Archive for March, 2014

Citadel: official release day today

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Today is the official release day of
Citadel

Read more about it here

Please come back daily to visit the book bloggers
from now until March 27,
and enter giveaways for a chance to win this great book!
Already a very happy review published yesterday about it!

Citadel

Author Kate Mosse

on Tour

March 17-27, 2014

with

Citadel

[Thriller/Historical Fiction]

 Release date: March 18, 2014
by William Morrow

ISBN-13: 978-0062281258

   680 pages
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SYNOPSIS

From the internationally bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre comes a thrilling novel, set in the South of France during World War II, that interweaves history and legend, love and conflict, passion and adventure, bringing to life brave women of the French Resistance and a secret they must protect from the Nazis. In Carcassonne, a colorful historic village nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of courageous and determined operatives are engaged in a lethal battle. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these women—codenamed Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Germans.But smuggling refugees over the mountains into neutral territory and sabotaging their Nazi occupiers is only part of their mission. These members of the resistance must also protect an ancient secret that, if discovered by the enemy, could change the course of history.A superb blend of rugged action and haunting mystery based on real-life figures, Citadel is a vivid and richly atmospheric story of a group of heroic women who dared the odds to survive [provided by the publisher]

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Kate MosseKate Mosse is the multimillion selling author of four works of nonfiction, three plays, one volume of short stories and six novels, including the New York Times bestselling Labyrinth and Sepulchre.  A popular presenter for BBC television and radio in the UK, she is also cofounder and chair of the prestigious Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) and a member of the board of the National Theatre of Great Britain. In 2013, she was named as one of the Top 100 most influential people in British publishing and also awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She divides her time between England and Carcassonne, France.

Website | Facebook | Twitter @katemosse

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 17
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, March 18
Review at The Reading Life

Wednesday, March 19
Review + Interview + Giveaway
at Kerrie Ann Salsac – Writing For Life

Thursday, March 20
Review at Jorie Loves A Story

Friday, March 21
Review + Interview at Just Reviews

Sunday, March 23
Review at Making My Mark

Monday, March 24
Review at Diary of an Eccentric

Tuesday, March 25
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net

Wednesday, March 26
Review at The French Village Diaries

Thursday, March 27
Guest-post at Caffeinatedlife.net

Review at Impressions In Ink

Review + Giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

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Nightmare in Burgundy: official release day today

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Today is the official release day of
Nightmare in Burgundy

Read more about it here

Please come back to visit the book bloggers starting April 7,
there will be giveaways for a chance to win this great book!

 

Nightmare in Burgundy

Authors Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

are featured for the 3rd time on France Book Tours!
After Treachery in Bordeaux, and Grand Cru Heist
meet again the famous wine maker detective with this 3rd volume!

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Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

on  Tour

April 7-11, 2014

with

Nightmare In Burgundy

(translated by Sally PANE)

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

The Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine-tasting trip to France’s other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it turns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot? Does blood need to spill to sharpen people’s memory? [provided by the publisher]

Genre: whodunit/cozy mystery

BISAC cat.: Mystery/Detective

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e-release: March 18, 2014
ISBN: 978-1939474278

    p-release: July 31, 2014
ISBN: 978-1939474056
141 pages
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Available  as a Kindle book in March
Paper: pre-order from your local bookstore

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Praise for this series

“I love good mysteries. I love good wine.
So imagine my joy at finding a great mystery about wine,
and winemaking, and the whole culture of that fascinating world.
And then I find it’s the first of a series.
I can see myself enjoying many a bottle of wine
while enjoying the adventures of Benjamin Cooker
in this terrific new series.”
— William Martin, New York Times bestselling author
of Back Bay and The Lincoln Letter

The series is being adapted to television in France
and is a huge success in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Four episodes have currently been on the air.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alaux-Balen

©David Nakache

Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and television journalist
when he is not writing novels in southwestern France.
He is a genuine wine and food lover and recently won the Antonin Carême prize for his cookbook La Truffe sur le Soufflé, which he wrote with the chef Alexis Pélissou.
He is the grandson of a winemaker and exhibits a real passion for wine and winemaking. For him, there is no greater common denominator than wine.
He gets a sparkle in his eye when he talks about the Winemaker Detective series, which he coauthors with Noël Balen.
Noël lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing, making records, and lecturing on music.
He plays bass, is a music critic and has authored a number of books about musicians in addition to his novel and short-story writing.

 ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Translator Sally Pane studied French at State University of New York Oswego and the Sorbonne before receiving her Masters Degree in French Literature from the University of Colorado where she wrote Camus and the Americas: A Thematic Analysis of Three Works Based on His Journaux de Voyage.  Her career includes more than twenty years of translating and teaching French and Italian at Berlitz and at Colorado University Boulder.  She has worked in scientific, legal and literary translation; her literary translations include Operatic Arias; Singers Edition, and Reality and the Untheorizable by Clément Rosset.  She also served as the interpreter for the government cabinet of Rwanda and translated for Dian Fossey’s Digit Fund. In addition to her passion for French, she has studied Italian at Colorado University, in Rome and in Siena.  She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband.
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France Book Tours stops for March 17-22

 Citadel Monday, March 17
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, March 18
Review at The Reading Life

Wednesday, March 19
Review + Interview + Giveaway
at Kerrie Ann Salsac – Reading For Life

Thursday, March 20
Review at Jorie Loves A Story

Friday, March 21
Review + Interview at Just Reviews

My Wish List cover Tuesday, March 18
Review + Giveaway at Giraffe Days

Wednesday, March 19
Review at An Accidental Blog

Thursday, March 20
Review at The French Village Diaries

Friday, March 21
Review + Giveaway at Everyone Has a Story

Saturday, March 22
Review + Giveaway at Mommasez…