Welcome to the Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Giveaway! This fun carnival is hosted by Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer. Shannon is inviting everyone to join her for a fun week of giveaways. All you have to do is visit her site to find out about giveaways all over Blogland.
I plan to give a copy of In Search of Eden to one lucky commenter. I won this book during the Spring Reading Thing (thanks, Katrina), and it is a wonderful book. I am excitied that I can now pass it on to someone else. If you are interested, please read my review.
At fifteen, Miranda DeSpain was forced to give up her newborn baby. Now, in her mid-twenties, Miranda is living a broken life, wandering from place to place in search of anything to fill her broken heart. Following the death of her mother, Miranda begins a search for the child she has dreamed of for eleven years. Her journey leads her to Abingdon, Virginia, where Miranda searches for clues relating to her child.
Joseph Williams, a local police officer, is distrustful of Miranda from the beginning. Joseph's family, however, welcomes Miranda to the community and helps her to feel at home. These new relationships help Miranda to realize that she is not the only person with problems and secrets lurking in the past, and she begins to understand that she can have peace amid troubling circumstances.
I highly recommend this book. I enjoyed it from the beginning and didn't want to stop reading until I finished. Linda Nichols, the author, did an excellent job of dealing with serious issues while managing to interject humor and surprises into the story as well. The overall lesson, I believe, is that there is no "Eden" while on this earth. Our lives will not be perfect; but we can have peace. We can rely on God to be our strength and refuge. He will carry us through our trials.
If you would like to win this book, leave your name in the comments. Remember that this is not a new copy of the book, but it has only been read once. I will randomly select one winner on Friday, July 27th, after 12:00 P.M. Good luck!
Be sure to visit Rocks in My Dryer this week for more great giveaways!
Updated to Add: The winner of the contest is #189 - Christine. Congratulations!
319 Comments:
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Renee
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I didn't see a restriction on shipping it across the pond, so please add me to your list!
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And look at the great response you've gotten! I hope you're using one of those random number generator things so you don't have to do all this by hand.
I might should have participated in doing a giveaway.
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