Hi, everyone! This is it — the first Books Galore Giveaway! Here’s how it works:
1. Check out the books listed below. Each one has been offered as a free giveaway by the author.
2. Click the book links to go to Amazon.com if you’d like more information about any book, or to check out reviews.
3. Click the authors’ names to visit their websites or blogs.
And if one or more of these books catches your eye:
4. Leave a comment if you’re interested in winning a book. In your comment, please put the NUMBERS (not titles) of all the books from this current giveaway that you’re interested in. For example, your comment might say something like: “Put me in for #2, 7, and 9.” Include as many books as you’d like, and feel free to enter for all of them.
5. Make sure that your comment includes an easy way for me to get in touch with you (email or your blog, etc.). If I can’t get in touch with you to get your mailing address, I’ll have to pick another winner, and that would be a bummer.
6. With each book listing, I’ve included where the author can ship. Please be sure to only enter for books that will ship to where you live. Thanks! (FYI: This week, all the books can be shipped anywhere — US, Canada, Internationally…anywhere!)
7. The winners of these books will be randomly drawn on Thursday morning. A new Bethany House book will go up on Thursday and a new Books Galore giveaway will be put up next Saturday.
Thanks to all the authors for providing these books!
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1. Watching the Tree Limbs
By Mary DeMuth
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Knowing something bad will happen if she misses, nine-year-old Mara keeps her daily appointment. And she’s never told a soul. But her Aunt Elma dies anyway, leaving her orphaned once again. Whisked away to the big white house, she discovers she’s not the only one with secrets. Strange Mr. Winningham appears for only dinner, but she’s sure he comes to her in her dreams. Zady, who looks just like the nice lady on the syrup bottle, won’t give her any answers, but she packs her lunch every day and even lets her go to church with the rest of her family. Caught in a maelstrom of lies and deceit, Mara carefully picks her way through the wreckage of a lost childhood until the day something magical happens underneath the pecan tree.
2. Gentle Passages: Guiding Your Daughter Into Womanhood
By Robin Jones Gunn
Non-Fiction (Parenting)
Ships: Anywhere
Every woman who has an adolescent daughter recognizes her own forgotten questions and insecurities mirrored in those bright young eyes. How can she let her know that she understands these changes, too strange and intimate for her daughter to mention? How can she make the passage into womanhood not a shameful, unpleasant experience but a harmonious and joyful one — an invitation to a treasured role in God’s eyes? Robin Jones Gunn shares stories of how this uncertain transition can become the loveliest time in the life of a mother and daughter, inspiring women with special traditions to carry on for generations to come.
3. Flowers for Victoria
By Sunni Jeffers
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
In the five years since her husband left her for a younger woman, Victoria Halstead has gone from dedicated corporate wife, mother and inveterate volunteer to CFO of a Denver-based real estate development company.
Life couldn’t be better, until ex-husband Matt reenters her life, showering her with gifts and kindness. Claiming a newfound faith in God, he wants to win his family back, but can she trust him?
Cleve Winslow, on the other had, attracts her with his suave mannerisms and dynamic business reputation, and he admires her success and abilities.
While confusing emotions buffet her personal life, someone is out to destroy the real estate business Victoria and her boss have worked so hard to build. How is Matt involved in this? Is Cleve the one who can rescue the company–or does he have another motive in offering to help?
Flowers for Victoria is a novel of love and betrayal, of forgiveness and the faithfulness of the One who is always by our side.
4. Rekindled
By Tamera Alexander
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
At a different time, in a different place, under different circumstances… could two people fall in love once again?
Ten years ago Kathryn Jennings made a vow. For better or worse. And that promise still holds true, even though her marriage has not turned out as she expected. When her husband fails to return home one stormy winter night, she struggles to keep their ranch, but her efforts are blocked at every turn. After a shocking glimpse into her husband’s past, Kathryn uncovers a hidden truth. What she wouldn’t give to turn back time and be able to love her husband for the man that he was, not for the man she always wanted him to be.
Larson Jennings has spent his entire life running from a broken past, unable to trust, reluctant to try again. One fateful night, his life takes an unexpected twist, and soon he is forced to make a choice. Whatever he chooses, his decision may cost him his life.
