Books
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Black Friday Book Deals at Entangled Publishing
The holidays have officially kicked off now that Thanksgiving is over! So who out there is looking for some great bookish stocking sutffers of gifts this Black Friday? Well why not stop over at Entangled Publishing and check out their Black Friday deals? Sales run from 11/25 through 12/6. They have TONS of titles on sale for only 99 cents, and this is the perfect way to stock up those e-readers. You can even gift them to anyone, for awesome early holiday stocking stuffers that won’t break the bank! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1QNX7pUakh6X3ZoVFJBNVlWLUE/
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Giveaway: THERE ONCE LIVED A MOTHER WHO LOVED HER CHILDREN by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
This weeks giveaway has a lengthy title: There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers “Love them, they’ll torture you; don’t love them, they’ll leave you anyway.” After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognition for capturing the experiences of everyday Russians with profound pathos and mordant wit. Among her most famous and controversial works, these three novellas—The Time Is Night,Chocolates with Liqueur, and Among Friends—are modern classics that breathe new life into Tolstoy’s famous dictum, “All happy families…
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Review: There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Leo Tolstoy said it best: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Don’t we all have that one crazy family member who tells grossly inappropriate jokes and stories at the dinner table? Or that one sibling that we are insanely jealous of? Or what about your bratty niece or nephew that you just wish you could trip as they run by screaming? I think the best thing about family is that it’s a classic….just like Tolstoy. Most people can relate to family and that’s what makes Ludmilla Petrushevskaya latest novel such a captivating read.
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Announcement: Winner THE TIGER QUEENS by Stephanie Thornton
And the winner of the giveaway for THE TIGER QUEENS by Stephanie Thornton is….. Caitlin M (tweeted about giveaway) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher and HFVBT for making this giveaway possible!
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Review: The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen
In upstate New York there is a small farm that appears to be just another farm in the country. Normal. Ordinary. However the Pennywort farm is anything but ordinary and normal….it’s magical. At the heart of the farm there is a magical garden full of imagination and color. The locals have long said that entering the garden can gain insight to life’s most difficult issues by just walking through the gates, ironically the garden’s caretaker has never experienced any kind of revelation by entering the garden. Olivia Pennyworth has been caring for the garden and has spent her entire life on the farm while harboring a dark secret which forces…
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Review: First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen by Charlie Lovett
If you love Jane Austen you need to move this book up to the top of your TBR list immediately! Sophie Collingwood’s uncle has just died under questionable circumstances and then his prized rare book collection has been sold to satisfy his debts. To console herself, Sophie goes to work at her favorite bookstore in London, Antiquarian Books. While working at the store, she is approached by two different collectors who are after the same book, Little Book of Allegories, written by Reverend Richard Mansfield in 1796.
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Giveaway: THE TIGER QUEENS by Stephanie Thornton
In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph…. Thanks to the Publisher and HFVBT, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of THE TIGER QUEENS for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. Giveaway runs 11/19/14 to 11/25/14 Winners will be announced 11/26/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will…
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Review: The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan by Stephanie Thornton
Genghis Khan was one of antiquities most notorious and feared leaders. The Mongol empire grew exponentially under his reign but behind every fearless leader, there is often a woman pushing him to be better. This is the story of the women who made Genghis Khan’s empire what it was. It begins with the story of Borte, his queen. Borte’s future has been foretold by her seer mother and it doesn’t look good. She will come between two brothers and will bring war and destruction to her people because of it. But true to her promise to marry the man who would be come Genghis Khan, she endures the prophecy with as…
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Interview: Last Words by Rich Zahradnik
In the darkest corners of New York City, LAST WORDS examines the city during its harshest period in 1975. While New York burns, Coleridge Taylor, a reporter for the Messenger-Telegram, hunts down a killer, hoping to redeem himself for writing an invented news article. Laura Wheeler, a co-worker, joins Taylor on his adventure, dodging the mob and crooked cops. Will they be able to achieve justice in time or will they be engulfed by the rest of the city? To celebrate the upcoming release of this thrilling mystery, I am spotlighting an interview with Rich Zahradnik! Without further ado please welcome Rich Zahradnik to The Lit Bitch!
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Review: The Firebird (Slains #2) by Susanna Kearsley
Nicola Marter is a seemingly normal women, with an extraordinary gift. She can touch an object and see it’s past history. But she doesn’t like using her gift. She is afraid of being called a ‘freak’ and that people won’t accept her. So she hides her gift. While working in an art gallery specializing in Russian art, an old woman arrives with a wood carving of a firebird, claiming it belonged to Catherine the Great. Nicola’s boss doesn’t have any way of authenticating it and thus, it has no value to an art dealer. But when she touches it she sees that it was in fact given to a girl named Anna…