After selecting the commenter for the other contest I ran during the month of April, I chose two additional commenters for The Department of Lost and Found giveaway.
Teresa Cannon & Desmond — you are the winners! You’ll both be receiving a copy of this fantastic novel by Allison Winn Scotch.
Congratulations to you both — enjoy the book and please, come back here and share your own review of the book when you have the chance!
Thanks to everyone who participated. I truly do appreciate your readership.

The Faces Behind Breast Cancer is a compassionate, inspirational and provocative picture book. It’s designed “to give hope and inspire others to regain their self-confidence and improve their emotional state while learning to accept their physical changes in their bodies during treatment and recovery,” says author Josephine Caruso Sethi.
Josie herself was treated at the MD Anderson Cancer Center for metastatic lobular breast cancer. The book is targeted to patients at MD Anderson but really speaks to the soul of every survivor.
The photographer, Jack Opatrany, did an amazing job capturing the soul of each individual who volunteered for this project; flipping …read more

Today the paperback edition of one of my favorite books comes out — The Department of Lost and Found by Allison Winn Scotch.
A little later today I’ll post the review I wrote when the hardcover came out. But here’s the teaser:
“The book’s heroine, Natalie Miller, a 30-year-old single woman working as a senatorial aide, is loaded with ambition and gumption. Her world is rocked when she’s diagnosed with breast cancer. That’s where the story begins … read this excerpt from page 13:
“‘So you have to understand that in the span of less than a month, my (disloyal, scum-sucking) boyfriend of …read more

(This book review first appeared on my previous breast cancer blog, but since I shared Cathy Bueti’s survivor story with you yesterday, I figured I’d reprint my review of her memoir here.)
If you want to learn what it would be like to face breast cancer as a single woman in your early thirties than read Cathy Bueti’s memoir, “Breastless in the City.”
Cathy’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment was intertwined with her search for love. Most of us at least faced breast cancer with our spouse by our sides — not Cathy. See, Cathy’s husband was killed in a car accident …read more