Before I tell you about this week’s giveaway from Bethany House, let me announce the winners of last week’s books:
The winner of Gardening Eden is:
Comment #1: Jolanthe
And the winner of The Secret is:
Comment #13: Nancy
Congratulations!
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Here’s how the giveaways during Spring Reading Thing 2009 work:
Every Thursday, I post about a new book that’s up for grabs (some weeks, there will be more than one book!). If it sounds like a book you’d like and you want to be eligible to win it, just leave a comment on the post and I’ll put your name in the virtual hat. I’ll leave the post open for comments until the following Wednesday at noon. I’ll then randomly pick a commenter and announce that person as the winner when I put up the next giveaway.
Also, I apologize to any international readers, but these giveaways are only open to readers in the U.S. or Canada.
This week’s giveaway:
Fascinated by women who rose above their circumstances to flourish in an otherwise harsh world, bestselling author Stephanie Grace Whitson brings heroines of the past to life on the page.
A two-time Christy Award finalist, Whitson creates living, breathing characters, and transports readers into her vivid, realistic settings. Yet she also weaves subtle spiritual truths among her meticulous research and gift for storytelling. Her newest novel-set in the harsh, Gold Rush-era Deadwood, South Dakota-follows Mattie O’Keefe, a woman who comes to see that where her treasure is, there her heart will also be.
Determined to put the unspeakable circumstances of her past behind her, twenty-year-old Mattie O’Keefe travels to Deadwood, South Dakota, in search of her brother, whose letters boast of making a fortune in the gold fields. Once in Deadwood, Mattie is soon convinced that gold mining will be the key to her future happiness.
When a handsome street preacher speaks out against storing up treasures on earth, Mattie turns a deaf ear . . . until circumstances force her to decide for herself where true riches lie –and what’s worth dying for.
Read an excerpt from A Claim of Her Own at the Bethany House website.
How cool that you are putting this book up, I was just ooking thru a flyer for our local store and this book caught my eye.
I just got an email from her about this book…can’t wait to read it!
Oh yay, i won! I haven’t seen an email from you, should I have?
I love tales of the west, A Claim of Her Own sounds great. Please toss my name in the hat. Thanks!
I like her books. This one sounds good.
Sounds great! I haven’t read any of her books! Thanks
I’ve never heard of this author. I’d love to read her latest. Please enter me.
Sounds like a great read. I have not yet read any of her books. She is going on my author to read list! I would love to be entered!
Thanks
Looks like a good book..sign me up,please.
Thanks!
I haven’t heard of this author either, but it sounds good! Enter me too, please
Have a great day!
I’d love this.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
so looking forward to reading this one!
Sounds like a great read.
This sounds like my kind of book. I love to sit outside and read while the boys play in the yard in the summer. Thank you for offering the chance to win.
This is a new one to me but sounds good, thanks for the chance!
Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Debbie
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Please include me. Thanks.
I would like to read this, it sounds good. Please enter me in the giveaway
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It sounds like a real nice book. I would love to read this one. Please enter me. Thanks!
I havent heard of this author before….I’m always looking for new favs to enjoy!! Thanks!