Posts Tagged ‘Book Blitz’

Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cyril H. Price’s THE TINFOIL PRINCE OF HARLEM Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Author: Cyril H. Price Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback By all reasonable calculations, a black child who started life with as many formidable challenges as author Cyril H. Price shouldn’t have prospered to the point of happiness he currently enjoys. In fact, at eight years of age, Price’s policy was to stay out of trouble, eat, and just survive. Growing up in the heart of Harlem during the Great Depression, Price and his family did what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Escape Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mac Kinnon’s ESCAPE Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: The Escape Author: Mac Kinnon Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction/Political Format: Ebook Jack made comments about a prominent political figure when he and his wife, Joanne were living in Las Vegas. Jack lost his job and no employer would even talk to him. Joanne lost her job, too. They were blacklisted. They were informed that a warrant had been issued for their arrest, the charge being terrorism. They hit the road in an act of survival. They spent time in a native-American commune for a few months and then on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Geertje Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak’s GEERTJE Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Geertje: Was Seen Through the Eyes of a Child as an Adult Author: Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook World War II officially ended some seventy years ago, but for some people, it lives on. Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak, who spent the war in the Netherlands, still recalls the hunger and fear she felt throughout the war-that sticks out more than hearing about the two little boys killed or the blank expression of her father when she visited him in a concentration camp. She looks
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Corruption Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Gill’s CORRUPTION Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Corruption Author: Mike Gill Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Milo Devine had spent his life cutting corners and bending the rules to make his fortune until a late-night phone call from Parvez Iqbal helps him discover a conscience that leads him into a world of corruption and crime beyond his imagination. Politics, business, and organised crime merge into one as Milo investigates the bad guys while his friends perish at the hands of two gangs of ruthless criminals who think nothing of killing in the name of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Happen Like Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian Warburton’s HAPPEN LIKE Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: Happen Like Author: Brian Warburton Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 156 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook   The text of this book has been written for children in the range nine to fourteen, maybe older. Possibly it is of interest for slow readers and boys at pre-teenage who need absorbing stories. The subject matter covers adult affairs for children, not excluding greed, jealousy and mention of crime and drugs. One story depicts girls and boys together. But no sexual content. On that, the book could be seen as rather subdued. there
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cocktails & Mock-Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch’s COCKTAILS & MOCK-TALES virtual book tour June 6 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: Cocktales & Mock-Tales Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch Publisher: ASJ Publishing Pages: 90 Genre: Humor Cocktails and Mock- Tales is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous. Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker at the ready Ingredients: Unlimited centilitres of wit and humour
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Crossroads of Space and Time Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charles & Irene Nickerson’s THE CROSSROADS OF SPACE AND TIME Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: The Crossroads of Space and Time Author: Charles and Irene Nickerson Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 262 Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Ebook Captain Bancroft couldn’t believe this resort. The beaches were pristine. The rooms were comfortable. Everything was so relaxing. The only area off limits was the northern beaches and an area they called the trench. He asked a Mr. Jones why. Mr. Jones told him that since he was head of security. He would take him out to the cliffs and show him the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Men Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mira Peck’s MY MEN Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: My Men Author: Mira Peck Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Alina Sherwin has had to fight for every victory in her life. Raised in Poland, she moves to Australia with her family as a young girl. There, in the early 1970s, she becomes the first woman in her state to graduate with an engineering degree and quickly finds that her new industry won’t employ her. Undaunted by rejection from the Australian scientific community and encouraged by her new American husband, Wayne, Alina decides to move
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Poems for Yuppies (and also for Normal People) Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen Blum’s POEMS FOR YUPPIES (AND ALSO FOR NORMAL PEOPLE) Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Poems for Yuppies (and also for Normal People) Author: Stephen Blum Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook In this anthology of original poetry, Blum, a self-described yuppie, presents a collection of verses, most of them (in his words) “verbal cartoons,” that define and make fun of this unique sub-culture. A tongue-in-cheek introduction and notes accompanying the poems contribute significantly to this “mission. The book includes a handful of the non-humorous shorter poems are meant to be wistful, whimsical, or scary. Meet
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Mystery of Goat Mountain Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mel Long’s THE MYSTERY OF GOAT MOUNTAIN Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: The Mystery of Goat Mountain Author: Mel Long Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 338 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Eli left the corporate life in San Francisco and moved with his wife, Frances Amelia, to Goat Mountain, high up on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, near the small town of Colton, Oregon. When his parents died, Eli inherited the 640 acres, the original land they homesteaded in 1896. After his wife dies, Eli lives simply in a cabin on his beloved mountain. He learns to cohabitate
