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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

New Giveaway - The False Friend by Myra Goldberg


It is time for a new giveaway!  I have 2 copies of The False Friend by Myra Goldberg to giveaway - courtesy of Doubleday Books.


From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup - two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods.  Only one comes out. . .

Leaders of a mercurial clique, Celia and Djuna subjected each other and their three followers to an endless cycle of reward and punishment that peaked one afternoon when all five girls walked home along a forbidden road.  Djuna disappeared that day; Celia blocked out what happened.  It was assumed that Djuna was abducted, though neither she nor her abductor was ever found.

Twenty years later, Celia and her boyfriend Huck are professionally successful, but their relationship is in stasis.  When Celia's memory of that terrible day returns, she confronts her own responsibility for her best friend's disappearance and returns to her hometown to confess.  Her aging parents - their love handicapped by a lifetime of reserve - insist that she is innocent.  Her childhood friends don't believe her.  Huck wants to be supportive, but he can't ignore all that contradicts Celia's version of the past.

Deeply resonant and emotionally charged, The False Friend explores the adults that children become -- leading us to question the truths that we accept or reject, and the lies to which we succumb.



For the Giveaway:
1. Follow my blog (plz) and must leave email address
2. Additional entries - twitter, blog, etc about the giveaway and leave me the link
3.  Giveaway is open to US residents only and will end Dec 22.  Good luck!






23 comments:

  1. I am a gfc follower, I would love to read this.
    debbie
    twoofakind12@yahoo.com

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  2. It looks like a good story. I am a follower.
    mce1011 AT aol DOT com

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  3. GFC Follower

    DreamyCowgirl @ hotmail.com

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  4. I am a follower. Please enter me. Thanks!
    pbclark(at)netins(dot)net

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  5. This sounds like something I would really enjoy, please enter me. I'm a follower.

    crystalfulcher(at)ec.rr.com

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  6. I'm a follower!

    Thanks for another giveaway.

    taffy(dot)lovell@gmail.com

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  7. Following Books and Needlepoint with NetworkedBlogs on Facebook -- I would love to read The False Friend :)

    Shared the giveaway on Facebook

    http://scr.im/ladybugemail

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  8. Yep, go and enter me for this one. Sounds too good to pass up (and good enough to pass around my book club)!

    I am a GFC and Networked Blogs friend. I gotcha covered.

    And thanks for the e-mail! I've posted about this at Win a Book for you, as well. Of course.

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  9. I'm a GFC Follower thanks!

    unforgetable_dreamer_always (at) hotmail.com

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  10. I'm a follower with facebook.

    anastasia.trombly[at]gmail[dot]com

    This book looks so fantastic, I really hope I win.

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  11. Looks great! I'm a follower via GFC.

    shana
    shanaelyse@gmail.com

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  12. Great giveaway! I am a google follower and email subscriber.
    rbooth43(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  13. Thank you for the giveaway. This looks like a great book.

    Jules
    onebookshy at yahoo dot com

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  14. I would love to read this book. I have seen it several times, but never picked it up. Please include me in your giveaway I am a follower.

    ThriftyWays(at)gmail(dot)com

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  15. I also tweeted the giveaway.

    http://twitter.com/kellyblackwell/status/11700446049599488

    ThriftyWays(at)gmail(dot)com

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  16. Wow! This sounds like a great book. Please enter me in the drawing. I follow you thru GFC

    blogbaby(at)comcast(dot)net

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  17. I'm a GFC follower. I remember enjoying Bee Season, and I'd love to read the author's latest.

    wolfcarol451(at)gmail(dot)com

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  18. Would love the chance to read this. I want to know what happened!

    I follow.

    Tweeted:
    http://twitter.com/#!/librarygrinch/status/16389885032136704

    Thanks! :0)
    librarygrinch at gmail dot com

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  19. gfc follower
    I'd love to read this book!
    nicolesender@yahoo.com

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  20. GFC follower

    Thanks for the giveaway....
    Happy Holidays!
    megalon22 at yahoo dot com

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  21. I'm a GFC Follower!

    Thanks for the giveaway! :D

    ~Briana
    thebookpixie[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  22. Tweeted: http://twitter.com/thebookpixie/status/17439633314938880

    ~Briana
    thebookpixie[at]yahoo[dot]com

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