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GIVEAWAY: The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

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Hey folks, I’ve got an extra ARC of The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson up for grabs. As I’ve not had the chance to read this yet, here is a bit of a description of the novel from Amazon…

Millions of Americans know and love Amy Dickinson from reading her syndicated advice column “Ask Amy” and from hearing her wit and wisdom weekly on National Public Radio. Amy’s audience loves her for her honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is “I make the mistakes so you don’t have to.” In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson shares those mistakes and her remarkable story. This is the tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.

Though divorce runs through her family like an aggressive chromosome, the women in her life taught her what family is about. They helped her to pick up the pieces when her life fell apart and to reassemble them into something new. It is a story of frequent failures and surprising successes, as Amy starts and loses careers, bumbles through blind dates and adult education classes, travels across the country with her daughter and their giant tabby cat, and tries to come to terms with the family’s aptitude for “dorkitude.”

They have lived in London, D.C., and Chicago, but all roads lead them back to Amy’s hometown of Freeville (pop. 458), a tiny village where Amy’s family has tilled and cultivated the land, tended chickens and Holsteins, and built houses and backyard sheds for more than 200 years. Most important, though, her family members all still live within a ten-house radius of each other. With kindness and razor-sharp wit, they welcome Amy and her daughter back weekend after weekend, summer after summer, offering a moving testament to the many women who have led small lives of great consequence in a tiny place. (taken from Amazon.com)

The rules are simple…

  • For one entry leave me a comment here with an email address please.
  • For two entries follow my blog—if you do already let me know
  • For three entries blog about this giveaway and spread the word.

This giveaway will be open worldwide and I will draw for a winner on Monday, March 2. Good luck everyone!

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  18. I’m going to enter this for my mom as I think she would really love it! (I’m a follower)

    Ladytink_534[at]yahoo[dot]com

  19. No need to enter me Dar, I already read the book. Just wanted to pop in and say good luck to all the entrants and that your new background is GORGEOUS.

  23. Hi Dar!
    The Mighty Queens of Freevile sounds great. Please enter me 🙂

  35. I’m subscribed to you on Google Reader! 🙂

    Please enter me.

    +BookBegger
    lyzziebit(at)yahoo(dot)com

  49. Hi Dar,
    I thought I signed up for this before we went away for the week end, but I guess not!
    Please sign me up and I am a follower of your blog.

  56. Sounds like a good book! Please enter me. 🙂 Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! eyeslikesugar [at] gmail [dot] com