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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LOVE AND OTHER MOODS Book Blast #NA #WomensFiction #Multicultural #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Crystal Z. Lee’s LOVE AND OTHER MOODS Book Blast December 21 – January 21. Inside the Book Love and Other Moods follows complexities of adulting, of parenting, of the urban quest for love and finding one’s place in the world… Title: LOVE AND OTHER MOODS Author: Crystal Z. Lee Publisher: Balestier Pages: 322 Genre: New Adult / Women’s Fiction / Multicultural Romance Love and Other Moods is a coming-of-age story set in contemporary China, about falling in love, learning to adult, finding strength, and discovering one’s place in the world. Naomi Kita-Fan uproots her life from New York to China when her fiancé’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents NEW YORKERS: A FEISTY PEOPLE WHO WILL UNSETTLE, MADDEN, AMUSE AND ASTONISH YOU Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Clifford Browder’s NEW YORKERS: A FEISTY PEOPLE WHO WILL UNSETTLE, MADDEN, AMUSE AND ASTONISH YOU Virtual Book Tour January 4 – 29. Title: NEW YORKERS: A FEISTY PEOPLE WHO WILL UNSETTLE, MADDEN, AMUSE AND ASTONISH YOU Author: Clifford Browder Publisher: Cliff Browder Books Pages: 345 Genre: Memoir (with bits of history and travel lore thrown in) A quirky memoir by a longtime resident with bits of history and travel lore thrown in… A quirky memoir by a longtime resident, with glances at his city’s history and bits of travel lore all rolled into one. Readers will learn how the Statue
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A FALLACIOUS SEDUCTION Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #western #romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Virginia Barlow’s A FALLACIOUS SEDUCTION Virtual Book Tour January 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: A FALLACIOUS SEDUCTION Author: Virginia Barlow Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 282 Genre: Historical Western Romance When the train US Marshal Reese Calhan is riding on explodes, he is one of two survivors. Trouble is, the other survivor is the woman who betrayed him years ago. A woman he thought was dead. This time he will not fall prey to her wiles. He’ll see the vixen jailed for her crimes if it kills him. Recovering from a recent jilting and now a train
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE THANKFUL UNICORN: DREAM COLORING JOURNAL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #coloringbook #journal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Hayley Rose’s THE THANKFUL UNICORN: DREAM Virtual Book Tour December 21 – January 22! Inside the Book Title: THE THANKFUL UNICORN: DREAM Author: Hayley Rose Publisher: Flowered Press Pages: 132 Genre: Children’s and Teens’ Coloring Journal The Thankful Unicorn is a groundbreaking and uplifting coloring journal designed to build confidence, improve self-esteem, calm anxiety and inspire creativity! You and your kids will love this 132 page, glittered, hard-bound book filled with whimsical unicorn scenes, positive actions and motivational quotes that will be sure to delight even the young at heart, leading to a more confident, kind and creative human. A great activity to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CRUISING THE MISSISSIPPI Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Travel #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Al & Sunny Lockwood’s CRUISING THE MISSISSIPPI: FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MEMPHIS ON A GENUINE PADDLEWHEELER Virtual Book Tour January 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: CRUISING THE MISSISSIPPI: FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MEMPHIS ON A GENUINE PADDLEWHEELER Author: Al & Sunny Lockwood Publisher: Front Porch Publishing Pages: 185 Genre: Travel Memoir If you love travel, beauty, history, fabulous food, and genuine old-fashioned fun, you’ll love this amazing paddle wheel adventure along the mighty Mississippi River. From a vibrant New Orleans’ Jazz concert at famous Preservation Hall, to the largest plantation mansion on the Mississippi (Nottoway Plantation), to eye-opening
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CLEO CAN TIE A BOW: A RABBIT AND FOX STORY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sybrina Durant’s CLEO CAN TIE A BOW Virtual Book Tour January 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: CLEO CAN TIE A BOW: A RABBIT AND FOX STORY Author: Sybrina Durant Publisher: Sybrina Publishing Pages: 38 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Cleo can tie a bow. She learned what she knows from a rabbit and a fox. They can teach your child how to tie a bow, too. This fun picture book is intended to be a family bonding parent-child activity. It’s a great way to learn to tie shoe laces. Praise Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE KISS THAT SAVED CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Holiday #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elysia Strife’s THE KISS THAT SAVED CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Tour December 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: THE KISS THAT SAVED CHRISTMAS Author: Elysia Strife Publisher: Independent Pages: 310 Genre: Holiday Romance Claire’s husband passed away two years ago this Christmas, leaving her alone and in charge of a beautiful and overwhelming cabin venue in the Montana mountains. She’s low on cash, the truck won’t start, and fewer people are calling in event requests. Every past assistant has been problematic and disappointing. With one final wedding scheduled for the year, Claire is desperate to make a good impression and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SAFE HARBOR Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Historical #WWII #Romance

