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Book Giveaway Finds, May 26 2012

aurora — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:37:06 +0000

Welcome to this week’s edition of BOOK GIVEAWAY FINDS! You’ll find something you to like with this week’s batch, I imagine. Some of the giveaways have more than one book this week, so make sure you read each description carefully, here and on the host’s website. Good luck!

	Book Title: Vertigo, by Kristina Dunker Blog Doing Giveaway: A Cupcake and a Latte Book Type: Physical (2 copies) Open: US/Canada Only Giveaway Ends: June 2, 2012
	Book Title: Through to You, by Emily Hainsworth Blog Doing Giveaway: Emily Hainsworth.com Book Type: Physical (Three copies; they are ARCs) Open: US Only Giveaway Ends: May 27, 2012 Other Things included in the Giveaway: Glow-in-the-dark wristbands Signed Bookmark
	Book Title: Wasteland (pictured), Awaited, & Prelude to Darkness (three books) Blog Doing Giveaway: LynnRush.com Book Type: eBooks Open: International! Giveaway Ends: May 31, 2012
	Giveaway Title: Splash into Summer! Blog Doing Giveaway: Paper Dreams Book Type: Physical (multiple books to choose from) Open: International (or to wherever the Book Depository ships to) Giveaway Ends: May 31, 2012
	Book Title: A Kiss for Emily, by J.P. Galuska Blog Doing Giveaway: Kindred Dreamheart Book Type: eBook Open: International Giveaway Ends: May 30, 2012
	Book Title: The Catastrophic History of You & Me, by Jess Rothenburg Blog Doing Giveaway: A Tale of Many Reviews Book Type: Physical Open: US/Canada Only Giveaway Ends: May 31, 2012
	Book Title: A Touch of Faith, by Kathleen Schipper Blog Doing Giveaway: Read More Book Type: Physical Open: US Only Giveaway Ends: May 29, 2012
	Giveaway Title: 1000 Followers Giveaway (6 winners, choice of multiple book titles) Blog Doing Giveaway: The Aussie Zombie Book Type: Physical Open: International! (or to wherever the Book Depository ships) Giveaway Ends: June 5, 2012

These Giveaways are Still Going On!

Here are some giveaways that I mentioned last week that are still open.

Unabridged Chick is giving away a copy of Written in Ashes by K. Hollan Van Zandt. Ends May 30, 2012.
Author M.R. Merrick is giving away a copy of his two books, Exiled and Shift. Ends June 16, 2012.
That Kindle Fire Giveaway is still going on, hosted at Fiktshun. Ends May 30, 2012

MURDER or MAGIC: 4 or more

aurora — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:10:16 +0000

4 or more? You overshoot your target and end up flying over the elephant. The teens who were taunting the creature before are now laughing at you.

MURDER the teens
Use MAGIC to disintegrate the elephant into ash
Use MAGIC to turn the elephant, the remaining dolphin, the juggling monkey, the teens and the little girl into bunny rabbits.

MURDER or MAGIC: 3 or Less

aurora — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:07:27 +0000

You succeed in getting on top of the elephant, and tear off one of its tusks like it were made of tissue paper and not ivory.

MURDER the elephant with its tusk
Take a moment to MAGICly enchant the elephant tusk into a sword.

MURDER or MAGIC

aurora — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:05:13 +0000

It’s not that you feel particularly remorseful for those poor people that got crushed by the elephant (after all, you are hardly capable of such feelings), but it’s just that the elephant is really getting on your nerves. Look at it, stomping around, disturbing traffic and pedestrians, afraid of a puny little dolphin. You decide to put it out of its misery.

Elephants are stinky creatures but this one has a slight aroma of cotton candy, because of its long circus life. The elephant flaps its large ears as you near. People are standing around calling the cops and animal control, and some young teens have taken to shouting at it, pointing down the street towards you, telling it to pick you up with its trunk and squeeze you to death.

The creature backs away from you slowly, almost stepping on another car. You can see in its ancient eyes that it *knows* you are its master. You can see its life in those eyes: being captured at a young age in the African Safari, dragged away from its mother by faceless men and forced to perform in a circus. Food, glory, fame…but never a home. You have brought it here, and now it is time for its death.

You charge. The elephant is eleven feet high and if you can get on its back, you might be able to rip off one of its tusks and plunge it into its brain.

Roll a 6-sided dice.

3 or less
4 or more

MURDER or MAGIC

aurora — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:53:53 +0000

Dolphins are dumb and they deserve to die. You grab one by the flippers and sink your teeth into its fishy flesh. Chewy, but you’ve always had an affinity for sushi. You’re still hungry from the ice cream and this dolphin is really hitting the spot. It struggles for a little while, and then goes limp.

The little girl is aghast as you devour part of the dolphin. She drops her sandwich and cowers near her mother. The other dolphin worms across the pavement and startles the roaming elephant. It rears and brings its giant foot down on a nearby car, crushing the occupants.

When you’ve had your fill of dolphin, you drop the half-devoured carcass on the pavement. People are starting to empty the streets, but the little girl and the mother remain, too shocked to move. Cop sirens cry in the distance. They’re coming for you, you psychotic murderer you.

MURDER the elephant
MURDER the little girl & her mother
Use MAGIC to subdue the elephant
Use MAGIC to make the little girl & her mother forget this horrible tragedy?