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A Book You Won’t Want To Put Down Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Genre:  Mystery / Police Procedural Length: 320 pages Publisher:  Minotaur Books Release Date: January 25, 2022 Description Last Seen Alive is the fifth book in Joanna Schaffhausen’s heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series. Boston detective Ellery Hathaway met FBI agent Reed Markham when he pried open a serial killer’s closet to rescue her. Years on, their relationship remains defined by that moment and by Francis Coben’s horrificRead More →

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Blog Tour Excerpt and Giveaway I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the GRUMPY MONKEY OH, NO! CHRISTMAS Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Make sure to enter the giveaway! Desctiption Title: GRUMPY MONKEY OH, NO! CHRISTMAS Author: Suzanne Lang Illustrator: Max Lang Pub. Date:  September 14, 2021 Publisher: Random House Studio Formats:  Hardcover, eBook Pages: 32 Find it:  Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Jim Panzee, our favorite #1 New York Times bestselling grumpy monkey, is feeling likeRead More →

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An Amazing Experience Publisher’s Description One of @NatGeo’s most popular nature photographers shares 200 breathtaking images — and the stories behind them — from a wide swath of wild ocean locales around the globe.From gregarious gray whales plying the waters of Baja California to acrobatic manta rays in the Maldives and parading penguins in Antarctica, National Geographic photographer Thomas Peschak has spent a lifetime documenting the beauty and fragility of underwater life and the majestyRead More →

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Description The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age 60, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life” – the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than 37 years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but she anguishes over reliving the horrific eventsRead More →

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They Had to Reckon With the Ghosts of Their Past Description A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant’s These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that’s exactlyRead More →

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Book Description Present Day. Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home, determined to finally follow her dream of running the family business alongside her mother and grandmother. So when her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that Old Depot Grocery is closing, Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a plan to save the store. But Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter never follows in her footsteps. She has her reasons–but she’llRead More →

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Book Review Tour with Giveaway Join Us For This Tour From October 5 to October 18     Book Details:  Book Title:  My Cat Is Blue by Sarah SommerCategory: Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7),  36 pagesGenre:  Children’s Picture BookPublisher:  Mascot BooksRelease date:  October 2021Content Rating:  G – Children’s picture book featuring feelings of sadness and grief (loss of a pet), but no explicit content or language.     Book Description: When someone you love is feeling down in the dumps, youRead More →

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Review and Author Interview Description It’s Pittsburgh, 1910—the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac should be prospering, but their American dream is fading faster than the colors on the sun-drenched flag of their adopted country. Janos is exhausted from a decade of twelve-hour shifts, seven days per week, at the local mill. Karina, meanwhile, thinks she has found an escape from their run-down ethnic neighborhoodRead More →

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TLC Book Tour About I Am Beauty • Publisher: HarperOne (September 15, 2020)• Hardcover: 240 pages A groundbreaking celebration of ageless beauty, providing the ultimate skincare and makeup guide for women in their forties and beyond from celebrity makeup artist Riku Campo. The first makeup guide to celebrate and support women forty and over, I Am Beauty is Riku Campo’s labor of love. Riku has worked with some of the most beautiful and recognized faces in the world, likeRead More →

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Review, Excerpt and Giveaway I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SQUIRREL DO BAD by Stephan Pastis Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Description From the author of the “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip and New York Times bestselling Timmy Failure series comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, full-color graphic novel series about a quirky town—just right for young readers starting to read longer books!Read More →

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Review, Interview and Giveaway       Join us for this tour from Aug 23 to Sep 10, 2021!   Book Details: Book Title:  The Triumphant Tails of Rescue Dogs: Punk’s Plight by Dr. Hope A. Walter, EdD Illustrator: Susi B DavisCategory:  Children’s Fiction (Ages 5-12),  38 pagesGenre: Children’s Picture Book Publisher:  Mascot Release date:  Aug, 2021Content Rating:  G. Book Description:   This is not just another book about a dog! Meet Punk, an eight-year-old petite English Bulldog. Her life appears great right now,Read More →

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Publisher’s Description It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. TheseRead More →

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Book Tour Review and Giveaway   Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant Medical Non Fiction Date Published: 05-11-2021 Publisher: Post Hill Press     Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode theemotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives—until it was timeto step back and reassess his own life.         I would definitely suffer from a severe case of the heebie-jeebies if I had to perform asRead More →

book by Ed Damiano

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Book Tour, Review, Giveaway   Join us for this tour from July 26 to August 20, 2021! Book Details: Book Title:  THE RED FENCE by Ed Damiano Illustrated by Jenn Polk Category:  Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7),  38 pagesGenre:  Children’s Picture BookPublisher:  Mascot BooksRelease date:   July, 2021Content Rating:  G for everyone.   Book Description: In the uniform town of Vanderloo,Everyone, everywhere has the same view.What happens when Astred, tiny Todd, and NedDecide to paint their whiteRead More →

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A Beautiful Story Description As Diana surveyed her newborn baby’s face, languid body, and absent cry, she knew something was wrong. Then the doctors delivered devastating news: her first child, Emma, had been born with a rare genetic disorder that would leave her profoundly physically and intellectually disabled. Diana imagined life with a child with disabilities as a dark and insular one―a life in which she would be forced to exist in the periphery alongsideRead More →

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Description In this first-hand account, John Volanthen reveals how he pushed the limits of human endurance in the life-or-death mission to rescue the Thai youth soccer team trapped in the flooded cave. The world held its breath in 2018 when the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach went missing deep underground in the Tham Luang cave complex in northern Thailand. They had been stranded by sudden, continuous monsoon rains while exploring the caves after practice. With torrential rain pouring downRead More →

Christmas Picture Book

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Book Tour, Review, Author Interview and Giveaway     Join us for this tour from July 6 to July 26, 2021!   Book Details:  Book Title:  Amal the Thirsty Gamal: A Christmas Tale by Robert Schorr Illustrator: Kristina KoontzCategory:  Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7),  38 pagesGenre: Children’s Picture Book Publisher:  Mascot Release date:  July, 2021Content Rating:  G.   Book Description:  The charming tale told in Amal the Thirsty Gamal is for every young person who might be anxious about how they are viewed byRead More →

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Description FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT…except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head. When Finlay’s overheard discussing the plot of her new novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problemRead More →

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Book Tour, Review, and Giveaway   I Can Be… Fun STEM Activities for Kids Children’s Activity Books 4 Book Series Filled with entertaining and educational activities, these full-color books are the perfect way to introduce young children to many of today’s most important STEM subjects.   I Can Be a Math Magician: Fun STEM Activities for Kids 978-0-486-83922-6  Date Published: 10/16/2019 Pages: 64 Suggested Ages: 8-12   Publisher: Dover Publications   Math is magical with thisRead More →

book by ex NFL player Sean Conley

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How One Resilient Kicker Learned there was More to Life than the NFL Description Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Title: The Point After Author: Sean Conley Genre:  Biography, Football Length: 273 pages Publisher:  Lyons Press Release Date: July 21, 2020 A vivid account of life in the NFL—and an inspiring story of everything that comes after. Against seemingly impossible odds, Sean Conley became the starting kicker for the University of Pittsburgh in his senior year. A year later,Read More →