The Link - Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor by Colin Tudge, Josh Young
When you think of uncovering our early ancestors, the first thing that comes to mind is a team of scientists with pick axes, shovels and brushes - on their hands and knees in the hot dusty desert, gently sweeping away the last crumbs of ash and yelling "Eureka!"
What you do not think of is a scientist opening a dusty drawer in a museum, looking at an old skeleton and going...hmmmm...
But this is exactly how Ida was found.
This nonfiction book reads like a mystery novel written by Dan Brown..it twists, turns, and Eureka - the forty-seven
million year old primate that is verified as our great great great great great great great great great great.....and so on grandmother, was so complete that you can see
the contents of her stomach. This is not sci fi folks - it is science at it's best.
Number of Copies To Give Away: 5
Host: Hachette Book Group
RULES:
I have 5 copies of The Link - to give away to my readers. The contest will end August 15, 2009. To enter:
1. Write A Unique New T-Shirt Slogan about prehistory, evolution, missing link....be creative.....and leave the slogan in your comment entry below
2. For a second entry Follow me on Twitter.
Winners will be selected from those who have followed these instructions, by random.org and posted on this lens.
Giveaway - The Link - Ends 8/15/09
GIveaway The Girl Who Stopped Swimming Ends 8/15
Thanks to Hachette Book Group, I have 5 copies of THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING by Joshilyn Jackson to give away!
Multiple Options for Multiple Entries:
1. Just visit My Review of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming and follow the rules posted there (You may enter once a day and you can leave a link to your website as long as it is PG)
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Feel free to do all 3 to gather multiple entries to win! You have until midnight EST on August 15, 2009, to enter. By entering in this giveaway you agree to get occasional emails from Bookcase Flying Circus Book Reviews and Giveaways.
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty. Coming from a family with a literal skeleton in their closet, she's developed this talent all her life, whether helping her willful mother to smooth over the reality of her family's ugly past, or elevating humble scraps of unwanted fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts.
Her sister Thalia, an impoverished "Actress" with a capital A, is her opposite, and prides herself in exposing the lurid truth lurking behind life's everyday niceties. And while Laurel's life was neatly on track, a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in lovely suburban Victorianna, everything she holds dear is thrown into question the night she is visited by an apparition in her bedroom. The ghost appears to be her 14-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne, and when Laurel follows this ghost , she finds the real Molly floating lifeless in her swimming pool. While the community writes the tragedy off as a suicide, Laurel can't. Reluctantly enlisting Thalia's aid, Laurel sets out on a life-altering investigation that triggers startling revelations about her own guarded past, the truth about her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
Richer and more rewarding than any story from Joshilyn Jackson, THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.
