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Pump Up Your Book Presents Amelia’s Prayer Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christiane Banks’ AMELIA’S PRAYER Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: Amelia’s Prayer Author: Christiane Banks Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religious Fiction Format: Ebook/Hardcover/Paperback Sebastian Lavalle is just fifteen when he leaves home in 1934 to join the navy. Seven years later, Sebastian unfortunately knows all too well about the horrors of World War II and what it is like to fear the unknown. When repairs force his ship to the rugged shore of Newcastle, the young French naval officer is invited to a tea dance to celebrate Bastille Day. He seizes the opportunity, hoping to find comfort
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fly Away Free Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anne Turner Coppola’s FLY AWAY FREE Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: Fly Away Free Author: Anne Turner Coppola Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Juvenile Fiction Format: Ebook The story begins when Tessie Farrell, an older woman living in South Florida, is walking her dog and rescues a baby osprey whose parents are killed by three young boys raiding the osprey’s nest to steal the baby ospreys. Taking the rescued baby osprey home, Tessie contacts the police to report what happened. After caring and feeding the baby osprey and building a cage for the bird, Tessie finds herself
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Pump Up Your Book Presents SufferStone Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stell Atrium’s SufferStone Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: SufferStone Author: Stella Atrium Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Sci-Fi/Space Opera Format: Ebook On Dolvia the women of the savannah serve under the burka, but Kyle Le was denied that covering by tribal leaders. Only her gift of second sight and the mortgage on her father’s land protects her and her three sisters. Kyle Le meets Brian Miller, a Softcheeks who teaches her about offworld politics and accumulating wealth while she teaches him the words of power from Mekucoo. Working alongside the warrior Cyrus, they labor against the mining
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Fresh Take on Ergonomics Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Betsy Oldenburg’s A FRESH TAKE ON ERGONOMICS Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: A Fresh Take On Ergonomics Author: Betsy Oldenburg Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Personal and Practical Guides Format: Ebook “As someone who has suffered for decades with an old whip lash injury, I finally have the tools needed to control the pain and repair the damage. Some of these tools are basic, but were never mentioned by the many doctors I have seen over the years. Betsy Oldenburg, a nationally certified therapeutic massage/bodywork therapist with over 30 years of experience shared those tools and techniques
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Games of Mind Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dennis Quiles’ GAMES OF MIND Book Blast March 14 – 25!   Title: Games of Mind Author: Dennis Quiles Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Suspense Format: Ebook When former naval intelligence officer Jack Steele opens a letter from his aunt, he makes an immediate decision to head to Nome, Alaska. Although he hasn’t seen Marie in twenty years, he’s concerned when she tells him her husband, Uncle Jimmy, is in trouble. From the moment Jack picks up that envelope, he knows he’s about to enter a situation better left alone. But loyalty to family is stronger than a gut feeling. Jack, a private investigator
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Guest House Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you W. Jacqueline Johnson’s THE GUEST HOUSE Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: The Guest House Author: W. Jacqueline Johnson Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook As a healer, author W. Jacqueline Johnson knew a cancer diagnosis could be a gift in one’s life, bringing valuable life lessons and even transformation. But nothing prepared her for her own diagnosis and the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and radiation. In The Guest House, she narrates the story of her diagnosis, treatments, and the surprising aftermath. Johnson shares how, as a healthy woman who only saw the doctor for checkups,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Journey In and Out of Community Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katherine Zyczynska’s MY JOURNEY IN AND OUT OF COMMUNITY Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: My Journey In and Out of Community Author: Katherine Zyczynska Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religious Format: Ebook After Kata’s father dies in a car accident when she is just eleven and a half years old, she continually searches for parental love. She makes bad choice after bad choice and looks for love in all the wrong places. When she’s eighteen years old, her family decides she needs a change. The idea of moving to California sounds exciting to Kata, but she knows
