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New Book for Review: Historical Fiction ‘Pictures of the Past’ by Deby Eisenberg

Deby Eisenberg will be touring February 6-29 2012 with her historical fiction novel, Pictures of the Past! First-time novelist Deby Eisenberg hits the ground running with PICTURES OF THE PAST, an epic family and historical saga, sweeping through Chicago, Paris and Berlin, reliving events from pre-World War II Europe, but beginning in contemporary times.  An Impressionist painting, hanging for decades in the Art Institute of Chicago and donated by the charismatic philanthropist Taylor Woodmere, is challenged by an elderly woman as a Nazi theft. Mary Lignor of Book Pleasures says, “This novel is one of the most intriguing and beautiful books that I have ever read.  The ending of
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New Book for Review in Feb 2012: Christian/Inspirational Non-fiction: Unbridled Grace by Dr. Michael Norman

Dr. Michael Norman is touring in February 2012 with, Unbridled Grace. Answering a two-line classified ad in the newspaper had life-changing consequences for a trustingly naive doctor fresh out of school, just starting his career and life as a new father. In a nightmarish true story that could occur to any of us, he innocently takes a part-time chiropractic job from employers who were later found to be a Russian-organized crime ring involved in money laundering, insurance fraud and other crimes. Despite his cooperation in a federal government investigation, the author soon finds himself surrounded by deception on all sides. As his cooperation is turned cruelly against him, Michael endures
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New Book for Review: Memoir ‘Memories of Mom’ by Alexia E. Fraser

Alexia E. Fraser will be touring January 3 – 16 with her memoir, Memories of Mom! Memories of Mom (M.O.M.) is a poignant story about an extraordinary mother, written by a daughter who loved and cared for her during her last lap of life.  This story is written from the heart, and will inspire love and affection in millions of daughters and sons who will someday be caring for their elderly parents or loved ones.  It is about undying love, unyielding sacrifices and compassionate role reversal.  The circle of life. You can visit her blog at www.alexiafraser.blogspot.com. If you would like to review Memories of Mom, please fill out
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New Book for Review: Literary Fiction ‘Questions in the Silence’ by Karen Glick

Karen Glick will be touring January 3 – 27 with her literary fiction novel, Questions in the Silence! Ari Rothman, born with psychic abilities, has a lifelong fascination with spiritual issues.  Childhood visions and intuitions combine to make her a bit of an outsider in her peer group and she turns to religion to create meaning in her life. Ari’s childhood experiences and her strong desire to help others make her a natural psychotherapist.  However, the conflict between her intuitive abilities and a more rational approach to the human psyche intensifies when her first long-term client ends his sessions unexpectedly. You can visit her website at www.bellalunavoicecompany.com. If you
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New Book for Review: Thriller Suspense ‘Shadow Cay’ by Leona Bodie

Leona Bodie will be touring January 3 – 27 2012 with her thriller/suspense novel, Shadow Cay! Madeleine Nesbitt lives a privileged, sheltered life on a pristine tropical island paradise until the young girl is hauled off the deck of a capsizing ferry. Sixty-two passengers drown, trapped under the hull. Madeleine survives but her innocence dies that day. Despite the odds, she’s resilient enough to put her life together.  However, nine years later she realizes too late that catastrophe is only the beginning of the dangers that lurk ahead when another maritime disaster hits closer to home. Someone wants to make sure the Nesbitt family never makes it out of
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New Book for Review: Action/Adventure/Fiction ‘Red Hot Sky’ by Gordon Gumpertz

Gordon Gumpertz will be touring in January/February 2012 with is action/adventure/fiction novel, Red Hot Sky! CO2 buildup in earth’s atmosphere reaches a tipping point. Global weather destabilizes, turns chaotic. Ice storms, dust storms, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes pummel the earth nonstop. A secret computer model reveals that the frantic weather will peak out, and transform world climate into an alien environment devastating to human survival. Scientists Ben Mason, Claudine Manet, and Bertrand Short are developers of the computer model. Ben and Claudine are lovers as well as lab partners. While they work frantically to head off the approaching catastrophe, a disgraced Russian general hacks into their model and sees
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New Book for Review in February 2012, “Defending Jacob” by William Landay

Award-winning author William Landay is touring in February 2012 with his family drama thriller, Defending Jacob. Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. 432 paages Visit William online at http://www.williamlanday.com/. This tour is now full. Thank you for your interest.


