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Holiday Cheer 2017

At Bookreporter.com, we've been celebrating the holiday season in style with our Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature. As our gift to you, we've been spotlighting a book and giving five lucky readers a chance to win it.

Although the contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at this year's featured titles. These are books you'll want to read during the holidays --- and throughout the new year as well!

End-of-the-Year Contest 2017

Congratulations to the winners of our 2017 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2017, while eight others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2017's Bets On selections.

Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

For 12-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off --- a healthy boy “to a good home.”

Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

September 2017

Those who loved HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford (a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection) are going to be happy to read his new book, LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION PRIZES. It’s a beautifully told story, framed against the backdrop of two Seattle World’s Fairs --- the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909 and the Century 21 Exposition in 1962. In the course of Jamie’s research for a new story to tell, he learned that there was a child named Ernest who was raffled off by the Washington Children’s Home Society in 1909. From there, he knew that a fictionalized story of Ernest was the one he wanted to write.

Week of June 18, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of June 18th include THE ROOSTER BAR, John Grisham’s newest legal thriller that takes readers inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground; LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION PRIZES by Jamie Ford, a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair; THE DEMON CROWN, a gripping adventure from James Rollins that finds the members of Sigma Force making a devil’s bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat and save mankind's future; and RETURN TO GLORY, in which journalist Matthew DeBord, who has been covering the auto industry for years, tells the story of Ford’s revival as a company as exemplified by the new GT.

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