This is our last post for Best I've Read 2010. Thank you to all of your for making this such a HUGE success and a lot of fun. We've enjoyed presenting some of our favorite reads this week to you and some favorite readers from the rest of the BIR group. Thank you to Cindy and the other 8 amazing bloggers for this fun experience.
Thank you to all the wonderful authors and publishers for making BIR2010 possible. Tomorrow we will have one last post about the grand prize giveaway BIR is having, and there's both a US and International giveaway. You don't want to miss it!
Here's what's included in our last BIR Prize Pack:
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The Unwritten Rule
By: Elizabeth Scott
Published by: Simon Pulse
Elizabeth Scott's Website: www.Elizabethwrites.com
Book Summary (from goodreads.com):
He's looking at me like—well, like he wants to look at me.
Like he likes what hes sees, and he's smiling and hiw eyes are so blue, even in the faint flow of the porch light they shine, and I nod dumbly, blindly, and then grope for the door handle, telling myself to look away and yet not able to do it.
"Sara," he says, softly, almost hesitantly, and my heart slam-bangs, beating hard, and this is what it's like to want someone you can't have. To want someone you shouldn't even be looking at.
Grace
By: Elizabeth Scott
Published by: Dutton
Elizabeth Scott's website: www.elizabethwrites.com
Book Summary (from goodreads.com):
A fable of a terrifying near future by critically acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott.
Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by suicide bomb. But she refuses to die for the cause, and now Grace is on the run, daring to dream of freedom. In search of a border she may never reach, she travels among malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through the desert. Accompanied by the mysterious Kerr, Grace struggles to be invisible, but the fear of discovery looms large as she recalls the history and events that delivered her uncertain fate.
Told in spare, powerful prose, this tale of a dystopian near future will haunt readers long after they've reached the final page.
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Pathfinder
By: Orson Scott Card
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Card's website: www.hatrack.com
Book summary (from author website):
A powerful secret. A dangerous path.
Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him -- secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.
Rigg's birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent . . . or forfeit control of his destiny.
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The Lonely Hearts Club
By Elizabeth Eulberg
Published by Point
Released December 29, 2009
Love is all you need... or is it? Penny's about to find out in this wonderful debut.
Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating. So she vows: no more. It's a personal choice. . .and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. And a few other girls are inspired. A movement is born: The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the band from Sgt. Pepper). Penny is suddenly known for her nondating ways . . . which is too bad, because there's this certain boy she can't help but like. . . .
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Shadow Hills
Summary: After her sister Athena's tragic death, it's obvious that grief-stricken Persephone "Phe" Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister's sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA — a school which her sister mysteriously mentioned in her last diary entry before she died.
Once there, Phe quickly realizes that something is deeply amiss in her new town. Not only does Shadow Hills' history boast an unexplained epidemic that decimated hundreds of its citizens in the 1700s, but its modern townies also seem eerily psychic, with the bizarre ability to bend metal. Even Zach — the gorgeous stranger Phe meets and immediately begins to lust after — seems as if he is hiding something serious. Phe is determined to get to the bottom of it. The longer she stays there, the more she suspects that her sister's untimely death and her own destiny are intricately linked to those who reside in Shadow Hills.
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Thank you to Simon & Schuster, Anastasia Hopcus, Elizabeth Scott, Point and Dutton for these awesome giveaways.
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Another INCREDIBLE give away! Thank you Mundie Moms for the EPIC chance to win!!
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What an awesome giveaway!! Thanks for the chance to win...I have SO enjoyed your book blog and continue to visit......OFTEN!!!!!
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