Archive for March, 2010:

Pump Up Your Book Blog Host Spotlight: Just One More Paragraph

Because we value our blog hosts, Pump Up Your Book is now putting the shoe on the other foot and interviewing them instead of having them interview us.  We are now offering our readers a chance to get to know our blog hosts and what better way than a personal interview? Today, Pump Up Your Book is proud to spotlight Just One More Paragraph, a book blog run by Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania, blogger Theresa Dunlap. Q: Thank you for this interview, Theresa.  Can you tell us what is your blog’s main focus? Theresa: When I started, my focus was on reviewing books. The blog a life of its own,
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Book Review: Life Choices: Navigating Difficult Paths

LIFE CHOICES: NAVIGATING DIFFICULT PATHS by Judi Moreo & Friends Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Turning Point International (January 15, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0982526407 ISBN-13: 978-0982526408 Synopsis: If you feel “stuck” in a situation that appears to be beyond your control, these stories will show you how others have coped with crisis and uncertainty, made tough choices and positive changes in order to find deeper meaning and satisfaction in their relationships and learned to live with purpose every day. Rarely do we find a book that addresses so many different challenges. Life Choices does this in a powerful and inspiring way. This book is about experiences, the people who
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Pump Up Your Book Blog Host Spotlight: Cafe of Dreams

Because we value our blog hosts, Pump Up Your Book is now putting the shoe on the other foot and interviewing them instead of having them interview us.  We are now offering our readers a chance to get to know our blog hosts and what better way than a personal interview? Today, Pump Up Your Book is proud to spotlight Cafe of Dreams, a book blog run by Brighton, Iowa, blogger April Pohren. Q: Thank you for this interview, April.  Can you tell us what is your blog’s main focus? April Pohren: Bringing great books and authors to readers everywhere!  To do this, I include book reviews, book spotlights,
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Pump Up Your Book Blog Host Spotlight: Rundpinne

Because we value our blog hosts, Pump Up Your Book is now putting the shoe on the other foot and interviewing them instead of having them interview us.  We are now offering our readers a chance to get to know our blog hosts and what better way than a personal interview? Today, Pump Up Your Book is proud to spotlight Rundpinne, a book blog run by Centerville, Ohio, blogger Jennifer Higgins. Q: Thank you for this interview, Jennifer.  Can you tell us what is your blog’s main focus? Jennifer:  The main focus of my blog is to bring more people back to reading by promoting authors and their books
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Pump Up Your Book Blog Host Spotlight: Michelle V’s Blog: Life in Review

Because we value our blog hosts, Pump Up Your Book is now putting the shoe on the other foot and interviewing them instead of having them interview us.  We are now offering our readers a chance to get to know our blog hosts and what better way than a personal interview? Today, Pump Up Your Book is proud to spotlight Life in Review, a mainly book review blog run by Hewitt, Texas, blogger  Michelle Vasquez. Q: Thank you for this interview, Michelle.  Can you tell us what your blog’s main focus is? Michelle: My blog is almost all book reviews. I stick primarily to Christian books, most of which
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Book Review: An Axe to Grind by F.M. Meredith

Title: An Axe to Grind Author: F.M. Meredith Genre: Crime/police procedural Publisher: Dark Oak Mysteries Pages: 178 ISBN: 978- 1892343789 Rating: SYNOPSIS Detective Doug Milligan and his partner question suspects in the murder of a stalker including the stalker’s target, her boyfriend, father and brother, as well as the stalker’s step-father. The investigation leaves little time for Doug to see his fiancée and fellow officer, Stacey Wilbur. Stacey handles a molestation case which involves the son of a friend. She and her mother talk wedding plans, though all must wait until Doug’s renter, Officer Gordon Butler finds another place to live. When Doug disappears while tailing a suspect, Stacey
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New Book for Review: Urban Fantasy Immortalis Carpe Noctem

Katie Salidas will be touring May 17 – 28 with her urban fantasy, Immortalis Carpe Noctem.  Walking back home through the badly-lit campus of UNLV, twenty-five year old Alyssa is brutally attacked by two savage men. By the time a handsome stranger intervenes, Alyssa has almost bled to death, and doesn’t even struggle as her new protector sinks his sharp teeth into her neck. Alyssa wakes to a harsh new reality, and to a raging thirst she’s never felt before. Lysander, the sexy yet aloof man who turned her, must now teach her the way of the immortals – and with such a desirable teacher Alyssa starts to realize
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Book Review: The Cutting by James Hayman

THE CUTTING by James Hayman Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: St. Martins Minotaur Language: English ISBN-10: 0-312-53129-x ISBN-13: 13: 978-0-312-53129-4 SYNOPSIS Someone is Stealing the Hearts of Beautiful Young Women. NYPD homicide detective Mike McCabe left New York for Maine to escape his own dark past and to find a refuge from the violence of the big city for himself and his teenaged daughter, but on the fog-shrouded, cobblestone streets of Portland he finds far more than he bargained for. On a warm September evening the mutilated body of Katie Dubois, a pretty high school soccer star, turns up, dumped in a Portland scrap yard. Her heart has been neatly
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