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Friday, April 13, 2012

Martha's Bookshelf***Friday Pick Giveaway April 13, 2012

[** If you are new to Friday Pick Giveaway - Welcome!  Scroll down a bit (below book group #19) for instructions on how to enter.] 

Hello everyone. Whew- I was getting tired and almost left this mid sentence. Anyway, I hope everyone had a nice week.  Mine has been good but sort of hectic. *sigh* What else is new?? I have a new set of books added this week. Happy book picking. :-)

Thank you to all who entered April 6 Pick.  There were TWO Automatic winners this week (those who requested the book four times and I did not note other people asking for that book during those weeks).
Sorry but The Guardian and The Ripple Effect were blocked by multiple requests.

Mamabunny13 chose Green Calder Grass for four weeks with no block (no one else choosing the book.)
bn100 chose Gospel Truths

CONGRATULATIONS
to Random.org picked Winners from April 6 Pick:

YTiinnyY gets a Gift Certificate  
and
Carol L chose the Deveraux Pair, Velvet Song and Velvet Angel


All winners please fill in the Winner's Acceptance Form or email me to confirm your win, send your snail mail address information and let me know if you would like bookmarks - sensual or sexy and I have a new supply of sweet bookmarks.

Some of my favorite things: Daffodils and books!
This image and more found at A Mile A Minute



New book Group #27 April 13, 2012
Some of the books on the right end are smaller and suitable for overseas mailing. :-)
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (spine damage)
An Earl to Enchant by Amelia Grey (spine damage)
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
When Dreams Come True by Cathy Maxwell (slight spine wear)
A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett
Slow Heat by Erica Spindler
The Trouble with Joe by Emilie Richards
Midnight Hour by Debra Dixon
September Morning by Diana Palmer
Beneath the Surface by Annie White (slight spine wear)
The Amazing Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman
The Dream Horse by Virginia Campbell Scott
Summer's Belle by Paige Winship Dooly
 


New book Group #26 March 2, 2012
These are Paired sets - two per author.
Four are parts of series the others are just singles by the same author.
Winners get both books if you pick these.

Cathy Maxwell - Marriage Series
Maggie Shayne - Wings of Night Series
     Demon's Kiss (#1)  and Lover's Bite (#2) or #13 and #14 in the larger series
Jude Deveraux - The Velvet Series
     Velvet Song and Velvet Angel
Sabrina Jeffries - The School For Heiresses Series
     Only a Duke Will Do (#2) and Beware a Scot's Revenge (#3)
Nora Roberts
     Inner Harbor (#3 Cheasapeake Bay Series) and Blue Dahlia (SC) (#1 In the Garden Trilogy -(nice trilogy!)
Mary Higgins Clark
     Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Moonlight Becomes You  (SC)
Dick Francis
     Smokescreen (SC) and Field of Thirteen
James Patterson
     Sam's Letters to Jennifer and The Beach House    



New Group #25 January 12, 2012

*Smaller books on the right would be okay for most international mailing.

Leopards Kill by Jim DeFelice
Category 7 by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson
Hell's Belle by Jane Holleman
*Prime Time by Sandra Brown  
*Out of the Blue (Allegheny Hopes) by Janice A. Thompson



New Group #24 Pick Books November 25, 2011
(The only Thanksgiving title I found is a Harlequin I'd like to read someday so no Thanksgiving titles for November.)



Green Calder Grass by Janet Dailey


New Group #23 Pick Books October 14, 2011
I tried to pick some books that would be good for October -
Halloween or dark minded.

Ghost Writer (Shivers #3) by M.D. Spenser
Emily's Good Nightmare by Cosmic Debris Cosmic
Death Angel by Linda Howard


New Group #22 Pick Books September 2, 2011


Singles:
Tender Triumph by Judith McNaught

New Group #21 of Pick Books July 29, 2011
There are eight mysteries and I have asterisked nine books that are smaller and would be good for oversea choices if so desired.


