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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Free books

Book giveaways currently underway:
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough.

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer.


From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble by Ann B. Ross.

Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress by Tom Allen.

In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist by Pete Jordan.

Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince.

The New Rules for Blondes: Highlights from a Fair-Haired Life by Selena Coppock.

Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look by Steve Schirripa with Philip Lerman.

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick.

What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict.
No purchase necessary.  No registration required.  Simply send an email for each book [click on the title(s) for the address] you'd like to win.  Deadlines vary.

--Marshal Zeringue
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