Congratulations to Charlotte and Michelle.  Your goodies will be in the mail this week!  Thank you to everyone for showing an interest in Amish fiction.  For all the reasons you all mentioned, I love it too!  Also thank you to Zondervan Publishing for donating the goodies!

I hope some of you will be able to attend the Amish Holiday Tour with Amy, Shelley, and Vanetta!

With the release of the movie Marley & Me this past Christmas, we thought it would be fun to do a special little Marley & Me Giveaway!

Here’s what you’ll get if you win:

Plus the mass market edition of the original book! (the one with the movie cover.)

We’re going to have a little fun with this contest! To enter, please write a short story about your favorite pet that you’ve ever had. It should be at least five sentences long, but the longer the better. If you have a picture, go ahead and send that along too! Entries should be sent to thefriendlybooknookATgmailDOTcom. We’ll post our five favorite entries (assuming we get that many!) and then let you vote on the winner!

This contest will be open until Januaray 12th at midnight. I hope you’ll enter…I think we could use some animal love around here.

Earlier this season we reviewed two great Christmas books for kids. Now we’d like to give you a chance to own them!

One person will win both We Believe in Christmas by Karen Kingsbury and The Gift of the Christmas Cookie by Dandi Dailey Mackall. (click on the titles to read our reviews) Due to the heavy nature of these books, this giveaway is open to United States residents only. To enter, simply leave a comment with a valid email address and tell us what your favorite Christmas cookie is! We’ll close comments on Friday at midnight and draw a winner on Saturday.

Merry Christmas everyone!

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they’re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don’t know is that Margot’s no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn’t the only one with a deadly plan.
In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride-along through Los Angeles with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won’t soon forget.

We have up to 5 copies to give away! For every ten entries, we’ll give away another copy!
Here’s how to enter:
1) Leave a comment on any post dated from October 10-18th. Each comment gives you an entry!
2) Blog about this contest on your blog, with a link back to this post for two extra entries and then email us your link!

You must have a United States or Canadian address to win, no PO Boxes.

Thanks and good luck!

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!

We love comments at The Friendly Book Nook!

So to bribe you for encourage more comments and participation, we will reward one lucky reader with a fifteen dollar gift card to Amazon.

How will this work, you ask? Well from now until the end of August for every comment you leave you will be entered one time into the pot. These have to be real relevant comments, no spam! Then on September 1st, we’ll announce the winner on the blog!

So comment away!

We are really excited about The Friendly Book Nook and we hope you are, too! So, we’re running a contest through the month of March to inspire you to help us get the word out!

There are several ways you can enter:

1) Subscribe via email. We will also have giveaways for email subscribers only, so you want to get in on this now! Just look for the email subscription information on the right sidebar and be sure to confirm it.

2) Link to the Friendly Book Nook. If you add us to your blogroll, you’ll get two entries into the contest!

3) Write a post about the Friendly Book Nook and link to us. The post can be announcing our site or talking about one of our reviews. This will get you three entries into the contest.

4) Add our button to your sidebar. This will get you three entries into the contest as well. It must stay up throughout the month of March. If you add the button to a different page on your site, that will give you just one entry.

The grand prize will be a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com There will be a few runner up prizes of a yet to be determined nature, most likely books!

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