New Book for Review: Juvenile Fiction ‘The Secret of the Sacred Scarab’ by Fiona Ingram

Fiona Ingram will be touring in January 3 – February 29 with her juvenile fiction (age group 10 – 14) novel, The Secret of the Sacred Scarab (Book #1 in the Chronicles of the Stone series)! A 5000-year-old mystery comes to life when a scruffy peddler gives Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their very first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr. Faisal Khalid shows a particular interest in the cousins and their scarab, do the boys realise they are in terrible danger. Dr. Khalid wants the relic at all costs. Justin and Adam embark upon the adventure of a lifetime, taking them down
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New YA Short for Review: The Caldecott Chronicles (No.1) by R.G. Bullet

R.G. Bullet will be touring in December with his YA short story The Caldecott Chronicles (No.1). Caldecott Estate, the ancestral home of the 32nd Earl of Rothshire, is besieged. The undead are traipsing and crawling across overgrown lawns, intent on ripping the very flesh from the Earl’s body. But many of them will not make it that far as the 32nd Earl has two things in their way: A prised Purdey shotgun and an accomplice named, Saffy. Saffy is a young and simple girl from the local village. She is quick of foot at setting traps, and dispatching the undead to the afterlife. She is endlessly coming up with
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New Book for Review: Literary Fiction ‘The Illusion of Certainty’ by Greg Messel

Greg Messel is touring December 5 – January 27 with his fictional book, Illusion of Certainty (Yorkshire Publishing). The Illusion of Certainty follows two parallel storylines. Marc is a successful businessman who seems to have everything—a great job, a beautiful wife, a house in an upscale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon and two great kids who are preparing for college. But something is not right. Marc is unsettled by the sudden change in his wife, Aimee, who seems distant and unhappy. What’s going on with her? The second storyline involves a successful young attorney, Alexandra Mattson. Alex, as she is called by her friends, meets a handsome young cop, Sean,
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New Book for Review: Nonfiction ‘The Cross Dresser’s Wife’ by Dee A. Levy & B. Sheffield Hunt

Dee A Levy and B. Sheffield Hunt will be touring December 5 – 16 2011 with their nonfiction book, The Cross Dresser’s Wife: Our Secret Lives! At long last, valuable and emotionally intimate social commentary on the taboo subculture of cross dressing is revealed in the pages of THE CROSS DRESSER’S WIFE * OUR SECRET LIVES. Culled from the nonprofit website www.crossdresserswives.com by authors Dee A. Levy (the website’s founder) and B. Sheffield Hunt, this international collection of stories exposes, for the first time, the shocking secret lives of cross dressers’ wives or partners who silently grapple with the issue of transvestism in their marriage or relationship. This is
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New Book for Review: Mystery ‘The MacGuffin’ by Michael Craft

Michael Craft will be touring in January 2012 with his mystery novel, The MacGuffin! A cold-case murder fifteen years ago halted promising developments in the quest for clean energy when the rumored prototype of a groundbreaking water engine was stolen or destroyed. Now the race is on to repower America, and Cooper Brant, still grieving that long-ago murder of his father, suddenly finds his family visited by a second violent death, raising the stakes to unearth lost secrets. When Coop discovers how the two crimes are linked, a grim message becomes clear. He’s next. 300 pages You can visit his website at www.michaelcraft.com. If you would like to review
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New Book for Review for December 2011: ‘Empty Time’ by Frank Scully

