Better Late Than Never ~ $65 CSN Certificate winner

I apologize for not getting the winner of the $65 CSN gift certificate chosen sooner.  I've had some things come up in real life and I honestly forgot as a result of those things. So here is our winner (chosen by random.org): VAL!
Congrats Val!  I'll be emailing you in a minute to let you know that you are the winner! 

Blog Tour ~ Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing Giveaway, Guest Feature and Book Trailer

 

Today is my stop on the blog tour for Kathy Cano-Murillo's new book Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing.  I want to thank Kathy for dropping by The Book Junkie's Bookshelf today.  I asked Kathy the following question:

This book is about a person who has a "crafty" hobby....Do you have any "crafty" hobbies you like to partake in when you’re not writing?

Here is what Kathy had to say....

I sure do! So much that I converted my living room into my art studio! I love to make assemblage pieces, like dimensional scrapbooks, I also love to made jewelry and collages and I love to sew. When I’m working on my arts and crafts, I daydream about new characters and situations I want to put them in.

Kathy can be found in the following places:

Author Bio and Photo (photo on the left is from this site.)
Twitter - @CraftyChica
Facebook - CraftyChica
Webpage - CraftyChica


Here is the loverly trailer for this wonderful book...I hope you enjoy it!



Now for the fun part!  I have been given the go ahead to give away 2 prize packs.  Each prize pack will include a copy of Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing AND Kathy's first book Waking Up In The Land of Glitter.  Now for the rules:

1. Leave a comment with an email address so that I can contact you if you should be one of the winners.

2. Open to US and Canada

3. Contest closes March 20th at 11:59 pm CST.

    

Modified $65 CSN Gift Certificate giveaway

As a result of a miscommunication on my part I am opening up the giveaway for the $65 CSN gift certificate here on The Book Junkie's Bookshelf.  If you registered to win during the Follower Love Hop your entry still counts....You DO NOT need to re-enter. 

It doesn't know it yet but this is my new bookcase!

Everyone, especially us book bloggers can use some home office furniture every now and then right?! I mean what book blogger wouldn't love the chance to win a $65 CSN gift certificate so that they can buy themself a new bookcase or two?! Now here is all you have to do:

1. Fill out the form below...REQUIRED.
2. Open to US and Canada...Canadian's please be sure to check the shipping information.
3. Open from February 14 until February 20 @ 11:59 pm

The ALMOST 400 Follower Giveaway

Since I've been blogging for a little over a year now and I'm also at almost 400 followers....I have decided to not make you all wait until February until my next giveaway.  Happy Friday everyone!

NOTES:

* Not all of the books that are being given away in this giveaway are brand-new.  Any used books will be noted.

* For every 10 new followers I will be adding more "booty" (both book related and Non-book related) to the giveaway box



So here is just some of the "booty" that I am starting with for the giveaway:

 Book Related "booty": The English Patient - UsedMcKettricks of Texas: TateBeautiful CreaturesBeautiful DarknessThe Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl - I LOVE her blog...It's a daily must read for me...plus she has another book coming out on February 1.IncarceronSapphique The next books due to be added are: Minder (signed)AdversaryNightshadePleasure of a Dark Prince Some of the NON-Book Related "booty": A homemade cooking apron made by yours trulyA folder full of my all time favorite recipesA copy of one of my favorite movies - The UndefeatedA BURNED copy of Kenny Chesney's Hemingway's Whiskey Upcoming Non-Book Related "booty" to be added next: $20 Barnes and Noble Gift CardA little something something from my state (Wisconsin) Important Information: * Open to US and Canada* Runs from October 8th 2010 until November 26th 2010 11:59 pm CST* NO P.O. boxes


      

Winners! Better Late Than Never edition!

Alrighty!  It's time to announce the winners of the 2 giveaways I had going on!  The winner of the $65 CSN gift certificate is: PARAJUNKEE! The winner of the signed copy of The Life O'Reilly is:  LU!  

