It's time for our annual Fall Cleaning—because once a year just isn't enough! Lucinda and I have once again bravely faced up to the piles of ARCs invading our offices and homes, and we've ruthlessly decided to part with the bulk of them. The good news for you? We've got dozens of ARCs up for grabs, just waiting for you to claim
them!
Rules of entry are at the end of the post. Please note that all prizes must be picked up at a BCPL location.
Contest ends on Friday, October 12, 2012.
Here are the titles we have up for grabs!
Adult Fiction
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Live By Night by Dennis Lehane (October 2012)
In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by
climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to
Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all
fighting for their piece of the American dream. –NoveList |
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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (October 2012)
Classic Morton: 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson sits dreaming away in her
childhood tree house when she spies her mother speaking to an unknown
man. Later, Laurel witnesses a terrible crime. But it's not until 50
years have passed that she can ask her mother the pertinent
questions—which leads to a story involving three strangers in wartime
London. Morton's best-selling work is always classy and nuanced; great
for reading groups.
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The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony (October 2012)
In this stunning debut from the pseudonymous Anthony, King Louis XIII’s
ban on lace gives rise to a black market that weaves together the lives
of four women in 17th-century France and Flanders. Katharina Martens is a
Flemish lace maker who considers it her God-given duty to craft the
“exquisite, beautiful” fabric, never mind that her work—often conducted
without firelight or lanterns, in order to keep the lace clean of soot
and ash—has left her hunched and nearly blind. As the end of her
lace-making career draws nigh, to be followed by the sordid existence of
former craftswomen relegated to a life of “doing... vile things,” her
sister, Heilwich, struggles to save enough money to buy Katharina’s
freedom from the abbey where she works. Meanwhile in France, Lissette
Lefort and her cousin Alexandre must procure a length of forbidden lace
to pay off the conniving count of Montreau, who threatens to reveal
Lissette’s father’s role in an attempted assassination of the king. As
beautifully fashioned as the sought-after lace, this story is sure to
impress. –Publishers Weekly |
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The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde (October 2012)
Thursday Next #7
Forced into semi-retirement after an
assassination attempt, Thursday Next finds her recuperation challenged
by the personal and professional struggles of her children and Goliath's
constant attempts to replace her with synthetic duplicates. –NoveList |
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (September 2012)
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq
War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to
protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles
that come from constant danger. –NoveList |
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Thy Neighbor by Norah Vincent (August 2012)
Losing himself in drugs and alcohol for years
after the violent deaths of his parents, Nick Walsh pursues a
relationship with an enigmatic woman while conducting a spying campaign
on his neighbors as part of his obsessive drive to come to terms with what happened. –NoveList |
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The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams (August 2012)
When a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, the press christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead, and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself. –NoveList |
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The 500 by Matthew Quirk (June 2012)
Former con artist and Harvard Law student Mike Ford accepts a position with the DC-based Davies Group, a consulting firm whose specialty is pulling strings for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway. –NoveList |
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A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King (July 2012)
Tom King's debut novel opens in an
imaginative world of comic book superheroes struggling to take on normal
lives after sacrificing their powers to save the world. –From the Publisher |
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Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon (May 2012)
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a
marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage,
unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question
virtually every aspect of her life. –NoveList |
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A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois (May 2012)
Abandoning her life when her father succumbs
to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an
unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess
champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia. –NoveList |
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Arcadia by Lauren Groff (May 2012)
In a haunting story of the American dream,
Bit, born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come
