Contest winners - Testimony and Made in the U.S.A.

Here it is, the TWO big giveaways - TEN big winners! I wish I could send a book to everyone.

Testimony by Anita Shreve

1) allisonmariecat
2) Irene Yeats
3) stacybuckeye
4) Holly
5) Colleen

Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts

1) Kaye

2) Wanda
3) Katrina
4) Rachie G.
5) Jess

Congratulations! I just sent emails but if you see this first you're welcome to email me your mailing address at 5wrights1[at]verizon[dot]net

Thank you so much to everyone who entered. It was so appropriate that I'm counting entries the same evening that the prom is taking place here. I really appreciate all of the fun comments about the outfits. Wanda included a great link to a site where she had her daughter's dress made for an amazing price! Terri is a high school librarian and each year they have a contest where the kids try to identify their teachers by their prom photos. I would have loved that! To Alaine - Queen of Happy Endings from Australia, I wish the contest was international. I'm glad that you visited and commented too.

If my scanner was working I would include a photo of my favorite prom outfit. I had to be different so my date (now my hubby) wore an all white tux with tails, top hat and gloves. I wore the same but instead of the pants my mom made me a matching white skirt (knee-length) with a slit up the back and I found some strappy heels. Hey, it was the 80's but we did look good!

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** I have another bigger contest going on right now. If you haven't entered already, check it out. There will be FIFTEEN winners and each will win a set of FIVE books from Hatchette Books! That's a lot of winners and a lot of books. The link to all of the details is at the top of my sidebar.

TWO big giveaways - TEN winners!

Testimony
by Anita Shreve

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in TESTIMONY a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including Body Surfing, The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. She lives in Massachusetts.

Visit www.anitashreve.com
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Paperback edition to be released May 5, 2009.

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Made In The U.S.A.
by Billie Letts

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.

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Hatchette Books has been so very generous to allow me to give away five copies of each book! So, if I'm doing the math right, that's ten winners! I just received my copy of Made In The U.S.A. and haven't received my copy of Testimony yet so I don't have reviews ready. I have read books by these authors before and loved them! I can't wait to read these as well.


Rules:
*To enter, leave a comment with your email address.
*You can only win one book but you will automatically be entered for both. If you would prefer only one, please tell me so in your comments.
*Contest will end Friday, May 15, 2009 at 11:59 EST. I'm sorry but Hatchette Books will only accept entries from the U.S. and Canada. No P.O. boxes please.
*The winners will be chosen by Random.org.

For extra entries:
+1 Become a follower, also for those who already follow, but you must let me know on your comments.
+1 Tell about a great, or not so great, prom outfit that you or someone else wore once upon a time.
+1 Share this contest somewhere and leave the link where it can be found.

Good luck and have fun!