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March 2008

Contest: WIT’S END by Karen Joy Fowler

We celebrated the release of Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler --- a clever novel of mystery, intrigue and virtual reality --- with a special contest. 100 readers had the opportunity to each win one advance reading copy of Wit's End, which will be in stores on April 1st, for their group. We will announce the winners shortly.

More about Wit's End:
From the author of The Jane Austen Book Club comes a clever new tale. Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, Rima Lanisell arrives at her godmother’s old Victorian mansion, weary from her recent losses --- an inventive if at times irritating father, a beloved brother. She soon finds herself enmeshed in a household of eccentrics: a formerly alcoholic cook and her irksome son, two quirky dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, and of course, godmother Addison Early, a secretive and feisty bestselling mystery writer who once knew Rima’s father well --- perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to discover just what their relationship was all about.

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February 2008

Contest: NINETEEN MINUTES by Jodi Picoult

We celebrated the paperback release of Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult ––– a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy ––– with a special contest. Twenty-five readers had the opportunity to each win one finished copy of Nineteen Minutes, which is now in stores, for their group. We will announce the winners shortly.

More About Nineteen Minutes:
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens ––– until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes ––– or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show ––– destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.

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Contest: WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY by Charlotte Hughes

We celebrated the release of What Looks Like Crazy by Charlotte Hughes ––– a quirky and humorous book about one woman’s attempt to maintain her sanity while her life falls apart ––– with a special contest. Two groups had the opportunity to each win 12 finished copies of What Looks Like Crazy, which is now in stores, for their group.

More about What Looks Like Crazy:
Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has an eccentric secretary, her mother and aunt have erected a vaguely sexual sculpture in her front yard, and her psychiatrist ex-boyfriend won't stop calling to find out what color panties she's wearing. Now, Kate's being bombarded with mysterious threats, and the only person who can help her is the one man who always makes her lose her mind ––– and heart.

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Contest: THE TEN-YEAR NAP by Meg Wolitzer

We celebrated the release of The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer ––– a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood and marriage --- and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work ––– with a special contest. Ninety readers had the opportunity to each win one advance reading copy of The Ten-Year Nap, which will be in stores on March 27th, for their group.

More about The Ten-Year Nap:
For Amy, Jill, Roberta and Karen, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. But when Amy meets a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it all ––– work, love, family ––– a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As Amy's obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers --- until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.

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Contest: SEPULCHRE by Kate Mosse

We celebrated the release of Sepulchre by New York Times bestselling author, Kate Mosse, the author of Labyrinth ––– a haunting tale of secrets, murder and the occult set in both 19th-century and 21st-century France ––– with a special contest. 100 readers had the opportunity to each win one advance reading copy of Sepulchre, which will be in stores on April 1st, for their group.

More about Sepulchre:
In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole accept an invitation to visit their widowed aunt’s infamous estate in Southwest France. But soon they begin to hear rumors in the Village of something evil that happened there.

More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives at a grand hotel to study the life of Claude Debussy, the 19th-century French composer. But something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith’s waking hours.

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