Posts Tagged ‘biography’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Mother of a Millionaire Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raoji Patel’s Mother of a Millionaire book blitz January 26- February 6!   Title: Mother of a Millionaire Author: Raoji Patel Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 238 Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Children of Indian descent often move to the United States in search of a better life. Other Indian children, born in America, are often materially successful, but they lose touch with the values of traditional Indian culture, including a deep love and respect for parents and gratitude for the parents loving sacrifices to aid them on their life’s path. In Mother of a Millionaire, author Raoji (Ray) M. Patel provides insight
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Education of a Poor Country Boy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jack Evans’s Education of a Poor Country Boy book blitz December 29- January 9! Title: Education of a Poor Country Boy Author: Jack Evans Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 140 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Education of a Poor Country Boy by Jack Evans captures the old and new of the construction world from 1942 to current times. The book also includes inspirational pieces that show God is at work even in construction.   Jack Evans was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He is an eighty-seven-year-old father of five children, grandfather of fourteen grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bad Can Be Broken Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raven White’s Bad Can Be Broken book blitz December 29- January 9!   Title: Bad Can Be Broken Author: Raven White Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 186 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON A rebellious and willful woman, author Raven White spent years stewing her organs in lethal concoctions of alcohol, meth, marijuana, and cocaine. Running from relationships and self-medicating was routine. Colon cancer and a life expectancy of three to five years became the “cure” she needed to hear God’s voice. In Bad Can Be Broken, she narrates the story of how stage four colon cancer at first was her nemesis, but how it
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Living with Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L. Reynolds Andiric’s Living with Heart book blitz October 6 – October 17!     Title: Living with Heart Author: L. Reynolds Andiric Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 266 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Reflections from the heart: intimate and provocative An eclectic assortment of sensitive, reflective, and occasionally spiritual short stories relates the experiences of an adventurous seeker and world traveler. Never a mere spectator of life, but always fully participating, L. Reynolds Andiric relays stories of intimate connections with nature and family as well as memorable exchanges with individuals randomly encountered along life’s way. Each tale conveys an insightful experience that broadened
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edwina Marino’s Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Author: Edwina Marino Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 83 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Today, there is a disease afflicting many people and arousing fear in those whose ages can start as young as forty years, and moving on through the sixties, seventy and eighty year old groups. It is known as Alzheimer’s Disease. This book is about sharing this experience with my sister-in-law who came down with this disease in her later years. She was eighty-four at the time and lived
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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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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Corkscrew Life Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Caulson’s A Corkscrew Life book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: A Corkscrew Life Author: Richard Coulson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Biography/Personal Memoir Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Richard Coulson’s memoir of his peripatetic life vividly describes his unique travels and the exceptional people he met along the way. His adventures began at birth and continued into his childhood with his glamorous mother in Nassau, Bahamas. Following an Ivy League education and army service in Korea, he became a New Yorker practicing law with a major Wall Street firm. His move into investment banking led to eight years in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dakota Gold Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Wilson’s Dakota Gold book blitz July 21 – August 1!     Title: Dakota Gold Author: Karen Wilson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 80 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Crystal Lotus Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jinna Van Vliet’s Crystal Lotus book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Crystal Lotus Author: Jinna Van Vliet Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 129 Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The Harmonic convergence in 1987 launched the awakening of the Mass Consciousness into the realization that human consciousness is rising into a higher frequency. Coined as the Big Shift it created many guidelines to help with this transition process. Crystal Lotus is just one such guide gifted to us by the Divine Feminine Creator Energy through one of her Aspects, the Goddess Quan Yin.     Jinna is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Terms
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Joichin Nile’s Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Author: Lauren Joichin Nile Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 539 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity’s racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950’s and 60’s segregated New Orleans. In so doing, she posits what she believes is humanity’s universal racial story. Lauren explains how starting out from Southern Africa, fully formed human beings, over thousands of years, walked out of Africa, populated
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Just an Accident Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amy Montgomery’s Just an Accident book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Just an Accident Author: Amy Montgomery Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 229 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON There was no blood at the scene, not even a cut on his body. Yet on May 25, 1999, when the top of a massive beech tree snapped off and slammed into 33-year-old, Adirondack logger Scott Remington, his bones exploded. The terrain was unforgiving and the area too remote for cell phones. So the fact that medics reached him is a miracle. So is the aftermath of a freak accident that felt like
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dear Mom and Dad, You Don’t Know Me But…Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Georgia Lee McGowen’s Dear Mom and Dad book blitz June 2-13!     Title: Dear Mom and Dad Author: Georgia Lee McGowen Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 290 Genre: Biography Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Much has been written both about and by people who feel they were assigned the wrong body at conception, exploring the struggles and too often the tragedies that result from that mismatch of nature. Very little has been written, however, to chronicle the lifelong struggle of people to understand and come to terms with two distinct sets of emotions, one male and one female – a single soul, at times
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Pump Up Your Book Presents High Up in the Rolling Hills Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peter Finch’s High Up in the Rolling Hills book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT HIGH UP IN THE ROLLING HILLS   Title: High Up in the Rolling Hills Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: Peter Finch Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 204 pages Release Date: April 24, 2013 In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they set down roots in the hills
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sex and Alcohol in Retirement Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alan Rose’s Sex & Alcohol in Retirement book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT SEX & ALCOHOL IN RETIREMENT Title: Sex & Alcohol in Retirement Genre: Biography Author: Alan Rose Publisher: Trafford EBook: 140 pages Release Date: March 31, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-42690-051-8 The author set up the London Gender Clinic, the first clinic in Europe to offer parents the ability to choose the sex of a planned baby. Hegives an account of the furore that began when it opened. Part two describes his long experience in the law courts as an expeert witness in Drink-drivingt cases, and includes most of the reasons gven for fighting the charges
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Johnny Gora Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Goodale’s Johnny Gora  Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT JOHNNY GORA     Title: Johnny Gora Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: John Goodale Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 194 Language: English Format: Ebook Have you ever had your life fall apart, or felt you were on the verge of oblivion and wonder if there were any glimmers of hope ahead? If you’re human, it’s likely that has happened to you at least once. During those times, it may seem like nothing good will ever come your way again. John Goodale felt that way. In his memoir, Johnny Gora, Goodale tells how he watched his entire life
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Pump Up Your Book Presents John Dante’s Inferno, A Playboy’s Life Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Anthony Valerio, author of the biography, John Dante’s Inferno, A Playboy’s Life, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – June 14, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JOHN DANTE’S INFERNO, A PLAYBOY’S LIFE The life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dante lived the life of a bachelor’s fantasy, going from his humble beginnings in a small Italian village to the Playboy Mansion, where he lived for 26 years with Hugh Hefner and 40 of the most beautiful women in the world. John Dante was a key figure in the first years of the Playboy empire,
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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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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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New Biography for Review: Felice’s Worlds by Henry Massie

