Sunday, September 6, 2009

Giveaway: THE SMART ONE AND THE PRETTY ONE by Claire LaZebnik

Thanks to the generosity of the great folks
at
Hachette Book Group,
A Sea of Books is hosting a giveaway for five (5!) copies of
THE SMART ONE AND THE PRETTY ONE
by Claire LaZebnik.

Rules for entering this giveaway are at the bottom of this post.

THE SMART ONE and THE PRETTY ONE
by Claire LaZebnik

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date: September 2008
ISBN-13: 9780446582063
Sales Rank: 140,490
294pp

Description (from the publisher):
"This sparkling novel about two sisters is both witty and stylish. Even if you don't have a sister of your own, you won't be able to resist LaZebnik's charming take on modern relationships. Read it!" - Holly Peterson, bestselling author of The Manny
When Ava Nickerson was a child, her mother jokingly betrothed her to a friend's son, and the contract the parents made has stayed safely buried for years. Now that still-single Ava is closing in on thirty, no one even remembers she was once "engaged" to the Markowitz boy. But when their mother is diagnosed with cancer, Ava's prodigal little sister Lauren comes home to Los Angeles where she stumbles across the decades-old document.
Frustrated and embarrassed by Ava's constant lectures about financial responsibility (all because she's in a little debt. Okay, a lot of debt), Lauren decides to do some sisterly interfering of her own and tracks down her sister's childhood fiancé. When she finds him, the highly inappropriate, twice-divorced, but incredibly charming Russell Markowitz is all too happy to re-enter the Nickerson sisters' lives, and always-accountable Ava is forced to consider just how binding a contract really is...
Click here to READ AN EXCERPT.
Click here to peek at the READING GROUP GUIDE.
Click here to read an ARTICLE ON WRITING BY THE AUTHOR.
Click here to VISIT THE AUTHOR'S WEBSITE.
RULES FOR ENTERING THE GIVEAWAY:
• Leave a comment on this post telling me you would like to win. Include an email address with your comment so that I can contact you if you do win. Use a spam-thwarting format such as geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com or geebee.reads [at] gmail [dot] com
You must leave an email address in order to qualify. If I can't contact you, you can't win!
• You can earn an extra entry by being or becoming a Follower or Subscriber of this blog and telling me about it in a separate comment.
• Blog about this contest and provide me with the link to the post in a separate comment, and I'll give you yet another entry.
• Tweeting about this contest and providing me the link in a separate comment will get you one more entry. I've added a Retweet button at the bottom of every post.
• Stumble this blog, Digg it, or Technorati Fave it, whatever, and leave a separate comment for another entry.
• Winners must provide a U.S. or Canadian street address. Hachette is unable to deliver to P.O. Boxes.
Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, September 25, 2009.
• Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

Thank you to Miriam
at Hachette Book Group
for making this giveaway possible.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

105 comments:

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