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Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 2, 2018
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Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer LaamLost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


Thanks Staci Burt of  St. Martin’s Press, I am giving away one print copy of Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam.

Description Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


At the age of sixteen, Natalya Goncharova is stunningly beautiful and intellectually curious. But while she finds joy in French translations and a history of Russian poetry, her family is more concerned with her marriage prospects. It is only fitting that during the Christmas of 1828 at her first public ball in her hometown of Moscow she attracts the romantic attention of Russia’s most lauded rebel poet: Alexander Pushkin. 

Enchanted at first sight, Natalya is already a devoted reader of Alexander’s serialized novel in verse, Evgeny Onegin. The most recently published chapter ends in a duel, and she is dying to learn what happens next. Finding herself deeply attracted to Alexander’s intensity and joie de vivre, Natalya hopes to see him again as soon as possible.

What follows is a courtship and later marriage full of equal parts passion and domestic bliss but also destructive jealousies. When vicious court gossip leads to Alexander dying from injuries earned defending his honor as well as Natalya’s in a duel, Natalya finds herself reviled for her alleged role in his death. With beautiful writing and understanding, Jennifer Laam, and her compelling new novel, The Lost Season of Love and Snow, help Natalya tell her side of the story—the story of her greatest love and her inner struggle to create a fulfilling life despite the dangerous intrigues of a glamorous imperial Court.

Praise Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


“An evocative story of love and power, Jennifer Laam draws the reader deep into the heart of a resilient woman’s struggle to hold her own in Imperial Russian society. Natalya Pushkina, a woman once adored, ridiculed, and since forgotten, is brought to life in this vibrant, skillfully woven tale.” – Serena Burdick, author of Girl in the Afternoon

“A captivating tale in which Natalya Pushkin is vividly imagined. The dramatic complexities of her personality, and of Imperial Russian society, are cleverly portrayed in this sensitive and skillfully written novel. Sure to enchant those who are already fans of Jennifer Laam, and fans of historical fiction.” – Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home

“This hauntingly elegant tale of love and tragedy in Imperial Russia, as seen through the eyes of Pushkin’s much-reviled wife, sweeps us up into the fatal glamour and deceptions of an era, the peril of choices, and one woman’s resilient struggle to discover herself.” – C.W. Gortner, author of The Vatican Princess

“The Lost Season of Love and Snow deftly weaves historical facts with rich, deep emotion, taking us inside the unforgettable love story between young beauty Natalya Goncharova and famed poet Alexander Pushkin. Jennifer Laam delivers a compelling portrait of a woman unfairly condemned not just for her own desires, but for the adoration of powerful men she could neither reject nor control. Laam makes love itself both the hero and the villain of this powerful story, delicately exploring its joys, delights and tensions as well as its tragic consequences.” – Greer Macallister, USA Today bestselling author of The Magician’s Lie and Girl in Disguise

About Jennifer Laam


Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam

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JENNIFER LAAM is the author of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar and The Tsarina’s Legacy. She earned her master’s degree in History from Oakland University in Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She has lived in Los Angeles and the suburbs of Detroit, traveled in Russia and Europe, and worked in education and non-profit development. She currently resides in Northern California.

Giveaway Lost Season of Love and Snow by Jennifer Laam


This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. only and ends on January 19, 2018 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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Nov 17

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In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 24, 2017
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In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence SwaimIn the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim


Thanks to Sarah-Beth Watkins of John Hunt Publishing, I am giving away one print copy of In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim

Description In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim


In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons unknown, has returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern in the 1680s. Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the city-sponsored residential program in which our narrator lives, and reveals himself to be his troubled ancestor.

He tells a story of violent and irrevocable events that caused a curse to be placed on their family. Both men are looking for redemption, the ancestor through confessing his role in the long-ago troubles and the narrator by finding the right way to interpret these shocking events… 

About Lawrence SwaimIn the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim


Lawrence Swaim is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Freedom 
Foundation, a public-interest nonprofit advocating civil rights for 
religious minorities and religious liberty for all. The IFF is 
especially engaged in opposing the growth of Islamophobia in the US. 

Swaim has a long history of progressive involvement, including ten years of union politics (Postal Workers). He has written three novels, writes a regular column on religious liberty issues and has done journalism from Latin America and Europe. He has also worked 25 years as a counselor in residential treatment programs for clients suffering from emotional trauma, addictions and chronic mental illness.

He lives in California.

Giveaway In the Land of Dreams by Lawrence Swaim


This giveaway is the choice of one print or ebook copy.  Sorry, print is only available to the UK and the U.S. This giveaway ends on December 8, 2017 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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Nov 17

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Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 15, 2017
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Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo ConhaimComanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim


Thanks to Ann-Marie Nieves of Get Red PR, I am giving away one print copy of Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim.

Description Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim


Scott Renald is an Indian agent searching for white captives. Laura Little is a former captive seeking her Comanche-born son. They meet unexpectedly on the high plains. Touched by her story, Renald leads Laura’s search while hostile tribesmen pursue them. Word of their predicament reaches Fort Sill, and agents are dispatched to grab her and recall him. Meanwhile, the army prepares for war with the Comanche. Circumstances propel all into a heart-wrenching and bloody conflict of competing loyalties and surprising discoveries against the scorched backdrop of the Staked Plain.

How does a captive become a willing tribal member? Can rescue and return be a crueler form of abduction? Comanche Captive depicts what happens after the taken has been found—in Laura’s case, forced separation from her child, unwanted psychiatric care, and finally the deadly consequences of her quest for her lost son.

An adventure novel of depth and contemporary resonance, equal parts poignant drama and playful homage, Comanche Captive offers a cast of vivid characters faced with the challenges of a divided and yet increasingly blended world.

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Advance Praise Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim


“Conhaim’s rich characterizations bring a fascinating period of American history to life.

Comanche Captive is a page-turning, thought-provoking read.”―Michael Belfiore, author of Rocketeers and The Department of Mad Scientists

About D. Laszlo ConhaimComanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim


n 1986, at just 17 years of age, D. László Conhaim landed his first professional writing assignment, a two-part interview in Los Angeles and Tokyo with Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune for Minneapolis’s City Pages. While a humanities major at the University of Southern California, he wrote for credits his first historical novel, All Man’s Land, about a former slave’s discovery of the lawman who once owned him.

In 1995, Conhaim co-founded The Prague Revue, the longest-running literary journal to serve the community of international writers in Prague. For TPR, he wrote a fictional remembrance of Miguel de Unamuno, “Feeling into Don Miguel,” which Gore Vidal “read with delight” and Alexander Zaitchik (Rolling Stone, The Nation) called “masterful” in Think Magazine. In 1999, TPR Books published his corresponding novel of mythomania in Spain, Autumn Serenade. Based in Israel, he works in international sales and communications.

Giveaway Comanche Captive by D. Laszlo Conhaim


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on December 1, 2017 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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