Announcement: Winner Me Before You and The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes

And the winner of the two Jojo Moyes books, Me Before You and The Last Letter from Your Lover is…..

Beth V (subscribes to blog)

The winner will be notified via email.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!

Review: Return to Poughkeepsie (The Poughkeepsie Brotherhood #2) by Debra Anastasia

Beckett Taylor is a lot of things: friend, brother, lover, criminal, and murderer. He is all destruction and easily strikes fear in any that cross his path.

But yet under that tough exterior and dark past, there is a ray of hope that he isn’t all bad.

Poughkeepsie is home to three blood brothers–Cole, Blake, and Beckett.  In Return to Poughkeepsie we pick up with their continuing stories, romances, and lives.

While Cole and Blake still call Poughkeepsie home, Beckett has left town until he gets a phone call from Blake that will change everything. The love of Blake’s life, Livia has been kidnapped and a new gang has filled the hole that Beckett left behind.

Beckett has no choice but to return to Poughkeepsie and help his brothers and face his demons once and for all.

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Giveaway: 2 Books by Jojo Moyes The Last Letter from Your Lover and Me Before You

Celebrate this Valentines Day with two romantic reads! This giveaway is for two of Jojo Moyes most popular romance novels: Me Before You and The Last Letter from Your Lover!

Grab a box of tissues and enter to win today! Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Me Before You and The Last letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes for your enjoyment!

Giveaway runs 2/11/14 to 2/18/14

Winners will be announced 2/19/14.

(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 be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to respond, it not another winner will be chosen. 

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Special Feature: Release Day Return to Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

If you have been a follower of my blog for any length of time, you will recognize this author as one of frequent reads! I was first introduced to Debra Anastasia with her novel Poughkeepsie which I read a couple of years ago and fell in love with.

Since reading Poughkeepsie, I have also enjoyed reading Anastasia’s other books, Crush Seraphim and Bittersweet Seraphim. This week, Anastasia will be releasing yet another book that I will be reading for review shortly, Return to Poughkeepsie.

This novel is available for purchase on 12/30! Be sure to check it out and spread the word on this thrilling new installment! Here is a sneak peak about whats in store for readers!

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Review: The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Set in post-Ottoman Turkey, we meet a host of colorful and eccentric characters struggling to adjust in a rapidly developing modern world.

This book is full of allegorical references and presents a colorful and unique view of Turkish culture and society.

The book describes the setting up of the modern bureaucratic state. At the center of the story itself is our charming antihero, Hayri Irdal.

He has been described as infectiously charming and be becomes entwined with some interesting people–a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman Empire, a clock whisperer-at the Time Regulation Institute.

The Institute it self is described as a “vast organization that employs a hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing all the clocks in Turkey to Western time”.

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