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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mountain Biking in the Tao Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Tracey’s Mountain Biking in the Tao book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: Mountain Biking in the Tao Author: Mark Tracey Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 90 Genre: Sports/Recreation Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “Mountain Biking in the Tao is the seminal work on Taoist philosophy and how it applies to mountain biking and life. Inspired by years of riding and meditation it gives the best possible advice on how to properly ride your mountain bike. Relax, be who you are, then go ride in the Tao on the trail nearest your own home.”     Since 1996, Mark Tracey has ridden the mountains
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Corkscrew Life Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Caulson’s A Corkscrew Life book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: A Corkscrew Life Author: Richard Coulson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Biography/Personal Memoir Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Richard Coulson’s memoir of his peripatetic life vividly describes his unique travels and the exceptional people he met along the way. His adventures began at birth and continued into his childhood with his glamorous mother in Nassau, Bahamas. Following an Ivy League education and army service in Korea, he became a New Yorker practicing law with a major Wall Street firm. His move into investment banking led to eight years in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Darkest Side of Saturn Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Taylor’s The Darkest Side of Saturn book blitz September 1 – September 12!       Title: The Darkest Side of Saturn Author: Tony Taylor Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It’s 1997 at a mountaintop observatory in Southern California where spacecraft navigator Harris Mitchel and astronomer Diana Muse-Jones discover a dangerous asteroid which may hit the earth within two decades. As the asteroid tumbles through space towards an uncertain impact, Harris and Diana fight bitterly over how to announce their discovery. When Harris goes public to a skeptical world—at the cost of his and Diana’s
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jean Hackensmith, author of ‘Identity Crisis’

I have been writing since the age of twenty.  (That’s 37 years and, yes, I’m disclosing my age.)  I am the proud mother of three, stepmother of two, and grandmother to twelve wonderful children.  I lost the love of my life, my husband Ron, in November of 2011 when he died in an accident at work.  He took my heart with him and, for a time, my desire to write.  Time, as they say, heals all wounds, and I have again discovered my passion for the written word.  In fact, I find it strangely comforting to delve into the intricate webs that are my character’s lives and immerse myself
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Pump Up Your Book Presents More Precious Than Rubies Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randy Coates’ More Precious Than Rubies book blitz August 4 – August 15!   Title: More Precious Than Rubies Author: Randy Coates Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 174 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Paul Brager is twelve when his father tells the story of Iduna and her apples. Mr. Brager always tells stories before bed to entertain Paul’s little brother, Adrian—a ritual that has become even more important since their mother died. Iduna was a goddess who grew apples that made the gods younger and stronger, but one day she disappeared, along with her apples. Paul doesn’t think much of the myth;
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Banana Bunch Book Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dawn Carroll’s The Banana Bunch Book book blitz August 4 – August 29!     Title: The Banana Bunch Author: Dawn Carroll Publisher: Amolibros Pages: 120 Genre: Children’s Book Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The monkeys have a human friend called Sheila. Sheila is in hospital – and she hates the hospital food. The monkeys decide that something simply has to be done… When their first attempt at delivering bananas to Sheila is thwarted the monkeys decide to form The Banana Bunch, a secret society dedicated to the delivery of delicious, health-giving bananas to Sheila and all the other unwell people at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s Your Decision Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ed Grizzle’s It’s Your Decision book blitz July 21 – August 1!   Title: It’s Your Decision Author: Ed Grizzle Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 128 Genre: Family Relationships/Parenting Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children are gifts from God, but parenting those children can often be a difficult task. In It’s Your Decision, author Ed Grizzle shows how parenting can be successful when it’s carried out according to God’s plan. Using his life’s experiences as a guide, Grizzle explores the importance of making the right decisions in life—from choosing the right lifestyle and the right mate and to raising children according to what God has planned
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Psyche-Soul-Ology Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Roberts’ Psyche-Soul-Ology book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Psyche-Soul-Ology Author: David Roberts Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 202 Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Psyche-Soul-ology: An Inspirational Approach to Appreciating and Understanding Troubled Kids is a companion text to At the Mercy of Externals: Righting Wrongs and Protecting Kids, 2nd Edition. Dr. Roberts presents a spiritually based application of his theories and the Roberts FLAGS Model detailed in his first book. His use of the term Psyche-Soul-ology focuses on the importance of addressing both the minds and souls of troubled kids. Of utmost importance is the need to look beyond
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephanie Macniel’s Parker virtual book tour August 4 – 29! ABOUT PARKER Title: Parker Genre: Young Adult Author: Stephanie Macneil Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 226 pages Release Date: November 20, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47596-038-9 The secret came out a few years ago: Parker Knight is gay. Now Parker is sixteen, and everyone has either embraced it, does not care, or has forgotten—everyone except for Dylan Baker. He is determined to make Parker’s life miserable. Parker really thought killing himself would make everything better. If he was dead, he would not have to get kicked around by Dylan and his friends anymore. He would be free. Now, after a failed