5. Revealed
By Tamera Alexander
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Words, once spoken, can mend a broken life or cripple it.
But words left unspoken can haunt the soul, inflicting a far deeper wound.
Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can’t claim it with the cloud of her past hanging over her in Willow Springs. After her husband dies, she advertises for a trail guide to accompany her to land waiting for her in Idaho–and a most unlikely candidate applies for the job.
Matthew Taylor is a man on the run, with consequences of past mistakes pursuing him at every turn. Meeting Annabelle Grayson the first time was unpleasant enough, but when she crosses his path again, her presence in his life–and what she reveals–is devastating. If given a single wish, Matthew would turn back time and right a grievous wrong. If given a second wish, he would make Annabelle Grayson pay.
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By DeAnna Dodson
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
His father will stop at nothing to keep the royal bloodline “pure” –even murder. But his sins have nearly destroyed Prince Philip and the future of his reign.
Forced into a political marriage, Philip tells his bride, “I will not lie to you, I will not be unfaithful to you, and I will not love you. My heart is pledged to another and I am not a man to break an oath.”
His one true love is a lowly serving girl. When Philip refuses to set her aside in order to form a politically beneficial marriage, his father has the girl tried on false charges and executed. He then forces Philip to marry the beautiful and nobly born Lady Rosalynde. Devastated and embittered by his loss and his father’s betrayal, Philip is determined to never love again . . . not his father, not his wife, not his God. Although Rosalynde adores him, he withholds his heart from her, refusing to let even death end his devotion to the love he lost. Despite his coldness towards her, Rosalynde is determined to love him and teach him to love her — as determined as the God he has turned his back on. As civil war rages throughout the realm, Philip faces a greater struggle within himself. Will he open his heart to love again or let his pride destroy him and his kingdom?
7. The Oak Leaves
By Maureen Lang
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Talie Ingram has an ideal life: a successful, devoted husband; a beautiful one-year-old son; and another on the way. But her world is shattered when she discovers a shocking family secret in the nineteenth-century journal of her ancestor Cosima Escott.
Only in reading Cosima’s words can Talie make peace with the legacy she’s inherited and the one she’s passed on to her son.
8. Lost in NashVegas (3 copies of this book are up for grabs)
By Rachel Hauck
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Last week, I stocked groceries in Freedom, Alabama. This week, I live in Nashville, Tennessee, about to take the stage at the famous Bluebird Cafe.
Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Only one problem, I’ve got stage fright.
But after years of being ruled by fear and hiding from my dream, I confronted my limited reality and left home. Forget the hometown hunk who wants to make me queen of his doublewide. Forget Momma’s doubt-inspiring tirade. I can make it in Music City…can’t I?
So I took a leap of faith, gathered my old guitar, my notebook full of songs, and packed up my ’69 Chevy pickup. Look out NashVegas!
With the help of some new friends, especially handsome Lee Rivers, my dream is about to find the light of day. But as I face my first night at the Bluebird Cafe, I realize…I might just do what comes naturally. Look for the nearest exit, and run!
9. Reluctant Burglar
By Jill Elizabeth Nelson
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Art Stole Her Heart…
Now, can she return the favor?
If Desiree Jacobs knows anything, it’s art. Her father, internationally renowned security expert, taught her everything he knew. Most of all, he taught her about honor. Integrity. Faith. So surely God will forgive her for despising the man determined to destroy her father’s good name?
Special Agent Tony Lucano knows Hiram Jacobs is an art thief. But what he can’t figure out is Desiree. Is she the innocent she claims, or a clever accomplice?
Then Hiram is murdered. And along with his company, he leaves Desiree a hidden container—full of stolen paintings. But she can’t admit her father was a thief! That would destroy their business, put people out of jobs, and embarrass international museums that have been displaying clever forgeries. No, she must find out why her honest father would turn criminal. And she must return the priceless art to the rightful owners without their knowledge. Even if it means facing down a ring of cutthroat art thieves.
