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Samantha Vérant talks about learning French

Samantha Vérant
talks about learning French

Last month, France Book Tours was honored to organize a virtual book tour for Samantha Vérant and her amazing memoir: Seven Letters from Paris.

Today, we just want to mention to our readers always eager to hear from France that Samantha has just been interviewed by Laurel Zuckerman:
on Laurel Zucherman’s Paris Weblog, she, as well as William Alexander, talks about learning French.
I highly recommend this wonderful interview.

And in case you have not read yet Samantha’s memoir, maybe it’s time to add it to your list for Santa:

Seven Letters From Paris

Seven Letters From Paris

(memoir)

Release date: October 7, 2014
at Sourcebooks

288 pages

ISBN: 978-1402297229

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SYNOPSIS

Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime

At age 40, Samantha Vérant’s life is falling apart-she’s jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck… until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she’d met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn’t faded with time and distance.

Samantha knows that jetting off to France to reconnect with a man that she only knew for one sun-drenched, passion-filled day is crazy-but it’s the kind of crazy she’s been waiting for her whole life. [provided by the publisher]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samantha VérantSamantha Vérant is a travel addict,
a self-professed oenophile,
and a determined, if occasionally unconventional, French chef.
Over the years, she’s visited many different countries,
lived in many places, and worked many jobs
— always on the search for the one thing that truly excited her.
Then, one day, she found everything she’s been looking for:
a passion for the written word and true love.
Writing not only enabled her to open her heart, it led her to southwestern France,
where she’s now married to a sexy French rocket scientist she met in 1989, but ignored for 20 years.

Visit her website. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter , Pinterest

Buy the book:  Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble  |  Indiebound  | Book Depositery  |  Powells  |  BAM

 

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, October 13
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, October 14
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Wednesday, October 15
Review at Jorie Loves A Story
Interview at Jorie Loves A Story

Thursday, October 16
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Unshelfish

Friday, October 17
Review + Giveaway at Booklover Book Reviews

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France Book Tours stops for Nov 24-30

 We'll always have Paris cover Friday, November 28
Review + Giveaway
at The Discerning Reader

Saturday, November 29
Review at BookNAround

 

Mavis Gallant on tour: From the Fifteenth District

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Author Mavis Gallant

on Tour

January 6-15, 2015

with

From the 15th district

From the Fifteenth District

(short stories – literary fiction)

Release date: December 16, 2014 at Open Road Integrated Media

242 pages

ISBN: 978-1-4976-8507-9

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SYNOPSIS

Even as we grow and change, the consequences of what we have left behind often linger Mavis Gallant has a unique talent for distilling the sense of otherness one feels abroad into something tangible and utterly understandable. In this collection, she relates the stories of those stranded in relationships, places, and even times in which they don’t belong. In “The Moslem Wife” a woman is entrusted to look after a hotel in France when her husband is trapped in America after the breakout of World War II. As the situation progresses, the two grow in surprising and profound ways. In another tale, a German prisoner of war is released from France and returns home to a mother whose personality has been as irrevocably changed by the war as his has. In one of the most poignant entries, Gallant follows the life of a Holocaust survivor, illustrating how his experiences tint his outlook on life forty years later. With its wide breadth of subject matter and the author’s characteristic way with nuance, From the Fifteenth District is classic Mavis Gallant. [provided by the publisher]

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PRAISE FOR FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT

“[From the Fifteenth District] is a splendidly written work, full of nuance and personality and compellingly evocative detail.” —Canadian Literature

  “A fine-tuned and elegant collection.” —Kirkus Reviews

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

From the 15th district Mavis GallantIn 1952 Mavis Gallant (1922–2014) left a successful career as a journalist in Montreal to live independently as a writer of fiction in Europe. She had gained international recognition in 1951 when she was published in the New Yorker, which in subsequent years released over one hundred of her short stories, most of which are set in European cities or Montreal. Random House published twelve volumes of her work. Gallant was awarded the 1981 Governor General’s Award for Home Truths, the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story, and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. She was a companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest honor. After traveling widely in Europe, in 1960 Gallant settled in Paris, where she died in 2014. The Journals of Mavis Gallant: 1952–1969 is tentatively scheduled for publication by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015.

See more books by Mavis Gallant.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, January 6
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at With Her Nose Stuck in a Book

Wednesday, January 7
Review + Giveaway at Macarons & Paperbacks

Thursday, January 8
Review + Giveaway at Wildmoo Books

Friday, January 9
Review + Giveaway at Book Nerd
Spotlight + Giveaway at Queen of All She Reads

Saturday, January 10
Review + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed

Sunday, January 11
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog

Monday, January 12
Review at Unabridged Chick
Spotlight + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, January 13
Review + Giveaway at Mirasol Press

Wednesday, January 14
Review + Giveaway at Unshelfish

Thursday, January 15
Review + Giveaway at The Book Binder’s Daughter

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Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
they are listed in the entry form below
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Entry-Form

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday
of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

US only giveaway: your choice of kindle/epub of this book