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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for No Place Like You by Jillian Meadows. Fable Oaks never expected to return to Fern River, yet after a series of setbacks, she’s back in her parents’ backyard, watching her late grandfather’s beloved A‑frame fall apart. She’s struggling to figure out her next step, and the sudden reappearance of Theo Nikolaou, her former best friend with that irresistible grin, isn’t helping.
Theo always knew he’d return eventually. His past may have pushed him away, but Fern River has always felt like home. When his boss, Arthur, announces he’s selling the veterinary practice, Theo sees his chance to prove he’s ready to stay for good. And when Fable, sharp‑tongued, curly‑haired Fable, literally tumbles into his lap, inspiration strikes.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Big Name Fan by Ruthie Knox. Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer aren’t detectives, though they once played them on TV. Their cult‑favorite series Craven’s Daughter ended five years ago, and their friendship ended with it. Fans were devastated that the duo’s electric on‑screen chemistry never turned into anything more, and even more disappointed that the real spark between Bex and Sam fizzled out, too. The network had no intention of letting two women fall in love, on camera or off. But the deepest loss was the death of their close friend, makeup artist Jen Arnot, whose tragic accident overshadowed the show’s final episodes.
Now the network is planning a reunion special, and Bex and Sam are pushed back into each other’s orbit as cohosts of a rewatch podcast revisiting the show’s most beloved episodes. Their very first guest, a major star who once appeared as an early‑season murder victim, drops a stunning revelation. Buried among the mountains of fanfiction written about the series, one incredibly prolific writer, known to the fandom as the show’s Big Name Fan, was actually an insider…almost certainly someone who worked on the cast or crew.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for A Real Collusion by Stu Strumwasser. The novel follows a man who unexpectedly becomes the leader of an independent political movement that comes close to disrupting America’s two‑party system, all while uncovering a conspiracy that influences the outcome of the 2016 election. It delves into universal themes of loss and the struggle between justice and power. As the narrator notes in the opening line, “Ordinary people often do extraordinary things,” and the characters embody that idea as the story unfolds through sharp, satirical political drama. At its heart, it’s also a story about everyday people grappling with lost love, alienation, and widespread disillusionment, finding strength in loyalty and friendship.
The book centers on John Campbell, an ordinary man from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, whose story is told by his friend Skip Winters. Skip becomes John’s campaign manager and eventually a congressman himself. He recounts the remarkable rise of John Campbell and The American Coalition, a movement that gains massive grassroots support, raising over a hundred million dollars, and grows into a genuine threat to the long‑standing dominance of the Democratic and Republican parties. References to real events and political figures, including Trump and John McCain, give the story a grounded, alternate‑reality feel. As Skip digs deeper, he uncovers a hidden conspiracy within the political system, one involving murder, the destruction of his friend, and the manipulation of the election. Ultimately, the novel becomes Skip’s exposé of the secret cooperation between the two major parties, a partnership designed to preserve the duopoly that, in some ways, mirrors reality.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Jilted Countess by Loretta Ellsworth. Roza Meszaros once dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but the war shattered her ambitions and wiped out her aristocratic family’s wealth. When she meets an American soldier named Joe, she believes her luck has finally changed. He vows to marry her and bring her to the United States. After two long years spent gathering the money and documents she needs to emigrate, Roza arrives in Minnesota only to learn that Joe has already married someone else.
Refusing to give up on her new life in America, Roza seeks help from well‑known newspaper columnist Cedric Adams. He shares her story and photograph with his military readership, asking them to help her find a husband. The reaction is astonishing: nearly 1,800 World War II veterans flood the newspaper with telegrams, flowers, candy, and even cash, which Adams calls a world‑record number of marriage proposals.
