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A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni OgdenA Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden


Thanks to Caitlin Hamilton Marketing & Publicity, LLC, I am giving away one print copy of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden.

Description of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden


On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain, on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  However Turtle Island, alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles, is not the retreat she expected. Here she finds love—for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom, the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain, and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love.

Evocative and thought-provoking, A Drop in the Ocean is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.

Praise for A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden


“Readers will enjoy this novel of second chances, not only at love but at life, reminiscent of Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back.”—Booklist

“Reading A Drop in the Ocean was everything a reading experience should be, endearing and enduring, time spent with characters who seem to be people I already knew.”—Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times #1 best-selling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Two If By Sea

“ . . . . brilliantly written  . . . . A powerful read that I highly recommend to readers everywhere.”—Danielle Urban,  Readers’ Favorite

About Jenni OgdenA Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden


Jenni Ogden grew up in a country town in the South Island of New Zealand, in a home bursting with books and music. Armed with NZ and Australian university degrees in zoology and psychology, she took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked with H.M., the most famous amnesiac in history, before returning to an academic position at Auckland University. There, she immersed herself in clinical psychology and neuropsychology, as well as traveling extensively and writing about her patients’ moving stories in two books, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology and Trouble In Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist’s Casebook.

Jenni has had a love affair with the Great Barrier Reef since her twenties, when she spent summers on a coral cay rather like Turtle Island, tagging sea turtles. Ogden and her husband now live off-grid on a spectacular island off the coast of NZ, with winters spent traveling and at their second home in tropical Far North Queensland. When she is not writing or traveling, Jenni can be found on the beach—always with a book—or spending time with her family.

Please visit Jenni online at the following places

www.jenniogden.com

facebook.com/JenniOgdenbooks?_rdr=p

twitter.com/jenni_ogden

https://nz.linkedin.com/in/jenniogdenbooks

goodreads.com/author/show/227694.Jenni_Ogden

Or check out her blog “Trouble in Mind” on Psychology Today, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/trouble-in-mind-0.

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Giveaway of A Drop In The Ocean by Jenni Ogden


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A Man Of Genius by Lynn RosenA Man of Genius by Lynn Rosen


Thanks to Sarah Miniaci of Smith Publicity, Inc., I am giving away one print copy of A Man Of Genius by Lynn Rosen.

Description of A Man Of Genius by Lynn Rosen


Samuel Grafton-Hall is a man of genius who demands reverence from all. A renowned architect, his point of view is not universally shared by students, critics, and colleagues – but this is of little consequence to Grafton-Hall, for he revels in his misanthropy.

Immune to the barbs of the masses, Grafton-Hall also suffers no qualms about his personal peccadilloes and perversions. An unrepentant womanizer, Grafton-Hall leaves colleagues, friends, and lovers deeply scarred from having known him.

And then there is the murder. The question of guilt is of less consequence than the question of whether the gift of genius makes one irreproachable.

A rich novel that will sweep you into a life of glittering achievement and the core of hubris, A Man of Genius will forever alter your ideas about success and pride. Written in the haunting style of du Maurier’s Rebecca, this is a compelling story, told with intelligence and classic style.

About Lynn RosenA Man Of Genius by Lynn Rosen


Lynn Rosen was born and raised in New York City. She earned three graduate degrees at the University of Rochester, where she later served on faculty. She has lived in Japan, the Midwest, and the East Coast, and been published in The Texas Quarterly and Caprice.

A Man of Genius will be available via Amazon and in select brick-and-mortar retailers as of April 11, 2016.

Website: www.unapublications.com.

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CasualtiesThanks to Lauren Burnstein of Berkley/NAL, I am giving away one print copy of Casualties by Elizabeth Marro.

Description Of Casualties by Elizabeth Marro


A heartbreaking and insightful debut novel about the wars we fight overseas, at home, and within our own hearts.

Some come back whole. Some come back broken. Some just never come back…
 
As an executive for one of the most successful military defense contractors in the country, Ruth Nolan should have been thrilled when her troubled son, Robbie, chose to join the marines. But she wasn’t. She was terrified.
 
So, when he returns home to San Diego after his second tour in Iraq, apparently unscathed, it feels like a chance to start over and make things right—until a scandal at work tears her away from their reunion. By the next morning, Robbie is gone. A note arrives for Ruth in the mail a few days later saying, “I’m sorry for everything. It’s not your fault. I love you.”
 
Without a backward glance, Ruth packs up Robbie’s ashes and drives east, heading away from her guilt and regret. But the closer she gets to the coast she was born on, the more evident it becomes that she won’t outrun her demons—eventually, she’ll have to face them and confront the painful truth about her past, her choices, the war, and her son. 

About Elizabeth MarroElizabeth Marro


Elizabeth Marro’s work has appeared in The San Diego ReaderThe Gloucester Daily Times, LiteraryMama.com, and elsewhere. A long-time resident of the “North Country” region of New Hampshire, she holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire and Rutgers University, and now lives in San Diego. Casualties is her first novel. Read more about her at http://elizabethmarro.com.

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