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Winners of *Mr. Popper’s Penguins* audiobook

 

 

I used random.org to draw the three winners of this classic children’s book on unabridged audio; they are:

 

#20 – Mary D
#26 – Kathleen
#6 – Lesley

Congratulations to the winners!  Please send me your mailing address (US/Canada only, no PO Boxes), and I’ll forward them to Hachette Audio, the publisher/sponsor of this giveaway.

Winners of blogoversary giveaway!

Thanks to all who visited and entered my blogoversary giveaway!  I was really wondering if there was a particular post that made an impression on you, but I’ll admit that I loved all the wonderful comments you left … I’m just about busting my buttons, as the saying goes!

So, is it blogoversary (like blogosphere)? blogiversary [...]

Winners of Michelle Richmond’s *No One You Know*

Michelle Richmond’s No One You Know is out in paperback TODAY!  To celebrate, she offered signed copies of the novel to three winners.

Selected by random.org, they are:

#28 Kat Bryan
#57 Sarah
#52 Lynda

Congratulations to the winners!  Send me your US/Canada mailing address and I’ll pass them along to Michelle.

Not a winner?  Check out Michelle Richmond’s website, where [...]

Winners of *The Man’s Book* by Thomas Fink

 

 

 

Oh, the entries for The Man’s Book giveaway were fun!  I used random.org to draw five winners, they are:

 

 

 

 

#7 Cheryl – My hubby is not heavy but he can make his stomach stick out so he looks pregnant – cracks his buddies up.
#4 Lenore – Start a fire with a coke can? This I gotta [...]

Winners of Susan Jane Gilman's *Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven* audiobook

Random.org has spoken again!  The winners of the audiobook, listed along with the memoirs they recommended, are:

#3 Kim – I enjoyed A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (my review). I also thought that Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres was a good memoir, although the topic matter was pretty depressing (my review).
#2 Anna [...]

Winners of *Drood*

 

I enjoyed reading all the comments left on this giveaway!  I asked you to tell me your favorite work by Charles Dickens.  We had several votes for A Christmas Carol, many mentioned A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations and David Cooperfield were mentioned, and a few brave people confessions to not having read any [...]

Winners of *The Italian Lover*

 

Grazie to all who entered the giveaway by telling me how to say “hello” in another language, and auguri to the five winners of Robert Hellenga’s The Italian Lover!

The winners are:

 

#21 – Keyomi … Namaste is hello for Hindi
Namaskar is hello for Marathi.  Both are indian languages
#20 – Chava … How about “Hej!” in Swedish – pronounced like [...]

Winners of Kirk Curnutt’s *Breathing Out the Ghost* !!

 

A few weeks back I reviewed Kirk Curnutt’s novel Breathing Out the Ghost, a is a very thoughtfully written account which examines how various people cope with every parent’s worst nightmare – that their child is missing … or even murdered. 

Kirk offered to send copies of his novel to three readers of She is Too Fond [...]