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Showing posts with label Allison Pittman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allison Pittman. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Congratulations. . .




You have won the copy of Stealing Home by Allison Pittman!

(An email has been sent to the winner)

Monday, June 1, 2009

New Giveaway - Stealing Home by Allison K. Pittman

Stealing Home by Allison K. Pittman

Publisher: Multnomah

Thanks to Elizabeth and Random House I have one copy of Stealing Home to giveaway to a lucky commenter. Full rules are below.

About the book: It’s 1905 and the Chicago Cubs are banking on superstar Donald “Duke” Dennison’s golden arm to help them win the pennant. Only one thing stands between Duke and an unprecedented ten thousand dollar contract: alcohol.

That’s when sportswriter David Voyant whisks Duke to the one-horse town of Picksville, Missouri, so he can sober up in anonymity. He bides his time flirting with Ellie Jane Voyant, his unofficial chaperone, who would rather hide herself in the railway station ticket booth than face the echoes of childhood taunts.

Ned Clovis, the feed store clerk, has secretly loved Ellie Jane since childhood, but he loves baseball and the Duke almost as much–until he notices Ellie Jane may be succumbing to the star’s charm.

Then there’s Morris, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, whose only dream is to break away from Picksville. When Duke discovers his innate talent for throwing a baseball, Morris might just have found his way out.

Four individuals, each living in haunted isolation, each harboring a secret passion. Providence brings them together. Tragedy threatens to tear them apart. Will love be enough to bring them home?

About the author: Allison Pittman spent seventeen years as a high school English teacher, and then shunned the advice of “experts,” quit her day job and set out to write novels that bring glory to God. She relishes inspiring other writers and leading the theater arts group at her church. She and her husband and three sons live in Universal City, Texas.






Rules:
1. Must have U.S. Address/no P.O. Boxes.
2. Since baseball is an American pastime - to enter, please leave a comment relating ANY experience that you have ever had with baseball/softball/t-ball, etc - you get the picture.
3. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave your email in the comment!
4. One entry per person.
5. Giveaway runs from June 1 - June 22.

Stealing Home
Publisher/Publication Date: Multnomah, April 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-60142-136-4
352 pages

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Teaser Tuesday 4-28-2009


TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!


Less than a second later, the apple was in Duke's hand. He hadn't seen the boy throw it, didn't see it flying toward him. There was just a golden zip out of the corner of his eye, and his fingers clutched instinctively once the skin of his palm touched the skin of the fruit. (p51, Stealing Home)


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