Friday, September 19, 2014

What's in the mail...plus a giveaway

**Giveaway is now closed**


Melissa A:

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion from Penguin UK

Save Me by Kristyn Kusek Lewis from Grand Central Publishing

Saving Grace by Jane Green from Pan Macmillan

Amy:

Mahalas Lane by/from Marianne Cushing

Girl Before A Mirror by Liza Palmer from HarperCollins

A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor from HarperCollins

The Grown Ups by Robin Antalek from HarperCollins


Kathryn: 

Perfect Girl by Michele Gorman from Notting Hill Press (e-book)

Sara:

Slippers in the Oven by Roberta Aarons from Authoramp

Becky:

Quarter Past Two on a Wednesday Afternoon by Linda Newbery from Transworld

Love Me or Leave Me by Claudia Carroll from Avon

Seeing Other People by Mike Gayle from Hodder and Stoughton

The Honeymoon Hotel by Hester Browne from Quercus

Emma by/from Alexander McCall Smith

The Year I Met You by Cecelia Ahern from HarperCollins UK

The Seafront Tea Rooms by Vanessa Greene from Sphere

The Runaway Woman by Josephine Cox from HarperFiction,

The Christmas Party by Carole Matthews from Sphere

What could be in YOUR mail:

The May-December Twist by Romney Humphrey

In honor of recently being featured on our Book Shelf, she has FIVE books to give away to readers anywhere in the world!

At fifty, finding romance is hard. It’s trickier if your three best friends (Liz, Kendra and Jo; together known as The Four) sign you up for a dating site and monitor your every move. And, the challenge becomes more complicated when Jo starts competing with Allie for contenders. Allie eventually settles for David, an age-appropriate schoolteacher. He’s pleasant, but makes her feel sleepy, not particularly passionate. A chance encounter leads Allie to Jameson, a self-made entrepreneur. He’s brilliant, interesting and wildly attractive. He decides to volunteer at her non-profit, “Twenty;” he believes in Allie’s vision of volunteering twenty minutes or twenty dollars to the community is brilliant. They share the same sense of values and have definite chemistry. 

The problem? He’s twenty-five years younger. 

The Four consider her crush on Jameson inappropriate. Jo can’t believe Allie isn’t choosing David. (Or does she want him for herself?) If Allie pursues her feelings will she lose The Four’s friendship? Another issue? The possible wrath of her twin twenty-one-year-old sons. And, why would Jameson ever consider her as relationship material anyway? 

Based on real life stories of unlikely but wildly passionate long-term relationships between older women and younger men, The May-December Twist is a tale of alliances, conflicting values and what’s important in the complicated search for love. (Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.)

Visit Romney Humphrey on Facebook and Twitter.

How to win:
Please tell us: If you could go back in time and date any celebrity regardless of age, which time period would you choose and who would you date?

One entry per person.

Entries without contact information (e-mail address, Twitter account, Facebook page, etc.) will NOT be counted (and we do NOT count "Google +" as contact information).

Open worldwide. Giveaway ends September 23rd at midnight EST.

22 comments:

Janine said...

Y'all have a lot of good books to read this weekend. If I could go back in time and date any celebrity, I would chose Jim Morrison. I always thought he was hot. :)

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Rhonda j g said...

Rhondajgothier@yahoo.com

I would go back to the early 1920-1930 and date Errol Flynn or Rhett Butler! Love those old movies!

Annette Herbst said...

I'd go back to the eighties and date country singer keith Whitley

Lisa W. said...

Patrick Swazye - there is just something about him that makes me swoon - back when Dirty Dancing was being filmed - he was fit and HOT!!

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Bon said...

If I could go back I would dance with Paul Newman. He was low key sexy.

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Melanie Backus said...

Oh my, what a fun thing to think about. I am going to date the rough and rugged John Wayne.

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Jessica said...

I would date George Peppard from Breakfast at Tiffany's. =]

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Connie said...

I would date Paul Newman. I thought he was so darn handsome! What a wonderful husband he was and I so admire him and his wife for all of the good things they did to "give back."

Anita Yancey said...

I would go back to the years between 1980-1988 and date Tom Selleck. He was so good looking, and still is. Thanks for having the giveaway.

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susieqlaw said...

I would go back to the '80s and date Colin Firth
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Unknown said...

I'd date Joel McCrea during the 1930's, partly due to his horses.

Mary Preston said...

A young Leonardo da Vinci - the epitome of a Renaissance man.

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Linda Kish said...

Harrison Ford. Since he is my age, at any point in his life would be fine (even before he became an actor).

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holdenj said...

I'd go way back and choose Clark Gable. Thanks.
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Shelby N. said...

I'd pick Robert Downey Jr...wouldn't need to go back very far. Maybe 2007 or so, because I think he was clean at that point and had really turned his life around.

bn100 said...

1990s Brad Pitt

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Anonymous said...

I would go back to the 1940s and would go on a date with the lovely James Stewart. nadinegunst-zeiger@hotmail.de

nellbe said...

Matt Damon as he seems more beautiful inside than he is on the outside

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Unknown said...

I'd go back to the 50s and date Cary Grant!

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Bridget said...

Paul Newman. Loved his movies. And those blue eyes.

Melissa Seng said...

River Phoenix

Melissa said...

Thanks for participating and telling us which celebrities you'd go back in time to date. Here's who I would pick.

Thanks to Romney for sharing her book with our winners.

Random.org chose FIVE winners from all entries with contact info (one entry per person).

Congrats to:
bn100
Jessica Meddick
Bonlyn55
nadinegunst-zeiger
holdenj