Archive for the ‘Book Blasts’ Category:

Pump Up Your Book Presents The Rise of Gideon Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthews’ THE RISE OF GIDEON Book Blast September 19 – September 30!   Inside the Book: Title: The Rise of Gideon Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook It is the early 1960s when journalism student Art James first meets Professor Gideon Pratt at a Midwestern university. When Art secures a reporter job after graduation, Gideon summons him, reveals that the university is harboring a Communist cell, and asks Art to write a story about it. Art, driven by his desire to earn accolades, writes the article. But when Gideon’s name is slashed from the story, Art angrily resigns.
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Life Changing ABC Scriptures with Stories – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katherine Dye’s LIFE-CHANGING ABC SCRIPTURES WITH STORIES Book Blast September 19 – September 30!   Inside the Book: Title: Life-Changing ABC Scriptures with Stories Author: Katherine Dye Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion/Spirituality Format: Ebook Life Changing— In the beautiful collection of fictional southern style short stories, set in her hometown, Katherine Dye highlights many nooks and crannies of New Albany, Mississippi, and if you are a native, you will delight in reading about the places you often see. If not … well, you will want to visit this lovely little artisan town and see for yourself the wonders of the pleasant and less complex
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents True Success Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Arnold Judson’s TRUE SUCCESS Book Blast September 19 – September 30!   Inside the Book: Title: True Success Author: Arnold S. Judson Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Business & Economics Format: Ebook Whether you work for a business, nonprofit or governmental organization, you’ll find ways to boost organizational performance with this guide that reveals fundamental but often uncomfortable truths about the forces that impact any organization’s performance, and how this can be improved. Arnold S. Judson, who has been helping organizations of all types for almost seventy years, reveals what makes an organization truly successful. He describes how to: • define what success means for
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Quintessential Bellydance Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evyenia Karmi’s QUINTESSENTIAL BELLYDANCE Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Quintessential Bellydance Author: Evyenia Karmi Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Health and Fitness Format: Ebook If you’re looking for a fun, effective, low-impact workout that will build stamina, enhance flexibility, and improve your cardiovascular well-being, look no more. This gentle and effective dance is not only exciting to learn; it’s also a great workout. Bellydance strengthens your core muscles gracefully, giving you new confidence in your body’s natural sway and movement. These popular dance steps have been embraced by women of all ages everywhere. Here, Evyenia Karmi, an experienced
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Can This Be Home Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Bobbe Palmer’s CAN THIS BE HOME? AND FOUR OTHER STORIES Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Can This Be Home? And Four Other Stories Author: Bobbe Palmer Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Annie has just suffered an unimaginable loss. While she spirals into the darkness of grief, her rancher husband, Ray, appears to lack emotion. But as a storm approaches their Wyoming ranch, Annie finally sees something in Ray’s blue eyes that transforms everything. In a compelling collection of stories, Bobbe Palmer shines a light on five women of different ages and circumstances as each faces
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Train Up a Child Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Johnny Holloway’s TRAIN UP A CHILD Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Train Up a Child Author: Dr. Johnny Holloway Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Family & Relationship Format: Ebook Have you ever wished for a handbook that could help you train your children to become upstanding, responsible, and successful adults? Unfortunately, many parents feel compelled to raise their children in the same way they were raised, despite the fact that the world is very different than it was when they were children. As a result they may be destined to repeat mistakes their parent’s made and they
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cyril H. Price’s THE TINFOIL PRINCE OF HARLEM Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Author: Cyril H. Price Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback By all reasonable calculations, a black child who started life with as many formidable challenges as author Cyril H. Price shouldn’t have prospered to the point of happiness he currently enjoys. In fact, at eight years of age, Price’s policy was to stay out of trouble, eat, and just survive. Growing up in the heart of Harlem during the Great Depression, Price and his family did what