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerhardt Roberts’ SAFE HARBOR Virtual Book Tour November 16 – December 16! Inside the Book Title: SAFE HARBOR Author: Gerhardt Roberts Publisher: Roberts Ink Pages: 311 Genre: Historical / World War II / Romance In World War II Berlin, Jews such as Erich Reinhold, who can pass for Aryan, and his sweetheart, Nessa Baumgartner, go underground. In a city where Jewish life is being snuffed out, they soon find themselves in a world of false identification papers and forged ration cards, risking their lives to help others escape to freedom. Safety is a foreign word, danger is everywhere and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CHRISTMAS IN THE ROCKIES Book Blast & $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway #ContRomance #Holidays

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you McKenna Gray’s CHRISTMAS IN THE ROCKIES Book Blast November 16 – December 16! There is a $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway with this blast. Inside the Book Title: CHRISTMAS IN THE ROCKIES Author: McKenna Grey Publisher: Cambron Press Pages: 40k; collection of three novelettes Genre: Contemporary Romance / Holidays (Sweet and Clean) BOOK BLURB: “McKensie’s Christmas Gift When McKensie Scott returns to Wycliffe, Wyoming, she’s uncertain of her future . . . and the man she left behind two summers before. With the help of an unexpected ally, McKensie will discover that sometimes leaving the people you love is the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE COLOR OF TOGETHER Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Christian #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Milton Brasher-Cunningham’s THE COLOR OF TOGETHER: MIXED METAPHORS OF CONNECTEDNESS Virtual Book Tour November 16 – December 16! Inside the Book Title: The Color of Together: Mixed Metaphors of Connectedness Author: Milton Brasher Cunningham Publisher: Light Messages Publishing Pages: 160 Genre: Christian Nonfiction The Color of Together begins with the primary colors of life–grief, grace, and gratitude–and enlarges the palette to talk about the work of art that is our life together in these days. The idea for the book began with understanding that grief is not something we get over or work through, but something we learn to move around
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE ALCOHOL CON: HOW TO OUTSMART IT Virtual Book Publicity Tour #SelfHelp

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michaela Weaver’s THE ALCOHOL CON: HOW TO OUTSMART IT Virtual Book Tour November 16 – January 15! Inside the Book Title: THE ALCOHOL CON: HOW TO OUTSMART IT Author: Michaela Weaver Publisher: Parker Press Publishing Pages: 148 Genre: Self-Help Is drinking having a negative effect on your life? You are not alone! Millions of strong-minded, capable people find themselves falling victim to the biggest con trick of our time – alcohol! It lures us with false promises of fun and social acceptability. Instead we find ourselves caught in a cycle of drinking, hangovers, morning regret, and guilt. Despite being successful
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SWORD AND SORCERY SERIES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #EpicFantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dylan Doose’s THE SWORD AND SORCERY SERIES Virtual Book Tour November 16 – January 15! Inside the Books Title: FIRE AND SWORD (Book 1) Author: Dylan Doose Publisher: Independent Pages: 366 Genre: Epic Fantasy / Sword and Sorcery / Dark Fantasy “An epic tale…”—Library Journal A broken nation in need of a savior. Ravaged by plague, decimated by dark magic, infiltrated by a foreign evil seeking to dominate from within, Brynth is on the eve of its dissolution. When all the good men are dead and gone, who is to answer the call and defy what is wicked for what
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HELLALYLE AND HILDEBRAND Book Blast #Medieval #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tagai Tarutin’s HELLALYLE AND HILDEBRAND Book Blast November 9 – December 9! Inside the Book Title: HELLALYLE AND HILDEBRAND Author: Tagai Tarutin Publisher: Silverwood Books Pages: 244 Genre: Medieval / Romance BOOK BLURB: Hellalyle and Hildebrand, were drawn into a relationship engineered by those same unseen forces who had selected her bodyguard; their purpose, to thwart the devil, incarnate in Prinz Paulus, in its attempts to kill the princess. A downs-syndrome girl of mysterious origins, named Ethla, emerges out of the wildwood. She is taken care of by Princess Hellalyle. and plays a crucial part in the narrative. The king,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evy Journey’s THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – December 31! Inside the Book Title: THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE  Author: Evy Journey Publisher: Sojourner Books Pages: 330 Genre: Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for. Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger’s journal at a café.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LAST GIRLS ALIVE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s LAST GIRLS ALIVE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – December 31! Inside the Book Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 364 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Half-buried in the muddy earth and surrounded by puddles of water lies the naked body of a beautiful young girl. Her pale skin looks like porcelain in the early morning light. Her fragile arms bent and crooked like a broken doll. When Detective Katie Scott is called to the discovery of a young girl buried on the grounds of a former children’s home in Pine Valley, California, she’s hopeful it’s the end
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ZRADA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lance Charnes’ ZRADA Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: ZRADA Author: Lance Charnes Publisher: Wombat Group Media Pages: 335 Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller BOOK BLURB: Two priceless paintings. Two million euros. A civil war. What could go wrong? The DeWitt Agency assigned disgraced ex-cop Carson a simple job: carry two briefcases of cash to swap for two artworks stolen from a German museum. Except nothing’s simple in the Donbass, the breakaway Ukrainian region overrun by militias, warlords, and bandits. After a brutal zrada – betrayal – Carson finds herself alone and hunted forty
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THEY CALL ME GOMER… Virtual Book Publicity Tour #NewAdult #Urban

