Review Tour: Coal Dreams by Annette Oppenlander

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Name Before the Masses REVIEW ONLY Tour for COAL DREAMS by Annette Oppenlander, a 329 page Historical Fiction novel available July 18. The tour will run every Thursday for four weeks starting on September 4. The Book is available in PDF and epub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.

An emotional insight into the fate of the more than twenty million forced laborers in Hitler’s Third Reich—an impossible love for a German woman and the endurance of the human spirit to find a way to freedom.

Bochum, Germany, April 1943: While her husband has been at war for three years, twenty-five-year-old Marie Heinrich ekes out a living on a small farm. Her goats, whose milk and cheese help her survive, are her pride and joy. Until the SS confiscates the animals and Marie is forced to take a job at the nearby Schwarzenberg coal mine. Lyon, France, April 1943: Adrien Rocheau’s shoulder wound from the war has barely healed, when the SS arrests and forces him on a train to Germany. In Bochum, he is assigned to the Schwarzenberg mine. Since he speaks fluent German—his mother is from Alsace—he occasionally escapes the claustrophobic pit as a translator. With Adrien’s support, Marie, who registers the newly arrived forced laborers, finds a way to communicate with the strangers.

Grateful for his help, she slips the Frenchman a little bread and a spare shirt. But socializing with foreign workers is strictly forbidden and punishable by law. While Adrien and his comrades slave away up to fourteen hours a day and quickly grow weaker, Marie searches for a way to help the men. If only it weren’t for her spying neighbor and her controlling boss.

September 4: The Avid Reader
September 11: Gina Rae Mitchell
September 11: Novels Alive
September 18: Boys' Mom Reads!
September 25: The Faerie Review

Review Tour: When the Skies Rained Freedom by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Bridgett W. and to host winners The Avid Reader and Guatemala Paula Loves to Read.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for When the Skies Rained Freedom by Annette Oppenlander, a 272 page Historical Fiction available now. The tour will run every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting on January 3, and the book is available in PDF and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host. Because this is a review tour, Goddess Fish Promotions will award a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

 

Captivating, gripping and relentlessly authentic...inspired by eyewitness accounts.

To this day, the Berlin airlift presents one of the most dramatic and daring historic events of post WWII Germany, pinning east against west, and cementing the Cold War against Soviet Russia. Without the help of America’s brave pilots, two million Berliners would’ve been lost to Stalin’s dictatorial regime, the future of Europe may have turned out entirely different.

Berlin, May 1945: As the war finally ends, Lotte Berger's apartment lies in rubble, her mother suffers a breakdown after an assault by Russian soldiers, and both, Lotte's father and fiancé are missing in Russia. Only when Mitch Cameron, an American pilot, comes to her aid after an accident, does she regain hope. Just as they are growing closer, Lotte's fiancé reappears under suspicious circumstances...

Berlin, June 1948: Lotte has fought her way through the aftermath of WWII and a devastating loss, when Russia’s dictator, Josef Stalin, decides to take over West Berlin. By cutting off supply lines, electricity and travel, he is willing to starve two million Berliners and force the U.S., Britain and France out. But the western allies, led by President Truman, decide to do the impossible: support Berlin from the air. Thus begins a turbulent and seemingly futile attempt to rescue West Berlin. Willing to do her part, Lotte lands a job as a translator at the American-run Tempelhof Airport. Even if her love is long lost, she can at least dream about Mitch helping to free Berlin...

January 3: The Avid Reader
January 3: Gina Rae Mitchell
January 10: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
January 10: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
January 17: Lady In Read Writes
January 24: Sandra's Book Club - spotlight
January 24: Novels Alive

Review Tour: So Close to Heaven by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Kim M. and to host winners The Faerie Review and Enchanting Reviews.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for So Close to Heaven by Annette Oppenlander, a 208 page Historical Fiction available now. The tour will run every Monday for 4 weeks starting on February 27, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host. Because this is a review tour, GFP will award a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

A harrowing tale of a single woman's fight to preserve her beloved abbey, a tale of courage and perserverance - based on a true story.

South Tirol, Sabiona Abbey, 1796: Magdalena, a Benedictine nun, lives with her fellow sisters at Sabiona Abbey, a secluded monastery atop a cliff high above the Eisack valley and only reachable by a strenuous climb. In this simple life of work, prayer and reading, Magdalena feels safe from the world, assured that her secret will remain hidden forever.

Until one-hundred-seventy Tirolian soldiers demand entry, Napoleon’s army is almost upon them. As the world, Magdalena has so carefully built, crumbles, she must make a choice: leave the abbey to join her sisters at the bishop’s summer residence or fight to save it—even if it may cost her everything.

