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History Channel Giveaways
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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Shroud of Ice by Sharon Krasny, the powerful sequel to Iceman Awakens. To complete Ötzi’s story, Krasny journeyed to Austria, climbed his mountain in a storm, and visited his resting place in Bolzano, Italy. Her mission: to give this extraordinary archaeological discovery not just a name, but a voice and a dignified narrative.
Ötzi the Iceman, frozen in a glacier for over 5,000 years, has transformed our understanding of history. His body and belongings pushed the Copper Era timeline back by a millennium, revealed ancient medical knowledge, and inspired scientific breakthroughs, from analyzing hemoglobin types to reconstructing his final hours through alpine flora. He has given us everything. In return, Krasny offers him a story, one that connects his life to ours through the lens of her fictional character, Gaspare.
Shroud of Ice is built on the belief that humanity transcends time. People are people. And not all who are dead are silent.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The Age of Calamities by Senaa Ahmad, a dazzling collection that bends time, history, and genre with fearless imagination. In these surreal, sharp-edged stories, Ahmad reimagines historical figures and moments with wit and wonder. In “Let’s Play Dead,” Henry VIII tries to rid himself of Anne Boleyn, but she keeps resurrecting, no matter how many times he tries. “Choose Your Own Apocalypse” drops readers into 1945 as a Manhattan Project technician navigating a maze of choices and consequences. And in “Inside the House of the Historian,” a dinner party spirals into a murder mystery featuring guests like Nefertiti, Queen Victoria, John Adams, and Marilyn Monroe.
Each tale invites readers to wrestle with the absurdity and poignancy of existence, blurring the lines between past and present, myth and memory. Bold, brilliant, and deeply human, this collection explores the chaos of history and the strange beauty of survival.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Trust No One by James Rollins, a gripping thriller steeped in mystery, occult history, and academic intrigue. When a British professor at the University of Exeter is found murdered in a ritualistic fashion, suspicion falls on his own students, each enrolled in a postgraduate program exploring witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.
The prime suspect is Sharyn Karr, an American student to whom the professor entrusted a centuries-old encrypted manuscript just before his death. The diary, penned by the enigmatic Comte de Saint-Germain, contains chilling secrets and a final warning: Trust no one.
To decode the manuscript and uncover the truth, Sharyn must reluctantly team up with Duncan Maxwell, a brilliant but infuriating fellow student, and the sixteenth in line to the British throne. As they clash and collaborate, the book reveals its first line: Herein lies the secret to my immortality. Come find me, if you dare. What follows is a dangerous journey into the past, where every clue leads deeper into a web of secrets, and no one is safe.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han. In this sweeping tale of magic, memory, and resistance, three generations of Korean women carry the weight of history and the power of myth. One vanishes and returns as a tiger. Another speaks truths no one can hide from, a third glimpses secrets in dreams. Bound by blood and fractured by Japanese imperialism, their stories span decades and borders.
At the center is Young-Ja, a spirited girl whose emotions flavor every dish she makes. Her joyful cooking once brought warmth to her family, until 1931, when Japanese soldiers shattered their defiance and her world. Grief turns her meals bitter, but her gift catches the eye of a rebel fighter. Swept into a covert sisterhood of teahouse spies in Manchuria, Young-Ja learns to wield her talents for the resistance. Yet the Empire’s reach is long, and her fight is far from over.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Son of Nobody by Yann Martel. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey weren’t the only voices echoing from the Trojan War. In this bold reimagining, Martel introduces The Psoad, a free verse epic chronicling the journey of Psoas of Midea, a humble goatherd’s son who leaves behind his family to fight at Troy. His story ends in tragedy, and the poem that once told his tale vanishes into history.
Centuries later, Harlow Donne, a Canadian scholar at Oxford, uncovers fragments of the lost epic. As he pieces them together and annotates the verses, he’s drawn into reflections on his own life, his wife, his daughter, and the weight of ambition and duty across time. Son of Nobody shifts the lens from kings and warriors to the forgotten and ordinary, reminding us that history is never truly past. It’s a haunting, lyrical meditation on legacy and loss, perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The House of Hidden Letters by Izzy Broom. Skye isn’t one to act on impulse, until a crumbling Greek cottage offered by lottery tempts her with the promise of a new beginning. But when she finally arrives and steps through its weathered blue door, reality hits hard. The place is a wreck. Can she really make a life here?
Then, tucked inside the fireplace, Skye discovers a bundle of old letters. Their fragile pages whisper of a love lost to time, of heartbreak and heroism, and of secrets buried deep in the island’s past. As she’s drawn into the story they tell, Skye must also confront the shadows of her own history, because no matter how far she runs, fate always finds a way.
A lush, emotionally rich dual-timeline novel perfect for fans of Karen Swan, Victoria Hislop, and Lucinda Riley.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix. In November 2021, tragedy struck the English Channel when an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsized, claiming 27 lives. Despite repeated calls for help, French authorities mistakenly insisted the vessel was in British waters, deflecting responsibility. By the time rescue teams arrived nearly three hours later, only two people had survived, marking the deadliest incident of its kind in the Channel’s history. Small Boat offers a haunting fictional retelling from the perspective of the French navy officer who answered those calls. As she faces accusations of negligence, she grapples with guilt, deflection, and the crushing weight of systemic failure. Refusing to bear the blame alone, she confronts the broader forces behind the disaster: bureaucracy, indifference, and the politics of migration.
Vincent Delecroix’s powerful novel is a searing exploration of moral responsibility and the fragile line between duty and denial. It’s a story that asks: when faced with suffering, who do we become?
