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February 3, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest February 3, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter today's Winter Reading Contest by Wednesday, February 4th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah

In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are.

France, 1939. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious 18-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.

With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. THE NIGHTINGALE tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France --- a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

THE NIGHTINGALE will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick for 2015.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here for the reading group guide.
-Click here to read more about the book on the publisher's website.
-Click here to read Kristin Hannah's bio.

-Click here to visit Kristin Hannah's official website.
-Click here to connect with Kristin Hannah on Facebook.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, February 4th.

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