Books 4 Moms

...and yet you continue to provoke the night by Shawn Ness

The internal struggle and sadness that only we can know, when alone in our darkest hour. The life changing joy and absolute euphoria we rarely feel. The pain of tragedy, when your whole world implodes and nothing will ever be as it was. ...and yet you continue to provoke the night brings the darkest poetic essence of our lives to the forefront for all to feel.

About The Book:

This is a beautiful book of poetry, filled with poems inspired by a tragedy, love, daily writings and more.  Shawn Ness has dedicated this book to Nicole Joslyn and Alan Lowrie of Milwaukee, WI who were killed in a senseless act of violence in 2004.  Because of how this tragedy touched Shawn Ness, he decided to do something rather wonderful.  Not only is he dedicating his book to the families of these two young people lost too early, but he is also donating 100% of the royalties of the book sales to Take Back The Night, a charity dedicated to stoping Sexual Violence.

Since 2001, Take Back The Night has been a 501(c)3 publicly funded charity with the mission of ending sexual violence in all forms and lending support to survivors.  The grassroots efforts over the last thirty years in the form of marches and rallies around the world, flown under the banner of Take Back the Night, are the energy and spirit behind our mission!

What Shawn Ness has challenged himself with is to sell 1000 copies of this book.  When Shawn contacted me, I knew that I had to read the book and help him get to his goal.  This is a beautiful collection of poems that touch the heart.  On top of the beauty of his writing, you have the beauty of his goal.  All of that is why I am recommending this book!

My rating: 5.0 stars

Book Details:

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Author: Shawn Ness
• Publisher: CreateSpace (August 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1448666074
• ISBN-13: 978-1448666072

The Giveaway:

On top of allowing me to read and review this amazing book, Shawn Ness has also given me one copy to giveaway to a reader of my blog.  These wonderful poems will touch your heart!  I will be running this giveaway until Oct. 24 2009, which is the anniversary of the tragic death of Nicole Joslyn and Alan Lowrie.  So please follow the entrants guidelines below.  The winner will be chosen on Oct. 24, 2009 by using Random.org.

How To Enter:

Each comment will be viewed as a seperate entry, so please be sure to leave a seperate comment for every action.

1. Leave a comment on this post with your name and email address.
2. Blog about this giveaway adding a link to Journeyto100.org, this blog, and Take Back The Night charity.
3. Twitter about this giveaway - in the comment section leave a link to your twitter status with the link to this giveaway.
4. Facebook about this giveaway - must be a seperate update from twitter

Once you have done all of these things, come back to leave a seperate comment on this post.  Thank you all for your participation!  And good luck!

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