Posts Tagged ‘historical fiction’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Humble Courier Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistFic

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.T. Maicke’s THE HUMBLE COURIER Virtual Book Tour November 15 – December 15. Inside the Book Title: THE HUMBLE COURIER Author: J.T. Maicke Publisher: Dreaming Big Publications Pages: 321 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Father Hartmann Bottger, a Benedictine monk and priest, has confronted bullies his entire life, including pompous clerics, local thugs, and callous and corrupt French Army occupation authorities in the German Rhineland. But Father Hartmann faces his greatest challenges with the rise to power of the Nazi Party and the brutality of the dreaded Gestapo, which threaten the rights of the Church as well as the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Teen #YA #AncientEgypt #HistFic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Carpinello’s ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Tour August 2 – October 29. Inside the Books Title: Tutankhamen Speaks Author: Cheryl Carpinello Publisher: Beyond Today Educator Pages: 81 Genre: Teen / YA / Ancient Egypt Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistoricalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Neil Patterson’s BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BECOMING ALFIE Author: Neil Patterson Publisher: Greenhill Pages: 279 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Alfie Norrington was born into poverty in London’s East End in the first minute of the twentieth century. His life was a battle. From the Brick Lane markets where young Alfie pilfered and pickpocketed, to the trenches of Flanders, Alfie fought every step of the way. Almost killed by a trench bomb he battled to recover and while in a military hospital Alfie made a promise that dramatically change’s his life.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast #BookBlast #HistFic #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Justine Carver’s THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast October 19 – November 19! Inside the Book Title: THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Author: Justine Carver Publisher: Independent Pages: 496 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells him the tragic story of his conception, and which of two men his birth father could be: the young man who professed his love to her, or the pastor who assaulted her.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents MAGNOLIA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James Kelly’s MAGNOLIA Virtual Book Tour August 3 – September 30! Inside the Book Title: MAGNOLIA Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 432 Genre: Historical Fiction/Civil War Love Story BOOK BLURB: Two young men grow up in the south, become great friends and love the same woman. One moves north as the civil war nears and becomes Administrative Asst to Abraham Lincoln The one who remained in the south vacates his office of US Senator to become the south’s chief spy. Both men are pitted against each other during the war. As the war ends, they try to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin’s THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM: A MATTIE MCGARY & WINSTON CHURCHILL 1930s ADVENTURE Virtual Book Tour August 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM Author: Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing Pages: 474 Genre: 1930s Historical Adventure BOOK BLURB: Winston Churchill’s adventure-seeking goddaughter, the intrepid Hearst journalist Mattie McGary, sets out in 1934 to expose a major political scandal—a conspiracy between the US Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) and Hitler’s Praetorian, the SS, to help the Nazis persecute German Jews. Churchill alerts Mattie to what he learns from a confidential
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ALL VISIBLE THINGS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian McPhee’s ALL VISIBLE THINGS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ALL VISIBLE THINGS Author: Brian McPhee Publisher: Independent Pages: 443 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: All Visible Things is a dual-timeline novel moving seamlessly between modern-day and Renaissance England and Italy. When Lauren Patterson discovers the diary of a young assistant to Leonardo da Vinci, we are immediately immersed in the personalities and intrigues surrounding the archypical Renaissance man–and animal lover, vegetarian, dandy and bearer of grudges. When not executing the commissions of ungrateful clients, Leonardo juggles finances, apprentices, friends and rivals, all the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Earl Not Taken Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistFic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s THE EARL NOT TAKEN Virtual Book Tour March 17 – May 15! Inside the Book Title: THE EARL NOT TAKEN Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Kensington Books Pages: 236 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Left standing on the side while their contemporaries marry into society, four young ladies forge a bond to guard each other from a similar fate . . . Finishing school failed to make a proper lady of Penelope Arrington. But as a Wallflower of West Lane, Poppy has a far more vital role—she and her three best friends have made a pact to protect each
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Road to Delano Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistFic

