April 13-27, 2009
The Secret Holocaust Diaries Blog Tour
by Nonna Bannister
with Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin
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Denise George and Carolyn Tomlin will be conducting a Blog Tour during April 13-27, 2009 for their book, The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister (Tyndale House Publishers).
1. What is a blog tour any way? Please click here.
2.) If you have a blog, podcast, web site, internet radio show or e-zine and would like to host these authors as special guests during the tour, please click here.
3.) For more information about The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister, please click here.
4.) To contact the blog tour coordinator, please click here.
5.) For a Blog Tour Itinerary, please click here.
1.) What is a Blog Tour any way?
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. Many are associated with online newsletters or e-zines. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. As of September 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 106 million blogs. That means on any given day there are millions of blog owners who must post fresh and original content on their blog or in their online newsletter.
A Blog Tour is an opportunity for blog owners to host special guests on their blog. This hosting can be carried out in various ways from posting personalized Q&A, to allowing the guest to write a journal entry for the appointed day. Some special guests are asked to respond to reader comments, and others appear in live chat rooms associated with the particular blog. An organized Blog Tour also allows readers to travel from one blog to another with the special guest. When combined with the release of a new book or product, a Blog Tour can introduce an author to countless readers around the world.
2.) We invite you to host Denise George & Carolyn Tomlin as special guests on your blog, podcast, web site, internet radio show or e-zine during April 13-27, 2009.
Please note that a limited number of blog tour appearances will be available, so schedule your date now.
Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing Nazi atrocities while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.
"How this story came to be written is a big part of the drama. The only World War II survivor of her wealthy Russian, devout Christian family, Nonna Lisowskaya came to the U.S. in 1950, married Henry Bannister, and never spoke about her Holocaust experience ––until a few years before her death in 2004, when she revealed her diaries, originally written in six languages on paper scraps that she had kept in a pillow strapped to her body throughout the war. Now those diaries, in her English translation, tell her story of fleeing Stalinist Russia, not knowing what was waiting in Hitler’s Germany, where she saw her mother murdered in the camps, escaped a massacre of Jews shot into a pit, was nursed by Catholic nuns, and much more." ~Hazel Rochman, March 1, 2009 (Booklist)
"Nonna Bannister recounts her personal travails in the first person singular, in a real time account, with touching simplicity and directness - yet with brutal honesty. Bannister rejects any temptation to embroider or hype the raw brutality, tragedies and stark deprivations that were experienced and endured by her family and herself. Bannister remembers the young Nonna as a victim who refuses to be a victim. This absence of any semblance of self pity is made more ringing by her evident joy in recounting through her diaries her fond early memories of family life, and by her faithfulness, when confronted with unspeakable horrors, in practicing a philosophy for life learned at her father's knee - "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." Perhaps it is the influence of these twin philosophies - joy and forgiveness - that make this such a special and unique book. Nonna and her family were subjected to many of the worst excesses of the Bolsheviks under Stalinism, were caught in the vice of war between Russia and Germany, and "escaped" into the hell of Nazism. This book gives first person account of the travails of that passage and does so in that manner that shows the reader the real face of true humility. This is a book for the ages." ~ Dr. Edward J. Coyne, Sr., Samford University
The Secret Holocaust Diaries:
The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
Blog Tour Itinerary
April 13-27, 2009
April Blog Name: Janey's World
Host: Janey DeMeoBlog Name: Seed Sowers Series
Host: Debby SmithBlog Name: Pix-N-Pens
Host: Tracy RuckmanBlog Name: lighthouse-academy
Host: Laura HiltonBlog Name: Flea's World
Host: Flea ChristensonBlog Name: Gatorskunkz and Mudcats
Host: Delia MeltonBlog Name: Notes in the Key of Life
Host: Cindy SwansonBlog Name: Fictionary: Blog Tours, Book Reviews, and Author Interviews
Host: Christa AllanBlog Name: Extreme Adventures in Motherhood
Host: Tracey SolomonBlog Name: My Friend Amy
Host: Amy RileyBlog Name: Connectivity
Host: ConnectivityBlog Name: Mom 2 Ways
Host: Julie DonahueBlog Name: Moms Living the Magnificent Life!
Host: Tracy KlehnBlog Name: Butterflies and Bullfrogs
Host: Kim LaBombardBlog Name: Sometimes I Feel Like a Piece of Bologna
Host: Pat SikoraBlog Name: The Good Neighbors
Host: Leann RichardsonBlog Name: A Peek at my Bookshelf
Host: Deena PetersonBlog Name: Lesson from the Scrapbook
Host: Tasra DawsonBlog Name: Seed Thoughts
Host: Tracy KeckBlog Name: Janell Rardon's Blog
Host: Janell RardonBlog Name: Window To My World
Host: Kim FordBlog Name: Becoming Me
Host: Angela NazworthBlog Name: Suzy Q Homemaker
Host: Elizabeth GrantBlog Name: Christian Work at Home Moms
Host: Jill HartBlog Name: Embracing Life
Host: Peggy Reeves
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