Complete List of Books For Book Giveaway
See previous entry for rules.
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Title: Reader’s Digest Select Editions (Featuring The Secret Hour, by Luanne Rice, The Vanished Man, by Jeffery Deaver, Eat Cake, by Jeanne Ray, and Proof of Intent, by Walter Sorrells)
Too many blurbs. Four books in one. -.-
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Title: The Lord of the Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Blurb: Ha. Yeah, like everyone hasn’t heard of this.
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Manga: Big O Vol. 4
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Title: The Sterkarm Handshake
Author: Susan Price
Blurb: The Sterkarms have plundered the border between Scotland and England for generations. Suddenly intruders, calling themselves Elves, want the Sterkarms to stop their violent ways.
The Elves, time travelers from the 21st century, have found a way back to the 16th century and plan to do their own plundering of the land’s rich natural resources. Their only mistake is foolishly underestimating the Sterkarms themselves.
For Andrea Mitchell, an anthropologist working among the Sterkarms, none of this matters. In love with Per—a young Sterkarm warrior—and feted as a beautiful Elf-May, she’s never known such happiness in her own time.
But when Per receives a deadly injury, Andrea’s decision to take him into the 21st century to save him has explosive results. Per, seeing how powerful and destructive the Elves truly are, swears to keep them from his land forever. And in the bloody battle that ensues, Andrea must finally choose who’s side she is on.
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Title: The Best of Enemies
Author: Taylor Smith
Blurb: A tranquil New England town is rocked to its core when a young college co-ed is linked to a devastating crime and then goes missing. Innocent or guilty, someone thinks she knows too much.
One woman, who believes in the girl’s innocence, is determined to find her before she’s silenced—forever. Her only ally is a man with a tortured past, who no longer believes in anyone’s innocence. But is he an ally?
At a time when all loyalties are suspect, and old friends may be foes, she has to decide—quickly—who can be trusted. The wrong choice could be fatal.
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Title: Dance Hall of the Dead~ ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
claddagh812He watches.
Vampires. Interpol agent Paul Ward knows of them: he has battled and cleansed continents of their exquisite poison. He orchestrated the extermination of an ancient lair in Bangkok, obtained their sacred Book of Names, and knows where they hide and when they feast. He knows their weaknesses. And what’s more, he knows his own…it’s Miriam Blaylock. Elusive and toxic, she has escaped his complex network of hunters for years. Seductive and cunning, she has become his obsession.
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Title: Pride of Kings
Author: Judith Tarr
Blurb: At the coronation of the new king of England, two crowns are offered to Richard the Lionheart: the mortal and the magical. Lured by earthbound glory and driven by mortal faith, Richard spurns the pagan crown—and rides off on a Crusade to reclaim a sun-scorched Jerusalem from the infidels. Leaving his new kingdom defenseless in the mists…
For some unknown power has brought down the wall between worlds—and beings of dark magic await their chance to cross over the threshold.
Summoned to England by his dreams is Arslan, a strapping youth born of fire and man. Able to walk between worlds and speak with spirits, he is destined to help a country he has never seen and to swear loyalty to a man he has never met: Prince John, called Lackland, who will emerge from the shadow of his older brother, Richard, to rule the armies of the air.
There are two wars for England to win or lose. One could weaken a mortal empire. The other could destroy the world.
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Title: Dark Legend
Author: Christine Feehan
Blurb: Gabriel is a legendary Carpathian vampire hunter who, for centuries, has slept to keep from turning into a vampire himself. But one day he awakens, weak and disoriented, and encounters beautiful Francesca Del Ponce.
Francesca has extraordinary powers of her own… and reasons to be wary of Gabriel. She sensed a deep bond between them ages ago, but he rejected her to pursue his deadly prey.
Now the hunter wants another chance to be with the love of his life. But first he must defeat a diabolical foe—his own infamous twin brother.
