2023 WINNERS of SANCTUARY'S
8th ANNUAL BOOK GIVEAWAY
The Sanctuary editors would like to thank
all authors, publishers and publicity companies who participated in our
8th Annual Book Giveaway.
Winners and books are randomly selected from early December through mid-January.
Click book covers for excerpts or to find more information about the book.
all authors, publishers and publicity companies who participated in our
8th Annual Book Giveaway.
Winners and books are randomly selected from early December through mid-January.
Click book covers for excerpts or to find more information about the book.
A huge THANK YOU goes out to our giveaway sponsors:
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Barbara B. (a reader from NJ) won Rough Waters: From Surviving to Thriving with a Progressive Muscular Dystrophy by Heather C. Markham. At age thirty-four, Heather received a life-changing diagnosis: she had a progressive muscular dystrophy and would eventually need a wheelchair. With humor and heartbreaking candor, this memoir chronicles Heather’s slow decline in mobility and her determination to live an extraordinary life—one full of laughter and joy, sand and salt water. This book is both an inspiring memoir and a courageous call for more empathy from medical professionals, care attendants, and anyone who knows and loves someone with a disability.
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Cristina A. (a reader from NY) won Sunrise: Life After Traumatic Brain Injury by Kristin Abello. In 2002, while on a training run in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Raul, in preparation for the Marine Corps Marathon, Kristin was struck by a car. As a result, she sustained a traumatic brain injury and other physical traumas. The initial consensus was that she wasn’t going to survive. In this book, she tells her story of faith, love, hope and healing from TBI. While a love story, it is also the true story of her fight for survival. This story tells how the support and prayers of her husband, family, and friends formed the basis of her miraculous recovery.
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Cloe S. (a reader from NY) won Light in Bandages Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal by Liz Kinchen. As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her 8th-grade teacher is in love with her. Years later, as she begins to understand how her relationship with her former teacher destroyed her innocence and self-worth, she begins a spiritual and psychological journey that sets her free. As a meditation teacher and Buddhist practitioner, Liz offers her story in hope of helping others along their own paths of discovery and healing.
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Ellyn S. (a reader from FL) won Insubordinate: 12 New Archetypes for Women Who Lead by Jocelyn Davis. An international leadership expert, Jocelyn Davis presents twelve timeless female archetypes reimagined and refreshed with stories of literary and everyday women who fought, cajoled, commanded, schemed, or blasted their way free of the chains that bound them. Discover your personal types, along with inspiration and strategies for expanding your range, tapping your inner power, and unleashing your natural leadership in work and life.
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Mirta M. (a reader from NY) won The Return Trip by Maya Golden. At age thirty, Maya Golden was living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators. From a suicide plan to the treatment facility to launching a nonprofit organization -- Maya's story chronicles and dissects her journey to find purpose out of the trauma.
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Linda L. (a reader from NY) won Everyday Awakening by Catherine Duncan. This book integrates the best of spirituality, neuroscience, psychology, and therapy so you can change how you embrace every day, every moment, and every choice. Drawing from decades of her personal and professional experience in healthcare, spiritual care, and complementary healing, Catherine offers a wealth of options - including breathwork, meditations, grounding rituals, and other exercises - for bringing each of the five practices into your daily life.
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Kathleen Z. (a reader from CT) won Three Legs in the Evening by Bette Ann Moskowitz. Bette's protagonist, Sally, is caught in a place where everything she thought she knew is changing. This is a story about running out of steam, running out of time, and finding solace and wisdom even in the finality of all that. A life carefully built can crumble in a moment, but what happens then? Sally B. plays it out as best she can. Bette is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction winner. Find her blog, Vinegar Mother.
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Ashlee D. (a reader from MN) won Abundant Soul-utions (Amplify Publishing) by Chris Atley. A "mompreneur" is a woman juggling motherhood and running a business. Chris advises that when we finally give ourselves permission to take care of our own selves first, it has a profound ripple effect on our families, friends, and finances. Besides being an author, Chris is an NLP master coach, who has helped thousands of female entrepreneurs tap into their own inner resources to create the businesses and lives they have always imagined.
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Dana H. (a reader from NY) won I Got It From Here by Francesca Miracola. Francesca's memoir is a story of saving herself and her children from the grips of a sociopath posing as a family man – and from the inherited trauma passed down by her own family of birth – while learning to trust in the inner voice that’s been trying to guide her all along. This is a rocky, emotional journey that ultimately leads her to question the unhealthy dynamics in her family of origin that attracted her to such a man in the first place. It is also a story of strength and resilience.
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