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Winners, We Have Winners, We Have Lots and Lots of Winners

Finally! Someone remind me never to hold a giveaway every day in one week. In any event -- Here are the winners from all of last week's contests plus a few that happened just prior to BBAW!

Winner of a signed copy of Joshua Henkin's Matrimony

Lori

Winners of Diane Hammond's Hannah's Dream plus a bag of peanuts
Carmen 
Pam
Michelle
Melanie
Heather
Jenn
Dawn
Laura
Heidi
Lauren

Winners of the Book Club Girl mousepad
Amy
Jenne
Yasmin
Jill
Dawn
Rebekah
Susan
Nise
Amanda
Bethany

Winners of Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn and a Book Club Girl mousepad

Julie E.
Amanda
Johnna
Sandy
Carol
Lauren
Jenne
Kelly
Raych
Kathy

Winners of a signed first edition of Spy Goddess and a Book Club Girl mousepad
Karina
The Dizzy
Tina
Booklogged
Kelly
Heather
Bobbi
Stacie
Book...Spot
Kelly

Winners of Philippa Gregory's The Other Queen and a Book Club Girl mousepad
Daphne
Julie P.
Lauren
Kori
Stephanie C.
Michele
Nicol
Carol
Ruth
Mary

Winners of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and a Book Club Girl mousepad:

Dawn
Lisa
Ruth
Melanie
Yasmin
Lucile
Pam
Leah
Laura
Carol

And the Grand Prize Winner of the Book Club Girl Book Club Hostess Survival Kit is....... Kelly!!!!

Book Blogger Appreciation Week - Giveaway Number Two from Book Club Girl

One of the wonderful authors I was able to visit with at Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival was Alice Mattison, author of The Book Borrower and the new novel, Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. In her newest book, Mattison tells the story of Constance Tepper.

One quiet spring day in 1989, Constance Tepper arrives from Philadelphia to watch over her mother's Brooklyn apartment and her orange cat. Con's mother, Gert, has left town to visit her old friend Marlene Silverman in Rochester. Marlene has always seemed alluring and powerful to Con, and ever since Con was a little girl, the long-standing bond between Gert and Marlene has piqued her curiosity. Now she finds herself wondering again what keeps them together.

Con's week in Brooklyn will take a surprising turn when she wakes to find that someone has entered her mother's apartment and her own purse is missing. Stranded, with no money, she begins to phone family and friends. By the end of that week, she will experience a series of troubling discoveries about her marriage, her job, and her family's history, and much of her life will be changed forever.

In the fall of 2003, now living in Brooklyn and working as a lawyer, Con has almost forgotten that strange and shattering week. But a series of unsettling reminders and surprising discoveries—including traces of a lost elevated train line through Brooklyn—will lead to grief, love, and more questions. At last, a confrontation between Marlene and Con's daughter will unravel some of the mysteries of the past.

In honor of my recent foray to Brooklyn and the book's official on-sale date, today's giveaway is the Book Club Girl mousepad plus a copy of Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. All you have to do is tell me about a book you've read where the location becomes a character itself. Blog about this contest somewhere else and post the link and you'll get two entries into the drawing. Check out the reading group guide to NIQFIB here and see if you can catch Alice on her tour here.