to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. –NoveList |
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Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (March 2012)
When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect and reconnect throughout 25 subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays and tragedies. –NoveList |
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Wayward Saints by Suzzy Roche (2011)
Mary Saint,
the rule-breaking, troubled former lead singer of the almost-famous band
Sliced Ham, has pretty much given up on music after the trauma of her
band member and lover Garbagio's death seven years earlier. Instead,
with the help of her best friend, Thaddeus, she is trying to piece her
life together while making mochaccinos in San Francisco. Meanwhile, back
in her hometown of Swallow, New York, her mother Jean struggles with
her own ghosts. When Mary is invited to give a concert at her old high
school, Jean is thrilled, though she's worried about what Father
Benedict and her neighbors will think of songs such as "Sewer Flower"
and "You're a Pig." But she soon realizes that there are going to be
bigger problems when the whole town--including a discouraged teacher and
a baker who's anything but sweet--gets in on the act. –NoveList |
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A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison (2011)
Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami
decimates their coastal India town, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her
15-year-old sister, Sita, are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel
owner, where they endure a torturous existence before they are helped by
a Washington, D.C. attorney who is able to combat human trafficking. –NoveList |
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The Rafters by A.C. Montgomery (2011)
Sonambulist Saga #1
The Rafters
visits an arcane world, where at crucial intervals, Callings of varying
power and purpose are brought into being. Unaware, each is connected to a
Messenger who alone can lead them to their true identity. Follow a
Calling, who due to memory loss, runs ever further from his Messenger,
into an underworld hungry to claim his power for its own villainous
purposes. The scenery and elaborate personalities construct a complex web of plotting and intrigue. –NoveList |
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The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011)
The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past. –From the Publisher |
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Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (2011)
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy
fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl,
desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with
the nation's intolerant Communist culture. –NoveList |
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Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth (2009)
In 1914, as the nations of
the West are making a play for political power and oil in the Middle
East, Somerville, a British archaeologist, finds his excavation of a long-buried Assyrian palace threatened by construction of a new railroad to Baghdad. –NoveList |
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So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwartz (2008)
Thirty years after a vengeful plot destroys a family, the
implications of that act continue to reverberate as Jon must decide
whether to end his affair or his marriage, and his wife becomes involved
with an older man linked to their families' past. –NoveList |
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The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (2008)
Follows the dual stories of two men--young
Eugene, a passionate reader who devotes himself to an adventurer writer,
and elderly Mr. Schmitz, who in a series of ominous letters to a
missing friend describes his growing desperation about his wife's
deteriorating health. –NoveList |
Adult Nonfiction
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor (January 2012)
Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist. –NoveList |
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Death in the City of Light by David King (2011)
Documents the World War II effort to catch a physician serial killer in Paris, describing the covert information network that the chief French detective built with such groups as mobsters, nightclub owners, and Resistance fighters. –NoveList |
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Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever who Saved Him
by Luis Carlos Montalvan (2011)
"Tuesday has a personality that
shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out
their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that
kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the
tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I
carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my
left hand, that is, and the way I lean on it every few steps. Then they
realize my stiff walk and straight posture aren't just pride, and that
Tuesday isn't just an ordinary dog. He walks directly beside me, for
instance, so that my right leg always bisects his body. He nuzzles me
when my breathing changes, and he moves immediately between me and the
object--a cat, an overeager child, a suspiciously closed door--any time I
feel apprehensive. Because beautiful, happy-go-lucky,
favorite-of-the-neighborhood Tuesday isn't my pet; he's my service dog."