Book Throne is treating one reader to the ultimate bundle: a 1‑Year Kindle Unlimited Membership paired with a $250 Amazon Gift Card. Entries close at midnight on January 20, 2025, GMT.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue. Inspired by an 1895 catastrophe immortalized in a series of haunting, almost unreal photographs, this novel hurtles forward aboard a train crowded with travelers from Brittany to Russia, Ireland to Algeria, Pennsylvania to Cambodia. Members of parliament race back to Paris for a crucial vote; a medical student fears a young girl is slipping toward death; a secretary tries to persuade her employer that moving pictures are the future; two crewmen carve out a secret life far from their wives; a young anarchist sets a chilling plan in motion, and that’s only the beginning.
From an author praised for “superb alchemy” by Audrey Niffenegger, The Paris Express vividly evokes the politics, glamour, upheaval, and accelerating pace that defined the final years of the 19th century.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Tracking the Mist by Clarice Montgomery. Detective Ryan Gibson follows a string of eerily resolved cold cases to off‑season Oak Island, a place of gray surf, weathered beach houses, and a police chief the townspeople revere. There, he meets Erika Willett, a brilliant, hard‑to‑pin‑down fixer who slips through small towns and leaves impossible cases neatly wrapped behind her. She’s racing to help a young woman, Christina, push forward a case the city would rather ignore, and Ryan, tasked with working alongside the chief, finds himself torn between the mentor he wants to impress and the stranger who keeps uncovering what everyone else overlooks.
As winter tightens its grip on the coast, the case refuses to stay steady. Stories warp, loyalties shift, and new clues emerge from places no one thought to search. Ryan is drawn from locals‑only bars to shadowed shoreline rentals and deep into sea‑carved caverns, chasing a truth the island keeps reshaping in murmurs. With every step, he must decide who deserves his trust and what he’s willing to risk, knowing one wrong read could pull the truth, and someone he can’t bear to lose, under.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Throne of Nightmares by Kerri Maniscalco. Prince Sloth would rather remain tucked away in his enchanted library, but when a long‑forgotten deity begins to unravel the Underworld itself, he’s forced into a desperate race. To stop the coming catastrophe, he must track down the Book of Nightmares, an ancient artifact capable of shattering entire worlds, before it triggers a deadly game meant to free its creator, the Goddess of Night. After a betrayal leaves him wounded and running out of time, his path crosses with a young woman carrying the Phoenix Tear, a legendary portal stone unlike anything he’s ever encountered.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Beyond the Clouds by Elizabeth Camden. As teenagers, Delia Byrne and Finn Delaney fell in love while flying kites and imagining a future that felt limitless, until a painful betrayal shattered everything. Now, with America entering World War I, Delia is committed to peace, working as a paralegal and devoted pacifist. She refuses to support the war, yet she volunteers with a relief organization fighting to save millions suffering from famine in Belgium.
Finn returns to the United States a decorated hero, eager to rejoin the front lines, only to be reassigned to fundraising efforts instead. He has no idea this new role will bring him back into Delia’s orbit, the woman he once loved deeply and hoped to marry. As their shared mission pulls them together, old feelings begin to rekindle… until duty sends them both behind enemy lines in occupied Belgium. The greatest danger may not be the war surrounding them, but the chance their hearts might collide once more.
Enter the GoodReads giveaway for Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel. At seventy‑seven, Pepper Mills feels far too old to be starting over somewhere unfamiliar. She never wanted to move into the Vista View Retirement Community in Austin, Texas, close to her three adult children, but far from the life she imagined. Yet once she settles in, she finds unexpected friendships and even falls in love. Then come the exhaustion, the nausea, the disorientation. Her family fears the worst: cancer, dementia, a stroke. But after a battery of tests, the diagnosis is something no one could have predicted: Pepper is pregnant.
When the news spreads, Vista View becomes a magnet for reporters, activists, and researchers, all eager to claim a piece of the story. As the world closes in, Pepper must figure out what she wants, even as some choices are taken out of her hands.
Enormous Wings is a fierce, timely novel about agency, autonomy, morality, and the limits placed on women’s bodies. It explores what happens when control is stripped away, and how love, family, friendship, and desire can still transform a life, no matter how late the hour.