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John DeSimone’s THE ROAD TO DELANO Virtual Book Tour January 6 – February 28! Inside the Book Title: THE ROAD TO DELANO Author: John DeSimone Publisher: Rare Bird Books Pages: 320 Genre: Historical Fiction Jack Duncan is a high school senior whose dream is to play baseball in college and beyond―as far away from Delano as possible. He longs to escape the political turmoil surrounding the labor struggles of the striking fieldworkers that infests his small ag town. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died under suspicious circumstances ten years earlier, he’s had to be the sole emotional
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📢 {Historical Fiction} New Book Review Campaign! FAREWELL MY LIFE by Cynthia Haggard

  This Review Campaign is Closed We are taking review requests for Cynthia Haggard’s historical fiction, FAREWELL MY LIFE: Buona Notte Vita Mia. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than November 8, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Please note when signing up, if you have never reviewed for us, you must add a link to the form below to one of your latest reviews. No
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Farewell My Life Virtual Book Publicity Tour @CynthiaHaggard #Historical #Fiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cynthia Sally Haggard’s FAREWELL MY LIFE Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31!   Title: FAREWELL MY LIFE Author: Cynthia Sally Haggard Publisher: Spun Stories Press Pages: 585 Genre: Historical Fiction Angelina led a life which required her to fib. When Angelina, the black sheep of the Pagano family, meets the mysterious Mr. Russell, she has no idea that she has seen him before…in another country. And so begins Farewell My Life, a novel in three parts, which spins an operatic tale of dangerous love and loss. The Lost Mother, the first part of this novel, slices back and forth
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dreams That Never Were Virtual Book Publicity Tour @GregMessel #histfic #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s DREAMS THAT NEVER WERE Virtual Book Tour June 3 – July 31! Inside the Book Title: DREAMS THAT NEVER WERE Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 296 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: “Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why? I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?” — Robert F. Kennedy June 5, 1968:  Senator Robert F. Kennedy, then a candidate for President and victorious in the California primary, was mortally wounded by assassin Sirhan Sirhan as he exited the ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.  Innocent bystanders were also wounded, including
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Savage Kultur Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MonWriter1 #Historical #Fiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Monique Roy’s A SAVAGE KULTUR Virtual Book Tour June 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: A SAVAGE KULTER Author: Monique Roy Publisher: BookBaby Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: In Oxford, England, Ava, a Jewish art student at Oxford University, receives a heart-wrenching letter from her grandfather after he dies. From the letter, she learns that her grandfather has given her his London art gallery, which he says will secure her future, as well as provide a place for her to grow her artistic talents and follow her passion for art. The letter also describes his one last wish—that she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dreams That Never Were Pre-Release Book Blast @GregMessel #Historical #Fiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s DREAMS THAT NEVER WERE Pre-Release Book Blast May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DREAMS THAT NEVER WERE Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 296 Genre: Historical Fiction   BOOK BLURB: On June 5, 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy, then a candidate for President, is mortally wounded by assassin Sirhan Sirhan in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Among the innocent bystanders who were also shot that night is a young idealistic reporter from San Francisco, Alex Hurley. The tragic incident changes his life as he’s swept up in the turbulent events of 1968.  Alex is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sheltering Palms Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #satire #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Preston Howard’s THE SHELTERING PALMS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SHELTERING PALMS Author: Preston Howard Publisher: Preston Howard Press Pages: 519 Genre: Fictional Autobiography/Historical Fiction/Satire   BOOK BLURB: Renowned police labor lawyer, Preston Howard, reached a watershed in his life—a forced retirement from the firm he built from the ground up and a cancer diagnosis. These two events made him take a step back and reflect over a life that had at times been hilarious, irreverent, self-mocking, eerie and even a bit, make that, quite lewd. A family of unique characters guided
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Radio Underground Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AliMcShpiel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Littman’s RADIO UNDERGROUND Virtual Book Tour November 26 – December 26 2018! Inside the Book Title: RADIO UNDERGROUND Author: Alison Littman Publisher: Last Syllable Books Pages: 354 Genre: Historical Fiction   BOOK BLURB: After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján—fanatical underground journalist—would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison. Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Water is Wide Virtual Book Publicity Tour @LauraVosika #timetravel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Vosika’s THE WATER IS WIDE (Book 3 of The Blue Bells Chronicles) Virtual Book Tour October 1 – December 14 2018! Inside the Book Title: THE WATER IS WIDE Author: Laura Vosika Publisher: Gabriel’s Horn Press Pages: 451 Genre: Time Travel/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: After his failure to escape back to his own time, Shawn is sent with Niall on the Bruce’s business. They criss-cross Scotland and northern England, working for the Bruce and James Douglas, as they seek ways to get Shawn home to Amy and his own time. Returning from the Bruce’s business, to Glenmirril, Shawn finally
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Brimstone Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #womensleuths #mystery #thriller #suspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Allen’s BRIMSTONE Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BRIMSTONE Author: John Allen Publisher: Allen & Allen Semiotics Inc. Pages: 224 Genre: Historical Fiction/Women Sleuths/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Author John Allen has a theory about the creator of Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not create Holmes. It was Doyle’s wife, Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, who gave birth to the beloved sleuth. Allen has put his beliefs to the test, writing and publishing the first of a projected 12-novel series of Holmes mysteries titled BRIMSTONE. His detective is Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, and Allen names
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mistress Suffragette Virtual Book Publicity Tour @dianaforbes18

