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CMash February 8, 2012 2 Comments

……of LIFE IN DEATH by Harlow Coban

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is black, so the first person who guess it correctly is………

January 28, 2012 at 10:30 am

Harlow’s favorite color is black. Thank you for the chance to win this book. It sounds great.

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “THE SNOW CHILD” by EOWYN IVEY ENDED

CMash February 6, 2012 21 Comments

FEBRUARY 6th to FEBRUARY 20th, 2012

THE SNOW CHILD

by EOWYN IVEY

SYNOPSIS:

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

THANKS TO ANNA, AND THE KIND PEOPLE AT

THE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

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CMash February 3, 2012 4 Comments

……..of GIRL LAND by Caitlin Flanagan

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I follow publicly and google I believe – marceblogspot

I would like to win this book for my daughter, she has a 10 year old girl..I follow by google reader as Marjorie/cenya2

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INTERNATIONAL—EBOOK—GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “AMONGST MY ENEMIES” and “THE UNDERTAKER” by William F. Brown ENDED

CMash February 3, 2012 4 Comments

FEBRUARY 3rd to FEBRUARY 17th, 2012

AMONGST MY ENEMIES

and THE UNDERTAKER

by WILLIAM F. BROWN

SYNOPSIS: AMONGST MY ENEMIES

Amongst My Enemies is a fast-paced story of action and international suspense that plumbs the depths of brotherhood, honor, a debt that can never be repaid, and one man’s revenge. Beginning in the closing days of WW II, it deals with horde of stolen Nazi gold and art, a missing German U-boat, Russian spies, Nazi hit men, and a secret that could shatter NATO. In February 1945, two young Americans, Mike Randall and Eddie Hodge, door gunners on an American B-24, are shot down on an ill-fated bombing mission over Berlin. Instead of a Nazi POW camp, however, they find themselves in a forced labor battalion in the frozen hell of Konigsberg in East Prussia. With the SS inside and the rampaging Red Army outside, the old port city and everyone in it are doomed. When Hodge dies in his arms, Randall swears he will have his revenge. Assigned to a work detail loading mysterious crates into a German U-boat, Randall manages to hide in the hold as the SS. massacre the other laborers. In the end, he owes his life to Eric Bruckner, the U-boat Kapitan, and perhaps the last honorable man left inGermany. When Bruckner to set Randall free on the coast of Sweden, he pays the ultimate price when a British bomber catches him on the surface. He and his U-boat are destroyed, leaving Randall an emotional cripple overcome by exhaustion and guilt. For the next six years, Randall remains inSweden, working as an anonymous deck hand on fishing boats, trying to forget and to heal; but it is no use. He knows he must return to US and confess his role in Hodge’s death to his father and sister. While there, he learns the impossible . . . Eric Bruckner is alive! Somehow, he survived the air attack and is now a West German Admiral in charge of NATO plans and operations, visiting east coast ports on a good will mission. Randall hurries toNew Yorkto see him and to thank him; but when they come face to face in a Manhattan hotel lobby, he immediately sees that the Admiral is not Eric Bruckner. He is a phony, but whose phony is he? Randall knows the truth, and he knows what he saw inside the wooden crates in that U-boat . . . a fortune in gold, stolen art and jewels, Nazi records, and a dead hero. No one wants to believe Randall, so he returns to Sweden, to the Baltic coast, with a ragtag group consisting of Hodge’s little sister, a retired NY cop, and an old Swedish fishing captain, and two Israeli salvage experts to find that U-Boat and prove them all wrong. Equally determined to stop him are the Soviet KGB, the Russian Navy, and the underground Nazi network of Martin Bormann and his ‘strong right arm’, Heinz Kruger. The truth lies three-hundred feet down on the bottom of the Baltic. Some want the gold. Some want to know the truth. Some want to destroy it and kill everyone involved.

