Giveaway-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Description from Hachette Book Group: Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe – in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world.
If you would like to use this as a Book Club selection you can download a reading guide from here.
Thanks to Hachette Book Group I can give away up to 5 copies of this book.
The Rules:
1.For every 10 unique entries I will add one copy to the giveaway. If there are 50 unique entries I will giveaway all 5 copies.
2. Open to US and Canada residents only.
Extra entries for:
3. Leave a separate comment if you add me to your blogroll, subscribe in Google Reader or email or already have done so (+1 for each)
4. Post about the giveaway on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and leave the link in a separate comment (+1 for each up to 3 extra entries)
5. Stumble, Digg, etc this post and leave a separate comment(+1 for each)
The Winner:
6. I will use a random number generator to choose the winner
7. Giveaway ends October 9.
Posted in Books, General Fiction, Giveaways
September 26th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I would love to read this! I love surprises! lol
September 26th, 2009 at 4:39 am
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September 26th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Please include me in the drawing.
September 26th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I subscribe with Google Reader.
September 26th, 2009 at 6:34 am
i love to read this sounds good mverno@roadrunner.com
September 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Please enter me. This looks like a great read. Thanks for the chance.
September 26th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Please count me in! I think it looks like it has a lot of great components–something for everyone and sure looks long enough too!
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September 26th, 2009 at 8:05 am
+1 I am a new subscriber with Google Reader!
JHolden955(at)gmail(dot)com
September 26th, 2009 at 8:14 am
I would really love to win – this looks fascinating and very thrilling!
September 26th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I would love to win this book!
September 26th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I follow your blog with google friend connect – does that count for something?
September 26th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I am a follower of your site and your blog appears on the blogroll on the sidebar of my blog.
September 26th, 2009 at 8:47 am
This looks awesome! Count me in…!
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September 26th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Great giveaway.
September 26th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I would love to win this book!
joannelong74 AT gmail DOT com
September 26th, 2009 at 10:47 am
This book has been on my wish list! Thanks for the chance to win it – my fingers are crossed!
September 26th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I’m a follower and would love to win a copy of the book
September 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Reading is one of my passions I would love to read this book
September 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
This book is quite a bit different from what I usually read, I need something different! I would love to win.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I love a good book. Please enter me.
September 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Sounds like my kind of book.
September 26th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I’d love to read this book! Sounds fascinating.
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September 26th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I Stumbled your site.
September 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I subscribed to your newsletter.
September 26th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
This book sounds amazing, please enter me.
September 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I’m a sucker for historical books. Count me in!
Sarah
two_of_hearts_101 at yahoo dot com
September 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
MY TURN TO WIN??????
September 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
+1 You’re on my blogroll
Sarah
two_of_hearts_101 at yahoo dot com
September 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
+1 And I follow you with googlereader
Sarah
two_of_hearts_101 at yahoo dot com
September 26th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
+1 I’ve also linked this contest to my sidebar, here:
http://limericksbookspot.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the giveaway Debbie!
Sarah
two_of_hearts_101 at yahoo dot com
September 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
would love to read
September 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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September 26th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I would love to win this book. It looks great.
September 27th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Thanks for this great giveaway! I am a Google Connect Follower. gcwhiskas at aol dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Please enter my name in the giveaway. I am a Google Reader subscriber. gcwhiskas at aol com
September 27th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Thank you for a chance to win this intriguing new book! I am an email subscriber. gcwhiskas at aol dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Breathtakingly suspenseful, secrets, inconceivable evil, time-defying pact, adventure of monumental proportions, hypnotic, exciting – all descriptors for this book. How can one not want to read it? I hope it lives up to its hype. I am beside myself hoping I am one of the selected.
clenna at aol dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 5:36 am
I subscribe via email
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September 27th, 2009 at 5:37 am
I subscribe through Google reader.
clenna at aol dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 5:38 am
I follow through Google friend
clenna at aol dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 6:14 am
[...] Elizabeth Kostova, at the following blogs: Peeking Between the Pages (ends Oct 24, US and Canada); Debbie’s World of Books (ends Oct 9, US and Canada); Starting Fresh (Oct 31, US and Canada); The Tome Traveller (Oct 21, US [...]
September 27th, 2009 at 6:35 am
I have seen this reviewed in a couple of other places, and it sounds like an intriguing story.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:36 am
This sounds really good. Please enter me.
lag110@mchsi.com
September 27th, 2009 at 6:36 am
I subscribe and follow via email.
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September 27th, 2009 at 6:38 am
You always have the best books this looks like another good one
September 27th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I’d love to read this!
September 27th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Please count me in…thanks.
karen k
kmkuka(at)yahoo(dot)com
September 27th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I’m a subscriber
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September 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I’ve been interested in this book for a while, but have never gotten around to reading it. I’d love to win!
September 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I subscribe by email!
September 27th, 2009 at 7:52 am
This book has been on my “must-read” list for awhile-would love to win this. Thanks!
September 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I would love to read this book.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Please enter me. Thanks for the chance.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I’ve heard a bit about this book and it does sound like a very interesting read.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Always interesting when a quiet librarian is thrown into a deep, dark, evil place. This sounds so hauntingly delicious.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I already subscribe by email. Thanks and have a great weekend.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Great review, sounds good, count me in, thanks.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am
An intriguing story! Thanks.
