Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Fantastic Fiction Audiobook Giveaway!

One of the highlights of BEA for me was meeting the wonderful publicists at Hachette Book Group. They are all so fun and it was great to be able to thank them in person for so generously providing fantastic books and audios for giveaways! Here's the latest group of fiction audios, I have three copies of each one:


William Smithback, a NY Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Eyewitnesses claim and the security camera confirms the killer seen leaving the building was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead.

Captain Hayward leads the official homicide investigation, while Pendergast, D'Agosta, and Nora undertake a private quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them into a part of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive and deadly hotbed of Obeah, the West Indian Zombii cult of sorcery and magic. And it is here they find their true peril is just beginning.
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Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career.

He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.

Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.
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Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past.

One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but old habits and instincts rise to the surface, threatening this new-found stability with sudden treachery and violence. With his father and his most trusted friends, he takes one last chance to blast past the demons trying to pull him back.

Like Richard Price or William Kennedy, Pelecanos pushes his characters to the extremes, their redemption that much sweeter because it is so hard fought. Pelecanos has long been celebrated for his unerring ability to portray the conflicts men feel as they search and struggle for power and love in a world that is often harsh and unforgiving but can ultimately be filled with beauty.

You may enter for any or all of these great audios, just leave a comment here with the titles of the ones you would like to win. I will give an extra entry to anyone who becomes a follower (or follows already), tweets the giveaway on twitter or blogs about it. If you do any of these, please leave me ONE extra comment to let me know. Winners will be drawn at random and must have a US or Canada mailing address (no PO Boxes). Contest will end at midnight eastern on June16th, so get those comments in! Good luck, thanks for entering and thanks again to Anna at Hachette for providing the audios!

46 comments:

Kitten22 said...

This looks awesome! Please enter me for all!

BookCrossingKitten22[at]gmail[dot]com

Kitten22 said...

I'm already a subscriber (through Google Reader)!

I tweeted about this!

http://twitter.com/BookingKitten22

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KR said...

Please count me in for all three. It's just too hard to choose!!

mj.coward[at]gmail.com

L said...

These books look great!

Enter me for all of them!

lovinfitch(at)aol(dot)com

scottsgal said...

I'd love anyone of them - count me in

msboatgal at aol.com

scottsgal said...

already a follower

msboatgal at aol.com

CherylS22 said...

Hi! Carey,

Please enter me for all 3 audiobooks - "The Way Home", "TheScarecrow" or "Cemetery Dance".

Thanks,
megalon22[at]yahoo[dot]com

CherylS22 said...

I follow

megalon22[at]yahoo[dot]com

tomnpeg said...

I follow you on Twitter and would be delighted to win an audiobook by Connelly or Child, both of whom I became acquainted with through my library's ebranch.

Cookie said...

Please count me in for all three. Thanks again for another great giveaway!

Sylvia

bbort10356@aol.com

Cookie said...

I follow yout through Google Reader!

Sylvia

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Cookie said...

I Twitted about this giveaway @ http://twitter.com/cookie1135

Sylvia

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Annie1 said...

Please enter me for any of the 3!


Thanks



nancyrobster@gmail.com

janetfaye said...

I would like to enter for The Way Home.

Thanks!

janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

Annie1 said...

Follow


Tweeted
http://twitter.com/greeeneyedwhwom/status/2013390442


Thanks


nancyrobster@gmail.com

janetfaye said...

I follow your blog.

janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

Cookie said...

I blogged about this giveaway @

http://greatgiveawaycontest.blogspot.com/2009/06/tome-travellers-weblog-fiction-audio.html

Sylvia

bbort10356@aol.com

Belinda M said...

I would like to be entered for both


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Belinda M said...

I am a current follower


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chey said...

Hi!
This giveaway is great! Please enter me for all 3 books.

chey127 at hotmail dot com

Bridget said...

Another great contest! Just posted on Win A Book.

Gaby317 said...

This sounds great - please count me in for all 3 audiobooks.

gaby317nycAT gmail DOT com

Gaby317 said...

I'm a follower

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Anonymous said...

I would enjoy any of the audiobooks but I'm especially interested in Cemetery Dance.
traymona[at]aol.com

Zibilee said...

I would love to win Cemetery Dance. Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway!

zibilee@figearo.net

Zibilee said...

I am also a follower of this blog.

Betty A. said...

I would love to read Michael Connelly's The Scarecrow.
bantibus@aol.com

Anonymous said...

Please enter me for all three. They all sound good. Thanks!

tiffanyak1986(at)hotmail(dot)com

Dawn M. said...

I would like to be entered for all three. I love listening to audiobooks!

Thanks! :0)
librarygrinch at gmail dot com

Dawn M. said...

I subscribe with google reader. :0)

Thanks!
librarygrinch at gmail dot com

Pissenlit said...

I'd love to be entered for Preston & Child's Cemetery Dance as well as Connelly's The Scarecrow, please and thank you!

un_pissenlit (at) hotmail (dot) com

Carlene said...

I would love to be entered in your drawing for all three audios. Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Carlene
Iluvreading(at)verizon.net

Carlene said...

I am a follower.
Thanks
Carlene
Iluvreading(at)verizon.net

Karin said...

The Way Home
The Scarecrow
Cemetery Dance

I would like to be entered for all 3.....thank you!

Gwendolyn B. said...

I don't have much in the way of audios - I'd be happy to win any or all! Thanks for the chance.

geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

Gwendolyn B. said...

Here's my Tweet: http://twitter.com/ASeaOfBooks/status/2065298592

Belle said...

I'd love to be entered for Cemetery Dance. msbookishreviews (at) gmail *dot* com.

MurderMysteryMayhem said...

I would love to be greedy and submit to win all three. These would be fantastic to add to our library collection.

http://murdermysterymayhem.blogspot.com/

LooseEnds@snet.net

MurderMysteryMayhem said...

I will blog abot this giveaway tonight..

http://murdermysterymayhem.blogspot.com/

A Reader said...

I'm going on a long car trip this summer, so please enter me for all books.

Follower (liane66).
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com

rubynreba said...

My husband and I will be traveling this summer - I'd love any of them. Thanks!
pbclark(at)netins(dot)net

dag888888 said...

Michael Connelly's The Scarecrow would be my first choice. Thanks!

Jblanton said...

Any of the three would be great, I love audiobooks. THanks for the contest

Unknown said...

I would like any of great books, all sound really good!

Please enter me!

Dottie :)

gymmom_027@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

I already follow!

Thanks

Dottie :)

gymmom_027@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

I would love to win any of these, but the Pelecanos book is the one i'm most interested in. please enter me and thanks a ton!

sara
ihpie @ yahoo.com


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