As part of the quarterly Bloggy Giveaways Carnival, we at The Friendly Book Nook are giving away a fantastic book!
Wiser Than Serpents by Susan May Warren is a romantic suspense book about people working to rescue those caught in International Sex Slave Trade.
Here’s a brief description: Her sister had vanished, trapped in a human slavery ring. To find her, FSB agent Yanna Andrevka arranged her own kidnapping into Taiwan’s sex-trafficking trade. And found herself with no way out.
Until Yanna discovered an ally deep undercover: Delta Force captain David Curtiss. He was after the kingpin of the Twin Serpents, the organized crime syndicate that had Yanna—and hundreds of others— in their clutches.
With opposite agendas, David and Yanna had to rely on each other to outwit their cold-blooded enemy.
To enter, simply leave a comment with a valid email address.
To triple your chances of winning, visit the International Justice Mission’s website and come back here and tell us something you learned.
Remember, for every comment you leave between now and the end of August you will receive an entry into the pot for a 15 dollar Amazon gift card! We hope you stick around and join in our love for books! 
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Great giveaway! Hope I win!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I would love to get the book and stick qround to discuss it with you guess
July 30th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I never knew human trafficking was such a big problem until I watched a movie about it on TV, and a special about it on, umm, I think it was MSNBC, or some other news channel. I love reading and this book has me intrigued. The fact that it’s a romance book makes it even better.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Okay, for my extra entry, here is what I learned by looking around the International Justice Mission’s website. In 1999 about 20 million people were being kept as slaves. That’s crazy! That’s a lot of people. I always thought of human trafficking as having to do more with prostitution, but nope, there’s so much more other terrible things done. I’m about halfway done reading the fact sheets. I think everyone should seriously check out that website. It’s an eye-opener.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I have read good things about this book! I just watched the Dateline Show on the Cambodian young children being used for sex. It made me sick to my stomach. The parents selling them for trade and the sick men who use these children! I liked at the end when they reviewed some of the girls they have saved and worked with. Please enter me in your book drawing. Thanks, Cindi
July 30th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
what a great giveaway. i had no idea so many people were still being sold into slavery…it’s truly astonishing.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
“On June 30, 2008, a perpetrator convicted of trafficking for sexual exploitation was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay damages to her victims…”
YAY!!
the book sounds right up my alley! count me triple!
July 30th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
To give you an even broader idea of just how warped some of these people are, one kiwinut left an entry titled, “Have You Molested a Kitty Today?” But the body of the entry was blank. And so I was like, ok, what’s up with this? Just what exactly does this mean and who are these people?
July 31st, 2008 at 12:25 am
This sounds really interesting… although I’m not sure I could actually read it. Depends on how graphic it is.
Such a sad part of our world.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:53 am
I love romantic suspense as that’s the genre I write in as well!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:28 am
Intriguing book. We’d love to read it!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:11 am
This is going on my TBB list in case I don’t win I’m still going to get it
July 31st, 2008 at 3:06 am
i’d love to read this.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:51 am
Sounds like a great book on a way sad tragedy in our world!! I’d love to win this book! I’m off to go check out the link you provided for us!
Thanks so much!
Michele(CA)
luvkittysmeowmail@gmail.com
July 31st, 2008 at 3:54 am
This issue deserves exposure beyond a lame Lifetime movie with Mira Sorvino.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:56 am
WOW!! Thanks for providing this link, which I’ve now bookmarked and plan to share with family and friends!! What a tragic, tragic situation(s) for so many people!!! One thing that I learned is that according to Human Rights Watch, Kenyan women constitute 80 percent of the agricultural labor force and provide 60 percent of farm income, yet own only 5 percent of the land. That is so unfair and really sad!! I clicked on that link because it was one thing I was not already familiar with. What an eye-opener!!
Thanks!
