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Grow Our "Book Banter Café" Facebook Group GIVEAWAY!

Join Our Facebook Group And Invite Your Friends

We recently launched a NEW Facebook group for people who love books, and we want you to join us!  To kickstart our group, Book Banter Cafe-A Gathering Place For Bookworms, we are conducting a grow-the-group giveaway.

In our group, you can post your thoughts and reviews, seek recommendations, ask questions, converse with others, post literary memes, and participate in our fun polls and occasional giveaways.  If you are a writer, feel free to share your books or book blog posts with the group.  Whatever book-related topic makes you happy is welcome in the group (with the exception of horror and overtly sexual content--those are discouraged).


What Are We Giving Away?

We are giving away three books, one book to each of our three winners.

I snagged these books at bargain prices at my local Books-a-Million store, but my amazon affiliates links are included in this post in case you don't win and would like to purchase them.

To The Moon And Back by Karen Kingsbury

Summary:  Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing killed his mother.  Eleven years ago, he met Jenna Phillips, whose parents were also killed in the attack.  Brady and Jenna shared a deep heart connection and a single beautiful day together at the memorial.  but after that, Brady never saw Jenna again.  Every year when he returns to the memorial, he leaves a note for her, hoping that he might find her again.

This year, Ashley Baxter Blake spots Brady, alone and troubled, at the survivor tree.  A chance moment leads Ashley to help Brady find Jenna, the girl he can't forget.  But is a shared heartache enough reason to fall in love?

Deeply emotional and beautifully romantic, this is an unlikely love story about healing, redemption, hope, and the belief that sometimes a new tomorrow can grow from the ashes of a shattered yesterday.

Karen Kingsbury is an inspirational storyteller, and many of her novels have been turned into movies (including Hallmark) and television series.  

The Summer House by Jenny Hale

Summary: Callie Weaver and her best friend, Olivia Dixon, have finally done it:  put their life savings into the beach house they admired through childhood summers, on the dazzling white sand of North Carolina's Outer Banks.  They're going to buff the salt from its windows, paint its sun-bleached sidings, and open it as a bed-and-breakfast.

Callie's too busy to think about her love life, but when she catches the attention of local heartthrob Luke Sullivan, his blue eyes and easy smile make it hard to say no.  He's heir to his father's real estate empire, and the papers say he's just another playboy.  But as they laugh in the ocean waves, Callie realizes there's more to this man than money and good looks.

Just when true happiness seems within reach, Callie and Olivia find a diary full of secrets...secrets that stretch across the island and have the power to turn lives upside down.  As Callie reads, she unravels a mystery that makes her heart drop through the floor.

Will Callie and Luke be pulled apart by the storm the diary unleashes, or can true love save them?

Jenny Hale is a bestselling author who has also had multiple books made into Hallmark movies.

The Timepiece by Beverly Lewis

Summary:  Sylvia Miller has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she unexpectedly shows up in Hickory Hollow.  Adeline's very existence is a reminder of the painful secret that has so recently upended the Miller household, making this a challenging time to welcome an Englisher--especially THIS Englisher--into their midst.  Does Adeline's arrival mark one too many surprises for the Miller and their Amish community?  Or can God bring something good out of the mistakes of the past?

Beverly Lewis is a Christian fiction novelist and adult and children's author of over 100 books.  Growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the heart of Amish country, inspired many of her works.  

How Do You Enter The Giveaway?

  • Once you're a member of Book Banter Cafe-A Gathering Place For Bookworms Facebook group, start inviting your friends to join!
  • For joining our group, you will receive one entry in the giveaway.  You will also receive additional entries for each friend you invite who follows through and joins our group.  The more people you invite who accept your invitation, the more chances you have to win!  NOTE:  If the friends you invite do not join our group, you do not receive an extra entry for them.
From the "admin" side of our Facebook group, I can see who invited the new members to join, so you don't have to worry about reporting it.


Who Is Eligible To Participate?

  • You must be a legal resident of the USA to enter and be 18 years of age or older.
Many people in my other Facebook groups always ask why international members aren't eligible to participate.  Here's the reason--I'm a blogger who generates revenue through blog ads and amazon affiliate links, which pay peanuts.  To build an audience and following, I like to redirect a portion of my earnings into contests and giveaways because that is super FUN for group members.  If my multiple groups experience significant growth that leads to a higher income, I will seriously consider opening contests to international members.  To help towards that end, I appreciate you shopping through my affiliate links and checking out the ads that appear on the blog posts that are of interest to you.


What's The Entry Deadline?

All friends you invite must accept and join our Facebook group by Friday, August 27, 2021, for you to receive an entry for each of them.

Three names will be randomly drawn and winners announced on Saturday, August 28, 2021.  The first name drawn will receive The Timepiece, the second name drawn will receive The Summer House, and the third name drawn will receive To The Moon And Back.

You cannot win more than one prize, in the unlikely event of low participation.

Winners will have until Tuesday, August 31, 2021, to message the Facebook group admin their mailing addresses to receive their prizes (addresses will be used for NO other purpose than contest prize mailing).  Failure to provide a mailing address by that time will result in forfeiture of the prize, and a new winner will be chosen.


Giveaway Is Not Associated With Facebook Or The Authors

This grow-the-group book giveaway is offered by Book Banter Cafe-A Gathering Place For Bookworms Facebook group and not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook or book authors, and participating in this giveaway is done independently by each person.  Facebook and authors are released from any responsibility to entrants or participants.

If you love books, we'd love for you to join our Facebook Group, Book Banter Cafe-A Gathering Place For Bookworms

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