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End-of-the-Year Contest 2016

Congratulations to the winners of our 2016 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2016, while eight others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2016's Bets On selections.

I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows

August 2016

I have read a few books that take place during the years of the Dust Bowl storms. I find this time and place in history so very tragic and always want to learn more about it. So when I saw I WILL SEND RAIN by Rae Meadows, I immediately wanted to read it.

The story is set in Mulehead, Oklahoma in the mid-1930s during the early years of the Dust Bowl. Annie Bell, the protagonist, has a lot on her mind as she chases the dust swirling around her. The dust is killing the crops on her family’s farm, and the livestock are struggling to survive. She watches her husband, who is not coping well with all these changes. Life is closing in on her literally from the hardships of nature and from the pressure of trying to survive in a life where she feels she is lost and cannot find her way.

Week of November 27, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of November 27th include Michael Crichton'S DRAGON TEETH, a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting; THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney, which illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power; and the continuation of mystery series by Stuart Woods (FAST AND LOOSE: A Stone Barrington Novel), Jonathan Kellerman (HEARTBREAK HOTEL: An Alex Delaware Novel) and Sara Paretsky (FALLOUT: A V.I. Warshawski Novel).