September 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
A friend read this and highly recommended it to me. I’d love to win it!
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September 27th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I would like to read this book.
Sounds interesting.
Thanks for the giveaway.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
This looks like an interesting book I would love to win it.
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September 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I subscribe via email.
budletsmom at yahoo dot com
September 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I follow.
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September 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I love stories that have mystery and suspense in them. I have heard alot about this book, and it sounds like a great read.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Looks like an awesome book.I just subscribed.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:10 am
This book sounds great… thanks so much for the great giveaway!
September 28th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I’d love to win a copy of this book–I keep seeing reviews of it and really want to get a copy!
September 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I would love to read this book. Please enter me. Thanks!
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September 29th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Looks like a great book. I am a follower
Nickolay
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September 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I love a good mystery!
September 30th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I have never read anything by Elizabeth Kostova and this sounds like a good read.
October 1st, 2009 at 6:30 am
Please count me in.
October 1st, 2009 at 6:30 am
I am an email subscriber.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I’ve added you to my blogroll.
And I’ve posted about the contest here.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Sounds like a great book.I love this type of book
October 1st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
This book sounds perfect for Halloween!
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October 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
enter me!
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Sounds like a good read.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 am
ah a new book to read on the beach while I soak up the rays. That is always good.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:54 am
I am now a subsriber!~
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Please include me in your giveaway
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October 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
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October 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Thank you for the entry!
October 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Sounds like a compelling disturbing read. I’m in.
October 5th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Sounds like a great read. Thanks for the contest!
October 5th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I have been wanting to read this book for quite a while now. Great giveaway!
October 5th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
The books sounds wonderful and I’d love to read it. Please accept this as my entry. Thank you!
Aliya D.
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:02 am
I would enjoy winning and reading this book.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I think this book sounds fascinating….I’d love to read it.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Please enter me. Thanks for the chance.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Sounds interesting! Please enter me.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
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October 7th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
This seems like a good read. Count me in, please. Thanks!
October 7th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Sounds like an interesting book.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:30 am
This book sounds like a wonderful read.
October 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me.
eswright18 at gmail dot com
October 8th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
anything that involves Vlad the Impaler makes for an interesting read.
October 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’ve always heard great things about this book, but never read it. I’d love to be entered to win. Thanks.
October 8th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Would love a chance to read this.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Happy Autumn!
October 8th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I would love to read this book! It sounds fascinating.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I subscribe by email.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I’d love to read this book – please count me in!
Thanks.
October 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I would love to win this book!
October 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I’m interested in Vlad the Impaler because of the vampire myths that seem to be intertwined with the historical figure. I also like mysteries, and it seems like this book has that aspect as well.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I’d love to be entered! This book sounds really good.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Thanks for the chance!
October 8th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I would love to win this book, it got really good reviews when it came out originally. Thanks for the chance to win!
October 8th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!
October 8th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
This seems to be a very good read
October 8th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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October 8th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 4:57 am
I’m never good at giving unique entries so I’ll just say I’d like to win this book!
October 9th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I would like to read this book.
Thanks!
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October 9th, 2009 at 6:51 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Looks interesting. Count me in, please!
October 9th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I actually started reading “The Historian” – borrowed it from the library – and then I came down with a bad case of poison ivy rash. I was afraid to touch anything so had my hubby return the book for me. Now, every time I go back to the library, it’s out and there’s still a waiting list for it. So yes, I’d sure love to win a copy! Thanks for the chance.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I’m a confirmed e-mail subscriber.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:30 am
I subscribed with Google Reader.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Tweet: http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/4735544636 .
October 9th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I am feeling the need to create a unique comment but nothing is really coming to me. lol I guess I’ll stick with the generic, sounds like a good book and I’d like to win it.
lol Thank you!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I’m intrigued with Eastern Europe & have visited Russia & Poland- and the subject matter is fascinating! Count me in!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:27 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 8:29 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 8:42 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am
This sounds like a very interesting read that I am sure I would enjoy.
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October 9th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Looks like a good book
October 9th, 2009 at 10:07 am
It def. sounds like a good book:)
October 9th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Thank you for the AWESOME GIVEAWAY.. Please count me in
October 9th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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October 9th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I would love to read this book.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Sounds like an interesting read
October 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
This looks like a good book.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
funny story..we actually named one of my cats after Vlad the Impaler..don’t ask why..long story.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Who can resist a book with Vlad the Impaler in it.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
This sounds like a very interesting book. Thanks for the chance.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I can just imagine soaking in a hot bubble bath with a pillow for my head & this book(The Historian) to fill my head with wonder & awe!
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October 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I stalk you on blogger! I follow you with joy!
October 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I subscribe in reader!
October 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I subscribe to emails too!
October 9th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
You’re on my blogroll!
ZESTYWONDERLAND
October 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
This sounds like a great book, thanks for the giveaway!
October 9th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
This sounds like a great book. Hope I win.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
This sounds like an evil weg tangled through one family that’s hard to let go
of,I would love to review this book,thanks for the giveaway
October 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I sounds very good.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
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