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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents This Is How I Spell Grief Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Self-Help #Narrative #Nonfiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Erik Lewin’s THIS IS HOW I SPELL GRIEF: A GUIDE TO HEALING FROM LOSS & FINDING FULFILLMENT Virtual Book Tour November 15 – January 14. Inside the Book Title: THIS IS HOW I SPELL GRIEF: A GUIDE TO HEALING FROM LOSS & FINDING FULFILLMENT Author: Erik Lewin Publisher: Jeffrey Park Press Pages: 126 Genre: Self-Help/Narrative/Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Erik Lewin shares how he turned the profound loss of his mother and father into life-changing growth, with intimacy, warmth and humor. He offers a no-nonsense, commonsense way to create your personal path to acceptance of your loss. Lewin became an expert
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Your Mid-Career GPS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #JobHunting #BusinessMentoring

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Neral’s YOUR MID-CAREER GPS Virtual Book Tour November 15 – January 14. Inside the Book Title: YOUR MID-CAREER GPS: FOUR STEPS TO FIGURING OUT WHAT’S NEXT Author: John Neral Publisher: LLH Publishing Pages: 281 Genre: Job Hunting/Business Mentoring and Coaching BOOK BLURB: Are you considering a career change but doubt yourself or get easily overwhelmed by the entire process? Are you a mid-career professional ready to level-up, but unsure of what steps to take? What if there was an easy and supportive way to plan your next career destination? Your Mid-Career GPS will guide you to create your
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BURIED SECRETS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s BURIED SECRETS Virtual Book Tour November 8 – 26. _______________________________ Inside the Book _______________________________ Title: BURIED SECRETS: THE SGT. WINDFLOWER MYSTERY SERIES BOOK 11 Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 285 Genre: Mystery _______________________________ BOOK BLURB _______________________________ RCMP Sergeant Winston Windflower is at a crossroads as career opportunities intrude on his near-perfect life in the blustery paradise of Grand Bank, Newfoundland. Just as the pandemic ends, the little oceanside communities are rocked by the murders of prominent figures, an RCMP Staff Sergeant in St. John’s and a minister in Grand Bank, and it’s implied
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Christmas Kindness Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl C. Malandrinos’ A CHRISTMAS KINDNESS Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 26. Title: A CHRISTMAS KINDNESS Author: Cheryl C. Malandrinos Publisher: 4RV Publishing Pages: 52 Genre: First Chapter Reader BOOK BLURB: Eight-year-old Robert is eager to share his wish list with Santa at the mall on Christmas Eve. When he meets Glenn, who only has one request for Santa, Robert is confused about what he should do. Can he cast aside what he wants and ask Santa to bring his new friend a special gift? PRAISE It is not often that a simple children’s book can nearly bring
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents KNIGHTS OF THE LOST TEMPLE: THE BRONZE SCROLL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Adventure #Romance

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Paul Donsbach and Alia Sina’s KNIGHTS OF THE LOST TEMPLE: THE BRONZE SCROLL Virtual Book Tour October 25 – Nov 19. Inside the Book Title: KNIGHTS OF THE LOST TEMPLE: THE BRONZE SCROLL (BOOK 1) Author: Paul Donsbach and Alia Sina Publisher: Knights of the Lost Temple Pages: 300 Genre: Adventure/Romance BOOK BLURB: The authors of The Bronze Scroll are excited to announce the publication of their first book in the Knights of the Lost Temple adventure-romance series. This groundbreaking novel, co-authored by Paul Donsbach and Alia Sina, tells the story of Sam Romero, an investigative attorney who has
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE BUTCHER’S PRAYER Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeFiction #Noir

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anthony Neil Smith’s THE BUTCHER’S PRAYER Virtual Book Tour October 18 – November 12. Inside the Book Title: THE BUTCHER’S PRAYER Author: Anthony Neil Smith Publisher: Fahrenheit 13 Pages: 275 Genre: Crime Fiction/Noir ______________________________________ BOOK BLURB ______________________________________ Rodney Goodfellow watches his friend kill a man, and then volunteers the unthinkable – to carve up the body with his butcher’s knives in order to get rid of the evidence. But the victim’s girlfriend escapes halfway through the butchering, sending Rodney and the triggerman, Charles, on the run. Charles is unhinged, flying high on meth. When it’s clear that escape isn’t
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CREATURE CAT TALES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #KidsPoetry

