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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Tour June 6 – 30!   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 fair
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gillian Murray Kendall’s THE BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WISDOM virtual book tour March 7 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Author: Gillian Murray Kendall Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption… But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to understand—or bear. On Angel’s sixteenth birthday, her younger sister, Silky, wakes her to prepare her for a marriage to Leth, a man
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sin and the Millionaire and Every Vow She Breaks Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you SIN AND THE MILLIONAIRE and EVERY VOW SHE BREAKS virtual book tour March 1 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Sin and the Millionaire Author: Lucy Farago Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ebook What happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but when an innocent woman is pinned with someone else’s lethal mistake, the bright lights of Sin City threaten to dim for good… At seventeen, Lizzy’s first love swindled her out of a small fortune in lottery winnings, and her own small business—forcing her to strip to keep loan sharks at bay. That’s what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Me Tenor Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Annabeth Albert’s LOVE ME TENOR virtual book tour February 29 – March 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Love Me Tenor Author: Annabeth Albert Release Date: February 16, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook There’s no way he’ll shake this off…. Trevor Daniels is feeling aimless. A recent college grad, he’s not sure what to do with his useless degree, and his family all but abandoned him after he revealed the truth about himself. But a friend’s suggestion that he take his chances on a reality show aimed at finding the next big boy band strikes a chord with
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  • February 21, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Charlotte and Loving Lies Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you CHARLOTTE and LOVING LIES virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Charlotte Author: Virginia Taylor Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook A marriage most inconvenient… After losing his first love in childbirth, Nicholas Alden knows with a great certainty that he must never be a father. But to be a husband is a very different matter—mandated by South Australian society, necessary for his family name. So when he meets beautiful social climber Charlotte, he believes he has found a wife he can keep at arm’s length. He is terribly
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Falling Grace, Moving On, Two to Wrangle and Wild Hearts Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you FALLING GRACE, MOVING ON, TWO TO WRANGLE and WILD HEARTS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Falling Grace Author: Melissa Shirley Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook Finding the fairytale in Storybook Lake . . . Grace Wade left Storybook Lake hoping to escape her crazy family and the demands of her job as a defense attorney. But not twenty-four hours after landing in a small Texas town where she hopes to find new beginnings, Grace instead finds herself in the middle of an investigation that’s turning the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder on Wheels Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynn Cahoon’s MURDER ON WHEELS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18! Inside the Book: Title: Murder on Wheels Author: Lynn Cahoon Pages: 198 Publisher: Lyrical Underground Genre: Cozy Mystery Format: Ecopy/Paperback/Audio The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner—owner of Coffee, Books, and More—can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . . Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there’s no curbing her enthusiasm—not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and
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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 Chosen Soldiers Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you R.H. Scott’s novel CHOSEN SOLDIERS on tour February 8 – March 4, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Chosen Soldiers Author: R.H. Scott Release Date: February 9, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: YA Dystopian/Thriller Format: Ebook/Paperback After the missiles tore up the Earth, societies crumbled, leaving scattered patches of humanity struggling to survive. Slowly, a group came together, helping each other regrow a world worth living in. And then the Others attacked. Realizing the need to truly protect themselves, they formed the Academy: a place where young people could be built into an elite military force. The training is intense…and so are the consequences
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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 Release Your Vision Torch Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock’s novel RELEASE YOUR VISION TORCH on tour February 22 – April 15, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Release Your Vision Torch Author: Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock Release Date: January 8, 2016 Pages: 346 Publisher: Princess of Suburbia Genre: Motivational/Inspirational Format: Ebook/Hardcover/Paperback Release Your Vision Torch will take you on a life journey. The exercises ushers you into a place where you have to be brutally truthful, for restored strength and rejuvenation to occur. Reading Release Your Vision Torch made me get real with myself about my life, relationships, pass failures and aspirations. This book should be used as a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Asset Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anna Del Mar’s novel THE ASSET on tour February 22 – April 15, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: The Asset Author: Anna Del Mar Release Date: February 22, 2016 Publisher: Carina Press Genre: Mystery/Suspense Format: Ebook Anna del Mar’s explosive, sexy debut novel in the Wounded Warrior series, perfect for fans of Lisa Marie Rice and Lora Leigh—the story of a woman desperate to escape her dangerous past and the navy SEAL who would lay down his life to save her Ash Hunter knows what it is to run. A SEAL gravely injured in Afghanistan, he’s gone AWOL from the military hospital. Physically
