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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rising Leviathan Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Austin Dragon’s Rising Leviathan virtual book publicity tour May 11 – June 4!   ABOUT RISING LEVIATHAN   Title: Rising Leviathan Genre: Science Fiction Author: Austin Dragon Rising Leviathan is the latest sci-fi thriller in the After Eden series—a dramatic mix of politics, religion, and intrigue. The saga continues in the Russian Bloc (Yes, Russia “owns” Eastern Europe too) in the year 2096 with the inexplicable death of the Russian president. Or was it murder? As one leader falls, a deadly power rises. Will there be war or more than one? The march to the explosion of World War III continues— the first global
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Xetonian Trades IV Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Wayne Stillwell’s Xetonian Trades IV book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT XETONIAN TRADES IV   Title: Xetonian Trades IV Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: J. Wayne Stillwell Publisher: AuthorHouse EBook: 250 pages Release Date: January 21, 2014 The Augerite invasion and the Reaper war convinced the United Galactic Treaty Organization (UGATO) leadership that the galaxy must be teeming with intelligent life that their descendants would eventually meet. Some would be hostile so they decided to use time travel for preemptive defense purposes. By knowing the future they might be able to take action in the present to enhance their security. UGATO had originally justified
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Baby to Senior Spiritual Life Years Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Reverend Carol Hale’s Baby to Senior Spiritual Life Years book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT BABY TO SENIOR SPIRITUAL LIFE YEARS   Title: Baby to Senior Spiritual Life Years Genre: Religion/Spirituality Author: Rev. Carol A Hale Publisher: AuthorHouse EBook: 112 pages Release Date: April 29, 2011 The spirit guides our life. It opens our life as a child and always stays with us. After each prayer our spirit will speak to your mind about God’s decision and we will hear about he best task for life. The spirit and prayers always gives us comfort relaxations to the mind. When the body has been or
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Pump Up Your Book Presents grydscaen Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Natsuya Uesugi’s grydscaen book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT GRYDSCAEN   Title: grydscaen Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: Natsuya Uesugi Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 288 pages Release Date: July 21, 2011 Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the fi rst volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and is sent
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The England Operation Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peter Swarbrick’s The England Operation book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT THE ENGLAND OPERATION   Title: The England Operation Genre: Historical Fiction/Fantasy Author: Peter Swarbrick Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 360 pages Release Date: May 16, 2012 In the year 1141, civil war rages in England. Robber barons pillage and loot, while rampaging armies terrorise the countryside. But never fear: the peacekeepers are coming. The Organisation of Nations of the World (known in Latin as ONO) launches the England Operation to sort everything out. In this world-turned-upside-down satirical take on the peacekeeping industry, rich and powerful African businesswomen and politicians collude with Norman overlords to steal
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Pump Up Your Book Presents High Up in the Rolling Hills Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peter Finch’s High Up in the Rolling Hills book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT HIGH UP IN THE ROLLING HILLS   Title: High Up in the Rolling Hills Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: Peter Finch Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 204 pages Release Date: April 24, 2013 In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they set down roots in the hills
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A River of Tears, the River of Hope Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Orit Rehany’s A River of Tears, the River of Hope book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT A RIVER OF TEARS, THE RIVER OF HOPE   Title: A River of Tears, the River of Hope Genre: School & Teaching/Inspirational Author: Orit Rehany Publisher: AuthorHouse EBook: 151 pages Release Date: December 17, 2013 A River of Tears The River of Hope centers on the saga of the Two Torah Scrolls, and of an fluent and thriving community living peacefully for 2600 years until World War II and the events of Nazism, anti-Semitism and hatred took place in the ancient region known as the Cradle of Civilization,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Breath of Spring Virtual Book Publicity Tour

