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Christian Laborie on tour: The Rocheforts

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Author Christian Laborie

on Tour

April 6-15, 2015

with

Rocheforts

The Rocheforts

(fiction / saga)

Release date: May 5, 2015 at Open Road Integrated Media

484 pages

ISBN: 978-1-4804-6120-8

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SYNOPSIS

Two very different families are bonded by scandal in this sweeping story of love, greed, and betrayal.
Anselme Rochefort has built an empire manufacturing serge de Nîmes, or denim. His biggest client? Levi Strauss. As the craze for blue jeans begins to sweep the globe, Rochefort Industries seems poised for untold success. But Anselme can be as cruel and ruthless with his family as he is in business.
The Rocheforts’ neighbor Donatien Rouvière has one of the region’s most prosperous farms and is desperate for a son to carry on his legacy. After the births of three daughters, the Rouvières adopt an orphan from the Sisters of Charity convent and raise him as their own.
When Anselme suggests uniting the two families by arranging for their children to marry, it seems like the perfect match. But as the lives of the two clans grow increasingly intertwined, dark secrets come to light, including the mysterious circumstances of the death of Anselme’s eldest daughter.
With The Rocheforts, Christian Laborie weaves a captivating tale of deceit, intrigue, and the dynamic tension between industrialization and a way of life rooted in the land. [provided by the publisher]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rocheforts - Laborie

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Christian Laborie
was born in the North of France
but has lived in the southern region of Cévennes
for more than twenty years.
The Rocheforts is his first novel to be published in English.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, April 6
Spotlight +  Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, April 7
Review +  Giveaway at The Fictional 100

Wednesday, April 8
Review at The French Village Diaries

Thursday, April 9
Review + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Monday, April 13
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at View from the Birdhouse

Review + Giveaway at It’s a Mad mad World

Tuesday, April 14
Review + Giveaway at Caroline Wilson Writes

Wednesday, April 15
Review + Giveaway at The Discerning Reader

Review + Giveaway at For the Hook of a Book

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You can enter the global giveaway here
or on any other book blogs participating in this tour.
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]

Global giveaway open internationally:
5 winners will receive 1 digital copy of The Rocheforts

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Incentive program winner: From the Fifteenth District

Since the beginning of 2015, for tours counting at least 10 stops, France Book Tours offers an incentive program to the book bloggers who take time to cross-post their positive reviews to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Itunes, Kobo, Goodreads/Shelfari/LibraryThing, etc.
See more details on this post.

As this is a new program, it looks like a few bloggers forgot to send us their links.
Please be sure to send your links as soon as you publish your review on your blog.

From the book bloggers who reviewed

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we received in this order the links from these bloggers:

From the 15th District incentive winner

The winner was chosen by Random.org:

RANDOM incentive 15th District

Paulita will receive a $15 gift card of her choice!

Here is an excerpt of her review,
click on the link to read her full review

An Accidental Blog

Each story is like peeking into someone’s window and seeing the real them, the one they might hide from the rest of the world.
The black and white cover is foreshadowing of the stories to come as they definitely have a melancholy feel throughout. The richness of Gallant’s words only deepen the effect.
This is a book filled with stories of deep emotion that dig beneath the surface Europe we love.

 

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Giveaway winner: From the Fifteenth District

From the 15th District winnerwon a copy of

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.

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