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December 16, 2014

Today's Featured Title and Contest December 16, 2014
 
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book to consider as a holiday gift selection. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, December 17th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of MY SUNSHINE AWAY by M.O. Walsh, which releases on February 10th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest: MY SUNSHINE AWAY by M.O. Walsh
MY SUNSHINE AWAY unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when 15-year-old Lindy Simpson --- free spirit, track star and belle of the block --- experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too.

In MY SUNSHINE AWAY, M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory and our ability to forgive.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read M.O. Walsh's bio.
-Click here to connect with M.O. Walsh on Facebook.

MY SUNSHINE AWAY is a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick for 2015.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, December 17th.

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