GIVEAWAY! Five Copies of TAMED BY A LAIRD

If you missed winning this one over the past couple of months here is another chance!  THANKS to Anna and Hachette Books!  There will be FIVE (5) Winners!!

• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Forever (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446541370
• ISBN-13: 978-0446541374

National bestselling author Amanda Scott sweeps readers back to the turbulent fourteenth-century Scottish Borders, where valiant men and women risk everything for their land. Jenny Easdale is ready to accept her fate. She's agreed to marry a man she will never love - yet not before slipping away for one last adventure. Following a traveling minstrel troupe, she's whisked into a world of intoxicating freedom. Then, all too soon, she finds herself in danger - from a vengeful political plot against Scotland and from the man who has come to take her home.
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* This contest is only open to residents of US and Canada.
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* This contest will close Midnight (Central) on November 20, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected from all entries.

Reading to Review: Trapped by Connie Mann

Reading to Review for Between the Lines Reviews for WRDF

Title: Trapped
Author: Connie Mann
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
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320 Pages
Heat level: Sensual
Print ISBN: 1-60154-455-3


BLURB: It’s every woman’s worst nightmare: Had her daughter witnessed a murder?

 Beneath the homey, small-town facade of Riverlake, Florida, an unnamed evil lurks. When a guest at the local Bed and Breakfast turns up dead, tough single mom Sam Collins is convinced her young daughter knows more than she's saying. Sam vows to do whatever it takes to protect Lindsey from harm. She’ll sell the family-run marina she’s devoted her life to saving. She’ll even join forces with Danny Hastings--the one man she never expected to see again--the one who can destroy everything she holds dear.

 But can they stay alive long enough to protect the daughter he didn’t know he had?

Author Website:  Connie Mann

A Blog Discovery - Not Quite A Book Blog but an Author: Paul Levinson

I came upon a "new to me" blog last week that I didn't include in my Friday Book Bloggers Discoveries Meme because the blog is more a TV blog than a book blog.  The blog is Paul Levinson's Infinte Regress.

I don't watch much TV so that doesn't get me but what was interesting is Paul's new book:

New New Media

I happen to think the cover is Very Cool!  Even better this book looks very interesting.  Here is the product description listed at Amazon:

YouTube, blogging, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life and other “new new media” are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect Presidents to how we watch television. New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.

There is a link to a free Chapter on Twitter in Paul's sidebar!

In addition to several nonfiction books, Paul has also published five fiction books including The Plot to Save Socrates.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this light, engaging time-travel yarn, Levinson (The Silk Code) ponders the problem of saving someone who refuses to be saved, in this case Socrates, the Athenian philosopher condemned to death in a shameful moment for democracy. ....

If you visit Paul's blog site - you will see a picture of a man on a ladder in a BIG library! I just LOVE that picture and want to steal it!  I won't of course.... but I want to!  LOL

Thanks Paul for lettimg me tell a little about your works here!

REVIEW - The Pumpkinnapper by Linda Banche

Title: The Pumpkinnapper
Author: Linda Banche
Genre: Historical
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
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Rating: 4.0 of 5.0
Heat Rating: Sweet/Sensual
Author Website: http://lindabanche.blogspot.com/

Reviewed by: MarthaE

Blurb: Pumpkin thieves, a youthful love rekindled, and a jealous goose. Oh my!
Last night someone tried to steal the widowed Mrs. Emily Metcalfe's pumpkins. She's certain the culprit is her old childhood nemesis and the secret love of her youth, whom she hasn't seen in ten years.
Henry, Baron Grey has never forgotten the girl he loved, but couldn’t pursue, and so decides to catch Emily's would-be thief. Even after she reveals his childhood nickname--the one he would rather forget. And even after her jealous pet goose bites him in an embarrassing place.
Oh, the things a man will do for love.


Review: This was a wonderfully sweet quick read! I really enjoyed it! Sorry – no horror to this – except maybe for the goose biting!

Emily and Henry didn’t realize they loved each other when they were young. He went off to school and she was courted by and married another man. Now fate, with maybe a little help from friends, gives them a second chance. Will they take the chance or will they forever shield their hearts not knowing how the other feels?

I have to say that I loved Henry, the goose, in this story! We had two African geese many years ago and they do make good watch guards! He was a great addition to the story.

The actual Pumpkinnappers are really the only Halloween part of the story and there is not a lot of explanation for them. They do serve to help bring Emily and Henry together.

Both the heroine and hero are very pleasant characters, independent and strong, but full of kindness and humor. I liked the interesting bits of background given regarding the pumpkin cultivation. The writing flowed nicely with a good blend of descriptions, sweet romance and smooth action. I will look forward to longer stories from Ms. Banche based on this fine short piece!

This is my Tuesday R&R review at SaSR.

Monday's Mailbox October 26, 2009

This Meme starts at The Printed Page    

I haven't posted this for a couple of weeks so I have several items!

The Becoming

Won at Patricia's Vampire Notes from 10/6/2009 interview comment.
Thank you Patricia and Author Jeanne Stein


Won Second place in Giveaway to celebrate the release of Love Thy Neighbor by  Patricia Bates - Putting Hisotry back in Romance

THANK YOU Patricia!  [Good news! I now have Love they Neighbor to review for YGR Reviews!]

Christmas for the Cowboy

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Borderline Sin

I just received three books from several shout outs at Romance Junkies Readers.  Thank you Chaos Cat and RJR!

Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison

 The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook

(Everything I Know About Love and Marriage)

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                                   SkinGame by Ava Gray

I may have to reduce the number of review books I am reading so I can get to some of the good books I have won this year!!!