Catching Up! - Winners

I have winners to announce from I don't know how many giveaways! I am so far behind! I also have 2 awards to post and 3 books to review - and I forgot my Kid's Corner post yesterday! Ugh!

Oh well, this post is just for the winners!

The Castaways (audio):
Beth (already won) - CrystalGB
elaing8
hippmom

Ravens (audio):
Park Ave Princess (already purchased) - cherdon
wanda
Sheila Deeth

The Friends We Keep
Sheila Deeth

So Into You
fredamans
wade
elaing8
Penney
Brenda

How to Tame a Modern Day Rogue
donnas (already won) - maureen
Virginia
nfmgirl
Jake Lsewhere
wanda

Rooftops of Tehran
Bermudaonion

Congratulations Winners!

ARC Arrival and Giveaway: Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Publisher: NAL Trade

About the book: An unforgettable novel of young love and coming of age in a nation headed toward revolution.

In a middle-class neighborhood in Iran's sprawling capital city, seventeen-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend, Ahmed, joking around and talking about the future. Even as Pasha asks burning questions about life, he also wrestles with a crushing secret. He has fallen in love with his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. And despite Pasha's guilt-ridden feelings for her, over the long, hot days his tentative friendship with Zari deepens into a rich emotional bond.

But the bliss of those perfect stolen months is shattered in a single night, when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken Pasha and his friends to the reality of living under the rule of a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice from which Pasha may never fully recover.

In a poignant, funny, eye-opening, and emotionally vivid debut novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality infused in the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share: laughter, tears, love, fear, and above all, hope. (back cover)

About the author: Mahbod Seraji was born in Iran and moved to the United States in 1976 at the age of nineteen. He attended the University of Iowa, where he received an MA in film and broadcasting and a Ph.D. in instructional design and technology. He currently works as a management consultant, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. (inside book)

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY! Thanks to the author, Mahbod, I have one autographed copy to giveaway to a lucky reader! Just leave me a comment with an email address to enter! This giveaway will end Sept 7th! INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY!


Rooftops of Tehran
Publisher/Publication Date: NAL Trade, May 2009
ISBN: 978-1-451-22681-5
368 pages