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Welcome to the Empire Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Curto Sr.’s WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE Book Blast June 27 – July 8! Inside the Book: Title: Welcome to the Empire Author: Mark Curto Sr. Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 148 Genre: Historic Fiction Format: Ebook From the dawn of recorded time, death, hell, and mayhem have been the calling cards of a Destroyer, who leaves nothing but carnage and desolation in his path. Thousands of years in the future, nine-year-old Prince Marckolius witnesses a brutal assault on his mother by a group of ruthless vampires. Mortified when she dies in his arms and convinced that his uncle had something to do with the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Under the Stars Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vicki Senz’s UNDER THE STARS Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Under the Stars Author: Vicki Senz Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook/Paperback The poetry is about lost love, heartbreak, and the difficulties that are faced day to day. It is full of hope, encouragement, and courage to face life even against the hardest decisions that life can give you. It can be a sentence or even just one word that can change a person’s perspective at a time that they are facing a difficult period in their life. Giving another person some comfort even through
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Visions in the Dark Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Iain Morrison’s VISIONS IN THE DARK Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Visions in the Dark Author: Iain Morrison Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Thriller Format: Ebook When all sorts of accusations, denials, revelations, disclosures, and leaks are swarming and spilling around the security agencies of the United Kingdom and the USA, it is worse when the Snowden effect erupts. A bruised and slightly disillusioned Commander Elaine Black, training officer and senior security advisor at GCHQ Bude Listening Facility, is plunged into a bewildering and dangerous battle to make sense of and counter a desperate threat to British Security.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents What Am I Waiting For Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Terry Hite’s WHAT AM I WAITING FOR Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: What Am I Waiting For Author: Terry Hite Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Self-Help Format: Ebook You’ve probably sought out advice from someone to help you solve a problem, achieve a goal or just to help you get moti vated on a certain project. Or perhaps you’ve found yourself giving out lots of advice—and wondering if you were telling others the right things. There is nothing worse than sending someone you care about in the wrong direction. In this guidebook to getti ng what you want
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Exploding the Big Bang Theory Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joseph Donnelly’s EXPLODING THE BIG BANG THEORY Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Exploding the Big Bang Theory Author: Joseph Donnelly Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Religion Format: Ebook The essence of this my third effort at publication now stands to be the true basis of our human species new working philosophy. My main interest is of our relationship with God on all fronts. Simple when realised we under the split headings of humanity in tribe, clan, national or of different skin colour configurations, have amassed over 10.000 religious philosophies to meet our personal needs. Of which none seem
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Oscar R. Rocha’s MINUTES OF LOVE IN THE HOURS OF LIFE Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life Author: Oscar R. Rocha Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Minutes of Love in the Hours of Life speaks from the heart about love and life, the joy of life seen from different cornres of the world. A love that inspires and takes you to a parallel place through time and space, I call it the stand-still phase, where positive emotions and feelings flow freely within and into those you love. “…the warmness
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Until Next Time Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nictoria Robbins’ UNTIL NEXT TIME Book Blast June 27 – July 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Until Next Time Author: Nictoria Robbins Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Jake and Kirsten met on an online dating site, and their journey began, sometimes difficult; but for some reason, they keep coming back to each other, to lost souls. Kirsten is not sure what Jake wants, and neither does she. This story is about two people who try to hide their feelings. They care about each other, but it will end up tearing them apart. Not all stories have a happy ending. Meet the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Weekend Warriors Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James W. Burke Jr.’s THE WEEKEND WARRIORS Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: The Weekend Warriors Author: James W. Burke Jr Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Suspense Format: Ebook Married with two children, Michael Patrick Fitzmaurice, Major, Infantry, US Army Reserve, is going to war. Bound for Ramstein, Germany, he and his troops, who never expected to be on the frontline, must now stand in battle alongside their active-duty counterparts. It’s the mid-1980s and the United States is under the leadership of a new president who continues its post-Vietnam withdrawal from the world stage. Domestic affairs are the administration’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents World Eternal Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Donna R. Wittlif’s WORLD ETERNAL: PROSELYTES Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: World Eternal: Proselytes Author: Donna R. Wittlif Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Futuristic Christian Format: Ebook Picture it. The world is free of many of the major problems that plagued it for centuries. Hunger, homelessness, and natural disasters are no more. There’s no more disease. Who wouldn’t want to live in such a world? What price would anyone give to live in such a world? World Eternal has kept all the promises it made to the citizens of Earth in author Donna R. Wittlif’s first novel, World Eternal:
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Left Side Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks’ MY LEFT SIDE Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: My Left Side Author: Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback   Author Darlene Linda Jones-Brooks has been through a lot in her life—and, strangely enough, many of the worst physical experiences have happened on the left side of her body. When she was thirteen, a cousin accidentally stabbed her in the wrist. As an adult, she got caught in the crossfire of random shooting and lost half her left kidney due to the resulting injury. Later, a severe pain in her left
