Favorite Things Giveaway – Win 3 AWESOME Young Adult Novels

In the spirit of the holidays, I wanted to give away a few of my favorite things. So leading up to the end of the year, I’m going to have a few fun giveaways for you guys. Thanks for always stopping my blog! Reading Books Like a Boss is a labor of love for me and it’s been a really fun year! This week I’m giving away three awesome young adult novels that I loved.

• Giveaway #1: Whisper To Me by Nick Lake (Giveaway Has Ended)
• Giveaway #2: Leuchtturm1917 Notebook + Pilot Metropolitan Retro Fountain Pen (Giveaway Has Ended)
• Giveaway #3: Three Awesome YA Novels!
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
  • Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
  • What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick

About the Books:

SALT TO THE SEA (Read my Review) by Ruta Sepetys is an emotional YA historical novel about a maritime disaster that is rarely talked about, told through the perspective of several young characters all of different backgrounds during World War II. It was so fantastic!

FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK by Matthew Quick (Read my Review) is one of the most moving books I have ever read. Read the synopsis below! It’s absolutely heartwrenching and features one of my all-time favorite characters, Leonard Peacock.

Huntley Fitzpatrick’s WHAT I THOUGHT WAS TRUE (Read My Review) was released last year but I wanted to spread the joy of this book with someone else this year. It’s quite a bit lighter than the other two. It’s all about balance, right? Anyway, it’s about first love and family. It’s really good!

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Published by Philomel Books
Publication date: February 2, 2016
Genres: Historical, Young Adult
Narrator: Cassandra Morris, Jorjeana Marie, Michael Crouch, Will Damron
400 pages
Format: ARC, Audiobook
Source: Publisher

For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, bestselling author Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating—yet unknown—tragedies.

World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer to safety.

Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people—adults and children alike—aboard must fight for the same thing: survival.

Told in alternating points of view and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, Erik Larson's Dead Wake, and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff—the greatest maritime disaster in history. As she did in Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys unearths a shockingly little-known casualty of a gruesome war, and proves that humanity and love can prevail, even in the darkest of hours.

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In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault.

Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.

Maybe one day he'll believe that being different is okay, important even.
But not today.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick, brings an unflinchingly eye to the impossible choices we deal with every day--and the light in us all that never goes out.

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From the acclaimed author of My Life Next Door comes a swoony summertime romance full of expectation and regret, humor and hard questions.

Gwen Castle has never so badly wanted to say good-bye to her island home till now: the summer her Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, takes a job there as the local yard boy. He's a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen and housecleaners who keep the island's summer people happy. Gwen worries a life of cleaning houses will be her fate too, but just when it looks like she'll never escape her past—or the island—Gwen's dad gives her some shocking advice. Sparks fly and secret histories unspool as Gwen spends a gorgeous, restless summer struggling to resolve what she thought was true—about the place she lives, the people she loves, and even herself—with what really is.

A magnetic, push-you-pull-me romance with depth, this is for fans of Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, and Deb Caletti.

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Giveaway

Open Internationally!!
Must be 18 years old to enter. Void where prohibited by law.
One (1) Winner will win print copies of 3 books.
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