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ecowarriors Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sandra Dreis’ ECOWARRIORS Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: The Ecowarriors Author: Sandra Dreis Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 190 Genre: Action Adventure Format: Ebook On rare occasions, a writer makes a first appearance on the literature scene and the reader feels the excitement of meeting a new friend. In her debut novel, The Ecowarriors, Sandra Dreis creates young characters with voices that ring true and a story that is perfectly timed to entertain. Setting the fantasy against the background of the all-too-real problem of fracking is nothing short of brilliant. —Leigh Somerville, Author, It All Started with a Dog
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reel Rebels Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joy I. Payne’s REEL REBELS: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE 1966 to 1996 Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: Reel Rebels Author: Joy I. Payne Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 294 Genre: Performing Art Format: Ebook The London FilmMakers’ Cooperative was founded in 1966 by a group of artists who sought to explore the possibilities of the moving image whilst maintaining autonomy over the production, distribution, and exhibition of their work. Although their films were not overtly political, artists nevertheless expressed their political attitudes by creating nonnarrative films, thereby rejecting conventional narrative structures associated with mainstream, commercial cinema, which they perceived
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Risen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

    Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Thomas Barr Jr.’s novel, Risen (Urban Fiction) from February 15 – March 31, 2016.   Inside the Book:     Title: Risen Author: Thomas Barr Jr. Publisher: Printhouse Books Publication Date: January 15, 2016 Pages: 188 Genre: Urban Fiction   The growth of “Mega churches” has risen considerably in the 21st century as compared to the past. Miami Urban Chronicles Volume I: Risen, seeks to set forth a fictional biopic of the rise of spiritual leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh of the Liberty City based movement the Nation of Yahweh, “Ben Yahweh’s.” Chauncey Miller, the main character in the story is determined to be a success.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Berkshire Jack Russells Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eileen Chatwin’s THE BERKSHIRE JACK RUSSELLS! Book Blast February 15 – 26! Inside the Book: Title: The Berkshire Jack Russells Author: Eileen Chatwin Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 108 Genre: Memoir Format: Ebook This is a true story about two Jack Russell’s who lived in Berskhire with my me and my children. They truly had a wonderful life and I think you should read about them, what they got up to and they places they visited. When you hear other people saying it’s a dogs life, they mean that they think that dogs have an easy life. Well that is not true as they are
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Humanist Society Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joseph Sassoon’s THE HUMANIST SOCIETY! Book Blast February 15 – 26! Inside the Book: Title: The Humanist Society Book Blast Author: Joseph Sassoon Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 174 Genre: Social Science Format: Ebook What accounts for the rise and fall of so many civilizations—especially when some of them held more political power than their rivals? Author Joseph Sassoon tackles this question and many others in this, his second volume on self-actualization. As a missionary for humanism, he explores the social conditions that are necessary for the greatest number of people to achieve self-actualization. In presenting his theories, he reviews the work of major thinkers,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Forget Me Not, Lost & Found Love, Borrowing Trouble and Bringing Delaney Home Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you FORGET ME NOT, LOST & FOUND LOVE, BORROWING TROUBLE, BRINGING DELANEY HOME virtual book tour February 2 – 29, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Forget Me Not Author: Crystal B. Bright Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook Roses are red, violets are blue. Only one woman could make NFL star Gideon Wells walk away from the Super Bowl: His Mama, “Queen” Elizabeth, the beautiful, strong black woman who adopted him and his two white brothers when they were just kids. So when Elizabeth develops a pressing health issue, Gideon doesn’t hesitate to come home and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Earning a Ring, Fixer-Upper, Unwanted Girl and Hell on Heels

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you EARNING A RING, FIXER-UPPER, UNWANTED GIRL and HELL ON HEELS virtual book tour January 25 – February 15, 2016!   Title: Earning a Ring Author: Kristina Mathews Release Date: January 19, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook For Rachel Parker, covering the San Francisco Goliaths is the perfect opportunity to launch her career as a serious reporter. But she didn’t bargain on Bryce Baxter, the team’s star shortstop, tempting her more non-professional aspirations. After tearing up the base paths with him, she finds herself with a little problem, and Bryce might be the only man who can save the game.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Junior Officer Bunkroom Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.J. Zerr’s THE JUNIOR OFFICER BUNKROOM! Virtual Book Tour! 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, prays and hopes
