It is noon here in Central Minnesota and I just plugged in the comment numbers at Random.org and have my winner. 🙂
WORDLILLY!!!
Congratulations! I will email you the code for the certificate today! 🙂
Thank you to everyone who commented in the last three days – this was a lot of fun and I met a few new people! Do not be discouraged – we are doing something similar to this starting Monday for BBAW! There will be more chances to win and more prizes!
The Giveaway was: This week I posted my 100th book review! I am pretty excited about that! Of course, I always like an excuse to celebrate and this is a great one! I am offering a $20 Amazon gift card to one lucky reader of One Persons Journey Through a World of Books!
To enter – all you have to do is a leave a comment on any post on my blog. Each comment will count as one entry to this. 10 comments through out my blog = 10 entries and so on. Comments of course must actually be a comment and not just a word or two.
This celebration giveaway will start now and end Friday September 11th at noon. I will calculate all comments, assign them a number and draw using random.org.
A read that I enjoyed with a cup of hot cocoa during the cool September evenings with just a touch of magic… that seems to me, to always be found in Minnesota! ~ Sheila
The last thing that Cassandra Higgins expects out of her Sunday is to be
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mesmerized at a collectors’ convention by a snow globe. She’s enjoying some mommy time, with husband Ken at home tending their brood of four young boys, when she’s utterly charmed by the one-of-a kind globe containing figures of three dogs and a little girl with hair the color of her own. She can’t resist taking the unique globe home — even if means wrestling another shopper for it!
The beautiful snowglobe sparks long-dormant memories for Cassie, of her beloved Grandpa Wonky, the stray she rescued as a child, and the painful roots of her combative relationship with her mother, “Bad Betty” Kamrowski. Life in Wanonishaw, Minnesota is never dull, though, and Cassie keeps the recollections at bay, busy balancing her boys, her home daycare operation, and being a good friend to best pal Margret. But after a strange — “flurrious”, as Cassie deems it — moment happens with the remarkable snow globe, Cassie and the people she loves are swirled into a tumultuous, yet grace-filled, and life-changing journey.
I found Stray Affections to be an easy read set in my home state – which for some reason I still get a kick out of reading books centered in Minnesota. Within the first few pages of this book you are introduced to the strain in the relationship between our main character Cassandra (daycare provider and mother of four) and her mother Betty. IE. Bad Betty.
Stray Affections deals with betrayal (Cassandra has memories of when she felt she had let down her family pet, Toby, as a child). This book is centered around a snow globe – and unresolved memories that bubble to the surface as Cassandra learns the power of forgiveness all wrapped into a book that is a bit quirky and fun – ending with an event that not only includes the whole community but with a volunteer effort that made my heart leap!
I read this book while at our cabin in Finland, Minnesota. I found that an appropriate place to sit back over Labor day weekend and sink into this book. I found the book a quick, lite read and loved the “Burt’s Durve’s Recipes in the back of the book. I will be trying these out at the October Bookies Book Club potluck at my home!
Charlene Ann Baumbich is a popular author and speaker and an award-winning journalist. In addition to her Dearest Dorothy series of novels, she has written seven nonfiction books of humor and inspiration. A bungee-jumping, once motorcycle-owning grandma and unabashed dog lover, Charlene lives with her husband and rescued dog Kornflake in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She loves telling stories, laughing whenever possible, and considers herself a Wild Child of God.
Ashley has generously offered me an additional copy of this book to give away to one lucky reader! Here’s how to enter:
1 Entry – leave a comment here on something you do in your own community as a volunteer or to better our world
BONUS Entry (ahhh… the coveted bonus entry!) Tweet about this giveaway or blog on it for an extra entry
Remember US entrys only – no po box numbers. Giveaway will close on September 30
I received this book, and an additional copy to give away from Ashley Boyer of Multnomah Books
This giveaway is closed…. winner was drawn on Sept 25 and the winner is Brenda Rupp
Welcome to freebie Fridays, where I post a book for giveaway each week and I annouce a winner the following Friday.This is the first novel in the widely acclaimed series.
A pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana’s one and only lady private detective. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe’s “No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith’s deft touch. Mma Ramotswe’s cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them; a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy; a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine; a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe’s love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients.
For this weeks giveaway:
1) leave a comment here with the answer to this question: If you were a detective… what would you want to be a detective of? (Feel free to be imaginative and remember, no answer to question, no entry)!
2) I love comments! Leave a comment on another post (non giveaway post) and earn a second chance for this book
3) You know… I really really love comments so for a third chance, leave another non giveaway comment on a post and I will add another entry
4) Blog or tweet about this giveaway and leave me a link here for yet another chance!
I am out of town until late on Sunday… I am “Sheila unplugged” for the weekend at our cabin, however this leaves a great opportunity for reading time! I will catch up with responding to comments upon my return!
Oh and for the record…. one person guessed my middle name right… nice job Ryan! It is Ann.
**This giveaway is closed… winner is announced afternoon of Sept. 4. Thanks you to all who entered. 🙂 Please watch each Friday for the next Freebie Friday Giveaway!
I received this book from Amazon a little over a year ago by mistake. What I had ordered was a book called Tough Choices: A Memoir, what I received was this book. The sticky label over the UPC on the back is the Tough Choices one and therefore the mix up. Upon contacting Amazon they sent me the correction and let me keep this book.
From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different. As daughter of the Mixed-Blood of the Monère, she has arrived to rule a new domain in the Louisiana Bayou. Now, under the full moon, she’s feeling a new and uncontrollable surge—and an instinctive new craving…
Dante, the warrior son of a healer, was cursed by the high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death, born and reborn into an ever-diminishing bloodline. Someone shares one of his past lives. Her name was Mona Lyria. Back then, on the moon in another world, she was his victim. Today, she is Mona Lisa. This time, she is his savior. Dante’s wish is to die by her hands to end his cursed existence. But she feels fate has given them both a second chance. For even stronger than her craving for blood is her craving for what every Monère female desires, and needs…to bear life. Now she has found her mate. But with this blessing could come a new curse under the shadow of a new moon.
This book is brand new. Here is how to enter this giveaway!
1) Leave a comment here if you had your choice to be a vampire, werewolf, zombie, or sea monster… what would you be and why?
2) Earn an extra entry by tweeting or blogging about this giveaway and on a separate comment leave the link here
3) For a third entry… make a guess on what you think my middle name is 😉
That’s it! This giveaway is open to USA and Canada. No po box numbers.
Giveaway ends next Friday, September 4
Have fun my friendly vampires,werewolves, zombies, and sea monsters!
Last weeks Freebie Friday has come to a close this evening. Thank you to all who left a comment here for a chance to win this wonderful book. Using Random.org I have a winner…
Congratulations!!!
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! The last thing that Cassandra Higgins expects out of her Sunday is to be
I will catch up with responding to comments upon my return!
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From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different. As daughter of the Mixed-Blood of the Monère, she has arrived to rule a new domain in the Louisiana Bayou. Now, under the full moon, she’s feeling a new and uncontrollable surge—and an instinctive new craving…
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