Clear Your Shelf Giveaway Hop!

I'm very excited to be participating in my very first giveaway hop! :party Hosted by I am a reader, not a writer. This hop is pretty self explanatory. If you are a follower you know that I have been buying an insane amount of books lately. And we all have those books that have been read and will not be read again-- or that we never got around to reading at all and just sit on the shelf collecting dust! 8|  But, have no fear! Those books will find new homes; and clear up some space in my home in the process.  I have rather eclectic taste in books. I will also include a bookmark and some random swag I have from different authors.   It's WINNER'S CHOICE of (1) book and some swag (a bookmark or two).
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• This giveaway is US ONLY! Sorry..shipping is expensive! BUT-- you will find a giveaway going on right now for all of you INT! Click here to enter (INT)
• I am not responsible for items lost or damaged in the mail. 
• The winner will have 24 hours to respond to my email, after that another winner will be chosen.
• Winner will choose 1 of the 2 paperbacks.  
• You must be 13 years or older, or parents' permission to enter Rafflecopter.

What's up for grabs?! :e

Winner's Choice of 1 of these paperbacks from my bookshelf

I'm giving away my paperback copy of Naked, by David Sedaris [note: it is well worn, guys. The cover has some wear and inside page has my name and date].

~OR~

The Virgin's Lover, by Phillipa Gregory I have two copies for some reason, so I'm getting rid of one! 

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

         As a new queen, Elizabeth faces two great dangers: the French invasion of Scotland, which threatens to put Mary Queen of Scots on her throne, and her passion for the convicted traitor Robert Dudley.

But Dudley is already married, and his devoted wife Amy will never give him up, least of all to an upstart Protestant Princess. She refuses to set her beloved husband free to marry the queen; but she cannot prevent him from becoming the favorite and the focus of the feverishly plotting, pleasure seeking court.

Others too oppose the marriage, but for very different reasons. William Cecil, the queen's wisest counselor, knows she must marry for policy; her uncle hates Dudley and swears he will be murder him first. Behind the triangle of lovers, the factions take up their places: the Protestants, the priests, the assassins, the diplomats and the moneymakers. The very coin of England is shaved and clipped to nothing as Elizabeth uncertainly leads her bankrupt country into a war that no-one thinks can be won.

Then someone acts in secret, and for Elizabeth, Dudley and the emerging kingdom, nothing will be as planned.

Blending historical fact with contemporary rumor, Philippa Gregory has created a dark and tense novel of Tudor times, which casts Elizabeth I in a light no one has suggested before. Passionate, fearful, emotionally needy, this is a queen who will stop at nothing.

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