Special thank you to Valerie at Hachette Book Group for offering me a review copy of this book and 5 beautiful copies to you the readers!

This giveaway is closed – winners have been announced 🙂

Even though former slaves Annie Coats and her son Gabriel have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice–to the extent that Annie secretly recalls her days on the plantation with fondness. Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses are seeking to build their new lives–with Gabriel, a tailor, producing uniforms for soldiers and fine suits for pompous politicians, and Annie, a seamstress and laundress, catering to the nearby brothels and stately homes–is supposed to be a safe haven, a “promised land” for former slaves, but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.

In fact, the city’s own emancipation efforts in 1862 serve only to compromise the Coats family’s status, putting Gabriel’s three young daughters (each of them born free of free parents) at risk of becoming the property of the Coatses’ former master. The remarkable emotional energy with which the Coatses rise their daily battles–as they negotiate with their former owner, as they assist other former slaves en route to freedom, as they prepare for the encroaching war, and as they struggle to love each other enough–is what fuels this novel and makes its tragic denoument so devastating.

Author Breena Clarke’s website

This giveaway will run from today until August 10.  To sign up to win one of these (5)  books:

1)  Leave a comment here and answer the question – when you personally think of the word freedom, what does it mean to you?

2) for 2 extra chances blog or twitter about this givaway

3) one more entry if you follow me (twitter or google)

**  Please use a separate comment for each entry.  USA only please and no po boxes.  Be sure your entries have a way for me to contact you if you win.

Thanks everyone!  Have fun!  Winners will be announced here and emailed for their shipping info.

Thank you to Anna at Hachette for offering me this book to review and 5 copies to give away to you the awesome readers!

This giveaway is closed – winners have been announced  🙂

The new Americana romance from bestselling author Dorothy Garlock, this time set against the backdrop of WWII.

Sophie Heller’s family immigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before WWII began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails, it is an accident but the Heller family is blamed. Coming to Sophie’s rescue is a teacher from the high school, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.

Author Dorothy Garlock’s website

This giveaway will run from today until August 10.  To sign up to win one of these (5)  books:

1)  Leave a comment here and answer the question – who was that teacher/mentor in your own life that made a difference to you (I do not mean in a romantic way as the book direction, but in a way that changed you for the better- made you a stronger more self assured person)

2) for 2 extra chances blog or twitter about this givaway

3) one more entry if you follow me (twitter or google)

**  Please use a separate comment for each entry.  USA only please and no po boxes.  Be sure your entries have a way for me to contact you if you win.

Thanks everyone!  Have fun!  Winners will be announced here and emailed for their shipping info.

Thank you Laura for sending me not only this book, but a second one to give away.

I have to tell you readers…. this came in the mail on Friday and now… it calls me.  I have other books I am reading AND enjoying, but this cover, this book…. I want to drop everything and read it now.

“Adarae jolted as the feeling surged through her.  She looked carefully at not one, but two little faces, and felt the warm power within them.  No one suspected it would be two, but the strenght pulsing through them was undeniable.  They stared back into her eyes.”

ALVOR is a spellbinding blend of magic and mystery, enchantment and fairy tale, that asks the age old question:

Do you believe in magic?

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Erin and her twin brother, Bain, had never seen the secluded cabin in the woods by their home.  Upon entering, they discovered a magical world haunted by pegasi, dragons, and fairies

Are you ready to play?

To enter this giveaway:

1) leave a comment with your favorite fantasy book title (have you reviewed this favorite?  If so, link back to the review)

2.  Blog about this contest on your site and receive 2 extra entries ( we are helping Laura get the word out about her book!)

3.  Follow me on Twitter and/or follow my blog (the link is up on top of the page)

Each chance for entries must be on a separate comment.  USA entries only please, no PO boxes.

This giveaway will end on August 7.

See authors website here