First up are two copies of Rachel Simmon’s The Curse of the Good Girl (my review).  A copy of this smart and practical book will be going to:

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Next is an MP3 Audio [...]]]> I’ve had several giveaways running over the past week or so; here, in a combined post, I’ll announce the winners:

First up are two copies of Rachel Simmon’s The Curse of the Good Girl (my review).  A copy of this smart and practical book will be going to:

• #6 - Sandy
• #14 – amandasue

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Next is an MP3 Audio of Thomas N. DeWolf’s Inheriting the Trade.  Tom DeWolf’s guest post tells why his topic is especially important for our time.  The audio is going to:

• #7 – Belinda M

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In honor of BBAW we had five signed copies of Michael Greenberg’s memoir Hurry Down Sunshine.  Four will be shipped in the US/Canada to:

• #4 – Rebecca S. Cox
• #7 – Sue
• #18 – Julie
• #24 – Karen Haney

and one copy is heading internationally to:

• #29 – Violet (I’m sending this one to India)

Congratulations to all the winners!  Please send me your mailing address so we can get your prizes out to you.

DeWolf has recently published Inheriting the Trade.  This is a memoir about his experiences during the making of a documentary film, Traces of the Trade: A Story [...]]]> Thomas N. DeWolf shared a guest post yesterday, in which he spoke of “no time like the present” for meaningful conversations about diversity, tolerance, and justice in the U.S.

DeWolf has recently published Inheriting the Trade.  This is a memoir about his experiences during the making of a documentary film, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, in which he and nine other (white) family members journeying into their slave-trading heritage, and issued a call for reconciliation.

Today I am pleased to share his offer of a free MP3 audio of his book.  To enter the random drawing, simply leave a comment below indicating your interest.  Enter by midnight on Saturday, September 19.  Winner will be announced on the blog on September 20 -  please check back then (or subscribe to comments on this post) – and will have five days to email mailing address to me.  Due to mailing restrictions, giveaway is open to US/Canadian mailing addresses only.

9/20/09: winner announced!
The audio is going to:

* #7 – Belinda M
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2009 will surely be remembered as a year chock-full of “teachable moments” about race in the United States. Our nation’s first black president nominated the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court. Charges of racism in connection with both a Philadelphia swim club’s banning of a minority day care [...]]]>

Tom DeWolf (photo credit Deborah Howe)

2009 will surely be remembered as a year chock-full of “teachable moments” about race in the United States. Our nation’s first black president nominated the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court. Charges of racism in connection with both a Philadelphia swim club’s banning of a minority day care center’s children from their pool and with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates’s arrest both made headlines. Add the birther, reparations, and Nazi conspiracy theories being tossed about at health care town hall meetings and it is clear that issues of race, gender, and privilege continue to impact us all. The need for deeper conversations about diversity, tolerance, and justice in the United States could not be more timely or important.

Author Thomas Norman DeWolf (Inheriting The Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History, Beacon Press) has led-and participated in-conversations about “race” at colleges, universities, middle and high schools, the National Constitution Center, bookstores, book fairs, libraries, museums, churches, film festivals, and social justice conferences across the nation. Tom can be seen on Book TV and The Early Show on CBS.

Tom is now traveling the internet on his first virtual tour (coordinated by Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist) to meet-online-people interested in honest and meaningful conversations about race in America. He’ll discuss his book, the Emmy-nominated film of his family’s journey Traces of the Trade, aspects of American history that have been deliberately hidden, and the impact that the trauma of historic slavery continues to have on all of us today. Tom’s interest in history is in how it informs the present and can illuminate a path toward healing and a more hopeful future.

To read more about Tom DeWolf and Inheriting the Trade, visit the other stops on his virtual tour.  There are guest posts, author chats, and giveaways at the following sites:

• GoodReads
• Bookzillion
• Curled Up with a Good Book
• Book Blips
• Powell’s Blog
• The Author’s Assistant
• Audio Book Stand
• LibraryThing
• Beth’s Book Review Blog
• TwiveAway
• Facebook