Teaser, Series 2
categories: Contests, Moleskines
New Titles Posted, Sep 2009 (1st)
categories: New Books
Fiction:
The Dream Stealer by Gregory Maguire (Hardbound)
The Gryphon by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
Alexandria by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
The Best American Erotica 2005 (Edited by Susie Bright)
Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver (Hardbound)
For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hardbound)
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
New Worlds: An Anthology (Edited by Michael Moorcock)
The Call of the Toad by Gunter Grass
Little Birds: Erotica by Anais Nin
The Mammoth Book of Women’s Erotic Fantasies
The Sleeping Beauty Erotic Trilogy by Anne Rice
Primavera by Francesca Lia Block
Beautiful Boys by Francesca Lia Block
Fluke: Or, I Know Why … by Christopher Moore (Hardbound)
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
Non-Fiction:
The High Times Reader (Warhol, Burroughs, Zappa, etc)
The Mammoth Book of Dirty, Sick, X-Rated & Politically Incorrect Jokes
The Dark Side of the Moon: The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece (HB)
The New Kings of Nonfiction (Gladwell, Orlean & more)
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Death by PowerPoint: A Modern Office Survival Guide
Bad vs Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions
Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art by James Hall
Horror: 100 Best Books (Edited by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman)
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (Edited by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman)
Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts
The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2006
Are You Crazy?: 18 Scientific Quizzes to Test Yourself
The Whole Truth: A Compendium of Myths, Mistakes & Misconceptions
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Back in Stock:
Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz
Darwin: The Indelible Stamp (HB 4-in-1, Best of Darwin)
The BEST-Case Scenario Handbook: A Parody
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Can a Guy Get Pregnant? Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions (HB)
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Delta of Venus: Erotica by Anais Nin
Happy Shopping!
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Win a SIGNED copy of Adventures in the Dream Trade by Neil Gaiman!
categories: Contests
Still can’t get enough of Neil Gaiman? Here is your chance to win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade (trade paperback edition)!
This giveaway is part of Avalon.ph (still) celebration of our 10th year online. We are one of the longest running online shopping websites in the country. You can read a quick history and timeline here.
Adventures in the Dream Trade is one of Neil Gaiman’s harder-to-find book locally. The book covers Neil Gaiman’s web log during the publication of American Gods, some essays, introductions, stories, poems and song lyrics.
Just how can you win this amazing signed book?
Complete this phrase: “Ten years ago……..”
Be creative, sentimental, funny or just be honest! Feel free to add images if you write your entry in your blogs. I reserve the right to disqualify tasteless entries.
So how to submit an entry?
Easy/basic:
a) Answering in the comments section below gives you one (1) point.
or
b) Answering in your blog, with a link back to this post gives you three (3) points. You must mention Avalon.ph in your blog entry. Note: one blog per person/entry.
On blog entries, I will award you one (1) extra point if I like your post. This will be purely based my personal discretion and I expect myself to be stingy with it.
Basically that’s it, you are now qualified to win this Neil Gaiman signed book. But wait! Want to have more chances of winning? We are giving options to submit more entries that’s worth the effort.
Advanced:
– Twitter – one (1) extra point. You may also follow our Twitter account: avalonph. Twitter entries can be easily traced as long as you use the following tweet format:
RT @avalonph Win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade! Exclusive giveaway only on www.avalon.ph #avalonph
I suggest you copy and paste before you tweet. Helpful comments before RT is okay, the rest must be entered once and as is during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22). Please do not spam.
Sorry, no Plurk entries because their search system isn’t optimize to guarantee your entry gets counted.
– Purchases on Avalon.ph. For every valid purchase worth Php500.00 on Avalon.ph, you will earn one (1) extra point. This is valid during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22) and must already be paid/fulfilled before the end of the contest period. There is no limit to the number of points to be awarded.
I’m tempted to include a Facebook point reward system but I believe that’s too much already. However, I will deeply appreciate if you “share” the contest details once it is posted in our Facebook Page. If you are not a fan of Avalon.ph yet, here’s our Facebook Page link: www.facebook.com/avalonph. We also have giveaways exclusive to our Avalon.ph Facebook Page Fans so make sure you add us up.
This giveaway will run from August 26 until September 22, 2009, 11:59pm Manila time. Raffle is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers. Raffle will be through Random.org or other facilities that can handle random drawing.
Raffle winner will be announced before 12:00nn September 23. We will exert best effort to communicate with the winner within 5 days, but if efforts fail we will use our discretion in choosing a new winner either through a re-draw or pick #2.
As much as we want everything fair and square there might be unseen issues. Loopholes or oversights regarding rules- common sense applies!
So what are you waiting for? Good luck! Most of all, reminisce something in your life ten years ago!
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