Giveaway - Three Audio CDs of True Blue by David Baldacci!

TRUE BLUE by David Baldacci

U.S. release: October 27, 2009
ISBN: 0446195510, 978-0446195515
Publisher: Grand Central, a division of Hachette Book Group USA
Format: Abridged and unabridged audiobook, e-book, large print

Publisher's Summary

A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation's capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci's new, heart-stopping thriller, True Blue.

Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything—her badge, her career, her freedom—and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and is focused on one mission: to be a cop once more.

Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she has to work in the shadows: a vindictive U.S. attorney is looking for any reason to send her back behind bars.

Then Roy Kingman enters her life.

Roy Kingman is a young lawyer who aided the poor until he took a high-paying job at a law firm in Washington. Mace and Roy meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm.
Their investigation into the lawyer's death reveals surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital, and what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.

TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY for the AUDIO CD:

1. Comment here telling me what other David Baldacci book(s) you have read! If you haven't read his books, then visit his website and tell me another of his books you would like to read!!  Please include your email address, so I can contact you if you win.

2. For an extra entry, become a follower or tell me if you are already a follower.

3. For another entry, blog, facebook, tweet (any of those networks!) about this giveaway and tell me where you did.

4. Leave a separate comment for each entry or you'll only be entered once. (This method is used to make it easier to put the entries into the random generator!)

(Three total entries possible.)

THERE WILL BE THREE WINNERS!

THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO HACHETTE AND ANNA! YOU GUYS ROCK!!

* This contest is only open to residents of US and Canada.
* No P.O. Boxes Please - for shipping reasons.
* This contest will close Midnight (Central) on December 22, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected from all entries.

Review of Time Plains Drifter by Cheryl Pierson

Title:    Time Plains Drifter
Author:  Cheryl Pierson
Genre:  Time Travel, Paranormal, Historical Western
Publisher:  Class Act Books
Buy Link
ISBN:  978-1-935048-35-0;  1-935048-35-X
Pages: 92,743 words

Heat Rating: Sensual
Author Website: Cheryl Pierson

Rating:  4.25 of 5.0
Reviewed by:  MarthaE

Blurb:  Trapped in Indian Territory of 1895 by a quirk of Nature, High School teacher Jenni Dalton must find a way to get her seven students back to 2010.

Handsome U.S. Marshal Rafe d'Angelico seems like the answer to her prayers: he is, after all, an angel. In a race against time and evil, Rafe has one chance to save Jenni's life and her soul from the Dark One—but can their love survive?

Review:  I really enjoyed this time travel with an unusual twist on angels versus demons!

I liked Jenni who is able to adapt quickly to the past after her initial shock.  Of course it doesn’t hurt that she has the wonderful U.S. Marshal Rafe to comfort and assist her!

Rafe is a wonderful character!  He has gone through a lot and isn’t quite sure how to handle this angel status! It is clear that the angels have to protect one of the “time travelers” from the demons but neither side knows at first who the target is!

The story moves continually with action and emotion!  It opens with a train robbery and betrayal and moves along with unexpected time travel and fear, then a battle for a soul and the joy of new found love. I had not read another story with angels quite like these.  It is a good feature of fantasy that the author can create time travel and angel “lives” and struggles as her imagination leads!

It wasn’t until I thought back to write the review that I actually noticed that there were a few loose ends.  Interestingly enough only one of the seven students freaks out when he realizes they have been sent back in time! All the others seem to take it in stride and some embrace the chance to be off on there own.  The placement of the two student couples is not fully tied up.

Truthfully – that just didn’t bother my enjoyment of the focus of the story which is on Jenni and Rafe and the fight with the demon, Milo.  I liked the tension of the chase and battle and the sweetness of the romance. I would like to read a sequel with Rafe’s brother, Christian and Jenni’s sister Victoria!

This is my Tuesday R&R review at SaSR.

Don't forget to enter the Giveaway for Ms. Pierson's books and comment here for an extra entry!

Its Monday what are you reading November 30, 2009

Join this meme at:

J. Kaye's Book Blog

Finished this week:

PB:  Defining Twilight by Brian Leaf. A vocabulary Workbook for unlocking the SAT, ACT GED and SSAT. A very interesting concept. Review to be posted soon here at my blog. Giveaway coming.

Maggie: A Savannah Dog by Pat Andres. A cute children's book.  Review to be posted soon at my blog. Giveaway coming.

