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GIVEAWAY: When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt- Open Worldwide!

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Yesterday I reviewed the most wonderful book I’ve read in a long time called When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt (my review). The copy I have was a galley copy and every few pages was faded out some and it was a little difficult to read. However as I said in my review once I had read even the first 20 pages of this book I could not put it down.

About the Book (from Pamela Schoenewaldt’s website)

“If you leave Opi, you’ll die with strangers,” Irma Vitale’s mother always warned. But Irma is too poor and too plain to marry and can’t find honest work in her tiny mountain village in Southern Italy. Barely twenty, she must leave home bearing only native wit and astonishing skill with a needle. Risking rough passage across the Atlantic, a single woman in a strange land, Irma seeks a new life sewing dresses for gentlewomen.

Swept up in the crowded streets of nineteenth-century America, Irma finds workshop servitude and miserable wages, but also seeds of friendship in the raw immigrant quarters. When her determination leads at last to Chicago, Irma blossoms under the hand of an austere Alsatian dressmaker, sewing fabrics and patterns more beautiful than she’d ever imagined. Then this tenuous peace is shattered. From the rubble, confronting human cruelty and kindness, suffering and hope, a new Irma emerges, nurturing a talent she’d never imagined and an unlikely family, patched together by the common threads that unite us all.

The good folks at HarperCollins though sent me a nice finished paperback copy of When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt (thank you!) that I’m going to share with my readers because this is a novel that deserves to be shared with other booklovers. To enter…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do please let me know and I’ll give you the extra entry as well.
  • For 3 entries blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.

Since this is my own copy this giveaway is going to be open worldwide! I will draw for the winner on Saturday, February 26, 2011. Good luck everyone!

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  1. sounds really like an interesting books, thanks for hosting and I would love to be entered!

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  5. I have never heard of the author but I trust your opinion so I would oike to try the book.

    Thanks for opening it to worldwide entries.

    Carol T

    buddytho {at} gmail DOT com

  8. Hi-I would love to win this book-I am a GFC follower and I just tweeted your post-thanks for making this contest international

  10. Hi Dar, I would love a chance to read this book. Thanks you

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  14. I read your review yesterday and thought this sounded like a great book.
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  18. Please enter me as well, Dar!

    zibilee(at)figearo(dot)net

    I follow your blog through Google Reader.

  26. I have to enter, i really need some real fiction 🙂

    I am a follower
    blodeuedd1 at gmail dot com

  29. Intriguing review yesterday; I love immigration stories. Thanks for the giveaway.
    lcbrower40(at)gmail(dot)com

  35. I have to enter this since you loved it so much! Thanks for the giveaway! milou2ster(at)gmail.com

  37. I would love to enter this giveaway, Dar-ling LOL.

    forevereading at gmail dot com

    I am a follower.

  52. Thanks for this giveaway.
    I follow your blog via GFC & Google Reader
    Love & Hugs,
    Pam
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  53. Would love to win, thanks! for the give-a-way

    a gfc follower

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  58. This sounds likea very good read. Plese enter me in your contest.
    I am already a follower.

    heatherdpear at hotmail dot com

  63. Sounds like a wonderful book!

    Thank you for the entry!

    Wendy

    wendysfictionaddiction(at)gmail(dot)com

  65. I'm already a follower and I posted the link on twitter!!

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    twitter: kdaze10

  72. Story is based in Italy – the land of sun, pizza, and MEN.

    pboylecharley AT hotmail DIT com

  77. After reading your wonderful review I want to read this book and would love to win your copy.
    Thank you for your generous giveaway, Dar!

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  79. Oh, what an interesting story. Please enter my name in the contest.

    pboylecharley AT hotmail DOT com

  84. This one sounds really good. I'd love to be entered!

    je2kids(at)gmail(dot)com

  87. would love to win, the book sounds great.
    thanks for hosting the giveaway and thanks for sharing!

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  90. I would love to read this novel. Please enter me in the giveaway!

    bookloversarah1 at yahoo dot com

    Sarah E

  94. I would love to read this!
    thebookish96[at]gmail[dot]com

    Thanks. 🙂
    +1 comment/email
    +2 Already a follower

  96. I just read another gushing review of this one. Please enter me in the drawing.

    florida982002[at]yahoo.com

  106. Great giveaway! I'd love to be entered.

    Please count me in. Thanks.

    avalonne83 [at] yahoo [dot] it

  120. +1 I love new and interesting books. I even love the cover of this one!

    +2 Also a follower!

    Amy // artsyrockerchick at aim dot com

  121. Thanks for a chance to win this book. It sounds like a great read. ~Michelle
    cmichellehofer at gmail dot com

  122. I would love to read this book! Please enter me in the giveaway.

    bookloversarah1 at yahoo dot com

    Sarah E

  125. Would love the chance to win this book.
    Thanks for the great give-a-way.
    RJB
    loki304(at)tds(dot)net

  129. I just came across your blog and love it! I haven't been in Blogland for a while and in the last 24 hours I have added 78 books to my Amazon Wishlist! This has been recommended by so many people – I would love to be entered to win a copy!

    Happy Reading!!