Frank Scully is touring from December 5th – 16th with the third book in his Decade Mystery Series, Empty Time. Jim Lang’s life sputtered into a workaholic rut on a middle rung of the corporate ladder while his colleagues, using his business plan, became the international business titans he once aspired to be. Bad memories of busted marriages and broken promises are all that keep him company in his personal hours so he is more than willing to sacrifice that empty time to his job to make the corporation grow.  His bosses have one more sacrifice in mind for him.  To die for them. Deceived, betrayed and framed for murder
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New Book for Review: Relationship ‘How to Get a Married Woman To Have Sex With You…If You’re Her Husband’ by Stephan Labossiere

Stephen Labossiere will be touring in December 5 – 16 2011 with his relationship book, How to Get a Married Woman to Have Sex With You…If You’re Her Husband! “Just tell me yes…”, is exactly what men all over the world are thinking when they are desperately trying to get intimate with their wives, but are only met with excuse after excuse and rejection after rejection. Women typically want their men to just “know” what they want or figure it out on their own; so men are left being set up to fail because they are near clueless in regards to what their women are truly looking for.  Due to not truly
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New Book for Review: Hollywood Stories, Short Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and the Legends of the Movies!

Stephen Schochet author of Hollywood Stories, Short Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies will be on book tour November 14 – Dec 16, 2011.  Just when you thought you’ve heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book — a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories contains a timeless treasure trove of colorful vignettes featuring an amazing all-star cast of icons including John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, and many others both past and contemporary. At high noon on a cold November day in 1974, sixty-seven-year-old John Wayne faced
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  • October 26, 2011
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New Book for Review in December: “The 58th Keeper” by R.G. Bullet

R. G. Bullet is touring from December 5th – 16th with his middle grade/crossover YA novel, The 58th Keeper. The 58th Keeper is the story of a boy called Archy Bass, who stumbles upon a mysterious and powerful relic. The moment he touches it, two warring forces race to find his whereabouts. One side thinks he’s simply too young and too inexperienced to keep it, and the other just want him dead. The 58th Keeper is a roaring trip that takes the reader on the most wonderful and hair-raising scenes imaginable. R. G. Bullet pulls out all stops in his debut novel to deliver an incredible journey with unforgettable
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New Book for Review: Invisible by Jeanne Bannon

Jeanne Bannon will be touring in December with her YA novel Invisible. Lola’s not pretty. Lola’s not popular. Lola wishes she could disappear … and then one day she does just that… For seventeen-year-old Lola Savullo, life is a struggle. Born to funky parents who are more in than she could ever be, Lola’s dream of becoming a writer makes her an outsider even in her own home. Bullied and despised, Lola still has the support of her best pal Charlie and Grandma Rose. Not only is she freakishly tall, Lola’s a big girl and when forced to wear a bathing suit at her summer job as a camp
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More Books for Review for December 2011!

The following authors will be on tour from December 1st – 16th. Please contact Cheryl Malandrinos at ccmal(at)charter(dot)net or use the form at the bottom of this post if you are interested in hosting any of the following books. Please specify electronic or printed format if an option is given. Deadline is November 15th or until the tours are filled. Thank you! Dianne Hartsock is touring with her paranormal suspense novel, Alex. Alex is twenty and confused. He always is. The world presses on him with its horrors and pain, with scintillating auras that pierce his eyes and drive the migraines deeper. He hears the cries of children, the
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  • October 22, 2011
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  • Comments Off on New Book for Review: Christian Fiction ‘Hearts That Survive: A Novel of the Titanic’ by Yvonne Lehman

New Book for Review: Christian Fiction ‘Hearts That Survive: A Novel of the Titanic’ by Yvonne Lehman