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.G. Rorai’s CREATURE CAT TALES Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 26. We are looking for reviews (PDF) only please. Inside the Book Title: CREATURE CAT TALES Author: M.G. Rorai Publisher: Independent Pages: 68 Genre: Kids Poetry/Stories in Verse BOOK BLURB: This whimsical collection of poetic life lessons is sure to inspire positivity and values while delighting young readers with charming creature cat stories and illustrations. Come join the creature cats as they make learning fun—a purrfect addition to any kid’s collection. Suggested reading age 8-12. Pick up your copy of Creature Cat Tales at Amazon. ********** MEET THE
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents INTENTIONAL: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE, WORK AND PLAY MEANINGFULLY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Amerland’s INTENTIONAL: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE, WORK AND PLAY MEANINGFULLY Virtual Book Tour October 18 – November 12. Inside the Book Title: INTENTIONAL: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE, WORK AND PLAY MEANINGFULLY Author: David Amerland Publisher: New Line Books Pages: 218 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Live your life the way you want to. Manage stress better. Be more resilient and enjoy meaningful relationships and better health. We all want that. Such life leads to better choices, better jobs, loving romantic partners, more rewarding careers and decisions that are fully aligned with our aims. What stops us from getting all
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CHASING THE DARKNESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fantasy

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cassie Sanchez’s CHASING THE DARKNESS Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 26. Title: CHASING THE DARKNESS Author: Cassie Sanchez Publisher: Morgan James Publishing Pages: 275 Genre: Fantasy / Romantic Fantasy BOOK BLURB Pain is inescapable. Suffering is a choice. Azrael, the Angel of Death, knows pain. The deaths of his mother and sister, as well as his harsh experiences in the Watch Guard at age twelve, have brutally shaped him into the most feared assassin in all of Pandaren. Azrael’s role as a Hunter requires him to search for those with magic, called Spectrals, which he is happy to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Suspense #Noir-Inspired

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lorenzo Petruzziello’s A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Virtual Book Tour October 11 – November 5. Inside the Book Title: A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Author: Lorenzo Petruzziello Publisher: Magnusmade Pages: 344 Genre: Suspense/Noir-Inspired BOOK BLURB:   An incompetent thief, a hopeless bartender, a dead stranger, and a lonely tourist. A NOIR-INSPIRED CAPER SET IN MODERN-DAY MILAN. An incompetent thief makes another attempt at burglary. A hopeless bartender struggles to manage her last patron. The pair reluctantly work together to figure out why a man they presumed dead may have returned, while a lonely tourist inadvertently gets in the way. PRAISE: “A sharp, edgy
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SPIRITUALITY FOR BADASSES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Stewart Dixon’s SPIRITUALITY FOR BADASSES Virtual Book Tour October 4 – Dec 31. Inside the Book Title: SPIRITUALITY FOR BADASSES Author: J. Stewart Dixon Publisher: PIE Publishing Pages: 268 Genre: Nonfiction / Self-Help / Humor BOOK BLURB: Stewart Dixon, award-winning, best-selling humor and self-help author of Spirituality for Badasses has a bone to pick with conventional therapy and pharmaceutical companies concerning our collective bounce back and healing from the stress, anxiety and depression of Covid-19. Asserts Mr. Dixon in the introduction to his book: “So you see…I really do get it. I used to be depressed, anxious, too
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LITTLE GIANTS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Juvenile #Biography

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raynelda Calderon’s LITTLE GIANTS: 10 HISPANIC WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY Virtual Book Tour September 15 – October 15. Inside the Book Title: LITTLE GIANTS: 10 HISPANIC WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY Author: Raynelda Calderon Publisher: Cayena Press, Inc. Pages: 64 Genre: Juvenile Biography BOOK BLURB: Little Giants: 10 Hispanic Women Who Made History is a short collection of biographies about Hispanic women and the impact they made in the world. Some of the women featured in this book are iconic figures such as ballet dancer Alicia Alonso; others are less known heroines such as indigenous leader Dolores Cacuango, founder of
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees

THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees Title: THE WILLING Author: Lindsay Lees Publisher: Indpendent Pages: 299 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a sign of suspect subversion. After all, if a woman just plays along, she’ll also do her job and have children, with the reward of a fine home in the “Communities,” where she and the other “Mamas” live together in harmony with everything
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mythology #Religion

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edward Dodge’s A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS Virtual Book Tour September 13 – October 13. Inside the Book Title: A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS: FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE BIBLE Author: Edward Dodge Publisher: Trine Day Books Pages: 472 Genre: Mythology / Religion BOOK BLURB This book explores the Goddess worshipping traditions that were always a part of human spirituality but were eliminated in the Bible on the path to monotheism. There is an unexplored narrative in the Bible, the early Israelites were pagan and God had a wife, her name is Asherah and she appears many times
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  • August 18, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: WORDS KILL by David Myles Robinson

WORDS KILL By David Myles Robinson BOOK BLURB: Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.” As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HONEYMOON ROULETTE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #DarkHumor

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Woodbury’s HONEYMOON ROULETTE Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30. Inside the Book Title: HONEYMOON ROULETTE Author: Irene Woodbury Publisher: Independent Pages: 180 Genre: Women’s Fiction / Dark Humor BOOK BLURB To marry or not to marry Connor J. Barrington? That is the question Roxy Drake faces one hour before her wedding, when she discovers her handsome fiance may have murdered his first two wives. Did Connor kill Annie and Charlotte, or simply let them die? Does Roxy become wife number three, or the runaway bride from hell? Find out in the darkly funny Honeymoon Roulette. PRAISE “Honeymoon
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeThriller

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 29 2021. ________________ Inside the Book ________________ Title: PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS: DETECTIVE KATIE SCOTT SERIES #6 Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 302 Genre: Crime Thriller ________________ BOOK BLURB ________________ In the thin light of the moon, the woman’s limp body hangs from the iron fence amongst the redwoods. Looped over the railings is the little gold locket her mother gave her when she turned sixteen. The picture of the girl inside smiles out at a future she’ll never see… As day breaks over the fairground, Detective
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WILLING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Dystopian

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lindsay Lees’ THE WILLING Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 29 2021. Inside the Book Title: THE WILLING Author: Lindsay Lees Publisher: Independent Pages: 299 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a sign of suspect subversion. After all, if a woman just plays along, she’ll also do her job and have children,
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  • August 4, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello

SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: A grandmother’s gift usually bring happiness. Rosa’s gift: a very different story. Hearing the dead alienated her from classmates. Not good for a 15-year-old. Many times very insistent, the dead cared little for her surroundings. They even bothered her in class. Dates? Forget that. Then one day, he shows up in her room. An old dead guy. A really old famous dead guy. In living human form! Thrilling story of battling good and evil in an ancient world. CHAPTER ONE I don’t see dead people. I hear them. I talk to them. Boy, you should try that. Talk about people looking at
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents GROUP Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #CrimeThriller

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynne Turner’s GROUP Virtual Book Tour August 16 – September 16. Inside the Book Title: GROUP Author: Lynne Turner Publisher: FriesenPress Pages: 102 Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Dr. William Osgood, a Beverly Hills psychologist, must make a quick decision. Seventeen-year-old Loretta, his most troubled patient, has just fainted on his couch, and his Thursday night group is about to arrive. Knowing that allowing Loretta to stay is ethically murky and potentially perilous to the group’s dynamic, Dr. Osgood begins to consider what might happen once Loretta opens her eyes. He feels that Loretta will be safe
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello

TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back to an Ancient Egypt filled with mystery, magic, and danger! CHAPTER ONE Dear _________,           Long ago the old texts of ancient Egypt alluded to a scroll in which King Tut spoke to the people from beyond the tomb. Many archeologists put this down
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julie Hengst’s VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30. Inside the Book Title: VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Author: Julie Hengst Publisher: Mind Trip Productions Pages: 36 Genre: Children BOOK BLURB: The first book of a new series, this humorous, whimsical collection of poems and songs reveals how baby mermaids are made, what mermaid families are like, and how mermaids study magic at School of the Fish to become Sea Witches (not Sand Witches). PRAISE An inspiring read in so many ways – each of the works has a special feeling. It made me smile,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WORDS KILL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Suspense