Michele(CA)
luvkittysmeowmail@gmail.com
July 31st, 2008 at 4:13 am
Please enter me.
smilingsal55[at]yahoo[dot]com
July 31st, 2008 at 4:49 am
Sounds like an awesome book to read, would love to be entered for this.
sassylucylootoo(at)yahoo(dot)com
July 31st, 2008 at 5:16 am
Release has rightly paved the way for [Gowshik and Geetha] to live a life of dignity and freedom.
- IJM Chennai Social Worker taken from IJM
I am very interested in this book, hoping to win!
July 31st, 2008 at 5:34 am
Sounds like a good read!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
sounds like a GREAT read! Thanks for offering the sweepstakes!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
Sounds great!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:06 am
great plot! THANKS!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:23 am
OH BOY
July 31st, 2008 at 6:45 am
I just finished reading Reclaiming Nick and would love to try another os Susan May Warren’s books.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:56 am
This is a book I have heard about a few times and would really like to read. Thanks for the give a way!
July 31st, 2008 at 7:12 am
Wow sounds like a great read! thanks!
July 31st, 2008 at 7:17 am
I’ve been wanting to read this! Please enter me. ppreacherswife at gmail dot com
July 31st, 2008 at 7:27 am
Sounds like a great book!
July 31st, 2008 at 7:41 am
Sounds like a great book.
I checked out the site, and was happy to learn that the U.S. now has the PROTECT Act, the U.S. law that makes sexual offenses committed against minors abroad by American citizens punishable in U.S. courts. Did not know that! It’s another step in the right direction.
daisyaday [at] gmail [dot] com
July 31st, 2008 at 7:46 am
Had learned some facts from the fairly recent articles that have been done by TV news magazines, but the sheer numbers indicated by the website are frightening. This is especially true when you realize that this doesn’t just happen in third world countries, but right here in the US. Count me for extra entries.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:55 am
Recently I wrote on my blog about fearing my children would be kidnapped into a sex ring and some commentor went spastic on me! LOL Like that couldn’t possibly be a “real” fear. Not that I think it is likely, but I would never want that to happen to one of my children, or anyone’s.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am
This author has been recommended to me. I would love to win this book.
owatz (AT) telus (DOT) net
July 31st, 2008 at 8:41 am
I would love to read this book. It seems that this is a big problem throughout the world.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Hi all,
Warren’s book is really illustrative of the sex trafficking industry, another great book to pick up is nonfiction but truth-convcting book Just Courage by Gary Haugen, (www.justcourage.com) who is the CEO and founder of International Justice Mission. It is worth reading and being inspired into action to seek justice. -Lyn from IJM HQ
July 31st, 2008 at 9:18 am
The book sounds like an amazing read, I will bookmark it and still get it if I dont win.
Justin McRoberts music is amazing and so is his desire to help the opressed, when my teen gets home today I will show him the website, and Justin’s and pray that he is as touched as I was, who cant be woken up to this reality
and be called into action to stop this madness.
Stormy5475@aol.com
July 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Wow – this looks good!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:21 am
I hadn’t heard about this book before–thanks for bringing to our attention! It sounds like a good one!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:35 am
This looks very interesting. Please enter me.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:43 am
I wanna win the Amazon GC
July 31st, 2008 at 9:51 am
Sounds intense. Sign me up!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:23 am
I love new books. Thanks for introducing me to this one!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:56 am
Love to add new to me authors and Susan May Warren is new to me. Thank you.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:03 am
Wow. I never new such an organization existed. It opened my eyes to such travesties worldwide. I saved the website for further investigation. Thanks for the new information and for the chance at winning.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:51 am
Sounds like it would be interesting.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Sounds great. I am an avid reader.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Sounds like a great book!!!! You can never have too many books, especially in the summer.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Free books? Count me in!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
i am so into a win this month
July 31st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Count me in!!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Sounds like a great book!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Sounds like a great read! Thanks for sharing!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for the chance to win the book.
