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3rd Annual Canada Day Blog Hop June 27th to July 1st 2013 Co-hosted by myself, Chrystal of Snowdrop Dreams of Books & Carmel of Rabid Reads ! In honor of Canada's birthday we are having a Canada Day Blog Hop extravaganza! Each blog will host their own giveaway - Canada themed of course! Giveaway's will run from June 27th to July 1st  As this is a Canadian event, we are asking that all giveaways MUST be open to Canadian Residents!  International giveaways are welcome too! Sign ups will be open until June 24th, 2013 SIGN UP HERE! <a href="http://www.stitchreadcook.com" "img border="0" width="90%" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7311323004_b7e9eb1b8e_q.jpg"/>

Title:   Elusive Dawn Author:   Gabriele Wills Genre:   Historical Fiction Pages:   555 Published:   November 2008 Publisher:   MindShadows Source:   Author Buy Link:   MindShadows , Amazon Synopsis: It happened slowly at first. Thread by thread, the fabric of privilege and complacency enveloping the Wyndham family began to unravel. A carefree summer at their island house, disrupted by the arrival of long lost kin, ended in tragedy, betrayal, and war. Now, in the compelling sequel to the acclaimed epic, The Summer Before The Storm, Ria and her friends find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control. It's late summer, 1916. While some members of the Wyndham family revel in the last resplendent days of the season at their Muskoka cottage, others continue to be drawn inexorably into the Great War, going from a world of misty sunrises across a tranquil lake to deadly moonlight bombing raids, festering trenches, and visceral terror. For ...

  For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II, then leaps ahead to the bedside of the elder Livvy. Caught between a troubled past, and her present and worsening living conditions, Livvy is forced to pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father, despite their mutual hatred. Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-door neighbour, Gen, a single mother, social-work student, and part-time drug dealer. Overnight, a violent scene embroils...

Title:   419 Author:   Will Ferguson Genre:   Drama, Suspense, Mystery Pages:   256 Published:   March 2012 Publisher:   Viking Canada Source:   Publisher Where to buy:   Amazon Synopsis: A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense. 419 takes readers behind the scene of the world’s most insidious internet scam. When Laura’s father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father’s killer. What she finds there will change her life forever ... Laura’s life and that of her family has been thrown into complete chaos with the death of her father.  They are completely taken aback by the things they find out and how the weeks before his death unfolded.  How one email changed all their lives. This was a very intense book, and not something I would have nor...

  The 2nd Annual Canada Day Blog Hop!   Co-hosted by Chrystal (from Snowdrop Dreams of Books ) Carmel (from Rabid Reads ) and myself!   Dates:   June 28th to July 1st 2012   Each blog will host their own giveaway – the only rule is that it must be open to Canadian residents! You are more then welcome to have Canada/US and International giveaways as well! Interesting Canadian facts:   - At 3,855,103 square miles, Canada is the second largest country in the world, behind Russia. - Newfoundland was the first part of Canada to be explored by Europeans. Ironically, it was the last area to become a province, in 1949. - Canada became a country on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament. - Canada is known as the home of large animals like the moose and grizzly bear, but it is also home to about 55,000 species of insects and about 11,000 species of mites and spiders. - Many famous authors have come from Canada,...

  Title:   Sound of the Heart Author:   Genevieve Graham Genre:   Historical Romance, Hint of Paranormal Pages:   336 Published:   May 2012 Publisher:   Penguin Source:   via Publisher Where to buy:   Amazon Synopsis: From Genevieve Graham, author of Under the Same Sky , comes a sweeping romantic historical novel of one man’s strange gift and dangerous battles… Dougal MacDonnell, a fierce warrior from the Highlands of Scotland, is able to hear the thoughts of other men and dream how the future will unfold. Devastated by the loss of his family during the Battle of Culloden in 1746, he fosters a deep hatred for the English. But when Glenna, the love of his life and a Scottish outlaw, is captured and shipped overseas, Dougal is forced to join an English army made of vanquished Scots. Now fighting on the side of his sworn enemies, he embarks on a journey that will take him across the seas to the colonies. There he will risk everything for th...

Welcome to Stitch Read Cook's weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of..... This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the days of our favorite authors! -------------------- Genevieve Graham graduated from the University of Toronto in 1986 with a Bachelor of Music in Performance (playing the oboe). While on a ski vacation in Alberta, she met her future husband in a chairlift lineup and subsequently moved to Calgary to be with him. They have recently settled in a small, peaceful town in Nova Scotia with their two beautiful daughters. Writing became an essential part of Genevieve’s life a few years ago, when she began to write her debut novel, Under the Same Sky. The companion novel, Sound of the Heart, will be in stores May 1, 2012. Hi Aislynn! Thanks so much for having me back on your site! Not only are you a terrific host, but you're a terrific CANADIAN host, which somehow makes it even sweeter to be here! So … as you know, I'm in a mass...

  Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer Available April 3rd 2012 Where to buy:   Amazon Synopsis: On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not "his" memories. It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh's equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another's minds. And now one of those people has access to the president's memories- including classified information regarding the upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But ...

Title:   A Warrior's Witch Author:   Stacey Kennedy Genre: Paranormal Romance, Erotica Published:   June 2011 ISBN:  1463588402 Publisher:   CreateSpace Source:   From Author for honest review Synopsis: Murder has brought Talon, Master of Guardians, as well as Zia, his witch and Master of Witches, to Chicago. The manner of death appears to be a suicide, but Talon is far from ready to close the case. To avenge the Guardian linked to his past, he agrees to take on the assignment, and find her killer. As they dive deeper into the investigation, they find themselves entering a world where BDSM is the norm. A lifestyle that Zia is uncomfortable with and, rattled by this new development, she is more than ready to return to the Otherworld. But their investigation quickly takes an unexpected twist when they discover that they’re not only hunting a killer but also someone who is controlling supernatu...

As our Canada Day Blog Hop comes to a close - I have one more special guest!  Fabulous paranormal/urban fantasy/erotica author Stacey Kennedy !!! About Stacey: I love the paranormal romance/urban fantasy genre and love a series more!! Nothing can hook me in more than an adventure and one that keeps on going. I love a page turner, one where I’m up at a ridiculous time and my eyes burn because I can’t stop reading. Witty characters, dominant men, danger, action, romance and hot sex―oh my!   My novels are lighthearted fantasy, heart squeezing, thigh-clenching romance, and even give a good chuckle every now and again.  I’m not a planner.  I don’t write with a set idea because no matter what I plan, the characters’ voices always come through and demand I listen to them. So, I gave up trying to fight it! The journey as a writer all began when I was a teen and wrote poetry, which still to this day I pull out to have a good laugh.  Later ...