Congratulations to Donna Folcik the winner of our June 2015 Free Book! Donna has won two copies of HERE, Women Writing On Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press and edited by Ron Riekki. One copy is for Donna and the other for the library of her choice, which, Donna tells us, is the Gladstone Public Schools Library!
Congratulations, Donna, I’ll be sending you the books ASAP!!
Blessings,
Sue
Galatians, Chapter 2, Verse 20b: I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in Me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. King James Version (Photograph from Wikipedia.)
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You are so welcome, Donna!
Ever so grateful. What a surprise and what fun. The library will love it. Thank you, thank you.