ITS OVER! COME BACK THIS COMING WEEK TO SEE THE GRAND PRIZE WINNERS.
GRAND PRIZES:
WHERE TO GO WHEN BOOK : Susan Reiners
PERISCOPE BOOK LIGHT IN A BOOK COVER: Bethany Blue
USA BOOK: Richard Mussler Wright
YAK PAK TOTE BAG: Laura Baran
DAY ELEVEN (Deadline MidnightMST Sunday Jan. 24) American Fugue by Alexis Stamatis. Winner Janet M.
DAY TEN (Deadline midnight MST, THURSDAY Jan. 21) Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs. Winner: Bob Keck. Second Win!!
DAY NINE (Deadline midnight MST, Tuesday Jan. 19)Moon Handbook: Fiji by David Stanley (autographed copy) Winner: Richard Mussler-Wright
DAY EIGHT (Deadline midnight MST, MONDAY Jan. 18) If the World Were a Village by Shelagh Armstrong. (This is written for children, but enjoyable by the whole family.) Winner: Laura Baran (AGAIN!–she comments EVERY DAY)
DAY SEVEN (Deadline Sunday, Midnight Jan. 17.) Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox. Winner: @Paris Buff (Marlys Schurmann)
DAY SIX (Deadline Thursday, Midnight Jan. 14): Heart of the Buddha by Elsie Sze. Winner: Laura Baran
DAY FIVE (Deadline Midnight Jan. 12): Weird World. Winner: Casey Freeland
DAY FOUR (Deadline Midnight Jan. 11): Win Book on Korea, Calligrapher’s Daughter, by Eugenia Kim. Winner: Libbie Griffin.
DAY THREE (Deadline Midnight Jan. 10): TWO people win copies of Surviving Paradise. Winners: Kris Bordessa wins one. 2nd copy: Bob Keck.
DAY TWO: WIN A COPY OF GAELLIN QUIN’S THE LAST ALOHA. Winner: Meredith Resnick
Day One: WIN A COPY OF DAVID FARLEY’s IRREVERENT CURIOSITY. WINNER: Stephanie Stiavetti
Celebrate!
Happy New Year. This month marks the first birthday of A Traveler’s Library, and to celebrate I’m going to give YOU gifts (with the help of some very generous partners). The books in this giveaway were provided to me as review books by the publishing companies. Two of the Grand prizes are not books, and they were provided by the manufacturers. Today you can win a copy of
popular, informative, and very funny An Irreverent Curiosity by David Farley. Surprising, revealing historic novel about our 50th state, The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quin.
Surviving Paradise, a year on a South Pacific Island. (TWO COPIES-TWO WINNERS)
A family saga set in Korea during Japanese occupation and war with U.S., The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim.
Weird World, a book of photographs of unbelievable finds around the world. Full of silliness.
Heart of the Buddha, by Elsie Sze, a new novel which recreates the exotic world of Bhutan.
Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox, who explains all the mysteries in the Dan Brown book based in Washington D.C.
Moon Handbook: Fiji by David Stanley. An autographed copy of a guidebook to a dream location
Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs. A must have book for map lovers.
American Fugue by Alexis Stamatis. Thriller and road trip across America.
HERE’S THE DEAL
- Each week day from January 5 through January 22, (skipping Thursdays) I will give away a book (or pair of books).
- One winner will be chosen by random drawing each contest day.
- All entrants (from all days of the contest) will be entered in a random selection drawing for chances at 4 Grand Prizes, which will be announced on January 12 through January 15 (again skipping Thursday). You don’t have to do anything extra to win a Grand Prize.
Here’s What YOU Do To Win
- For one chance: leave a comment on any Traveler’s Library post and (ATTN:)mention the travel literature or travel book in THAT day’s giveaway. (People are forgetting that part!)You may comment on as many posts as you wish. You will get another chance at the grand prizes when you comment on a 2nd or 3rd post, but only one comment PER post will count toward the daily prize and toward the grand prizes.
- For another chance: Tweet this message: @pen4hire has a free travel literature giveaway at A Traveler’s Library http://wp.me/pxThu-10g
- For THREE extra chances at the grand prizes, sign up for an e-mail subscription to A Traveler’s Library here. If you already have an e-mail subscription, I’ll automatically give you three extra chances at the grand prize.
- See general contest rules here.
TODAY, YOU CAN WIN:Grand Prizes (listed at top of page), Deadline January 29 midnight MST.
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Oh, I’d forgotten all about this book until I read your description. This looks like a good one!
Happy Blog-Birthday, Vera!
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happy happy birthday, vera! YAY!!! i’ve so enjoyed your site – great, great work.
and what an excellent giveaway today – i loved farley’s book!
