It’s week 4 in our five weeks of holiday giveaways from Random House of Canada. Each week on Thursday or Friday we’ll be giving you the chance to enter to win a fabulous prize pack of books we’ve curated for those hard to those hard to shop for people on your list.
Can you believe it? There’s less than four weeks until Christmas! Whether you’ve started holiday shopping or not, everyone deserves to relax. And besides reading a great book, our other favourite way to unwind is with great movies and television shows! If you have someone on your list who loves to add to their “Favourites” list on Netflix, has a full PVR and always goes to the hottest new movies opening weekend, this is the prize pack you’ll want to win for them! We are featuring some of the biggest movie tie-in titles from this fall’s blockbusters plus a couple of titles that are perfect for a pop culture vulture!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Growing up, Louie Zamperini was a study in defiance, but his older brother channeled Zamperini’s energy into track. Within a very short time, his fierce determination took him all the way to the 1936 Olympics. Then his life, like that of his whole generation, was interrupted by Pearl Harbor. Overnight he went from athlete to Army Air Corps bombardier. And that was just the beginning of an incredible odyssey of determination and survival that forced him to draw upon every resource within himself to overcome seemingly insurmountable circumstances.
Prince Lestat by Anne Rice
A stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return…From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology–a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thriller.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach–an “outlander”–in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.
Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based-life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born to New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht. Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a hideous death by piranhas.
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
This is the official story that has inspired the British film, The Imitation Game, a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing, the pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code, and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.
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