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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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Pump Up Your Book Presents Gods of War Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Storm Kesocascay’s Gods of War Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT GODS OF WAR Title: Gods of War Genre: YA/Action Adventure Author: Storm Kesocascay Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 112 Language: English Format: Ebook A long time ago, an ancient god sought to pool the powers of his brethren in order to create beauty out of chaos. He created the Divine Covenants, or Accords, which bound the gods’ powers together. They could have lived forever, peaceably and surrounded by paradise. However, one ancient god soon used the pooled powers for evil and was banished by his own son to eternal confinement. Years later, in
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Between the Sheets Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Genie Davis & Linda Marr’s Between the Sheets virtual book tour February 24- March 7! ABOUT BETWEEN THE SHEETS   Title: Between the Sheets Genre: Romantic Suspense Author: Genie Davis & Linda Marr Publisher: Entangled Ignite Pages: 130 Language: English Format: Ebook Erotic romance writer Jenna Brooks lives an ordinary life in a quiet Oregon town, putting her sensual heart into her fiction rather than her everyday life. Deeply involved in her latest story about glamorous lovers on the run, she laughs off a carnival gypsy’s prediction that she’ll find everything she desires “between the sheets”—apparently those her DeskJet is printing. Because suddenly,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cataclysm Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nick Gass’ Cataclysm Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT CATACLYSM Title: Cataclysm Genre: History Author: Nick Gass Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 172 Language: English Format: Ebook In Cataclysm, author Nick Gass takes geology out of the oil patch to authenticate the first twenty-five verses of the Bible. He presents a multidisciplinary exploration, implementing scientific reasoning, to explain some of the ancient history of The Middle East. Gass discusses how the rise of science has provided a platform for interpreting ancient legends. In Cataclysm, he casts a different light on a number of historical events and considers a variety of topics: Moses and the first
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Battle With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Beckie Butcher’s My Battle With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT MY BATTLE WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME     Title: My Battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Genre: Health/Wellness Author: Beckie Butcher Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 52 Language: English Format: Ebook “As a former CFS sufferer and current healthcare practitioner, I feel Ms. Butcher provides an informative and interesting perspective on this disease and her road to recovery.” Kyrie Kleinfelter,D.C., Upper Cervical Chiropractor. “As a fellow sufferer of CFS, I was truly able to relate to Ms. Butchers’ experiences, thoughts and feelings. Her reference to the Word of God comforted my
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Hope Springs Eternal in the Priestly Breast Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James Valladares’  Hope Springs Eternal in the Priestly Breast Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE PRIESTLY BREAST   Title: Hope Springs Eternal in the Priestly Breast Genre: Family/Law/Religion Author: James Valladares, PhD Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 328 Language: English Format: Ebook The clergy abuse scandal has posed the greatest threat to the traditional understanding of the Catholic priesthood since the Protestant Reformation. Now, as then, the deadliest attacks are coming from within the Church. In an attempt to improve a system that allowed a small minority of the clergy to violate children and ameliorate the gross negligence of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Johnny Gora Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Goodale’s Johnny Gora  Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT JOHNNY GORA     Title: Johnny Gora Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: John Goodale Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 194 Language: English Format: Ebook Have you ever had your life fall apart, or felt you were on the verge of oblivion and wonder if there were any glimmers of hope ahead? If you’re human, it’s likely that has happened to you at least once. During those times, it may seem like nothing good will ever come your way again. John Goodale felt that way. In his memoir, Johnny Gora, Goodale tells how he watched his entire life
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Retail Marketing Management Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Claudia Buhamra Abreu Romero’s Retail Marketing Management  Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT RETAIL MARKETING MANAGEMENT     Title: Retail Marketing Management Genre: Business Author: Claudia Buhamra Abreu Romero Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 124 Language: English Format: Ebook Born from studies and the experiences of its author, Retail Marketing Management provides guidelines, concepts, and practices of marketing, with a special focus on retail management. The guidelines aim to encourage and facilitate the development of marketing strategies that enable organizations to achieve greater competitive power and build brands that are respected and valued in the market, while the concepts are intended to give the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tom Kempinski’s I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT I WANT YOUR BODY, CANDY STARR   Title: I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Genre: Humor Author: Tom Kempinski Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 170 Language: English Format: Ebook Joe Andretti is a hospital porter living in New York, an eager member of the fan club of movie superstar, Candy Starr. One fine day, the way these things go in life, he suddenly snaps during a particularly boring session of the fan club and decides that instead of messing around looking at Candy’s movies and assessing her artistic qualities, he is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fear of the Night Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Scygiel’s  Fear of the Night Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT FEAR OF THE NIGHT   Title: Fear of the Night Genre: Horror/Paranormal Author: Mike Scygiel Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 294 Language: English Format: Ebook Eight days before Halloween, two strangers drive into the tiny town of Dunes, Michigan, in the middle of the night. After marking various locations on a map of the town, the two men take up residence on Willows Drive in the abandoned Kalaski Mansion. At the nearby assisted living home, eighteen-year-old Greg Snow, who lives across from the Kalaski Mansion, helps decorate for Halloween. When he