Even if it means accepting help from the man she most distrusts…
10. Windswept Weddings
By Lena Nelson Dooley
Fiction
Ships: Anywhere
Nature’s Fury Can’t Stop Love
Severe weather disrupts four weddings with the worst nature has to offer. Will the couples survive the emotional turbulence brewing with the storms?
Christine Dailey’s perfect wedding is threatened when the worst snowstorm in years hits Minnesota. Can Christine trust God to take care of them and get them to the church on time?
Three strikes and you’re out. The morning of a third attempt at a ceremony, Dale’s best man takes him out chasing a tornado. Is Marie’s dream wedding about to be blown away—again?
An august hurricane targets Florida, and Allie Seton’s dream wedding swirls into a full-blown nightmare. And worse yet, her fiancé, Kyle Landon is stranded in New York City. Will Allie learn to lean on God in the midst of chaos? Will Kyle get home in time for the wedding?
Lightning ignites a wildfire that threatens beautiful Settler Lake, California. On Luke and Krista’s wedding day, the wind changes and the couple lands in danger. Will they trust God to be an ever-present help in their time of trouble?
Wow! Am I FIRST????? I guess when it comes to books, I’ll get up early on a Saturday morning. LOL
Thanks so much for doing this!
I’ll go with 5-6-7-8 (shameal, shamazel) *sorry*
bibliomane@myway.com
Have a blessed weekend!
Sherry
They all sound wonderful. count me in for all of them!
I’m greedy but they all sound so awesome. Can I be entered for all?
Thanks!
alexis@ajpr.net
please enter me for 4 & 5. thanks!! these are all great books!
Good morning, Katrina! Thanks so much for doing this! It seems like a LOT of work! *wink*
Put me in for #2 and #7, please.
I’ll enter for all
Thanks! litlmelzie@aol.com xoxo melzie
I would like to enter for all!
Thanks for doing this! Oh how I love a good book!
2, 8 please, please!
Great list of books… put me in for 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Thanks
Heather
relocatedyank @ gmail.com
Wow, Katrina, this is so awesome! So many great sounding books
Can you put me in for 3-10 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10)?!!!
stacy @ hambones [dot] org
Hi Katrina! Please put me in for 1,2,3,4, and 7. Thanks!
Wow, what a cool site. (My thanks to Brandilynn for promoting it)
I would love to be entered for books 3, 4,5,8.
Cheryl
scrapbook@fairpoint.net
Great list of books. Id like to be entered for books 2 and 3. thanks.
crygibb at yahoo dot com
how fun!
please put me in for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
thanks!!!
jennipearl@gmail.com
I would love to be entered for #2. Thank you!
jmdeaton at yahoo dot com
Number 4 & 7 both look like interesting reads! Thanks!
Stephanie
http://www.thewrittenword.wordpress.com
P.S. I have already finished three books from my list – I will be posting reveiws shortly – hooray!
Oops, here is my e-mail address forksblog@optonline.net.
Stephanie
http://www.thewrittenword.wordpress.com
Ooo – Put me in for #9 please and thank you.
And you can reach me through my blog…wwww.comfydenim.blogspot.com
or my e-mail: skyddish@cox.net
Happy Reading!
I have to say #10, Windswept Weddings, certainly sounds interesting to me right now since we’re planning an outdoor wedding!
Wow, all great-sounding books!
Please enter me for 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10.
Thanks SO much!
~Jada – jbaker65 @ comcast dot net
Wow! What a giveaway. They sound too interesting to pick from….put me in for all of them!
Thanks,
Kristin
Books, books, I LOVE books!
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I’d love to be entered for 2, 6, & 9. Really, I’d love them all because, well, I LOVE books. But some of them I have already read or own, and that just wouldn’t be fair not would it?
Thanks for the giveaways!
Good morning, Katrina!
Put me in for #1. This is just so exciting!
They all sound great, so please count me in! And it is SO nice to be able to say that, as I live in England!
Exciting, exciting!
Please put me in for #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, & 10.
You know where to reach me! :v)
They all sound good, but put me down for 2-4-8-10.
This is great!
I would love 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 not that I devour books or anything.
