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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Unorganized Crime Virtual Book Publicity Tour #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Judy Serrano’s UNORGANIZED CRIME Virtual Book Tour May 2 – 27. Inside the Book Title: UNORGANIZED CRIME Author: Judy Serrano Publisher: 6K Publishing Genre: Historical Romance/WW2/Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: As Jazz finds herself falling from a helicopter, Gage St. Claire comes to her rescue. Organized crime is once again the culprit of her parents’ situation, and as usual, she is caught in the crossfire. Gage pulls her out of the water and helps her escape to safety. The love between them is undiscovered as he tries to leave her behind in an attempt to keep her safe and move forward with
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents They Called Him Marvin Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway #HistoricalRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Roger Stark’s THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN: A HISTORY OF LOVE, WAR AND FAMILY Virtual Book Tour April 4 – June 30. Inside the Book Title: THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN Author: Roger Stark Publisher: Silver Star Publishing Genre: Historical Romance/WW2/Family Saga BOOK BLURB: 18-year-old Pvt Dean Sherman goes to church with a friend in Salt Lake City. He meets 16-year-old Connie that will become his wife. After Pearl Harbor Dean applies for pilot training and is accepted. Dean joins Connie’s Mormon Church and they secretly become engaged. By the time Dean has commissioned a pilot, Connie is 18 and they marry and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sound of Creation Virtual Book Publicity Tour #SciFi

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gabriella Zielke’s THE SOUND OF CREATION Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: THE SOUND OF CREATION Author: Gabriella Zielke Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Genre: Science Fiction BOOK BLURB: Brilliant and relentless tech CEO Ava Lawson built a system to play the currency market and make her billions. Instead, it begins to play strange music and makes normally level headed people behave irrationally, violently, dangerously. While on the run from a coup to steal her code, Ava meets an ethereal stranger who seems to know more about her than she does. The stranger calls himself an
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Floating Underwater Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #MagicalRealism #PsychologicalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tracy Shawn’s FLOATING UNDERWATER Virtual Book Tour March 1 – April 29. Inside the Book Title: FLOATING UNDERWATER Author: Tracy Shawn Publisher: Turbulent Muse Publishing Genre: Women’s Fiction / Magical Realism / Psychological Fiction BOOK BLURB: Part psychological fiction and part mystical fiction with a dash of magical realism, Floating Underwater follows a woman’s astonishing journey through the extraordinary and, ultimately, to her self-actualization and power. Fearful that her lifelong premonitions not only predict the future but can also change its very course, Paloma Leary is devastated when her latest vision foretelling a third miscarriage comes true. Falling into a mystifying world of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Ignatius and The Swords of Nostaw Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.A. Mucci’s Ignatius and the Swords of Nostaw Virtual Book Tour June 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: IGNATIUS AND THE SWORDS OF NOSTAW Author: D.A. Mucci Publisher: St. Barts Publishing Genre: YA Fantasy Book Blurb: …languages, witty retorts, and running from a fight. Now he is faced with his first days in high school… …Is there anything worse than high school? When a clever, peace-making verbal volley failed, and the guy pulled a switch blade, Iggy took off. A locket he wore warmed up. Suddenly, he wasn’t in Susquehanna, PA anymore. Before he could gather his wits… …someone had
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sand Dollar Lane Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ SAND DOLLAR LANE Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: SAND DOLLAR LANE (Moonlight Harbor Series Book 6) Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin / Mira Genre: Women’s Fiction / Romance BOOK BLURB: Brody Green is finding it hard to recover after being dumped by his fiancée, Jenna Jones, then watching her walk down the aisle with someone else. Jenna is determined to make up for her love defection and find him the perfect woman, but Brody is done with love. First a divorce, then a broken engagement. From now on he’s keeping things light, no
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First Chapter: Defiance and Redemption by Maria J. Andrade

