Thanks to Maria Moloney of Roundfire Books, I am giving away one print copy of A Floating Phrase by Trent Portigal.
Description of A Floating Phrase by Trent Portigal
A Floating Phrase explores the nature of art, fear and snow puddles through the experiences of Cesarine, a stop-motion animator caught up in the intrigues of international diplomacy in 1970s continental Europe.
At that time, national delegations for international conferences on European issues, such as those leading up to the Helsinki Accords, typically included defectors from the other side of the Iron Curtain. This led to scientists and artists with little experience in diplomacy being involved in high-level politics.
About Trent Portigal
Trent Portigal is a writer of political tales and urban anecdotes. He spends his days planning cities on the Canadian prairies.
Giveaway of A Floating Phrase by Trent Portigal
This giveaway open to Canada, Europe, and the U.S. only and ends on September 9, 2016 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
Thanks to Noelle Brown of Meryl Moss Media, I am giving away two print copies of Peregrine Island by Diane B. Saxton.
Description of Peregrine Island by Diane B. Saxton
The Peregrine family’s lives are turned upside down one summer when so-called “art experts” appear on the doorstep of their Connecticut island home to appraise a favorite heirloom painting. When incriminating papers, as well as other paintings, are discovered behind the artwork in question, the appraisal turns into a full-fledged investigation. Antagonism mounts between grandmother, mother, and child, who begin to suspect one another, as well as the shady newcomers in their midst, of foul play.
As the summer progresses and the Peregrines discover facts about their past in the course of the investigation, they learn that people―including them―are not always who they appear to be. But when they uncover the painting’s deepest secret, it gives them the gift of love that they have unconsciously been seeking all along.
Praise for Peregrine Island by Diane B. Saxton
“Vanity Fair and Huffington Post journalist Saxton keeps the reader guessing until the novel’s conclusion, which reveals the unexpected ways in which the two families are intertwined in the past as well as the present.”– BOOKLIST Lindsay Harmon
“I was immediately captivated by the salt-drenched air and nuanced beauty of Peregrine Island. Inhabited by three generations of women―a spirited girl, a prodigal daughter, and a matriarch―haunted by a work of art, this story is reminiscent of the best of Daphne du Maurier. In lush prose, Diane B.Saxton reveals a family ripe with secrets on the cusp of discovering atempestuous past. A lovely novel!“ —Katharine Davis, author of Capturing Paris, A Slender Thread and East Hope
“As the layers of mystery and history surrounding an heirloom painting are peeled back, a riveting drama fraught with accusations of greed and distrust, and laced with ripe passion, unfolds. Peregrine Island is told through the eyes of three generations of family members, silently bound by their unflinching gazes and ultimately tender insights on the meaning of love and family, reaching across time and space, stripped down to their essence on the raw, blustery shores of the Sound.”–Ann Volkwein, author of The Arthur Avenue Cookbook and Chinatown New York
About Diane B. Saxton
DIANE B. SAXTON was a journalist with Vanity Fair UK, Holiday Magazine, and Greenwich Review, and covered everything from torture victims to psychics, animal rights activists, exotic travel, and movie producers. A new chapter opened up for her after interviewing Amnesty International US founder Hannah Grunwald.
Alarmed that the stories of incredible and influential lives such as Grunwald’s could be lost as the Greatest Generation passes, Saxton began capturing their histories and compiled them into a 1,000 page biographical collection, which became the inspiration for her next novel. She brings the same gift for storytelling with illuminating subtext to her debut novel, PEREGRINE ISLAND. Saxton divides her time between New York City and the Berkshires, where she lives with her husband, dogs and horses.
Giveaway Peregrine Island by Diane B. Saxton
This giveaway open to the U.S. only and ends on August 19, 2016 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
Thanks to Meriah Murphy of Wunderkind PR, I am giving away one print copy of Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin.
Description of Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
Like a Coen brothers noir south of the border, Paraíso is a genre-bending story about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise.
Peter and Wendy—their mother chose the names—felt as close as twins, despite their difference in age. As teens, they fled their wealthy Philadelphia home in the family station wagon and headed for Mexico, only to be discovered sleeping in the car on the banks of the Mississippi, in Huck Finn country. Now, many years later, estranged by an apparent betrayal as profound as their family’s dysfunction, the two live separate lives, Peter as an editor in New York, Wendy as an edgy sports photographer with a taste for risk. With a new book out and an invitation to Los Cabos, she drives the Mercedes inherited from their father to Baja California, finally completing the trip begun twenty years earlier.
But when the engine fails near a small town named Paraíso—Paradise—she lingers, exploring its underside in an affair with a dangerous man and, all too suddenly, becoming witness to a vicious crime. Meanwhile, in New York, Peter can’t help but think of Wendy. When, from his apartment in lower Manhattan, he watches the Twin Towers fall on a beautiful September day, he knows it’s time to leave his comfortable life, go find Wendy, and make peace with his long-lost sister. A noirish tale reminiscent of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, Paraísotraces the journey from a mother’s dark secret to a place where love, and even perfect love, is possible.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Praise for Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin
“Paraíso has a story so compelling, so sinuously told and passing strange, you feel like you can’t take your eyes off the road for a second. Wonder and dread pull you forward. You need to see what’s around the next curve.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“Gordon Chaplin is a brave explorer of the human heart. With his wickedly observant new novel, he leads us through a specifically patrician and rugged USA from east coast to west and then south to Baja, where this strange and mysterious tale pulses with life. Paraíso probes the heart of what it is to be a sibling, what it is to know regret, how to take risks and how to forgive.”—Joanna Hershon, author of The Outside of August and A Dual Inheritance
“A misunderstanding between brother and sister evolves through twenty years of separate adventures, from the fall of the Twin Towers to murderous surfing off the coast of Baja California, from a past of American secrets to a present of Mexican tumult and resolution in the heights—delivering you to its hard won Paradise. This is a ride you won’t want to miss.”—Bruce Berger, author of Almost an Island
About Gordon Chaplin
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Gordon Chaplin is the author of the novel Joyride and several works of nonfiction, including Dark Wind: A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss and Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father’s Legacy. A former journalist for Newsweek, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post, he has worked on sea conservation with the group Niparaja and since 2003 has been a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Gordon’s latest, Paraiso, a genre-bending novel about love, sibling relationships, and the dark side of paradise, is out this July from Arcade Publishing. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City and Hebron, New York.
A Floating Phrase by Trent Portigal
Paraíso by Gordon Chaplin