February 27: The Avid Reader
February 27: The Faerie Review
March 6: Enchanting Reviews
March 13: Beverley A Baird
March 13: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
March 20: Dawn Dehel

Review Tour: The Scent of a Storm by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Kim M. and to host winners Harlie's Books and My Book Bliss.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for The Scent of a Storm by Annette Oppenlander, a 308 page Historical Fiction available now. The tour will run every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting on November 24, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. Additionally, Goddess Fish Promotions will be awarding a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

A heart-wrenching love story for the ages – inspired by true events

Eastern Prussia, 1944: Young lovers Annie and Werner are separated from each other when he is drafted into Hitler’s Volkssturm. While the SS orders Werner to remove the dead bodies of frozen refugees from Königsberg’s streets, Annie discovers she is pregnant. As she urgently awaits Werner’s return, rumors of the advancing Red Army mount and with it, alarming reports of what they do to women. Running for their lives, Annie and her mother embark on a life-threatening journey west. Even before they can escape by boat, Annie makes a horrifying mistake, one that will haunt her forever. Werner, arrested and imprisoned in a Russian gulag, manages to escape after four months of cruelty and returns home. But his and Annie’s farms lie abandoned—the love of his life and his own family have vanished…

East Berlin, 1989: On the evening of November 9, when the borders between East and West Berlin open for the first time in nearly thirty years—a day which ultimately heralds Germany’s reunification—Annie watches a correspondent on West TV who reminds her of her childhood sweetheart Werner, the man she has thought dead for 45 years. Together with her daughter Emma, Annie sets out on a search...

November 24: Novels Alive
December 1: My Bookish Bliss
December 1: The Faerie Review
December 8: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
December 8: The Avid Reader
December 15: Harlie's Books
December 15: Our Town Book Reviews

Review Tour: A Lightness in My Soul by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Edgar G. and to host winners Natural Bri and Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!

Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for A Lightness in My Soul by Annette Oppenlander, a 100 page Young Adult Historical Fiction available now. The tour will run every Monday for 4 weeks starting on January 4, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host. Because this is a review tour, GFP will award a randomly drawn host a $5 Amazon GC.

Inspired by the incredible true story of a German teen taken prisoner at the end of WWII, determined to survive and to reunite with his mother - A Lightness in My Soul is a tribute to the triumph of hope and redemption against all odds.

Germany, October 2019: In a car repair shop an elderly man waits next to a woman. They begin to talk about the Great War, when he was just a teen. He tells her a story, one he has never shared—his own.

Bavaria, April 1945: For the last two years, fifteen-year old Arthur and his classmates have lived in a youth camp. Far from home and allied bombs they spend their days with lessons, hikes, play fights and helping local farmers harvest ever decreasing crops. They have been told that the war will be over soon and that they’ll return home to a victorious Germany.

When the U.S. Army marches into camp, they are arrested and taken to the just liberated Dachau concentration camp. Everything they ever believed turns out to be false. They were lied to… not only has Germany lost the war, what they find is monstrous. But being a prisoner is only the beginning of their ordeal…

January 4: Bibliomaniac Aza
January 4: Locks, Hooks and Books
January 11: The Avid Reader
January 11: Iron Canuck Reviews & More
January 18: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
January 18: Natural Bri
January 25: Eclectic Ramblings of Author Heather Osborne
January 25: Hurn Publications

Review Tour: Escape from the Past The Duke's Wrath by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Victoria A. and to host winners Locks, Hooks, and Books and Sharing Links and Wisdom.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for Escape from the Past: The Duke's Wrath by Annette Oppenlander, a 292 page Young Adult - Time-Travel novel available now. The tour will run every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting on August 21, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. Additionally, Goddess Fish Promotions will be awarding a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

"...will grip the reader's total attention from beginning to end. Very highly recommended for school and community library..." -Midwest Book Review

"...an entertaining and fast-paced read that guarantees to thrill any young reader's/gamer's wish to be a hero in a faraway time." -Historical Novel Society

When nerd and gamer, Max Anderson, is lured into trying an experimental computer game, he doesn't realize he's playing the ultimate history game, time-traveling into the past...anywhere...anytime. Survival is optional. To return home he must decipher the game's rules and complete its missions--if he lives long enough. Tofail means staying in the past--forever.

Now he'strapped in medieval Germany, unprepared and clueless. It is the year 1471 and he quickly learns that being an outcast may cost him his head. Especially after rescuing a beautiful peasant girl from a deadly infection and thus provoking sinister wannabe Duke Ott. Overnight he is dragged into a hornets' nest of feuding lords who will stop at nothing to bring down the conjuring stranger in their midst.