What a fantastic opportunity to get more people interested in Christian fiction.
Thanks.
I would like to be entered for all. My blog is at: http://momofajl.blogspot.com or my email is zb136@hotmail.com. Thanks!
8, 6, 5, 4, are the ones I want to be entered in.
laney_po@yahoo.com
Put me in for 1,2,3,4,6 & 7.
Thank you!
Put me in for 1,3,4,6,10.
Thanks, Selima at sgarris@gmail.com
I haven’t read any of these. Please put my name in for all of them.
riesgraf@lycos.com
Wow, these all look great, but #4, 8, 9 and 10 really caught my eye. Please put me down for those.
Thanks so much!
D
I’d love to be put in for 1,3,4,5,8, & 9
You can leave a comment on my blog
http://freshbrewedwriter.blogspot.com
Thanks! You ROCK!
Girl I bet this is keeping you hopping.
I would like to enter for 1,3,5
Thank you for all your hard work.
Put me in for 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. I already have number three . . . it’s good! Thanks for all the work you are doing for these give-a-ways. It’s so fun!
heatheranddavid(at)gmail.com
I think they all sound great, so put me in for all of them, too!
circusmail@gmail.com
Hi,
All the books sound really good! Could you please enter me for all of them?
Thank you so much for doing this!!!
Mrs.Pear@cox.net
I am choosing #s 1,2,3,4,5,and 8. Thanks for doing this!
Oh, sorry, my e-mail is lamize@bellsouth.net Thanks.
I’ve read some of these so I’ll enter for 6, 7, & 8. Thanks, Katrina! My email is on my webpage under critique services.
Thanks a bunch!
Wow – since I love books and would greatly enjoy stocking up on more put me in for 4, 6 & 9. Thanks
Please sign me up for books #1 & #2.
Thank you for doing this!!!
bibanon1@gmail.com
1,2,3,4 & 7 for me!
They all sound so good…books, books, glorious books:-)
I’d like # 4, 5, 6, and 8.
Thanks so much for doing this…you rock!
thedeena63 @ hotmail.com
Wow! Put me in the hat for 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10.
pambhm (at) gmail (dot) com
I glad to know the timing is not critical!
put me in for #5, 7, 8, 10.
Thanks so much
pechandler@bellsouth.net
please enter me for all but “2″ and “3″ – thank you!!! contact via blog!
Wonderful – a chance to get a Christian novel
May I put my hand up for #’s 1,4,6,7 and 10
Thank you so much
Sally
http://sally906.blogspot.com/
All of these books look so great! This is exciting. Windswept Weddings would be perfect for me, I’m getting married in May and it’s been known to snowstorm here in May. Put me in for #s 10, 2, 8, & 4. Thanks! Hope you’re having a great weekend! =)
I would be interested in #2 please. Thanks for taking the time to host these givaways!
I’d love to have #4 and #6. Thanks for organizing the giveaways! I know it must be quite a lot of work for you.
Please put me in for #’s 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Thank you so much and what a great selection!!!
WOW! Such a great selection…and they ship everywhere!!! Yay!!
Please put me down for 1, 3, 7, 8. Thanks!
http://cherryblossomadventures.typepad.com
Katrina, If you would put me down for numbers 1, 4, and 6 that would be awesome. Thank you and the authors for this! Cool!
Please put me in for 2 and 7! They all sound good, I looked some of them up at the library. Might have new ones for my spring reading thing!
Thank you so much! and the authors!
I love books. Put my name in for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. My email address is afriend@netcommander.com
Thanks for the wonderful chance to win some books.
Pam
Wow. What a great selection of books, Katrina. Thank you for putting this all together. I would be happy to receive any one of them.
Lindsay
Hi Im really excited about this as a New Zealander I dont get to enter many blog contests as they are usually restricted to the USA. I love reading
Please put me in for #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
thanks very much
Please enter me for all of ‘em. Thanks!
gajabra25@yahoo.com
Brandy
What an awesome giveaway! I have posted this on my blog! Please enter me in for all of them, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10.