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Viral Justice Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julie Rowe’s VIRAL JUSTICE virtual book tour February 2 – 29! Inside the Book: Title: Viral Justice Author: Julie Rowe Publisher: Carina Press Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ecopy As a general’s daughter, Alicia Stone has fought twice as hard for everything she’s earned in the military. A Special Forces consultant with black belts in three martial arts, she’s as strong as her surname implies. No one dares call her Alicia—no one but Colonel Robert Maxmillian, head of the Biological Response Team. With Alicia at his side, Max must lead the team into northern Iraq to investigate a virus—or is it a weapon—killing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wake Up, Lazarus Volume II Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Pierre Hegy’s Christian non-fiction book, Wake Up, Lazarus! Volume II Virtual Book Tour! ABOUT WAKE UP, LAZARUS VOLUME II Title: Wake Up, Lazarus Volume II Genre: Christian Non-fiction Author: Pierre Hegy Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 328 Language: English ISBN – 978-1-93623-696-1 Today’s Catholic Church faces a major decline, and a dramatic renewal is needed to facilitate positive change. In Wake Up, Lazarus! author Pierre Hegy documents the most important issues facing modern Catholicism and presents a convincing argument for renewal in the Catholic Church. Wake Up, Lazarus! examines three general factors that contribute to the spiritual decline of all mainline churches and three factors that
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  • January 21, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Prevention of Crohn’s Disease Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gilles R.G. Monif, M.D.’s THE PREVENTION OF CROHN’S DISEASE Virtual Book Tour! Inside the Book: Title: The Prevention of Crohn’s Disease Author: Gilles R.G. Monif, M.D. Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Health Format: Ebook Prior to 1936, Crohn’s disease was a rare and unrecognized disease entity. Today, the United States is the midst of a rapidly growing epidemic. It is estimated that between 800,000 and 1.2 million citizens are currently afflicted. The unanswered question is WHY? In the 1990s, circumstantial scientific data inferred a potential causal relationship between Crohn’s disease in humans and mycobacterial pathogen in domestic animals, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP). When
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Blood of Innocents Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mitchell Hogan’s BLOOD OF INNOCENTS virtual book tour January 25 – February 12! Inside the Book: Title: Blood of Innocents Author: Mitchell Hogan Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ecopy/Paperback/Audible A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world—or be the instrument of its destruction—in this second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery. Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen. As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Funeral Games Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jay Allan’s FUNERAL GAMES virtual book tour January 19 – February 5! Inside the Book:   Title: Funeral Games Author: Jay Allan Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Pages: 464 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ecopy/Paperback The battle for the unification and rule of the Far Stars Confederation will be decided in this exhilarating third and final book in the swashbuckling space saga begun with Shadow of Empire and Enemy in the Dark. The Far Stars stands on the edge of a precipice. The forces of Governor Vos have surged forth, conquering worlds and imposing the emperor’s brutal rule over millions. Only one thing stands in
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  • January 14, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Rogue Retrieval Virtual Book Tour – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dan Koboldt’s THE ROGUE RETRIEVAL virtual book tour January 18 – February 5! Inside the Book:   Title: The Rogue Retrieval Author: Dan Koboldt Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Pages: 384 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ecopy/Paperback Sleight of hand… in another land. Stage magician Quinn Bradley has one dream: to headline his own show on the Vegas Strip. And with talent scouts in the audience wowed by his latest performance, he knows he’s about to make the big-time. What he doesn’t expect is an offer to go on a quest to a place where magic is all too real. That’s how he finds himself
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  • January 13, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Daughter of Blood Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Helen Lowe’s DAUGHTER OF BLOOD virtual book tour January 18 – February 12! Inside the Book:   Title: Daughter of Blood Author: Helen Lowe Publisher: Harper Voyager Pages: 768 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ecopy/Paperback A Gemmell Award-Winning Series Malian of Night and Kalan, her trusted ally, are returning to the Wall of Night—but already it may be too late. The Wall is dangerously weakened, the Nine Houses of the Derai fractured by rivalry and hate. And now, the Darkswarm is rising . . . Among Grayharbor backstreets, an orphan boy falls foul of dark forces. On the Wall, a Daughter of Blood must
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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 Wake Up Lazarus! Volume II Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pierre Hegy’s WAKE UP, LAZARUS! Book Blast January 18 – 29! Inside the Book: Title: Wake Up Lazarus! Volume II : Paths to Catholic Renewal Author: Pierre Hegy Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 434 Genre: Religion Format: Ebook This book presents research in three new areas: Sunday liturgies, homilies, and pastoral concepts. First it presents to the readers the major Latin American document, “Disciples and Missionaries of Jesus-Christ,” which sets the course of the Church in Latin America for the next decade. Next I present the findings about the Sunday liturgies in 100 churches, 50 in Guatemala and 50 the U.S. The following chapter
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Northern Gentleman Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lane Everett’s novel, A Northern Gentleman (Historical Fiction) from February 1 – March 31, 2016.   Inside the Book:   Title: A Northern Gentleman Author: Lane Everett Publisher: Senior Prospect Publishing Co. Publication Date: July 15, 2015 Format: eBook / Paperback (US Only) / PDF – 298 pages Genre: Historical Fiction   Handsome and quick-witted Drucker May is miserable in the privileged life that he leads working at a bank in Atlanta. So he runs away. He wants to find what it is that he’s really supposed to do with his life and he wants to have a good time doing it. Because the year is
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