Tuesday, 10 May, 3:40 p.m.: FINAL UPDATE:  One of the AWOL winners sent me his address; three did not. The three unclaimed prizes were then awarded to others who had expressed interest in those particular books (and in one case, donated as a prize to be given at the student reception at the Mormon History Association meetings). The secondary winners of those books have already all claimed them by sending their mailing addresses.  So, while I’m sorry to disappoint any of the original winners who may eventually see their names listed here, I did have to wrap up business on this drawing; I hope you understand. I’m glad the books have found homes. Thanks for participating.

Tuesday, 10 May, 10:24 a.m.: LAST CALL! I’ve urged winners to acknowledge their prizes and furnish me with mailing addresses. Most have; a few still have not.  At noon my time (an hour and a half from now), unclaimed prizes will be awarded to someone else who expressed interest in those books.

Monday, 9 May, 8:06 a.m.: REMINDER TO WINNERS:  About half of the winners named in this post have not contacted me to acknowledge their wins and give me their shipping addresses. Please do that today.  If I haven’t heard from you by tonight, I will conclude that you are no longer interested in your book, and will award it to someone else tomorrow morning. Thank you.

(It’s the number of winners in the giveaway that’s the monster, by the way — not the winners 🙂 )

So lots of you named the book you would like to win – so many that I’ve decided two winners won’t be enough. Let’s distribute as many of these books as possible today.

Some of the winners are easy to identify: There was only one claimant for these books:

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

Winner: Eric Boysen

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

Winner: Lurker, with initials S.N.

John Taylor, Gospel Kingdom: Writings and Discourses. (1987). Hardcover. 1996 LDS employee gift edition.

Winner: kevinf

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

Winner: Sarah

Two readers were interested in this one, but I actually have two spare copies so you both win:

David Roberts, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the great Mormon Handcart Tragedy (2008). Hardcover.

Winners: David Y., Colleen

Now it gets tougher. Two readers wanted each of these books – and I really only have one spare copy of each of them – so I flipped a coin.

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

Winner: Alison

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

Winner: Hugh

Brant A. Gardner, Translating the Book of Mormon (2011). Hardcover. (second copy)

Winner: Mary Lynn Hutchison

Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985). Pocket-size edition, burgundy.

Winner: Nicola

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

Winner: David B.

Now it gets really tough – three Keepa’ninnies want each of these books – and I don’t have a three-sided coin, or even any Dungeons & Dragons dice. I actually put slips of paper in a bowl and drew one.

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

Winner: Daniel Ortner

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

Winner: Mike R.

So there’s our list of new homes for spare books. I need three things:

1. Shipping addresses. Contact me at AEParshall at AOL dotcom with your address, please.

2. Patience. I don’t get to the post office very often and have to go on foot. Carrying all these packages might require two or three trips, so take even longer for shipping.

3. Good will. I like to give presents and wish I had one for everybody. It’s one thing to draw the name of a winner from a bowl with 20 or 30 names in it. It’s another much harder thing to flip a coin and know exactly who I’m disappointing when the coin came up heads instead of tails.

There’s one other thing, too, but it isn’t absolutely necessary. If you won a book and would like to help with the postage – mailing out this many is going to cost me lunch money for the week, at least – you could help out by contributing $5 through the PayPal link in the sidebar.

Also, FYI, Keepa’s annual hosting fees are due on May 5. And that reminder is as close as I can bring myself to asking for help.