Category: Giveaways

We’re giving away a year’s worth of great books in translation!

Have you met Open Letter? They’re the University of Rochester’s literary arm, doing the good work of publishing excellent international literature translated into English. They produce ten books a year, and also run the annual Best Translated Book Award (for which I have been a judge). Famously, only 3% of books published in the US every year are books in translation (and less than half of those are by women)—Open Letter is here to help change that number and to give us all damn fine books to read from the world over. And we’re giving away a year-long subscription to their press!

Entries are open worldwide and will be accepted until 11:59pm, Sunday, October 1st. Winner will be randomly selected.

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10 lucky winners will each receive one prize pack with the following (physical CD) copies: The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve, Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown, and The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor.

With fall ramping up, it’s back to juggling busy school and work schedules with social engagements like date nights, yoga with friends, and book club. Luckily, you can listen to your book clubs next pick so you can stay on top of it all.

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As hard as it may be to believe, it was 50 years ago that the iconic novel, The Outsiders, was published. It was a game-changing moment that essentially launched the Young Adult genre. Penguin Young Readers is proud to have been on this YA ride from the beginning and is thrilled to present our Penguin Teen Game-Changers collection, highlighting five stellar novels that are sure to transform the YA scene this fall. Titles include Marie Lu’s Warcross; Kristin Cashore’s Jane, Unlimited; Stephanie Perkins’s There’s Someone Inside Your House; Peter Bognanni’s Things I’m Seeing Without You, and Julie C. Dao’s Forest of a Thousand Lanterns.

Five (5) winners will each get a box of books called “Game-Changers!” Titles include Warcross, Jane, Unlimited, There’s Someone Inside Your House, Things I’m Seeing Without You and Forest of a Thousand Lanterns.

Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the image of the prize below. Good luck!

We have 10 copies of The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she’s homeschooled, and she’s probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can’t swim.

Then Emilie’s mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj’s to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem: she hasn’t told anyone about her epilepsy. Will she withdraw to safety or follow a dead poet’s advice and “dwell in possibility?”

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One of my goals in life is to own the complete set of the Penguin Drop Caps. For those unfamiliar, this is an A-Z selection of rainbow-colored modern and canonical classics.

And so that you can live out MY dreams, we’re giving away three of the Drop Caps of your choice to one winner.

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Ten (10) winners get physical copies of both Loved by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast and The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd, and audiobook downloads for both books as well!

Here’s what the books are all about:

THE INDIGO GIRL

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Upon hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye, Eliza believes it’s the key to their salvation. But everyone tells her it’s impossible, and no one will share the secret to making it. She is thwarted at nearly every turn, even by her own family,

So begins an incredible story of love, dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.

and….

LOVED

It’s Zoey’s eighteenth birthmas and the Nerd Herd has been scattered across the country busily adulting for almost a year when Stark calls them back to Tulsa to surprise Z. But all is not well in T-town. Strange, dark signs are appearing—could it be possible Neferet is stirring? Not willing to chance disaster striking again, Zoey calls on her newly reunited friends to circle with her and add a layer of protection over Neferet’s grotto jail. Easy-peasy, right?

Wrong. Nothing at the House of Night is ever as it seems. With rabid red vampyres closing in, Zoey and the Nerd Herd must come together again and battle evil. But a year is a long time. Have these old friends grown too far apart?

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We have 10 copies of Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem “classic” Earth culture (doo-wop music, still-life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.

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We’ve got some copies of Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter to give away!

Here’s what it’s all about:

In Vassa’s Brooklyn neighborhood it’s easy to stumble into magic, it’s stumbling away again that’s hard. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters—and innocent shoppers. So when Vassa’s stepsister sends her out for light bulbs in the middle of night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mission. But Vassa has Erg, a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and ferocious cunning. With Erg’s help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch’s curse and free her Brooklyn neighborhood. But Babs won’t be playing fair…

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We have 10 copies of Elly Blake’s Fireblood to give away to 10 Riot readers!

Here’s what it’s all about:

In this action-packed sequel to the New York Times bestselling Frostblood, Ruby must choose between her fiery homeland and the icy king who loves her.

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