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Riverhead Books thanks you for participating in the Picture A Book Changing Lives campaign! We have donated $6,500 to The Khaled Hosseini Foundation.

Thanks for participating in the PICTURE A BOOK CHANGING LIVES campaign.  This group is no longer accepting submissions.

PICTURE A BOOK CHANGING LIVES.

NOW WATCH IT HAPPEN.


Inspired by readers around the world who have embraced and shared Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Riverhead Books is asking for your help in an effort to picture a book changing lives.
  Starting June 15th and continuing through December 1, 2010 (11:59:59 PM Eastern Time) when you visit this campaign page and join the “Hosseini” group you can upload photos of yourself  and/or friends reading or holding a copy of either The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns. For each eligible photo* that is uploaded to the group, Riverhead Books will donate $2.00 (up to a maximum $25,000 donation) to the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. 

*Open to residents of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and possessions, ages 18 and older. Submitters of the photos must get permission from the photographer and subject for each photo before uploading to the group. For Official Rules, go to www.penguin.com/pictureabookrules