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diana Forbes’ MISTRESS SUFFRAGETTE Virtual Book Tour February 5 – March 30! Inside the Book Title: MISTRESS SUFFRAGETTE Author: Diana Forbes Publisher: Penmore Press Pages: 392 Genre: Romance/Historical Fiction/Victorian/Political/NY Gilded Age Fiction BOOK BLURB: A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of “suitor.” At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton quickly draws the unwanted advances of a villainous millionaire banker who preys on distressed women—the incorrigible Mr. Daggers. Better known as the philandering husband of the stunning
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Nadya’s War Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you C.S. Taylor’s NADYA’S WAR Blog Tour November 1 – December 29! Inside the Book Title: NADYA’S WAR Author: C.S. Taylor Publisher: Tiny Fox Press Pages: 300 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Nadezdah “Little Boar” Buzina, a young pilot with the Red Army’s 586th all-female fighter regiment, dreams of becoming an ace. Those dreams shatter when a dogfight leaves her severely burned and the sole survivor from her flight. For the latter half of 1942, she struggles against crack Luftwaffe pilots, a vengeful political commissar, and a new addiction to morphine, all the while questioning her worth and purpose in a
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📢 {Historical Thriller} The Berghof Betrayal Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Michael & Patrick McMenamin’s THE BERGHOF BETRAYAL: A WINSTON CHURCHILL 1930s THRILLER. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than October 31, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.) and PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE BERGHOF BETRAYAL: A WINSTON CHURCHILL 1930s THRILLER Author: Michael McMenamin & Patrick McMenamin Publisher: First Edition Design Publishers Pages: 433 Genre: Historical Thriller
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📢 {Historical Fiction/Romantic} Running with Monkeys Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Diane Munier’s RUNNING WITH MONKEYS: HELL ON WHEELS. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than December 10, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: RUNNING WITH MONKEYS Author: Diane Munier Publisher: Independent Pages: 367 Genre: Historical Fiction/Romantic The boys are home from the war. Jules is looking for a way into polite society, but it
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Raid on Troy Book Blast!

