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GIVEAWAY: When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt- Open Worldwide!
February 3rd, 2011
Yesterday I reviewed the most wonderful book I’ve read in a long time called When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt (my review). The copy I have was a galley copy and every few pages was faded out some and it was a little difficult to read. However as I said in my review once I had read even the first 20 pages of this book I could not put it down.
About the Book (from Pamela Schoenewaldt’s website)
“If you leave Opi, you’ll die with strangers,” Irma Vitale’s mother always warned. But Irma is too poor and too plain to marry and can’t find honest work in her tiny mountain village in Southern Italy. Barely twenty, she must leave home bearing only native wit and astonishing skill with a needle. Risking rough passage across the Atlantic, a single woman in a strange land, Irma seeks a new life sewing dresses for gentlewomen.
Swept up in the crowded streets of nineteenth-century America, Irma finds workshop servitude and miserable wages, but also seeds of friendship in the raw immigrant quarters. When her determination leads at last to Chicago, Irma blossoms under the hand of an austere Alsatian dressmaker, sewing fabrics and patterns more beautiful than she’d ever imagined. Then this tenuous peace is shattered. From the rubble, confronting human cruelty and kindness, suffering and hope, a new Irma emerges, nurturing a talent she’d never imagined and an unlikely family, patched together by the common threads that unite us all.
The good folks at HarperCollins though sent me a nice finished paperback copy of When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt (thank you!) that I’m going to share with my readers because this is a novel that deserves to be shared with other booklovers. To enter…
- For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
- For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do please let me know and I’ll give you the extra entry as well.
- For 3 entries blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.
Since this is my own copy this giveaway is going to be open worldwide! I will draw for the winner on Saturday, February 26, 2011. Good luck everyone!
© 2010, Darlene of Peeking Between the Pages. All Rights Reserved. If you’re reading this on a site other than Peeking Between the Pages or Darlene’s Feed, be aware that this post has been stolen and is used without permission.
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sounds really like an interesting books, thanks for hosting and I would love to be entered!
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I'm a GFC follower already
Just read your review and now I really want to read the book
!!
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Following you on GFC!
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I have never heard of the author but I trust your opinion so I would oike to try the book.
Thanks for opening it to worldwide entries.
Carol T
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Wonderful review, I would love to read the book!
Willa
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Ps. I am a GFC follower
Hi-I would love to win this book-I am a GFC follower and I just tweeted your post-thanks for making this contest international
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Follower
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Hi Dar, I would love a chance to read this book. Thanks you
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Would love to read this! Thanks for the chance!
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GFC follower! Thanks!
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It's sounds like a book I'd enjoy reading.
Theresa N
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I read your review yesterday and thought this sounded like a great book.
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I follow your blog via google friend connect.
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Sounds like a great book. Please include me.
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I subscribe to your feed through Google Reader.
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Please enter me as well, Dar!
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I follow your blog through Google Reader.
Thank you for opening it for all.
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I follow you on GFC
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Count me in please.
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I am already a GFC follower.
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it sounds lovely Dar. I think you already know I am a follower.
Off to tweet about it now.
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I loved your review, Dar. I'd love to win this book.
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I'm a follower
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I have to enter, i really need some real fiction
I am a follower
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no need to enter me…but I did post the giveaway in my sidebar!
I blogged on my giveaway page:
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Intriguing review yesterday; I love immigration stories. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Google follower – extra entry.
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I would love to read it, it sounds really good.
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I already am a gfc follower.
debbie
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Would love to win!
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I follow on GFC
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I have to enter this since you loved it so much! Thanks for the giveaway! milou2ster(at)gmail.com
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I would love to enter this giveaway, Dar-ling LOL.
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I am a follower.
Count me in!
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I subscribe in Google Reader.
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Thanks for this fascinating giveaway. rojosho(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would enjoy this wonderful story. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
Your review makes me want to have this book! Please enter my name in your giveaway.
I am a new follower via GFC (Lexi)
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Thanks.
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Oh my this sounds perfect! Please include me in the giveaway.
Thanks,
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I am a GFC follower (Colleen Turner).
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Great review!
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GFC follower as Karen B.
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Yes please count me in! I'm a subscriber and a GFC Follower.
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I would like to know more of Irma's struggles as a immigrant dressmaker. I would like to learn more about how she met her unlikley family.
+2 I am a Google Friend Connect Follower
+3 I tweeted. My Twitter name is Carolee888.
http://www.peekingbetweenthepages.com/2011/02/giveaway-when-we-were-strangers-by.html Giveaway of 'When We Were Stangers'.
I follow your blog!
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Thanks for this giveaway.
I follow your blog via GFC & Google Reader
Love & Hugs,
Pam
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Would love to win, thanks! for the give-a-way
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Please enter me in the giveaway.
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I would LOVE to win this, it is on my wish list
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Already a GFC follower (tiffany drew)
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Tweeted!
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This sounds likea very good read. Plese enter me in your contest.
I am already a follower.
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Sounds like a great read! Am a blog follower!
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I would love to read this book.
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I follow your blog. Sounds like an interesting book
Sounds like a wonderful book!
Thank you for the entry!
Wendy
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I already follow via GFC!
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I'm already a follower and I posted the link on twitter!!
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I would love to read When We Were Strangers
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
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Already publicly following Peeking Between the Pages with Google Friend Connect [Cheryl F. {The Lucky Ladybug}]
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Tweeted the giveaway
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This looks so good! I'm a follower-thanks for the giveaway!
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What an absolutely gorgeous premise for a book. Please include me in this drawing! (Hugs)Indigo
I'm a GFC follower.
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This sounds very good Dar, please include me, thanks!
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Story is based in Italy – the land of sun, pizza, and MEN.
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Woo Hooo!! A chance to win a copy of this book, yeah!!
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Of course, I'm a follower!!
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Please count me in, would love to read this!
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Google follower!
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After reading your wonderful review I want to read this book and would love to win your copy.
Thank you for your generous giveaway, Dar!
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I'm an old follower of your blog!
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Oh, what an interesting story. Please enter my name in the contest.
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OMG I really loved this book! I have one of those faded galley copies too, I'd love to have a finished copy for my bookshelf!
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this book is new for me. I have never seen it but in your blog
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I put the giveaway on my sidebar
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What an interesting sounding book. The picture was great also. Am a follower.
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This one sounds really good. I'd love to be entered!
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I follow!
Sounds like a good book. I follow you with facebook and I'm on your mailing list.
Thanks,
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would love to win, the book sounds great.
thanks for hosting the giveaway and thanks for sharing!
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i am a follower!
thanks once again
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Sounds like a great read – would love to win a copy.
I would love to read this novel. Please enter me in the giveaway!
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I would love to read this!
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book sounds great-love to read it
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I just read another gushing review of this one. Please enter me in the drawing.
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I would love to be entered in this contest!
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I'm also a follower.
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I'd like to read this one too. THanks!
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This sounds like a must read.
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Great giveaway! I'd love to be entered.
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I blogged about the contest here.
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I would love to read this book—please enter me to win!
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Love the cover
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I would love to read this book.
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another great giveaway!
thanks again!
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I would love to enter this giveaway. Thank you!
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Sounds awesome :O
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Sounds like a great book.
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I am a follower! Thanks so much I am really excited to read this book!
+1 I love new and interesting books. I even love the cover of this one!
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Thanks for a chance to win this book. It sounds like a great read. ~Michelle
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I just came across your blog and love it! I haven't been in Blogland for a while and in the last 24 hours I have added 78 books to my Amazon Wishlist! This has been recommended by so many people – I would love to be entered to win a copy!
Happy Reading!!