Nick Bantock Welcomes You to Purgatory

Nick Bantock, author and creator of the famed Griffin & Sabine trilogy, has released a brand new book, The Museum at Purgatory, and ten lucky fans won autographed first editions at Powells.com. They are:

P Maria from Washington, DC
U Karen from Omaha, Nebraska
R Kristin from State College, Pennsylvania (home of the Nittany Lions)
G Cheryl from Seattle, Washington (Cheryl called us "Happy-makers")
A Andy from Stanford, California (he swears he's actually from Coos Bay, OR)
T Amy from Great Neck, New York
O Sy from Portland, Oregon (who wrote, "Yay! I won, I won, I won! Thank you very much...Woo Hoo!")
R Carol from Gresham, Oregon
Y Betty from Tuscon, Arizona

and a winner from Jackson, Mississippi we'll call "Non" who'd rather not reveal his (or her?) true identity.

Carl Hiaasen Advanced Readers

Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to our 12 lucky winners. One winner resides here in Portland, and another in nearby Boring, Oregon. As for the others, well, one winner calls San Diego, California home. One lucky Hiaasen fan hails from Port Orchard, Washington, not too far away from our winner in Tukwila (which will forever remind many of us here of the great old SNL skit in which John Malkovich played "Len Tukwila, driftwood sculptor"). But enough of the west coast! We've shipped free advanced readers of Sick Puppy to Laurel, Mississippi; Magnolia, Arkansas; Princeton, West Virginia (home of lovely Hunnicutt Field); Friendship, Wisconsin; and Phoenix, Arizona. Two copies, oddly enough have been sent to Boise, Idaho. Apparently, both Carl Hiaasen and Powell's are popular in Boise.

Who won the 1999 Powell's Collection, autographed first editions of ten of the most noteworthy new releases of the year? It was Jennifer from Seattle, of course!

Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry Susan Faludi, Stiffed William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties Kent Haruf, Plainsong William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse A.M. Homes, Music for Torching Gish Jen, Who's Irish? Annie Leibovitz, Women Jenny Offill, Last Things Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Cluck and win!
November's "One-Cluck" winner is Elana Sheep from Richmond, Virginia. "You have made my day/week/etc!" Elana says. "Muchas, muchas gracias!"

Tuscon, Arizona Chester, New Jersey Denver, Colorado Davis, California Seattle, Washington

Five lucky winners, one from each of those hometowns, have been selected to receive an autographed, Uncorrected Proof of William Least Heat-Moon's newest American adventure, River-Horse.

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