Posts Tagged ‘memoir’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book: Title: Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 336 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Kindle FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War. Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more than a dozen
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{Memoir/Humor} Caskets From Costco Blog Tour Sign Up

Kelly Wilson will be touring January 4-29 with her memoir/humor, CASKETS FROM COSTCO! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback & PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: CASKETS FROM COSTCO Author: Kelly Wilson Publisher: Gravity Pages: 182 Genre: Memoir/Humor For twenty years, I thought that I had been marching through the stages of grief in a straight line. I had been following the formula, crossing each processed grief experience off my list. Except that I was totally deluded. And I didn’t discover that until Jim, my beloved
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{Memoir} Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup: A Memoir of Marriage, Mime and Moving On Blog Tour Sign Up

Elisabeth Amaral will be touring December 1-31 with her memoir, CZAR NICHOLAS, THE TOAD, AND DUCK SOUP: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, MIME AND MOVING ON! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all:
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Vienna’s Will Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark McCullough’s VIENNA’S WILL virtual book tour December 1st – 31st! Title: Vienna’s Will Author: Mark McCullough Publisher: Createspace Pages: 254 Genre: Memoir New author, Mark McCullough, shares his inspirational journey through chronic depression and addiction in VIENNA’S WILL (www.viennaswill.com). After struggling for years to control the negative thoughts that he attempted to quiet with drugs and alcohol, Mark’s life changes when he finds the unconditional love of a little girl and her mother. In April of 1992, Mark McCullough’s distraught parents delivered their twenty-five-year-old son to Butner Federal Prison after he committed a bank robbery. The court had arranged
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{Memoir/Erotica} Amazon Review Campaign: The Light in the Shadows: A Memoir by Kira Bell

We are taking review requests for Kira Bell’s new memoir, THE LIGHT IN THE SHADOWS: A MEMOIR. This is not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon and Goodreads no later than December 9. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click the buttons below to take you directly to THE LIGHT IN THE SHADOWS: A MEMOIR’s Amazon and Goodreads pages. Review copies will be in PDF format. Thank you! Title: The Light in the Shadows: A Memoir Author: Kira Bell Publisher: Kira Bell Pages: 146 Genre: Memoir/Erotica How does a forty-something recently divorced over-educated sexually naïve
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Adventure Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rebecca L. Durkin’s CHEMO ON THE ROCKS: MY GREAT ALASKAN MISADVENTURE virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Author: Rebecca L. Durkin Publisher: Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Chemo on the Rocks is a shoreside seat on Rebecca (Becky) Durkin’s great Alaskan misadventure. It highlights the hilarity and heartache of a young girl who finds herself marooned in Ketchikan—fondly known as “The Rock”—where she remains on her self-imposed Alaskatraz for almost thirty years. Chemo on the Rocks is witty, inspirational, satirical, and sometimes terrifying.
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  • August 21, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cocktales: An After-50 Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Morgan Malone’s COCKTALES: AN AFTER-50 MEMOIR virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Cocktales: An After-50 Dating Memoir Author: Morgan Malone Publisher: Turquoise Morning Press Pages: 264 Genre: Romantic Memoir An After-50 Dating Memoir…or Eight Years, around Eighty Men, but not nearly Eight Thousand Kisses. There I was. Approaching 50, widowed for 15 years, alone for all that time, except for two kids, one dog, a full-time legal career, a house, a mortgage, some dear friends…and a wish. I just wanted to feel like a woman one more time. Not “Mom.” Not “Your Honor.” Not “Sis.” But, a desirable
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Don’t Hit Me! Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vanessa de Largie’s DON’T HIT ME! virtual book tour August 3 – 28! Title: Don’t Hit Me! Author: Vanessa de Largie Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 88 Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Journey Format: Paperback/Kindle #1 Amazon Bestseller # Winner of the 2014 Global eBook Award Bronze (women’s studies) # Winner of the 2014 Honourable Mention Award London Book Festival (memoir) # Five-Star Review Midwest Book Review # Five-Star Review San Francisco Book Review # Five-Star Review #1 Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer – UK # 3 out of 4 stars Official Online Bookclub Australian actress and author Vanessa de Largie is a survivor of domestic
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Below the Water Line Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Karlin’s BELOW THE WATER LINE virtual book tour August 3 – 28! Title: Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina Author: Lisa Karlin Publisher: Centennial Publishers Pages: 376 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback 14.97/Kindle 9.99/Audio 22.99 Below the Water Line provides a gripping account of a family’s hurricane evacuation experiences and all that followed in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. The story begins in August 2005, when author Lisa Karlin, her husband, thirteen-year-old daughter, eleven-year-old son, and two dogs evacuated New Orleans for what they thought would be a two-day
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{Memoir} Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Blog Tour Sign Up

