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April 2021 Book Fête and Book of the month giveaway

April 2021
Book Fête

April 2021 Book Fête !

The idea is to give you more flexibility to read and review books featured on France Book Tours.
Read below about the book available for you to request any time in April, and then read below on how to get rewards for posting your review when you are done reading the book.
Sorry this month, the Book Fête book is only available for US residents

Historical fiction

Release date:
March 1st, 2018
272 pages

Goodreads

Review copy available for US residents only, sorry.
Print or kindle

In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon discovers that her fiancé, a rich sugar planter, is unfaithful. Desperate to leave him, she elicits the aid of a voodoo witch doctor and is lured into a shadowy world of black magic and extortion. When the volcano known as Mount Pelée begins to rumble and spew ash, she joins a scientific committee sent to investigate the crater. During the journey she meets Lt. Denis Rémy, an army officer with a mysterious past with whom she forms an unlikely attachment.

During the journey, the committee discovers that Mount Pelée is on the verge of eruption. When they try to warn the governor, he orders them to bury the evidence for fear of upsetting the upcoming election. As the pressure builds, a deadly mudslide inundates Emilie’s plantation and she disappears. Lt. Rémy deserts his post and sets off on a desperate quest to rescue Emilie. But with all roads blocked, can the lovers escape the doomed city of St. Pierre before it’s too late?

No sex, no violence

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– Send your links before June 1st, and you will get 1 extra credit!

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featured this month

NB: this book will also be on tour May18-31, and for that, you can sign here

Book of the month giveaway

We have 5 books for you to choose this month!
Only for US residents this month

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The Meursault Investigation

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Giveaway Tools will draw 1 winner on May 1st

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April 1, 2021

WordsAndPeace

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Categories: art, Book of the Month, Essays, Giveaway, Historical fiction, Literary fiction, Middle Ages, Middle Grade, Music, non-fiction, Paris Tags: Antoine Laurain, Kamel Daoud, Malve von Hassell, Nancy Burkhalter, Penelope Rowlands

January 2021 Book Fête and Book of the month giveaway

January 2021
Book Fête

Yes, France Book Tours has a new feature starting today!

January 2021 Book Fête !

The idea is to give you more flexibility to read and review books featured on France Book Tours.
Read below about the book available for you to request any time in January, and then read below on how to get rewards for posting your review when you are done reading the book.

Middle Grade historical fiction

Release day:
December 15, 2020
at Serving House Books
343 pages

Review copy available in print

ALINA: A SONG FOR THE TELLING is the coming-of-age story of a young woman from Provence in the 12th century who travels to Jerusalem, where she is embroiled in political intrigue, theft, and murder, and finds her voice.
“You should be grateful, my girl. You have no dowry, and I am doing everything I can to get you settled. You are hardly any man’s dream.”
Alina’s brother Milos pulled his face into a perfect copy of Aunt Marci’s sour expression, primly pursing his mouth. He got her querulous tone just right. Maybe Alina’s aunt was right. She could not possibly hope to become a musician, a trobairitz—impoverished as she was and without the status of a good marriage. But Alina refuses to accept the life her aunt wants to impose on her.
At the first opportunity she and her brother embark on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to pray for their father’s soul and to escape from their aunt and uncle’s strictures. Their journey east takes them through the Byzantine Empire all the way to Jerusalem, where Alina is embroiled in political intrigue, theft, and murder.
Forced by a manipulative, powerful lord at court into acting as an informer, Alina tries to protect her wayward brother, while coming to terms with her attraction to a French knight.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK

You can check here some very happy reviews about this book

Are you interested in reading this book?
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After you have read the book, submit the links of your review on this page:
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For every 20 credits, you will get a $10 reward (Amazon, paypal, or card of your choice).
– Amazon links count double
– Send your links before March 1st, and you will get 1 extra credit!

This information will be resent to you through email when you sign up to receive the book (s)
featured this month

Book of the month giveaway

We have 4 books for you choose this month!

Click on the covers to know more

Enter the giveaway here

Giveaway Tools will draw 1 winner on February 1st

Did you know France Book Tours offers a Book Box?
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We also offer a monthly Newsletter
with exclusive content and raffle!

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January 1, 2021

WordsAndPeace

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Categories: art, Book of the Month, Essays, Giveaway, Historical fiction, Middle Ages, Middle Grade, Music, non-fiction, Paris Tags: Antoine Laurain, Caroline Vermalle, Malve von Hassell, Nancy Burkhalter, Penelope Rowlands

France Book Tours 2014

2014 has been another great year for France Book Tours, its authors and its reviewers!

Here is the year through some graphs and stats.

38 books have been presented in 2014 (23 in 2013)

We had less Romance and General Fiction this past year, and much more Historical Fiction and Nonfiction.
Women writers are even more present then in 2013.
Alas, less books translated from the French. But it means there’s a large interest for English writing authors to focus on France.

in 2013:

in 2013:AND NOW TO THE 3 BOOKS

MOST OFTEN VIEWED IN 2014
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#1

#2

#3

90 book bloggers and 11 authors have posted reviews for France Book Tours.
And don’t forget book reviewers are entered in $15 gift card giveaway for each 10 stops tour, when they cross-post their reviews. More information here.

HAPPY NEW WRITING AND READING YEAR TO EACH OF YOU!