfeld, Lauren Oliver, or Jeanne DuPrau. The ARC goes to the first person to leave a comment below (be sure to leave your e-mail address so I can arrange pickup!) Ready… Set…Go!

Last Fall, we did a little early spring cleaning and hosted our first Book News & Reviews Giveaway Event. Well, now that Spring has finally arrived (though some days it already feels like summer here!), it’s time for more spring cleaning. Lucinda and I have taken stock of our mountainous TBRs and decided that it is time to part with a few more ARCs that we’ve been holding on to. We’ve got dozens of ARCs up for grabs, just waiting for you to claim them. Rules of entry are at the end of the post. Contest ends on Friday, April 13, 2012. 

Adult Fiction & Nonfiction

More Than You Know by Penny Vincenzi (April 2012)A tale set against a backdrop of the glossy magazine and advertising worlds of 1960s London follows a harrowing courtroom custody battle between Eliza, who gave up her writing job to marry; and her ex-husband, Matt, an edgy working-class man. –NoveList

The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan (April 2012) Centering around Harvard’s Red Book, a collection of personal triumphs and failures from graduates, this tongue-in-cheek novel follows a group of roommates from the class of 1989 as they prepare for their twentieth reunion weekend. –NoveList

Paris in Love by Eloisa James (April 2012) Chronicles the year that the author and her family lived in Paris, describing her walking tours of the city, her school-age children’s attempts to navigate foreign language schools, and her thoughts on the pleasures and eccentricities of French living. –NoveList

Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (March 2012) When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen’s wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect and reconnect throughout 25 subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays and tragedies. –NoveList

The Bedlam Detective by Stephen Gallagher (Feb. 2012) “Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any man of property whose sanity is under question. His latest assignment takes him to the small town of Arnmouth to determine whether Sir Owain Lancaster has gone around the bend.”–Provided by publisher. –NoveList

Situations Matter by Sam Sommers (Feb. 2012) An exploration of the unconscious forces that influence life reveals the unrecognized power of context in everyday situations while sharing recommendations for using contextual insights to reshape how one sees the world.  –NoveList

The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams (2011) Offered a second chance by the Atlanta Police Department to catch a serial killer who has eluded them for years, former FBI profiler and alcoholic Keye Street begins a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with an adversary who has taken a personal interest in her. –NoveList

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (2011) Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress’s life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs. –NoveList

The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell (2011) While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.  –NoveList

In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda (2011) In a fictional retelling of a true story, ten-year-old Enaiat leaves his small Afghanistan village after the Taliban takes over in 2000, and when his mother is forced to leave him in Pakistan, he endures a five-year ordeal to make his way to Italy. –NoveList

The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy (2011) As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do the pressures on Vivienne. Food and resources grow scant, and the restrictions placed upon the residents of the island grow with each passing week. Though Vivienne knows the perils of her love affair with Gunther, she believes that she can keep their relationship- and her family- safe. But when she becomes aware of the full brutality of the Occupation, she must decide if she is willing to risk her personal happiness for the life of a stranger–From book cover.

One Day by David Nicholls (2010) Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day–July 15th–of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. –NoveList

You Don’t Look Like Anyone Else I Know by Heather Sellers (2010) An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. The author is face blind–that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people’s faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he was her boyfriend, or failed to recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong “fishing trips” (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. She clung to a barely coherent story of a “normal” childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when she took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt. –NoveList

The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming (2010) Discovering an old photograph of a beautiful mathematical prodigy, antiques dealer Peter remembers his initial dismissal of the woman’s claim that she has discovered the key to time travel, a capability that enables Peter’s journey to New York at the dawn of the mechanical age. –NoveList

The Language of Secrets by Dianne Dixon (2010) Successful hotel manager Justin is devastated by the deaths of his estranged parents, who hid from him the existence of a child who shared his name and died at the age of three. –NoveList

How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (2010) Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father’s trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents’ youth to his life in the America of today. –NoveList

Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (2010) Anticipating a successful final year of high school in a new community, star student and athlete Rosie gives way to behaviors that reveal to her increasingly horrified parents that she has been abusing drugs and telling costly lies. –NoveList

Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff (2010) Eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward looks back at a turning point in her life, when she had to choose between her World War II soldier husband and the poor Italian immigrant planning the fireworks display to celebrate the soldiers’ return. –NoveList

Dogfight: A Love Story by Matt Burgess (2010) Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight. –NoveList

The Mullah’s Storm by Thomas W. Young (2010) When their plane is shot down while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh blizzard terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers. –NoveList

One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2010) When nine disparate characters are trapped together after an earthquake, each of them takes a turn telling “one amazing thing” about his or her life. –NoveList

One Day by David Nicholls (2010) Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day–July 15th–of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. –NoveList