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents The Escape Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mac Kinnon’s ESCAPE Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: The Escape Author: Mac Kinnon Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction/Political Format: Ebook Jack made comments about a prominent political figure when he and his wife, Joanne were living in Las Vegas. Jack lost his job and no employer would even talk to him. Joanne lost her job, too. They were blacklisted. They were informed that a warrant had been issued for their arrest, the charge being terrorism. They hit the road in an act of survival. They spent time in a native-American commune for a few months and then on
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Geertje Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak’s GEERTJE Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Geertje: Was Seen Through the Eyes of a Child as an Adult Author: Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook World War II officially ended some seventy years ago, but for some people, it lives on. Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak, who spent the war in the Netherlands, still recalls the hunger and fear she felt throughout the war-that sticks out more than hearing about the two little boys killed or the blank expression of her father when she visited him in a concentration camp. She looks
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Corruption Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Gill’s CORRUPTION Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Corruption Author: Mike Gill Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Milo Devine had spent his life cutting corners and bending the rules to make his fortune until a late-night phone call from Parvez Iqbal helps him discover a conscience that leads him into a world of corruption and crime beyond his imagination. Politics, business, and organised crime merge into one as Milo investigates the bad guys while his friends perish at the hands of two gangs of ruthless criminals who think nothing of killing in the name of
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Happen Like Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian Warburton’s HAPPEN LIKE Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: Happen Like Author: Brian Warburton Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 156 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook   The text of this book has been written for children in the range nine to fourteen, maybe older. Possibly it is of interest for slow readers and boys at pre-teenage who need absorbing stories. The subject matter covers adult affairs for children, not excluding greed, jealousy and mention of crime and drugs. One story depicts girls and boys together. But no sexual content. On that, the book could be seen as rather subdued. there
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Lycantis Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Malaena Medford’s LYCANTIS Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: Lycantis: Rage of Wolves Author: Malaena Medford Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 208 Genre: General Fiction Format: Ebook Milavenai is a young woman from the strong Norse-like seaside village, Piascas Dulu. Her people’s way of life has always been the same – peria farmers trading frost-hardy fruit in the northern regions of Gordanadar while illegally hunting dangerous beasts and game to feed her village. An ominous foreboding surrounds the land like a shoal of deadly lurkers. There is no question that it is a time of human oppression. One day, Milavenai’s
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents A Beginner’s Guide to God Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Neal’s A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GOD (AND WE’RE ALL BEGINNERS) Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: A Beginner’s Guide to God Author: Eric Neal Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 64 Genre: Religion/Faith Format: Ebook When it comes to religion, people often have more questions than answers. In A Beginner’s Guide to God, author Eric Neal hopes to eliminate some confusion surrounding religion and provide a clear and universal pathway to the creator. In this guide, Neal addresses some of life’s biggest questions: Does God exist? What happens when we die? Is this our only life? Who created the universe? How
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Have You Received Since You Believed? Quest For The Holy Spirit Book Blast

We invite you to participate in Brian Hollins’ Have You Received Since You Believed? Quest for the Holy Spirit Book Blast on August 1-31, 2016! Inside the Book: Title: Have You Received Since You Believed? Quest For The Holy Spirit Author: Brian Hollins Publisher: BookBaby Publication Date: June 12, 2016 Pages: 59 Genre: Christian Living   The Spirit that is within me that leads and guides me into all truth is again personified when I receive Christ as my Lord and Savior. The Spirit that is upon me after I ask for him is how I receive power. How could I believe that he would come upon me if I have not really
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Liefdom Book Blast

Inside the Book:   Title: Liefdom: A Tale from Perilisc Author: Jesse Teller Release Date: June 22, 2016 Publisher: CreateSpace Genre: Dark Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback A zealous guardian in a peaceful city, Gentry Mandrake is a fairy unlike any other. Cast out and hated for his differences, his violent nature makes him wonder at the purity of his soul. He hunts for belonging while fighting to protect the human child bound to him. Explore the mythical realm of The Veil, the grating torture of the Sulfur Fields, and the biting tension between power and purpose in this wondrous struggle against a demonic wizard and his denizens. Can Mandrake overcome such terrible
