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Friday, June 13, 2014

A Friday Giveaway!

Back in April the good folks over at Flavorwire posted this list of titles for Gone Girl fans. And I've got two of them - Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet and Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda - to offer up to one lucky winner!

Here's a bit about each of the books from Goodreads:

Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet: Patrick Cusimano’s father killed a boy while driving drunk. Now Patrick is working at a grubby convenience store, and he and his brother Mike are the town pariahs. Caro, Mike’s girlfriend, is running from her own painful past, with no idea what she’s running toward. Layla Elshere is a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn’t understand and doesn’t trust. And Layla’s little sister Verna, tortured by her classmates, finds unlikely solace with Layla’s dark tribe of outcasts.

As their fates become entwined, everyone is set down a terrifying and twisted path—leading them all toward a collision where loyalties will be betrayed, fears exposed, and lives shattered.

Visitation Street by Ivy PochodaSummer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay.

But out on the water, as the bright light of day gives way to darkness, the girls disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore semi-conscious in the weeds.

June's shocking disappearance will reverberate in the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, trolls for information about the crime. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect although an elusive guardian seems to have other plans for him. As Val emerges from the shadow of her missing friend, her teacher Jonathan, Julliard drop-out and barfly, will be forced to confront a past riddled with tragic sins of omission.

To enter simply fill out the Rafflecopter below before Monday, June 30. (US only please.)

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6 comments:

bn100 said...

These sound interesting

traveler said...

Thanks for this fascinating and wonderful giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

Terry said...

I have had both of these on my TBR list for quite awhile. What a great giveaway!

Anita Yancey said...

Both books just sound fantastic. I would love to read them. Thanks for having the giveaway.

ayancey1974(at)gmail(dot)com

KAS said...

One of these titles I've been wanting to read for ages -- the Ivy Pochoda. The other I've never come across before! Thanks for featuring it so I could discover my interest! What a clever giveaway concept! Thank you, Becky. --Kara

Unknown said...

Thanks for this awesome chance! :)