Kindle2:  Christmas Sin by Ed Williams.  Ed's tells a true Christmas story from a teenage male POV and with filled with Ed's rough humor!  Review to be sent this week to YGR.

Time Plains Drifter by Cheryl Pierson.  A western historical.  Reading and reviewing as part of series on my blog. Review to be posted here tomorrow.  Giveaway in progress.

Audible: ---------

Audio CD: Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall. I am enjoying this recounting of successful conservation efforts.  Review to be posted soon.  Hachette Giveaway in progress!

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Currently reading:

PB:  Don't Look Down by David Laing Dawson. A thriller about four murderers, 18 to 81, in a forensic psychiatric ward. Reading and reviewing for author through Bostwick.

Evidence of Angels by Suza Scalora. A gorgeous book!  Reading and reviewing for the author. Giveaway coming.

Kindle2:  Wayward Angels - Wounded Warriors Book 4 by Karen Wiesner.  25% into this good story! Reviewing for the author and YGR. Giveaway coming.

Play it Loud by Gina Lee Nelson. 75% done. I am really enjoying this! Reviewing for Between the Lines/WRDF.

Didn't get to this last week so its still Next up:  Keeper of Her Heart by Therese Travis.  A short, sweet Inspirational. Reviewing for YGR.

Then:  The Dragon & The Rose by Gini Rifkin.  Historical Romance. Reviewing for Between the Lines/WRDF.

Audible: (March to the Sea by David Weber and John Ringo, my own TBR - continuing very slowly!)

Audio CD: True Blue by David Baldacci.  A high profile murder mystery/thriller. I'll be listening to this as a "listen along" with J.Kaye! Review will be posted here.  Giveaway to be posted this week.

Giveaway! It Happened One Night by Lisa Dale - FIVE Copies

It Happened One Night

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Forever (November 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446406902
• ISBN-13: 978-0446406901

(Grand Central, November 09) Lana Biel longs to leave her family’s Vermont wildflower farm so she can travel and see the world. And her sister Karin wants nothing more than to put down roots and conceive the child she and her husband just can’t seem to have. When a lighthearted fling with a mountain biker leaves Lana expecting, she finds herself tumbling headlong into motherhood while her sister Karin can only look on.
For help, Lana turns to Eli Ward, a professional meteorite hunter and her best friend for the last ten years. But Eli’s keeping secrets that could turn their friendship on its head. As the Vermont seasons change and the flowers in the wildflower meadows begin to fade, Lana must make some meaningful decisions about her family, her friendships, her love life, and her dreams.
Romantic Times says 4.5 Stars! “Lisa Dale is adept at weaving beautiful, romantic, heart-wrenching stories. She pays attention to the finest details, and the effect knocks the wind out of you. Every single scene,… character conflict and reaction is perfect. The only downside is that the story concludes, which means our time with these wonderful characters comes to an end.”

Many thanks to Hachette and to Anna for this giveaway!

TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY:

1. Comment here telling me if you always wanted to travel or were happy staying home! And out of curiosity tell me if you think your "at home" will have a white Christmas!  I'm in Florida so no snow for me!
Please include your email address, so I can contact you if you win.

2. For an extra entry, become a follower or tell me if you are already a follower.

3. For another entry, blog, facebook, tweet (any of those networks!) about this giveaway and tell me where you did.

4. Leave a separate comment for each entry or you'll only be entered once. (This method is used to make it easier to put the entries into the random generator!)

(Three total entries possible.)

THERE WILL BE FIVE WINNERS!

* This contest is only open to residents of US and Canada.
* No P.O. Boxes Please - for shipping reasons.
* This contest will close Midnight (Central) on December 13, 2009. The winners will be randomly selected from all entries.

Sunday Words of Encouragement November 29, 2009

This is the first Sunday of Advent - a day of hope and waiting. Our Pastor gave a message on "Waiting for Christmas." 
Although he didn't say these words precisely, it struck me near the end of the sermon that we should be waiting - not so much for Christmas but more appropriately - for Christ!

^{Verses for today:}

^{Luke 3:4-6 New International Version}

⁴As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:
   "A voice of one calling in the desert,
   'Prepare the way for the Lord,
      make straight paths for him.
 ⁵Every valley shall be filled in,
      every mountain and hill made low.
   The crooked roads shall become straight,
      the rough ways smooth.
 ⁶And all mankind will see God's salvation.


I hope that you will each be a person who marvels at the true message of the Christmas season!