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents The Crossroads of Space and Time Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charles & Irene Nickerson’s THE CROSSROADS OF SPACE AND TIME Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: The Crossroads of Space and Time Author: Charles and Irene Nickerson Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 262 Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Ebook Captain Bancroft couldn’t believe this resort. The beaches were pristine. The rooms were comfortable. Everything was so relaxing. The only area off limits was the northern beaches and an area they called the trench. He asked a Mr. Jones why. Mr. Jones told him that since he was head of security. He would take him out to the cliffs and show him the
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents My Men Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mira Peck’s MY MEN Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: My Men Author: Mira Peck Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Alina Sherwin has had to fight for every victory in her life. Raised in Poland, she moves to Australia with her family as a young girl. There, in the early 1970s, she becomes the first woman in her state to graduate with an engineering degree and quickly finds that her new industry won’t employ her. Undaunted by rejection from the Australian scientific community and encouraged by her new American husband, Wayne, Alina decides to move
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Poems for Yuppies (and also for Normal People) Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen Blum’s POEMS FOR YUPPIES (AND ALSO FOR NORMAL PEOPLE) Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Poems for Yuppies (and also for Normal People) Author: Stephen Blum Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook In this anthology of original poetry, Blum, a self-described yuppie, presents a collection of verses, most of them (in his words) “verbal cartoons,” that define and make fun of this unique sub-culture. A tongue-in-cheek introduction and notes accompanying the poems contribute significantly to this “mission. The book includes a handful of the non-humorous shorter poems are meant to be wistful, whimsical, or scary. Meet
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents The Mystery of Goat Mountain Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mel Long’s THE MYSTERY OF GOAT MOUNTAIN Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: The Mystery of Goat Mountain Author: Mel Long Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 338 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Eli left the corporate life in San Francisco and moved with his wife, Frances Amelia, to Goat Mountain, high up on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, near the small town of Colton, Oregon. When his parents died, Eli inherited the 640 acres, the original land they homesteaded in 1896. After his wife dies, Eli lives simply in a cabin on his beloved mountain. He learns to cohabitate
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Welcome to the Empire Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Curto Sr.’s WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: Welcome to the Empire Author: Mark Curto Sr. Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 148 Genre: Historic Fiction Format: Ebook From the dawn of recorded time, death, hell, and mayhem have been the calling cards of a Destroyer, who leaves nothing but carnage and desolation in his path. Thousands of years in the future, nine-year-old Prince Marckolius witnesses a brutal assault on his mother by a group of ruthless vampires. Mortified when she dies in his arms and convinced that his uncle had something to do with the
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Under the Stars Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vicki Senz’s UNDER THE STARS Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Under the Stars Author: Vicki Senz Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook/Paperback The poetry is about lost love, heartbreak, and the difficulties that are faced day to day. It is full of hope, encouragement, and courage to face life even against the hardest decisions that life can give you. It can be a sentence or even just one word that can change a person’s perspective at a time that they are facing a difficult period in their life. Giving another person some comfort even through
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Visions in the Dark Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Iain Morrison’s VISIONS IN THE DARK Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Visions in the Dark Author: Iain Morrison Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Thriller Format: Ebook When all sorts of accusations, denials, revelations, disclosures, and leaks are swarming and spilling around the security agencies of the United Kingdom and the USA, it is worse when the Snowden effect erupts. A bruised and slightly disillusioned Commander Elaine Black, training officer and senior security advisor at GCHQ Bude Listening Facility, is plunged into a bewildering and dangerous battle to make sense of and counter a desperate threat to British Security.