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark South Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Stewart’s Dark South book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Dark South Author: William Stewart Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 458 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In the mysterious dark South, strange old ladies, killers, hucksters, deceivers, and the unhinged lurk in the shadows where they are forced to confront inexplicable forces they do not understand. After a couple books a room in the famous Hotel Le Grande in New Orleans, one of them disappears, leaving the other to follow a bizarre trail to a sealed room where a gruesome murder took place some fifty years earlier. Uncle Poot, who has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dakota Gold Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Wilson’s Dakota Gold book blitz July 21 – August 1!     Title: Dakota Gold Author: Karen Wilson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 80 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Vlad Dracula: The Dragon Prince Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Augustyn’s Michael Augustyn book blitz July 21 – August 1!       Title: Vlad Dracula Author: Michael Augustyn Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 286 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire! Yet the truth behind the historical character–voevode, warlord–of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona.   Vlad Dracula faithfully follows his life story as hostage, fugitive, prince, and prisoner. His principality of Wallachia was caught between two voracious predators: the kingdom of Hungary
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Crystal Lotus Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jinna Van Vliet’s Crystal Lotus book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Crystal Lotus Author: Jinna Van Vliet Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 129 Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The Harmonic convergence in 1987 launched the awakening of the Mass Consciousness into the realization that human consciousness is rising into a higher frequency. Coined as the Big Shift it created many guidelines to help with this transition process. Crystal Lotus is just one such guide gifted to us by the Divine Feminine Creator Energy through one of her Aspects, the Goddess Quan Yin.     Jinna is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Terms
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shutting Up Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Wagner’s Shutting Up book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Shutting Up Author: Eric Wagner Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 228 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Hey, manager: please shut up already! Too many new managers, often promoted from the best of the front-line workers, lack the basic ability to interact effectively—speaking when they should be listening, and listening… well, not much. And when it comes to more advanced skills like improving worker performance, maximizing productivity, handling customers, and driving real success with their products, all bets are off. With no real background or training in management skills, today’s managers—even with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ripples in Opperman’s Pond Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Doug Zipes’ Ripples in Opperman’s Pond book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Ripples in Opperman’s Pond Author: Doug Zipes Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 288 Genre: Thriller Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Identical twins Dorian and Daniel Sloane grow up inseparable, sharing the same tubes of toothpaste as children and their lives as adults. Loyalty proven many times, they have been saving each other since the day Dorian rescued Daniel from drowning in Opperman’s Pond. Now, with Dorian as head of a multinational pharmaceutical company and Daniel as an innovative cardiologist volunteering in Africa, the brothers come together once again. A devastating midair
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Way to Financial Independence Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pearl Iseabell’s The Way to Financial Independence book blitz July 1 – 15! Title: The Way to Financial Independence Author: Pearl Iseabell Roberts Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 48 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The way to financial independence is like building a house. You can’t build unless you have a solid foundation. You need to have the desire, the determination, and the goals to become self-sufficient. Be confident in yourself and be motivated. Let’s name some of the building materials that you will need: education, as much as you can get, and the learning process never stops. As I converse with people,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents From the Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randolph Baltimore’s From My Heart book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: From My Heart Author: Randolph Baltimore Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 34 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “From My Heart” is my first publication, my labor of love I have worked on for many years. It is the fruition of the many trials, tribulations, ups and downs that life has dealt me over the years. May you be inspired and enlightened by the words on these pages.   Randolph is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Terms & Conditions: By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Signs of a Serial Killer Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Crystal Clary’s Signs of a Serial Killer book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Signs of a Serial Killer Author: Crystal Clary Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 198 Genre: True Crime Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON My friend Sue and I had spent so much time together we felt like sisters. We had made so many plans for our future, as young girls do. We would graduate from school, get married, have a career, children and we would be lifelong friends sharing those moments together. Part of that dream had already come true. Sue was a year older than myself. I went to her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Blade of the Amazon Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Fluellen’s Blade of the Amazon book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Blade of the Amazon Author: Eric Fluellen Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 212 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON There has been war off and on between the nation’s of Nadal and the Amazons warriors for more time than any either side could hope remember, from the first ill suited word, to open conflict of small groups, and the destruction of villages. to finally war being declared. This devastation would go on for years and years would turn into centuries, and centuries would flow into millennia, During this time
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Secrets, Sex and Lies Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Claire Miles’ Secrets, Sex, and Lies book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: Secrets, Sex, and Lies Author: Claire Miles Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 360 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “Twelve years ago, a predator terrorized Detective Denise Davidson’s community. In the space of a few months, three young women vanished, and the case remains infuriatingly unsolved. Years of intensive police investigations have yielded no information, no hope—and no killer brought to justice. Although fear gripped the community just after the killings, time has healed some wounds. Many residents have moved on with their lives, and the names
