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Sep 15

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Giveaway: All Together Now by Gill Hornby

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on September 10, 2015
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Gill HornbyThanks to Olivia Aylmer of Hachette Book Group, I am giving away 5 print copies of ‘All Together Now’ by Gill Hornby.

Description of ‘All Together Now’ by Gill Hornby:


The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. Downtown is deserted, businesses are closing, and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to residents rushing through the streets to get somewhere else. Bridgeford seems to have lost its heart.

But there is one thing that just might unite the community–music. The local choir, a group generally either ignored or mocked by most of Bridgeford’s inhabitants, is preparing for an important contest, and to win it they need new members, and a whole new sound. Enlisting (some may say drafting) singers, who include a mother suffering from empty-nest syndrome, a middle-aged man who has just lost his job and his family, and a nineteen-year-old waitress who dreams of reality-TV stardom, the choir regulars must find–and make–harmony with neighbors they’ve been happy not to know for years. Can they all learn to work together, save the choir, and maybe even save their town in the process?

All Together Now is a poignant and charming novel about community, family, falling in love–and the big rewards of making a small change.

About Gill Hornby:Gill Hornby


Gill Hornby won over critics and audiences alike with the deliciously droll bestseller The Hive in 2013, which the Sunday Times called “the debut of the year.” The sister of writer Nick Hornby, she lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband and their four children.

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Jun 15

4

Giveaway: THANK YOU, GOODNIGHT by ANDY ABRAMOWITZ

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 4, 2015
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Thanks Andy Abramowitzto Courtney Brach of Touchstone Publicity | Simon & Schuster, Inc., I am giving away one print copy of Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz.

Description of Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz:


Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this side-splittingly funny coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences.

Teddy Tremble is nearing forty and has settled into a comfortable groove, working at a stuffy law firm and living in a downtown apartment with a woman he thinks he might love. Sure, his days aren’t as exciting as the time he spent as the lead singer of Tremble, the rock band known for its mega-hit “It Feels Like a Lie,” but that life has long since passed its sell-by date.

But when Teddy gets a cryptic call from an old friend, he’s catapulted into contemplating the unthinkable: reuniting Tremble for one last shot at rewriting history. Never mind that the band members haven’t spoken in ten years, that they left the music scene in a blazing cloud of indifference, and that the only fans who seem to miss them reside in an obscure little town in Switzerland.

If Teddy manages to snooker his band mates out of their adult lives, can a once immature, self-involved fallen idol find his way back to the top–and possibly back to the one who got away? Thank You, Goodnight is debut novelist Andy Abramowitz’s hilarious, honest, and heartwarming story about love, lyrics, and finding one’s legacy in the unlikeliest of places.

Praise for Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz:


KIRKUS: “The pacing is quick, the emotional current soars, and the dialogue rings true. Abramowitz’s debut is both funny and compassionate, using the world of the music industry to illustrate the questions of life and legacy that so many of us ponder.”

RICK SPRINGFIELD, bestselling author and Grammy Award-winning musician: “Thank You, Goodnight is a hilarious send-up of the music industry, late-onset adulthood, and where the two often uncomfortably meet.”

BOOKLIST: “Very funny, deftly done . . . With a good deal of compassion and a great eye for the comic detail, Abramowitz delves a little deeper here. . . . A pleasure to behold.”

JOHN KENNEY, author of Truth in Advertising: “In the character of Teddy Tremble, Andy Abramowitz has created a kind of twenty-first-century Binx Bolling, a man in desperate search for meaning, maturity, and redemption. Funny, tender, and moving.”

JUNE 2015 INDIE NEXT LIST (Georgette Coan, Barbara’s Bookstore): “A heartwarming, funny look at love, life, and second chances.”


About Andy Abramowitz:


Andy Abramowitz

Photo Credit: Caryn Abramowitz

Andy Abramowitz lives in Center City Philadelphia with is wife and two daughters. He practices law by day and various artistic endeavors by night. Thank You, Goodnight Night, his first novel, is the product of frequent bouts of insomnia.

This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada and ends on June 18, 2015.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter.

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Mar 15

10

Giveaway: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on March 10, 2015
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THanya Yanagihara hanks to John Pitts of Penguin/Randomhouse, I am giving away 5 print copies of  ‘A Little Life’ by Hanya Yanagihara.

Book Description:


Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.


In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

Praise for ‘A Little Life’:



“Spring’s must-read novel… If [Yanagihara’s] assured 2013 debut, ‘The People in the Trees’, a dark allegory of Western hubris, put her on the literary map, her massive new novel…signals the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.”-Megan O’Grady, Vogue

“The phrase ‘tour de force’ could have been invented for this audacious novel.”-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“This is a novel that values the everyday over the extraordinary, the push and pull of human relationships—and the book’s effect is cumulative. There is real pleasure in following characters over such a long period, as they react to setbacks and successes, and, in some cases, change. By the time the characters reach their 50s and the story arrives at its moving conclusion, readers will be attached and find them very hard to forget.”-Publishers Weekly 

About Hanya Yanagihara:Hanya Yanagihara


Hanya Yanagihara is the author of The People in the Trees. She lives in New York City.

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