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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, Lattes and Angel, The Siren’s Dance and Sweet Last Drop Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you LOVE, LATTES AND ANGEL, THE SIREN’S DANCE, and SWEET LAST DROP and  virtual book tour April 25 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: Love, Lattes and Angel Author: Sandra Cox Release Date: April 12, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Young Adult Format: Ebook   Some teens go to the Caribbean on spring break. Piper goes to save the world.  Piper Dunn isn’t who you would call a normal teenager. For one thing, she doesn’t want anyone to know she was born with a blowhole. Even stranger, she has two love interests. Joel, a fellow dolphin-human hybrid, and Tyler, a human. It’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Kaitlin’s Tale Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christine Amsden’s KAITLIN’S TALE virtual book tour May 16 – August 5!   Inside the Book: Title: Kaitlin’s Tale Author: Christine Amsden Release Date: May 16, 2016 Publisher: Twilight Times Books Genre: Urban Fantasy/Pararnormal Romance     Kaitlin Mayer is on the run from the father of her baby – a vampire who wants her to join him in deadly eternity. Terrified for her young son, she seeks sanctuary with the Hunters Guild. Yet they have their own plans for her son, and her hopes of safety are soon shattered. When she runs into Matthew Blair, an old nemesis with an agenda
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grim Tidings Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Caitlin Kittredge’s GRIM TIDINGS virtual book tour April 18 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: Grim Tidings Author: Caitlin Kittredge Release Date: April 19, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Paranormal Format: Ebook/Paperback     In this thrilling sequel to Black Dog—the first volume of award-winning Caitlin Kittredge’s dark urban fantasy series, Hellhound Chronicles—a soul catcher must stop demonic monsters from her past from infecting the world. After winning her freedom from a reaper and facing off against a fearsome demon boss, Ava is now a masterless hellhound. Her friend, Leo, has found a new life after death: He’s returned as the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To Tempt An Heiress Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susanna Craig’s TO TEMPT AN HEIRESS Cover Reveal April 14! Inside the Book: Title: To Tempt An Heiress Author: Susanna Craig Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ecopy   Susanna Craig’s dazzling series set in Georgian England sails to the Caribbean—where a willful young woman and a worldly man do their best to run every which way but towards each other… After her beloved father dies, Tempest Holderin wants nothing more than to fulfill his wish to free the slaves on their Antiguan sugar plantation. But the now wealthy woman finds herself pursued by a pack of unsavory suitors with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Eye For an Eye Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L.D. Beyer’s AN EYE FOR AN EYE virtual book tour April 18 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: An Eye for an Eye Author: L.D. Beyer Release Date: January 15, 2016 Publisher: Old Stone Mill Publishing Genre: Military Format: Ebook/Paperback     A powerful drug lord threatens to bring America to its knees. Only one man can stop him. Two years ago, Secret Service Agent Matthew Richter faced the most difficult decision of his life, knowing that by saving the former, the latter would die. In the aftermath, he fled Washington and the agency that failed him. With wounds he’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Golden Age of Charli Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

  Inside the Book: Title: The Golden Age of Charli Author: Jena C. Henry Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Charlotte McAntic spent her thirties, forties, and even fifties in peace and harmony aligning her marriage, mortgage, careers, and children. As she stumbles into a new phase of life—also known as the Golden Years—Charli cannot help but wonder where the gold and her husband, Pud, are hiding. Pud is happily cruising down the retirement path that, for him, leads straight to the golf course. While Charli spends her days at home cleaning out closets and the basement, she yearns to gaze deeply into Pud’s blue eyes and remember all the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Golden Age of Charli Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

  Inside the Book: Title: The Golden Age of Charli Author: Jena C. Henry Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Charlotte McAntic spent her thirties, forties, and even fifties in peace and harmony aligning her marriage, mortgage, careers, and children. As she stumbles into a new phase of life—also known as the Golden Years—Charli cannot help but wonder where the gold and her husband, Pud, are hiding. Pud is happily cruising down the retirement path that, for him, leads straight to the golf course. While Charli spends her days at home cleaning out closets and the basement, she yearns to gaze deeply into Pud’s blue eyes and remember all the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Score and More Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

  Inside the Book: Title: Four Score and More Author: LaVera Edick Publisher: Trafford Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Statement from Author I was born in 1925. This is my story of growing up on a farm and following the oft-times bumpy road of life. It is the story of my family and ancestors, those pioneers who cut the trails and paved the roads for our journey through life. Several major events helped shape the lives and attitudes of those born before 1940. It was a struggle raising a family in the thirties: not only was the nation in a financial crisis, Mother Nature was in an ugly mood. When people
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The World Weavers Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelley Grant’s THE WORLD WEAVERS virtual book tour April 19 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: The World Weavers Author: Kelley Grant Release Date: April 19, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback     It has been a year since Sulis Hasifel fled to the desert, narrowly escaping death at the hands of a vengeful god. The time of the final battle, the final confrontation with the deities of her world, is nearing. Lured by the call of their long-trapped powers, the deities will descend upon the Obsidian Temple, where the Chosen await. But the war between gods
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{Short Stories} After the Gazebo Review Campaign!