By Maria J. Andrade Title: DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION: A LIFETIME OF UNBROKEN BONDS Author: Maria J. Andrade Publisher: Clara Publishing Pages: 250 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and disgrace, for her forbidden love affair. Victoria finds herself in the center of a multigenerational conflict as her benefactor bestows a great
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First Chapter: Awaken To Tarot by Karen La Puma

By Karen La Puma   Title: AWAKEN TO TAROT: BE YOUR OWN GUIDE WITH ASTROLOGY, NUMBERS AND THE TREE OF LIFE Author: Karen La Puma Publisher: Soul Source Publishing Pages: 420 (includes pictures) Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Self-Help/Kabbalah/Astrology/Tarot BOOK BLURB: The Tarot is a visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to: Find ways to reflect your inner guidance. Explore the magical journey of evolution Blend Astrology, Numerology, and the Tree of Life with the Tarot Discover the power and implications of the symbols of
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First Chapter: I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories by Ross Dreiblatt

By Ross Dreiblatt Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The second story, “Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Keith Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sparks and Shadow Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ceara Nobles’ SPARKS AND SHADOW Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: SPARKS AND SHADOW (Rising Elements Book 1) Author: Ceara Nobles Publisher: Riverside Press Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Seattle is full of monsters, and I’m the only one who can see them. I’ve spent the last 17 years (AKA my whole life) pretending I can’t see the monsters who disguise themselves as humans. I may not have a place to live and my best friend may be moments away from getting in too deep with the city’s most dangerous drug lord, but I’m rolling with
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dime Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LegalThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Luis Figueredo’s DIME Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: DIME Author: Luis Figueredo Publisher: Speaking Volumes Pages: 472 Genre: Legal Thriller BOOK BLURB: Pierce Evangelista, a sharp-witted, Harvard-educated lawyer is drawn into the brutal and violent power struggle between the Venezuelan drug cartel and the DEA. Juan Carlos, who holds crippling information about the cartel, sits in the Curacao Prison awaiting extradition. Pierce realizes that his client’s life only holds value to the DEA if he agrees to cooperate. The cartel won’t allow Juan Carlos to tell the DEA what he knows and plans to kill
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Defiance and Redemption Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #HistoricalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maria J. Andrade’s Defiance and Redemption Virtual Book Tour February 1 – March 31. Inside the Book Title: DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION: A LIFETIME OF UNBROKEN BONDS Author: Maria J. Andrade Publisher: Clara Publishing Pages: 250 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Connecting with Christ Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #Inspirational

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Yolonda Tonette Sanders’ Connecting with Christ Virtual Book Tour February 1 – 25. Inside the Book Title: CONNECTING WITH CHRIST: 52 WEEKLY DEVOTIONALS TO NURTURE SPIRITUAL GROWTH Author: Yolonda Publisher: YO Productions Pages: 212 Genre: Nonfiction/Inspirational BOOK BLURB: Self-care is a buzzword often mentioned when people seek to optimize their health. Suggested self-care practices tend to include activities such as exercising, getting a massage, or eating a healthy diet. While all of these actions have their place, none of them are sufficient enough to provide the soul-care we need to maximize our self-care. Self-care without soul-care equates to temporary solutions that
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents In the Pink Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nicholas Garnett’s IN THE PINK Virtual Book Tour February 1 – 25. Inside the Book Title: IN THE PINK Author: Nicholas Garnett Publisher: MidTown Publishing Pages: 275 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Washed out of another corporate job, scraping by playing drums in a wedding band, delivering roses in a tuxedo. This was Nicholas Garnett’s version of the go-go 90s. Then, beautiful, worldly, Rachael turns his world upside down, introducing him to her gay friends who occupy the upper crust of the burgeoning gay circuit party scene. Nick and Rachael marry. They become known as the hot straight couple that party hardy with the
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  • January 6, 2022
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First Chapter: The Witch of Rathborne Castle by Virginia Barlow

