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“A beautiful, heart-breaking gem of a novel written just the way I like them, with the past coming back to haunt the present, endearing heroines and a sunny, hopeful ending. You’ll wolf it up in one delicious gulp.”
–Tatiana de Rosnay, international bestselling author of Sarah’s Key and A Secret Kept
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie’s doorstep in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger.
Sixty years later, in El Paso, Texas, Reba Adams is trying to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local magazine. Reba is perpetually on the run from memories of a turbulent childhood, but she’s been in El Paso long enough to get a full-time job and a fiancé, Riki Chavez. Riki, an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, finds comfort in strict rules and regulations, whereas Reba feels that lines can often be blurred.
Reba’s latest assignment has brought her to the shop of an elderly baker across town. The interview should take a few hours at most, but the owner of Elsie’s German Bakery is no easy subject. Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story. For Elsie, Reba’s questions are a stinging reminder of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. And as Elsie, Reba, and Riki’s lives become more intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.
SARAH McCOY is author of the novel, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. She has taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. The daughter of an Army officer, her family was stationed in Germany during her childhood. She calls Virginia home but presently lives with her husband and dog, Gilbert, in El Paso, Texas. The Baker’s Daughter is her second novel and will be available wherever books are sold January 24, 2012. She is currently working on her next.
Visit Sarah online at SarahMcCoy.com, on Facebook, Twitter @SarahMMcCoy, and on Goodreads.
RIFers! Have you read Sarah McCoy’s coming-of-age novel The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico? We want to hear from you! Leave a comment with your review.
Sounds like a good read!
this sounds like a great book!
I am SO intrigued by this story!
Hope I win!
would love to win this book so i can read it great giveaway
Loved Sarah’s Key! Looking forward to this one as well
I have read Sarah’s first book, and I loved it, here is a link to my review.
http://anita-womanwifemom.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-time-it-snowed-in-puerto.html
Tying the fixed ideas of who is deserving to a country’s rights and priviledges from Nazi Germany to today’s border of Texas and Mexico is profound. Living in Dallas, Texas brings the story on our front page to life adding depth. I’ve not read Ms. I read extensively about the Nazi mindset and the lives effected; this book would give me another opportunity to ponder the consequences. I’ve not read Ms. McCoy’s debut novel, but will check it out.
Would love to continue to read.
it ewads like a great Story , eager to read more ……….. I hope I am the lucky person to Win this book
It reads like a great story , eager to read more …………I hope I am the lucky winner
I’m so excited for this book! I can’t wait to read it. I hope I’m selected!
I haven’t read Sarah McCoy’s other novel, The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico, but her stores sound very interesting! I’d love to read The Baker’s Daughter!
can’t wait to read this book. I’ve been looking for something new and this sounds perfect!
i love to read on my free time
i would love to read this book
This sounds like a wonderful story. I can’t wait to read it!
Thank you for the free gift offer. I’d love to share the book with my mother!
I am looking for a great book to read while off work during the holidays, this would surely be a good read!
i work in a high school library and love trying new books
I would love to read this book!
would love it for our book club
Would love to read this over winter break!
This book looks awesome – I hope I win a copy!
I always love reading a good book, especailly when it is free!!
Would enjoy getting this book to read.. sounds great!
look forward to gettting a free copy.
I would love this book!
Sounds like a really good story. Can’t wait to read it.
This sounds like a book my daughter would love.
This one looks good!
GREAT!!! Another book from this WONDERFUL author!! Cant wait to read it!!
I would love to read this book!
I am really interested in reading this book. It sounds very interesting.
Can’t wait to read this book!
Having read ‘Sara’s Key’, I think I will find this a great read as well.
would love to read or win this book
This book sounds like a very impelling story-I have not read it yet, but according to Sarah’s Key author, it is one worth reading-as I found Sarah’s Key very devastating for any parent or child, well anybody with heart and empathy. I actually have not finished pass the closet return by his sister. Look forward to reading The Baker’s Daughter.
Look forward to reading THE BAKER”S DAUGHTER-I feel my in-laws would enjoy this story as well.
The Bakers Daughter sounds like a great book!
Sounds like a book I won’t be able to put down! Can’t wait to read it!
I would love to get my hands on a copy of this book…sounds like a good read. I’ll also be checking out her other book!
This book sounds very interesting and would love to read it.