August 21: Long and Short Reviews
August 28: Sharing Links and Wisdom
August 28: Books in the Hall
September 4: Locks, Hooks and Books
September 4: Fabulous and Brunette
September 11: Thornton Berry Shire Press - Promo

Review Tour: Where the Night Never Ends by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Caryl K. and to host winners Sharing Links and Wisdom and The Reading Addict.
Thank you for your interest in hosting this tour, but all stops have now been filled.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for Where the Night Never Ends by Annette Oppenlander, a 295 page Historical Fiction available March 15, 2019. The tour will run every Thursday for 4 weeks starting on April 25, 2019, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub format.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour and a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn host. Additionally, Goddess Fish Productions will be awarding a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

A chance encounter between a penniless young woman in search of her missing brother and a hobo burdened with a big secret takes both on a journey to Chicago's glamorous yet crime-ridden 1920s, where prostitution, bootlegging, and corruption rule. Separated by fate and reunited by chance, WHERE THE NIGHT NEVER ENDS is an unforgettable tale of courage and perseverance, a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.

When feisty and headstrong Samantha Bruno loses her mother in a freak accident, she decides to search for her brother, Angelo, who didn't return from a business trip to Chicago seven months earlier. It is the year 1924, the height of prohibition, and the city of Cincinnati is in the midst of a deep recession. Narrowly escaping a band of thugs, Sam meets Paul, a mysterious hobo with a big secret. Together they embark on a harrowing journey to Chicago, where Al Capone is building an empire.

Just when it seems their friendship is blossoming into something more, a raid tears Sam and Paul apart. Sam is sold into a brothel while Paul is arrested. Trapped without money and desperate to escape her new profession, Sam realizes she is on her own. Not only to free herself and search for her brother among Chicago's three million residents, but also to do the impossible--find Paul.

During his hearing, Paul learns that his father, a wealthy Chicago inventor, is on his deathbed. The judge, an old family friend, gives Paul an ultimatum. See your father or go to jail. Reluctantly, Paul returns home, where he finds that his decision to run away seven years earlier was based on a terrible mistake.

Narrated in alternating chapters by Sam and Paul, with rich historical detail, complex characters, and stunning prose, award-winning author Annette Oppenlander once again delivers a touching novel that lets us imagine what it was like to live and love during the roaring 1920s.

April 25: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin'
April 25: LoveRomanceReads
May 2: Notes From a Romantic's Heart
May 2: The Reading Addict
May 9: Fabulous and Brunette
May 9: Iron Canuck
may 9: Sharing Links and Wisdom
May 16: Locks, Hooks and Books
May 16: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews

Review Tour: Everything We Lose by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Peggy H. and to host winner Andi's Young Adult Books.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for Everything We Lose by Annette Oppenlander, a 287 page Historical Young Adult novel available now. The tour will run every Monday for 4 weeks starting on March 26, and the book is available in PDF, mobi and ePub formats.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Additionally, Goddess Fish Productions will be awarding a $5 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host.

Two friends--one black, one white.
Torn apart by an attack gone wrong.
One escapes into war, the other is sold into slavery.

Told from alternating viewpoints, one black and one white, Surviving the Fatherland author Annette Oppenlander delivers another stunning historical tale set against the epic backdrop of the American Civil War--a breathtaking examination of the power of hope and friendship, and the endurance of the human spirit to find a way home.

Tennessee, 1861. Fifteen-year-old farm boy Adam Brown would do anything to protect his friend Tip, a slave at the neighboring plantation—even if it means fighting Nathan Billings, the rich and obnoxious landowner’s son. But when it seems his attack has killed Nathan, Adam has no choice but to run away and join the Union Army under an assumed name. Together with Wes, a chatty soldier with a few secrets of his own, Adam embarks on a traumatic odyssey through the war-torn Midwest. As his soul darkens with the atrocities of war, all he wants is to go home. But in order to do that—if he survives—he must face his past.

Unbeknownst to Adam, sixteen-year old Tip is sold to a farmer who takes drunken pleasure in torturing his slaves. Tip quickly realizes that if he wants to survive he must run. Ahead lie hundreds of miles of unknown country, infested by slave owners, traders, starvation and cold. And so begins a journey of escape and recapture, of brutal attacks and unexpected kindness. When a rescue by the Underground Railroad goes terribly wrong, Tip finds himself caring for a pregnant runaway, his journey seemingly at an end. They have reached the Ohio River, a vast watery expanse impossible to cross. It is only a matter of time before roaming slave traders will pick them up—he will never see his mother and his best friend again.