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Murray Lee Eiland Jr.’s THE RAID ON TROY Book Blast July 10! Inside the Book Title: THE RAID ON TROY Author: Murray Lee Eiland Jr. Publisher: Independent Pages: 300 Genre: Light Fantasy / Historical Fiction / YA BOOK BLURB: The Greek raid on Troy is chronicled in the Iliad and the Odyssey. These poems are pillars of ancient literature and continue to be carefully studied. Homer, who lived in the 8th or 7th century BC, is credited as the author. The actual conflict has been dated from 1260-1180 BC or even earlier. The question is, how close is Homer’s
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📢 {Historical Fiction/Thriller} The Competition: Da Vinci’s Disciples Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Donna Russo Morin’s THE COMPETITION: DA VINCI’S DISCIPLES. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than August 13, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.), PDF & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE COMPETITION: DA VINCI’S DISCIPLES Author: Donna Russo Morin Publisher: Diversion Books Pages: 298 Genre: Historical Fiction/Thriller In a studiolo behind a church, six women gather to
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First Chapter: I, Angus by Mike Hartner

Title: I, Angus Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity 4 Popsicle Publishing Pages: 260 Genre: Historical Fiction During a time of civil strife and purging the North has lost more men to Wars then it ever did to Nature. Angus has grown up learning that his life is better off with only him and a family. But is that really in the Grand Plan. The North needs someone to build community. But first, Angus needs to be forged… beaten, shaped, bolded and trained. Watch as Angus hits both lows and highs across the lands of England, Scotland and France, before meeting a challenge of new land. For More Information I,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I, Angus Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Hartner’s I, ANGUS virtual book tour November 1 – January 27! Inside the Book Title: I, Angus Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity 4 Popsicle Publishing Pages: 260 Genre: Historical Fiction During a time of civil strife and purging the North has lost more men to Wars then it ever did to Nature. Angus has grown up learning that his life is better off with only him and a family. But is that really in the Grand Plan. The North needs someone to build community. But first, Angus needs to be forged… beaten, shaped, bolded and trained. Watch as Angus
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Pump Up Your Book Presents One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Book Blast!

We invite you to Beth M. Caruso’s ONE OF WINDSOR: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S FIRST WITCH HANGING Book Blast October 3 – 28! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Author:  Beth M. Caruso Publisher: Ladyslipper Press Pages: 358 Genre:  Historical Fiction Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Massachusetts Bay in 1635 in hopes of reuniting with them again. Finally settling in Windsor, Connecticut,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Rise of Gideon Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthews’ THE RISE OF GIDEON Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: The Rise of Gideon Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook It is the early 1960s when journalism student Art James first meets Professor Gideon Pratt at a Midwestern university. When Art secures a reporter job after graduation, Gideon summons him, reveals that the university is harboring a Communist cell, and asks Art to write a story about it. Art, driven by his desire to earn accolades, writes the article. But when Gideon’s name is slashed from the story, Art angrily resigns. Years later, Art lands a
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First Chapter: 23 Minutes Past 1 A.M. by Robert J. Dornan

Title: 23 Minutes Past 1 A.M. Author: Robert J. Dornan Publisher: Independent Pages: 550 Genre: Historical Fiction In the early morning of her sister’s wedding day, Mila Kharmalov stared in stunned silence at the coloured sparks streaming from Reactor Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.  At that very moment, her life and the lives of everyone she knew changed forever. Years later and on another continent, Adam Byrd was writing biographies for everyday people looking to leave their legacy in book form. When the woman he loved phoned from Kiev offering him the chance to write the story of a lifetime, he jumped at the opportunity not realizing that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents 23 Minutes Past 1 A.M. Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert J. Dornan’s 23 Minutes Past 1 A.M. virtual book tour September 5 – November 30! Inside the Book Title: 23 Minutes Past 1 A.M. Author: Robert J. Dornan Publisher: Independent Pages: 550 Genre: Historical Fiction In the early morning of her sister’s wedding day, Mila Kharmalov stared in stunned silence at the coloured sparks streaming from Reactor Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.  At that very moment, her life and the lives of everyone she knew changed forever. Years later and on another continent, Adam Byrd was writing biographies for everyday people looking to leave their legacy in book
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