Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday (12-19-12)


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Each week, you highlight an upcoming release that you are eagerly anticipating. This week, I'm looking forward to The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman (release date: December 25, 2012).


Synopsis (from GoodReads): “Bloom where you’re planted,” is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It’s a world she’s begun to glimpse through music, books—and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler’s regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job—and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo’s wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive—and finally, to speak out. Set against the backdrop of the German home front, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.

I've been looking for a great WWII novel to read and this sounds like something that I might really enjoy. So, what are you waiting on this Wednesday?




4 comments:

  1. This one is definitely going on my reading list. Sounds like something I'd really enjoy, great pick!
    My Wow Pick!

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  2. This sounds like a great read. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Great pick! How are you liking, Blackberry Winter and The Search? Both are on my list tbr

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  4. I recently added this book to my wishlist too, I can't remember where I saw it mentioned, but it was nice to see it featured here too. It sounds really good.

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