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents What Am I Waiting For Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Terry Hite’s WHAT AM I WAITING FOR Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: What Am I Waiting For Author: Terry Hite Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Self-Help Format: Ebook You’ve probably sought out advice from someone to help you solve a problem, achieve a goal or just to help you get moti vated on a certain project. Or perhaps you’ve found yourself giving out lots of advice—and wondering if you were telling others the right things. There is nothing worse than sending someone you care about in the wrong direction. In this guidebook to getti ng what you want
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Exploding the Big Bang Theory Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joseph Donnelly’s EXPLODING THE BIG BANG THEORY Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Exploding the Big Bang Theory Author: Joseph Donnelly Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Religion Format: Ebook The essence of this my third effort at publication now stands to be the true basis of our human species new working philosophy. My main interest is of our relationship with God on all fronts. Simple when realised we under the split headings of humanity in tribe, clan, national or of different skin colour configurations, have amassed over 10.000 religious philosophies to meet our personal needs. Of which none seem
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Oscar R. Rocha’s MINUTES OF LOVE IN THE HOURS OF LIFE Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life Author: Oscar R. Rocha Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life speaks from the heart about love and life, the joy of life seen from different cornres of the world. A love that inspires and takes you to a parallel place through time and space, I call it the stand-still phase, where positive emotions and feelings flow freely within and into those you love. “…the warmness
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Until Next Time Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nictoria Robbins’ UNTIL NEXT TIME Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Until Next Time Author: Nictoria Robbins Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Jake and Kirsten met on an online dating site, and their journey began, sometimes difficult; but for some reason, they keep coming back to each other, to lost souls. Kirsten is not sure what Jake wants, and neither does she. This story is about two people who try to hide their feelings. They care about each other, but it will end up tearing them apart. Not all stories have a happy ending. Meet the
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents Body of the Crime Book Blast

We invite you to Jennifer Chase’s BODY OF THE CRIME Book Blast on June 15! Inside the Book: Title: BODY OF THE CRIME Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: JEC Press Pages: 226 Genre: Crime Thriller Three grisly murders linked to five old cold cases, dubbed the Flower Girl Murders, pushes detectives to their limit to find a clever and extremely brutal serial killer, leaving a California town demanding justice. The District Attorney’s Serial Special Task Force retains the help of the reclusive Dr. Chip Palmer, a forensic expert and criminal profiler, to steer them in the right direction. Palmer is known for his astute academic interpretations of serial and predatory
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents The Weekend Warriors Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James W. Burke Jr.’s THE WEEKEND WARRIORS Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: The Weekend Warriors Author: James W. Burke Jr Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Suspense Format: Ebook Married with two children, Michael Patrick Fitzmaurice, Major, Infantry, US Army Reserve, is going to war. Bound for Ramstein, Germany, he and his troops, who never expected to be on the frontline, must now stand in battle alongside their active-duty counterparts. It’s the mid-1980s and the United States is under the leadership of a new president who continues its post-Vietnam withdrawal from the world stage. Domestic affairs are the administration’s
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents World Eternal Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Donna R. Wittlif’s WORLD ETERNAL: PROSELYTES Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: World Eternal: Proselytes Author: Donna R. Wittlif Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Futuristic Christian Format: Ebook Picture it. The world is free of many of the major problems that plagued it for centuries. Hunger, homelessness, and natural disasters are no more. There’s no more disease. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world? What price would anyone give to live in such a world? World Eternal has kept all the promises it made to the citizens of Earth in author Donna R. Wittlif’s first novel, World Eternal:
Read More


Pump Up Your Book Presents My Left Side Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks’ MY LEFT SIDE Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: My Left Side Author: Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback   Author Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks has been through a lot in her life—and, strangely enough, many of the worst physical experiences have happened on the left side of her body. When she was thirteen, a cousin accidentally stabbed her in the wrist. As an adult, she got caught in the crossfire of random shooting and lost half her left kidney due to the resulting injury. Later, a severe pain in her left
Read More