Captain Luis Montalvan returned home from his second tour of duty in
Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three
broken vertebrae. But the pressures of civilian life and his injuries
proved too much to bear. Physical disabilities, agoraphobia, and
crippling PTSD drove him to the edge of suicide. That's when he met
Tuesday - his best friend forever. Tuesday came with his own history of
challenges: from the Puppies Behind Bars program, to a home for troubled
boys, to the streets of Manhattan, Tuesday blessed many lives on his
way to Luis. Until Tuesday unforgettably twines the story of man and
dog." – Provided by publisher. |
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This Is Not the Story You Think It Is by Laura Munson (2011)
The author details what happened when her husband of over twenty years
told her he wasn't sure he loved her anymore and wanted to move out. And
while you might think you know where this story is going, this isn't
the story you think it is. Laura's response to her husband: I don't buy
it. |
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Love Is a Four-letter Word edited by Michael Taekens (2009)
Presents true stories of heartbreak and bad
relationships, reflecting on the contributors' breakups with humor,
regret, insightfulness, and nostalgia. –NoveList |
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The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson (2009)
The humorist and advice columnist for "Ask Amy" describes her
inspirational, haphazard experiences with divorce, traveling throughout
the country, and resettling in her hometown, where her extended family
helped her to raise her daughter. –NoveList |
Fiction for Kids & Teens
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What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton (October 2012)
*2 Copies Available*
Before the ski trip, sixteen-year-old Cassidy "Sid" Murphy was a cheerleader, a straight-A student, and a member of a solid trio of best friends. When she ends up on a ski lift next to handsome local college boy Dax Windsor, she's thrilled, but Dax takes everything from Sid—including a lock of her perfect red curls—and she can't remember any of it. Back home and alienated by her friends, Sid drops her college prep classes and takes up residence in the AV room with only Corey "the Living Stoner" Livingston for company. But as she gets to know Corey (slacker, baker, total dreamboat), Sid finds someone who truly makes her happy. Now, if she can just shake the nightmares and those few extra pounds, everything will be perfect...or so she thinks. –Book Jacket |
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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (October 2012)
Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the
airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do
with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother
doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too
busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. There's no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that she's trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers' lives, and her own, for the better. –From the Publisher |
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The Golden Door by Emily Rodda (October 2012)
Three Doors #1
At night the skimmers fly over the Wall looking for human prey and the people of Weld huddle in their houses, but after his two brothers set out through the magic doors in an attempt to find the Enemy and don't come back, young Rye knows that he must follow and find them. –NoveList |
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Every Day by David Levithan (August 2012)
Every morning A wakes in a different person's
body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get
too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love
with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. –NoveList |
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Soulbound by Heather Brewer (June 2012)
Legacy of Tril #1
Seventeen-year-old Kaya, a Healer who wants to
learn to fight, must attend Shadow Academy where fighting by Healers is
outlawed, and so she asks two young men to train her in secret, leading
to a choice that will change their lives forever. –NoveList |
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Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (May 2012)
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo
Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale
turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent
of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. –NoveList |
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer (January 2012)
Lunar Chronicles #1
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder,
a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai
and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world
in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. –NoveList
Lucinda's Review |
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The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011)
When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of
twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in
1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with
the help of their secret society of fellow orphans. –NoveList |
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Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne (2011)
When life at home becomes too difficult, eight-year-old Noah
sets out to see the world and have an adventure, and in the forest he
meets a toymaker who has a story and some advice to share. –NoveList |
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Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (2011)
When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating
Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly
mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious. |
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Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce (2010)
Fairy Tale Retellings #1
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters
Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the
beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. –NoveList |
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2009)
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. –NoveList |
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Spellbinder by Helen Stringer (2009)
Spellbinder #1
Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives
with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England, teams up with an
always-in-trouble classmate to investigate why all of the ghosts in the
world have suddenly disappeared. –NoveList |
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29 comments:
This is just a test :)
What a great collection of books! Thanks for holding the giveaway.
The Ruins of Lace
Wife 22
A Once Crowded Sky
Arcadia
Until Tuesday
Every Day
Cinder
I love all the books! Thank you for doing this!
Wife22
What happens next
Secret Keeper
Thy Neighbor
The Mighty Queens of Freeville
Bitter End
1. Cinder
2. What Happens Next
3. The Pleasures of Men
4. The Maze Runner
5. Everyday
6. A Walk Across the Sun
7. Carry the One
Please and thank you! :D
My email is marissa.sanders505@gmail.com
Would love to win " The Secret Keeper", or " Live by Night"
The Secret Keeper
Thy Neighbor
The Pleasures of Men
Wife 22
Carry the One
So Long at the Fair
This Is Not the Story You Think It Is
Love Is a Four-letter Word
Every Day
What Happens Next
Would love to win any of these!
