Goodreads Sweepstakes - Page 1
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Motherlands by Dennis Andrulis. Irene grows up on a quiet Hungarian farm in the early twentieth century, surrounded by happiness and the unwavering love of her grandmother. But when the First World War ends, a letter arrives calling her to America, to the side of her long‑absent mother, Mary.
What follows is a journey that pulls Irene from safety into the volatile world of a mother hardened by disappointment. As America’s promise begins to captivate her, the shadows surrounding Mary and the secrets she’s carried for years slowly come to light. Irene must decide whether to chase her own ambitions for education and independence or risk being swallowed by the weight of her mother’s unfulfilled dreams.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Five-Fingered Elf by Louise Gorday. When the highly sought-after role of Santa Claus is awarded to Ethan Puckerton, Herbert “Spanky” Tuddy is furious, and he’s determined to make sure all of Christmasville hears about it. But the new Santa is far too busy upgrading plumbing, streamlining toy production, and installing cutting‑edge communications tech to worry about his sulking second‑in‑command.
When Santa strikes a deal with billionaire Noël Rusk, offering Jetsla lab space inside the North Pole biodome in exchange for much‑needed infrastructure repairs, Herbert’s resentment boils over. His rash choices set off a chain of events that could endanger the elves, the North Pole, and Christmas itself.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Cleanse by James Yates. Justin Adams thought he was ready. He’d spent two decades preparing for the next Cleanse—the night the creatures return. But one reckless gamble has cost him everything, and now his family’s fate depends on a small metal box, a handful of borrowed guns, and a promise he’s no longer sure he can keep.
Across town, millionaire Rupert Bainbridge watches from the safety of his mansion. His survival is assured, yet even fortified walls can’t shut out guilt, paranoia, or the growing cult gathering outside his gates.
As the world braces for the coming slaughter, neighbours will betray one another, buried truths will claw their way to the surface, and the real meaning of the Cleanse will finally come to light.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Unleashed Memories by Sylvain Copvante. In a society splintered by loss, grief has been transformed into a technological product, thanks to an innovation that lets people access the memories of the dead. Sold as a source of solace and clarity, the system soon reveals its darker purpose: emotional manipulation and state‑sanctioned surveillance. Beneath its polished promise lies a disturbing question about power and control: who gets to decide which memories survive?
Calips, who oversees an assisted suicide service, watches his world come apart when he’s suddenly barred from viewing a memory he is legally entitled to access. That single act of censorship exposes the government’s tightening hold over the stories left behind and pushes him into a perilous search for the truth. If he fails, society risks losing more than privacy; it risks losing the freedom to mourn, to remember, and to choose. If he succeeds, he may recover the one thing he feared he had already lost: his own humanity.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for You, With Your Waiting by Leslie Lacin. In the summer of 1941, as Nazi forces advance into the Soviet Union, fourteen‑year‑old Bronya wants nothing more than to play her violin. She has just secured a coveted spot at the Moscow Conservatory, but when war shatters every expectation she held, she carries her worn violin case with her into the unknown, treating it as both protection and promise. Her younger brother Avsey, bright and solitary, clings to a birch box filled with small stolen family treasures, a secret refuge against the turmoil closing in around him. With their mother institutionalized and their father preparing to defend the motherland, the siblings are torn apart and thrust into impossible choices. Bronya is sent to the Ukrainian fields to harvest wheat, her violin her only companion, while Avsey evacuates with neighbors who abandon him, forcing him to survive through instinct, luck, and the precious contents of his birch box.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Magic of Untamed Hearts by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland. Sky Flores, like her sisters Sage and Teal, carries a spark of magic, and it’s brought her nothing but trouble. Years ago, she vanished into the woods and returned with no explanation, and ever since, she’s found it easier to speak with animals than with people. Seen as strange and untrustworthy, she’s become an outsider in the small town of Cranberry.
Her neighbor, Adam Noemi, is facing his own crisis. Recently laid off from a major newspaper, he’s desperate for a story big enough to revive his career. Sky, whose mysterious past has long fascinated the media, seems like the perfect lead. She agrees to give him an exclusive interview with someone she once befriended in a very public, unforgettable way, hoping it will finally prove she’s more than the town oddity.
But as Sky opens up and Adam listens, their arrangement deepens into something far more meaningful. For their connection to flourish, Adam must embrace a world that challenges everything he thought he knew, and Sky must allow her wild, wonder-filled heart to trust someone new.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Aphrodite in Pieces by Lauren J.A. Bear. Set two centuries before the common era, the story begins when Aphrodite startles a wandering sculptor with an unexpected request: hear my truth, see me as I am, and carve that truth into stone. She has never before allowed anyone to capture her likeness, and as the sculptor works, she reveals fragments of her life, her greatest victories, her deepest regrets, the real stories behind her generosity and her wrath, and the one sweeping love that keeps slipping through her grasp again and again.
Blending memoir and myth with a deeply emotional core, Aphrodite in Pieces asks timeless questions about the nature of love and beauty, and whether either can truly endure.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Annie Knows Everything by Rachel Wood. Annie’s terrible day hits its peak when she’s fired from her dream job at a New York tech company—right as she finds out her sister is engaged to the Worst Man Alive…for the second time. Determined not to spiral, Annie spots an opening on her company’s data strategy team and decides she’s going for it. She’s never written a line of code, but really, how hard could it be?
Connor, the interim head of the department, isn’t buying it. Still, Annie knows his team of brilliant but socially awkward techies desperately needs someone who can actually talk to humans, and she’s convinced she’s exactly what they’re missing. All she has to do is overlook the fact that Connor is both maddeningly irritating and unfairly attractive.
As if winning over Connor weren’t enough, Annie also has to survive her sister’s second engagement party—the same engagement she accidentally sabotaged the first time. And her sister definitely hasn’t forgotten.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Sword of Vengeance by Chris Adams. A young knight embarks on a perilous mission to rescue a captive prince, battling demons, monsters, and powerful dark magic along the way. Haunted by his past and relentlessly pursued, Gerald must confront Adrian Zartun, the immortal tyrant who slaughtered his family, before Zartun can sacrifice the prince and seize control of the world.
Raised by the Guardian Knights, Gerald has dedicated his life to protecting the innocent. Now he leads a desperate quest to save the last heir of a fallen empire, navigating deadly foes, corrupt sorcery, and choices that could break even the strongest warrior.
With a band of fighters, spellcasters, and a shadowy assassin at his side, Gerald races through Zartun’s sinister realm. Sacrifices will be made. Hidden truths will come to light. And survival is far from guaranteed.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Water Lilies of Mishipeshu by Karla Cruise. During a time of war and cultural upheaval, Marguerite—a woman of both French and Native American heritage—and her British lieutenant lover create a botanical manuscript at a remote wilderness outpost. Within its pages lie the guarded secrets of an ancient medicine society, including a perilous formula for a hallucinogen capable of granting visions or causing death. As foreign powers advance across the land, generations fight to protect and hide this “lost” manuscript.
The narrative spans centuries, from the destruction of a local fort by Native American tribes to the rise of White settlers and industrial expansion. Despite relentless efforts to erase Indigenous knowledge, the manuscript survives in secrecy until a graduate student stumbles upon it. Her discovery ignites a race to keep it out of the hands of a powerful pharmaceutical corporation. Teaming up with an ecology student, she embarks on a gripping underground journey to heal the land and return the manuscript to those it truly belongs to.
