Saturday, May 16, 2009

Giveaway - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson


Hachette Book Group has been kind enough to allow me to give away 5 copies of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson! This sounds like a great book to take outside on a nice warm day and just relax and get lost within the pages of the story!

Here's a bit about what the story is about:

Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister, Thalia, is her opposite, an impoverished actress who prides herself on exposing the lurid truths lurking behind middle class niceties.

While Laurel's life seems neatly on track-- a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, a lovely suburban home-- everything she holds dear is threatened the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is an unseemly mystery that no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Laurel enlists Thalia's help, even though she knows it comes with a high price tag.

Together, they set out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about their family's haunted past, the true state of Laurel's marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.

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To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below, along with your email address so that I can easily reach you if you are one of the lucky winners. Contest will be open until May 29th. U.S. and Canadian addresses only please and no PO Boxes.

Thanks and good luck!



43 comments:

Morgan Mandel said...

Very eye-catching cover. Sounds like a really great read. How do people think up these great plots? Sometimes it amazes me.

Morgan Mandel
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com
e-mail: morgan@morganmandel.com

April said...

Hi Morgan! It amazes me too. So many story plots and so many with a totally unique telling. I love it, lol!

MJ said...

This sounds like a great summer read! Thanks!

mj.coward[at]gmail.com

Susan Helene Gottfried said...

No need to enter me, although I'm nuts to read this.

I'm dropping in to say thanks for the e-mail. I've got this posted at Win a Book for you.

remarker said...

This looks like what I need - an escape for a while.

tetewa said...

I'd like to be included! tWarner419@aol.com

Melsy626 said...

Thanks for the great contest, I would love to be entered!!! :)

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nfmgirl said...

I'd love a chance to read this. Please count me in. Thank you!

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photoquest said...

I've heard alot of good things about this book, would like a chance to win a copy pleaser enclude my name to this one, thanks
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Sue W. said...

I keep reading reviews about this book and they seem pretty favorable. Would enjoy winning it.
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scottsgal said...

I'd love a chance to win this - please count me in

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Readingrat said...

This book caught my eye from the first time I saw it. I would love to have a chance to win it.

Thanks,
Elaine
readingrat@yahoo.com

windycindy said...

Hello, I have read many good things about this book! The whole premise sounds quite fascinating. Please add my name to your contest.
Many thanks.....Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

samantha.1020 said...

I loved Gods in Alabama by this author! I really want to read this one...samantha.1020@yahoo.com

ann marie said...

Throwing the name into the hat. Thanks for the giveaway.

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Katrina said...

I would love to win!

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Cheryl S. said...

I'd love to read this book - please count me in!

Thanks,
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Annie said...

Sounds like a great book and one I'd love to read!


Thanks



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Jake L said...

please enter me into this giveaway contest.

thanks,
jake.lsewhere[at]gmail.com

The Giveaway Diva said...

would love to win!

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The Giveaway Diva said...

i am a follower too! =)

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Marie said...

I would love to read this, it looks great!

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cpullum said...

Loved to read this book count me in!
Carla
cpullum(at)yahoo(dot)com

Anita Yancey said...

Sounds very interesting, with a ghost and all. I would love to read it. Please enter me. Thanks!

ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net

Advance Planning Associates, LC said...

This looks like a good read for beach week.

Renee G said...

Would love to read this.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com

Dixie said...

I love a good ghost story-been wanting to read this.

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Alexa said...

This book sounds great! Enter me please!

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Cindy said...

This book sounds like a really good read for this summer! I would love to win a copy of it! Please count me in!

I just started following your blog today and I love it!

Cindy
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Carol L. said...

This is a new Author for me but I look forward to reading it.
Thanks for the chance.
Carol L.
Lucky4750@aol.com

Sharon said...

Looks like a good read. Thanks for the chance to win it. Sharon

amuse me said...

I have a granddaughter that would devour this long before summer could even start! :)M
mcdesign@cablespeed.com
www.merylsmusings.blogspot.com

Melanie said...

I like the cover. Covers always get me.

ladynole35@yahoo.com

Cecilia H. said...

Please enter me in your contest. I really love a good ghost/thriller/suspense story and this sounds like an intriguing book. Thanks!

etirv said...

This is one book I would love to read, thanks! delilah0180 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Luvdaylilies said...

Please enter me,I'd love to read this!

Thanks so much for the giveaway=)

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Lifestooshort said...

I would love to read this, please enter me :)

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A Reader said...

Please enter me. Sounds like a great read.

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etirv said...

Wonderful read! Thanks! delilah0180 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Jess said...

This sounds like a good read. I'd appreciate it if you would enter me in your giveaway.
jessica(at)fan(dot)com

ewalsh said...

I would love a chance to win. Thanks!
ewalsh40(at)gmail(dot)com

Patricia Boyle said...

I am going to be off for the summer and will have plenty of time to read. June 19th is freedom day! Love to win books.

pboylecharley@hotmail.com

April said...

Winners posted here:
http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/winners-girl-who-stopped-swimming.html