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Books Direct: Books Direct Christmas Giveaway Enter to win a Kindle edition of The Briton and the Dane Concordia

Books Direct: Books Direct Christmas Giveaway: Books Direct Christmas Giveaway

Books Direct Christmas Giveaway
Books Direct Christmas Giveaway

I am running a special Christmas giveaway featuring books that have previously made an appearance on this blog. You can find out more about the books and their authors by clicking on the links.Thank you to all the authors for their kind donations. Authors, if you have had a book featured on this blog, you can still contribute to this giveaway until 22 December. Please email me if you're interested.Merry Christmas!Lynda
GiveawayEnter the giveaway for your chance to win one of the following ebooks:Books Direct - Featured ebook(s) to the value of $5 from Amazon.com
Amanda Green - My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me
Amanda Green - 39 (Memoirs of Amanda Green)
Monique Rockliffe - The Door
Monique Rockliffe - The Sword Bearers Books 1-3
Christoph Fischer - The Luck of the Weissensteiners
Christoph Fischer - Sebastian
Christoph Fischer - The Black Eagle Inn
J. J. DiBenedetto - Dream Student: Dreams Book 1
Hunter S. Jones - Fables of the Reconstruction
Hunter S. Jones - September Ends
K. P. Ambroziak - The Fifth Empire: The Journal of Vincent du Maurier
K. P. Ambroziak - A Perpetual Mimicry
John Lansing - The Devil's Necktie
Bart Hopkins Jr. - Sign Changes
Paulette Mahurin - The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap
Paul R. Hewlett - Lionel's Grand Adventure: Lionel and the Golden Rule
Paul R. Hewlett - Lionel's Christmas Adventure
DJ Edwardson - Into the Vast
DJ Edwardson - The Jammer and the Blade
Jude Ouvrard - Wonderland (Fall Fires)
Ben Woodard - A Stairway to Danger
Ben Woodard - Steps Into Darkness
Grant Overstake - Maggie Vaults Over the Moon
Kea Alwang - Treehugger (Based on a Dream #1)
Wendy Cartmell - Steps to Heaven
Justine Edward - Shine
Sarah Michelle Lynch - A Fine Profession: The Chambermaid's Tales Part One
Kathryn Elizabeth Jones - Marketing Your Book on a Budget
Greta Burroughs - Gerald and the Wee People
Greta Burroughs - Patchy and Calico's Summer Vacation
Greta Burroughs - Christmas with Patchy and Calico
Lexi Revellian - Ice Diaries
Lexi Revellian - Replica
Lexi Revellian - Torbrek and the Dragon Variation
Denele Pitts Campbell - I Met a Goat on the Road
Billy Wong - Iron Bloom
K. R. Hughes and T. L. Burns - Fateful Night
Chris Robertson - My Yellow Umbrella
Gaelen VanDenbergh - Running Against Traffic
Rhonda Patton - African Safari with Ted and Raymond
Maria Savva - Coincidences
Mary Ann Bernal - The Briton and the Dane: Concordia
Kim Cresswell - Reflection
Kim Cresswell - Lethal Journey
C. Martin Stepp - Walking Backwards
C. Martin Stepp - Two Thursdays
T. Aramis Barron - Roaming Cadenza and Dustland Requiem
Michael John Sullivan and Susan Petrone - The SockKids Meet Lincoln
Carrie Elks - Halfway Hidden

BEARDED SCRUTINY: EPISODE 55 - THE HOST

BEARDED SCRUTINY: EPISODE 55 - THE HOST: SHOW SYNOPSIS: On this episode the crew digs into This week the boys decide to torture themselves and attempt to review over two hours ...

History Trivia - England's Henry VIII excommunicated

December 17

546 Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquered Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.

 920 Romanos I was crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.

1187 Pope Gregory VIII died. In his brief pontificate, Gregory initiated the Third Crusade and began reforms in the Curia.

1531 Pope Clement VII established a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Tudors 1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry VIII of England.

The Phil Naessens Show: LeBron James Says There are no Rivalries in the NBA!

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On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show
  We’re talking Lebron James, NBA rivalries, Doc Rivers return to Boston and previewing all five of Tuesday night’s NBA games plus much more Segment 1: SLC Dunk Managing Editor Amar joins Phil to discuss Miami Heat star LeBron James recent statements that there aren’t any rivalries in the NBA, help Lebron out by naming some current rivalries, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers return to Boston to coach his former team, Ray Allen and much more    Segment : SLC Dunk Managing Editor Amar joins Phil to preview Tuesday nights NBA action between the Los Angeles Lakers and Memphis Grizzlies, Oklahoma City Thunder vs Denver, Sacramento vs Charlotte, Portland vs Cleveland and New Orleans vs Golden State plus much more  

Bargain Bride, Billionaire Groom by Lelani Blank - Kindle edition $.99

**Value priced at .99 cents!** Their marriage-of-convenience just got complicated!    What happens in Maui, happens again in Colorado in this sweet-steamy #marriage-of-convenience love story about an island #coffee grower who meets her mis-match in an Italian businessman. Surf Maui, ski Colorado, flirt with a prince, fall down a mountain and fall in love! Short novel .99 cents for Kindle.

