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You Could Win $5,000 while Sharing the Joy of Reading

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I just came across this and thought it was a neat sweepstakes promotion from Nestle. Some of you might be interested:

Nestle Share the Joy of Reading Program :: Instant Win Game has 174 daily winners until 12/29. You can request a free code to play without purchase. For every entry 10 cents is donated. For every instant winner, $2 is donated to Reading is Fundamental. You could instantly win $10 book cash certificate. You’ll be entered into a monthly drawing for $5,000. You can play this daily through December.

 

Thanks to Freebies 4 Mom for posting this.

Win Nine New Books from The Man Booker Prize

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The Man Booker Prize for fiction was first awarded in 1969. Eligibility requirements are as follows: “Any full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published this year, is eligible for the prize. The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation) and must not be self-published.” The full list of previous winners and short-listed works can be found here.

They announced the long list of works in the running for the prize today. One of the long listed authors this year is William Trevor, who has been short listed four other times. His most recent novel, Love and Summer, is up for the award. You probably know his name because of the huge popularity of his novel, The Hill Bachelors.

The folks at Man Booker are offering their readers this great prize. You can win all new editions of the following Man Booker Prize winning books:
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (1994)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)
Possession by A.S. Byatt (1990)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)

All you have to do to enter is email editor@themanbookerprize.com with and your name and address before August 1st. Use the subject line: “Vintage Booker collection competition.” For more information about the contest, visit The Man Booker Prize.

Push Comes to Shove

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Concord Free Press has released their second free book. Push Comes to Shove is in my reading pile now. I’ll review it as soon as I finish it. In the meantime, you can fill out a form on Concord’s website to claim your own free book. Hurry because they are only giving away 2,000 copies and they do go quickly. Push Comes to Shove was penned by Wesley Brown.

FP has a great interview with Wesley Brown in the FAQs section. Wesley explains why he chose Concord to publish his book and how he chose the 1960s as the era for this novel. From Concord’s interview, “Push Comes to Shove begins at the end of the turbulent 1960s, when NYC Police shotgun an unarmed member of Push Comes to Shove—a radical group of activists, lovers, and dreamers based in a gritty Lower Manhattan tenement. This killing triggers a series of violent reprisals from more extremist members—from a subway bombing to kidnappings to a showdown in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Brown traces the group’s evolution through the Vietnam Era and beyond. Some compromise their youthful ideals. Others die for what they believe in.”

If you happen to be in the New England area of the US, you can see Wesley Brown reading at Labyrinth Books, Princeton, NJ, Wednesday, May 27th, 5:30 p.m. (with Stona Fitch), at Back Pages Books in Waltham, MA, Thursday, June 4, 7:30, or at Jamaicaway Books, Jamaica Plain, MA on Friday, June 5th at 7:00 p.m.

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Free Teen Book Sampler

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Freebies 4 Mom featured a free teen book sampler on Monday. The sampler includes a few chapters of a number of Susan Colasanti’s books for free. You can find it on Scribd. This is a pretty cool way to get introduced to an author or explore more of her titles. I hope to see more authors doing things like this in the future. The best part of Heather’s post at Freebies 4 Mom though is the giveaway she’s hosting. She’s giving away two Colasanti books, Waiting For You and Take Me There, to one lucky reader. For rules on the giveaway and how to enter, see Heather’s post on Freebies 4 Mom.

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9 Free Audiobook Downloads

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Today Barnes&Noble is offering 9 totally free audiobook downloads. The titles they’re offering for free download are:

The Babysitter’s Code — Laura Lippman
Super Goat Man — Jonathan Lethem
Best New Horror — Joe Hill
Great Day — Kurt Vonnegut
Fathers — Alice Munro
Truth or Dare — Elizabeth Berg
Ysrael — Junot Diaz
Merrano of the Dry Country — Louis L’Amour
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain

Go here to check them out. You can choose any number or all of them to add to your cart. They show as $0.01, but when you check out it is completely free. If you don’t already have a Barnes&Noble account, you can choose Paypal as your payment method and avoid entering any credit card details. You will need to install a B&N media download program, but it’s pretty small and easily removed.

After your order is complete, you’ll receive an email with a link to download all your “purchases.” This is a great freebie and finally my reason to test drive audiobooks. All these titles are popular or classic and it’s a good cross-section of genre’s too. I’m downloading all of them.

Thanks to Heather at Freebies4Mom for posting about this. She has posted some good book and audiobook freebies in the past, including Marley&Me and numerous kids books, so check here often if you like free books.

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