* I. O. U by Pickard, Nancy (spine creased)
Stand by Me Anthology with Dallas Schulze, Roberta Leigh and Linda Randall Wisdom (spine creased)

May, 2011 New Group of Pick books
Group #20


Singles
Luciano's Luck by Jack Higgins - Audio Cassettes


3/25/11 I did get to set up a new group of books:
Group #19


Singles
Primary Colors - audio tapes
Note of Peril (black strip on cover)

2/19/11 Book Group #18- Pairs!
Not all of these are two from a series but several are. Each pick gets two books.
Patricia Cornwell Pair:

I have finally updated the intro and Entry paragraphs here:
If you saw the pictures posted of my bookshelves and boxes you know I do have lots of books! And that doesn't include the other eight or so boxes at my office!! And more books as I find deals too good to pass up! I am sharing my book bounty by these Friday Pick Giveaways. 

I started Friday Pick in November 27, 2009 and in two years I  posted 26 groups of 16 books to find new homes! (March 2012)

I have periodically update the lists - deleting those won. You can still go to the Friday Pick list link to see older posts and the older lists book pictures if you want! I am happy to say that so far about 335 books have found new homes! YAY. I have to update my print out to check the exact number sent out - a few were never claimed.

Note rules here regarding international entries.
Because postage to overseas can be prohibitive I am willing to give a $5.00 book certificate to international winners - Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, ARe, TWRP, ClassAct Books, eTreasures, Desert Breeze, etc....you tell me where and I'll set it up. So for my overseas visitors your comment may indicate a smaller book and I'll check postage or note your choice of gift card.
I learned that The Book Depository does not ship to everywhere. The postage for some of the books to far away places runs between $5.00 and $6.00 and up. Since I would award $5.00 for The Book Depository to an international winner, as an alternative you may choose a smaller book and we will hope the postage will not exceed $6.00. If the postage is more, or if you want to pick a larger book and you are willing to pay any extra postage beyond the $6.00 I will work with you on that. This may not make a difference to many but if it helps one or two of you to give one of my books a home that will make me happy too. :o)

TO ENTER:

Leave a comment and tell me WHICH BOOK you would like to get from the Friday Pick lists.
CUT OFF TIME IS THURSDAY NIGHTS AT 10:00 PM CENTRAL so I do not have to stay up past midnight to do the winner post!
I will randomly pick two winners to announce Friday mornings with the next Pick post.
Automatic wins are those who requested the book four times and I did not note other people asking for that book during those weeks.

WINNERS PLEASE CHECK THE WIN POST ON FRIDAYS AND fill in the Winner's Acceptance Form or email me at mesreads@gmail.com. [I will confirm receipt of the addresses- well I realize I haven't always done this. But if you filled out the form and don't get the book within two weeks nudge me with an email please!] If I have the winners e-mail I will send a reminder in a week or so....

Thanks for helping these books find new homes!!

Repeating this helpful blog tip: You can right click on a link and you will be given the choice to open the link in a new window or tab so you do not navigate away from the screen you are on!! I use this all the time!

1/14/11 New List
#17
Moonfire by Judith Redman Robbins
Saving Faith by David Baldacci (Audio Book)

12/3/10 Book Set:
#16
Best Of Enemies by Taylor Smith
Sleight of Hand by Robin Hathaway
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

List #15---
List #14

Gospel Truths by J.G. Sandom

Here is set #13 of Used books!
Pearl Beyond Price by Claire Delacroix

This is a group of books I have had for several years but not gotten to read. Since it doesn't look like I will get to read them for another year (or more!) I am passing them on. Although as I type them part of me still says "But you may want to read that some day!" Yes, yes; along with the other 700 books I am housing! Must Let goooooo.....
Group #12
The Ripple Effect by Lynn Erickson

Group #11
Cat's Eyewitness by Rita Mae Brown
Alien Chronicles - The Crimson Claw by Deborah Chester
Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher
Looking Back by Belva Plain
The Ring on Her Finger by Elizabeth Bevarly

List #1
Circle of Stars by Anna Lee Waldo

Pick #2
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross

Pick #3
One Eye Closed by Karen Whiddon

Pick #4
Talking God by Tony Kellerman
Everything to Gain by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Sixth Sense
The Shadow by Shelley Munro (PA)

Pick #5
See Jane Lead by Lois P. Frankel
The Daddy Spell by Patti Ann Cole
Misfortune by Nancy Geary
Cold Hit by Linda Fairstein - Audio Tapes

Pick #6
Elusive Love by Catherine Lanigan

Pick #7
Prey by Michael Crichton - Audio Tape
Princess Charming by Jane Heller (slightly creased)

Pick #8
(sc) = slightly creased on binding otherwise all in good shape
The Jury by Steve Martini - Audio Tapes
No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson - Audio Tapes

Pick #9
Three Weddings and a Kiss - Anthology
On Treacherous Ground by Earl Murray
Guardian by Dee Henderson - Audio Tapes
Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter - Audio Tapes

Pick #10
The Third Twin by Ken Follett (spine creased)
Dreams Gather by Kathryn Collins (sc)

32 comments:

  1. Cute daffodils! They are in bloom around here too right now, along with my own favorites - tulips!

    Count me in for a GC - thanks!