$65 CSN Gift Certificate Giveaway

Oh look!  A totally random photo that has NOTHING to do at all with this post!  Isn't he CUTE?! I was sitting at my computer checking my e-mail when I came across an e-mail from CSN about hosting another giveaway on my blog.  I was totally PSYCHED!  So here's the thing I'm having a hard time coming up with a clever way to include "keyword link" dining tables into this post. So here are the rules for this $65 gift certificate (which can be used at ANY of CSN's online stores) giveaway: 1. Open to US and Canadian citizens...NOTE: There may be international shipping charges for Canadian citzens. 2. You MUST fill out the form. 3. If you participate in this giveaway....YOU MUST LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST. 4. The contest goes until 11:59 pm CST on September 11.
 

The Life O'Reilly Giveaway

You can read my review of this book here.

Synopsis (from Barnes and Noble):

At once a bittersweet love story and a young lawyer’s journey of self-discovery, this auspicious debut delivers an emotional wallop and will move readers in unexpected ways.

On the outside, Nick O’Reilly has it all: a high-flying legal career, as a partner of an elite Wall Street law firm, and financial security, with an apartment overlooking Central Park. Having grown up in a working-class family, as far back as Nick can remember this was his dream. But at the age of thirty-six, after several years of sacrificing his personal life for professional gain, Nick has started to ponder his future and consider the mark he wants to leave on society both professionally and personally—his legacy.


After being chastised in the press for turning a cold shoulder to the community, the firm calls upon Nick to help rehabilitate its image by handling its first pro bono case. Nick is asked to represent Dawn Nelson, a domestic violence victim who is fighting for custody of her young son, Jordan. A far cry from Nick’s specialty of defending the misdeeds of Corporate America, it is up to Nick to set Dawn and Jordan on a path to a better life. But Nick gets much more than he signed on for, as Dawn forces him to reassess his life choices and, ultimately, be true to himself. Only when Nick finally realizes what is truly important in life does he face his toughest—and possibly final—challenge: a battle for his own survival.

Exploring the flaws of being human and the importance of controlling one’s own destiny, The Life O’Reilly reminds us of how precious life is and how quickly and tragically it can change. Written with great empathy, The Life O’Reilly is an emotional and unforgettable tale that will challenge one’s expectations of the modern love story and introduces a poignant and sensitive new voice in fiction.

The Giveaway:

The author, Brian Coehn, is letting me giveaway 1 signed copy of The Life O'Reilly here on The Book Junkie's Bookshelf.

The Rules:

1. Open Internationally.

2. You MUST fill out the form.

3. If you enter this contest...YOU MUST LEAVE A COMMENT ON THIS POST.

4. Giveaway runs until 11:59 pm CST on September 11.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner ~ $60 CSN gift certificate

I apologize for not getting this posted earlier...We've been having "interesting" weather around here and an even crazier work schedule. The winner of the $60 gift certificate from CSN is: Suburban Prep! I will be e-mailing you shortly! Enjoy!

GIVEAWAY! $60 CSN Gift Certificate

Recently, I was asked by a member of CSN if I would be interested in hosting a giveaway on my blog promoting their 200+ stores. When I got the original e-mail about this AWESOME opportunity I literally jumped out of bed (because it was on my days off and I was NOT entirely sure I wanted to get out of bed yet.) and checked out their stores!I wish I was sleeping in this!

While I was out and about surfing their 200+ stores I found MANY items that I would love to have...But this giveaway isn't for me....it's for you. So here it is....the rules and "fine print" for this giveaway.

Rules:

1. You MUST fill out the form below.

2. You MUST leave me a comment that you filled out the form.

3. Open to US and Canada only. NOTE: "there may be shipping charges or, in the case of Canadian addresses, international fees for certain products. It is important to check that while picking out their product."

4. The gift certificate will be e-mailed to the winner.

5. The gift certificate is good on any of CSN's 200+ online stores.

6. Giveaway ends on July 21 at 11:59 pm CST

7. Winner will be chosen by random.org.

***OPTIONAL ENTERIES***

~ Retweet (leave link)
~ Blog Post (leave link)
~ Blog Follower
~ Like The Book Junkie's Book Shelf on Facebook

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Here are the winners! Sorry I wasn't able to get this up yesterday...computer issues (dang blogger wouldn't let me log in to this account but I could get into my other account just fine!). WINNERS....Please read the last paragraph.

So let's start with Pleasure of a Dark Prince.