THANKS TO AUTHOR, BILL BROWN,

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “A CLUTTERED LIFE by PESI DINNERSTEIN ENDED

CMash February 2, 2012 24 Comments

FEBRUARY 2nd to FEBRUARY 16th, 2012

A CLUTTERED LIFE

by PESI DINNERSTEIN

SYNOPSIS:

A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys tells the story of Pesi Dinnerstein’s touching, quirky, and often comic search for order and simplicity amid an onslaught of relentless interruptions. When a chance encounter with an old acquaintance opens her eyes to the extent to which disorder has crept into every corner of her existence, she begins a quest to free herself of the excess baggage she carries with her and finds—to her great surprise—that the answers she has spent a lifetime searching for lie within her own piles of clutter.

Dinnerstein’s battle with chaos takes her on an odyssey of self-discovery that leads from the mess spilling out of her closets and the backseat of her car to the more subtle forms of disorder in her everyday life and, finally, to the most hidden expressions deep within herself. In the end—with the help of devoted friends, a twelve-step recovery program, and a bit of Kabbalistic wisdom—her struggle with the things of this world is transformed from a distraction along the way into its own journey of healing and personal growth. At turns insightful, unsettling, and wildly funny, A Cluttered Life describes how one woman found her true self—and spiritual clarity—while trying to make sense of her muddled world.

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “THE CHINA GAMBIT” by ALLAN TOPOL ENDED

CMash February 1, 2012 27 Comments

FEBRUARY 1st to FEBRUARY 15th, 2012

THE CHINA GAMBIT

by ALLAN TOPOL

SYNOPSIS:

National bestselling author Allan Topol returns with a thrilling new trilogy of international intrigue. THE CHINA GAMBIT(Vantage Point; $14.95; January 2012) introduces Craig Page, a daring and resourceful former CIA agent, now fighting terrorism in Europe after being unceremoniously fired from the agency. After his daughter Francesca — a New York City reporter investigating the biggest story of her young career — dies in an “automobile accident,” Craig is instinctively convinced that she was murdered and sets out to find answers…and vengeance.

Joined by Francesca’s editor, the gutsy and equally resourceful Elizabeth Crowder, Craig soon begins to peel back the conspiracy layer by layer, eventually learning that Francesca was just collateral in a much larger ultimate target: The United States.

With a worldwide conflict that revolves around oil, money, weapons, and greed, THE CHINA GAMBIT raises the stakes by presenting frighteningly real consequences. The action races around the globe, jumping from Canada to Tehran, Beijing to Washington, and finally to Aspen, with Craig and Elizabeth narrowly escaping the deadliest of obstacles in their attempts to prevent impending catastrophe at the hands of Chinese General Zhou. Yet the rogue general is not the only twisted mastermind, and Craig soon learns that this conspiracy is a “three-headed monster”— one Chinese, one Iranian, and one American, led by a traitorous CIA director with whom Craig has a tumultuous past.

THANKS TO ERIN AND THE TERRIFIC

PEOPLE AT MEDIA MUSCLE

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GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “MAY THE ROAD RISE UP TO MEET YOU by Peter Troy ENDED

CMash January 31, 2012 35 Comments

JANUARY 31st to FEBRUARY 14th, 2012

MAY THE ROAD RISE

UP TO MEET YOU

by PETER TROY

SYNOPSIS (fom Doubleday):

An engrossing, epic American drama told from four distinct perspectives, spanning the first major wave of Irish immigration to New York through the end of the Civil War.
Four unique voices; two parallel love stories; one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it introduces four unforgettable characters. Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom.
All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide. Written in gorgeous language that subtly captures the diverse backgrounds of the characters, and interspersed with letters, journals, and dreams, this unforgettable story, rendered in cinematic detail, is about having faith in life’s great meaning amidst its various tangles.

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CMash January 30, 2012 1 Comment

……….of ARE YOU SMART ENOUGH TO WORK AT GOOGLE?

by William Poundstone

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Timestamp: 2012-01-31 11:31:44 UTC

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