Rat’s Reading

Nine days til Rat’s Reading is three! Where’s my dancing ladies?

Free E-Books

• Until 18 AUgust, you can download a PDF of Katherine Neville’s The Eight, courtesy of Ballantine Books.
• Small Beer Press adds another title to their Creative Commons licensed collection: Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King and Other Stories.

Review Copies and ARCs

• Add HarperCollins to your friends on Myspace and they might send you ARCs and galleys.

Book Giveaways and Contests

General Fiction

• Two copies of Traci L. Slatton’s Immortal at Books on the Brain, deadline 15 August.
• Stephanie Kuehnert’s I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone from Rock and Roll Mama, deadline 15 August.
• Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist at Vanilla Lavender, deadline 16 August.
• Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack at Reading Matters, deadline 16 August.
• Two copies of Anisha Lakhani’s Schooled at Planet Books, deadline 17 August.
• Joshua Henkin’s Matrimony from A Reader’s Journal, deadline 19 August.
• Meg Waite Clayton’s The Wednesday Sisters at Bookish Ruth, deadline 20 August.
• Another copy of Joshua Henkin’s Matrimony from The Inside Cover, deadline 26 August.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Etc.

• Three copies of Joe Abercrombie’s Last Argument of Kings from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, deadline unspecified.
• Jocelynn Drake’s Nightwalker at Amberkatze’s Book Blog, deadline 17 August.
• 20 copies of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Paul of Dune from Tor Books, deadline 18 August.
• Richard Morgan’s The Steel Remains at The Book Swede, deadline 31 August.

Mystery, Crime Fiction and Thrillers

• Fifty (or five, the page and rules are contradictory) ARC copies of Eric Van Lustbader’s First Daughter from Tor Books, deadline 18 August.
• An ARC of Lisa Jackson’s Left to Die from Wendy’s Minding Spot, deadline 25 August.

Romance and Chick-Lit

• The Romance Studio has a Book a Day Giveaway. Romance novels only.
• Lauren Dane’s Cascadia Wolves: Fated from Lauren Dance, deadline 11 August (today) at noon.
• Fifteen copies of Kelley Armstrong’s The Summoning from vervegirl, deadline 11 August.
• Three copies of Kim Green’s Live a Little from the (Mis)Adventures of a Single City Chick, deadline 14 August.
• An ARC of Tatiana Boncompagni’s Gilding Lily at Bookshipper, deadline 15 August.
• Pick a book when you win from an extensive list courtesy of Melissa’s Diary, deadline 17 August.
• An ARC of Christina Schwarz’ So Long at the Fair from Book Zombie, deadline 20 August.
• Jenna Maclaine’s Wages of Sin from Anna’s Book Blog, deadline 31 August.

Young Adult

• Susan McBride’s The Debs from Cheryl Rainfield, deadline 31 August.

Art and Photography

• Taschen’s China: Portrait of a Country from Photoinduced.com, deadline 13 August.

Money, Business, Careers

• Alan Corey’s A Million Bucks by 30 at Bank Bonuses, no deadline specified.
• Susan Blu’s Word of Mouth at Vox Daily, deadline 16 August.
• Wagner James Au’s The Making of Second Life at Tara’s View on Books, deadline 25 August.

Sports and Recreation

• Five copies of Dean Karnazes’ 50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days at Run Bulldog Run, deadline 17 August.

Education

• Two copies of The Giant Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans: for Ages 3 to 6 from Works in Progress, deadline 16 August.

History, Biography, Memoir

• Judith O’Reilly’s Wife in the North from Life with our Lad, deadline 15 August.

Inspirational and Self-help

• Barry K. Phillips’ Caught in the Headlights at JDP News, deadline 18 August.
• Nancy Bruno’s Genuine Men from Age 30 - A Year of Books, deadline 2 September.

House, Home, Crafts, Gardening …

• Mindy Weiss’ (w00t!) The Wedding Book from Syracuse.com, deadline 12 August.
• Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette from Iowahippychicks Talking, deadline 17 August.

Cooking, Food and Beverages

• Martha Greene’s Martha’s Family Cookery Book from Mountain Morning Homeschool, deadline 15 August.
• 25 copies of Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller’s Soul of Brasil from the Guardian, deadline 14 August. UK residents only.

Christian

• Veiled Glory is giving away a four-pack of books of very dry reading, deadline 13 August.
• Chris Fabry’s Dogwood from Edgy Inspirational Author, deadline 15 August.
• Ten copies (to five winners) of Jeff Myers’ Handoff: The Only Way to Win the Race of Life from A Peek At My Books, deadline 15 August.
• Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase at The Low Down, deadline 15 August.
• Jewel D. Williams Fearfully and Wonderfully Made from Teen Lit Review, deadline 18 August.

If you know of other contests, giveaways or other sources of free books, leave a comment and I’ll include it in the next installment. Also, be sure to check out my book reviews and other content.

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