The winner of the brand-new copy of Cast in Peril by Michelle Sagara is:
Riley G. (rileygoldstein)
Congratulations, your book is on the way to you!
Thank you to everyone who commented!
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Free Book Friday Winner!
Sunday, August 10th, 2014Free Book Friday!
Friday, August 8th, 2014
This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:
Cast in Peril by Michelle Sagara
It has been a busy few weeks for Private Kaylin Neva. — In between angling for a promotion, sharing her room with the last living female Dragon and dealing with more refugees than anyone knew what to do with, the unusual egg she’d been given began to hatch. Actually, that turned out to be lucky, because it absorbed the energy from the bomb that went off in her quarters.…
So now might be the perfect time to leave Elantra and journey to the West March with the Barrani. If not for the disappearances of citizens in the fief of Tiamaris — disappearances traced to the very Barrani Kaylin is about to be traveling with…
ISBN 9780373803507, Trade Size Paperback
There are currently 59 members wishing for this book. 1 lucky member will win a brand-new copy.
To enter, simply leave a comment on this Blog post. You must be a PaperBackSwap member to win.
We will choose 1 winner at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.
You have until Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 12 noon EDT, to leave a comment.
Good Luck to everyone!
Note: All the books given away on Free Book Friday are available in the PBS Market. We have thousands of new and new overstock titles available right now, with more added hourly. Some of the prices are amazing – and you can use a PBS credit to make the deal even better!
Free Book Friday Winner!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
The Winner of this week’s Free Book Friday Contest is:
Amanda C. (ghostlysun)
Congratulations! Your prize will be on the way to you shortly!
Thank you to everyone who commented!
Winner of Jeri Westerson’s book, Cup of Blood
Monday, August 4th, 2014
The Winner of the brand-new copy of Jeri Westerson’s brand-new book is:
Colleen C.
Congratulations! You book will be on its way to you shortly!
Thank You Ms. Westerson for generously offering a copy of your book as a prize to one of our members!
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Free Book Friday!
Friday, August 1st, 2014
This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:
Wool by Hugh Howey
This omnibus edition contains the Silo series: Wool, books 1-5: Holston / Proper Gauge / Casting Off / The Unraveling / The Stranded. — The story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly, breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken …
ISBN 9781476733951, Trade Size Paperback
There are currently 161 members wishing for this book. 1 lucky member will win a brand-new copy.
To enter, simply leave a comment on this Blog post. You must be a PaperBackSwap member to win.
We will choose 1 winner at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.
You have until Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 12 noon EDT, to leave a comment.
Good Luck to everyone!
Note: All the books given away on Free Book Friday are available in the PBS Market. We have thousands of new and new overstock titles available right now, with more added hourly. Some of the prices are amazing – and you can use a PBS credit to make the deal even better!
Historical Fiction Review and Book Give-Away – Cup of Blood
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
Cup of Blood by Jeri Westerson
Review by Cheryl G. (Poncer)
Cup of Blood is a prequel to Jeri Westerson’s Crispin Guest series. Set in Medieval London, Crispin, a defrocked knight has turned his attention to solving mysteries.
In this book, we get the backstory of how Crispin met his partner, Jack Tucker, though Crispin won’t readily admit that he needs a partner.
The books begins in a tavern, where someone has been murdered. Turns out he is a member of the Knights of Templar, thought to be long disbanded.
Through out the book we get to experience old London through Crispin eyes, experiencing the dangers and conditions that make merely living there a risky proposition. From the back alleys to the gloom of Newgate Prison, to the grandeur of Westminster Palace, we are privileged to have an inside peak at what the city must have been like in the late 1300’s.
Jeri Westerson makes history alive in her matter of fact writing style. She makes it very hard to put one of her books down, and I often read them well past my bedtime.
Below are the books in the Crispin Guest series:
Jeri Westerson has generously offered to give a copy of her new book, Cup of Blood to one lucky PBS member who comments here on the Blog. You have until Friday, August 1, 2014 at 12 nooon EDT. Winner will be announced on Saturday, August 2, 2014.
Mystery Monday – The Underground Man
Monday, July 28th, 2014
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
Review by Matt B. (BuffaloSavage)
Ross Macdonald’s complicated plots hinged on PI Lew Archer’s investigations into family backgrounds. Social class, economic hardship, mental illness, and substance abuse pressure families, leading moms to snap, dads to disappear, and kids to dabble in trouble. Macdonald’s stories are all virtually the same, but the concise style plus the social and psychological insights keep us fans reading these uniquely American tragedies.
In The Underground Man, Archer is hired by a distraught mother whose child has possibly been kidnapped by two crazy, mixed up teenagers. Set in about 1970 in California, two specters haunt the setting. The psychedelic drug LSD drives kids to places their minds probably shouldn’t go. Environmental damage is caused by deforestation and wildfires and subsequent landslides as well as oil spills and chemicals such as DDT. Referring to DDT damaging the eggs of seabirds, he mentions “a generation whose elders had been poisoned … with a kind of moral DDT that damaged the lives of their young.” Indeed, the moral rot and cowardice among the California rich go far beyond one character’s bald advice to small business owners, “The rich never pay their bills.”
The wonder of Macdonald, though, is his Agatha Christie-like talent at misdirection. We readers get so immersed in the calamities that these families must face that the reveal of the perp comes as a complete surprise. Whatever that literary magic thingy is that keeps us reading, engrossed, Macdonald, like Dickens, Christie and Gardner, had it in spades.
