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A Touching, Inspirational Memoir About The Book Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald’s East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor.  But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and ToniRead More →

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Lies, Secrets, and Surprises ABOUT THE BOOK Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls’ testimony put awayRead More →

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ABOUT THE BOOK When he’s accidentally transformed into a wizard, a young misfit boy is called upon to save the town he’s been desperately trying to escape in this spooky, whimsical tale of magic and mayhem. By age thirteen, the list of nasty foster homes Goff had lived in was longer than he was old. He’d given up on having friends long ago. He survived by keeping his head down, hiding from bullies, ignoring teasingRead More →

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by Piper Huguley ABOUT THE BOOK Author: Piper Huguley  Narrator: Tracey Conyer Lee  Publisher: HarperAudio  Time: 12 hours 44 minutes Release Date: June 7, 2022 The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City Less than a week before the societyRead More →

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Interview & Giveaway Join us for this tour from Aug 18 to Sep 14, 2022! Book Details: Book Title:  Call My Name: A Novel by Jenni OgdenCategory:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  384 pagesGenre:  Literary/Women’s/Bookclub FictionPublisher:  Sea Dragon PressRelease date:   April 2020Formats Available for Review: print (USA only), ebook (MOBI FILE(FOR KINDLE), EPUB, PDF, NetGalley download), audiobook (Findawaydownload, NetGalley download)Tour dates: Aug 18 to Sep 14, 2022Content Rating:  PG-13 + M: Has childbirth/abortion/adoption/surrogacy themes, the brief descriptionRead More →

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The Story Of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head Giveaway and Review I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DRESSING UP THE STARS: THE STORY OF MOVIE COSTUME DESIGNER EDITH HEAD by Jeanne Walker Harvey & Diana Toledano (Illustrations) Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Don’t forget the #Giveaway below About The Book: Title: DRESSINGUP THE STARS: THE STORY OF MOVIE COSTUME DESIGNER EDITH HEAD Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey & Diana Toledano(Illustrations) Pub. Date: SeptemberRead More →

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A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALs ABOUT THE BOOK Publisher ‏ : ‎ Diversion Books Author : Andrew Dubbins Publication Date : August 23, 2022 Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the elite Underwater Demolition Teams, precursor of the Navy SEALs—whoRead More →

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Giveaway HOW TO SPEAK ANIMAL by Aubre Andrus & Gabby Wild Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!   ABOUT THE BOOK Title: HOW TO SPEAK ANIMAL Author: Aubre Andrus & Gabby Wild Pub. Date: August 16, 2022 Publisher: National Geographic Kids Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook Pages: 176 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, TBD, Bookshop.org Learn about the secret language of wild animals in this exciting and informative guide from the expertsRead More →

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An Unforgettable Story ABOUT THE BOOK Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sea Dragon Press Time: 12 hours, 18 minutes Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2022 Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family—until motherhood rips them apart. From Jenni Ogden, author of bestselling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a compelling family saga set in the Australian tropics and spanning the 1960s to 1990s. Her mother dead from aRead More →

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A Touching Memoir You Won’t Soon Forget ABOUT THE BOOK Publisher: Spark Press Publication Date: August 16, 2022 Pages: 256 A self-involved academic struggling to cope with his own neurological problems, Jeff could hardly take care of himself, let alone a child with special needs, when his son, Ethan, was born. But despite multiple surgeries, hospitalizations, serious breathing and swallowing problems, hearing loss, and a challenging social environment in his first months of life, EthanRead More →

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An Unabashed Memoir of the Battle, Breakthrough, and Future with a Genetic Variant Updated 9/10/2022 To Include A Review This is my post during the blog tour for Looking for Caylie by Misty Wolf. In Looking for Caylie, author Misty Wolf takes you inside her journey as she fights to discover the cause of Caylie’s rapid cognitive regression and mental health deterioration. This blog tour is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours and the tour runsRead More →

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Blog Tour Review, Excerpt, and Giveaway THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE by Shawn K. Stout Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours About The Book   Title: THE IMPOSSIBLE DESTINY OF CUTIE GRACKLE Author: Shawn K. Stout Pub. Date: May 31, 2022 Publisher: Peachtree Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook Pages: 336 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she’ll never be more than a lonely 10 year old inRead More →

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Uprooting My Life, Buying A Farm, And Learning To Bloom ABOUT THE BOOK Jake Keiser was living the life in Tampa, Florida, running a high-powered PR firm and juggling drink dates, shopping sprees, and charity galas. But at age thirty-eight, following a failed marriage, a series of miscarriages, and a still-blistering breakup, she began to suffer from extreme anxiety. Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox could fill the hole in her heart,Read More →

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Author Beverly Armento Shares A Story You Won’t Soon Forget ABOUT THE BOOK As the “Seeing Eye Girl” for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. She was Strong Beverly at school—excellent in academics and mentored by caring teachers—but at home she was Weak Beverly, cowed by her mother’s rage and delusions. Beverly’s mother regained herRead More →

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FROM THE AUTHORS OF THE ACCLAIMED BEAUTY AND THE BEAK About The Book Only ten days old, two wild osprey chicks become orphans when a powerful storm shatters their forest nest. Raptor biologist Janie Veltkamp is in a race against time to nurse the chicks back to health and place them in a new nest with new osprey parents. But will the new parents accept Swoop and Soar as their own young? Or will theRead More →

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An Amazing, Heartwarming Story ABOUT THE BOOK In development as a major motion picture produced by and starring Florence Pugh Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. NoRead More →

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An Anonymous Justice Novel Renegade by Nancy Allen; Grand Central Publishing, 368 pages, Legal Thriller Publisher’s Description Kate Stone swore an oath to uphold the law.But is it time to take justice into her own hands? THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE…Assistant DA Kate Stone has just suffered the biggest loss of her career. She’d worked so hard to prosecute a serial assaulter of women, and it was a case she should have won. But a corruptRead More →

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From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards—and toll—of a life solving crime. Description I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares ofRead More →

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A Story You Won’t Forget BOOK DETAILS Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Author: Laurie Zaleski Genre:  Memoir / Animal Rights Length: 256 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: February 22, 2022 Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She wasRead More →

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Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Genre:  Domestic Thriller Length: 400 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Release Date: March 15, 2022 ABOUT THE BOOK From the modern master of suspense comes a gripping new thriller in which wilde follows a tip that may finally reveal the truth behind his abandonment . . . Only to end up in the sights of a ruthless killer. After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failedRead More →