Rebecca Durkin will be touring September 1-30 with her memoir, CHEMO ON THE ROCKS: MY GREAT ALASKAN MISADVENTURE! We are looking for: Review (Paperback U.S. only/PDF) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Author: Rebecca L. Durkin Publisher: Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Chemo on the Rocks is a shoreside seat on Rebecca (Becky) Durkin’s great Alaskan misadventure. It highlights the hilarity and heartache of a young girl who finds herself marooned in Ketchikan—fondly known as “The Rock”—where
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{Memoir} Below the Water Line Blog Tour Sign Up

Lisa Karlin will be touring August 3 – 28 with her memoir, Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback US only/PDFs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina Author: Lisa Karlin Publisher: Centennial Publishers Pages: 376 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback 14.97/Kindle 9.99/Audio 22.99 Below the Water Line provides a gripping account of a family’s hurricane evacuation experiences and all that
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{Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry} Don’t Hit Me! Blog Tour Sign Up

Vanessa de Largie will be touring August 3 – 28 with her nonfiction/memoir/poetry book, Don’t Hit Me! We are looking for: Reviews 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! Title: Don’t Hit Me! Author: Vanessa de Largie Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 88 Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Journey Format: Paperback/Kindle #1 Amazon Bestseller # Winner of the 2014 Global eBook Award Bronze (women’s studies) # Winner of the 2014 Honourable Mention Award London Book Festival (memoir) # Five-Star Review Midwest Book Review # Five-Star Review San Francisco Book Review # Five-Star Review #1 Amazon Hall of
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(Autobiography / Memoir / LGBT) The Demons of Plainville: A Survivor’s Story of Storms and Reconstruction by Daniel R. Mathews – Blog Tour Sign Up

  Daniel R. Mathews will be touring July 1 – August 31, 2015 with his Autobiography /Memoir, The Demons of Plainville: A Survivor’s Story of Storms and Reconstruction! We Are looking for: Book Reviews (eBook / PDF/ Paperback) Author Guest Post Author Interview Book Spotlight   Please sign up on the form below. Thank you!       Some true stories read like fiction, but for those who have to personally live through the experiences, the nightmare is vividly real. Daniel R. Mathews digs into the darkness of his past with his haunting memoir, The Demons of Plainville. As a child, Daniel struggles to find his footing in an upside-down world. His
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First Chapter: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup by Elisabeth Amaral

Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was an amazing time to be young. In Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup, Amaral shares her recollections of those times. She and her husband gave up their jobs in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents She’s All Caught Up Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jamila T. Davis’ SHE’S ALL CAUGHT UP!  virtual book tour March 16 – April 17! Title: She’s All Caught Up! Author: Jamila T. Davis Publisher: Voices International Publication Pages: 338 Genre: Memoir/Young Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle She’s All Caught Up is a cautionary tale based on the life of Jamila T. Davis, a federal prisoner serving a 12 1/2 year sentence. Jamila grew up in a loving middle class home, raised to become her parent’s ideal star child. All was copacetic until high school years. Jamila rebels and chooses to live life in the fast lane. When this good girl goes bad,
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  • February 23, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elisabeth Amaral’s CZAR NICHOLAS, THE TOAD, AND DUCK SOUP: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, MIME AND MOVING ON virtual book tour March 2 – April 30! Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Silver Diaspora Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher T. Rand’s SILVER DIASPORA book blitz March 16- March 27!   Title: Silver Diaspora Author: Christopher T. Rand Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 320 Genre: Historical Memoir Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON At the outset, the members of author Christopher T. Rand’s family lived in a world of great wealth. They were among the richest people in the United States. But they then faced a dilemma: compelled to choose between staying on in their ancestral world or keeping up with the times in the nation around them and integrating themselves into the American mainstream. With each generation, the pressure on these individuals to choose
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{Memoir} Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup: A Memoir of Marriage, Mime and Moving On Blog Tour Sign Up

