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GIVEAWAY: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson

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My latest giveaway is for 5 copies of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson courtesy of Valerie over at Hachette Book Group. I read this back when I had first started my blog and you can read my review here. Here’s a bit of a description of the book from Hachette…

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.

Check out Part I and II of an interview with Joshilyn Jackson…

Want to win? The rules are simple:

  • Leave me a comment and please leave an email address if I’m not familiar with who you are already

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Good luck!

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  2. I have heard such lovely things about this book. I would appreciate being included in the give- away.

    Mstermind1 at gmail dot com

  4. I’d love to read this book, include me in th giveaway Dar

    Madeleine444 AT gmail DOT com

  6. I keep hearing good things about this book. I’d love the chance to win this book. Please count me in. Thank you!

    nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com

  7. Okay, this one’s on my wishlist, so throw my name in the hat. Maybe we’ll ship it to Bridget… *grin*

    I’ve posted about this at Win a Book. Thanks for the e-mail; I figure it’ll be at least a week before I’m caught up on my reader. AT LEAST.

  15. This book sounds fantastic – thanks for hosting the giveaway!

    nnjmom at yahoo dot com

  16. What an awesome giveaway! I’ve read Jackson’s other books and really enjoyed both of them. 🙂

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  23. I’d love to win this book. It sounds great. Please enter me. Thanks.

    mparke[at]mts[dot]net

  29. Please enter me in this giveaway. I’ve been wanting to read this book for some time. Thanks! Indigo

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  32. I really loved Gods in Alabama. If this book is only half as good, it’s well worth reading. I would love a chance to win a copy!

  34. Wow this sounds like a really good story! Never heard of art quilting before but it sounds interesting too. Really need to pick this up regardless if I win or not…

  38. This book is on my short list of books I want so much to read. Thanks for the chance to win it!

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  41. I’ve been dying to read this, but my book budget is bust. Please enter me. Thanks!

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  49. I just found your blog today and will be back again to read more reviews. Please consider me for this giveaway! 🙂 (veegin335@yahoo.com)

  50. I would love to be included in this giveaway. Thank you for having it.

    roylsue(at)telpage(dot)net

  52. I would love to read this book. I enjoy things with intricate family dynamics especially including a scary mystery.

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  53. Sounds like a great book. I hope I get an opportunity to read it. Thanks.

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  54. I’d love to win this book about family, mysteries, and hidden agendas. Thanks.

    reaganandromeo at yahoo.com

  57. This book sounds so interesting, I can’t wait to read it!
    sarahbcrawford(at)gmail(dot)com

  62. I’d love to win this. I’ve read another of her books (Gods in Alabama). Thanks so much!