{"id":1955,"date":"2009-09-19T00:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:42:56","slug":"bbaw-small-publisher-book-giveaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"BBAW: Small Publisher Book Giveaways!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBAW_Celebrate_Books_09\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I made a\u00c2\u00a0pledge earlier that for BBAW I would have book giveaways from small book publishers.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the post for it!<\/p>\n

Coffee House Press<\/a> – where good books are brewing – was founded in 1984.\u00c2\u00a0 They publish only a few titles a year.\u00c2\u00a0 The staff size is small.\u00c2\u00a0 Coffee House Press is a nonprofit publisher and will welcome donations.<\/p>\n

The book I’ve chosen from them is one on my TBR pile by a Minneapolis author, Norah Labiner.\u00c2\u00a0 German for Travelers<\/em> should be an interesting read.<\/p>\n

\"German<\/a><\/p>\n

From the back of the book:<\/p>\n

In Search of the key to unlock a great family mystery, Lemon Leopold, a Hollywood starlet, and her cousin Eliza, a romance writer, set off for Berlin.\u00c2\u00a0 Soon they are on a trail that leads back to their great-grandfather, Jozef Apfel, a Jewish pioneer of psychoanalysis in early twentieth-century Germany.<\/p>\n

Alternating between the great doctor’s household, the mysterious case of his patient Eliza Z., the rise of Nazi Germany, mid-century Detroit, and modern-day Berlin, this is a story about a girl whose dreams reveal the future, a family beset by ghosts, and the place that haunts them all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

McSweeney’s<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was founded in 1998 as a literary journal by David Eggers.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s expanded into a few different divisions.\u00c2\u00a0 The book division has a book of the month club.\u00c2\u00a0 Several times a year they have some wonderful sales.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave Eggers is one of my favorite authors and I’m giving away a copy of his book, Zeitoun<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Zeitoun\"<\/p>\n

From the McSweeney’s description of Zeitoun<\/em>:<\/p>\n

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan American who converted to Islam\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun became possible. Like What Is the What<\/em>, Zeitoun<\/em> was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research\u00e2\u20ac\u201din this case, in the U.S., Spain, and Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The giveaway is open to addresses in the United States and Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 You can only enter to win one book so leave a comment with the name of the book you’d like to win.\u00c2\u00a0 I will make a spreadsheet with the names and have my husband draw the winning names out of a hat.\u00c2\u00a0 Giveaway ends Tuesday, September 22nd at 8pm Eastern.\u00c2\u00a0 Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made a\u00c2\u00a0pledge earlier that for BBAW I would have book giveaways from small book publishers.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the post for it! Coffee House Press – where good books are brewing – was founded in 1984.\u00c2\u00a0 They publish only a few titles a year.\u00c2\u00a0 The staff size is small.\u00c2\u00a0 Coffee House Press is a nonprofit publisher… Continue reading BBAW: Small Publisher Book Giveaways!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,32,198,196,803,197,195],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaway","tag-book","tag-book-blogger-appreciation-week","tag-david-eggers","tag-german-for-travelers","tag-giveaway","tag-norah-labiner","tag-zeitoun","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}