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Amazon Canada
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Amazon UK
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Historical Society Review of The Night I Danced With Rommel by Elisabeth Marrion

The Night I Danced With RommelBy Elisabeth Marrion http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-night-i-danced-with-rommel/ The Night I Danced with Rommel is based on the real life events of the author’s mother and recounts the story of Hilde, a young German girl, who reaches maturity in the years leading up to, and including the Second World War. Without doubt, Hilde is a feisty storyteller; she has a fascinating history to tell and in a straightforward manner takes the reader on a journey through some of the more challenging aspects of living in Germany during this disturbing time. From the start of the book, it is obvious that the author has an emotional attachment to the narrative, the story reads almost like you are sitting with Hilde, and as you listen to her version of events, a sense of rapport quickly develops.
The book is nicely presented and professionally finished with fine attention to detail. There is good characterisation and overall the story flows well. The narrative could so easily have developed into an overly sentimental wartime saga, but the author has used her own family’s wartime experiences to great advantage. I think that The Night I Danced with Rommel is a fine demonstration of Hilde’s courage and fortitude, and is a marvellous testament to the resilience of a generation of people who faced tragedy on such a grand scale.
I have no hesitation in recommending this book as an interesting account of one woman’s courage in the face of great adversity.

Amazon US
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December 16, 1773 Sons of Liberty dump British tea

Dec 16, 1773:
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On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the "Boston Tea Party," the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the company to sell its tea even more cheaply than that smuggled into America by Dutch traders. Many colonists viewed the act as yet another example of Britain's taxation tyranny.
In most American ports, the resistance group known as the Sons of Liberty scared off British tea-carrying ships by threatening their captains with tarring, feathering or worse. However, when three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor and the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England, Thomas Hutchinson, the British-appointed governor of Massachusetts, refused to permit the ships to leave. Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the now-famous "tea party" with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty. The British tea dumped into Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was worth more than $700,000 in today's currency.
Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, called the "Intolerable Acts" by the colonists, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.

Hank of Twin Rivers, Book One: Journey of Change (Volume 1) now available in paperback

 Plagued by a monster goose which nips him whenever it gets close and his shame in Pa's disappointment in him, twelve-year-old Hank Heaton hides in daydreams and book reading. What else can he do? He can't make himself grow taller and, now that the cholera has weakened his leg and he finds himself limping, he feels even more inadequate. The disease took away his mother so he doesn't have her to comfort him, to be "coddled" as Pa calls it. Hank’s only comforts are his pet cow, Clementine, and Ma's fun-loving, fiddle-playing brother, Uncle Mac. When Pa decides to homestead on land in western Nebraska, Hank rebels at leaving his school and friends. Pa’s discipline is quick and painful and Hank has to obey. Unpredictable mid-western weather, stampeding buffalo, and murdering claim jumpers make life miserable on the prairie trail. Hank finds friends in Rusty, a rich southern boy from Missouri; Nora, a teasing eight-year-old girl from Wisconsin; and Moses, an escaped slave. But life really get interesting when he meets another complication to his life, the feisty, red-haired preacher's daughter. Historically correct, this novel takes readers into the exciting and dangerous adventures of a pioneer boy.

Just in time for Christmas - pick up your copy by clicking on the link:

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The Phil Naessens Show; Indiana Pacers, Fantasy Basketball and Utah Jazz NBA Basketball

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 On today’s Phil Naessens Show  I’m talking Indiana Pacers, Fantasy Basketball and Utah Jazz NBA hoops! Segment 1: Indy Cornrows Managing Editor Tom Lewis joins Phil to discuss the Indiana Pacers big wins over Miami and Charlotte, Danny Granger and previews Monday’s game with the Detroit Pistons and Wednesdays game against the Miami Heat and much more     Segment 2: Rotowire NBA Editor Kyle McKeown joins Phil to discuss injuries to James Harden and Jeremy Lin, Ersan Ilyasova, Danny Granger, Otto Porter and much more.  Segment 3: SLC Dunk Managing Editor Amar joins Phil to discuss the Utah Jazz win over the Denver Nuggets, Gordon Hayward, Alec Burkes, Enes Kanter, Trey Burke and previews Monday nights game against the Miami Heat plus much more