
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:
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
Hi Morgan! It amazes me too. So many story plots and so many with a totally unique telling. I love it, lol!
This sounds like a great summer read! Thanks!
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
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.
This looks like what I need - an escape for a while.
I'd like to be included! tWarner419@aol.com
Thanks for the great contest, I would love to be entered!!! :)
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I'd love a chance to read this. Please count me in. Thank you!
nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com
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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I keep reading reviews about this book and they seem pretty favorable. Would enjoy winning it.
roylsue(at)telpage(dot)net
I'd love a chance to win this - please count me in
msboatgal at aol.com
This book caught my eye from the first time I saw it. I would love to have a chance to win it.
Thanks,
Elaine
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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
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I loved Gods in Alabama by this author! I really want to read this one...samantha.1020@yahoo.com
Throwing the name into the hat. Thanks for the giveaway.
annmariebro(at)hotmail.com
I would love to win!
ykatrina at hotmail dot com
I'd love to read this book - please count me in!
Thanks,
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Sounds like a great book and one I'd love to read!
Thanks
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please enter me into this giveaway contest.
thanks,
jake.lsewhere[at]gmail.com
would love to win!
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i am a follower too! =)
nicolemarielum @gmail.com
I would love to read this, it looks great!
marielay@gmail.com
Loved to read this book count me in!
Carla
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Sounds very interesting, with a ghost and all. I would love to read it. Please enter me. Thanks!
ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net
This looks like a good read for beach week.
Would love to read this.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com
I love a good ghost story-been wanting to read this.
southrngal(at)gmail(dot)com
This book sounds great! Enter me please!
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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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This is a new Author for me but I look forward to reading it.
Thanks for the chance.
Carol L.
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Looks like a good read. Thanks for the chance to win it. Sharon
I have a granddaughter that would devour this long before summer could even start! :)M
mcdesign@cablespeed.com
www.merylsmusings.blogspot.com
I like the cover. Covers always get me.
ladynole35@yahoo.com
Please enter me in your contest. I really love a good ghost/thriller/suspense story and this sounds like an intriguing book. Thanks!
This is one book I would love to read, thanks! delilah0180 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Please enter me,I'd love to read this!
Thanks so much for the giveaway=)
Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net
I would love to read this, please enter me :)
lavery328 at yahoo dot com
Please enter me. Sounds like a great read.
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
Wonderful read! Thanks! delilah0180 (at) yahoo (dot) com
This sounds like a good read. I'd appreciate it if you would enter me in your giveaway.
jessica(at)fan(dot)com
I would love a chance to win. Thanks!
ewalsh40(at)gmail(dot)com
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.
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Winners posted here:
http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/winners-girl-who-stopped-swimming.html
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