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May 2016 Books of the month giveaway winner

We have a winner!

May 2016 winner

Anne

won

 

 Journeys Through France and Life

AND THE BOOK BLOGGER OF THE MONTH

is

SHARON

 at

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June Book of the Month giveaway

 

 
 June 2, 2016  WordsAndPeace   5 Comments
Categories: blogger, Book of the Month, Giveaway, Memoir, non-fiction, Travel Tags: 

June 2016 Book of the month giveaway

This month,
a lovely
book giveaway
for your Summer… in France!

Click on the book cover
to know more

 I Promise You This

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Giveaway Tools will draw 1 winner on July 1st

Good luck!

Does this book cover entice you?
Why or why not?

 
 June 1, 2016  WordsAndPeace   6 Comments
Categories: Book of the Month, expat, Fiction, Giveaway, Provence, Travel, Women's fiction Tags: , , ,

Bookgiveaway: Tainted Tokay

Tainted Tokay

Tainted Tokay

the latest book  in the Winemaker Detective Series,
by

Jean-Pierre ALAUX and Noël BALEN

is here!

Celebrating the success of the Cooker Guide, the Winemaker Detective Benjamin Cooker takes a cruise down the Danube with his wife and editor. Enjoying mythic Tokaji wines in Budapest, all is not what it seems. Meanwhile, Virgile must handle the business in Bordeaux, while Alexandrine is attacked.

France Book Tours just read it and found it one of the best in the series!

Here is what the publisher is sharing today about it:

12 Facts You Can Steal:
Bordeaux, Cork Taint, Transylvania,
Tokay and more

As readers know, the Winemaker Detective series offers an immersive experience in both French countryside and winemaking, with some gentle mystery on the side. In the most recent addition to the series—Tainted Tokay—Benjamin Cooker travels abroad to Hungary while his trusty assistant Virgile stays at home. In this one, I learned a number of fun facts, as usual. Here are twelve of them.

  1. Some Bordeaux wine estates have cupolas—those are dome-like structures on the top of a building. These were once used to watch for thieves during the grape harvest.

  2. In the city of Bordeaux, the cupolas served to spot the arrival of merchant ships.

  3. The Prince of Transylvania gave King Louis XIV of France a bottle of Tokay wine from the Tokaj region in Hungary, which gave the wine

  4. click on the “12 facts” title to read the whole article

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alaux-Balen

©David Nakache

 

Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen,
wine lover and music lover respectively,
came up with the idea for the Winemaker Detective series
while sharing a meal,
with a bottle of Château Gaudou 1996,
a red wine from Cahors
with smooth tannins and a balanced nose.

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 May 23, 2016  WordsAndPeace   1 Comment
Categories: Cozy mystery, Detective, Giveaway, Mystery, whodunit Tags: , , , , ,
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