Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Stones for Bread KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway from Christa Parrish! Pin It & Win It!

About the book: A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity.

Liesl McNamara's life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft.

But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled grandson into the bakeshop as an apprentice. Her waitress submits her recipes to a popular cable cooking show. And the man who delivers her flour --- a single father with strange culinary 
habits --- seems determined to win Liesl's affection.

When Wild Rise is featured on television, her quiet existence appears a thing of the past. And then a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister forces Liesl to confront long-hidden secrets in her family's past. With her precious heritage crumbling around her, the baker must make a choice: allow herself to be buried in detachment and remorse, or take a leap of faith into a new life.

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 Meet the author: Christa Parrish is the award-winning author of three novels, including the 2009 ECPA Fiction Book of the Year Watch Over Me. When she's not writing, she's a homeschool mother of three wonderful children. Married to author and pastor Chris Coppernoll, Christa serves with him as co-leader of their church's youth ministry as well as serving as a facilitator for a divorce recovery ministry. She is now also slightly obsessed with the art of baking bread.

Learn more about Christa at: http://christaparrish.com
Christa Parrish is celebrating her fourth novel, Stones for Breadwith a KitchenAid Mixer giveaway.



#StonesforBread KitchenAid Mixer 
Contest #ChristaParrish http://bit.ly/1aBTNz9




Easy steps to enter:


1. Follow Christa Parrish and TNZ Fiction on Pinterest.



2. Then Pin the Stones for Bread book cover (below), the contest graphic (above), or both, and link to this post (using this URL: #StonesforBread KitchenAid Mixer Contest #ChristaParrish http://litfusegroup.com/campaigns/stones-for-bread-by-christa-parrish).



3. Then fill out THIS SHORT FORM to let us know. (There are also some additional ways to earn extra entries, as well as an option for non-Pinterest users. It's true—people like that do exist!)



Questions? Email info @ litfusegroup dot com.



Winner will be announced on 12/9 on Christa's Facebook Page.








My Thoughts:
This book was not an easy one to get into. It took time to fully enjoy the lyrical prose that Christa created.
Lisel's life is all about bread. The art of making bread has been passed down from generations in Lisel's family. She has a quiet life, but it is getting disturbed in ways she really isn't ready for. 
Cecelia comes into her bakery the Wild Rise, with her class for a field trip, and she is taken with the little girl. She soon finds out that Cecelia's father, Seamus is the man who delivers flour to her bakery. 
When her bakery is featured on T.V. she is contacted by a half-sister she never knew she had, and we watch her go back through her childhood and deal with her past, as the relationship between her and Seamus develops.
A delicious book from beginning to end, pun intended, be careful, you may get the urge to make bread, or eat it as you read.

Highly recommended!!!


 

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