1. Lisa P.
2. Kathy M.
3. Lily A.
4. Martha L.
5. Lisa R.
6. Kelsey K.
7. Bookjourney

The winner of Learning to Stand is:

Debbie F

The winner of the Blog Follower Contest is:

Follower Name: Sheila DeChantal

I will be e-mailing the winners AFTER the inclimate weather that is headed for us has past. Also, just a reminder that prizes will be mailed out as I have "extra" money in my budget. I will send a follow up e-mail when your prize is on it's way.

Follower ONLY Giveaway additions

These are a couple of the new additions to my Blog Followers Only giveaway that I am holding:

New Love takes the cake in the third novel in Nora Roberts's new Bride Quartet-in a stunning French flap edition Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. But she's too low-key to appreciate all the luxuries that their clients seem to long for. What she does appreciate is a strong, intelligent man, a man just like Parker's older brother Delaney, on whom she's had a mega-crush since childhood. But some infatuations last longer than others, and Laurel is convinced that the Ivy League lawyer is still out of her reach. Plus, Del is too protective of Laurel to ever cross the line with her-or so she thinks. When Laurel's quicksilver moods get the better of her-leading to an angry, hot, all-together mind-blowing kiss with Del-she'll have to quiet the doubts in her mind to turn a moment of passion into forever...

It was not long after she turned 40 that Rhonda Janzen's husband left her for someone he met on Gay.com and she suffered a car accident that left her with serious injuries. To cope, Rhonda Janzen returned to where she never thought she would: the Mennonite home she left as a young woman.

Written with wry humor and huge personality—and tackling faith, love, family, and aging—Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.

American soldiers serve willingly. They risk their lives so the rest of us can be safe. The one small thing they ask, though, is that they not be sent into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. But after being lied to about weapons of mass destruction and about the connection between al Qaeda and Iraq; after being forced by stop-loss orders to extend their deployment; after being undertrained, underequipped, and overworked long after George Bush declared Iraq "Mission Accomplished," these soldiers have something to say. From his famous 2003 Oscar acceptance speech to his record-breaking documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. But in this book, Moore gives the spotlight to the real heroes of protest: the men and women who have fought in Iraq and want the American public to know how they feel about their mission and their commander in chief. Moore also fields letters from veterans of other wars and mothers, wives, and siblings of our soldiers in the field. They also express their anger and frustration, their tears and pain, and their hopes and prayers. Impassioned, accessible, and moving, these are letters that reveal the true hearts and minds of the men, women, and families on the front line.

I went to the ZOO! and a mini giveaway

Yesterday was the start of my 3 days off of work so I decided that I was going to have a little bit of fun. I went to the zoo. I had a pretty good time, even though it was infiltrated by grade school kids and strollers....You just get tired of hearing about how big the buffalo poop is every two seconds....Just saying.

So here are a few photo's from my excursion. I hope that you enjoy them! The first person to correctly tell me which 3 photos were taken behind glass will win a little something something from me....a little mini mystery giveaway.

BLOG FOLLOWER ONLY giveaway

In the spirit of giving and the fact that I need to cull my bookshelf. I have decided that I am going to hold a BLOG FOLLOWERS ONLY giveaway to show a little love for my blog followers. Where I will be giving away a box o books again. Here are the first books to be added to the box (NOTE: I will be constantly adding to this list):

Synopsis (from Barnes and Noble):

Sixteen-year-old Jess Parker survives by staying invisible. After nine schools in ten years, she's come to terms with life as a perpetual new girl, neither popular nor outcast. At Mt. Sterling High, Jess gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation to join The Cinderella Society, a secret club of the most popular girls in school, where makeovers are the first order of official business. But there's more to being a Cindy than just reinventing yourself from the outside, a concept lost on Jess as she dives tiara-first into creating a hot new look.


With a date with her popular crush and a chance to finally fit in, Jess's life seems to be a perfect fairy tale. That is until the Wickeds—led by Jess's archenemy—begin targeting innocent girls in their war against the Cindys, and Jess discovers her new sisterhood is about much more than who rules Mt. Sterling High School. It's a centuries-old battle of good vs. evil, and the Cindys need Jess on special assignment. But when the mission threatens to destroy her new dream life, Jess is forced to choose between this dream realized and honoring the Sisterhood. What's a girl to do when the glass slipper fits, but she doesn't want to wear it anymore?