I love these kind of stories and the plot is wonderful full of captivating thoughts.
I would love to win a free copy of your book. It sounds wonderful!
Sincerely, Mia Farrin
Greatly admire authors…especially female ones. I love to read and I actually write myself. Would love a copy of the new release!!! Congrats!!!
Sounds like a great story!
as a elementary school teacher—it’s hard to read for pleasure during the school year-but with Christmas in just a week–i was looking for a something to read…
it looks like a good read and so does her first novel–I will go look for it for my kindle.
Looking forward to reading his book!
Great!
I have not read this book, but I am an avid reader and I am always looking for a new author and book to read. Would love to give this one a try. I also believe in passing books on, so once this is read by me, I will share it with other readers out there.
Sounds very interesting!
Have not read it yet.
looks great!!
I love anything that is about or related to history….especially if it has a beautiful story inside it. I would love to win a copy to give to a friend so we can read it together!
This book sounds so great! Can’t wait to read it.
This sounds like a really interesting read. Looking forward to it. Thanks much, Laura
I would like to be entered to win this book
I want to read her books, everyone i talk to that have read them love them!
love to read this!
Hello,
This book sounds so good.
Alicia
Love to read this book by Sarah McCoy…sounds mighty good………
I love her work. Florid and intriguing!
looks like a good book
I really need to read more…. this would help.
Thanks!
Hope Santa tell one of my friend to give me this book. since am have next two weeks of winter holiday.
Have not yet read The Baker’s Daughter, but have added it to my list!
I haven’t read this book, but would like to.
I am so excited that I won this book! Yay!
this sounds like an excellent book
I have read Ms.Mc Coy’s “The time it snowed in Puerto Rico” having been given a copy by a local bookseller. It was a wonderful coming of age novel with such well described characters and details of Puerto Rico. I am a huge reader of historical fiction with some of my favorites being from the WWII period. Those Who Save Us, The Siege, The Postmistress, and When the elephants Walk being just a few of my favorites. I would enjoy reading and reviewing this novel very much
Sounds like I’d like this one!
Sounds like a book I’d like!
I would love to read this book.
I want to win
This sounds like a book I would enjoy reading
History, teenage firsts, and danger… Can a reader ask for more?
History, danger, and teenage firsts. Can a reader ask for more?
sounds great!
would love to win
I really enjoy books like this and would love to win!
Would love to read it!
This sounds like something I would really enjoy reading and talking g to friends about!
Sounds like my kind of read… would love to try it.
This sounds like great read!
I just finished reading this book and it was amazing. Highly recommend it! Here is my review: http://crazybookreviews.com/2012/01/29/book-review-the-bakers-daughter/
I run a charitable Library in India and would love to have a copy for our library. I just found out about this website and would love to win and try and get more books here. Thank you.
I loved Sarah’s novel Baker’s Daughter and spreading the word through my blog at http://susansliterarycafe.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-have-to-read-bakers-daughter-by.html
this sounds like a winner. i would love the cance to have this book.
This sounds like a great read! Would love to get one.
I absolutely loved this book! Here is my review of the book which can also be seen at readingforinspiration.wordpress.com or on amazon.com.
The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy is set in both World War II Germany and present day California. The story surrounds the budding friendship that erupts from a journalist’s assignment. The journalist, Reba Adams, is assigned a story to interview Elsie Schmidt Meriwether a baker originally from Garmisch, Germany. Reba is also engaged to Riki Chavez, an Border Patrol Agent. Ricki’s parents were originally from Mexico which eventually causes him to reevaluate his allegience to his job. Encompassed in this story is the story of Elsie and her family during the campaign of Adolf Hitler, the romantic relationship between Elsie’s daughter, Jane, and a Mexican illegal, the relationship between Reba and Riki, and the friendship between Reba, Elsie, and Jane.
Elsie was 15 years old during World War II and was from a family of bakers. The chapters in Germany are written in first-person from Elsie and discuss her life including how her mind changed about Jews and the Nazis after hiding a seven-year-old Jewish boy in her wall when he saved her from impending rape from a Nazi officer. The chapters in California feature the stories of each of the other characters as well as the budding friendship between all of the characters.
The book also features a short cookbook at the end of the book with tempting bakery recipes. The stories are riveting and engaging. The author has done a remarkable job presenting so many stories within the one novel. This is a great book!
I received this book for free for review from Read It Forward.