Book Giveaways

Book Review and Giveaway: The Most Dangerous Thing

May 15, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Most Dangerous Thing Synopsis: Something terrible happened in the woods on that day so long ago. Was it what the children said happened … or something else? The man who sometimes lived in the ramshackle cabin the children discovered when exploring, whom they called Chicken George after […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Milestone Tapes

May 13, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Milestone Tapes Synopsis: Jenna Chamberland last saw her mother healthy as she left for college. By the time she made her first trip back home, her mother was dying. Responsibility to care for their mother fell to Jenna’s sister, Sophie, with whom Jenna has […]

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Spring Blog Carnival 2012: Cotton Candy Booth Challenge and Giveaway

May 7, 2012

Welcome to the Cotton Candy Booth! Our hosts for this year’s Spring Blog Carnival are Candace at Candace’s Book Blog, Angela at Reading Angel, and Lori at Pure Imagination. The Cotton Candy Challenge The Prize You may select one of my favorite works of women’s fiction thus far for 2012 as your challenge prize! If your […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Whole Latte Life

May 5, 2012

Synopsis: Everyone has had a moment — or several — when they contemplated running away from home: just turning one’s back on everyone and everything, and disappearing for a while or even forever. But then the dream ends, reality intrudes, and we carry on, honoring our commitments to ourselves and those people who matter to […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Girl Unmoored

April 30, 2012

Synopsis: Apron Bramhall is a thirteen-year-old seventh grader for whom life has been extremely difficult lately. Her mother died just six months ago from cancer and Margie, the Brazilian nurses’ aid who cared for her mother, has taken up permanent residence in Apron’s home. Her father, a Latin professor, wants Apron to get along with […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Good Father

April 28, 2012

Synopsis: Travis Brown thinks that things can’t possibly get any worse for him and his four-year-old daughter, Bella. He’s about to find out how wrong he is. Travis has lived his entire life in Carolina Beach and can’t imagine life anywhere but by the shore. He has also never lived on his own. After taking custody […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Afterwards

April 24, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Afterwards Synopsis: Grace is at her son, Adam’s, school for sports day. Nearly all of the children are outdoors when suddenly the building erupts in fire. As Grace looks around for her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenny, she realizes that she is still inside where she has been serving as […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: A Grand Murder

April 18, 2012

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for A Grand Murder Synopsis: Catherine O’Brien and her partner, Louise, are homicide detectives with the St. Paul, Minnesota police department. As the story begins, Nathan Stanley has been found murdered on the front porch of his opulent home. He just happens to one of the chief of […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Unbroken

April 13, 2012

Welcome to Virtual Author Book Tours’ Blog Tour for Unbroken Synopsis: Gwen Swan was a rodeo queen, sitting glamorously in the saddle as she waved to the crowds. She still rides, but its on the Swan family ranch that she works alongside her husband, Will, and his father, John. Ranch life twenty-five miles outside Laramie, Wyoming […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Song Remains the Same

April 6, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Song Remains the Same Synopsis: Eleanor “Nell” Margaret Slattery survives the crash of a 757 airliner over Iowa. In fact, she is one of only two survivors, the other being Anderson Carroll, a well-known actor whose exploits often make tabloid headlines. Nell awakens in a hospital to find […]

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Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Giveaway Hop 2012

April 5, 2012

Through Thursday, April 5, 2012, you are invited to enter to win a $15 Amazon gift certificate! The winner will be selected at random. This year’s Easter Eggstravaganza is again hosted by Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer and Yara at Once Upon a Twilight. a Rafflecopter giveaway You need javascript […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Dark is the Sky

April 4, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Dark is the Sky Synopsis: The Camerons have not gathered together for twelve years — not since the fateful weekend that was supposed to be a relaxing getaway at Olivia and Joel’s new country dream home ended in disaster. On that occasion, a recession threatened the […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: My Publishing Nightmare