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Happiest of 1st birthdays to your excellent blog travel blog! Keep up the fabulous work and reporting on “stuff” we didn’t know.
Like your celebratory style with the giveaways!
judy
Happy happy 1st birthday! I haven’t read the book but the excerpts are hilarious, and it’s on my long list of books for 2010, so I would love to win it.
Seeing the picture of Irreverent Curiosity makes me want to visit Italy right now!
Vera-
What a bumble head. Forgot to tell you that your recommendation for An Irreverent Curiosity book sounds like a very interesting read!
thanks,
judy
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How I wish I were in Italy RIGHT NOW!!! But since I cannot be, it is great traveling through your blog. Congratulations on the anniversary and thanks!
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I don’t want this book, so don’t count me in this contest for this round, but I just wanted to say I think this is a great idea and I’ll be back daily!
i could read this mverno@roadrunner.com
Happy blogaversary! The Irreverent Curiosity sounds curious to me.
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Irreverent curiosity is right up my alley. Thanks for the opportunity.
DAVID FARLEY’s IRREVERENT CURIOSITY looks like a great read! We just went to Italy in October so I would love to read this!
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You know who needs to read The Last Aloha? Me, that’s who. Please. Thank you, or rather, MAHALO!
Would enjoy reading The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quin, somewhere I would love to go eventually is Hawaii, thanks for the giveaway
Thank you! I never win anything!
.-= Stephanie -
Ok, my “rules of attraction” guru would really dislike that statement. How about this:
“Thank you! I really deserve this!”
.-= Stephanie -
I’d enjoy ‘the last aloha’ because most Hawaiian historical novels are sanitized – especially the american imperialistic push which more than explains Pearl Harbor (it doesn’t excuse it, of course but it certainly explains it).
I think a good book would be a well written historical novel. One that explores Hawaii ( The Last Aloha) would be a lovely journey into time.
The Last Aloha sounds like it would be a great book. If I do not win, I may see if it is available on my kindle.
I’m a silly, what I _really_ meant was I’d like to win a copy of Surviving Paradise. I’m going to check out your review now.
I’d love a crack at Surviving Paradise. Risht now, I’m in my annual bout of surviving winter in New Hampshire.
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This isn’t an entry but I reviewed Surviving Paradise and it is an impressive and entertainign look at life on a remote island.
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Surviving Paradise – it looks like that’s what’s up for grabs right now? I’ll take it!
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I’d love ‘surviving paradise’. Anything involving paradise works for me.
I’d like to win a copy of Surviving Paradise.
Surviving Paradise would be interesting to read
Surviving Paradise – just doesn’t seem to difficult to do does it?
I would like to read the giveaway book-
Surviving Paradise, a year on a South Pacific Island
This looks like a great book!
Thank you! This is so exciting! I’m looking forward to receiving it
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I live a ‘weird world’ so I’d like to learn more about myself. Fun facts and figures indeed!
I’d love to check out ‘heart of the buddha’. Thanks for offering these. I like to increase my roaming range – even if it’s limited to my imagination and learning.
I loved the picture in Montevideo with the black and white blackground; simply beautiful.
I’ve been there and the beach side reminds me Copacabana beach a lot ( just the geography). By the way, the Heart of the Buddha book seems to be very interesting.
Sign me up for ‘decoding the lost symbol’. Hope I don’t get paranoid.
about the last question of the Madame Bovary article, ” have you ever been turned on by a travel book”, my answer is yes!
I got a book once b/c the front page caught my eyes with a bright green and a very pink lipstick mark on it that got me wondering…this has to be good!
“behind the bedroom door” from Paula Derrow.
it’s a must! funny and not boring at all.
btw, now I am curious abot “decoding th elost symbol”!
Nice interview with Simon Cox. (Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox).
Read Madame Bovary for the first time several years ago. Yeap. Got all hot and bothered! -r
Travel book that left me hot and bothered: The Magic Bus by Rory MacLean.
Loved the interview with Simon Cox. (Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox).
Thank you! I’m thrilled to have won Heart of the Buddha. It seems to be a very serendipitous year and all things are pointing to seeing the world in a new light.
I would like to read Decoding the lost symbol
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I’d love to read If the World Were a Village by Shelagh Armstrong to my 4 year old. It would be a very nice companion to his children’s book called Every Child.
Oh crud.. that’s what I get for reading my email a day late! Would still like to find a copy somewhere!
I’ll take ‘Moon Handbook: Fiji’. It doesn’t look like I’m getting there anytime soon so I guess the book is the next best thing. Thanks for offering this.