Synopsis (from Barnes and Noble):

For any woman who has ever bought a self-help book and wondered why she bothered. (P.S. Now that I know he's just not that into me, where do I go from there? Yeah, thanks for that advice.)

Jennifer Love Hewitt is a self-proclaimed "love-aholic" and hopeless romantic (her middle name is Love, after all!). She has been lucky and unlucky in love, and lived to tell—and she's done it all in the spotlight. Much has been written about her love life—some true, most made up to sell magazines. Now Hewitt shares the real story of what she's learned navigating the dangerous dating waters.

In The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt offers her hard-won wisdom and tells us how to embrace love with both feet on the ground. First, we have to shoot Cupid. We have to believe that happily-ever-after is hard work—it's not all flowers and symphonies and floating hearts.

Wise and wry and refreshingly honest, Hewitt talks about how to pick the right guy and how to know when to let the wrong ones go free, and she offers some surprising truths about the opposite sex.

From twenty things to do after a breakup, to ten things to do before a date, to the perils of text flirting (Note: You are waiting. By the phone. For his response.), Hewitt uses stories and dating secrets to illustrate the idiotic, romantic, crazy, depressing, hilarious, awkward, glorious moments we all experience in relationships. Funny, quirky, and empowering, The Day I Shot Cupid deserves a place on every woman's nightstand, bookshelf, or coffee table, or tucked inside her oversized designer handbag.

Synopsis (from Barnes and Noble):

Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed. Dangerously outnumbered, they fought for their lives. At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers perished or were captured, the effort to defeat the Taliban might be doomed.

Until now the full story of the Horse Soldiers has never been told. Doug Stanton received unprecedented cooperation from the U.S. Army's Special Forces soldiers and Special Operations helicopter pilots, as well as access to voluminous after-battle reports. In addition, he interviewed more than one hundred participants and walked every inch of the climactic battleground.

Reaching across the cold mountains of Afghanistan and into the homes of small-town America, Horse Soldiers is a big-hearted and thrilling epic story from one of our preeminent storytellers.

The RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER OF THIS BLOG! THIS IS NOT AMENDABLE, DEBATEABLE AND REQUIRES NO VOTE! :)

2. You MUST fill out the form.

3. This contest is open to US and Canadian address only please.

4. Contest will go until 12:01 am CST June 18, 2010

Pleasure of a Dark Prince giveaway!

I am giving away 7 copies of Kresley Cole's book Pleasure of a Dark Prince! Here is a little bit about the book:

(from Goodreads)


#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole enraptures again with this seductive tale of a fierce werewolf prince who will stop at nothing to protect the lovely archer he covets from afar.

A DANGEROUS BEAUTY... Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her -- and those she loves.

AN UNCONTROLLABLE NEED... Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own.

THAT LEAD TO A PLEASURE SO WICKED.... From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia's greatest weakness -- her wanton desire for him.

THE RULES:

1. This giveaway is open to the US and Canada.

2. You MUST fill out the form below, if you could please leave me a comment that you entered that would be greatly appreciated but NOT required.

3. Winners will be drawn by random.org

4. Giveaway ends April 15 at 12:oo NOON, CST.

Here are the Winners!

Alrighty! Here are the winners of the last 3 contests I've held. The winner of The Blind Side and New Moon DVD's is: Book Junkie The winner of Last Snow is: Mandala The winner of the First Daughter is: CallMeKayla Congratulations to the winners! Have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!

Win New Moon AND The Blind Side DVD's

Here is your chance to win a copy of 2 new release DVD's! I am giving away a copy of New Moon AND The Blind Side...I've watched them both. New Moon is really good (in my opinion) but I LOVE The Blind Side! I can totally understand how Sandra Bullock won her Oscar! And she didn't even want the part of Leigh Anne Touhy!

Here are the rules for this contest:

1. Now that I've figured out how to mail things out of the country I am making this contest INTERNATIONAL.

2. Fill out the form.

3. The contest goes until NOON on April 1, CST.

Optional Entries:

~ Follower

~ Blog Post

~ Side Bar

~ Retweet

Almost 100 Followers giveaway!

Melissa at Spellbound By Books is holding a Almost 100 Followers contest. It is open internationally, YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER TO WIN, the winners (there will be two...one for each book) will be drawn by random.org, the contest goes until April 7. The books that are being given away are: Gone and Hunger.