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In Bed with the Competition Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win Prizes!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.K. Coi’s In Bed with the Competition virtual book tour June 30 – July 11! ABOUT IN BED WITH THE COMPETITION Title: In Bed with the Competition Genre: Contemporary Romance Author: J.K. Coi Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Pages: 181 Format: Ebook This rivalry is too hot for the tropics… Elizabeth Carlson and Ben Harrison used to be friends, coworkers…and almost lovers. But that was before Ben proposed mixing business with pleasure. Elizabeth refuses to lose her heart to a hotshot tycoon with a cutthroat, take-no-prisoners attitude. Not with the prospect of starting her own company at stake. Driven to succeed in all areas of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Fair Dinkum Economy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Gibson’s The Fair Dinkum Economy book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: The Fair Dinkum Economy Author: Robert Gibson Publisher: Trafford Pages: 170 Genre: Business/Economics Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “The Fair Dinkum Economy offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand economic guide for everyone. It explores the recent decline in the living standards of developed countries and negative effects of the swing in the balance of power to the Asian and Indian regions. Author Robert Gibson maintains that the way this economic change is happening will not benefit any country. What’s more, there is an alternate path we can take that could lead
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Kiss For You Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dianne Powell-Edding’s A Kiss for You! book blitz July 1 – 15!       Title: A Kiss for You Author: Dianne Powell-Eddings Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 92 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON This book of poems is targeted for ages 13 year olds to Adults. Most women find comfort in A Kiss for You!  Between each page Is encouraging thoughts of wisdom, unity, awesome power, bringing nations, communities, families and young people together to share in an awesome experience of A kiss for You  is sweeter than honey on a honeycomb. This book also includes my true love story about My
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Angelic Journey Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evangelist Patricia Kinard’s My Angelic Journey book blitz July 1 – 15!     Title: My Angelic Journey Author: Evangelist Patricia Kinard Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 148 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON For many years, evangelist Patricia Kinard lived a life of illusions. She soon realized that life wasn’t about her plans, but rather those of the Father, who defines a purpose for every situation. In My Angelic Journey, Kinard narrates her journey after she discovered the true purpose God had for her. In this memoir, she details her transformation from a child with a measure of faith into a teenager with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Widows 101 Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Barber’s Widows 101 book blitz July 1 – 15!   Title: Widows 101 Author: Susan Barber Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 108 Genre: Self-help Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Becoming a widow isn’t like becoming a wife. Becoming a wife requires major planning. But becoming a widow is often a surprise, and even with advance planning some people are still stunned. It’s difficult to prepare for widowhood. In Widows 101, author Susan Barber uses her personal experience with her husband’s death to provide practical tips for surviving the death of a spouse. Delivered with a gentle, lighthearted approach, Widows 101 touches upon core elements
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christine Glover’s The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion virtual book tour June 30 – July 11! ABOUT THE MAVERICK’S RED HOT REUNION   Title: The Maverick’s Red Hot Reunion Genre: Contemporary Romance Author: Christine Glover Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Pages: 161 Format: Ebook Corporate Maverick Zach Tanner returns to North Carolina to rebuild his dying friend’s resort. He’s got the money, the power, and the will to transform Sweetbriar Springs into a premier spa for the glamorous, but he doesn’t count on the woman he once loved…and lost…to handle the construction contract. Zach thought he’d buried his desire for Kennedy five years ago. He
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Engaging the Earl Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diana Quincy’s Engaging the Earl virtual book tour June 9 – June 20! ABOUT ENGAGING THE EARL     Title: Engaging the Earl Genre: Historical Romance Author: Diana Quincy Publisher: Entangled Scandalous Language: English Pages: 211 Format: Ebook Vivacious Lady Katherine Granville is the toast of the ton, but society’s most eligible miss secretly yearns for her childhood love, an untitled loner who vanished long ago after her father forbade their marriage. After years abroad, the dark and brooding Edward Stanhope returns to England a changed man. No longer a second son with no prospects, his battlefield strategies have won him an earldom. His
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Interview with Cheri DeGroot, author of Dear Friend

ABOUT DEAR FRIEND     Title: Dear Friend Genre: Non-fiction humanities Author: Cheri DeGroot Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 60 Language: English ISBN – 978-1-44016-146-9   Are you looking for a way to meet new people from all over the world, make new friends, and help others? The solution is simple and affordable—become a pen pal. In Dear Friend, author Cheri DeGroot shares the joys and rewards of becoming a pen pal and provides tips on sharing friendships through handwritten letters. Based on fifty-three years of personal experience as a pen pal, DeGroot details how her lifelong passion for pen palling began and how her friendships with people from all over the United
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Joichin Nile’s Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Race: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line Author: Lauren Joichin Nile Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 539 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Lauren Joichin Nile introduces what she believes is humanity’s racial bottom line with a compelling account of her personal experiences growing up in 1950’s and 60’s segregated New Orleans. In so doing, she posits what she believes is humanity’s universal racial story. Lauren explains how starting out from Southern Africa, fully formed human beings, over thousands of years, walked out of Africa, populated
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Just an Accident Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amy Montgomery’s Just an Accident book blitz June 2-13!       Title: Just an Accident Author: Amy Montgomery Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 229 Genre: Biography/Memoir Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON There was no blood at the scene, not even a cut on his body. Yet on May 25, 1999, when the top of a massive beech tree snapped off and slammed into 33-year-old, Adirondack logger Scott Remington, his bones exploded. The terrain was unforgiving and the area too remote for cell phones. So the fact that medics reached him is a miracle. So is the aftermath of a freak accident that felt like
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