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Eliminating Fear in Your Life Through God’s Word Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rovilla McClellan Lorimor’s ELIMINATING FEAR IN YOUR LIFE THROUGH GOD’S WORD book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: Eliminating Fear In Your Life Through God’s Word Author: Rovilla McClellan Lorimor Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Juvenile Non-Fiction Format: Ebook This book was softly and lovingly inspired by the voice of God to Pastor Rovilla during a three day fast. On the first day, God provided the title for the book,” Eliminating Fear in Your Life Through God’s Word” and stated that far too many Christian people are living in fear and depression which gives Him no glory,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Little Cotton Heart Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Florentine Pfluger’s LITTLE COTTON HEART Book Blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: Little Cotton Heart Author: Florentine Pfluger Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Author Florentine Pfluger was mentally and spiritually trapped in a religious cult, along with her husband and children, for approximately ten years. During that time, she kept journals in which she wrote original poetry. In Little Cotton Heart, Pfluger shares the verses that resulted from that period, progressing from the realization of her family’s entrapment through the process of being set free and into the mental breakdown that followed. She experienced a psychological crash
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You Are Here Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chris Delyani’s YOU ARE HERE book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: You Are Here Author: Chris Delyani Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Romance Format: Ebook/Paperback All Peter Bankston ever wanted to do was paint. An aspiring painter, Peter scratches out a pauper’s living in San Francisco, wanting nothing more than to be left alone. Instead, he finds himself getting involved with not one but two very different men. Like Peter, getting involved with another man is the last thing on Nick Katsaris’s mind. Smart, handsome, and good-humored, Nick’s done more than just survive—he’s positively thriving in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Last County Fair Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthews’ THE LAST COUNTY FAIR book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: The Last County Fair Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Mystery/Detective Format: Ebook/Paperback It is 1967 when a feud begins that could lead to the death of the one-hundred-year-old Chesterton county fair. When veteran reporter Art James is sent to investigate, he immediately delves into a case that will take him six days and hopefully provide him with a much-coveted feature story byline. Bob soon learns that the county is interested in selling the fairgrounds and that there are as many proponents
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Musings of a Mad Scientist Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Gretch’s MUSINGS OF A MAD SCIENTIST book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: Musings of a Mad Scientist Author: David Gretch Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Philosophy/Mind and Body Format: Ebook/Paperback What if human nature, in its most primal and innocent stage, is kind and gentle? What if despite the hostility, deception, and corruption of the moment, we earthlings are in fact spirit beings capable of reversion to our innate condition of being a kind and gentle species? If such a synchronous evolutionary leap in consciousness is possible, then past rules can be overlooked as newer
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Early Years Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel G. Carrington’s THE EARLY YEARS book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: The Early Years Author: Rachel G. Carrington Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Author Rachel G. Carrington lays no claim to lofty jobs, higher education, nor grand accomplishments except for a love-filled, multifaceted, family-oriented, poverty-to-plenty life. In The Early Years, the first in a series, she shares her story. As a young teenager, just entering high school in the small town of Denton, Kentucky, Carrington planned to attend college and become a teacher. With coursework geared toward college attendance, she was offered a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Massacre of Innocents Book Blast

   Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Loren Abbey and Pamela Zibura’s A MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS book blast May 23 – June 3!   Inside the Book: Title: A Massacre of Innocents Author: Loren Abbey & Pamela Zibura Publisher: iUniverse Genre: True Crime/Murder Format: Ebook In 1952 on a highway in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman and four small children are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned. Three of the children are killed. A year earlier, a Folsom gold mine operator had been murdered in a home break-in robbery attempt and five months after the Chester murders, the quiet Southern California city of Burbank
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Score and More Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

  Inside the Book: Title: Four Score and More Author: LaVera Edick Publisher: Trafford Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Statement from Author I was born in 1925. This is my story of growing up on a farm and following the oft-times bumpy road of life. It is the story of my family and ancestors, those pioneers who cut the trails and paved the roads for our journey through life. Several major events helped shape the lives and attitudes of those born before 1940. It was a struggle raising a family in the thirties: not only was the nation in a financial crisis, Mother Nature was in an ugly mood. When people
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Don Quixote Explained Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Emre Gurgen’s DON QUIXOTE EXPLAINED Book Blast April 11 – 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Don Quixote Explained Author: Emre Gurgen Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Literary Criticism Format: Ebook/Paperback   Don Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza check-and-balance one another’s excesses by having opposite identities; how Cervantes refines Spanish farm girls by transforming Aldonza Lorenzo into Dulcinea; how outlaws like Roque Guinart and Gines
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mark Christopher Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthew’s MARK CHRISTOPHER Book Blast April 11 – 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Mark Christopher Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Coming of Age Format: Ebook/Paperback As Mark Christopher grows up in a small railroad town during the Great Depression, he dreams of doing something special with his life. Instead, he must face one tragedy after the other as war looms. First, his parents die and then his brother while serving in the Pacific. When the war in Europe ends, Mark’s sister sends him to live with their grandmother and her son. To please them, Mark is baptized in a Baptist
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