Thanks to Valerie of Hachette Books I have 5 copies of Made in the U.S.A to giveaway.
Book Description:
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.
* Includes a Reading Group Guide
Here are the rules:
1. For one entry, leave a comment Please be sure to include email address (if it isn’t available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win.
2. For a two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.
3. For another 5 more entries: Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subsriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower five times! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.
The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.Only one entry per household/IP address.
This giveaway will end on Friday May 1st Midnight E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn’t available in your profile! Winners must respond within three days or will be disquilified. Therefore, if your moving or going on a trip, etc. . please let me know.
I would love to read this. I’m a follower.
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I’m a follower.
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I LOVE Billie Letts so please enter me in this contest.
joannelong74@gmail.com
I’d love to add this one to my bookshelf.
Thanks
libneas[at]aol[dot]com
This sounds like a really touching book. And I loved Where the Heart is so I definatly want to read this book. Thanks for the chance.
unforgetable_dreamer_always (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
I’m a follower thanks.
I’m going to ask a really dumb question here (maybe I’ll get marks for reading this indepth), but the giveaway is for the Billie Letts book right? I’m only asking because you have the George Pelecanos Turnaround mentioned up there.
If it’s for the Lett’s book, I would love to be entered. Thanks! Indigo
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Forgot to mention I’m also a follower on Google Reader. Thanks! Indigo
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I’d love to read this – I subscribe to your blog through Bloglines. Wouldn’t miss it!
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I loved Where the Heart Is and I would love to read this one too. Please count me in.
gypsyrover21(at)yahoo(dot)ca
I’m a follower
gypsyrover21(at)yahoo(dot)ca
Ooooh oh oh! I’m follower on Blogger and Bloglines! My email is in my profile. This sounds fabulous. I’ve so far only read one book by Letts but it was wonderful, don’t ask me the title cause I can’t remember right now, too early in the morning and only half a cup of coffee drunk so far.
I have never read anything by Billie Letts, but I’ve heard her books are great. Please enter me!
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Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would like to read this book. Count me in.
Elisabet
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I am also a follower.
Elisabet
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I’d love to read this.
I follow.
mj.coward{at}gmail.com
I’m very interested to see what Billie Letts has to offer this time around. Interesting that she is incorporating Walmart again, this time with a death, last time with a birth.
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Thanks for the entries. ; )
Sorry about this second comment, but I forgot to mention that I follow you. Cheers.
I’ve read other books by Billie Letts (from my home state of Oklahoma) and enjoyed them. I’m sure I’ll like this one too. Thanks for the giveaway.
I follow your blog through Google Reader.
I blogged about this here:
http://ultimatebookhound.blogspot.com/2009/04/contest-roundup-and-my-first-award.html
gypsyrover21(at)yahoo(dot)ca
I’ve read a couple of her books and really liked them. Thanks for the chance to win!
saz AT chainreader DOT com
I blogged about this here: http://sazfreelunch.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-billie-letts-book-giveaway.html
I’m already a follower!
I’d love to win! I’m a follower.
I really like her other books, so I am going to enter this one. 🙂
I’d love to read this book. Please enter me. Thanks.
mparke[at]mts[dot]net
I follow your blog via Blogger’s follow function. Please enter me. Thanks.
mparke[at]mts[dot]net
I’d love to read this. Please enter me! Thanks.
rebecca.bradeen(at)verizon(dot)net
I’m also a follower!
rebecca.bradeen(at)verizon(dot)net
I’d love to read this! My email is in my profile.
Please count me in.
I follow.
I would love to enter. I am a follower. .and I will check back when I can get my act together to post about this give away. Thank YOU!
I’d love a chance to win!
I blogged: http://www.morbid-romantic.net/2009/04/07/book-giveaways-0406-0412/
And I am a subscriber.
Valorie
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It’s been SO long since I’ve read anything by Billie Letts! Just love her writing though 🙂
Follower and Google Reader subscriber.