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JC Miller’s THEY CALL ME GOMER… Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THEY CALL ME GOMER… Author: JC Miller Publisher: Jess, Mo’ Books LLC Pages: 268 Genre: New Adult  Urban Inspirational / Christian Fiction BOOK BLURB: “Dear Diary, On September 3, 1982, two things happened that I’ll never forget: I acquired an older sister, and I fell in real love. But tell me, what does an eight-year-old know about love?” For nearly a decade, Hosea Felix and Gomer Williams were inseparable. She loved him from the moment she laid eyes on him. Their friendship was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistoricalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Neil Patterson’s BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BECOMING ALFIE Author: Neil Patterson Publisher: Greenhill Pages: 279 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Alfie Norrington was born into poverty in London’s East End in the first minute of the twentieth century. His life was a battle. From the Brick Lane markets where young Alfie pilfered and pickpocketed, to the trenches of Flanders, Alfie fought every step of the way. Almost killed by a trench bomb he battled to recover and while in a military hospital Alfie made a promise that dramatically change’s his life.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Political

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Larry Alex Taunton’s AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Author: Larry Alex Taunton Publisher: Fidelis Books Pages: 250 Genre: Political BOOK BLURB: The belief in “American Exceptionalism” is under attack, declares Larry Alex Taunton, an award-winning author, columnist, and cultural commentator. “A battle rages for the heart and soul of America.” For Taunton, the question comes down to: Is there a better place to live than America? To explore the idea of “national greatness,” Taunton went on a global
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast #BookBlast #HistFic #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Justine Carver’s THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast October 19 – November 19! Inside the Book Title: THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Author: Justine Carver Publisher: Independent Pages: 496 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells him the tragic story of his conception, and which of two men his birth father could be: the young man who professed his love to her, or the pastor who assaulted her.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HolidayRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda West’s A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 13! Inside the Book Title: A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Author: Linda West Publisher: Morningmayan Publishing Pages: Appr. 300 Genre: Holiday Romance BOOK BLURB: A runaway Prince leaves his Kingdom to complete his father’s dying wish. A broken-hearted girl concocts a plan to win her ex back no matter the cost. When these two opposites are thrown together by fate and end up in the same adorable ski lodge, to their dismay and surprise, their lives will be changed forever-after. A fast-paced funny and enchanting holiday romance you
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Pump Up Your Book Feature Interview: James S. Kelly, Author of I Didn’t Forget