(And might I add, Lucian is much more interesting than Gabriel. ^_^)
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Title: The mammoth book of Vampire stories by women
Authors: Lots of people
Blurb: Er. Lots of short vampire stories. Yay.
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Title: A Twist at the End
Author: Steven Saylor
Blurb: The city of Austin, Texas, “is fearfully dull,” wrote young Will Porter to a friend in the spring of 1885, “except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night.”
Years later, Will Porter would become famous as O. Henry, the toast of New York and the most celebrated writer in America. The long-ago Texas killings, which he dubbed the work of the Servant Girl Annihilators—perhaps the first recorded serial murders in America—would remain unsolved. But the appearance of a merciless blackmailer and a mysterious stranger would draw Porter back into the past, and back to Texas, to confront the stunning solution to those murders—and the secrets of his own soul.
When he was a young man in Austin in that sprin of 1885, Porter fell in love. Her name was Eula Phillips. She was beautiful. She was married to someone else. And she was doomed to be a victim of the Servant Girl Annihilators.
The first victims were young Black women who worked in the households of Austin’s most prominent citizens. The crimes were unspeakable. The authorities were baffled. The murders continued, month after month, until suddenly, shockingly, the pattern changed. On a bloody Christmas Eve, two women—neither of them Black and neither of them servants—were horribly murdered, seemingly by the same vicious stalker. One of them was Eula Phillips. Her death was to be a defining event in the life of the young man who would one day become O. Henry. The trial that resulted—uncovering one explosive scandal after another—would tear the city of Austin apart.
The capitol of Texas was a city in uneasy transition. Only a few years earlier, outlaw gangs and Comanche Indiana had roamed the hills where now stood the homes of cattle barons and university professors. The animosities of the Civil War still lingered, and the struggle of Blacks for equality was just beginning. By day, politicians in the state legislature debated equal rights for women; by night, those same politicians mingled with the high class prostitutes of Guy Town, the citiy’s notorious vice district. Southern traditions of manners and decorum concealed ugly secrets, all of which would be revealed before the saga of the Servant Girl Annihilators reached its end.
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Title: Reader’s Digest Select Editions (Featuring The Secret Hour, by Luanne Rice, The Vanished Man, by Jeffery Deaver, Eat Cake, by Jeanne Ray, and Proof of Intent, by Walter Sorrells)
Too many blurbs. Four books in one. -.-
~*~*~*~*~
Title: The Lord of the Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Blurb: Ha. Yeah, like everyone hasn’t heard of this.
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Manga: Big O Vol. 4
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Title: The Sterkarm Handshake
Author: Susan Price
Blurb: The Sterkarms have plundered the border between Scotland and England for generations. Suddenly intruders, calling themselves Elves, want the Sterkarms to stop their violent ways.
The Elves, time travelers from the 21st century, have found a way back to the 16th century and plan to do their own plundering of the land’s rich natural resources. Their only mistake is foolishly underestimating the Sterkarms themselves.
For Andrea Mitchell, an anthropologist working among the Sterkarms, none of this matters. In love with Per—a young Sterkarm warrior—and feted as a beautiful Elf-May, she’s never known such happiness in her own time.
But when Per receives a deadly injury, Andrea’s decision to take him into the 21st century to save him has explosive results. Per, seeing how powerful and destructive the Elves truly are, swears to keep them from his land forever. And in the bloody battle that ensues, Andrea must finally choose who’s side she is on.
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Title: The Best of Enemies
Author: Taylor Smith
Blurb: A tranquil New England town is rocked to its core when a young college co-ed is linked to a devastating crime and then goes missing. Innocent or guilty, someone thinks she knows too much.
One woman, who believes in the girl’s innocence, is determined to find her before she’s silenced—forever. Her only ally is a man with a tortured past, who no longer believes in anyone’s innocence. But is he an ally?
At a time when all loyalties are suspect, and old friends may be foes, she has to decide—quickly—who can be trusted. The wrong choice could be fatal.
