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Happy New Year!

Holiday Edition - Winners

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays! For our Holiday Edition this week, we're giving away three of my all-time favorite books: Twilight, Can You Keep a Secret and Eat, Pray, Love.











And without further ado, the winners are:

1) Twilight - Michelle Studivant
2) Can You Keep a Secret - Cori Kohler
3) Eat, Pray, Love - Lee Chamoff

Congrats and Happy Holidays!

We'll be closed next week but back in 2009 with some fantastic new authors, more author interview podcasts and of course, more free books. So come back and see us in January! In the meantime, have a safe and happy New Year!

Special Holiday Edition!

Hello everyone! I was just finishing up my holiday shopping when I realized that I had forgotten to get a gift for you. Yes, you! The loyal fans of Free Book Friday. So I went out and bought three of my all-time favorite books to give away for our special Holiday Edition this week!

Thank you for supporting Free Book Friday and be sure to come back and see us next year!

Happy Holidays!
Jessica

These three books will be given away on December 26, 2008



CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET
by Sophie Kinsella

Commercial Women's Fiction
Dial Press

Summary:

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.…Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her...

TWILIGHT (Movie Tie-in Edition)
by Stephenie Meyer

Young Adult/Paranormal
Little Brown

**Exclusive Twilight Movie Poster Included!

Summary:

Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.

Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

EAT, PRAY, LOVE
by Elizabeth Gilbert

Inspirational Memoir
Penguin

Summary:

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.

Sleeping with Ward Cleaver - Winners

It's Friday! Time to give away some free books

Two lucky winners are getting an early Christmas gift today: a free signed copy of Sleeping with Ward Cleaver by Jenny Gardiner.

And those two winners are:



1) Dennis Ross
2) Debbie Thame

Congrats and Happy Holidays!




If you didn't win, you can still enjoy Jenny's hilarious novel by ordering your own copy on Amazon.

Come back tomorrow for our special Holiday edition. We'll be giving away some of my favorite books!

Sleeping with Ward Cleaver by Jenny Gardiner

SLEEPING WITH WARD CLEAVER

by Jenny Gardiner

Contemporary Women's Fiction
Dorchester Publishing
www.JennyGardiner.net

2 Signed Copies will be given away on December 19, 2008

Jenny Gardiner talks about her handful of careers before she became a writer and what it really means to be sleeping with Ward Cleaver. Listen here!

Synopsis:

Claire Doolittle realizes her life hasn't quite met up with her expectations. Overwhelmed with the demands of motherhood and life in general, it doesn't help that the funny, romantic and thoughtful man she once married has turned into a real-life version of Ward Cleaver, the famously dull, bossy father from the 1950's sitcom Leave it to Beaver. And the last person in the world Claire ever imagined having to sleep with for the rest of her life is a man whose sex appeal more closely resembles that of George Washington than George Clooney.

Throw in an ex-fiance who returns via e-mail to try to woo Claire back with promises of what was, and a sexy young colleague of husband Jack's, whom Claire suspects of some sort of hanky panky, and you have the ingredients for a mid-life crisis that threatens to plunge Claire's world into chaos.

About the Author:

Jenny Gardiner's work has been found in Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post and on NPR's Day to Day. She likes to say she honed her fiction writing skills while working as a publicist for a US Senator. Other jobs have included: an orthodontic assistant (learning quite readily that she was not cut out for a career in polyester), a waitress (probably her highest-paying job), a TV reporter, a pre-obituary writer, and a photographer. In her free time she studies Italian, dreams of traveling to exotic locales, and feels very guilty for rarely attempting to clean the house.

Visit Jenny's author website, www.JennyGardiner.net, for more information about her and her book.

Three Books by Megan Crane - Winners

Happy Friday everyone!

It's time to announce some winners. This week, our featured author was Megan Crane and we are giving away three of her novels. Everyone Else's Girl, Frenemies, and Names My Sisters Call Me.

And the winners are:










1) Olivia Turner - Everyone Else's Girl
2) Marisa Brooks - Frenemies
3) Allison King - Names My Sisters Call Me

Congrats to all our winners!