The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne (2009) “For ten years, Alexandra ‘Cat’ Rucker has been on the run from her past. With an endless supply of bourbon and a series of meaningless jobs, Cat is struggling to forget her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to return to the home and family she never intended to see again. It seems that Cat’s mother is dead. What Cat finds at the old farmhouse is disturbing and confusing: a suicide note, written on lilac stationery and neatly sealed in a ziplock bag, that reads: ‘Cat, He isn’t who you think he is. Mom xxxooo’ One note, ten words–one for every year she has been gone–completely turns Cat’s world upside down. Seeking to unravel the mystery of her mother’s death, Cat must confront her past to discover who ‘he’ might be: her tyrannical, abusive father, now in a coma after suffering a stroke? Her brother, Jared, named after her mother’s true love (who is also her father’s best friend)? The town coroner, Andrew Reilly, who seems to have known Cat’s mother long before she landed on a slab in his morgue? Or Addison Watkins, Cat’s first and only love? The closer Cat gets to the truth, the harder it is for her to repress the memory and the impact of the events that sent her away so many years ago” — from publisher’s web site.

The Local News by Miriam Gershow (2009) Still haunted by the disappearance of her popular older brother when she was sixteen, Lydia Pasternak grows up dealing with her frantic parents and assisting the private investigator hired by her family to search for clues to his fate. –NoveList

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (2009) Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in an Italian convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds the convent’s doctor of her own unhappy early years. –NoveList

The Lost City of Z by David Gunn (2009) Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author’s own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett’s final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle. –NoveList

American Rust by Philipp Meyer (2009) Follows the lives of two young men bound by family, inertia, and the ties of home to a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who dream of escaping to California together until one of them accidentally kills a transient and attempts to cover up the crime. –NoveList

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (2009) Forced to set aside her Ph.D. research in order to help the settling of her late grandmother’s abandoned home, Connie Goodwin discovers a hidden key among her grandmother’s possessions that is linked to a darker chapter in Salem witch trial history. –NoveList

The Rapture by Liz Jensen (2009) While working with a sixteen-year-old who has been incarcerated for murder, Gabrielle, a therapist, is alarmed by parallels between her client’s paranoid fantasies and an escalating series of natural disasters. –NoveList

South of Broad by Pat Conroy (2009) After his brother’s suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship. –NoveList

Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears (2009) In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race. –NoveList

Blue Genes by Christopher Lukas (2008) The author describes growing up with a family legacy of depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide as he details his own battle with bouts of depression and his struggle with grief over the suicide of his brother, Pulitzer Prize-winning author J. Anthony Lukas. –NoveList

City of Refuge by Tom Piazza (2008) Uprooted from their New Orleans homes by Hurricane Katrina, the Donaldson and Williams families–one black, the other white–make their way to Houston and share disparate experiences trying to rebuild their lives. –NoveList

The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway (2008) With a fire burning along the Jorgmund Pipe, a vital protection from the bandits and monsters left in the wake of the Go-Away War, Gonzo Lubitsch and his colleagues at the Haulage and HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company are hired to put it out. –NoveList

So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz (2008) Thirty years after a vengeful plot destroys a family, the implications of that act continue to reverberate as Jon must decide whether to end his affair or his marriage, and his wife becomes involved with an older man linked to their families’ past. –NoveList

When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale (2008) Nine-year-old Lawrence watches protectively over his mother and little sister, especially when, feeling endangered by their estranged father, his mother decides the three of them must leave their life in England to seek refuge in Rome. –NoveList

The White Mary by Kira Salak (2008) War reporter Marika Vecera learns that her long-time hero, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Lewis, has committed suicide and sets out to write his biography, only to hear rumors that he may still be alive in Papua New Guinea. –NoveList

Teen & Middle Grade Fiction

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers (April 2012) In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts–and a violent destiny. –NoveList

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith (Feb. 2012) Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day. –NoveList

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (2011) When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious. –NoveList

Dark Parties by Sara Grant (2011) Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies and deceptions. –NoveList

The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (2011) Containing elements of Harry Potter, Narnia, and Fablehaven, this is an engaging fantasy with the makings of a classic. It is fresh and original, with a voice and characters all its own. Kate was only four; Michael, two; and Emma a baby when they were whisked away from their parents on a snowy Christmas Eve night. Ten years later, after bouncing from one orphanage to the next, they find themselves at a mysterious orphanage run by Dr. Stanislaus Pym. There, they discover a hidden book that transports them to the past, where an evil witch holds the town captive. Prophecies, wizards, argumentative dwarves, and an ancient evil all make an appearance in this epic adventure, but at its heart it is the tale of three children, their search to discover the fate of their parents, and their bickering, loyal, entirely believable relationship. Ages 10 and up.  –Tracy, Book Picks Winter 2011/2012 Also selected as one of our Favorite MG books of 2011.