Henry Massie will be touring September 3 – 28 2012 with his biography, Felice’s Worlds (booksBnimble). FIRST SHE ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST AND THE POVERTY OF THE SHTETL. AFTER THAT, SHE MOVED IN MANY WORLDS. AND IN EVERY ONE SHE MADE HER MARK. Felice Massie was a student in France, caught up in the horrors of Naziism when she was 20 years old. Cut off by the war from her family living in a small village in Poland, she shifted from one country to another attempting to find a home for herself and a means to rescue her parents, brother and sister. As the Holocaust descended on her shtetl, she
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New Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoirs/U.S. History Book for Review: Ashes to Ashes the Twins Fall Down by Pauline L. Hawkins

Pauline L. Hawkins will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with her biography & autobiography/personal memoirs/U.S. History book, Ashes to Ashes the Twins Fall Down: Twin Towers 9/11. 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 news until you got to work, turned
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New Multiple Personality Disorder Biography for Review: 22 Faces by Judy Byington

Judy Byington will be touring May 7-July 27 with her multiple personality disorder biography, 22 Faces! Referring to journals written throughout childhood, Twenty-Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-Two Multiple Personalities documents how as a five year-old, Jenny overcomes ongoing abuse by turning to prayer while utilizing her alter states to compartmentalize trauma at the hands of a master mind-control programmer from Nazi Germany. After suffering deaths of a high school sweetheart, plus her only girlfriend, she somehow completes Army medic training, receives a nursing degree, prepares for a church mission and becomes a mother. Simultaneously led by sex-addict Head Alter J.J., intrepid alters
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Pump Up Your Book Presents 22 Faces Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Judy Byington, author of the multiple personality disorder biography, 22 Faces (Tate Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere May 7-July 27 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Judy Byington Judy Byington, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., ret, has dedicated her life to humanizing and raising public awareness about the little known effects of ritual abuse and mind-control programming that tragically cause formation of multiple personalities in children. The retired CEO, therapist, author and mental health supervisor is founder and leader of Trauma Research Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information through CEU accredited seminars and lectures on Dissociation and coordinating ritual abuse survivor
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New Book for Review: Biography ‘Ordinary Wisdom’ by K. Blue

K. Blue will be touring in April with her biography, Ordinary Wisdom! This collection of short family stories is heartwarming and genuine. Each story is a lesson learned by experiencing everyday life. From childhood to adulthood there are lessons in all that we do and experience. The trick to growing as a person is to recognize their significance and continue to learn. You may find that you identify with the experiences of this wonderful family. You may even be reminded of times in your past and the lessons you have learned. Be prepared to smile, laugh and maybe even cry a little as you enjoy reading of ordinary wisdom. You
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ordinary Wisdom Virtual Book Publicity April 2012

Join K. Blue, author of the biography, Ordinary Wisdom (Sha Noel Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on her first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About K. Blue Ms. Blue was raised in a middle class American family with 3 brothers. Her father worked for a large corporation and her family moved quite a bit during her growing up years. From Indiana to New Jersey, Texas to Georgia, she has lived in many different areas of the country and had many different experiences. These experiences have given her a unique take on life which she enjoys sharing in her book Ordinary Wisdom.
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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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