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Free Book Friday!

Friday, June 20th, 2014

 

This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:

Ghosts of Manhattan: A Novel by Douglas Brunt

Delve into the world of high-stakes trading with this wry, comic debut about life on Wall Street and one man too hooked on the money to get out even as his career threatens to ruin his marriage and corrode his soul.It’s 2005 and the living is easy. Nick Farmer is thirty-five years old, in peak condition, and thriving as a successful bond trader with the seemingly unstoppable investment bank Bear Stearns. His nightlife has been a swirl of liquor, hookers, and cocaine. He clears seven figures every year and has become fiercely addicted to his annual bonus. But the lifestyle is taking a toll on him and his marriage.  When a nerdy analyst approaches him with apocalyptic prognostications about the imminent decline of Bear’s high-flying mortgage-backed securities trading, Nick is presented with the kind of ethical dilemma he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. Throw in a seductive financial journalist who seems to be more interested in Nick’s physical assets than in the percolating financial Armageddon, along with the prospect that his own wife may have found a new romantic interest of her own, and you have the recipe for one man’s personal and professional implosion.  In this gripping debut novel, Wall Street insider Douglas Brunt offers an in-depth look at the banking crisis and the reach of its personal impact. By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan takes you to the seedy underbelly of the finance world and into the rarified lifestyle of a charming but flawed character as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness.

ISBN 9781451672596, Hardcover

 

3 lucky winners will each receive 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 3 lucky winners at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.

 

You have until Sunday, June 22, 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!

Sunday, June 15th, 2014

 

The Winner of the copy of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is:

 

Keith R. (firstaidkeith)

 

Congratulations, Keith! Your book will be in the mail to you shortly.

Thank you to everyone who commented!

Free Book Friday!

Friday, June 13th, 2014

This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:

 

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards — For the perfect holiday gift for the reader on your list, pick up this special gift edition of one of the most beloved Science Fiction novels ever written. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the most talented result of Earth’s desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.Is Ender the general Earth needs? The only way to find out is to throw the child into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Formics has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways.Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

ISBN 9780765317384, Hardcover

 

1 lucky winner will receive 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 lucky winner at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.

 

You have until Sunday, June 15, 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!

Sunday, June 8th, 2014

 

The Time Quake by Linda Buckley-Archer

 

The winner of this week’s Free Book Friday prize is:

Norma M. (virgo)

Congratulations! Your book will be to you soon!

Thank you to everyone who commented!

 

Free Book Friday!

Friday, June 6th, 2014

 

This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:

The Time Quake by Linda Buckley-Archer

Time itself is splintering. If the catastrophic consequences of time travel are now impossible to ignore, Lord Luxon only has eyes for its awesome possibilities. He has his sights set on no lesser prize than America. Abducted to 1763, Peter and Kate begin to understand that history has arrived at its tipping point. Adrift in time, Kate transforms into an oracle, able to see the future as easily as the past. While Gideon does all he can to help, he is tormented by the knowledge that The Tar Man, his nemesis, is also his own brother. As they pursue him through the dark streets of eighteenth-century London, and the time quakes begin, Peter realises that this monster may hold the fate of all of us in his hands.

ISBN 9781416915300, Trade Size Paperback

 

1 lucky winner will receive 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 lucky winner at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.

You have until Sunday, June 8, 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 Winners!

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

 

The winners of this week’s Free Book Friday prizes are:

Kammie B. (kammiesue)

&

Karen T. (kannth)

 

Congratulations! Your books will be to you soon!

Thank you to everyone who commented!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Book Friday! How About A Classic?

Friday, May 30th, 2014

This week’s Free Book Friday prize is:

 

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

 

In Theodore Dreiser’s classic portrait of the dark side of the American dream, Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.

ISBN 9780451531551, Mass Market Paperback

 

2 lucky members 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 2 winners at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.

 

You have until Sunday, June 1, 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!