If your name wasn't chosen, you can still enjoy one of Megan's fantastic books. Use these links to order Everyone Else's Girl, Frenemies or Names My Sisters Call Me on Amazon.com

Tomorrow we have another great author on board so check back!

Three Books by Megan Crane

EVERYONE ELSE'S GIRL, FRENEMIES, and NAMES MY SISTERS CALL ME

by Megan Crane

Commercial Fiction
5 Spot
www.MeganCrane.com

3 Signed Copies (1 of each) will be given away on December 12, 2008

In our exclusive author interview podcast, Megan talks about tapping into family drama, the "second book curse" and how writing novels saved her from a failed career as a wannabe Broadway star. Listen here!

EVERYONE ELSE'S GIRL

Meredith McKay has gone to a lot of trouble to create the picture-perfect life for herself—far away from her troublesome family, thank you. When her father's car accident forces her back to her hometown, however, she soon discovers that there's no running away from family issues—there's only delaying the inevitable. Can anyone sort out a lifetime of family drama in one hot summer? Throw in a hot guy from back in high school with an axe to grind, a best-friend turned enemy turned soon-to-be-sister-in-law, and, of course, the sometimes irritating/sometimes delightful members of her own family, and Meredith is on her way to figuring out that sometimes a little trip through the past is the best way to move forward.


FRENEMIES

Just a few months shy of her 30th birthday, Gus Curtis finally feels like she has it all: a strong career, great friends, and a wonderful boyfriend.

But all of this comes crashing down when Gus discovers Nate, her "Mr. Right," hooking up behind her back with her so-called "friend" Helen. Soon it seems like the life Gus has worked to make so adult looks a lot like the one she already had as a teenager, and Gus is left with more questions than answers:

Can she win Nate back before she turns 30 alone? (And if so, does she really want him?) Is Helen really as devious and manipulative as she seems, or, worse, is Gus more like her frenemy than she ever imagined? And is she ever going to grow up?

With the clock ticking down to her birthday, Gus discovers that sometimes the best thing about best-laid plans is trashing them altogether.

NAMES MY SISTERS CALL ME

Courtney, Norah and Raine Cassel are about as different as three sisters can get. Norah, the oldest, is a typical Type A obsessive who believes there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything. She maintains a constantly-updated spreadsheet of slights and alliances, and six years later has not forgiven Raine, their middle sister, for ruining her wedding day.

Raine is Norah’s opposite – wild child, performance artist, follow-your-bliss hippie chick who fled to California after the wedding fiasco. The only thing the two sisters have in common is their ability to drive Courtney, their youngest sister, crazy.

When Courtney’s long time boyfriend proposes, she decides it’s finally time to call a family truce and bring the three sisters together. After all, they’re all grown ups now, right? But it turns out that family ghosts aren’t easily vanquished, and neither are first loves. Reconnecting the sisters also means re-examining every choice Courtney has made in the last six years, right down to the man she’s about to marry.

About the Author:

Megan Crane is a New Jersey native who had great plans to star on Broadway. Sadly, her inability to wow audiences with her singing voice required a back up plan. Accordingly, she graduated from Vassar College and got her MA and PhD in literature from the University of York in England. After many years in the rain and subject to the whim of seasons, she followed the sun to Los Angeles, where she lives with a dog, a cat, two crazy kittens, and an artist named Jeff. She is still plotting her Broadway debut.

Visit Megan's author website, www.MeganCrane.com, for more information about her and her books.

Thanks for Nothing, Nick Maxwell - Winners

TGIFBF! (Thank Goodness it's Free Book Friday!)

Today we're giving away not two, not three, but FOUR copies of the hilarious novel, Thanks for Nothing, Nick Maxwell by Debbie Carbin to four very lucky people.

And they are:


1) Rashmi Srinivas
2) Yan Lin
3) Pam Scarborough
4) Kathleen Mauzy

Congratulations! I know you'll absolutely LOVE this book.


If your name wasn't chosen, fear not. You can still enjoy Debbie's debut novel. Order your own copy from Amazon here!

We're giving away THREE different books next week from our featured author so be sure to come back tomorrow and sign up to win one!