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Brazen’s Military Men Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win Prizes!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the Entangled Brazen’s Military Men Bundle virtual book publicity tour February 10 – February 21! ABOUT STAKING HIS CLAIM Title: Staking His Claim Genre: Romance Author: Tessa Bailey Publisher: Entangled Brazen Pages: 176 Language: English Format: Ebook He wants her. All of her. NYPD sniper Matt Donovan is in Hell. Instead of driving his best friend’s little sister home from college, he’s stuck with her roommate—a fresh-faced ray-of-sunshine with a body that makes grown men weep. There’s no way he’ll allow himself to taint the little vixen, no matter how hard she tries to tempt him, so he resigns himself to the longest—and hardest—drive
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents When Honey Got Married and Tycoon Reunion Book Bundle Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the Entangled Indulgence Bundle virtual book publicity tour February 10 – February 21! ABOUT TYCOON REUNION Title: Tycoon Reunion Genre: Romance Author: Candace Havens and Shannon Leigh Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Format: Ebook Sparks fly when a project brings a heartbreaker back to town and into the path of the woman he left behind. He’s determined to win her over in the boardroom … and the bedroom! AMAZON ABOUT PIPPA BARED ALL Title: Pippa Bared All Genre: Romance Author: Ally Blake Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Language: English Format: Ebook A When Honey Got Married… Novella The groom proposed to her eight years earlier, but it was
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Bencher Family Bundle Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Inara Scott’s Bencher Family Bundle virtual book publicity tour February 10 – February 21! ABOUT RULES OF NEGOTIATION   Title: Rules of Negotiation Genre: Romance Author: Inara Scott Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Pages: 181 Language: English Format: Ebook In a no-strings attached fling, NYC’s most eligible bachelor, Brit Bencher, vows to make a high-powered corporate attorney, Tori Anderson, feel like a woman. But what will she do when he decides he won’t take “one night stand” for an answer? AMAZON ABOUT THE BOSS’S FAKE FIANCE Title: The Boss’s Fake Fiance Genre: Romance Author: Inara Scott Publisher: Entangled Indulgence Pages: 168 Language: English Format: Ebook No relationships,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Surviving Curtis Hall Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L.A. Matthies’ Surviving Curtis Hall book blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT SURVIVING CURTIS HALL     Title: Surviving Curtis Hall Genre: Juvenile Fiction Author: L.A. Matthies Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 256 Language: English Format: Ebook Attempting to avoid the violence and drugs at Hibernia High, sixteen-year-old Tristen McCoy and his friends have transferred on a sports scholarship to the elite Curtis Hall boarding school. Hometown lacrosse heroes, the boys are tested as they attempt to assimilate into a student body where excelling is the norm. Tristen hones his leadership skills and sense of humor while finding his way in this new environment. He
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, International Style Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Love, International Style virtual book tour January 27 -February 7! ABOUT LOVE, INTERNATIONAL STYLE     Title: Love, International Style Genre: Romantic Suspense Author: Caridad Piniero, Nikki Logan, Cathy Perkins Publisher: Entangled Ignite Pages: 500 Language: English Format: Ebook Love, International Style boxed 4-in-1 set These four tales of international love and intrigue will set your heart on fire this Valentine’s Day! The Prince’s Gamble by Caridad Piñeiro Prince Alexander Ivanov is scrambling to save his reputation and his livelihood. One of the Russian Nights Casino’s hostesses has disappeared, and his business is suddenly under investigation by the FBI for associations with the mob
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Brine Books, publisher of ‘My Whispers of Horror’

  We are thrilled to be able to talk with Brine Books about their latest release, ‘My Whispers of Horror’. We are an activist publishing company established as a partnership by a husband and wife in Ontario, Canada. The mission of this business is bring awareness for serious human rights issues around the world, while raising funds to expand our capabilities and to help fund non-profits and charities whose purpose is to better the world. Our main purpose as a company is to find ways to better the world. We feel that if we fail in this mission then we fail as a business, so we will not give
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Angeli Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jody Wallace’s Angeli virtual book tour January 27 -February 7! ABOUT ANGELI   Title: Angeli Genre: Romantic Suspense Author: Jody Wallace Publisher: Entangled Ignite Pages: 170 Language: English Format: Ebook Gregori’s last mission is to save Earth from the demons threatening to take control. He doesn’t care if he survives as long as he averts the impending apocalypse—until he meets Adelita, a human refugee, whose spirit and determination give him a renewed reason to fight. And live. He’s falling for her, despite the fact he’s told her nothing but lies and there can’t possibly be a future for them. Adelita can hardly believe
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Molly Gets Her Man Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julie Rowe’s Molly Gets Her Man virtual book tour January 27 -February 7! ABOUT MOLLY GETS HER MAN   Title: Molly Gets Her Man Genre: Romantic Suspense Author: Julie Rowe Publisher: Entangled Ignite Pages: 163 Language: English Format: Ebook When flaky Las Vegas hairdresser Molly McLaren overhears hears a Russian hit man planning to kill a US congressman and take out Hoover Dam in the process, she becomes a target for murder. Now, on the run from the assassin and a dirty cop, she winds up in an eighteen wheeler with an ex-cop sporting a bum leg, a bad attitude, and a body
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Why I Am an Independent Conservative Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Jourden’s  Why I Am an Independent Conservative Book Blast February 3 -14. Jimmy will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. ABOUT WHY I AM AN INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE Title: Why I Am an Independent Conservative Genre: Political Author: Karen Jourden Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 276 Language: English Format: Ebook Liberty is never free—it comes at a cost. Throughout the history of the United States, our freedom has been safeguarded through immense sacrifice. But without
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Pump Up Your Book Presents What’s Up Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jimmy Gyasi Boateng’s  What’s Up Book Blast February 3 -14. Jimmy will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. ABOUT WHAT’S UP     Title: What’s Up Genre: Non-fiction Author: Jimmy Gyasi Boateng Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 78 Language: English Format: Ebook Learning the lingo used in the United States can be hard enough for a native speaker, but it’s even more daunting for immigrants. Jimmy Gyasi Boateng, a native of Ghana, has been living
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