April 4, 2012

Today I am delighted to welcome author Valerie Stocking to Colloquium! Valerie details the frustrating and harrowing saga of getting her first novel published! It is a cautionary tale for all would-be published authors. Valerie’s second novel, The Promised Land, is set in 1966. The Civil Rights Act was enacted two years prior and twelve-year-old […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Sonoma Rose

March 16, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Sonoma Rose Synopsis: Rosa Diaz knew, as a child growing up in California, that her family held a long-standing grudge against the Jorgenson family, Norwegians who now owned the land that had once belonged to the Diaz family, Triumph Ranch. The Jorgensons produced delicious apricots and Rose longed […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Garden Intrigue

March 9, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Garden Intrigue Synopsis: Historian Eloise Kelly has come to England to work on her doctoral thesis, met Colin, and has taken up residence with him in his ancestral home where a film crew has been allowed to utilize the premises. She is researching the Pink Carnation, Jane […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Walter’s Muse

March 1, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Walter’s Muse Synopsis: Maggie Lewis is sixty-five years old and has just retired after a forty-year career as an elementary school librarian. She has come to Vashon Island near Seattle, accessible only by ferry, to live full-time in a rustic cabin with no window screens. Long divorced, her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Delicacy

February 27, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Delicacy Synopsis: Natalie was just twenty years old when she was approached by Francois on a Paris street. From that conversation, their relationship bloomed into two years of living together, followed by five of marriage. They were happy and almost never quarreled until one tragic day when everything […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: Sexy Six

February 26, 2012

Margaret Norton is my special guest today! She is the author of When Ties Break: A Memoir About How to Thrive After Loss, her story of splintered relationships with her family of origin, as well as her three marriages. Death, sexual molestation, and divorce are some of the topics covered as Margaret describes how she […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Honor Redeemed

February 21, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Honor Redeemed Synopsis: Honor MacKenzie has been trying to soldier on after an unscrupulous reporter’s salacious stories forced her to give up the career she loved as a firefighter. Her career and work as a Search and Rescue (SAR) trainer and crew member sustained her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

February 19, 2012

Every leaf while on its tree sways in unison; bears the same light and shadow, is sustained by the same sap that will release it in blazing color. It is that moment before falling we all live for, to see ourselves for the first time, to hear our name being called from the inside. ~~ […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: A Kid and His Books

February 17, 2012

It is my pleasure to welcome author Spencer Seidel back to Colloquium today. Spencer’s first novel, Dead of Wynter, a tautly constructed mystery thriller that keeps readers guessing about the Wynter family’s numerous secrets until the very last page, was a great success last year. His second thriller, Lovesick, deals with a case of murder that […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Spin

February 14, 2012

Synopsis: Katie Sandford has dreamed for years of working as a writer for The Line, a prestigious music magazine, but when she finally lands an interview, she shows up still drunk from the night before. She wouldn’t have shown up at all were it not for her roommate, Joanne, who roused her from her stupor […]

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Follower Love Giveaway Hop 2012

February 7, 2012

Welcome to the Follower Love Giveaway Hop 2012! Through Wednesday, February 15, 2011, at 12:01 a.m., you are invited to enter to win a $15 Amazon gift certificate! The Follower Love Giveaway Hop is hosted by Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer and author Rachael Renee Anderson. Mandatory Entry: Post a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Legacy of Eden

February 6, 2012

Synopsis: Meredith, along with her two older sisters, Claudia and Ava, has not visited her childhood home, Aurelia (latin for “Golden”), in over a decade. A scuptor, Meredith resides in New York City, but has received word that the family farm her grandmother, Lavinia, so cherished will now be put on the auction block to […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Chasing Mona Lisa

January 25, 2012

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Chasing Mona Lisa Synopsis: France is in Germany’s grip, but Bernard Rousseau and his fellow members of the Resistance are determined to see France freed from Nazi control and restored to its pre-World War II glory. Bernard would do anything to secure his country’s liberation, including risking his own life […]

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