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CHICK LIT’S BEACH READS GIVEAWAY
Contest Rules
Enter to win two, three, or five new books!
Just email your name and address, plus the title of the Beach Read books you’d like to win to kerimikulski@gmail.com.
The grand-prize-winner will receive five brand new books and two runner-ups will either win two or three books. The winners will be randomly selected and notified by email on June 1, 2008. All books will be mailed immediately following the selection. The contest is open April 1-May 31, 2008. Good luck!
Book List:
Borrowing Alex
By: Cindy Procter-King
Nikki St. James is at the end of the rope she bought to kidnap her rat fiancé's best man. Determined to convince her fiancé to set a wedding date instead of spending his days sucking up to her rich father, Nikki fakes an affair with their best man, Alex Hart, and whisks him to secluded Lake Eden along with the zany trio of pets she can’t bear to leave behind. Except, her fiancé doesn’t rush to win her back.
Crybaby Ranch
By: Tina Welling
When an argument over pineapple pizza reveals to jewelry maker Suzannah Perry the truth about her stale marriage, she wastes no time leaving her husband in Ohio for a ramshackle cabin in the foothills of Wyoming’s majestic Teton Range. As she strings necklaces, she works on untangling her most complicated relationships: with the mother she’s losing to Alzheimer's, with the adopted son who has spent his life chasing after his birth mother, and most of all, with her new home’s previous owner, easygoing “Marlboro Man” Bo Garrett.
The History of Lucy’s Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters
By: Deborah Wright
Lucy’s love life needs a boost. When she isn’t flirting with the gorgeous guy at the newsstand, she’s daydreaming about torrid affairs with Lord Byron and George Clooney – anyone but her boyfriend, Anthony. So she does what any sensible woman would do; she steals a time machine and tracks down the great lovers of the past.
A Little Ray of Sunshine
By: Lani Diane Rich
Emmy Janes is not the kind of girl who attracts angels. In fact, after she sent her life into a nosedive six years ago, she’s tried to attract as little as possible – attention, people, or responsibility. She skips form town to town, getting odd jobs and keeping to herself, waiting for a sudden whim that lets her know it’s time to move again. And this works just fine, until the day two unexpected visitors show up at the New Jersey trailer park she currently calls home. One is a childhood friend with news: EJ’s mother and his father are getting married, and they want EJ to be there. The other is a sweet but odd woman named Jess, who says she’s an angel specializing in cosmic relationship mending and blueberry pancakes.
Midori By Moonlight
By: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Midori Saito’s dream seems about to come true. Too independent for Japanese society, Midori is a young woman who has always felt like a stranger in her native land. So when she falls in love with Kevin, an American English teacher, she readily agrees to leave home and start a new life with him in San Francisco – as his fiancée. Kevin seems to be the perfect man. That is, until he dumps her for his blond ex, who Midori never even knew existed. With just a smattering of fractured English, not much cash, and a visa set to expire in sixty days, Midori realizes she’s in for quite a struggle.
Not Even if You Begged
By: Francis Ray
Widow Traci Evens sits in on meeting with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood simply because she’s trying to be nice. After all they are all sweet older women who have lost their husbands. Yet Traci’s loss doesn’t feel as great since she found out her husband died while cheating on her with another woman.
The Romance Reader’s Book Club
By: Julie L. Cannon
Bored with her sheltered life in Rigby, Georgia, fifteen-year-old Tammi Lynn Elco senses a cure for her restlessness when she acquires a stack of forbidden romance novels. Eluding the watchful eye of her Granny Elco, Tammi forms a secret book club with two girlfriends and her eccentric Aunt Minna, reading about weak-in-the-knees passions and sharing their own stories of love and heartache.
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
By: Andrea Smith
Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit African-American community is united by long-term friendships and church ties. Bonnie Wilder has lived here, on Blackberry Corner, all her life, and would be content but for her deep desire for a child. She and her husband Naz cannot conceive, and he refuses to adopt. Even the support of her outrageous best friend Thora – to whom Thora tells everything – can’t help fill the emptiness inside her. Then Naz finds a blanketed infant on the banks of Canaan Creek, and suddenly Bonnie’s life is transformed.
These Boots Were Made for Stomping
By: Julie Kenner, Jade Lee, and Marianne Mancusi
Sometimes it’s all about the shoes. Whether facing the forces of evil or simply battling a bad hair day, fantastic footwear is key. Yes, there are the right shoes for the right situation, and not every moment calls for Manolos. Sometimes a woman’s gotta be fierce as well as feminine, fiery as well as fragile. And when the legwork required is a roundhouse, when a girl’s mantra has to become, “I am woman, hear me roar,” those are the times it’s good to know there’s magic in the world because in super-powered pumps, the shringing-est Violet or the nervous-est Nellie can do anything. Every step in magic shoes is sure to be a big one.
A Wish in Time
By: Laurel Bradley
In eighteenth-century Scotland, Magda McClellan, eight months pregnant, is granted one wish from Ault Annie, a wise woman accused of witchcraft. But Magda declines to use her wish because she is perfectly happy: besides, she doesn’t believe in witches. Little does she know how that refusal will forever change her life.