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Myles Robinson’s WORDS KILL Virtual Book Tour August 16 – September 17. Inside the Book Title: WORDS KILL Author: David Myles Robinson Publisher: Terra Nova Books Pages: 250 Genre: Thriller / Suspense BOOK BLURB: Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Teen #YA #AncientEgypt #HistFic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Carpinello’s ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Tour August 2 – October 29. Inside the Books Title: Tutankhamen Speaks Author: Cheryl Carpinello Publisher: Beyond Today Educator Pages: 81 Genre: Teen / YA / Ancient Egypt Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents AWAKENED BY GRACE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristianFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darlene West’s AWAKENED BY GRACE Virtual Book Tour August 2 – 27. Inside the Book Title: AWAKENED BY GRACE Author: Darlene West Publisher: Resource Publications Pages: 252 Genre: Christian Fiction BOOK BLURB: After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Professor Franklin Franklyn blames himself. Filled with anguish, he walks away from his family and removes himself from all social interactions, which augments his suffering. But soon after the second anniversary of his wife’s death, his self-imposed reclusive lifestyle is interrupted by an unplanned visit from his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maggie. From that point on, Maggie’s faith-filled answered prayers manifest before
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BLIND PONY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Biography #Autobiography #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Samantha Hart’s BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Virtual Book Tour July 19 – August 19. Inside the Book Title: BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Author: Samantha Hart Publisher: Wild Bill Publishing Pages: 359 Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Memoir BOOK BLURB: In her debut memoir, entrepreneur and Hollywood executive Samantha Hart reveals the abuses and traumas that she overcame to build a creative, successful, and love-filled life. BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell (Wild Bill Publishing) was released on March 15, 2021, and is a 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: BANDITS OF BASSWOOD By E.P. Bellows

BANDITS OF BASSWOOD: JOHN WILLIAM DRAKE PART 1 By E.P. Bellows BOOK BLURB: John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his twelfth birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down… follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being captured by bandits and taken to a ship riddled with river rats was part of his fate. Not just any bandits – the Bandits of Basswood; known to be
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis

TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis BOOK BLURB: Who says you can’t? Tell Her She Can’t is the manifesto for every woman who has been told she isn’t strong enough, smart enough, or capable enough to excel-and the motivational anthem for those who have succeeded despite doubt. Entrepreneur Kelly Lewis shares the true stories of 35 inspirational women who overcame the naysayers to achieve “impossible” dreams. Tell Her She Can’t is packed with motivational stories of adventurers, changemakers, and prevailers who have taken on the world to become pioneers in their fields or challenged gender stereotypes to build million-dollar businesses. These inspiring women transformed adversity into
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Book Giveaway! #EpicThriller #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.W. Baccaro’s PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Virtual Book Tour July 19 – August 19. Inside the Book Title: PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Author: J.W. Baccaro Publisher: JW Baccaro Publishing Pages: 481 Genre: Epic Fantasy BOOK BLURB: “Not darkness, not light, perhaps something in between, and is claimed by the darkness…as theirs. Though being saved by the light, that which is saved must in turn save the world…” Darshun Luthais has never experienced the Nasharin Frenzy—the unbending will to challenge a stronger opponent, no matter the cost. He doesn’t know what he will transform into, has never bonded with an elemental
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Audiobook Tour #YA #Historical

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan C. Riford’s BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Audiobook Virtual Tour July 12 – August 13. Inside the Book Title: BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Author: Susan C. Riford Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Genre: YA / Historical BOOK BLURB: The journey of a lifetime told in the audiobook BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS begins with a ship: “An enormous canoe, with great white wings like a magnificent bird.” This is the merchant schooner Triumph from New England, anchored offshore by what is now known as the Big Island of Hawaii, and in 1807, the sight of it captivates a young Hawaiian boy’s imagination and
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