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  2. I would lille to pick Dreams Gather by Kathryn Collins (sc)

    lag110 at mchsi dot com

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  3. Thanks bunches Martha!

    Please enter me for A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett. Thanks

    mamabunny13 at gmail dot com

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  4. Nice daffodil and book picture!

    Please enter me for "Slow Heat" by Erica Spindler, thanks!

    Have a great reading week!

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  5. I would love to win The Trouble with Joe by Emilie Richards.

    Thanks!

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  6. Congrats to the winners!

    I'd like to have the Dick Francis books. Thank you!

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  7. Hope everyone is having a great Friday the 13th! Congrats to the winners!

    Please put me donw for Patricia Cromwell pair Cruel & Unsual/At Risk.

    Thanks for all your hard work.
    mmafsmith at gmail dot com

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  8. Please enter for Cathy Maxwell's "When Dreams Come True." Thanks so much, Martha.

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  9. I would like The Ripple Effect by Lynn Erickson (week two)

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

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  10. Playing for cash in PayPal please. Thanks :D

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  11. INTERNATIONAL

    A GC would be fabulous thank you.

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  12. congrats all winners :)

    love to win Cathy Maxwell but i'm international :(

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  13. Thank you so much. Congrats winners.
    I'd love the last book in her trilogy--Amelia Grey's An Earl To Enchant. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
    Carol L
    Lucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com

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  14. Love the picture of the daffodils and the book.

    Please enter me for September Morning by Diana Palmer.

    beckyqward@gmail.com

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  15. hi Martha!

    first, congrats winners!!
    second, this week i pick Linda Howard's Death Angel again.

    thanks :)

    smile_1773@yahoo.com

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  16. Please enter for September Morning by Diana Palmer.

    Thanks
    beckyqward@gmail.com

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  17. Ok, back to week one for The Ripple Effect, please and thank you!

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  18. I have been wanting to read WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE by Cathy Maxwell, so please put me down for that. Thanks for the chance, Martha!
    castings at mindspring dot com

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  19. the daddy spell or death angel, please! edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom

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  20. I have my heart set on "The Amazing Mrs. Polifax". This is the first entry.

    Happy Spring Everyone! Love the daffodils. We have blue and purple irises here,


    CarolNWong(at)aol(dot)com

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  21. I'd like Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.

    leah49 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  22. I would love to read Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman. Thanks for having this giveaway.
    ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net

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  23. I would love to win Three Weddings and a Kiss Anthology. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  24. Please enter me for Saving Faith. Thanks for the giveaway. Tore923@aol.com

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  25. I'd like to enter for the Nora Roberts pair. Thank you!

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  26. I'd like to read Out of the Blue. Thanks for the giveaway!

    Have a wonderful day!
    Elizabeth L.
    etrabelsie[at]gmail[dot]com

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  27. The Firebird Deception by Cate Dermody

    Thanks for the giveaway.

    bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  28. yay for spring! just a bit confused about staying here it seems :) wk three for dee henderson's audio the guardian and many thx Martha ..

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  29. I'd love a copy of An Earl to Enchant by Amelia Grey (her books are good!)
    I'm an international reader. Isn't it great TBD Is having another 10% off promo? It's going to be so hard to resist buying everything in my wishlist.

    thumbelinda03@yahoo.com

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  30. Since I'm an international partipant it would be a little tricky with postage, so I'd probably like the $5.00 for the book depository and I've got a huge list of books I want to read. Also, as Linda said above, TBD is also having a further 10% off!
    rachchan2006@yahoo.com.au

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  31. I'd really like An Earl to Enchant:)
    Thanks for the great giveaway!

    bchild5 at aol dot com

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