Elisabeth Amaral will be touring March 2 – April 30 with her memoir, CZAR NICHOLAS, THE TOAD, AND DUCK SOUP: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, MIME AND MOVING ON! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reflections of a Successful Wallflower Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andrea Michaels’ REFLECTIONS OF A SUCCESSFUL WALLFLOWER virtual book tour March 2 – 27! Title: Reflections of a Successful Wallflower Author: Andrea Michaels Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 340 Genre: Business Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Reflections of a Successful Wallflower can only be compared to reading the diaries of Andrea Michaels, considered to be the backbone of the special events industry. This multiple award-winning business woman shares openly and candidly, not only the public wunderkind but the inner woman. Discover the workings of one of the foremost event producers in the world. You’ll laugh; you’ll cry; you’ll be in disbelief and fascinated at the
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First Chapter: Not Without My Father by Andra Watkins

Title: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father. And his gas. The sleep apnea machine and self-scratching. Sharing a bathroom with a man whose gut obliterated his aim. As Watkins trudged
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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 I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book Tours is pleased to bring you author  D.J. Burr’s I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict (Memoir) virtual book tour March 2-31.       Title: I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict Author: D.J. Burr Publisher: ABLE Counseling Services, LLC Publication Date: December 31, 2014 Pages: 232 pages ISBN: 978-0692299128 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback, eBook (.mobi / Kindle), PDF   D.J. Burr is a man on a mission; successful business owner, highly respected psychotherapist and survivor of a dysfunctional life. At a young age, all he wanted was to be loved, but instead found himself targeted by a sexual predator. D.J.
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(Memoir) I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict by D.J. Burr – Blog Tour Sign Up

D.J. Burr will be touring March 2-31, 2015 with his Memoir, I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict!   We Are looking for: Reviews: (paperback / eBook / PDF) Author Guest Posts Author Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!     D.J. Burr is a man on a mission; successful business owner, highly respected psychotherapist and survivor of a dysfunctional life. At a young age, all he wanted was to be loved, but instead found himself targeted by a sexual predator. D.J. slipped into a life
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Not Without My Father Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andra Watkins’ NOT WITHOUT MY FATHER virtual book tour January 19 – April 17! Title: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father.
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{Memoir} Not Without My Father: A Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Blog Tour Sign Up

Andra Watkins will be touring January 19 – April 17 with her memoir, NOT WITHOUT MY FATHER: A WOMAN’S 444 MILES WALK OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Would a Maharajah Sleep Here Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen and Leanne Troy’s Would a Maharajah Sleep Here book blitz November 17 – 28! Title: Would a Maharajah Sleep Here? Author: Stephen and Leanne Troy Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Inspired by a movie, television show, book, or stories from friends, we may find ourselves daydreaming about trips to exotic locations with exciting adventures. For some lucky ones, these dreams become reality. Would a Maharajah Sleep Here? presents firsthand stories of luxury travel and discovery by two fun and experienced travelers. Authors and travelers Stephen and Leanne Troy provide accounts of historic exploration, luxury hotel stays, and encounters with
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{Memoir} Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Lawlor will be touring November 17 – December 19 with her memoir, FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War.  Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Searching for Normal: A Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Neuman’s SEARCHING FOR NORMAL: A MEMOIR virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Searching for Normal: A Memoir Author: Alison Neuman Publisher: Fireside Publications Pages:302 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle They thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman’s tiny fingers wrap around her mother’s for strength.  But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat the odds. When years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy. When children and adults avoid her like the plague, she finds friendship. When she cracks her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Temple of All Knowing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Papa’s THE TEMPLE OF ALL KNOWING virtual book tour November 3 – December 19! Title: Temple of All Knowing Author: Lee Papa Publisher: WaveCloud Corporation Pages: 186 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The Temple of All Knowing is a memoir of one woman’s passage from personal and professional turmoil to spiritual awakening. A compelling straight forward and sometimes humorous account of the most personal of journeys as this 40-something woman finds herself in Sin City with promise of a new life, new husband and elderly mother living with her. She instead is uncovered as a central character in the deepest
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  • October 13, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Before Their Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Timothy Spillane’s FOUR BEFORE THEIR TIME virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Four Before Their Time Author: Timothy Spillane Publisher: Skitterbird, LLC Pages: 342 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Anne had it all. She was a physician, an Army officer, and a great wife. She’d be a great mom, too. But the joy of pregnancy is short-lived after an ultrasound reveals that Anne isn’t just pregnant, she’s really pregnant – with quadruplets! Now her dad, Tim Spillane, is a grandfather four times over, and much too soon. Just 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Anne delivered, and not one of Tim’s grandkids
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