I have a book to give away: The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson. Here's what Amazon has to say about it:
Cezair-Thompson conjures the tragic glamour of golden age Hollywood against the backdrop of lusty, turbulent Jamaica in her dual generational coming-of-age saga. Ida Joseph is 13 years old when Errol Flynn is nearly shipwrecked off the coast of her hometown of Port Antonio in 1946. Flynn instantly loves Jamaica and, eager to find a refuge from stateside scandal, purchases an island across from the port. Navy Island becomes the setting for his glittering parties, movie projects and affair with Ida in her senior year of high school. Flynn refuses to take responsibility for the resulting child, May, and after trying to make a go of it in Jamaica, Ida leaves May and heads to New York City, where she marries a wealthy baron friend of Flynn's who purchases the island after Flynn dies. May grows to adulthood on Navy Island, develops something more than a crush on a married family friend 40 years her senior and indulges in drugs and free love. Jamaica's tumultuous progression toward self-governance—with the violent chaos it unleashes on Navy Island—reveals certain hidden truths about the baron. For all the high drama, the reader never feels fully privy to Ida or May, but Cezair-Thompson otherwise succeeds magnificently in evoking a world distant in both time and place.
I haven't read The Captain's Daughter. I'd like to pass it along to someone who would enjoy it. If you're interested, leave a comment here with your name (and be sure I have your email address). I will draw a name at random on Sunday, January 11. Good luck!
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Posted by: Trisha | January 05, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I'm a new subscriber, voracious reader and glad I found your blog!
The book seems like a great escape - I hope I win!
Posted by: Susan M. | January 05, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Sounds fascinating!
Posted by: Karin | January 05, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Please enter me (if international), sounds like my kind of book.
Posted by: Violet | January 06, 2009 at 01:36 AM
Looks great! :D
Posted by: Carina | January 06, 2009 at 07:46 AM
I've had my eye on this book for a while. I'd love to read it -- it's a new setting for me. Thank you for the chance!
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Posted by: gwendolyn b. | January 06, 2009 at 10:45 AM
sounds interesting, I'd like to be entered please. Thanks!
Posted by: amandasue | January 06, 2009 at 10:54 AM
I would like to win this book!
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Posted by: Alyce | January 06, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I'd love to read this book!
Posted by: nomadreader | January 06, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Hi Gayle,
I'd be happy to be swifted away onto the seas with this book!
Thanks for the offer!
Darby
darbyscloset at yahoo dot com
Posted by: Darby Lohrding | January 06, 2009 at 12:31 PM
This is in my virtual TBR list...I would love to win it.
Posted by: Sarah | January 06, 2009 at 12:34 PM
The book sounds interesting, I'd love to win!
Posted by: Stephanie C. | January 06, 2009 at 04:01 PM
sounds good thanks for the contest
Posted by: mindy | January 06, 2009 at 04:19 PM
sounds good thanks for the contest
Posted by: mindy | January 06, 2009 at 04:20 PM
sounds good thanks for the contest
Posted by: mindy | January 06, 2009 at 04:20 PM
Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: Anya | January 06, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Sounds like a fun weekend read!
Posted by: MJ | January 06, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Hmm, sounds like a good book :)
Posted by: Lis | January 06, 2009 at 06:08 PM
Please enter me I love reading new authors I haven't had the chance to read before. Thanks for offering this to us to read
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Posted by: Eva D | January 06, 2009 at 07:25 PM
Please enter me!
Posted by: Sheila H. | January 06, 2009 at 07:55 PM
Sounds like a wonderful book. I would very much enjoy reading it. Please enter me. Thanks!
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Posted by: Anita Yancey | January 06, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I'd love to read a copy of this.
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Posted by: Renee G | January 06, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Sounds like a good read to me. I'd like to win.
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Posted by: Tracey Byram | January 07, 2009 at 05:15 AM
Sounds like this book has a bit of everything. Very dramatic, I'd love it. Please enter me (if international!)
Posted by: Belinda | January 07, 2009 at 06:10 AM
I've been eyeing this at the book store.
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Posted by: Moira | January 07, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Sounds like my kind of book!
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Posted by: bridget3420 | January 07, 2009 at 11:11 AM
My book club is doing this book so I would love to be entered into the drawing!
Thanks.
Posted by: Miriam | January 07, 2009 at 03:57 PM
I've seen this book around the Blogs and would love to win a copy of it. I read your blog regularly and comment when I find I have something to say.
thanks for the contest.
savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com
Posted by: Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit) | January 07, 2009 at 06:29 PM
thanks mrs.mommyyatgmail.com
Posted by: MRS.MOMMYY | January 08, 2009 at 11:14 PM
This book sounds great. I love to read and this would make a Sunday afternoon very enjoyable! Thank you.
Posted by: Leslie D. | January 13, 2009 at 01:07 AM