Splash Into Summer Book Giveaway Hop (ends 5/31) (CLOSED)

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I am highly honored to be a part of the Splash into Summer Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Page Turners.  I am glad that the weather here in Western Washington is finally beginning to seem sunny.  After all the rain we have had, I do hope that we will have a nice summer.


I am planning to give away a lot of wonderful books.  I do hope that you will find something here that strikes your fancy.  All giveaways are open internationally unless otherwise stated.  The giveaways will all end on May 31 at 9 P.M. Pacific Time.  Please leave a comment for each entry, and also be sure to either leave your e-mail address or make it visible in your google profile.


All books are used unless otherwise stated, and all descriptions/pictures are from www.goodreads.com. 


Prize Pack #1:  (Mystery Pack)

"The horror of one night is forever etched in Matt Hunter's memory: the night he innocently tried to break up a fight - and ended up a killer. Now, nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife, Olivia, pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his hometown, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking, inexplicable video call from Olivia's phone. And in an instant, the unraveling begins." A mysterious man who'd begun tailing Matt turns up dead. A beloved nun is murdered. And local and federal authorities - including homicide investigator Loren Muse, a childhood schoolmate of Matt's with a troubled past of her own - see all signs pointing to a former criminal with one murder already under his belt: Matt Hunter. Unwilling to lose everything for a second time, Matt and Olivia are forced outside the law in a desperate attempt to save their future together.

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Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--22 stories

Prize Pack #2: (Crafty Pack)

9 Flower Calendars with places for pictures--they are for this year, but a "crafty" person could reuse them.

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Prize Pack 3:  (New York Times Bestseller Pack)

Wanted:

One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless—bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employers Hermès bag. Those who take it personally need not apply.

Who wouldn’t want this job? Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved to ensure that a Park Avenue wife who doesn’t work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.

When the Xs marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny ends up involved way beyond the bounds of human decency or good taste. Her tenure with the X family becomes a nearly impossible mission to maintain the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity and, most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.

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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption. And it is also about the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of family, love, and friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, bringing to mind the large canvasses of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. But just as it is old-fashioned in its narration, it is contemporary in its subject -- the devastating history of Afghanistan over the past thirty years. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful debut.

Author Biography: Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, the son of a diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980. He lives in northern California, where he is a physician.The Kite Runner is his first novel.

Prize Pack #4:  (Janette Oke/Christian Fiction Pack)

This saga of life and love follows Elizabeth, a lovely young teacher from the east, who braves the Canadian frontier to teach in a one- room schoolhouse where she meets Wynn, A Royal Candian Mountie, who becomes her husband and partner. (2 books are put together in hardback, and the other 2 are in paperback form.)

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Responding to an advertisement, Kathleen O'Malley crosses an ocean to meet a total stranger and become a mail-order bride.Donnigan waits restlessly on his prairie farm for her arrival.

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