Year: 2012

Enter to win a copy of Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night and a specially designed “Ashmole 782” temporary tattoo and a set of 6 buttons, displaying different alchemical symbols.

Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches. Now, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London and a world of spies.

Giveaway begins July 10, 2012, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends August 7, 2012, at 11:59 P.M. PST.

On the first day of summer vacation when I was twelve years old, I got on my bicycle, rode three miles down the street through a tunnel of new leaves, emerged into lemon-colored sunshine in the middle of town, racked my bike, opened the front door of the library to release its peppery aroma into the juicy green afternoon, and saw a book with a fantastic cover awaiting me on the nearest wooden table: M.C. Higgins The Great.