Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Giveaway - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - Joshilyn Jackson


Thanks to the generosity of the Hachette Book Group, I have five! copies of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson to giveaway!

From the publisher:

"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."

Sounds good doesn't it! You can read an excerpt of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming.

Jackson is also a blogger or you can catch up with her on Facebook.

This great giveaway is open to both the US and Canada, no po boxes please. PLEASE make sure I have a way to contact you, either by leaving your email or through your webpage. Ends Saturday May 30th at 6pm EST. Leave a comment to be entered. Good luck and check the sidebar for ongoing giveaways.

145 comments:

  1. Anything with a ghost in it is bound to catch my attention lol. Sounds like a really interesting read!

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  2. I would love to be entered in this give-away. Thank you. I follow you, so I will see the posted winners. :) I'll add this give-away to my sidebar (soon).

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  3. I've been meaning to get to this one. Thanks for the review.

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  4. Thank you for the review and giveaway. I have not read a ghost story in a long time, I will have to start with this one. Thanks

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  5. This sounds like a great read - I'd love a chance to win a copy! Thank you!

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  6. Just stopped by to say I've posted this on Win A Book. No need to enter me.

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  7. This looks great! Please enter me!

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  8. Please enter me - I'd love to read the book!

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  9. Please enter me! Email in my profile. Thanks!

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  10. Please enter me in this drawing. I stopped by to visit the authors blog and she is a wonderful treat to read. Thanks for the opportunity! Indigo

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  11. I would just love to win this one!
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  12. I would love to be entered. Sounds like a good book!

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  13. I've had my eye on this one. Thanks! I'm going to post this in my sidebar for you.

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  14. I would love a copy of this book!


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  15. Please enter me. I'd love to read this. Thanks
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  16. I would love to win please!
    Thank you for the giveaway :)
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  17. would love to win this book!
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  18. Super! Please enter me, Luanne, thanks.

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  21. I have read a number of reviews of this book and they are all really good. I would enjoy reading it very much. Thanks for this giveaway.
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  22. I would love to read this book looks really good!
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  23. Please count me in - I'd like to read this book. It looks like a good one.

    Thanks!
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  24. Please enter me, too. This one does sound good.
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  25. I love Billie Letts and this sounds like another great book by her. Thanks!!


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  27. I would love to read this book.

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  28. I would love to enter your drawing.
    Thanks
    carlene
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  29. I would love a chance to win this book.

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  30. Oh, I love a good mystery. Count me in please!

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  31. I am another one who would love to read this book! Sounds intriquing!

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  32. I am another one who would love to read this book! Sounds intriquing!

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  33. I'd love to read this :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!
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  34. I have read several reviews of this book and everyone liked it so I would like to be entered in your drawing.

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  35. I find that i have become more of a reader when i have joined book clubs. Than kyou for the giveaway.
    It is nice to relax or be on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next in a story.
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  36. would love to read this, thanks

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  37. Sounds like a good summer read!

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  38. This sounds like a very interesting book I'd like to read.
    Please enter me in your giveaway.

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  39. Sounds like a great book... thanks for the giveaway!

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  40. great review..i can't wait to read this
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  41. Sounds like an interesting book! Please enter me in the contest. My email address is in my profile. Thanks!

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  42. Ohhhhhhhh a ghost story-how cool! Would love to read this new author.


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  43. This looks like a book I need to add to my reading list.

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  44. This sounds rather haunting, looks great, thanks!
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  45. for my niece...she stopped swimming

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  46. Please enter me! This book sounds so good.

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  47. This looks like a great book. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.

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  48. This sounds like a great summer read!

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  49. Always willing to add another good book to my TBR pile.

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  50. This sounds like something I want to read. Thanks for the review.

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  51. I love mysteries......sounds fascinating...

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  52. I would love to read this book, it looks great!

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  53. This sounds great, would like to read it.

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  54. Sounds really interesting. I would love to read this book.

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  56. Jackson's latest book sounds intriguing. Thanks for the chance to win a copy. (krstrpp at hotmail dot com)

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  57. I'D like to win something that wouldnt put me to sleep when i pick it up, but keep me reading it til the books done

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  59. I would love to win this

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  60. I have been dying to read this book. Please enter me.

