Giveaway! Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre
With the release of Ann Aguirre’s short story, Endurance today, we at The Novel Nation decided to call this “Ann Aguirre Day”. While it isn’t a national holiday or anything, it gives us the chance to offer a copy of Doubleblind (book three in the Sirantha Jax series) up to one lucky winner! It’s not easy to tread lightly wearing steel-toed boots. Sirantha Jax isn’t known for diplomatic finesse. As a “Jumper” who navigates ships through … Read entire article »
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Happy 5th Birthday to Beyond Her Book!!
This week marks the 5th year of Barbara Vey’s blog, Beyond Her Book and we’re taking part in the celebration! You can pop on over to offer your congrats too and enter to win; there are tons of giveaways! We’re contributing Adrenaline by Jeff Abbott for tomorrow’s post, as well as an ARC of Fever by Lauren DeStefano, signed swag, and more! (We’ll update the list with links to the posts when they go live.) … Read entire article »
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Today is the 108th birthday of one of the world’s favourite children’s authors, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to us (and loved by us) as Dr. Zuess. Random House of Canada has a special reading of One Fish, Two Fish, REd Fish, Blue Fish that we’ve shared below. But first, we thought we share our fave Dr. Seuss books here at The Novel Nation: Mel: Mine would be The Cat in the Hat. I love the kids’ … Read entire article »
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New Release Buzz: Feb. 28th, 2012
There are a few books that we’re pretty excited to check out this week: What a scoundrel wants, a scoundrel gets . . . A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London’s most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance—including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury. A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left … Read entire article »
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Trailer of the Week: Fever by Lauren DeStefano
This week’s trailer is the long awaited second book in Lauren DeStefano’s Chemical Gardens series, Fever. I’m really looking forward to finding out where Rhine and Gabriel end up and what the heck was actually going on in the basement of that house! (Curious about what I mean? You’ll have to read Wither first ) Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. Running away brings Rhine and … Read entire article »
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Love was in the air…. (On Location with Random House Canada)
This past Saturday (February 11th), a group of Ontario book bloggers got some early Valentine’s love from Random House of Canada. The Blogger Love Fest was held at the Toronto offices of Random House and as you can see from some of the pictures, we were in a boardroom surrounded by books. Pure heaven! With a big welcome from RH, they had a slide show prepared for us that highlighted some of their favourite quotes from … Read entire article »
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Monday’s Media Madness (2)
Jackie’s On the Tube report: I guess the first thing to talk about this week is: The Grammys. I tuned in last night, starting with a bit of the Red Carpet pre-show, but it seems I’d missed the best of the best, outfits wise, anyway. (There were issues with someone taking my parking spot, lost keys and other disasters that kept me from reaching my couch at the necessary tune-in time :-p ) Once the show started, … Read entire article »
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Trailer of the Week: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
This week’s book trailer was discovered in the Shelf Awareness e-mail by Mel. As soon as I opened the link she had sent me, I fell in love with the cover. But more than that, this book looks like it has a kick-ass heroine and an interesting story line. Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of … Read entire article »
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Review: Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday
Paperback, 320 pages Released: October 11, 2011 Publisher: HarperTeen Places to find the book:Goodreads.comAmazon.comChapters.ca First I find out that my boyfriend is cheating on me. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a murder. And now he’s depending on me to clear his name. Seriously? As much as I wouldn’t mind watching him squirm, I know that he’s innocent. So I’m brushing off my previously untapped detective skills and getting down to business. But I keep tripping over … Read entire article »
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Recap of the 1st Annual(?) Ontario Blog Squad Meetup
After days of anticipating ’the big day’ as if it were Christmas, it finally happened! It’s amazing to see how when a few people say “hey we should all meet up” it can quickly turn into something huge! A big thank you to the fellow Blog Squad members Jackie, Liz, Nicole, Christa, Wendy, Angel and last but not least, Jen. The Blog Squad Team It was awesome to see the enthusiasm for the meetup. The 37 free tickets were snagged up within a week; totally not anticipated. Who knew that there were this many eager bookworm bloggers in and around Toronto? But what was even more awesome was the support we received from all the publishers: Random House Canada, Harper Collins Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada, Hachette Book Group Canada, Scholastic Canada, Penguin Canada and Kobo! Another big thank you … Read entire article »
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