I promised you some new giveaways today - I think I may have said 4, but I am just too tired - so I am only going to give you 1. . . (expect some tomorrow though!)
The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood
Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health?
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the kind of person who survives and thrives?
The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in THE SURVIVORS CLUB. In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, this book reveals the hidden side of survival by combining astonishing true stories, gripping scientific research, and the author's adventures inside the U.S. military's elite survival schools and the government's airplane crash evacuation course.
With THE SURVIVORS CLUB, you can also discover your own Survivor IQ through a powerful Internet-based test called the Survivor Profiler. Developed exclusively for this book, the test analyzes your personality and generates a customized report on your top survivor strengths.
There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But THE SURVIVORS CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.
GIVEAWAY
I have five copies of this paperback to giveaway courtesy of Hachette Books. For your first entry (MUST DO THIS ONE FOR ANY OTHER ENTRIES TO COUNT) Do you have a true life story that would put you in The Survivors Club? Also leave your email address.
For additional entries you can sign up to follow (old followers let me know), Twitter or post it on your blog. Each entry must have it's own comment. (Four entries total.)
Other than a really bad car wreck, not really. This sounds like a fascinating book.
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Other than a bad car wreck, not really.
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Thankfully, I haven't had any experiences that would qualify me - & I'd like to keep it that way. ;-)
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I follow your blog
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Luckily, I do not have any stories to tell, this book is a must to read.
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I subscribe by email.
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I've survived being a child of divorce before it was the norm, I am surviving being an Army wife....
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I'm a google follower
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I don't personally but I have been helping my mother after her bad car accident 6 months ago. She has been facing a lot of adversity and is still in a wheelchair. She gets very frustrated sometimes and this book sounds perfect for her.
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I also follow
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The worst nightmare for any mother happend to me - I lost my son to cancer. I did survive but I think of it every day many times.
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I am an old follower
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I haven't really had any bad experiences, but I want to be prepared just in case and this book would be very interesting to read. Thank you for this nice giveaway and please count me in.
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I am an old follower via Google Friends.
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Thankfully I haven't had any.
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I think we all have a 'suvivors club' story.
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ReplyDeleteLuckily, I can say I can't be counted in on the Survivor's Club. I have been blessed.
I am an old follower.
I tweeted the giveaway here:
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I don't have a survival story to share.
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I'm an old follower.
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Once I almost got hit by a car while i was riding my bike. the car was turning. i decided to turn with him instead of plowing into the side of him. ;)
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Old follower!!
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I don't, but my father does. He is a survivor of the polio epidemic when he was a teen. over 1/3 of his classmates died from it. He watched his friend next to him in a iron lung die. He was paralyzed from the waist down and is now suffering from post polio aliments. But, He SURVIVED when so many didn't.
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Thankfully I do not have a true life story that would put me in The Survivors Club.
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No and I'm grateful.
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I'm a total survivor.
ReplyDeleteNo need to enter me, though. I'm dropping in to say thanks for the e-mail. I've got this posted at Win a Book for you.
Fortunately I don't really have a story that would put me in the survivor's club. I like to live those sorts of things vicariously, like watching the show I Shouldn't Be Alive. So this book would be great for me! :)
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Here's my tweet!
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I follow w/ Google Reader!
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I don't have a story that would put me in the survivors club... so perhaps I am due? I need this book right away to be on the safe side :P
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Twitted!
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Absolutely.. but I don't dwell on it... however, would love to read this book!
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Old follower!
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I do have a story, but I am not able to talk about it.
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I follow.
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My Dad and I lost our brake master cylinder when driving through the mountains in northern California. This means that we had almost nothing to stop us. We were stranded in a town for a few days while they repaired the truck. The mechanic said if we had tried to continue on, we never were have survived the next mountain that was coming up.
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I follow
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I have survived 10 yrs after developing DVT (deep vein thrombosis). My sister is 8 yrs out also from a bone marrow transplant due to stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
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I have been lucky and have not had anything major happen to me.
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I am an old follower.
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I absolutely do. I was in a terrible car accident and none of us should have lived through it, and all 4 did.
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I'm an old follower.
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Yes, I have a few survivor's stories... My oldest being, escaping with my family from a country in East Africa due to political and economic upheaval and loosing everything and having to start all over in a strange country with just three suitcases of clothing. Thanks, the book sounds fascinating!
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No, my life is too dull for a book.
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My life has been uneventful.
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ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I don't have one that could go in here!
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I'm a follower
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No near fatal, well mutated kidney infection 9 months pregnant but that went over ok after a little while, got lots of stitches stories tho! :P
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I'm a follower!
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i almost died when i was 13 from asthma was in icu for a week and had holes in my lung where air escaped and created air pockets underneath my skin all over my body but other than that no stories
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I ran a red light and tboned another car.both cars were totaled but the other car and myself walked away with only scraps and bruises.
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Other than a few minor car accidents...no. I'm thankful for that. :0)
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I subscribe with google reader.
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Thanks for this interesting giveaway. I have survived a mother's untimely death and a fsther's early onset Alzheimer. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI was the victim of a serial rapist and helped the police catch the criminal 17 years later!
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I was hit by a car when I was in third grade and was hurt pretty bad
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following on twitter and tweeted
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Thankfully no!
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Actually, no, my life is pretty boring! Thank you for hosting this giveaway.
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Sad to say, I do have a true life story that would put me in The Survivors Club that I hope will never happen to anyone else again. This is a book that I have really been wanting and hope to be able to read in the near future.
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no, i'm lucky, i haven't had to survive anything
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I don't have a story to tell either.
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ReplyDeleteI was once in a car crash that happened because the guy driving found it fun to terrorize the girls in the car (myself included) by driving at high speeds on a curvy, hilly road. even though we begged him to stop. I'm a survivor with a few scars to prove it
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I'm a blog follower!
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I don't have any true life stories that would put me in the Survivors Club but I love to read about other people's stories. I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks. wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com
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My survivor story would have to be when I was in a car accident when I was about 3 months pregnant. Luckily I came out okay.
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