I love this author! and I would love to recieve this book!
castellanoamy at yahoo dot com
I am also a follower
castellanoamy at yahoo dot come
The cover of this one always catches my eye. I would love a chance to win it!
thereedfamilyATsbcglobalDOTnet
I loved “Where the Heart Is” and bought “Shoot the Moon” for one of my sisters last Christmas (still waiting for it to make the rounds back to me…). I’d love a chance to win this one, Teddy! I am a follower and blogged here about this great giveaway. 🙂
Darn it! Forgot to include my email.
wanda_waiting(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would love to read this book. I have been catching the buzz, and it looks great. Please enter me.
kalea-kane(at)yahoo(dot)com
I am a follower as well. 🙂
kalea_kane(at)yahoo(dot)com
I’d love to read this one! Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
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I’d love the chance to read this. Please count me in. Thanks so much!
nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com
hi Teddy.. please enter me. I’m a follower 🙂
Marieburton2004 at yahoo dot com
Sounds like a great read! Please enter me!
I subscribe!
I follow you on Google Reader and I blogged about this:
http://booksandmovies.today.com/2009/04/11/bookish-links-for-saturday-april-11-2009/
nnjmom at yahoo dot com
Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Debbie
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I am a follower.
Thanks
Debbie
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I posted about your giveaway here:
http://enroutetolife.blogspot.com/2009/04/while-i.html
Thank you again!
kalea_kane(at)yahoo(dot)com
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very nice thanks for the generous giveaway minsthins at optonline dot net
I really want to read this book! All of her books are good! Thank you for the giveaway!
Carol M
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I’m a follower.
Carol M
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Love to have this.
Thanks,
darkfyre1(at)gmail(dot)com
“Made in the U.S.A. sounds like a book that will touch your heart. Thanks for the chance to win a copy. asthenight at gmail dot com
I don’t have a blog or website, so I posted this on Twitter http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/1504564582 – I understand if that doesn’t count as an entry. asthenight at gmail dot com
I’m already a follower. asthenight at gmail dot com
would love to read
Sounds like a great book. Please enter me. Thanks
sharon54220@gmail.com
this looks like an amazing book.
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I subscribe
I loved his first book. Can’t wait to read this one!!
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Would love to read this.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com
I would love to read this! Thanks.
rlgrady[at]yahoo[dot]com
Please enter me in your giveaway. I enjoy reading books of this type. I grew up having wonderful, loving parents. I find this subject fascinating and also scary. Makes me appreciate my parents even more.
This looks like a great book. Thanks for the chance
jason@allworldautomotive.com
I also blogged about your contest here.
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Please enter me in this contest!
This sounds like a great book. I’d love to read it. I love Billie Letts!! Thanks.
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Sounds like a very touching story. I would love to read it. Please enter me. Thanks!
ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net
I would like to be entered into your giveaway. Unfortunately, too many children are in similar types of situations these days.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
This looks like a really great book. Enter me please.
jwx4(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thank you for a great giveaway! I would love to win. Thank you!
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
Thanks!
selinda_mccumbers at yahoo.com
I read Where The Heart Is and I also saw the movie and I loved both. This new book by Letts sounds just as good.
Alicia Webster
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I would love to win a copy of Made in the U.S.A. By Billie Letts
sounds like a great adventure.
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Hi! I would love to win this one!!
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Please enter me in your giveaway for this book.
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YAHOO! Please count me in 🙂 I would l♥ve to win this book!
tryingtostaycalm@gmail.com
I love Billie Letts. She’s one of my favorite authors. Thanks for the giveaway.
I’d like to read this, since I’ve never read anything by Billie Letts before, but I’ve heard good things. I’m a follower.
jaam121388 at yahoo dot com
Woo Hoo! Love Billie Letts!
Please enter me!
forevereading at gmail dot com
I would love to be entered!
+I am a follower!
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Sounds like a super book!
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I would love to read this, it looks wonderful!
marielay@gmail.com
Looks like there’s lot of interest in this book! I’d love to win a copy.
Please count me in – Thanks!
Cheryl
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This looks like a wonderful book. Please enter my name in your draw. Thanks.
I would love to win this book!!
Thanks!!
I would love to win this book–Billie Letts is one of my favorite authors.
Looks like a great read!
mr12step(at)yahoo(dot)com
I would love to win this book!
I’m a follower.
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Please enter me in your giveawy. I would really like to read this book. Sounds very good. Thank you.
makeupgirl21@comcast.net
This books looks very interesting, I would love to have the chance to read it.
SamantharaeM@gmail.com I am also going to ‘follow you’.
This book looks interesting! Please enter me!
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Looks like a good read. Thanks!