liPump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charlotte Hubbard’s Breath of Spring virtual book tour May 5 – June 27!   Title: Breath of Spring Author: Charlotte Hubbard Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Amish Romance/Inspirational As a bright season brings a fresh start to Willow Ridge, Annie Mae Knepp feels she can never make peace with the past. Her disgraced ex-bishop father is furious that she’s has taken her five siblings to live with her. She’s never been truly at home in her faith…or believing in herself. And Annie Mae fears no man will want to take on the responsibilities she’s gladly shouldered. True, her quiet neighbor Adam Wagler has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Next O&W Train From Tennessee Book Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JR Holbrook’s Next O&W Train from Tennessee book blitz May 5 – May 16! ABOUT NEXT O&W TRAIN FROM TENNESSEE Title: Next O&W Train from Tennessee Genre: Historical Fiction Author: JR Holbrook Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 123 pages Release Date: March 30, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-46918-802-7 James Holbrook is the great-great-grandson of Nancy Moody. Nancy Moody was the daughter of Charlot Moody and Johnathon Moody-Johnathon Moody was killed in the Civil War-Nancy Moody being the mother of Armeldia Moody and the grandmother of Raymond Wright, Selby Wright, Clara, Cora, and Edith. This is the second short story of James Holbrook, who also published Making Sense in 2011. James graduated
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Islam in the Heartland of America Book Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Imam Omar Hazim’s Islam in the Heartland of America book blitz May 5- May 16! ABOUT ISLAM IN THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA Title: Islam in the Heartland of America Genre: Religion/Spirituality Author: Imam Omar Hazim Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 279 pages Release Date: January 28, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-45685-798-1 “The purpose of this book is to inform and educate the general public of how Islam is taught in a mosque in the heartland of America. It includes the Friday khutbah (sermons) by Imam Omar Hazim and several other Imams (Spiritual Leaders). The hope is to help to clarify some of the misconceptions and distortions about the religion of Islam.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Twisted Venom Book Blitz!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you V.W. Raynes’ Twisted Venom book blitz May 5 – May 16! ABOUT TWISTED VENOM Title: Twisted Venom Genre: Suspense/Thriller Author: V.W. Raynes Publisher: AuthorHouse EBook: 300 pages Release Date: December 2, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-49183-399-5 When young internist Claudia Ranelli attends a medical conference in San Francisco, she has a sexual encounter so bizarre and frightful it nearly kills her. But that isn’t the end of her terror. Claudia and her cousin Dru Salinas must discover the identity of the person terrorizing them both, a quest that leads from pit vipers to modern genetics. Claudia tells a gripping story with sensitivity, a humanly scientific perspective, eroticism and a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beyond the Dream Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Snow’s Beyond the Dream book blitz April 1 – April 15! ABOUT BEYOND THE DREAM Title: Beyond the Dream Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: Irene Snow Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 398 pages Release Date: June 28, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-47598-255-8 Until the age of four, Irene Snow lived happily with her mother and gentle, doting grandparents. The return of her father, a rough and tough soldier, at the close of World War II set the stage for rebellion and dissention in her young life. He was a strict disciplinarian, and she resented his authority from the outset. What’s more his arrival introduced her to the baser emotions of jealousy and hatred,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents So What Do You Think Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Clair Swinburn’s So What Do You Think book blitz April 1 – April 15! ABOUT SO WHAT DO YOU THINK Title: So What Do You Think? Genre: Self Help/Personal Growth Author: Clair Swinburn Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 112 pages Release Date: July 28, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-46202-936-5 This psychology guide for teens presents an overview of how the mind works to give you a clearer understanding of how to look after your mental health. We all need to take care of our mental health. But just how do you accomplish this? In So What Do You Think? author Clair Swinburne helps teenagers understand the natural workings of the mind and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Summer in the Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John McMillan’s Summer in the Heart book blitz April 1 – April 15! ABOUT SUMMER IN THE HEART Title: Summer in the Heart Genre: Fiction Author: John McMillan Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 256 pages Release Date: May 9, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-46200-974-9 “That summer in the heart which is known only in youth.” Summer in the Heart is a lyrical evocation of the innocence, fun and liberation of growing up in the 1960s. Moving into and through his teens, Jim Mitchell must put his County Antrim village childhood behind him and adapt to the wider world of grammar school and the life of Belfast city. In the process
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Seeing the Joy in Affliction Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Shelley’s Seeing the Joy in Affliction book blitz April 1 – April 15! ABOUT SEEING THE JOY IN AFFLICTION Title: Seeing the Joy in Affliction Genre: Religious Author: Michael Shelley Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 128 pages Release Date: October 8, 2004 ISBN: 978-0-59577-656-6 Based on the author’s personal experience with physical and emotional affliction, including terminal brain cancer, Seeing the Joy in Affliction deals with the tough questions: Why do Christians suffer? Is it a lack of faith? Is suffering part of God’s plan for us? How do we respond in obedience to various kinds of suffering? What is the secret in unleashing God’s power in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Killing Notion Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Melissa Bourbon’s A Killing Notion virtual book tour April 1 – April 30! ABOUT A KILLING NOTION Title: A Killing Notion Genre: Cozy Mystery Author: Melissa Bourbon Publisher: Penguin Group Language: English Pages: 320 Format: Ebook Amazon –Barnes and Noble – Goodreads  Harlow Jane Cassidy is swamped with homecoming couture requests. If only she didn’t have to help solve a murder, she might get the gowns off the dress forms….   Harlow is doing everything she can to expand her dressmaking business, Buttons & Bows—without letting clients know about her secret charm. When she has a chance to create homecoming dresses with a local charity