Yvonne Lehman will be touring April 2 – 27 2012 with her Christian fiction novel, Hearts That Survive: A Novel of the Titanic! In April 1912, Lydia Beaumont is on her way to a new life with a boundless hope, against all that Craven Dowd desires for her and himself. Her friendship with Caroline Chadwick deepens as they plan Lydia’s wedding on board the “grandest ship ever built.” Then both women suffer tragic losses when the “unsinkable” Titanic collides with an iceberg and there are only 20 lifeboats for 2207 passengers. They struggle to keep their families and dreams together. Decades later, Caroline’s granddaughter, working at the museum in
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New Book for Review: YA Urban Fantasy ‘Revengeful Heart’ by Chrys Phillips

Chrys Phillips will be touring December 5 – 16 and again January 3 – 13 with her YA urban fantasy novel, Revengeful Heart! ITS A WICKED RUN OF LOVE ~ SECRETS ~ REVENGE ~ HEARTBREAK AND FEAR…ONE TASTE AND YOU’LL BE BEGGING FOR MORE! Can a broken heart be mended? Are soul mates destined to be together no matter what forces try to keep them apart? Lakeview exists…it’s a humble pleasant place to live…but amongst its scenic surrounds immortals are dwelling some are evil enough to haunt and horrify you for eternity and others are loving and full of heroic actions. Would you befriend them? How would you know
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Pump Up Your Book: New Books for Review December 2011

Pump Up Your Book would like to offer the following titles to bloggers interested in reviewing/hosting these books as part of the authors’ virtual book tours in December: Black & Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge Dancing on the Inside by Glen Strathy Death on a High Floor Donations to Clarity by Noah Baird Echo Falls by Jaime McDougall Farsighted by Emlyn Chand Fission by Tom Weston Food Allergy and Gluten Free Weight Loss by Nicolette Dumke Give Me a Break: No Fuss Meditation by Whitney Stewart Haunted by Douglas Misquita In Leah’s Wake by Terri Giuliano Long Inside the Spaghetti Bowl by Frank Zaccari Natural Treatment Solutions For Hyperthyroidism
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New Book for Review: Young Adult Science Fiction ‘The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar’ by Braxton A. Cosby

Braxton A. Cosby (Bill Cosby’s nephew!!!) will be touring December 5 – January 13 with his science fiction young adult novel, The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar! It Starts With Choice! What would you choose: love or irrefutable duty? On the brink of Civil War, the Torrian Alliance continues with its mission to obliterate Star-children across the universe in order to suppress an intergalactic evil. Following the recommendations of his Council, King Gregorio Derry has agreed to send his only son on a mission to restore honor to his family. Bounty Hunter Prince William Derry has crossed thousands of light-years to planet Earth, in order to fulfill this age old prophetic
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New Book for Review: Christian Fiction ‘Honor Redeemed’ by Loree Lough

Loree Lough will be touring February 6 – 29 with her Christian fiction novel, Honor Redeemed! During rush hour one cold November night, a jumbo jet crashes on a busy highway…most of it, anyway. Honor Mackenzie and Rowdy, her trusty Search and Rescue dog, join the SAR team to search for the tail section, reported by witnesses to have landed in the dark and rainy woods along Baltimore’s Patapsco River. Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Matt Phillips, forced to leave his SAR work behind to ensure his motherless twins would always have a dad, leaves the boys with a neighbor and heads to the woods, intent on getting another breaking story.
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New Horror Novella for Review: The Noctuary by Greg Chapman

Greg Chapman will be touring in December with his horror novella The Noctuary. Struggling writer Simon Ryan’’s life has gone to Hell. Shadows are pouring into his reality and his words are not his own anymore. He has been chosen to become a scribe for some of the worst creatures of the Underworld – the ones whose sole purpose is to torment human souls – The Dark Muses. As Simon writes, he falls deeper into the abyss and before long he has no sense of what is real. With the help of another scribe, old and mutilated, Simon comes to discover that his writing can mould people and places
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New Book for Review: Natural Treatment Solutions For Hyperthyroidism and Graves’ Disease by Eric M. Osansky D.C.