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Boss Jackson’s REFLECTIONS OF A NEGRO REVOLUTIONARY Book Blast March 14 – 25! Inside the Book: Title: Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Author: Boss Jackson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 64 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook The turbulent years of the sixties and early seventies, a time of the flowering of a people and a nation, we thought we knew what it meant to black in America, but everything we knew was changing. From the civil rights movement Led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The watts Riot, the so called Black Revolution, the rise of the Black Student Unions on college campuses, to the anti
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Blast February 22 – March 4!   Inside the Book: Title: A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Author: Dudley Mecum Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Visionary and Metaphysical Format: Ebook Chris Cole enjoys aiming for the stars. After he rockets into orbit aboard the space shuttle, his mission is cut short when he is the victim of an accident aboard the International Space Station. Whisked back to earth for medical observation, Chris is eventually released. Before his return flight to Kennedy Space Center the next day, Chris decides to attend a nearby medieval
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Young American Traveler Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Albert Park’s A YOUNG AMERICAN TRAVELER Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: A Young American Traveler Author: Albert Park Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 422 Genre: World Travel Format: Ebook In a journey 11-years in the making, Park takes the reader on an extensive holiday to over 30 countries, friendly and hostile, exotic and metropolitan, all infused with the pleasures of life as well as the dangers of the same. Park sets the scene as a young undergraduate army cadet in southern California in the hopes of becoming an army officer during the Global War on Terrorism in 2003. His
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Pump Up your Book Presents Candlelight in a Storm Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Naveen Sridhar’s CANDLELIGHT IN A STORM Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: Candlelight in a Storm Author: Naveen Sridhar Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 280 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook “Candlelight in a Storm by Naveen Sridhar is the historical biography of his wife. Born during World War II and fleeing the violence there, later fleeing communist regimes as a teenager, and traveling the world, her story is at once colorful and harrowing. John F. Kennedy came to Germany and said ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ signifying that Germany did not need to be forever tarnished with the legacy of the Nazi
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Junior Officer Bunkroom Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.J. Zerr’s THE JUNIOR OFFICER BUNKROOM! Book Blast January 18 – 29! Inside the Book: Title: The Junior Officer Bunkroom Author: J.J. Zerr Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 282 Genre: Military Format: Ebook It is 1970, and Jon Zachery is a young United States Navy pilot who wants nothing more than to gain combat experience during the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, his patriotic sacrifice is of no value to the navy or the nation. His squadron has been slated to decommission with most of its pilots destined for dead-end jobs. As the pro-war lieutenant awaits his orders and drowns his sorrows in whiskey, his wife, Teresa,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Blast January 11 – 22!   Title: A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Author: Dudley Mecum Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Visionary and Metaphysical Format: Ebook Chris Cole enjoys aiming for the stars. After he rockets into orbit aboard the space shuttle, his mission is cut short when he is the victim of an accident aboard the International Space Station. Whisked back to earth for medical observation, Chris is eventually released. Before his return flight to Kennedy Space Center the next day, Chris decides to attend a nearby medieval fair with an acquaintance—a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents York Street Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jan Walters’s YORK STREET Book Blast January 11 – 22!     Title: York Street Author: Jan Walters Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Crime Fiction Format: Ebook “The story left me ready for more adventures with all the characters. I look forward to the next book from this author!” – Kelly Stuhr, Senior Des Moines Police Officer Brett O’Shea is a young street cop in Des Moines trying to make detective. He works by the book and doesn’t believe in hocus-pocus. When a killer begins terrorizing the streets of his city, Brett is forced to alter his view of the paranormal world when a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chapters Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dianna Hubbard Stein’s CHAPTERS Book Blast December 7 – 18!   Title: Chapters Author: Dianna Hubbard Stein Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook Dianna and Steve were roaring through life, in love, happy, and intent on having a family along the way. The story that unfolds and changes their lives forever, seemingly by chance, is a reminder to us all that amazing things can happen if you listen to your heart. The joy of finally finding their son, the complex emotions of adoptive parents and birth families, and the deep sorrow of the blows that stole their happiness can be understood by