By Virginia Barlow Title: THE WITCH OF RATHBORNE CASTLE Author: Virginia Barlow Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 330 Genre: Paranormal Romance BOOK BLURB: Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and alone in an empty castle in the middle of a dark twisted forest. The locals call her a witch because she has the “sight.” When a wounded stranger is found within the gates, she is warned he carries secrets and their lives will be intertwined. Lady Jane walks with a limp following a riding accident the night her mother left her. And had given up on having a normal life. She blames her misfortune on the current Duke of Rathborne.
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  • January 3, 2022
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First Chapter: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee

THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS By Robert Charles Lee Title: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS Author: Robert Charles Lee Publisher: Wido / E.L. Marker Pages: 212 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: In a life defined by risk, Robert Charles Lee experiences a poor and free-ranging childhood in the racist South of the 1960s. After his father dies, the family grows dysfunctional. As a result, teen-age Robert seeks sanity and solace by rock climbing solo and driving cars fast. He wins a scholarship and graduates from university, but still seeks to escape the South. Moving to Alaska and the Western US, Robert works in a series of dangerous and brutal jobs. He meets and marries Linda,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Zanzibar’s Rings Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ScienceFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jemima Pett’s ZANZIBAR’S RINGS Virtual Book Tour February 15 – March 15. Inside the Book Title: Zanzibar’s Rings Author: Jemima Pett Publisher: Princelings Publications Pages: 380 Genre: Science Fiction BOOK BLURB: A Galactic crisis: the entire comms system destroyed. No waypoints, no navigation aids, no database access… and how will spaceships in flight get home—or to any destination? Dolores is stuck in warp with a very dangerous passenger, Pete gets his shuttle back home on manual. But how come anything in close contact with pure orichalcum fixes itself? Just flying through Zanzibar’s Rings solves the problem—as the Federation’s fighters find, as
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LiteraryFiction #Satire #Humor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Dreiblatt’s I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Virtual Book Tour February 1 – 25. Inside the Book Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Awakening the Avatar Within Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darren Starwynn’s AWAKENING THE AVATAR WITHIN Virtual Book Tour January 3 – March 31.   Inside the Book Title: AWAKENING THE AVATAR WITHIN: A Roadmap for Uncovering Your Superpowers, Upgrading Your Body and Uplifting Humanity Author: Darren Starwynn Publisher: Desert Heart Press Pages: 348 Genre: Spiritual Awakening/Meditation/Energy Healing/Personal Development Awakening the Avatar Within offers a practical roadmap for deeply healing yourself and living an awakened, actualized life as an Avatar. An Avatar is Divine consciousness expressing itself as a human being, and this book will help awaken your awareness of this vital part of yourself. You will learn many transformational practices
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents If They Can’t Kiss Right: Surviving Online Dating Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CreativeNonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shannon Yingst’s IF THEY CAN’T KISS RIGHT: SURVIVING ONLINE DATING Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 28. Inside the Book Title: IF THEY CAN’T KISS RIGHT: SURVIVING ONLINE DATING Author: Shannon Yingst Publisher: Tyburn Hill Media Co. Pages: 150 Genre: Creative Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Warning: Adult Content Online dating: the new way of life. It seems like the only logical way to meet people anymore. The rest of our lives are on the internet, so why not our love lives too? Because if you wait for your friends to set you up, you’ll only be disappointed with their choice of Roger
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Awaken to Tarot Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen La Puma’s Awaken to Tarot Virtual Book Tour January 3 – March 31. Inside the Book Title: AWAKEN TO TAROT: BE YOUR OWN GUIDE WITH ASTROLOGY, NUMBERS AND THE TREE OF LIFE Author: Karen La Puma Publisher: Soul Source Publishing Pages: 420 (includes pictures) Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Self-Help/Kabbalah/Astrology/Tarot BOOK BLURB: The Tarot is a visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to: Find ways to reflect your inner guidance. Explore the magical journey of evolution
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Witch of Rathborne Castle Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ParanormalRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Virginia Barlow’s THE WITCH OF RATHBORNE CASTLE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – February 25.   Inside the Book Title: THE WITCH OF RATHBORNE CASTLE Author: Virginia Barlow Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 330 Genre: Paranormal Romance BOOK BLURB: Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and alone in an empty castle in the middle of a dark twisted forest. The locals call her a witch because she has the “sight.” When a wounded stranger is found within the gates, she is warned he carries secrets and their lives will be intertwined. Lady Jane walks with a limp following a riding accident
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Through Dangerous Doors Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Charles Lee’s THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS Virtual Book Tour January 3 – February 25. Inside the Book Title: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS Author: Robert Charles Lee Publisher: Wido / E.L. Marker Pages: 212 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: In a life defined by risk, Robert Charles Lee experiences a poor and free-ranging childhood in the racist South of the 1960s. After his father dies, the family grows dysfunctional. As a result, teen-age Robert seeks sanity and solace by rock climbing solo and driving cars fast. He wins a scholarship and graduates from university, but still seeks to escape the South. Moving to Alaska
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER Virtual Book Tour January 1 – 28. Inside the Book Title: FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 323 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family. Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more than a dozen times to posts from Miami to California to Germany as the government demanded. For her mother and sisters, each move meant a complete upheaval of ordinary life. The car was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Nomophobia Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChildrensPictureBook

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JD Wise’s NOMOPHOBIA Virtual Book Tour December 1 – 31. Inside the Book Welcome to NOMOPHOBIA – A PLACE IN TIME WHERE OVERUSED CELLULAR DEVICES TURN CHILDREN INTO OGRES. This is a somewhat true, mostly exaggerated story of modern-day children – children who have spent way too much time on their phones. One night the children are mysteriously turned into ogres. At first the children blame each other for their condition. When they finished blaming each other, they worked together to find a cure. They searched the house for a cure…but they could not find one. They tried to wash
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Arise & Walk Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Self-Help

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you S.M. Adams’ ARISE & WALK: FROM THE SIDELINES OF LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL Virtual Book Tour December 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: ARISE & WALK: FROM THE SIDELINES OF LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL Author: S.M. Adams Publisher: Kingdom Building Project Pages: 188 Genre: Self-Help/Personal Development/Women’s Personal Growth/Personal Transformation/Life Transformation Whatever challenge you may currently be facing, Arise & Walk: From the Sidelines of Life to the Next Level offers a proven framework to assist you in making that much needed life transformation. During the pandemic with her classroom shuttered S.M. Adams an experienced educator and instructor
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Man Who Transformed Africa Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peter D. Cimini’s THE MAN WHO TRANSFORMED AFRICA Virtual Book Tour December 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: THE MAN WHO TRANSFORMED AFRICA: THE REBIRTH OF A CONTINENT Author: Peter D. Cimini Publisher: Halo Publishing International Pages: 488 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: The novel opens with Vatican intrigue between liberal and conservative cardinals, which leads to the unlikely selection of an Indonesian pope. Seizing the opportunity, the new pope uses his ex-cathedra (papal infallibility) to declare poverty to be an immoral human condition. The pope decides to lead by example, taking the provocative step of selling Vatican treasures to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Defiance and Redemption Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #HistoricalFiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maria J. Andrade’s DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION Virtual Book Tour November 22 – December 22. Inside the Book Title: DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION: A LIFETIME OF UNBROKEN BONDS Author: Maria J. Andrade Publisher: Clara Publishing Pages: 250 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction/Magical Realism BOOK BLURB: Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture,
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📚 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 No Good About Goodbye Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #ComingofAge

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you CT Liotta’s NO GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE Virtual Book Tour November 15 – December 15. Inside the Book Title: NO GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE Author: CT Liotta Publisher: Rot Gut Pulp Pages: 308 Genre: YA/Coming of Age/LGBT/Adventure BOOK BLURB: Fifteen-year-old Ian Racalmuto’s life is in ruins after an embassy raid in Algiers. His mother, a vodka-drunk spy, is dead. His brother, a diplomat, has vanished. And, he’s lost a cremation urn containing a smartphone that could destroy the world. Forced to live with his cantankerous grandfather in Philadelphia, Ian has seven days to find his brother and secure the phone—all while
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