Hades by Alexandra Adornetto (2011) Bethany, an angel in love with the mortal boy Xavier, is tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell, where a demon bargains for her life in exchange for something that may destroy her loved ones. –NoveList

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller (2010) Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives. –NoveList

Hush by Eishes Chayil (2010) After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory’s suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent. –NoveList

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer (2010) Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla’s heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world. –NoveList

She’s So Dead to Me by Kieran Scott (2010) Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the “Crestie” whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father’s bad investment that cost them all. –NoveList

Sweetly by Jackson Pearce (2011) When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen’s haunted childhood memories of her twin sister’s abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival. –NoveList

The 10 p.m. Question by Kate De Goldi (2010) Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own, Frankie is forced toface the ultimate ten p.m. question. –NoveList

We the Children by Andrew Clements (2010) Sixth-grader Ben Pratt’s life is full of changes that he does not like–his parents’ separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park–but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed. –NoveList

Wither by Lauren DeStefano (2011) After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world. –NoveList

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (2010) Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend’s sister disappears he goes against his family’s and town’s deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives. –NoveList

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Congratulations to the winners of our Fall Giveaway Event! If you haven’t received a notification e-mail, please contact me at the Ridgway Reference Desk or e-mail me to arrange for pickup of your prize!

Angela: A Thousand Lives, Heresy, Prophecy, The Heretic’s Daughter 
Marissa L. Sanders: Radiance, Forgotten
Lena: American Widow,  Kat, Incorrigible
Melinda: The Promised World, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, Glow, Falling for Hamlet, Love Ya Bunches 
Christina Shepherd: Original Sin, Triangles
Cindy: Maman’s Homesick Pie, Triangles
Bobbie Sharp:  All These Things I’ve Done, Chime, Thirteen Days to Midnight, The Katrina Club, Keeper, The Phantom Limb, and Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
Sherry Hutchins:  One Day, The Soldier’s Wife, The Replacement, Sacred Hearts
Kasey: Nate the Great Strikes Back
Pamela: The House at Midnight, The Iron Queen, White Cat
Marie: A Spy in the House, The Body at the Tower, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Museum of Thieves, Simple Skin Beauty
Elizabeth: Etta, Think of a Number, Promise the Night, The Body at the Tower
Kari: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, Delerium, The Duff

Orphaned Books, looking for a good home

Our Sad, Unclaimed Orphans include:

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama, We the Children by Andrew Clements, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda, South of Broad by Pat Conroy, A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres (copy #2), The White Mary by Kira Salak, The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, and So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz

You may have noticed that a few titles went unclaimed. If you would like to receive any of these ARCs, please leave a comment below telling us which title(s) you would like to receive. You can choose as many as you like, and they will go to the first claimant. Ready, set, go…

Triangles by Ellen Hopkins (October 2011) *TWO COPIES AVAILABLE*

A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres (October 2011) *TWO COPIES AVAILABLE*

Maman’s Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan (October 2011)

In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabi Geda (August 2011)

Original Sin by Beth McMullen (July 2011) Sally Sin #1

The Soldier’s Wife by Margaret Leroy (June 2011)

Prophecy by S.J. Parris (May 2011) Giordano Bruno Mystery #2

Heresy by S.J. Parris (2010) Giordano Bruno Mystery #1

One Day by David Nicholls (2010)

Simple Skin Beauty Dr. Ellen Marmur (2010)

Think of a Number by John Verdon (2010)

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees (2010)

The Promised World by Lisa Tucker (2010)

Etta by Gerald Kolpan (2009)

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker (2009)

South of Broad by Pat Conroy (2009)

The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama (2009)

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (2009)

American Widow by Alissa Torres (2008)

The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse (2008)

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore (2008)

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (2008)

The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent (2008)

So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz (2008)

The White Mary by Kira Salak (2008)

Promise the Night by Michaela McColl (November 2011)

The Phantom Limb by William Sleator (October 2011)

Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A.J. Hartley (October 2011)

Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan (September 2011)

All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin (September 2011) Birthright #1

Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray (July 2011)

Forgotten by Cat Patrick (June 2011)

Chime by Franny Billingsley (March 2011)

The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa (February 2011) Iron Fey #3

Delirium by Lauren Oliver (February 2011)

A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee (2010) The Agency #1

The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee (2010) The Agency #2 * TWO COPIES AVAILABLE *

White Cat by Holly Black (2010) The Curse Workers # 1

The Duff by Kody Keplinger (2010)

Thirteen Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman (2010)

The Karma Club by Jessica Brody (2010)

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (2010)

Primary Audience: Middle Grade

Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (February 2011) Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson #1

Radiance by Alyson Noël (2010) Riley Bloom #1

Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce (2010) Big Nate #2

Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner (2010) Keepers Trilogy #1

Keeper by Kathi Appelt (2010)

Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle (2010) Flower Power #1

We the Children by Andrew Clements (2010) Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School #1

RULES OF ENTRY:

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