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner

I've got some winners to announce! Congrats and I hope you enjoy your books! The winner of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is: BrookeReviews! And the winners of Kissing Frogs in Cyberspace are: Linda Kish & Hannah! Congrats!

Last Snow review and Giveaway!

Last Snow
Eric Van Lustbader
416 pages

Rating:

* I was sent this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Synopsis:

Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, interprets the world very differently from the rest of us. It’s his greatest liability, and his greatest asset.

An American senator, supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine, turns up dead on the island of Capri. When the President asks him to find out how and why, Jack sets out from Moscow across Eastern Europe, following a perilous trail of diplomats, criminals, and corrupt politicians. Thrust into the midst of a global jigsaw puzzle, Jack’s unique dyslexic mind allows him to put together the pieces that others can’t even see.

Still unreconciled to the recent death of his daughter and the dissolution of his marriage, Jack takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two unlikely, unexpected, and incompatible companions—Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President’s daughter. As he struggles to keep both young women safe and unearth the answers he seeks, hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the Ukrainian police to his own NSA, Jack learns just how far up the American and Russian political ladders corruption and treachery has reached.

In the vein of Eric Van Lustbader’s latest bestselling Jason Bourne novels, Lustbader takes us on an international adventure in this powerful page-turner that will keep you reading through the night.

Review:

Last Snow is the follow up to First Daughter. Eric Van Lustbader is an author I hadn't heard of until I was approached to read and review this book on my blog. I'm glad that I was approached because I found another "new to me" author that I really like a lot. Usually, I have found sequels to have that "sophomore curse" that is so NOT the case with this book. I actually think that the sequel is BETTER than the first book. Because I think that the synopsis for this book does an excellent job of laying out the ground work for this book I am going to do what I did in my review of the First Daughter and tell you what I liked about the book. Why I think it doesn't suffer from the "sophomore curse."

1. Last Snow picks up right where First Daughter left off. I thought that there was an easy flow from one book to the other, so I was able to make a smooth transition between the two books. There are some series that I can not say that about but this is one that I most certainly can!

2. I'm not one for roller coasters usually, but this is one roller coaster that I most definitely glad I got on! All the twists and turns were great! I think (in my opinion anyway) that they were better than the first book. I was pretty much in a constant state of "who done it." I LOVE books where the "bad guy" isn't obvious.

3. I loved the "girl fights" between Annika and Alli....While Jack is trying to mediate AND keep them all alive. Sometimes it had to "suck" to be Jack. That's A LOT to put on one person!

4. Last Snow was VERY fast paced! I had a VERY hard time putting it down once I started reading it.

I guess my only "issue" with the book was the prologue. At first I wasn't sure who's perspective it was written from but once I was a couple pages into chapter 1 it became oh-so-clear to me who's perspective it was written from. Overall, I highly recommend reading both Last Snow AND First Daughter. Definite page turners....I hope that there will be more books in the Jack McClure series!

Giveaway rules!

1. Fill out the form.

2. Leave me a comment that you filled out the form.

3. Contest will go until March 25 @ 11:59 pm CST.

4. Winner will be drawn randomly.

Optional Entries

1. Tweet

2. Blog Post

3. Blog Follower

4. Sidebar post

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter giveaway

I have been waiting for what seems like FOREVER for this book to come out! I was soooo excited when I went to get a copy that I decided to get 2....One for me and One for one randomly selected winner!

Here's the synopsis of the book off of the Barnes and Noble webpage:

When Abraham Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died from an ailment called the "milk sickness." Only later did he learn that his mother's deadly affliction was actually the work of a local vampire, seeking to collect on Abe's father's unfortunate debts.

When the truth became known to the young Abraham Lincoln, he wrote in his journal: "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become learned in all things—a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose."

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for reuniting the North with the South and abolishing slavery from our country, no one has ever understood his valiant fight for what it really was. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time—all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War, and uncovering the massive role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

Giveaway Rules:

1. Fill out the form.

2. LEAVE A COMMENT LETTING ME KNOW YOU FILLED OUT THE FORM.

3. Contest goes until March 13 at 11:59 pm CST

4. Open to US only please.

Bonus Entries:

1. Tweet

2. Blog Follower

3. Blog Post

4. Sidebar Post