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Battle of Top Hat Wood Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Taylor Samuel Lyen’s THE BATTLE OF TOP HAT WOOD Book Blast December 7 – 18! Title: The Battle of Top Hat Wood Author: Taylor Samuel Lyen Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Juvenile Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback “An Educational, Inspirational Tale About Spiders That’s Fun to Read.” Kirkus Reviews Jerry thes pider is a smart-aleck jumping spider that reluctantly joins Alma’s quest to vanquish the evil Sitharon. Hanging in her web above the entrance to the old Presbyterian Church in a small California town, Alma has a nightmare about the horrible slaughter of innocent spiders by a giant flying beast, a Sitharon that lives in the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Commander Henry Gallant Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you H. Peter Alesso’s COMMANDER HENRY GALLANT Book Blast December 1 – 31! Title: COMMANDER HENRY GALLANT Author: H. Peter Alesso Publisher: Video Software Lab Pages: 350 Genre: Science Fiction Henry Gallant thought Alaina loved him, but now she’s found someone else. A tidal wave of loss and grief has left him miserable, despondent, and lethargic. Despite his emotional travails, he is ordered on a dangerous mission to an invading aliens’ home world in the Gliese-581 star system. There he uses a neural interface to penetrate their communication network and steal a high ranking alien’s identity. Through this artifice, he learns
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Soldier Boy Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Allan Green’s SOLDIER BOY Book Blast November 30 – December 11!       Title: Soldier Boy Author: Allan Green Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Tom Blaine, the son of poor coal miners, sees his life with a vision unclouded by coal dust. His intelligence is his key for a better future in his home in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. Instead of following his father and older brother down the mine shafts, he opts for a life surrounded by love. His heart belongs to Nola, the daughter of the local grocer, and his working hours are spent in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents We Have to Change Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maria Ronay’s WE HAVE TO CHANGE Book Blast November 30 – December 11!   Title: The Uncommon Cure Author: Maria Ronay Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Political Science Format: Ebook/Paperback Do you know enough about the world’s most pressing issues? Are you familiar with the consequences of climate change and methods for sharing the permissible carbon quotas? Are you aware that we are using up nature’s capital and not just its interest, that world poverty is rampant and urgently needs to be reduced, and that the consequence of current US immigration laws is unsustainable population growth? We Have to Change aims to highlight
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Uncommon Cure Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T. Agvanian’s THE UNCOMMON CURE Book Blast November 30 – December 11!     Title: The Uncommon Cure Author: T. Agvanian Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Cultural Heritage Format: Ebook/Paperback The past haunts you and the future terrifies you. What do you do, seek redemption, sink into madness, or eat? These stories follow the lives of women trying to find emotional peace through food, fantasy, or virtue. The urge for liberation from pain drives them to face conflicts arising from the desire for relief. Eva has been carrying a terrible secret from the Second World War in Ukraine. As she approaches the end
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Time To Cry Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vera Leinveber’s NO TIME TO CRY book blast November 16 – 27!   Title: No Time To Cry Author: Vera Leinvebers Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Every story has a beginning, a journey, and an end. Author Vera Leinvebers’s story begins in her beloved homeland of Latvia, just prior to the outbreak of World War II. Her early childhood is filled with joy and music, but this idyllic, carefree existence is irrevocably silenced by the advancing drumbeats of war. The journey that follows proves so intense and harrowing that in order to fi nd the emotional separation necessary to face her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Way We Lived Then Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Adrienne Fox’s THE WAY WE LIVED THEN book blast November 16 – 27!   Title: The Way We Lived Then Author: Adrienne Fox Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Family and Relationship Format: Ebook Adrienne Fox is a retired musician who began her literary career reviewing concerts. This is her fifth novel. The other novels are the following: The Retirement, Starstruck, Tit for Tat, and IQ. Adrienne Fox writes about life in Britain from 1941–1963, when old traditions came head-to-head with new ideas as wartime austerity gave way to the Swinging Sixties. She colorfully describes growing up in a constant conflict of the morals,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents President Tron 7000 Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Adam Pfeffer’s PRESIDENT TRON 7000 book blast November 2 – 13! Title: President Tron 7000 Author: Adam Pfeffer Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback In 2056, androids have become commonplace—so much so that the United States has elected its first android president. President Tron 7000 might be just what the country needs. He knows all the answers and vows to include everyone in his programs for a new America. Not everyone is convinced, however. Aging reporter Hudge Stone believes that the election of an android must be a mistake. Even though the new president has pledged to end nuclear war