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Pump Up Your Book Presents China Red Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ralph Sanborn’s China Red book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT CHINA RED Title: China Red Genre: Suspense/Thriller Author: Ralph Sanborn Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 292 pages Release Date: April 8, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-47598-293-0 Heroin, called “China Red” on the street, is being smuggled into the United States. Zhou Jing—who fancies himself a fifteenth-century Chinese warlord, is using Muslim Uighers in western China to produce the heroin. In exchange, Zhou arms, trains, and provides security from the Chinese government for the Uighers. Caleb Frost is a professional assassin in a deep cover, black operations team that specializes in wet work. His team includes two ex-Navy SEALs and a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sex and Alcohol in Retirement Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alan Rose’s Sex & Alcohol in Retirement book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT SEX & ALCOHOL IN RETIREMENT Title: Sex & Alcohol in Retirement Genre: Biography Author: Alan Rose Publisher: Trafford EBook: 140 pages Release Date: March 31, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-42690-051-8 The author set up the London Gender Clinic, the first clinic in Europe to offer parents the ability to choose the sex of a planned baby. Hegives an account of the furore that began when it opened. Part two describes his long experience in the law courts as an expeert witness in Drink-drivingt cases, and includes most of the reasons gven for fighting the charges
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Second Amendment Controversy Explained Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Theodore Johnson’s The Second Amendment Controversy Explained book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT CONTROVERSY EXPLAINED Title: The Second Amendment Controversy Explained Genre: Political Science Author: Theodore Johnson Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 600 pages Release Date: October 7, 2002 ISBN: 978-0-59524-188-0 Many strongly and dogmatically believe the Second Amendment to be an individual right. Many others just as strongly and dogmatically believe the Second Amendment to be a collective right. Therefore the book title seems to state a promise too good to be true or impossible to fulfill. However the book thoroughly, fairly, and clearly presents the relevant facts such that the promise is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Giantonios: Family Matters Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerard R. D’Alessio’s The Giantonios: Family Matters book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT THE GIANTONIOS Title: The Giantonios: Family Matters Genre: General Fiction Author: Gerard R. D’Alessio Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 358 pages Release Date: December 26, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-49171-588-8 Gennero Giantonio is a powerful man who is accustomed to being in control of every situation. But life is not treating him with the respect he is accustomed to, and it’s throwing him into a spin at the pinnacle of his very successful career. Upset and questioning whether the unexpected death of his grandson, Richie, was from an accidental overdose, as the police have determined, he needs
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Saving Superman Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathleen Sales’ Saving Superman book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT SAVING SUPERMAN   Title: Saving Superman Genre: Juvenile Fiction/Social Issues Author: Kathleen Sales Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 178 pages Release Date: November 21, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-49171-335-8 “Saving Superman…provides a fine psychological novel…a versatile, changing story that closely examines a child’s powers of survival and adaptation.” D. Donovan, eBook Reviewer, MBR It is 1956 when ten-year-old Pete Martin runs away from home—straight into a violent storm. As lightning and thunder crack all around him, Pete seeks shelter in a dilapidated shed. But as he approaches the dark building, he suddenly realizes he is not alone. Jake, a homeless
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You’re Not the Boss of Me Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alma Lightbody’s You’re Not the Boss of Me book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME   Title: You’re Not the Boss of Me Genre: Self Help/Personal Growth Author: Alma Lightbody Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 116 pages Release Date: November 8, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47595-037-3 As we age and grow from the time we are born we become pulled into the net of “should,” “don’t” and “can’t.” We lose the true nature of ourselves as the picture of our personality is painted by others. At some point, we must take back our lives and awaken the possibilities that have been long buried. In You’re
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parker Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephanie Macniel’s Parker book blitz March 24- April 4! 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 suicide