Cinder
Everyday
The Rafters
A walk across the sun
A once crowded sky
The pleasures of men
The ruins of lace
The secret keeper
This may be a stupid question but what are ARC's?
Hi, MaryBeth! It's not a stupid question at all. ARC is an acronym for "Advance Reader Copy" or "Advance Reading Copy." These are pre-publication copies of books given out by the publisher, often to reviewers, booksellers, and librarians. They are also sometimes called galleys, uncorrected proofs, Advance Reader's Edition, or some similar variation.
Wikipedia has a brief article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_copy.
The Neighbor
The Pleasures of Men
Wife 22
What Happens Next
Everyday
There are so many great choices!
1.Cinder
2.The Midnight Palace
3.Sisters Red
4.Arcadia
5.The Pleasures of Men
6.The Ruins of Lace
The ruins of lace
Legacy of trip
Ask the passengers
What happens next
Wife 22
Sisters red
Arcadia
Until tuesday
Death in the City of Light
What Happens Next
Everyday
Soulbound
I'd also like to have The Ruins of Lace!
I love this collection of books and would love to have:
Spellbinder by Helen Stringer (2009)
Spellbinder #1
A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King (July 2012)
Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever who Saved Him
by Luis Carlos Montalvan (2011)
The Golden Door by Emily Rodda (October 2012)
Three Doors #1
Soulbound by Heather Brewer (June 2012)
Legacy of Tril #1
Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce (2010)
Fairy Tale Retellings #1
I hope I do win at least one of these.
nikole.seay@gmail.com
I wouldn't mind recieving
1. Live by Night
2. The Ruins of Lace
3. Land of Marvels
1. The Pleasures of Men
2. Carry the One
3. So Long at the Fair
4. The Ruins of Lace
5. The Secret Keeper
6. Thy Neighbor
1. Spellbinder
2. The Golden Door
3.The Secret Keeper
Awesome giveaway!
Carry the One
Until Tuesday
Wife 22
What Happens Next
Every Day
Cinder
The Maze Runner
The Yellow Birds
I would love to receive any of these books, especially Cinder. We loved that book. Myself and my girls love to read and would be great to win any of these. Thanks
I'm so impressed with this contest! If only this were MY library in Romeo, Michigan. Would this be easy for them to do? I'd like to suggest it to them.
Hi, techeditor. Thanks for commenting!
Yes, it's relatively simple to do. If you decide to pass along the suggestion to one of your local librarians, feel free to tell him/her to contact me at reference [at]bcplib.org with any questions he/she may have about obtaining ARCs or for advice about setting up/running the contest.
Good luck! I hope your library is able to follow through. :)
Thank you in advance for choosing me. :) Just kidding! May the best bibliophile win!
Maze Runner
Every Day
This is Not The Story You Think It IS
A Walk Across the sun
So Long At the Fair
A Once Crowded Sky
Pleasures of Men
Ruins of Lace
Secret Keeper
Thank you in advance for choosing me. :) Just kidding! May the best bibliophile win!
Maze Runner
Every Day
This is Not The Story You Think It IS
A Walk Across the sun
So Long At the Fair
A Once Crowded Sky
Pleasures of Men
Ruins of Lace
Secret Keeper
The Secret Keeper
The Yellow Birds
Thy Neighbor
Carry The One
This is Not The Story You Think It Is
Love is a Four-Letter Word
The Mighty Queens of Freeville
The secret Keeper
Bitter end
Until Tuesday
Dreams of joy
Language of flowers
The yellow birds
Carry the one
Every day
test
meredith.rachel21@yahoo.com
top ten choices!
the neighbor
arcadia
the rafters
every day
cinder
the maze runner
the secret keeper
the 500
love is a four-letter word
the midnight palace
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