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Defeating Breast Cancer Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stacey Keen’s DEFEATING BREAST CANCER book blast November 2 – 13!   Title: Defeating Breast Cancer Author: Stacy Keen, M.D. Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Health Format: Paperback When Dr. Stacey Keen, a radiologist, viewed her own screening mammogram, she immediately knew she had cancer. Defeating Breast Cancer: A Physician’s Story of Healing, Martial Arts and Life maps out her journey through diagnosis, treatment, and triumph. In telling her story, Dr. Keen relays not only her mental and emotional journey, but also her experience with complementary medicine (acupuncture) and her traditional course of treatment (surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy). Dr. Keen is
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  • October 20, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Crumbling Pageant Book Blast + Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patricia Burroughs’ The Crumbling Pageant Book Blast November 2!   Title: The Crumbling Pageant (Volume One of the Fury Triad Series) Author: Patricia Burroughs Publisher: Story Spring Publishing Pages: 607 Genre: Dark Young Adult Fantasy The people of Ordinary England are unaware of a hidden magical England existing alongside–the world of the Magi. Their cathedrals are temples to the old gods. They are ruled not by poor mad George, but by the ailing King Pellinore of the House of Pendragon. The wars of the Magi, however, are no less deadly. The Furys are known for their extraordinary music, their powerful
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Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s a Sin to Be Boring Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Singletary’s IT’S A SIN TO BE BORING book blast October 5 – 16!   Title: It’s A Sin to be Boring Author: Nancy Singletary Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Biography Format: Ebook It’s a Sin to Be Boring is a biographical-historical fiction that unravels the complexity of a family, where the actions of one touch the lives of others. The main character, Rebelle Palatine, born in Ohio, marries her high school sweetheart during World War II. While she yearns for the war to be over, she achieves her perfect job—modeling at a major department store in New York City. Only one thing throws
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexis Georg Hoen’s Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness book blast October 5 – 16!   Title: Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness Author: Alexis Georg Hoen Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion Format: Ebook Born in the Ukraine, educated in Munich, and having practiced medicine in the United States, author Alexis Georg Hoen has been exposed to widely differing political systems and religious beliefs, and he has always maintained an interest as to the origin of these beliefs and their relation to the innermost nature of man. In Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness, he interprets the words and the sacrifice of Jesus as pointing the way toward a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Launch Facility Bravo 13, 1 NOV 80 Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raymond Appleman’s LAUNCH FACILITY BRAVO 13, 1 NOV 80 book blast October 5 – 16! Title: Launch Facility Bravo 13, 1 NOV 80 Author: Raymond Appleman Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Mystery/Detective Format: Ebook This is a fiction short story about a haunted missile site. Many air force personnel claim to have felt a tap on their shoulder and a voice ask “got a light?” while on Bravo 13. No person was ever seen responsible for the contact or the voice. On the night of 31 October 1980, a camper team of two guards was maintaining security while the electronic security systems were down
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Baby Boy Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marilyn Pelkey’s BABY BOY book blast October 5 – 16!   Title: Baby Boy Author: Marilyn Pelkey Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook When author Marilyn Pelkey’s son, Kendall, was twenty-seven, he was diagnosed with an unusual and aggressive cancer. Less than two years later, he passed away. A recently separated father of three children at the time of his diagnosis, Kendall was an outgoing and open-minded man who loved music and saw strangers as friends he hadn’t met yet. In this memoir, Pelkey shares the story of their lives and of Kendall’s battle with cancer. She recalls the history of their
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Pump Up Your Book Presents RV Truck Haulers 101 Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Garcia Jr.’s RV TRUCK HAULERS 101 book blast October 5 – 16!       Title: RV Truck Haulers 101 Author: Tony Garcia Jr. Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Transportation Format: Ebook In this book. It will tell you the do’s and don’ts when you are planning to buy or finance a loan on a heavy duty truck for your fifth wheel toy hauler or your travel trailer and if you’re planning to buy a fifth wheel toy hauler or a travel trailer. But remember, if you want have your American dream come true in driving through the US, Canada and Mexico during
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