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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 →

Middle Grade Fantasy Book cover

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  Join us for this tour from Mar 31 to May 11, 2021! Book Details: Book Title: Caroline & Mordecai the Gand by Jeff GunhusCategory:  Middle-Grade Fiction (Ages 8-12), 186 pagesGenre: Fantasy, LiteraryPublisher:  Seven Guns PressRelease date:  March 31, 2021Content Rating: PG:The language is G. There is one scene where the main character punches abully resulting in a bloody nose. The emotional treatment of grief andthe death of a loved one can be somewhat intense.  Read More →

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Spotlight, Review & Giveaway I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE SECRETS WE KEEP by Nikki Lee Taylor Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!   About the Book: Title: THE SECRETS WE KEEP Author:  Nikki Lee Taylor Pub. Date: January 11, 2021Publisher: Magpie CreativeMedia Formats: Paperback,eBook Pages: 288 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, Read for FREE witha Kindle Unlimited Membership! Not all mothers areRead More →

Memoir by Suleika Jaouad

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A Story With Highs and Lows that will keep your emotions rolling Description In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—firstRead More →

Fiction based on Truth book cover

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A TROUBLED TEEN. A SCHOOL WITH SECRETS. A RISKY PLAN. Author Interview Included Description Fourteen-year-old Sam Snyder thinks he is going on a short vacation to visit his godfather. Instead, his adoptive mother drops him off at a Baptist reform school in the backwoods of Missouri. Surrounded by razor-wire fences, violent at-risk youth, and oppressive staff, he quickly realizes that he’s not in California anymore. Between fistfights, fire-and-brimstone sermons, and falling in love with aRead More →

Michelle Shocklee book cover

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Inspirational Historical Fiction That Will Capture Your Heart Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland’s dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena’s banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for theRead More →

Book by Karen Robards

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Summer Reads Blog Tour Historical Fiction Prepare yourself for some great books this summer. So far I’ve read Red Sky Over Hawaii, The Black Swan of Paris, and in a short while I hope to finish my third book, The Woman before Wallis. Book Summary for The Black Swan of Paris For fans of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris comes a thrilling standalone by New York Times bestselling author Karen RobardsRead More →

Author D.J. Palmer

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Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you know them . . . When Glen and the dog Daisy go fishing one day he never returns. Traces of blood are found but the family dog is located unharmed. In time Nina Garrity presumes her husband drowned, even though his body is never recovered. When Simon Fitch begins to visit with Nina, they hit it off rather quickly. It feels almost uncanny what he knows aboutRead More →

Book by Serena Burdick

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Sisters You Will Remember For Years To Come Publisher’s Description A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood—inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules. Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elderRead More →

book by Christina McDonald

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Optioned For TV By A Major Hollywood Studio Author: Christina McDonald Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books (February 2019) Paperback: 368 pages Listen to Excerpt Publisher’s Synopsis: In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes an emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. And pregnant. A search for the truth. A lifetime of lies. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake byRead More →