{"id":3121,"date":"2013-07-29T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2013-07-14T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T17:52:33","slug":"give-away-of-gracianna-by-trini-amador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"Give Away of GRACIANNA by Trini Amador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3123 lazyload\" alt=\"Gracianna Tour Banner FINAL\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\" width=\"619\" height=\"171\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 619px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 619\/171;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3123\" alt=\"Gracianna Tour Banner FINAL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna-Tour-Banner-FINAL.png\" width=\"619\" height=\"171\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am so excited to host Trini Amador and his beautiful novel GRACIANNA today on my blog. We&#8217;re giving away a copy of the novel through the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/hfvirtualbooktours.com\/\">Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours<\/a> with Amy Bruno.\u00c2\u00a0The giveaway is for one copy and open to US\/Canada only. Please read below to find out more about this lovely book&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3124 lazyload\" alt=\"Gracianna\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"409\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 383px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 383\/409;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3124\" alt=\"Gracianna\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gracianna.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"409\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b>GRACIANNA<\/b><br \/>\nPublication Date: July 23, 2013<\/div>\n<p>Greenleaf Book Group Press Hardcover;<\/p>\n<p>296p ISBN-10: 1608325709<\/p>\n<p>The gripping story of Gracianna&#8211;a French-Basque girl forced to make\u00c2\u00a0 impossible decisions after being recruited into the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.<br \/>\nGracianna is inspired by true events in the life of Trini Amador&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 great-grandmother, Gracianna Lasaga. As an adult, Amador was haunted by\u00c2\u00a0 the vivid memory of finding a loaded German Luger tucked away in a\u00c2\u00a0 nightstand while wandering his great-grandmother&#8217;s home in Southern\u00c2\u00a0 California. He was only four years old at the time, but the memory\u00c2\u00a0 remained and he knew he had to explore the story behind the gun.<br \/>\nDecades later, Amador would delve into the remarkable odyssey of his Gracianna&#8217;s past, a road that led him to an incredible surprise. In\u00c2\u00a0 Gracianna, Amador weaves fact and fiction to tell his\u00c2\u00a0 great-grandmother&#8217;s story.<br \/>\nGracianna bravely sets off to Paris in the early 1940s&#8211;on her way\u00c2\u00a0 to America, she hopes&#8211;but is soon swept into the escalation of the war\u00c2\u00a0 and the Nazi occupation of Paris. After chilling life-and-death\u00c2\u00a0 struggles, she discovers that her missing sister has surfaced as a\u00c2\u00a0 laborer in Auschwitz. When she finds an opportunity to fight back\u00c2\u00a0 against the Nazis to try to free her sister, she takes it&#8211;even if it\u00c2\u00a0 means using lethal force.<br \/>\nAs Amador tells the imagined story of how his great-grandmother\u00c2\u00a0 risked it all, he delivers richly drawn characters and a heart-wrenching page-turner that readers won&#8217;t soon forget.<br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3389\" style=\"font-size: large;\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3388\">Praise for Gracianna<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;Gracianna is a riveting and remarkable narrative. The characters\u00c2\u00a0 come alive through their unassuming but compelling stories, as\u00c2\u00a0 Nazi-occupied Paris unfolds before our eyes. We come to care deeply\u00c2\u00a0 about the characters, which makes putting down the book almost\u00c2\u00a0 impossible. Highly recommended.&#8221; &#8211; Stacey Katz Bourns, Director of\u00c2\u00a0 Language Programs, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard\u00c2\u00a0 University \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While wine is obviously a significant part of life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enjoyment,\u00c2\u00a0 the story behind the wine can be even more gratifying. You will be\u00c2\u00a0 fixated on this thrilling story written by Trini Amador which was\u00c2\u00a0 inspired by Gracianna, his great-grandmother, the French Basque namesake of his family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s award-winning winery in Sonoma County.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Bob Cabral,\u00c2\u00a0 Director of Winemaking &amp; General Manager, Williams Selyem Winery <span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3387\" style=\"font-size: large;\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3386\"> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Trini-Amador-Author.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3126 lazyload\" alt=\"Trini Amador Author\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Trini-Amador-Author.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"187\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 326px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 326\/187;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3126\" alt=\"Trini Amador Author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Trini-Amador-Author.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"187\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3387\" style=\"font-size: large;\"><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3386\">About the Author<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nTrini Amador\u00c2\u00a0 vividly remembers the day he found a loaded German Luger tucked away in a nightstand while wandering through his great-grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in\u00c2\u00a0 Southern California. He was only four years old at the time, but the\u00c2\u00a0 memory remained and he knew he had to explore the story behind the gun.\u00c2\u00a0 This experience sparked a journey towards Gracianna, Amador\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debut\u00c2\u00a0 novel, inspired by true events and weaving reality with imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tale drawing from real-life family experiences.<br \/>\nMr. Amador is a traveled global marketing &#8220;insighter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He is a\u00c2\u00a0 sought-after guru teaching multinational brand marketers to understand\u00c2\u00a0 how customer and consumer segments behave based on their needs, values,\u00c2\u00a0 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\u00c2\u00a0 years. His counseling has been valued at global brands including General Electric, Microsoft, AT&amp;T, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, Google, Jack\u00c2\u00a0 Daniel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, The J.M. Smucker Co., DuPont, Mattel, and Rodale, Inc..<br \/>\nAmador is also a founding partner with his wife and children of\u00c2\u00a0 Gracianna Winery, an award-winning winery located in Healdsburg,\u00c2\u00a0 California. The winery also pays tribute to the Amador Family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s maternal grandmother, Gracianna Lasaga. Her message of being thankful lives on\u00c2\u00a0 through them. The Gracianna winery strives to keep Gracianna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gratitude alive through their wine. Learn more at: <a id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3384\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gracianna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.gracianna.com<\/a>, like Gracianna Winery on <a id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1373823273036_3385\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gracianna-Winery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> or follow them on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/graciannawinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@GraciannaWinery<\/a>.<br \/>\nAmador resides in Sonoma County with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I am so excited to host Trini Amador and his beautiful novel GRACIANNA today on my blog. We&#8217;re giving away a copy of the novel through the fabulous Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours with Amy Bruno.\u00c2\u00a0The giveaway is for one copy and open to US\/Canada only. 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