Title: On The Island
Author: Tracey Garvis Graves
Release Date: July 10th 2012
Publisher: Plume/Penguin
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When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island.
Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
Intro to ON THE ISLAND
I was thirty years old when the seaplane T.J. Callahan and I
were traveling on crash-landed in the Indian Ocean. T.J. was sixteen, and three
months into remission from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The pilot’s name was Mick, but
he died before we hit the water.
Dream Cast!
Tracey Garvis-Graves is the author of On the Island and Covet. She lives in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa with her husband, two children, and hyper dog Chloe. She blogs at www.traceygarvisgraves.comusing colorful language and a snarky sense of humor to write about pop culture, silly television shows, and her suburban neighborhood. You can e-mail her at traceygarvisgraves@yahoo.com. She’d love to hear from you.
Connect with the Author: Blog
Thank you for participating in the ON THE ISLAND Event! Click here for the full schedule! This week in addition to reviews and posts, select blogs are hosting a word from the author's favorite quotes in the book as a Scavenger Hunt! There is one quote from Anna and one from T.J. Visit each stop this week to find the hidden words (they will be numbered for order) and after July 22nd, submit your answer to the quotes here! Random winners for books and swag will be chosen and notified by July 29th.
Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!
- Monday, July 23 at 8:00 pm CST - Chat with the author Tracey Garvis Graves! We will be chatting with the author on Savor Chat: http://www.savorchat.com/chat/
on-the-island-chat Come join us! (You can sign in with twitter or facebook) - Each day look at #ontheisland on twitter for random shout outs to win books and swag! @Tale_of_Reviews
- ON THE ISLAND released in bookstores Tuesday, July 10th! If you see the book in stores or 'in the wild' take a picture. Please tweet it and use hashtag #ontheisland. Or you can post it to facebook! Please submit twitter and facebook links of your post/tweet here! All entries need to be submitted by July 29th.
This book has gotten great press. The concept is very intertesting, too. I've wanted to read this book for quite awhile!
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I love the cast.
That alone has me intrigued.
Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI've been hearing nothing but good things about this book. I would love to read it. Thanks for having this giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteI'm just going to come out and say it. If you haven't read this book, please read it. My favourite book of the year, so far.
ReplyDeleteI must confess... I've been seeing this book pop up on Amazon a lot (before the author got her book contract - huge congrats!!), and it kept telling me it was one I would like. Well, I didn't really think so and just felt like, no, that's not a "me" book. But darned if I haven't been swung 180 degrees the other way!! Seeing all the great reviews and blog posts of folks I follow has convinced me there's a lot more to the book than I originally thought. So now of course I'd love to read it! Hope I'll get the chance :) Thanks!
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