I honestly didn’t realise how wide spread slave trafficking was, it’s sickening. Reading about the couple who were former Slaves and then went on to build a successful ground nut business reduced me to tears. Thanks for educating us.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I learned that more children, women and men are held in slavery right now than over the course of the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade!!
July 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
This would be a troubling book to read, but I hope it calls more attention to this ugly business.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
This sounds like an interesting book about an ugly topic that no one wants to face.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
this sounds like a very intriguing book!!
July 31st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
This book looks good, love suspense books.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
sounds like an excellent book
July 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Ooooh, sounds good.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
This sounds like a gripping book. The first thing I noticed on their website is that they have a 4 purpose mission: relief for victims, accountability for perpitrators, aftercare for victims, and prevention.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Sounds like a great book, thanks for the giveaway
July 31st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
This book sounds intriguing.
Our church had a guest speaker who works with IJM. Wow! WHat a ministry.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I would love to read this. Count me in!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Wow! sounds great. I am always reading something and this sounds right up my alley.
Thanks for having the Giveaway!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:03 am
“International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems.”
taken from the IJM website (as if you couldn’t tell lol.
thanks again for the contest!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:08 am
IJM people work with local governments to rescue people.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:16 am
You might also like to read “The Night Ferry” by Michael Robotham.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:09 am
Thanks for the giveaway. I’m always on the lookout for a good read.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:30 am
i heart good books . . .thanks. kristen
ryankristenwilson(at)msn(dot)com
August 1st, 2008 at 8:32 am
Great giveaway, it looks like a good book!
bookworm2511 at yahoo dot com
August 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am
I’d love to check this one out. I recently reviewed Once Blind, which touches upon modern human slavery. I’d like to learn more.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:40 am
I adore her books, thanks!
August 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am
Please enter me. Thank you!
August 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
I love to read
August 1st, 2008 at 10:59 am
Wow, this sounds like a really good book! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
What a great book!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I learned that it only takes 500 dollars for a week of legal advocacy, I would not have expected they could do so much with so little. I would love to win the book, this is an area I have been interested in.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Sounds like a very interesting book.
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 am
Sounds like an interesting book!
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Hopefully a book like this will educated many people who otherwise would never have thought that slavery still existed in the world.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
I’d love to read this book! I’ve read the other ones in the series.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
I want this book!
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
thanks
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I learned they have a four-fold purpose:
Victim Relief
» Perpetrator Accountability
» Victim Aftercare
» Structural Prevention
I’m impressed with this. I like the follow-through.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I’d like to read this
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I would love to read this book! Thanks again for your giveaway!
August 4th, 2008 at 7:02 am
sounds like a fascinating book!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Thank you for having this. I had no idea that More than 2 million children are trapped in forced prostitution. This is something that needs to change. thank you
August 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
sounds like a great book!
August 5th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I’m intrigued… sign me up!
August 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I learned from IJM that you can become a prayer partner.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I would love to read this
August 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Sounds like something I would enjoy reading
August 6th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Oooh, this sounds good. Not sure if the contest is over, but if not, please count me in! I love a good mystery.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:28 am
IJM’s work is founded on the Christian call to justice articulated in the Bible (Isaiah 1:17): Seek justice, protect the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
It is just amazing more people are this way.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:58 am
IJM’s 4 Fold Purpose:
» Victim Relief
» Perpetrator Accountability
» Victim Aftercare
» Structural Prevention
August 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am
great sweepstakes…thanks!
August 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for the chance.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Lovely post. Please add my email address to your list and email me the updates if possible. I always like to read your blog and comment on it.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:52 am
I can see my 73 year old wife wearing these.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
What a fascinating topic — I would love to win this book.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
still have my fingers crossed for this book!
August 18th, 2008 at 4:16 am
I want to read this book
August 19th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Am looking forward to reading this book, win it or not!
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am
i learned that a huge number of people were and are being held captive as slaves.