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Best of 2015 Giveaway Hop
Welcome to my stop on the Best of 2015 Giveaway Hop hosted by Bookhounds and I Am A Reader!
I’m giving away two books. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and Plan Bea by Hilary Grossman.
The Nightingale
written by Kristin Hannah
published by St. Martin’s Press, 2015
find it here: (affiliate links) Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iBooks, Book Depository, Goodreads
See Gina’s 5-star review here.
About the book – from Goodreads:
In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house, and suddenly her every move is watched; her life and her child’s life is at constant risk. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates around her, she must make one terrible choice after another.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets the compelling and mysterious Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. When he betrays her, Isabelle races headlong into danger and joins the Resistance, never looking back or giving a thought to the real–and deadly–consequences.
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah takes her talented pen to the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
Plan Bea
written by Hilary Grossman
published by Booktrope, 2015
find it here: (affiliate links) Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iBooks, Goodreads
Read Chrissy’s 5-star review here.
About the book – from Goodreads: How well do you really know the people in your life?
Annabel O’Conner has the perfect husband, two adorable children, an amazing job, and the mother from hell! Annabel doesn’t like it but has come to terms with the fact that her relationship with her mother, Bea, deteriorated to the point of forced and strained communications. However, an unscheduled call from Bea turns her world around and makes Annabel question everything she believed about her life.
Despite the fact secrets, lies, and misplaced blame have destroyed the women’s relationship; Annabel reluctantly agrees to help Bea plan her wedding. Little does Annabel know the impact of her decision.
In this Women’s Contemporary Fiction novel, Hilary Grossman explores the complex relationship that exists between mothers and daughters in a light-hearted and relatable manner.
5 Comments
by bookhounds
thanks for participating!
by TheEveryFreeChanceReader
It was my pleasure!
by sherry butcher
Plan Bea first
by Desiree Dunbar
Plan Bea for me!