Friday

Giveaway: Life After Genius

Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost 150 years. But only days before graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to rural Illinois. What has caused him to flee remains a mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for success has turned into a dangerous obsession.

At home, Mead finds little solace. His past ghosts haunt him; his parents don't understand the agony his genius has caused him, nor his desire to be a normal kid, and his dreams seem crushed forever. He embarks on a new life's journey -- learning the family business of selling furniture and embalming the dead--that disappoints and surprises all who knew him as "the young Fegley genius."

Equal parts academic thriller and poignant coming-of-age story, LIFE AFTER GENIUS follows the remarkable journey of a young man who must discover that the heart may know what the head hasn't yet learned.

GIVEAWAY: 5 copies are up for grabs.

As always, leave a comment for one entry. If you'd like extra entries just say so in your comment or separate comments (extra entries for followers, Twitter, sidebars, Facebook, etc.) Make sure to leave an e-mail address, especially if you are leaving a comment under Anonymous.

Rules: This contest is open to U.S. & Canada residents only. No P.O. Boxes. Winners will be drawn Friday, November 6.

32 comments:

  1. I keep seeing this one and my interest level is growing so please enter me.

    I also follow through Google Reader.

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  2. Like Kristen, I keep seeing this and my interest just keeps growing and growing and growing!
    I follow, I tweeted it (http://twitter.com/brizmus), and I sidebarred it (http://brizmusblogsbooks.blogspot.com)

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  3. This looks interesting, and what a great cover.

    please enter me ravndahl at hotmail dot com

    I'm also a follower

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  4. I enjoy reading coming-of-age stories. I don't want to miss this one. Please enter me.

    +1 I follow you.

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  5. Please enter me for this one! Thanks.

    +1 follow
    +1 posted this on my blog: http://bookshelfmonstrosity.blogspot.com/2009/10/weekly-monstrosity-giveaway-list-1022.html

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  6. Anonymous9:46 PM

    I can't pass up a good contest. ;) Count me in.

    I'm a follower

    michelle_thebookjunkie@hotmail.com

    Thanks!!

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  7. This one sounds interesting!

    I'm already following you

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  8. Anonymous9:20 AM

    Sounds good...would like to read

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  9. Anonymous3:17 PM

    please count me in...thanks...have read many favorable reviews.

    karen k
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  10. Anonymous3:17 PM

    I'm a follower :)

    karen k
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  11. Please enter me in this giveaway!

    I follow this blog.

    I follow you on Twitter and tweeted: http://twitter.com/saemmerson/status/5131714405

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    Sarah Emmerson

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  12. enter me please!! I'm a follower

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  13. This sounds like a good read! Thanks for the review and giveaway!

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  14. thanks sounds great

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  15. Please enter me



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  16. Looks very interesting! Please count me in!

    I'm a follower. Thanks.
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  17. I'm a follower.

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  18. Hi I'd love to read this. My nephew is just like this 16 and in his second year of engineering. Wow. Count me in. polo-puppy-fluffy AT hotmail *dot* com

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  19. please enter me
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  20. I'd like to read this book. Add me to the draw please.

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  21. +1 I am a follower

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  22. What a great review, of what sounds like a very interesting book. I know a couple of kids who entered university very, very early and it would be fun reading this book and learning how "the young Fegley genius" made out at the end of the story.

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  23. I follow on twitter @bcgirll

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  24. I would love to read this book.

    I am a facebook fan (Doreen Rio)

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  25. yay! would love to enter this!

    +1 I'm a follower

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  26. I would love to be entered!

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  27. I'd love to read this book - please count me in.

    I follow.
    I subscribe via Google Reader.
    I'm a friend on Facebook.

    Thanks ~ megalon22{at}yahoo{dot}com

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  28. Please count me in.

    I am a follower.

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  29. Anonymous8:24 PM

    Please enter me. walkerd@primus.ca

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  30. Anonymous8:25 PM

    Count me in. walkermisc@primus.ca

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