Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Giveaway - Galway Bay - Mary Pat Kelly

Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly is one of those books that I know will be in my library forever. I could not put it down! You can read my review here.

Here's a quick synopsis from the publisher:

"Here at last is one Irish family's epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million other Irish refugees in one of the greatest rescues in human history: the Irish Emigration to America.

Thanks to the Hachette Book Group, I have a copy to giveaway to a lucky reader. Just comment to be entered. An extra entry if you're a follower (let me know if you are) or become a new follower. And a third entry possible by tweeting or blogging about this giveaway.

Please make sure I have a way to contact you, either by leaving an email address or through your web page. Giveaway is open to both US and Canada, no po boxes please. Runs until Tuesday April 7th, 6 pm EST.

Good luck and thanks for stopping by. Check the sidebar for ongoing giveaways!

164 comments:

  1. Ooh, I'd love to win a copy!

    And I'm already a follower :-)

    mlb108[at]gmail[dot]com

    Thanks!!

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  2. I've been breathlessly waiting this tour and giveaway. Thank you for the chance to win a copy!
    geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

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  3. . . . and, I'm a Follower!
    geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com

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  4. This sounds great. I'd love to win. Please enter me.

    I follow your blog via Blogger's follow function.

    Thanks.

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  5. I would like to enter the contest.

    bridget3420(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  6. I'm a follower

    bridget3420(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  7. Sounds like a great novel. I love family sagas, love anything Irish. Please enter my name in the giveaway. Thanks.

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  8. What a great giveaway for St. Patty's Day! Please enter me in the drawing. I also follow you through Feed Demon.

    Thanks!
    kherbrand at comcast dot net

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  9. I'd love to win and read this and then pass it to my dad!

    Thanks very much!



    nancyrobster@gmail.com

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  10. Tweeted

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    Thanks

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  11. I want to read this.
    I follow.
    mj.coward[at]gmail.com

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  12. A great pick for a St. Patty's Day giveaway! I have lots of Irish ancestors but I don't know much about them. This would be very interesting to read.

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  13. This sounds like a wonderful book... thanks for the giveaway.

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  14. This book sounds great. Please include me in your giveaway.
    Thanks
    Debbie
    debdesk9@verizon.net

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  15. I'd love a chance to win.

    Valorie
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  16. I am a subscriber.

    Valorie
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  17. Blogged:
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  18. I would really like to win this book. Please enter me!!!

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  19. I am also a subscriber.

    sharon54220@gmail.com

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  20. I would love to win this. I'm a follower through FeedDemone.

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  21. I'd like to win.

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  22. email subscriber

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  23. I just came today because of the notice on Kittling:Books. She was right: This looks like a great blog and the book looks super! I'd love to have it.
    Marina McIntire
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  24. I would love an entry into your giveaway. I think this book would be a great read.

    I'm a follower of your blog too!

    Thank you!

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  25. I love epic novels like this! I'd love to win, thanks!

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  26. Thank you for the chance to win "Galaway Bay".

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  27. I would love to read this book!!

    choateorama(at)gmail(dot)com

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  28. I just signed up
    please enter me

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  29. I have seen nothing but rave reviews of this book...please enter me!
    joannelong74@gmail.com

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  30. I'm also a follower...
    joannelong74@gmail.com

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  31. Both my husband and I would love to read this. I am 3/4 Irish and my youngest child is displaying all signs of having a true Irish temper, so it's nice to read about my "kin" and how they survived and prospered.
    Alicia Webster
    5webs@comcast.net

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  32. I used to read a TON, but have slowed down recently, maybe this would help me start again =)

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  33. I would love to win and I'm a new follower!

    crystalfulcher at ec dot rr dot com

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  34. irish is always good mverno@roadrunner.com

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  35. I have heard so many good things about this book......rave reviews all!

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  36. What a great giveaway - please enter me!

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  37. I love all things Irish, especially pertaining to the Galway Bay area. This is an appropriate giveaway for the St. Patrick's Day holiday season.

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  38. Being half Irish I am always looking for Irish things and information. I have looked at this book in the store and coveted it so would love to win it! Like you I panic if there is not a book within arms length of me at all times!

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  39. This book sounds very interesting. I'd like to read it.

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  40. I'd love to win a copy, this sounds like a wonderful book.

    I'm already a follower!

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  41. Count me in the running. This sounds like a great read! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.

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  42. Tweet
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  43. This seems to a book that would be
    a good read. But what, exactly, is
    a follower?

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  44. This is the type of book that could literally transport me to places I've never been. LOVE IT!

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  45. I am a bookworm and love to try new authors! Thanks for the chance. =]

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  46. Count me in, I love a good book!
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  47. I'd like to take this one to the beach with me. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  48. WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS BOOK

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  49. I have been reading about this, and would love to add it to my TBR pile.

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  50. I really would love it if I could win a copy of this one (grin).

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  51. I'd love to win a copy. Sounds like a wonderful read.

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  52. I have "Galway Bay" on my "gee, I'd love to read this" list - thanks for the chance to win a copy. asthenight at gmail dot com

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  53. I also blogged about your contest here.
    joannelong74@gmail.com

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  54. Sounds like a good read. Heard the author discussing the book on St. Patrick's Day on the Leonard Lopate show (WNYC).

