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Giveaway: Early One Morning by Virginia Baily

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on September 29, 2015
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Virginia BailyThanks to Katherine Myers of Little Brown and Company, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Early One Morning’ by Virginia Baily.

Description of Early One Morning by Virginia Baily:


Two women’s decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.

Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.

Claiming the woman’s son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge.

Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara’s world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past.

Advance Praise for Early One Morning by Virginia Baily:


“A real treat; a beautifully written account of the long consequences of war, set in a richly evoked Rome of the 1970s.”—Philip Hensher, Guardian (UK)

“As gripping as any thriller…. [and] crammed with the sort of heart-stopping, heart-breaking scenes that brought a lump to the throat of even this jaded reviewer. Really, really good.”—Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail (UK)

“A moving assertion of the power of maternal love to overcome unimaginable obstacles.”—Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times (UK)

 “A fresh approach to this well-worn period.”—Julie McDowall, Independent (UK)

“Early One Morning isn’t just an incandescent novel, but the rarest of reading experiences, offering a view both wrenching and luminous of how love pushes us past what we’re capable of, and somehow—impossibly—reclaims us when we’re long past saving. Utterly magnificent.”―Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

About Virginia Baily:Virginia Baily


Virginia Baily holds a PhD and MA in English from the University of Exeter. She founded and co-edits Riptide, a short-story journal. She is also the editor of the political series of the Africa Research Bulletin. She lives in Exeter, Devon.

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Sep 15

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Giveaway: The Girl From Krakow by Alex Rosenberg

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on September 1, 2015
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Alex RosenbergThanks to Robert Soares and Janay Lampkin of Spark Point, I am giving away 10 print copies of  ‘The Girl From Krakow’ by Alex Rosenberg .

Description of  ‘The Girl From Krakow’ by Alex Rosenberg:


It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store—marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live.

She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful evil that Europe has ever seen?

In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the ’30s and Spain’s Civil War to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakowfollows one woman’s battle for survival as entire nations are torn apart, never to be the same.

About Alex Rosenberg:


Alex Rosenberg

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When he’s not writing historical novels, Alex Rosenberg is a professor of philosophy at Duke University. Alex’s first novel, The Girl From Krakow is a thriller that explores how a young woman and her lover navigate the dangerous thirties, the firestorm of war in Europe, and how they make sense of their survival. He is working on his second novel, a murder mystery set in Oxford and London in the 1950s that takes the reader back to before, during and after the second world war in New York.

 Before he became a novelist Alex wrote a large number of books about the philosophy of science, especially about economics and biology. These books were mainly addressed to other academics. But in 2011 Alex published a book that explores the answers that science gives to the big questions of philosophy that most atheists (and all thinking people) ask themselves–questions about the nature of reality, the meaning of life, moral values, free will, the relationship of the mind to the brain, and our human future. That book, “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality,” was widely reviewed and was quite controversial.

Giveaway of ‘The Girl From Krakow’ by Alex Rosenberg:


This giveaway is open to the U.S. only and end on September 15, 2015.  Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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Aug 15

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Giveaway: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on August 12, 2015
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Isabel AllendeThanks to Catherine Sim of Simon and Schuster Canada, I am giving away one advanced reader print copy of ‘The Japanese Lover’ by Isabel Allende.

Description of ‘The Japanese Lover’ by Isabel Allende:


From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family’s Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family, like thousands of other Japanese Americans are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world.

Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco’s charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives. Written with the same attention to historical detail and keen understanding of her characters that Isabel Allende has been known for since her landmark first novel The House of the Spirits, The Japanese Lover is a profoundly moving tribute to the constancy of the human heart in a world of unceasing change. 

About Isabel Allende:Isabel Allende


Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, Paula, and My Invented Country. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and have sold more than 65 million copies worldwide. She lives in California. Her website is IsabelAllende.com.

Giveaway of ‘The Japanese Lover’ by Isabel Allende:


This giveaway is open to Canada only and ends on August 26, 2015.  Entries accepted via Rafflecopter only.

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