Eric M. Osansky D.C will be touring in December with his alternative health book, Natural Treatment Solutions For Hyperthyroidism and Graves’ Disease. If you have hyperthyroidism or Graves’ Disease and are looking for a natural treatment solution to get to the underlying cause of your condition, then this book will show you how to restore your health naturally…and avoid radioactive iodine. In the United States, radioactive iodine is commonly recommended as the first line of treatment for hyperthyroidism and Graves’ Disease. While radioactive iodine is necessary at times, in most cases it should be the last resort. Antithyroid drugs may be necessary to manage the symptoms, but they of
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  • October 16, 2011
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  • Comments Off on New Tween Book for Review: The Incredibly Awesome Adventures of Puggie Liddell by Karen Mueller Bryson

New Tween Book for Review: The Incredibly Awesome Adventures of Puggie Liddell by Karen Mueller Bryson

Karen Mueller Bryson will be touring in December with her comedic adventure novel for teens, The Incredibly Awesome Adventures of Puggie Liddell. History made fun! In this fast-paced and action-packed time travel adventure, the wise-cracking whiz kid, Puggie Liddell’s modified Gameboy activates a time travel portal and he lands in the 1890s with his sibling rival, annoyingly prissy teen sister, Gigi, who thinks history is like-totally-gross. The kids must learn to work together to find a time travel portal back to the present before the eccentric scientist, Nikola Tesla, or his arch nemesis, inventor Thomas Edison, can steal the Gameboy and use it to complete a death ray machine,
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘In Leah’s Wake’ by Terri Giuliano Long

Terri Giuliano Long will be touring November 14 – December 16, and then again January 3 – 27 with her women’s fiction novel, In Leah’s Wake. The Tyler family had the perfect life until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn’t want to be perfect anymore. As Leah’s rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Justine, must bear the burden of coping with the destruction her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, soon find themselves isolated, the subject of vicious
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New Book for Review: Christian Contemporary Fiction ‘The Mother Road’ by Jennifer Allee

Jennifer Allee will be touring in April 2 – 27 2012 with her Christian contemporary fiction novel, The Mother Road! Within the course of a week, marriage expert Natalie Marino is dumped by her husband, receives an urgent call home from her father, and discovers her estranged sister, Lindsay, is pregnant. A road trip on Route 66 may not help, but it sure couldn’t hurt. Or so Natalie thinks, until Lindsay’s boyfriend starts stalking them. Will their trip down the Mother Road bring the two sisters closer, or turn out to be the biggest wrong turn of their lives? 288 pages You can visit the author’s website at www.jenniferallee.com.
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New Book for Review: Memoir ‘Web of Lies – My Life with a Narcissist’ by Sarah Tate

Sarah Tate will be touring December 5 – 16 with her memoir, Web of Lies – My Life with a Narcissist! Web of Lies takes you on an emotional roller-coaster, experienced through the eyes of Sarah Tate, an intelligent, young newcomer to Switzerland who is swept off her feet by an older, more experienced company manager. Within weeks of their meeting, Bill impresses her with a courtship vastly unusual in modern times. He lures Sarah with his intellect along with numerous gifts, expensive restaurants, and trips to luxury hotels. Sarah, who is searching for not only love but security, quickly finds herself falling for the worldly but sensitive and
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New Book for Review: Mystery/Detective ‘Death on a High Floor’ by Charles Rosenberg

Charles Rosenberg will be touring December 5 – 16 with is mystery/detective novel, Death on a High Floor! No one is surprised when Simon Rafer, the much-despised managing partner in the large international law firm, Marbury Marfan, turns up dead – with an ornate dagger buried between his shoulder blades. Rafer, an abusive boss, had many enemies, but the prime suspect becomes firm senior partner Robert Tarza, at least according to one Detective Spritz. With Jenna James, his friend and colleague, Tarza sets out to find the real killer or killers before Spritz assembles enough evidence to put Tarza away for life. That’s the supercharged premise of attorney-writer-legal analyst
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