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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ocean Whirled Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sam Webb’s Ocean Whirled book blast June 2-13!   Title: Ocean Whirled Author: Sam Webb Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 282 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON “An alien underwater race has invaded the ocean and is gradually wiping out every creature in it. The N’harmae (the carers of the ocean) are the main target of this alien race and are nearly extinct. Penure a young N’harmae who has been brought up by the dolphins must save his ocean world from doom and he can’t take on this task alone!””       Sam Webb has always been fascinated by the ocean and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Making the Invisible Visible Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Making the Invisible Visible book blast June 2-13!     Title: Making the Invisible Visible Author: A. Taylor, M.J. Hardman, C. Wright Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 172 Genre: Words/Language/Grammar Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All that is human is mediated through language. And because we learned the process of being human in a culture as we learned the language of that culture, much that we learned remains invisible to us. But even though invisible, it guides what and how we learn and remember, our perceptions, our behaviors, including communicative behaviors. Throughout our lives, that early language/culture learning affects us, all too often without our
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elle Eriksson’s Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips book blast June 2-13!   Title: Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips Author: Elle Eriksson, RHN Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 122 Genre: Health and Wellness Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON We all know that being slim does not always mean being healthy. In Top Ten Best-Ever Healthy Weight-Loss Tips, Elle Eriksson offers you sensible, effective ways to shed those unwanted pounds while improving overall health and wellbeing. Blending personal wisdom with professional training and experience, Elle shares her insight and provides strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Also included in these top ten tips
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JR Holbrook’s Wonder-N-Wandering in the Zoo book blast June 2-13!     Title: Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo Author: JR Holbrook Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 29 Genre: Kids Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON My name is JR Holbrook, and I am a 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARDS finalist and a 2013 San Francisco Book Awards honorable mention, as well as, other credits. I am also a graduate of Sullivan University, graduating in 2008. My book Wonder-N-Wandering in a Zoo is my third book, and it tells of the many adventures a group of teenagers get in wandering further from home in what is to be
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Creative Mindpower Techniques Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Frank Lea’s Creative Mindpower Techniques book blitz June 2-13!     Title: Creative Mindpower Techniques Author: Dr. Frank Lea Publisher: Trafford Pages: 232 Genre: Health Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON This book offers simple yet extremely powerful and effective ways to help people overcome the many conditions and issues that conventional medicine can only suppress with drugs.     Dr. Frank W. Lea, DD, originator of the powerful and effective CREATIVE MINDPOWER TECHNIQUES which uniquely includes using the incredible power of the mind to heal the body, has 20 years` experience as a Professional trainer in Advanced Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Amanda, Perfectly Made Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laurel Rausch Greshel’s Amanda, Perfectly Made book blast June 2-13!     Title: Amanda, Perfectly Made Author: Laurel Rausch Greshel Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 211 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON On August 1, 1983, Laurel Greshel’s world changed forever after a phone call from her doctor. After receiving word that her unborn baby had serious health issues, Laurel was overwhelmed. As she and her husband, Ted, struggled to accept the diagnosis that their daughter, Amanda, would be born with spina bifida, they had to slowly learn to say goodbye to “normal” and embrace each of their tiny newborn’s accomplishments. Without any instruction book
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Peace and Love Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leland Bedford’s Peace and Love book blast June 2-13!     Title: Peace and Love Author: Leland Bedford Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 114 Genre: Religion/Inspirational Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Peace & Love is a celebration of truth like none before, and like none that will be after, truly one of a kind! The selections within are a reflection of thought that is like a seed to the brain of every man, woman, and child, to be watered by life, and grow into an existence where love is the end result of new found peace. The lie has no home with in the pages of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dear Mom and Dad, You Don’t Know Me But…Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Georgia Lee McGowen’s Dear Mom and Dad book blitz June 2-13!     Title: Dear Mom and Dad Author: Georgia Lee McGowen Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 290 Genre: Biography Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Much has been written both about and by people who feel they were assigned the wrong body at conception, exploring the struggles and too often the tragedies that result from that mismatch of nature. Very little has been written, however, to chronicle the lifelong struggle of people to understand and come to terms with two distinct sets of emotions, one male and one female – a single soul, at times
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unnerving Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen J. Gallahue’s Unnerving book blast June 2-13!     Title: Unnerving Author: Karen J. Gallahue Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 231 Genre: Suspense/Thriller Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON “You’re telling me that Ralph Kendrick, the bogeyman of my worst nightmares has escaped from jail?” Eyes wide and unbelieving, Fiona Morgan asked the detective standing at her front door. She reached for the door frame to steady her wobbly legs. When she was ten years old, Fiona Morgan and two Girl Scout friends stumbled across Ralph Kendrick murdering a young woman at a Minneapolis park. At his trial when he was convicted of Rose Wilson’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Soul of the City Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John McMillan’s The Soul of the City book blast June 2-13!   Title: The Soul of the City Author: John McMillan Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 310 Genre: Literary Fiction Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON The Soul of the City is a tale of two cities, Belfast and London, in the heady, liberating days of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young Jim Mitchell moves through a succession of jobs, girlfriends and apartments in the quest for personal fulfillment and his dream of becoming a writer in the face of often dispiriting circumstances. There is the trauma of his affair with Maureen, an older, married
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mothers With Broken Hearts Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Monica Shipley’s Mothers with Broken Hearts book blast June 2-13! Title: Mothers with Broken Hearts Author: Monica Shipley Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 108 Genre: Self Help Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Death is a part of life, but for a mother who has suffered the death of a child, life can suddenly become unbearable. She finds herself completely shattered—knocked to her knees and unable to get up. Her pain is horrible, beyond anything she has ever felt or experienced before. In Mothers with Broken Hearts, author Monica Shipley tells the heartrending story of the suicide of her son, Jeffrey, and the unexpected miracle that
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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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