Giveaway: The Unnamed and A Reliable Wife

It's easy to win!

All you have to do is:

1) Become a Follower and be sure your picture shows up under my Follower sidebar. I lost all my Followers, so if your picture doesn't show, you'll need to follow me again.

2) Tell me which book you'd like.

3) Be sure to include your email address.

4) Guess what my middle name is. (Friends and family excluded from this giveaway!)

There you go! Be sure to follow all the steps in order for your entry to count.

Contest ends February 15th, 2010. I will contact winners (1 for each book) via email.

U.S. and Canada only. Sorry!

Good luck (and P.S.: I just finished A Reliable Wife and loved it.)

A Reliable Wife (trade paperback)
Synopsis from Barnes and Noble:

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.

What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love.

Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.

The Unnamed (hardcover)
Synopsis from Barnes and Noble:

Joshua Ferris' debut novel Then We Came to the End was both heralded by critics and a New York Times bestseller, and marked the arrival of a startlingly talented young writer. With THE UNNAMED, Ferris imagines the collision between one man's free will and the forces of nature that are bigger than any of us.

Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts around the globe—and come perilously close to ruining what should be a happy life. Tim has a loving family, a successful law career and a beautiful suburban home, all of which he maintains spectacularly well until his feet start moving again.

What drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? THE UNNAMED is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.