Katrina,
I really really like #1. If I don’t win it, I will buy it, it sounds really good. Thanks so much for hosting this, it’s so much fun!!
Jennifer
pettitfamilyforgod@hotmail.com
I feel like a kid in a candy store…I would like to sign up for #1,6,7,8,and 9. Thank you so much Katrina for hosting these give-aways, and thank you to the authors for being willing to send out your books!
I am so excited to report that I just finished my second book!!! I just wrote my review for it. http://werallnuts.blogspot.com/2007/04/my-sisters-keeper-by-jodi-picoult.html
2 books and 2 reviews!!! I can’t believe it!
Hi Katrina,
Can you put me down for 1,2,4,5,& 8?
Thanks.
feeneyd@earthlink.net
Fun! Put me down for #3, 4, 5, and 9, please!
Hey Katrina, this is so cool. Please put me down for any of the books listed. Have a great week!
TaunaLen
Wow Katrina, thanks for typing all that up. Yes please definitely put me in for all of them!!
Very exciting
Laura
Put me down for #2, 7, & 9.
Also, I noticed I am not on the list of participants in your side bar. I signed up, but I notice no one is coming to read my reviews and that I was having trouble tracking everyone else, who had such good lists and titles I wanted to read reviews about. lol! Scatter brained mom. =)
dilbertpgt@msn.com
Thanks again for organizing and running th is great challenge!
Hi Katrina!
Thanks so much for organizing this giveway – it’s fun to read through titles that I’ve never heard of before!
Mark me down for the following…
1, 3, 4, 5, 7
thanks!
~liz
http://www.smithical.com
liz@smithical.com
I would be happy with any of them! Thanks for doing this!
Thank you for doing this — love books!
2 , 3 and 9 sound great.
I have already read some of the others!
I’d love to be entered for #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10. They sound very interesting! Thanks for taking the time to do this. Have a great day!
Thank you so much for organizing this. Please enter me for #2,4,5,6,7,10.
sheri.carneal@gmail.com
Have a great day!
I’m interested in 1, 3 and 9. Thanks!
I would love any one of them so count me in for ALL of them!
They all sound good. I would like to try for 1 & 2. Thanks
I would like to try for 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9
Thanks! My email can be found as a link in my blog.
Thanks for doing this Katrina! Please put me down for #3,4,5 and 6. Thank you!
Katrina, what a wonderful list! I would be happy with any of them, so put my name in the hat for all of them! Thanks so very much!
I would love to receive any of the books 2, 4 or 5. Thanks for doing this. My e-mail is kanddallison@yahoo.com
Great List–
Please enter my name for books–1, 3, 4 and 6.
Thanks
Those books will have a lovely home with me. Enter me for all, except Tamera’s books; I have them already. THEY ARE WONDERFUL!!
Thanks for doing this for us.
I’d like to be considered for the following:
#2, 6 & 9
Thx, they all look wonderful. ;D
I’d like to try for #2, 3,4,7.
they all do look great! How fun!
They are all new to me! What fun and such a great thing you’re doing, thank you so much!
Put me in for #1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10
Thanks
http://www.hambones.org/blogs/gail
Oh, goodness gracious! I thought I was *early*! LOL
Anyway… Please put me in for books #7 and #9!
I’ve heard that the second is an AWESOME book (a friend reviewed it a while back), and the other looks like one my mom’d enjoy! ;o)
Thank you!
mizbooks@gmail.com
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De-lurking to say put me in for any and all books, please.
melodyspins@tds.net
Put me in for #6. Thanks.
I can’t decide. Put me in for all of them.
Jknapp777@aol.com
Yipee!! I love a good book giveaway!!! Put me in for # 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9!!
Hi Hi! Please put me down for 3, 4, 5! This is so exciting! I came over from Baseballs and Bows…. thelines3@yahoo.com Thank you for the opportunity!
What a great thing to do. I couldn’t decide either — they all sound like a book I would love to read, so, please add my name to all of them.
prairierose5811@yahoo.com
http://wwww.myprairierose.com/PrairieView
Please put me in for all of them except #2 since I don’t have a daughter. I love good book giveaways!
eazelie@hotmail.com