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Book Spotlight: Home Front by Kristin Hannah & Giveaway (3 copies)

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Good day everyone!  Today I am spotlighting Kristin Hannah’s newest book, Home Front, which releases on January 31!  My review of Home Front will be posted on January 31 so be sure to check back then.  I’ve read a few of Kristin’s books and I really enjoy them.  I’m currently listening to Night Road and it is really good.  So today I’m going to share with you what the book is about and all that good stuff and then I’m going to give you the opportunity to win one of three copies for yourself!

 

About Home Front by Kristin Hannah

In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage–with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.

All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost…

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene have to face the pressures of everyday life—children, careers, bills, chores—even as their twelve year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a soldier she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own–for everything that matters to his family.

At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on an ordinary American family, HOME FRONT is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor and ultimately, hope.

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Check out the the video in which Kristin interviewed helicopter pilot and mother, Warrant Officer Teresa Burgess, who was an advisor to Kristin for HOME FRONT…

 

 

About Kristin Hannah

 

I was born in September 1960 in Southern California and grew up at the beach, making sand castles and playing in the surf. When I was eight years old, my father drove us to Western Washington where we called home.

After working in a trendy advertising agency, I decided to go to law school. “But you’re going to be a writer” are the prophetic words I will never forget from my mother. I was in my third-and final-year of law school and my mom was in the hospital, facing the end of her long battle with cancer. I was shocked to discover that she believed I would become a writer. For the next few months, we collaborated on the worst, most clichéd historical romance ever written.

After my mom’s death, I packed up all those bits and pieces of paper we’d collected and put them in a box in the back of my closet. I got married and continued practicing law.

Then I found out I was pregnant, but was on bed rest for five months. By the time I’d read every book in the house and started asking my husband for cereal boxes to read, I knew I was a goner. That’s when my darling husband reminded me of the book I’d started with my mom. I pulled out the boxes of research material, dusted them off and began writing. By the time my son was born, I’d finished a first draft and found an obsession.

The rejections came, of course, and they stung for a while, but each one really just spurred me to try harder, work more. In 1990, I got “the call,” and in that moment, I went from a young mother with a cooler-than-average hobby to a professional writer, and I’ve never looked back. In all the years between then and now, I have never lost my love of, or my enthusiasm for, telling stories. I am truly blessed to be a wife, a mother, and a writer.

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have 3 copies of Home Front by Kristin Hannah to share with my readers. To enter…

  • For 1 entry simply leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thank you, and please let me know so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word!

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Saturday, January 28/12.  Good luck!

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  1. Interesting to read her journey to publication. I haven’t read anything by Kristin Hannah, but she is on my list of authors to look out for.

  8. This sounds fantastic! I’ve never read any of her books before, and this one sounds like a great place to start.

    I’m a follower.
    I posted the giveaway in my sidebar.

    diaryofaneccentric at hotmail dot com

  9. Loved the bit about the author’s mother. I have The Winter Garden by this author on my TBR shelf and would love to add this book. Thanks for the giveaway.

  10. Wow! How she got started writing is a story itself. Glad she persisted. Would love to read home front.
    seknobloch(at)gmail(dot)com

  12. Hannah has a lot of fans, but I have never read a book from her before. I might like this one though, so I would love to be entered in your giveaway, Dar. It sounds like a heart-tugging read, and one that would make me think while engaging my sympathies. Great spotlight today!

    zibilee(at)figearo(dot)net

  14. Hannah’s books are so appealing. I hope you’re enjoying Night Road. I loved that one, it really touched me.

    Please enter me in the giveaway.

  43. Thank you so much for the interview with the service women. I reminds me a woman I knew who was in the National Guard. Her husband had to take care everywhere while still working full time and they had four children. That would be so difficult for the family.

    CarolNWong(at)aol(dot)com

  47. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite author. Her stories are always so emotional and tend to resonate with me. I’m really looking forward to this one 🙂

  52. The book sounds very emotionally powerful. I’ve been reading about this and seeing friends who have been affected by the war after they come home. I’m glad to see it addressed.

    Thanks for the post and for the giveaway opportunity.

    sophiarose1816@gmail.com

  53. A interesting book one Im sure that I will enjoy reading. Thanks for the chance to win it
    amhengst at verizon dot net

  60. I have never read any of her books so count me in for this giveaway!

    Margaret
    singitm(at)hotmail(dot)com

  75. This book sounds like a great read. I have always loved Kristen’s books. Thanks for having this giveaway.

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  77. Ever since reading Night Road last year, I’ve wanted to get my hands on as many of her titles as I see. I snatched up Winter Garden at my local indie, and I’m working on the rest! Thanks for the chance to win a copy of her newest!

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