Teddy Rose Book Reviews Plus More


Aug 18

4

Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 4, 2018
Posted in My Past Giveaways  | Tagged With: , , | 6 Comments

Good Luck With That by Kristan HigginsGood Luck With That by Kristan Higgins


Thanks to Roxanne Jones of Berkley, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Good Luck With That’ by Kristan Higgins.

Description Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins


Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults.

For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it’s coming to terms with the survivor’s guilt she’s carried around since her twin sister’s death, which has left her blind to the real chance for romance in her life. For Georgia, it’s about learning to stop trying to live up to her mother’s and brother’s ridiculous standards, and learning to accept the love her ex-husband has tried to give her.

But as Marley and Georgia grow stronger, the real meaning of Emerson’s dying wish becomes truly clear: more than anything, she wanted her friends to love themselves.

Praise Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins


“Higgins writes with her trademark heart, humor, and emotion, addressing the serious and somber subject of body image…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“[A] heartbreakingly gorgeous story of female friendship and what it takes to feel comfortable in one’s own skin.”—Booklist

“Higgins’ astute, perceptive eye to the best and worst of human nature enhances the poignancy of a sensitive topic, which she navigates with humor and grace.”—Kirkus

“If you like stories that celebrate women’s challenges and triumphs, you’ll love this book.”—New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs

About Kristan Higgins


Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins

(c) Deborah Feingold

Kristan Higgins is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly twenty novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children and dogs.

Website: http://www.kristanhiggins.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kristan_Higgins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KristanHigginsBooks/

Buy Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins


Amazon
Barnes&Noble
Indiebound

Giveaway Good Luck With That by Kristan Higgins


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on August 24, 2018 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Jun 18

6

Dreams Of Falling by Karen White: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 6, 2018
Posted in My Past Giveaways  | Tagged With: , | 6 Comments

Dreams Of Falling by Karen WhiteDreams Of Falling by Karen White


Thanks to Tara O’Connor of Berkley., I am giving away one print copy of ‘Dreams Of Falling’ by Karen White.

Description Dreams Of Falling by Karen White


Highlighting a transitional decade in American history, Dreams Of Falling tells the story of three young women battling small-town expectations as they come of age in the 1950s.  Bound by the dictates of the time and their Southern upbringings, the girls decide to keep a terrible secret that will tie them and their families together for the next five decades.

In 1950s Georgetown, South Carolina. lifelong best friends Ceecee, Margaret, and Bitty graduate from high school, bound by their shared dreams . . . wishes they write on ribbons and tie to an old tree. Constrained by small town expectations, they plan a last grab at freedom: a graduation trip to Myrtle Beach. But one night on the boardwalk will change everything; and the sacrifices that follow will ripple through three generations.

Present day. Larkin Lanier left Georgetown at 18, promising she’d never return. But when her mother Ivy disappears, Larkin is called back to her hometown. And when Ivy is found unconscious on the site of their family’s abandoned rice plantation, Larkin’s search for answers—why was her mother at Carrowmore?—lead her to a ribbon left in the girls’ old wishing tree: I know about Margaret. What happens next triggers Larkin’s unraveling of fifty-year-old secrets . . . secrets so dark they remain unspoken even amongst the three friends who share them.

Praise Dreams Of Falling by Karen White


“Three lifelong best friends. One dark secret that will reverberate for generations to come. Told in multiple timelines of the present and the past, this is Southern fiction at its best. A novel about dreams, friendship, and family, Dreams of Falling will make you long for home.”—PopSugar

“This wonderfully woven novel has it all—intrigue, romance, echoes of lingering regrets—and the pages are brimming with compelling characters. Dreams of Falling is the best kind of novel—it’s a past-and-present love story expertly wrapped in mystery. Karen White never fails to deliver.”—Susan Meissner, bestselling author of As Bright as Heaven

About Karen White


Dreams Of Falling by Karen White

Karen White credit Marchet Butler

Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Forgotton Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta, Georgia.

Website: https://www.karen-white.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenWhiteWrite

Buy Dreams Of Falling by Karen White


Amazon
Barnes&Noble

Giveaway Dreams Of Falling by Karen White


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on June 22, 2018 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Jun 18

5

Queen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler: Giveaway

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on June 5, 2018
Posted in My Past Giveaways  | Tagged With: , , , | 6 Comments

Queen for a Day: A Novel in Stories by Maxine RosalerQueen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler


Thanks to Deb Zipf of Meryl Moss Media, Inc., I am giving away one print copy of ‘Queen for a Day: A Novel in Stories’ by Maxine Rosaler.

Description Queen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler


After Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son, Danny, is diagnosed with autism, she finds herself in a world nearly as isolating as her son’s. It is a position she shares only with mothers like herself, women chosen against their will for lives of sacrifice and martyrdom. Searching for miracles, begging for the help of heartless bureaucracies while arranging every minute of every day for children who can never be left alone, they exist in a state of perpetual crisis, normal life always just out of reach.
 
In chapters told from Mimi’s point of view and theirs, these women emerge as conflicted, complex individuals, totally unsuited for sainthood, often dreaming of the day they can just walk away. Taking its title from the 1950s reality TV show in which the contestants—housewives living lives filled with pain and suffering—competed with one another for deluxe refrigerators and sets of stainless steel silverware, Queen for a Day portrays a group of imperfect women coping under enormous pressure.
 
In her impressive debut, Rosaler tells their stories in ironic, precise, and vivid prose, with humor and insight born of firsthand experience, and offers readers “the gut-heaving, throat-choking, darkly comic truth—about parenthood, marriage, love, rage, and hard-won survival” (Eileen Pollack, author of The Bible of Dirty Jokes). 

Praise Queen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler


“With intelligence and sympathy, this compassionate and darkly humorous debut tells the stories of mothers of children with disabilities”-Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

“An engrossing and compassionate collection showing motherhood in its most unrelenting form.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

 “I was both moved and impressed by this novel, and the intelligence and sympathy with which the author presents her afflicted characters.” —Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Foreign Affairs and The Language of Houses

 “Maxine Rosaler’s ‘novel in stories’ resembles Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, except rather than surviving an absurd and unjust war, the burden here is one of mothering an autistic child. Like O’Brien, Rosaler explores the mettle and morality of Mimi Slavitt on the ‘battlefield of her existence.’” —DeWitt Henry, founding editor of Ploughshares, author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays

 “Maxine Rosaler’s stories are both hard-edged and comic, both laced with despair and hopeful against all expectation. New York City is the setting, a struggle to prosper in the face of bad choices and deeply ingrained perversity is the theme. Constant, however, is a narrative voice that proves irresistible, and a craftsman’s approach to the construction of these contemporary parables.” —C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor, The Atlantic

About Maxine Rosaler


MAXINE ROSALER has had fiction and nonfiction published in The Southern Review, Glimmer Train, Witness, Fifth Wednesday, Green Mountains Review, The Baltimore Review and other literary magazines. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction. Her short stories have been cited in editions of Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.

Buy Queen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler


Amazon
Barnes&Noble

Giveaway Queen for a Day: Novel in Stories by Maxine Rosaler

This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and ends on June 221, 2018 midnight pacific time.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

« Previous Page — Next Page »