Posts Tagged ‘biography’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LITTLE GIANTS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Juvenile #Biography

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raynelda Calderon’s LITTLE GIANTS: 10 HISPANIC WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY Virtual Book Tour September 15 – October 15. Inside the Book Title: LITTLE GIANTS: 10 HISPANIC WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY Author: Raynelda Calderon Publisher: Cayena Press, Inc. Pages: 64 Genre: Juvenile Biography BOOK BLURB: Little Giants: 10 Hispanic Women Who Made History is a short collection of biographies about Hispanic women and the impact they made in the world. Some of the women featured in this book are iconic figures such as ballet dancer Alicia Alonso; others are less known heroines such as indigenous leader Dolores Cacuango, founder of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BLIND PONY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Biography #Autobiography #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Samantha Hart’s BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Virtual Book Tour July 19 – August 19. Inside the Book Title: BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Author: Samantha Hart Publisher: Wild Bill Publishing Pages: 359 Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Memoir BOOK BLURB: In her debut memoir, entrepreneur and Hollywood executive Samantha Hart reveals the abuses and traumas that she overcame to build a creative, successful, and love-filled life. BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell (Wild Bill Publishing) was released on March 15, 2021, and is a 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #biography

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anthony Drago and Douglas Wellman’s SURVIVING HIROSHIMA: A YOUNG WOMAN’S STORY Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Author: Anthony Drago & Douglas Wellman Publisher: Boutique of Quality Books Publishing Company Pages: 282 Genre: Biography BOOK BLURB: From Russian nobility, the Palchikoffs barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until Kaleria’s father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. Her father, a talented musician, established a new life for the family, but the outbreak of World War II created a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Other Side of Cancer: Living Life with My Dying Sister @Find1Cure #memoir #biography #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Annette Leads’ THE OTHER SIDE OF CANCER: LIVING LIFE WITH MY DYING SISTER Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE OTHER SIDE OF CANCER: LIVING LIFE WITH MY DYING SISTER Author: Annette Leads Publisher: Find1Cure Pages: 194 Genre: Biography/Memoir BOOK BLURB: The Other Side of Cancer: Living Life with My Dying Sister is a passionate story of two sisters and their extraordinary bond and friendship reignited in the face of cancer. Theresa conquered many hurdles in her lifetime, with victorious highs and shattering lows, but at fifty-four years old, she took on the biggest challenge
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Helga Stipa Madland’s YOU’RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE, ARE YOU? REMINISCENCES virtual book tour March 2 – 27! Title: You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences Author: Helga Stipa Madland Publisher: Aventine Press Pages: 202 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle I start with when I was born, then there was a World War, and then I went to Norman.—Klodnitz, in Upper Silesia, now a part of Poland, was my birth place; when everything collapsed in 1945 at the end of WWII, my family and I became refugees. We trekked across Germany, to the west, and eventually settled in a small
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding Zoe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brandi Rarus’ Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption virtual book tour October 6-17! Title: Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption Author: Brandi Rarus Publisher: BenBella Books Pages: 320 Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoir Format: Hardcover In Finding Zoe, Brandi Rarus shares the story of her very personal path of self-discovery and the struggle of being caught between two worlds—the hearing and the Deaf. We travel with her through her mainstreamed younger years and later on to college at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf where she embraces Deaf culture and realizes
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{Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoir} Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption Blog Tour Sign Up

Brandi Rarus will be touring October 6 – 17 with her biography/autobiography/personal memoir, Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! In Finding Zoe, Brandi Rarus shares the story of her very personal path of self-discovery and the struggle of being caught between two worlds—the hearing and the Deaf. We travel with her through her mainstreamed younger years and later on to college at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf where she
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First Chapters: Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down by Pauline L. Hawkins

Title: Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down Author: Pauline L. Hawkins Paperback: 124 pages Genre: Nonfiction Publisher: Anole (June 14, 2012) Language: English ISBN – 0578105306 ISBN – 978-0578105307 About Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down Where were you on 9/11? That question has become part of the fabric of our lives as Americans. On that bright, sunny day, none of us had any idea what was in store and how it would change our lives. Depending on what part of the country you lived in, you may not have known anything was going on until several hours after the first plane struck. You may not have heard the
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  • August 30, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down Virtual Book Publicity Tour + Kindle Giveaway

Join Pauline L. Hawkins, author of the biography/autobiography, Ashes Ashes the Twins Fall Down, as she tours the blogosphere September 4 – 28 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT PAULINE L. HAWKINS Pauline L. Hawkins was born in Munson Army Hospital at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on Easter Sunday. Pauline has been in the health insurance industry for almost thirty years, working her way up from the mailroom to corporate management and claims payment. In 2002, Pauline received her Instructional Design certification, which allows her to create instructor-led and learner-paced training curricula, along with computer-based learning activities and website creation. Pauline has enjoyed
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Reversible Skirt Online Book Tour December 2011

Join Laura McHale Holland, author of the memoir Reversible Skirt as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Laura McHale Holland Laura McHale Holland’s memoir, Reversible Skirt won a silver medal in the 2011 Readers Favorite book awards. Her stories and articles have appeared in such publications as Every Day Fiction Three, Wisdom Has a Voice, the Vintage Voices anthologies, NorthBay biz magazine, the Noe Valley Voice and the original San Francisco Examiner. A member of both Redwood Writers and the Storytelling Association of California, Laura has been a featured teller at the Lake Tahoe Storytelling Festival. To
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Biographer Steven Honigberg

As author and professional cellist, Steven Honigberg, complements his biography’s subject with a musician’s ear for language and the highest technical expertise. He currently plays on a 1732 Stradivarius (the “Stuart”), holds degrees from The Juilliard School, and combined with experience writing about legendary cellists, has produced a comprehensive first biography of America’s “first cellist.” In 1984, the author was handpicked by cellist-conductor Msistlav Rostropovich to join the National Symphony Orchestra, a position he holds to this day. Within months, he graduated from college, presented his New York recital debut, appeared as soloist in Alice Tully Hall, and accepted the Washington job. And Leonard Rose died. The author’s writing
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Leonard Rose Virtual Book Tour September ’10

Join Steven Honigberg, author of the biography, Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist (Beckam Publications Group), as he virtually tours the blogosphere September 7 – September 30 ‘10 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Steven Honigberg As author and professional cellist, Steven Honigberg, complements his biography’s subject with a musician’s ear for language and the highest technical expertise. He currently plays on a 1732 Stradivarius (the “Stuart”), holds degrees from The Juilliard School, and combined with experience writing about legendary cellists, has produced a comprehensive first biography of America’s “first cellist.” In 1984, the author was handpicked by cellist-conductor Msistlav
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New Book for Review: Biography ‘Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist by Steven Honigberg

Steven Honigberg will be touring in September with his biography, Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist.  Leonard Rose (1918 – 1984) the great American cellist, was considered one of the most important teachers and musicians of the twentieth century. Author Steven Honigberg, who studied at The Juilliard School from 1979 to 1984 in Leonard Rose’s final class, examines the multifaceted American artist and the classical music context dominating Rose’s twentieth century. This eagerly awaited biography portrays a complex individual during a period of tremendous individualism. Honigberg explores his sympathetic nature, his unyielding devotion to the cello, and, inevitably, his failings. Throughout, the reader sees Rose among
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