Give Away of GRACIANNA by Trini Amador

I am so excited to host Trini Amador and his beautiful novel GRACIANNA today on my blog. We’re giving away a copy of the novel through the fabulous Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours with Amy Bruno. The giveaway is for one copy and open to US/Canada only. Please read below to find out more about this lovely book…

Greenleaf Book Group Press Hardcover;

296p ISBN-10: 1608325709

The gripping story of Gracianna–a French-Basque girl forced to make  impossible decisions after being recruited into the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Gracianna is inspired by true events in the life of Trini Amador’s  great-grandmother, Gracianna Lasaga. As an adult, Amador was haunted by  the vivid memory of finding a loaded German Luger tucked away in a  nightstand while wandering his great-grandmother’s home in Southern  California. He was only four years old at the time, but the memory  remained and he knew he had to explore the story behind the gun.
Decades later, Amador would delve into the remarkable odyssey of his Gracianna’s past, a road that led him to an incredible surprise. In  Gracianna, Amador weaves fact and fiction to tell his  great-grandmother’s story.
Gracianna bravely sets off to Paris in the early 1940s–on her way  to America, she hopes–but is soon swept into the escalation of the war  and the Nazi occupation of Paris. After chilling life-and-death  struggles, she discovers that her missing sister has surfaced as a  laborer in Auschwitz. When she finds an opportunity to fight back  against the Nazis to try to free her sister, she takes it–even if it  means using lethal force.
As Amador tells the imagined story of how his great-grandmother  risked it all, he delivers richly drawn characters and a heart-wrenching page-turner that readers won’t soon forget.
Praise for Gracianna
“Gracianna is a riveting and remarkable narrative. The characters  come alive through their unassuming but compelling stories, as  Nazi-occupied Paris unfolds before our eyes. We come to care deeply  about the characters, which makes putting down the book almost  impossible. Highly recommended.” – Stacey Katz Bourns, Director of  Language Programs, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard  University    “While wine is obviously a significant part of life’s enjoyment,  the story behind the wine can be even more gratifying. You will be  fixated on this thrilling story written by Trini Amador which was  inspired by Gracianna, his great-grandmother, the French Basque namesake of his family’s award-winning winery in Sonoma County.”  – Bob Cabral,  Director of Winemaking & General Manager, Williams Selyem Winery

About the Author
Trini Amador  vividly remembers the day he found a loaded German Luger tucked away in a nightstand while wandering through his great-grandmother’s home in  Southern California. He was only four years old at the time, but the  memory remained and he knew he had to explore the story behind the gun.  This experience sparked a journey towards Gracianna, Amador’s debut  novel, inspired by true events and weaving reality with imagination.  It’s a tale drawing from real-life family experiences.
Mr. Amador is a traveled global marketing “insighter.” He is a  sought-after guru teaching multinational brand marketers to understand  how customer and consumer segments behave based on their needs, values,  motivations, feeling and values. He has trained over five thousand brand marketers on how to grow brands in over 20 countries in the last 15  years. His counseling has been valued at global brands including General Electric, Microsoft, AT&T, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, Google, Jack  Daniel’s, The J.M. Smucker Co., DuPont, Mattel, and Rodale, Inc..
Amador is also a founding partner with his wife and children of  Gracianna Winery, an award-winning winery located in Healdsburg,  California. The winery also pays tribute to the Amador Family’s maternal grandmother, Gracianna Lasaga. Her message of being thankful lives on  through them. The Gracianna winery strives to keep Gracianna’s gratitude alive through their wine. Learn more at: www.gracianna.com, like Gracianna Winery on Facebook or follow them on Twitter @GraciannaWinery.
Amador resides in Sonoma County with his family.