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GIVEAWAY: 5 copies of Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts

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I’ve got 5 copies(paperback) of Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts up for grabs courtesy of Valerie at Hachette Book Group. I’ve not read this one but I have read Where the Heart Is and loved it. Here’s a bit about the book…

  • The bestselling author of WHERE THE HEART IS returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.Lutie McFee’s history has taught her to avoid attachments…to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father.While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy’s old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.

To enter this giveaway…

  • Leave me a comment with your email address please! for one entry.
  • For two entries follow my blog (if you already do, that counts).
  • Blogging or tweeting about the giveaway counts for three entries.

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes). The books will be shipped directly to the winners from the publisher. I will draw for the winners on Saturday, May 30, 2009.

Good luck to all! Be sure to check both my sidebars for other current giveways.

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  4. i really need to read this one, count me in!
    sports dot erikalynn at gmail dot com

  7. I’ve enjoyed two other books of hers. This one sounds good too! Thanks for the chance to win.

    saz at chainreader dot com

  8. Sounds like a good book and I loved Where the Heart Is! Thanks for the chance.
    unforgetable_dreamer_always(at)hotmail.com

  10. wow… another one.. I have been very determined to win this one.. so enter me!

    ps… I worship..I mean follow. ;0

  12. I would love to be entered in this giveaway.

    I have followed your wonderful blog for quite some time 🙂

    Mstermind1 at gmail dot com

  15. Our book club is reading this one in the fall so I really hope I win it! lol
    joannelong74 AT gmail DOT com

  16. I win really love to win.
    Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
    hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

  17. I follow your blog now too!
    Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
    hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

  24. I have yet to read one of her books but Where the Heart Is is one of my all-time fav-o-rite movies.

    please enter me!

    wlcgrad {at} yahoo [dot] com

  26. I’d love to read this book. It looks great. Please enter me. Thanks.

    mparke[at]mts[dot]net

  27. Wow! Lots of competition here. LOL
    Please enter me. I loved Where the Heart Is. Thanks.
    Vicki (Page Turner)

  28. Ohh, pretty cover! I’d like a chance to win this one too, please. 🙂

    I follow and posted here.

    Remembering to include my email this time … wanda_waiting[@]hotmail[.]com

  29. I’d love to win this book – please count me in!

    Thanks,
    megalon22[at]yahoo[dot]com

  32. I’m looking forward to reading this. Please include me in the drawing!
    quelleheure4[at]gmail{dot}com

  39. I’ve never read a Billie Letts’ but this looks like perfect summer reading!
    Thanks for the chance to win.
    my.newsletter (at) netbundle (dot) ca

  44. This book sounds very interesting. I would love to read it and review it.
    jrs362 (at) hotmail (dot) com

  51. I read WHERE THE HEART IS and loved it. I would like to read this book, too!
    Carol M
    mittens0831 AT aol.com

  53. Mary D
    zenrei57 (at) hotmail (dot) com

    ANOTHER great book please enter me to win and THANK YOU!

  64. Hi! I really enjoyed WHERE THE HEART IS, so I’d love to read this new one.

    tchase65[at]yahoo[dot]ca

  66. i thought Where the Heart Is was a true story. This one sounds more fictional. Please enter me

  69. I also subscribe through google reader (is that the same as following?)

    vtgoat[at]gmail[dot]com

  72. This book looks like one I’d love to add to my summer reading. Please add me to the entries.

  74. Looks like a wonderful read, thank you for offering it!

    bookworm1414 {at} yahoo {dot} com

  75. I would love to win this book, please enter me 🙂

    lavery328 at yahoo dot com

  76. Love to read while sitting in my garden and this looks great! Thanks!
    g-mail or starrbabeatcomcastdotnet

  86. I loved Shoot the Moon, so I know that I’d really enjoy winning Made in the U.S.A. – count me in!

  87. Made in the USA sounds like a great read. Summer is here and I love to read amoung the flowers!

  88. I absolutely loved Where the Heart is! It was a wonderful book. I saw the movie too, but the book is always better.

  90. I would like to enter the "Made in the USA" giveaway. Thanks for offerig this giveaway.