Top Retellings of Classic Tales
Giveaways you've entered

Giveaways

Enter to win free books sponsored by authors and publishers.

Sorting options
Naturally, a Love Story Book Cover
10 copies
Print

Naturally, a Love Story

Mary Lou Lager

  • Sep 11 - Oct 1
  • 545 entries
  • US & CA
Enter Giveaway
Chronicling their tale of love, loss, and legacy, a daughter, one of the eleven children they raised in a Chicago suburb during the decades spanning the later years of the 20th Century into the early years of the 21st Century, writes of the family times together, watching the slow decline of her father until his death from Alzheimer’s, and the last years of her mother's life without him.
  • Memoir
  • Biography
We Survived the Night Book Cover
100 copies
Print

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

  • Sep 10 - Oct 11
  • 2,070 entries
  • US only
Enter Giveaway
A stunning work of narrative non-fiction from one of the most powerful young Native American writers at work today—We Survived the Night combines investigative journalism, folklore, and a deeply personal father-son journey in a searing portrait of a community fighting for self-determination in a fractured nation.

Born to a Secwepemc father and Jewish-Irish mother, Julian Brave Noisecat’s childhood was full of contradictions. Despite living in the urban Native community of Oakland, California, he was raised primarily by his white mother. He was a competitive powwow dancer, but asked his father to cut his hair short, fearing that his white classmates would call him a girl if he kept it long. When his father, tormented by an abusive and impoverished rez upbringing, eventually left the family, Noisecat was left to make sense of his Indigenous heritage and identity on his own.

Now, decades later, Noisecat has set across the country to correct the erasure, invisibility, and misconceptions surrounding this nation’s First Peoples, as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist in his own right. On his way he meets the activists campaigning to change the Washington football team’s name, members of the Quinault Nation forced to relocate due to rising sea levels, and Navajo families still reeling from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. He follows the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline and retraces his family’s own canoe journey honoring the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation, an experience that brought Noisecat and his father closer as Native men than they had been before.

Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning with a relationship between a father and a son. Soulful, formally daring, indelible work from an important new voice.
  • History
  • Biography
Wild Life: A Scientist's Journey from Dreams to Purpose Book Cover
20 copies
Print

Wild Life: A Scientist's Journey from Dreams to Purpose

Rae Wynn-Grant

  • Sep 2 - Sep 16
  • 2,742 entries
  • US only
Enter Giveaway
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own journey in the wild, finding her way in a profession where there were few scientists who looked like her, she saw nature’s delicate balance in a new light. In her quest to study the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and place, Rae has realized the vital roles we each play not just as stewards for our land and water, but also for our communities, each other, and ourselves. Wild Life follows Rae from her urban childhood in California and Virginia, to her adventures and explorations in some of the world’s most rugged and remote locales. Hers is a story about a career in the wild spanning nearly two decades, carving a niche for herself as one of very few Black female scientists, and the challenges she has had to overcome, expectations she has had to leave behind, and the many lessons she has learned along the way. Through her personal story of resilience and adaptation, Rae argues for a more connected, more socially and ecologically conscious world. An incredible journey spanning the Great Plains of North America to the rainforests of Madagascar, Wild Life sheds light on our pivotal relationship and responsibility to the natural world and the relatives—both human and otherwise—that we share it with.
  • Memoir
  • Biography
The Tao of Twin Peaks: The Meaning Behind David Lynch's Hit TV Series Book Cover
5 copies
Print

The Tao of Twin Peaks: The Meaning Behind David Lynch's Hit TV Series

William Dickerson

  • Aug 17 - Sep 15
  • 3,599 entries
  • US only
Enter Giveaway
Is "Twin Peaks" a cult-like phenomenon...or a mystery that needs to be solved…or simply the fever dream of its eccentric co-creator? No other show in the history of television has sparked so many questions and "The Tao of Twin Peaks" proposes answers to those who seek to understand this surreal, multilayered, and metafictional story. Much has been written about "Twin Peaks," but this book is markedly different. It is not just for the most ardent fans who love decoding clues in the series. It also explores the show’s cinematic techniques, its cultural references, and its mythological, psychological, and religious influences. Just some of the topics explored:

- The significance of the Red Room
- Laura Palmer as both angel and centerfold
- The answer to "Who is Judy?"
- The connection between Agent Cooper and Mr. C
- The relationship of the plot to electricity and the atomic bomb
- "Twin Peaks" as a working philosophy
- "What year is this?" Making sense of the end of the series

In Taoism, the goal is to achieve balance in our ever-changing reality. "The Tao of Twin Peaks" illustrates how David Lynch accomplishes this feat in this classic show. It examines the entire "Twin Peaks" canon, including "Fire Walk with Me," with a particular focus on "Twin Peaks: The Return." For filmmaker and author, William Dickerson, the search for significance in "Twin Peaks" is analogous to the search for meaning in both his and his readers’ lives. As strange as the characters and plots may be, they echo our own traumas, growth, and experience.

Featuring artwork by Gilbert Leiker, "The Tao of Twin Peaks" will set you on the road to solving the show's enigmas and, as a result, deepen your appreciation of future viewings along the way. Uncover the details of David Lynch's cinematic craft as he creates the off-kilter world of "Twin Peaks" and turns the mirror on us.
  • Art
  • Biography
Are You There, Judy Blume? It's Me, Henriette: In Pillness and in Health 3 Book Cover
100 copies
Kindle

Are You There, Judy Blume? It's Me, Henriette: In Pillness and in Health 3

Henriette Ivanans

  • Sep 11 - Oct 2
  • 116 entries
  • US only
Enter Giveaway
What if you got to thank Judy Blume for teaching you about orgasms?

At 10, Henriette asks her mother Why are there so many books about love? Henriette adores books, especially Judy Blume and her complicated heroines, who are as confused about love as she is.

At 13, she starts high school in the shadow of her father’s alcoholic death, and a terrifying diagnosis—kidney failure. Not much about her life seems certain until she spots Seth across the classroom on the third day of school. She is in love.

Henriette and Seth’s romance is upended by intense teen emotions, competing hearts, and the ticking clock of her kidney transplant. But it doesn’t stop them from falling madly in love. They explore all her firsts—first kiss, first orgasm, first fight. Their love feels like forever… Through it all, Henriette returns to the characters who guided her as a child—Katherine’s sexual assertiveness, Deenie’s acceptance, and Margaret’s quest for God.

And confesses everything to Judy Blume along the way…

But what happens to forever when Seth moves 10,000 miles away and Henriette barely exists on dialysis? When her kidney transplant brings complications no one imagined. Can love scale the wall between The Healthy and The Sick? And if it can’t, why won’t it let go?

In the final book of the Pillness trilogy, Ivanans excavates first love for its rawest Is love the most perilous addiction of all? Maybe first love never dies. Maybe it’s not supposed to because that’s what brought you to life.

Maybe it takes writing your own book about love to even begin to understand love at all.
  • Memoir
  • Biography
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 giveaways
Giveaways you've entered

For authors and publishers

List a Giveaway