March 26: Unabridged Andra's
March 26: Andi's Young Adult Books
April 2: Notes From a Romantic's Heart
April 9: Locks, Hooks and Books
April 9: Bookaholic
April 16: Rainy Day Reviews
April 16: Books Direct

Review Tour: Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to tour winner Sheryl P. and to host winners Booklove and Fabulous and Brunette.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual REVIEW ONLY Tour for Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander, a 355 page Historical Coming of age available now from Oppenlander Enterprises LLC. The tour will run every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting on April 26, and the book is available in PDF or ePub format.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host. Goddess Fish Promotions will award a randomly drawn host a $5 Amazon GC.

Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953, SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND tells the true and heart-wrenching stories of Lilly and Günter struggling with the terror-filled reality of life in the Third Reich, each embarking on their own dangerous path toward survival, freedom, and ultimately each other. Based on the author’s own family and anchored in historical facts, this story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the strength of war children.

SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the children's war.

April 26: Booklove
May 3: Unabridged Andra
May 3: Deep in the Crease
May 10: Fabulous and Brunette
May 17: EskieMama and Dragon Lady Reads
May 17: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
May 17: Long and Short Reviews

VBT: Escape from the Past: The Kid by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to Rita W., winner of the tour prize and to Harlie's Books, the host winner.

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for Escape from the Past: The Kid by Annette Oppenlander, a YA historical/sci-fi available February 26 from Lodestone Books. The tour will run February 15 – March 4, and Annette Oppenlander is available for guest post and interviews. A PDF copy of both book one, Escape From the Past: The Duke's Wrath and this book are available for review in conjunction with a promo post, guest post or interview.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn host.

Time-traveling gamer, Max, embarks on a harrowing journey through the Wild West of 1881! After a huge fight with his parents, Max tries to return to his love and his best friend, Bero, in medieval Germany. Instead he lands in 1881 New Mexico. Struggling to get his bearings and coming to terms with Dr. Stuler’s evil computer game misleading him, he runs into Billy the Kid. To his amazement Billy isn’t at all the ruthless killer history made him out to be. Trouble brews when a dying Warm Springs Apache gives Max a huge gold nugget to help his sister, Ela, escape from Fort Sumner. Shopping for supplies Max attracts the attention of ruthless bandits. Before Max can ask the Kid’s help, he and Ela are forced to embark on a journey to find his imaginary goldmine. This is book 2 in the Escape from the Past trilogy.

February 15: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
February 16: The Reading Addict
February 17: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
February 18: BooksChatter
February 19: Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
February 22: Author C.A.Milson
February 23: Queen of All She Reads
February 24: The Avid Reader - review only
February 25: Independent Authors
February 26: Angela Myron's Blog
February 29: Hope. Dreams. Life... Love
March 1: Harlie's Books
March 2: The Semi Short Chic
March 3: Our Families Adventure
March 4: The Children's and Teens' Book Connection

VBT: Escape from the Past: The Duke's Wrath by Annette Oppenlander

Congratulations to Penny O., winner of the tour prize

Goddess Fish Promotions is organizing a Virtual Book Tour for Escape from the Past: The Duke's Wrath by Annette Oppenlander, a YA historical/sci-fi available now from Lodestone Books. The tour will run January 11 – January 29 and Annette Oppenlander is available for guest post and interviews. A PDF and epud copy of the book is available for review in conjunction with a guest post or interview.

Annette Oppenlander will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

When fifteen-year old nerd and gamer Max Anderson thinks he’s sneaking a preview of an unpublished video game, he doesn’t realize that 1) He’s been secretly chosen as a beta, an experimental test player. 2) He’s playing the ultimate history game, transporting him into the actual past: anywhere and anytime. And 3) Survival is optional: To return home he must decipher the game’s rules and complete its missions—if he lives long enough. To fail means to stay in the past—forever.

Now Max is trapped in medieval Germany, unprepared and clueless. It is 1471 and he quickly learns that being an outcast may cost him his head. Especially after rescuing a beautiful peasant girl from a deadly infection and thus provoking sinister wannabe duke Ott. Overnight he is dragged into a hornet’s nest of feuding lords who will stop at nothing to bring down the conjuring stranger in their midst.

January 11: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
January 12: Rogues Angels
January 13: Books in the Hall
January 14: Room With Books
January 15: FictionZeal
January 18: It's Raining Books
January 19: Deal Sharing Aunt
January 20: Writer Wonderland
January 21: Kit 'N Kabookle
January 22: Two Ends of the Pen
January 25: Danita Minnis
January 26: Reviews by Crystal
January 27: Bedazzled By Books
January 28: Welcome to My World of Dreams  - promo
January 29: Long and Short Reviews YA