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rest Her Soul Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Gibbs’ Rest Her Soul book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT REST HER SOUL   Title: Rest Her Soul Genre: Mystery/Detective Author: Christopher Gibbs Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 258 pages Release Date: October 10, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47595-054-0 It’s 1928, and the presidential election between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith is on everybody’s mind—everyone but Police Chief James Buckner of Corinth, Missouri. A young woman’s corpse has been discovered buried in the cellar wall of a boarding house in the nearby mining village of Taylor. Knowing he’s one of the best detectives they have, Corinth’s officials allow Chief Buckner to investigate. Buckner learns the woman was strangled and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Racial Group’s Purpose on Earth Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Franklin Gibbs’ My Racial Group’s Purpose On Earth Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT MY RACIAL GROUP’S PURPOSE ON EARTH   Title: My Racial Group’s Purpose on Earth Genre: Spirituality/Religion Author: Franklin Gibbs Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 236 Language: English Format: Ebook We spend a lot of time in determining our individual purposes (i.e., our callings) for being here on earth. Some of us were called (created) to be singers, dancers, preachers, teachers, helpers, exhorters, prophets and so on. This is fine. But, this book goes beyond our individual purpose (calling) and delves deeply into our racial group’s purpose (calling). That is,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Pieces of the Past Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Bree Matthews’ Pieces of the Past Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT PIECES OF THE PAST Title: Pieces of the Past Genre: Family & Relationships Author: Bree Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 268 Language: English Format: Ebook Your first love. Everyone remembers that special person and time in their lives. Sometimes first love lasts a lifetime, but more often than not, it is just your introduction to what could be waiting with the next open door. Anne and Joshua were swept up in the wonderment of first love as teenagers, never believing they would part; and, yet, they did. Broken hearts, wounded pride,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Seven Secrets of Successful Parents Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randy Colton Rolfe’s Seven Secrets to Successful Parents Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT THE SEVEN SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL PARENTS   Title: The Seven Secrets of Successful Parents Genre: Parenting/Family & Relationshiops Author: Randy Colton Rolfe Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 340 Language: English Format: Ebook “Throughout her seven secrets, Rolfe models how parenting can be the most fulfilling work of our lives.” —Linda Aronson, author of Big Spirits, Little Bodies Every parent has the innate power to be successful. But life can get in the way. It is hard to be at your best when you are tired, angry, rushed, surprised, preoccupied, or just
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dr. Cappeletti’s Chorus Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerard R. D’Alessio’s Dr. Cappeletti’s Chorus Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT DR. CAPPELETTI’S CHORUS   Title: Dr. Cappeletti’s Chorus Genre: Legal Fiction Author: Gerard R. D’Alessio Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 110 Language: English Format: Ebook Anthony Cappeletti works hard and does everything right. He’s an alter boy, a star on his college baseball team; he graduates near the top of his college and medical school classes, and he overcomes major fi nancial obstacles to achieve his boyhood dream of becoming a successful physician in his hometown in central Pennsylvania. He marries his college sweetheart, has three wonderful children and earns the respect
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sensual Sexual Romance Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deni Rome’s Sensual Sexual Romance Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT SENSUAL SEXUAL ROMANCE   Title: Sensual Sexual Romance Genre: Poetry Author: Deni Rome Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 202 Language: English Format: Ebook The title says it all… erotic poems blended with erotic short stories. Each story will speak to your most sensual, sexual, and romantic erogenous parts of your body and your mind. The descriptive words will entice and stimulate. You will seek out your lover, even if your lover is in that good box. AuthorHouse ABOUT DENI ROME Deni Rome considers her a thespian, where the descriptive words between these pages will
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Pump Up Your Book Presents There Be Goblins in the Wood Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Gray’s There Be Goblins in the Wood  Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT THERE BE GOBLINS IN THE WOOD   Title: There Be Goblins in the Wood Genre: Young Adult Author: Christopher Gray Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 112 Language: English Format: Ebook Combe Dingle Wood can be found (if you look really hard) in the heart of the Somerset countryside. It exists in that twilight time between myth and reality. It belongs to the era when walkabout scarecrows and Aunt Sallies wandered the hills and vales of the English West country. The local folk can tell you stories of their experiences when
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