Sunday Cravings

Hello Book Lovers! How are you this weekend? After nearly drowning here in Athens, I’m here for yet another Sunday to highlight all the releases of the week to come that we can’t wait to get our hands on! Well, I don’t know if you heard, but we suffered a really big storm here in Greece, as well as in Italy, with great damages and even human losses. It’s a sad thing, but at least the worst is over and now we have to once more suffer the effects of the weather and the government’s incompetency.

Anyway, let’s leave the sad things aside! This week, there’s a huge list of books that are scheduled for release, making it really hard to pick just a few among all those tempting titles. So, let’s start!

Caro: By Love Unveiled by Sabrina Jeffries

Adored for her charmingly sensual New York Times bestsellers, …

The Napping Winner Post

Hey Everyone!

I am thankfully a lot better, thank you for your kind comments! It’s been so gray and rainy here this weekend, that I spent most of it napping and reading…zzzz. 😉

This week’s winners are:

the lucky winner of an ebook copy of Confidence Tricks by Tamara Morgan is:

Maureen

the lucky winners of a paperback copy of A Howl for a Highlander by Terry Spear are:

Sandy Lion

Jess S

Congratulations winners, you have all been notified of your win in e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to us, or we’ll have to draw a new winner.

Hope you had a nice weekend!

The International Giveaways Café (82)

It’s Saturday once again, another great day for sharing bookish giveaways. It’s also “Oscars” eve (yes, I totally just made that up), so I want to know if anyone has won any books that have been made into films recently? Even better, how about anything that’s up for an Oscar this year? I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll now sign off with my rousing rendition of Skyfall…no, just kidding! You don’t wanna hear that hot mess 😉 Have a great one!

Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share …

Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review

Welcome to this week’s news post! For this edition we have news on an interesting lawsuit over DRM vs Amazon and the Big 6 publishers; Grand Central expanding its digital Forever arm; and an update from last week’s story over neo nazi linked security firm working for Amazon.

Three independent book stores are suing Amazon and the Big 6 over DRM. They are claiming it is creating a monopoly which allows the Kindle a stranglehold over the ebook market. Jane from Dear Author  has summarised the lawsuit which does not bode well for the plaintiffs as their claims are full of errors. There is a lack of understanding on what DRM is about as well as the fact there is other ebook formats such as PDFs and epubs. They do have a point about DRM being constrictive to customers but this is not the best approach, and I doubt …

Dual Review: Holding Out for a Hero by Christine Bell, Ella Dane, Tamara Morgan, Nico Rosso, Adrien Luc-Sanders

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher for review
Release Date: 14 January 2013
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Number of pages: 550 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Scarlett Fever, by Christine Bell and Ella Dane

After five years in training, it’s finally time for Scarlett Fever and her fellow superheroes to leave the United Superhero Academy and test their powers out in the real world. There’s only one problem. She’s been assigned to partner with arrogant, by the book, and irritatingly hot, Blade of Justice.

Blade’s whole life has gone according to plan, and he’s more than ready to move on to the big time, protecting a metropolis of his own. But his perfectly ordered life is derailed when he’s teamed up with the fiery maverick, Scarlett Fever.

Sparks fly the moment they arrive in Plunketville, Oklahoma, as they each set out to force the other …

Review: Shuffle Up and Deal by Susan DiPlacido

Format read: ebook
Genre: Romance
Release Date: 17 March 2010
Length: 419 pages
Publisher: Self-Published
Formats available: paperback, ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

Blurb:

Meet Izzy Santillo. She’s a charming-but-lonely thirty-four year old woman who loves poker and harbors a secret crush on the reigning king of Hold ’em. Meet Nick Nolan, the reigning king of Hold ’em. On the tables, he’s fast and loose and almost always wins. But when it comes to women, playboy Nick holds his cards too close and always loses.

When Izzy and Nick meet in embarrassing fashion at a Las Vegas poker tournament, Izzy’s secret dreams turn into a public nightmare. But despite her humiliation, she may have finally sparked Nick’s interest in something other than cards. Before long, Nick takes a …

ARC Review: Free Fall by Catherine Mann

Format Read: digital ARC provided via Net Galley courtesy of Publisher for Review
Series: Elite Force Book 4
Length: 352 Pages
Genre: Military Romantic Suspense
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Formats Available: eBook, Kindle, Nook, Mass Market Paperback
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Powell’s, The Book Depository, Kindle, Nook

Book Blurb:

Pararescueman Jose “Cuervo” James is committed to his job and not much else. He thought nothing could change that, not even sexy, smart Interpol agent Stella Carson. Their affair burns hot and fast, but family is everything to Stella, and Jose just can’t go there. His family demons are too deep, too tenacious.

The demands of their work make it easy to stay away from each other, until a fateful mission deep in the African jungle unexpectedly throws them together. With Stella’s life on the line, uncovering the truth about Jose’s …

Review: Once Burned by Dee Carney

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Series: Book #1 in the Close to the Heat series
Release Date: 13 November 2012
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Number of pages: 97 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Samhain, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

Temptation never tasted so good.

Close to the Heat, Book 1

With a chance to win a cooking competition that will advance her career, the last thing food truck chef Pepper Joseph needs is a distraction. Except she’s got a heaping helping of it in the form of fellow chef Darien Priest, the man who broke her heart.

It’s been years, and she tells herself she’s over his betrayal, but to her irritation, she finds she still has an appetite for his steel-gray eyes, clean-shaven head, and sleeve tattoos.

Darien regrets the single, juvenile act that ended it with Pepper, but he’s never found the courage …

Fragile Bond Virtual Tour: Guestpost by Rhi Etzweiler + Giveaways

Today we’re delighted to welcome Rhi Etzweiler  on Book Lovers Inc. Rhi is here today as part of Riptide Publishing’s virtual Tour for Fragile Bond. If you haven’t read this book yet, here is your chance to learn more about it. Also we’re spoiling you with not one but two giveaways. Let’s give a warm welcome to Rhi! 

Hello and welcome, readers! My name is Rhi Etzweiler, and I’m here to share some tidbits about my latest Riptide release, Fragile Bond. Thank you to Book Lovers Inc. for the warm welcome, it’s a pleasure to be here.

Before I start rambling though, release week contest!

This bookmark was commissioned exclusively for the promo tour. I managed to steal one of Marc’s dogtags and shipped it off to Freia Inguz Artisan Jewelry, asked her to work some magic. This custom piece also features …

New Releases: February 18-24, 2013

Title: Mind Games
Series: (Mind Games, #1)
Author: Kiersten White
Genre: urban fantasy (YA)
Release date: February 19, 2013 by HarperTeen

Description:

Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future.

Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways… or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey.

In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.

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A Taste of Trouble by Gina Gordon
Bound For Keeps (Men of Honor, #5) by …