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I would like to thank everybody who took part in my most recent giveaway in an effort to raise awareness about the current genocide in Darfur.  This giveaway was associated with my book review of Not On Our Watch:  The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast and involved a short quiz.  Everybody who entered got every question right!  I told you it wasn’t hard.  And there are some wonderful comments, so take a look if you haven’t already.

I wanted to point out a couple of great articles that were written as a result of this little giveaway and want to say thank you:

Ramya at Ramya’s Bookshelf wrote a great article about Darfur on her personal blog Ramya’s Shoebox.

Wordlily highlighted the quiz on her blog.

Stefanie at Books of Gold also wrote about raising awareness about Darfur and has even continued her new series writing about Somolia.

And if I missed you, shame on me.  Let me know!  I also appreciate everybody else who mentioned the giveaway on their blogs as well.  This time around it was less about the books being given away but more about the process involved.

I tallied the entries and the winners are:

Wordlily

Christine!

Ramya from Ramya’s Bookshelf

Stefanie from Books of Gold

And I absolutely promise that I didn’t rig those results to have the same three that I mentioned above also win.  It was completely random.  Weird.

Please take a look at the following list, and send me at least five book choices in your order preference.  The first name out will get first choice of their two books.  Make sense?  Thanks for helping me find these books new homes!

Empire Falls by Richard Russo, (two copies) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay, We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates, Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (three copies), Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (one hardback, one paperback,), The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisenberger, The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, Jewel by Brett Lott, Paradise by Toni Morrison (hardcover), Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan (hardcover), Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (hardback).

Also, I had to redraw a name from my Frank McCourt giveaway.  I have  a new winner:  Katie Beth from Possum Road Bluegrass!  Congrats!