Giveaway

pen4hire on January 23rd, 2012

CONTEST OVER Today the very appropriate Giveaway Prize is the book that is being reviewed–by an author that loves literature as much as travel. Entries good until Wednesday morning. Please see details below. Sicily Week at A Traveler’s Library Destination: Sicily Book: Seeking Sicily (NEW November 2011) by John Keahey John Keahey‘s effort to understand Sicily [...]

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pen4hire on January 19th, 2012

Today one lucky person will win a copy of a new novel, reviewed recently that has nothing in particular to do with windows and hotels, but a lot to do with looking. See below. And remember you must enter by tomorrow morning. Two weeks ago we looked at a variety of windows from the outside. [...]

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pen4hire on January 13th, 2012

First, be sure to check back to the Winners page and see some names that have been added. Some won with comments, some with subscriptions and some with Tweets. Get busy with your entries because the stakes just got higher.  Besides the prizes that I am giving away each day in January, there are two [...]

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pen4hire on January 9th, 2012

(One lucky person will be chosen at random to win a comic novel about Christmas. See below. Must act before Tuesday, January 10, 3:00 a.m.) Music Monday by Kerry Dexter Destination: Scotland Music: Acquaintance, by Jim Malcolm (Beltane Records) There’s a statue of him in Canberra and a town named after him in Oregon, his [...]

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pen4hire on November 2nd, 2011

I have continued to give away books in the 25-Free-Book-Giveaway drawings. But unless you have been checking the Winner’s page, you have missed them.  I shipped them all out on Tuesday, and have a few left that I don’t have time to have another drawing for.  So If you would like one of the following, [...]

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pen4hire on September 9th, 2011

To get the entire list of books and see the rules, go to the announcement page. If you were Jonesing for one of the books that somebody else won, you can click on the book cover and go directly to Amazon to get your own copy. You’ll be happy, and anything you buy while you’re [...]

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pen4hire on September 6th, 2011

Perhaps you have been wondering where all those books are that I’ve been reviewing since our last Giveaway? Travel Memoir, travel guides, travel literature, fiction with a sense of place, travel non-fiction, travel adventure–in short, all those things we call travel books. The usual.  They’re stacked in a box that is threatening to trip Ken [...]

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pen4hire on April 8th, 2011

I have had so many wonderful books to talk about, that I have not taken a pause to let you know how the poll results went. So many of you helped by giving your opinion, that it is only fair that I share those results with you. First Poll I asked what TYPE of POSTS [...]

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pen4hire on April 6th, 2011

  Destination: Bhutan Books: (To Be Given Away by Random Draw) Married to Bhutan: How One Woman Got Lost, Said “I Do” and Found Bliss, (NEW 4/2011) by Linda Leaming Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (NEW 1/2011) by Lisa Napoli Two memoirs. One country. I can almost guarantee [...]

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