    Listen here.

    sonicshimmerATgmailDOTcom

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  55. Sounds like a great book, I would love to win it.

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  56. Should be a great read.I love everything Irish including the history,the music and the dialect.

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  57. This looks like a great read. Thanks for the chance

    jason@allworldautomotive.com

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  58. Please include me in your giveaway. I am a follower.
    Thanks
    Debbie
    debdesk9@verizon.net

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  59. I would love to read this in honor of my Irish ancestors!
    smchester at gmail dot com

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  60. I never heard of this book. I'd love to read it.

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  61. I'd love the chance to win. This sounds like such a great story!

    nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com

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  62. Sounds like a great book similar to Angela's Ashes which I loved. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  63. I would really enjoy this book.Enter me. jelly15301@gmail.com

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  64. New Follower. jelly15301@gmail.com

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  65. Love to have this.

    Thanks,

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  66. Sounds like a good book - please count me in!

    Thanks,
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  67. I would love to win a copy. Enter me in the draw, please. Thanks!

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  68. I would love to win this book - thank you for the opportunity!

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  69. Please enter me - sounds like a great book

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  70. I'd love a copy. I'm a follower AND I'm in two book clubs.

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  71. I have heard so many good things about this book! I really want to read it!
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  72. I follow you
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  73. Sure sounds to be a read that I need.

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  74. THis looks fabulous. Thanks for sharing!

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  75. I've been hearing a lot about this one, it sounds very good and I'd love to read it. Enter me please. :)

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  76. Always looking for something to read, this sounds great.

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  77. Enter me, please.

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  78. Sounds like a good read! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  79. sounds like a great book
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  80. I would love a chance to win. Thank you.

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  81. I'd love to have this book to read!
    Thanks so much for offering the giveaway=)
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  82. Sign me up - this one sounds fantastic!

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  83. i have been hearing great raves about this book thanks for the giveaway

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  84. cdrury@gmail.com
    new to me but sounds like a good read!

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  85. I'm looking for a good book to read. This is it!

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  86. Christina - xristya@rock.com - This book chronicles an important event in American history - the Irish immigration to America - but telling one family's story, and according to your review it does so well, so it's a wonderful giveaway!

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  87. Would love to win this - thank you for the giveaway and have a great Easter!
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  88. mandie5644@aol.comApril 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    This looks like a great book!

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  89. We are Irish so both my hubby and I would love to read this.
    teraustin@mindspring.com
    flinflanbeach@gmail.com

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  90. I am now following yor blog.
    Creative Mom
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  91. https://twitter.com/flinflan

    I tweeted this contest and I follow you now on Twitter as flinflan.

    teraustin@mindspring.com

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  92. Please, enter me, great prize!!! I would love to win this.

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  93. I would love the chance to win, thanks.
    erma.hurtt@sbcglobal.net

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  94. Being part Irish I would love to read this book!!!

    souldolphindream@aol.com

    thanks

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  95. I've been to Ireland twice and I love to read anything about the country or the people, fact or fiction. Thanks.

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  96. I follow you on Twitter and I tweeted. slmiresse

    slmiresse Win a copy of Galway Bay at http://luanne-abookwormswor...

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  97. I'm a follower! Thanks for the chance to win.

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  98. I'd like to read this book. Thanks.
    -Terra H.
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  99. I would love to win!!

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  100. I would love to win this one!

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  101. This sounds like a great read, thanks for the chance to win a copy!

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  102. I'm a follower, thanks!

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  103. I would love to win a copy. Thanks

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  104. I am a follower. Thanks

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  105. This looks like a great book. Thanks for the chance to enter.
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  106. I'm a follower :)

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  107. Looks like a great book. I'd love to win it.

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  108. Following your blog

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  109. Just tweeted:

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  110. I love to read. Please enter me. Thanks!

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  111. This would make a great gift for a family friend. Thank you.

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  112. This looks like a great read. Thanks for the contest.

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  113. Happy Spring!

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  114. This looks like a fantastic read!

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  115. I'd love to read this :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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  116. I'm following you on Blogger :)
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  117. I Tweeted the giveaway :
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  118. I would love the chance to win, thanks.
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  119. This sounds like an excellent book and I'd love to win a copy.

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  120. I'd love to win!

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  121. Sounds great. I would love to win. garrettsambo@aol.com

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  122. My hubby's father and mother were from Ireland, and we would love to read this book. He still has an Uncle that lives there. Thanks for having the contest!

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  123. tweet http://twitter.com/dlb1980/statuses/1470501585

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  124. Isn't it great when you come across a book you can't put down? I'd love to read this too!

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  125. sounds good

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  126. Looks quite interesting. Thanks.

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  127. I would love to win and read this book con5459(at)gmail(dot)com

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  128. It sounds just wonderful!
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  129. I'm a follower!
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  130. I tweeted!
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  131. I would so love to win this book. Please enter me thanks.

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  132. This is a book I would not have looked but now it is of interest.Would liketo be entered to win!


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  133. Sounds like an excellent book.

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  135. Sounds like a great read!!!

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  136. Looks great! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  137. I am crazy for anything Celtic!
    I hoep I get lucky & win this book!
    I truly madly deeply would love to read it!

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  138. I follow on blogger & you're on my blog roll!

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  139. Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me.

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  140. i want this book so bad i can taste the potatoes
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