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  61. Sounds great!
    Thanks for the giveaway!
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  62. Please enter me in this contest.I am a subscriber.

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  63. This sounds like a great book! Would love to read it :)

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  64. Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the chance

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  65. Thank you for a great giveaway! I would love to be able to read this. Thank you
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  67. I am in the mood to read a good mystery.

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  69. I've been hearing a lot about this book. And since I've just graduated, it's a perfect time to read for pleasure again :)

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  70. I would love to be entered in your great draw. Thanks.
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  71. Thank you for the chance to win. It sounds like a great book.

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  72. I have been wanting to read this and would love to win it. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  73. Please enter me.
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  74. Thanks for the chance to win! Sounds like a good read!

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  75. I judge books by their cover all the time- and this one look pretty,lol!
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  76. i would love to read this book.

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  78. I've been wanting to read this.

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  79. Thanx for the contest

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  80. I'd love to win this book! I've seen it before and it sounds really good!

    Thank you!

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  82. This sounds really good!
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  83. please add my name to the list.....

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  86. Sounds like just the book to take along with me on vacation. Thanks for the chance!

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  87. I would love to be entered in this giveaway. It sounds like a great beach read.

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  88. I'd love to be a winner in this contest as I will donate the book to my local library.

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  89. Ms Jackson is new to me but my daughter and I both want to read this book. All the reviews we've read so far have helped make that decision.Thanks for the opportunity .
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  90. Oooooooooo... sounds intriguing. Count me in.

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  91. This book sounds likew a really good read. Please enter me in your contest. Sharon

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  92. I'd love to be entered for this book. It's on my short list of books to get. I love Joshilyn and can't wait to read this latest book.

    Thanks for the chance.

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  93. I love books and reading and this one sounds good!

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  94. I haven't read a ghost story for a while and I really love them. This book sounds like just the thing & I'd love to have it. Thanks.

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  95. This one sounds like a terrific summer read! Thanks!

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  96. Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me.
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  98. Must have this book!
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  99. Love ghost stories and would love to win.
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  100. Sounds like a good book to read in these relaxing summer days. Please add me to the entries.

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  101. his one sounds really interesting....

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  102. I would like to have this book to take and read on my vacation to Sunset Beach, NC! Thanks! senekers@comcast.net

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  103. Happy Weekend!

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  104. My daughter would love to read this one.

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  105. I've got this on my TBR... Sounds like a great book from the reviews I have read... weeshenanigans (at) gmail (dot) com

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  106. This looks like an awesome book! I hope its not too scary! lol
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  107. I have read some great reviews about this book and would love the chance to read it! Thanks!

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  108. Sounds like a good, interesting book.

    Thank you for the opportunity to win!

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  109. This is great, Please count me in.


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  110. I really want to read this book!

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  111. Christina - xristya@rock.com - It sounds slightly reminiscent of the classic The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (movie), which had a sea theme also! Thanks so much for the chance to win!

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  112. I would love to read this..I will read almost any book.

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  113. This looks like a very good read.

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  114. This sounds interesting to read.
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  115. I read her first book and raved about Joshilyn Jackson to everyone. I'd be thrilled to win this.
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  116. please enter me in the giveaway con5459(at)gmail(dot)com

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  117. Sounds like this would be a very good read.

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  118. I would love to read this book, it sure sounds like a good one. Please enter me. Thanks!

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  119. I've been wanting to read this and I'm rapidly running out of good reading material so I hope I win this.

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  122. I would love to be entered for this
    haunting book,sounds so interesting
    and good review


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  123. Sounds like good summer reading. Thanks!

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  124. Thanks for the GREAT giveaway
    please count me in :)

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  126. this sounds like my kind of book, I'd love to read it

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  127. This sounds like one of those books & can't put down & would read it all in one day!

    Throw my name in the hat!

    Thanks.

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  128. I love books that have some mystrey in them

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  129. This sounds interesting. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  131. Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!

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  132. This book sounds really wonderful

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