“The clock struck twelve. Lucille and three of the other laundry workers took off the scarves protecting their hair, looked in the mirror, applied some lipstick, walked down a long corridor and up two flights of stairs to the main cafeteria. It was Tuesday and meatloaf was the special today. To Lucille, it brought back memories of family meals with mashed potatoes, kernel corn and buttermilk biscuits. Most of her family had passed away; she wondered why time had passed so fast.” — From I DIDN’T FORGET by James S. Kelly James S. (Jim) Kelly is a retired United States Air Force Colonel with over 100 combat missions in
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kimberley B. Jones’ OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Author: Kimberley B. Jones Publisher: Rhetoric Askew Publishing, LLC Pages: 224 Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: Two teenage friends, Sasha and Leah, live a comfortable life in the affluent St. Louis suburbs. They attend a well-established private Christian academy and the only thing on their mind as they enter their senior year is graduation and their senior prom. When tragedy strikes, however, the best friends are torn apart because of social tensions, ignorance, miscommunications, and fear. Our Friendship Matters reveals
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #Suspense #Thriller #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victor Acquista’s SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Tour November 18 – December 18! Inside the Book Title: SERPENT RISING Author: Victor Acquista Publisher: BHC Press Pages: 304 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Serena Mendez is haunted and she is hunted… … Haunted by trauma—terrified and scarred as a young child, when a secret initiation into an ancient order of Lightbringers went horribly wrong. Unaware of the power latent in her blood, she is haunted by a life out of sync with her true identity. At twenty-one, she is abrasive, jobless, in debt, and addicted to sedatives. Haunted by her past, she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A PERFECT STORM Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A PERFECT STORM Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: A PERFECT STORM Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 264 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Sgt. Windflower is back, untangling another swirling mystery, this one bringing the meth crisis and biker gangs to the quiet Newfoundland town of Grand Bank, feeling the sting of their deadly tentacles reaching all the way from Las Vegas.  He’s working with his familiar crew of RCMP characters – but wait, are some of the faces changing? New challenges for Jones, an unknown side of Smithson reveals
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CALL FROM HOME Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joni Parker’s CALL FROM HOME Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: CALL FROM HOME Author: Joni Parker Publisher: Village Green Press LLC Pages: 444 Genre: Fantasy BOOK BLURB: If home is where the heart is, the warrior Lady Alexin is very far from home, indeed. Banished from her home in the Elven realm of Eledon to the mortal world of near future London, and robbed of her magic, she has no choice but to try and find a place in a world where she doesn’t fit in. Yet for all their peculiarities, the mortals have
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SELLING CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristmasRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angelina Goode’s SELLING CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 13! Inside the Book Title: SELLING CHRISTMAS Author: Angelina Goode Publisher: Beach Blanket Publishing Pages: App. 300 Genre: Christmas Romance BOOK BLURB: Helping people find their dream house has always come natural to Caroline. She’s able to set the stage perfectly so her clients can imagine spending the holidays in their new home, even though she doesn’t decorate her own. When her boss assigns her to oversee the company’s first Christmas Tour of Homes, Caroline thinks she may be in over her head. Luke has always made sure his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Book Blast & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card #RomanticSuspense #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you McKenna Grey’s THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Book Blast October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Author: McKenna Grey Publisher: Cambron Press Pages: 289 Genre: Romantic Suspense / Thriller BOOK BLURB: In the shadow of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, a darkness lurks and threatens a quiet coastal village in The Wicked Cries Wolf, the third book in the Kyndall Family Thriller series. A woman desperate for solitude. A man with an enemy he can’t see. A dangerous game neither wants to play. International bestselling author Meaghan Ryers has gained wealth, success, and fame . . . and all she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BECOMING AMERICAN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cary D. Lowe’s BECOMING AMERICAN: A POLITICAL MEMOIR Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: BECOMING AMERICAN Author: Cary D. Lowe Publisher: Black Rose Pages: 285 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Becoming American is the inspiring story of the author’s transformation from a child of Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe to an American lawyer, academic, and activist associated with such famed political leaders as Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Jerry Brown, and Tom Hayden. Searching for his great-grandparents’ graves in a hidden cemetery outside Prague makes him recall his experiences of becoming American: listening to Army Counterintelligence agents
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MY LIONS’ DEN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #Autobiographical #Christian

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.M. Power’s MY LIONS’ DEN Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: MY LIONS’ DEN Author: E.M. Power Publisher: Spotlight on Souls Publishing Group Pages: 95 Genre: Nonfiction Autobiographical / Religious BOOK BLURB: This is my personal story of my trial with Domestic Abuse.  This book was not intended to sensationalize Domestic Abuse.  It is not to portray my abuser in a bad light or as an enemy.  Abuse has no prejudices.  Abuse may occur no matter a person’s religion, non-religion, race, economic income level, profession, culture, gender, or age.  Abuse may happen at any time
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