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claddagh812He watches.Vampires. Interpol agent Paul Ward knows of them: he has battled and cleansed continents of their exquisite poison. He orchestrated the extermination of an ancient lair in Bangkok, obtained their sacred Book of Names, and knows where they hide and when they feast. He knows their weaknesses. And what’s more, he knows his own…it’s Miriam Blaylock. Elusive and toxic, she has escaped his complex network of hunters for years. Seductive and cunning, she has become his obsession.
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Title: Pride of Kings
Author: Judith Tarr
Blurb: At the coronation of the new king of England, two crowns are offered to Richard the Lionheart: the mortal and the magical. Lured by earthbound glory and driven by mortal faith, Richard spurns the pagan crown—and rides off on a Crusade to reclaim a sun-scorched Jerusalem from the infidels. Leaving his new kingdom defenseless in the mists…
For some unknown power has brought down the wall between worlds—and beings of dark magic await their chance to cross over the threshold.
Summoned to England by his dreams is Arslan, a strapping youth born of fire and man. Able to walk between worlds and speak with spirits, he is destined to help a country he has never seen and to swear loyalty to a man he has never met: Prince John, called Lackland, who will emerge from the shadow of his older brother, Richard, to rule the armies of the air.
There are two wars for England to win or lose. One could weaken a mortal empire. The other could destroy the world.
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Title: Dark Legend
Author: Christine Feehan
Blurb: Gabriel is a legendary Carpathian vampire hunter who, for centuries, has slept to keep from turning into a vampire himself. But one day he awakens, weak and disoriented, and encounters beautiful Francesca Del Ponce.
Francesca has extraordinary powers of her own… and reasons to be wary of Gabriel. She sensed a deep bond between them ages ago, but he rejected her to pursue his deadly prey.
Now the hunter wants another chance to be with the love of his life. But first he must defeat a diabolical foe—his own infamous twin brother.
(And might I add, Lucian is much more interesting than Gabriel. ^_^)
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Title: The mammoth book of Vampire stories by women
Authors: Lots of people
Blurb: Er. Lots of short vampire stories. Yay.
~*~*~*~
Title: A Twist at the End
Author: Steven Saylor
Blurb: The city of Austin, Texas, “is fearfully dull,” wrote young Will Porter to a friend in the spring of 1885, “except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night.”
Years later, Will Porter would become famous as O. Henry, the toast of New York and the most celebrated writer in America. The long-ago Texas killings, which he dubbed the work of the Servant Girl Annihilators—perhaps the first recorded serial murders in America—would remain unsolved. But the appearance of a merciless blackmailer and a mysterious stranger would draw Porter back into the past, and back to Texas, to confront the stunning solution to those murders—and the secrets of his own soul.
When he was a young man in Austin in that sprin of 1885, Porter fell in love. Her name was Eula Phillips. She was beautiful. She was married to someone else. And she was doomed to be a victim of the Servant Girl Annihilators.
The first victims were young Black women who worked in the households of Austin’s most prominent citizens. The crimes were unspeakable. The authorities were baffled. The murders continued, month after month, until suddenly, shockingly, the pattern changed. On a bloody Christmas Eve, two women—neither of them Black and neither of them servants—were horribly murdered, seemingly by the same vicious stalker. One of them was Eula Phillips. Her death was to be a defining event in the life of the young man who would one day become O. Henry. The trial that resulted—uncovering one explosive scandal after another—would tear the city of Austin apart.
The capitol of Texas was a city in uneasy transition. Only a few years earlier, outlaw gangs and Comanche Indiana had roamed the hills where now stood the homes of cattle barons and university professors. The animosities of the Civil War still lingered, and the struggle of Blacks for equality was just beginning. By day, politicians in the state legislature debated equal rights for women; by night, those same politicians mingled with the high class prostitutes of Guy Town, the citiy’s notorious vice district. Southern traditions of manners and decorum concealed ugly secrets, all of which would be revealed before the saga of the Servant Girl Annihilators reached its end.
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