I’m having a hard time giving away these books, folks. I’ve heard from Mex (Giveaway 7), but he hasn’t chosen his book yet, and haven’t heard from Matt (Giveaway 8) yet — with any luck (on my part, at least) the list of prizes for this week’s drawing will be a little shorter than the list in this post.

As always, make a comment on any post (a current post or an old one) between this morning and Thursday evening, and your name will go into a bucket — hat — bowl — maybe even my fireman’s helmet — whatever is handy — and the winner’s name will be drawn and posted by updating this post. Check back on Friday morning and see if it was your lucky day to choose one of the books on the following list, to be mailed to you a week or three later (I don’t get to the post office very often). You’ll be doing me a favor by helping to clear my library of some great but duplicate titles.

Here’s what is available to choose from when your name is drawn (an overstruck entry means an earlier winner claimed that book).

David Bokovoy, Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy (2014). Paper.

Bart D. Ehrman, The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations (2011). Hardcover.

Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament (2003). Paper.

Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (2011). Paper.

Bart D. Ehrman, Peter, Paul, & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend (2006). Paper.

Brant A. Gardner, Translating the Book of Mormon (2011). Hardcover. *Two* copies available.

Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life (2012). Hardcover.

Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (2011). Hardcover.

Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books series) (2012)

Grant Hardy, The Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Edition (2003). Hardcover. Jacket shelfworn; book perfect.

Charles R. Harrell, This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology (2011). Hardcover. Still in shrinkwrap.

Jeffrey R. Holland, Christ and the New Covenant (1997). Hardcover. Previous owner’s name on flyleaf.

Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2011). Paper.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). Hardcover.

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version (2011). Hardcover. Bump to upper right corner of front cover.

Armand L. Mauss, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic (2012). Hardcover.

Steven L. Peck, Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist (2015). Paper.

Royal Skousen, ed., The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (2009). Hardcover.

Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters (2001). Paper.

Kenton L. Sparks, Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblical Authority & the Dark Side of Scripture (2012). Paper.

Joseph M. Spencer and Jenny Webb, Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah: Reading 2 Nephi 26-27 (2011). Paper.

Richard Toye, Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (2013). Paper.

John W. Welch, et al., eds., Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem (2004). Paper (slightly shelfworn)

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UPDATE: And the winner is — Niklas! Congratulations, Niklas; I hope there’s still a book on the list that you want to read.  Please leave a note here telling us which book you choose, and I’ll contact you by email to get a mailing address (or, if the address you leave when commenting isn’t one you really use, please email me at AEParshall at AOL dot COM).

(Still no picture of the winning ticket, because my iPad screen is still shattered.)