We are taking review requests for Jen Knox’s short story collection, AFTER THE GAZEBO. This is an review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon and/or Goodreads no later than June 30. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to AFTER THE GAZEBO’s Amazon page and Goodreads pages. Review copies will be sent in paperback (U.S.), Mobi, ePub & PDF formats. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: AFTER THE GAZEBO Author: Jen Knox Publisher: Rain Mountain Press Pages: 184 Genre: Short Stories The stories in After the Gazebo seduce
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Score and More Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you LaVera Edick’s Four Score and More Book Tour June 1 – July 29!   Inside the Book: Title: Four Score and More Author: LaVera Edick Publisher: Trafford Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Statement from Author I was born in 1925. This is my story of growing up on a farm and following the oft-times bumpy road of life. It is the story of my family and ancestors, those pioneers who cut the trails and paved the roads for our journey through life. Several major events helped shape the lives and attitudes of those born before 1940. It was a struggle raising a family in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Don Quixote Explained Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Emre Gurgen’s DON QUIXOTE EXPLAINED Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: Don Quixote Explained Author: Emre Gurgen Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Literary Criticism Format: Ebook/Paperback   Don Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza check-and-balance one another’s excesses by having opposite identities; how Cervantes refines Spanish farm girls by transforming Aldonza Lorenzo into Dulcinea; how outlaws like Roque Guinart and Gines Pasamonte can avoid criminality
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mark Christopher Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthew’s MARK CHRISTOPHER Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: Mark Christopher Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Coming of Age Format: Ebook/Paperback As Mark Christopher grows up in a small railroad town during the Great Depression, he dreams of doing something special with his life. Instead, he must face one tragedy after the other as war looms. First, his parents die and then his brother while serving in the Pacific. When the war in Europe ends, Mark’s sister sends him to live with their grandmother and her son. To please them, Mark is baptized in a Baptist church. While enrolled in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Don Quixote Explained Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Emre Gurgen’s DON QUIXOTE EXPLAINED Book Blast April 11 – 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Don Quixote Explained Author: Emre Gurgen Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Literary Criticism Format: Ebook/Paperback   Don Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza check-and-balance one another’s excesses by having opposite identities; how Cervantes refines Spanish farm girls by transforming Aldonza Lorenzo into Dulcinea; how outlaws like Roque Guinart and Gines
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mark Christopher Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthew’s MARK CHRISTOPHER Book Blast April 11 – 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Mark Christopher Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Coming of Age Format: Ebook/Paperback As Mark Christopher grows up in a small railroad town during the Great Depression, he dreams of doing something special with his life. Instead, he must face one tragedy after the other as war looms. First, his parents die and then his brother while serving in the Pacific. When the war in Europe ends, Mark’s sister sends him to live with their grandmother and her son. To please them, Mark is baptized in a Baptist
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  • April 1, 2016
  • Cover Reveals, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Soldier Finds His Way Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Onorato’s A SOLDIER FINDS HIS WAY Cover Reveal April 7! Inside the Book: Title: A Soldier Finds His Way Author: Irene Onorato Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Romance Format: Ecopy   Sometimes getting lost is the best way home . . . After a painful youth spent in foster homes, Special Forces soldier Edward Giordano has all but given up on love. Returning to New York from a dangerous mission in Costa Rica with no one to welcome him home, he knows he must find a way through his bitterness and embrace faith, or he’s destined for misery and loneliness. But he
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Knit Tight Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Annabeth Albert’s KNIT TIGHT virtual book tour April 12 – May 16!   Inside the Book: Title: Knit Tight Author: Annabeth Albert Release Date: April 12, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: LGBT Format: Ebook   It’s no secret that Portland, Oregon, has some of best restaurants, shops, and cafés in the country. But it’s the hard-working men who serve it all up that keep us coming back for more… One of Portland’s hottest young baristas, Brady is famous for his java-topping flair, turning a regular cup of joe into a work of art. Every Wednesday—aka “Knit Night”—hordes of women and their needles
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To Win Her Heart, Dreaming August and Pass Interference Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you TO WIN HER HEART, DREAMING AUGUST and PASS INTERFERENCE virtual book tour April 12 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: To Win Her Heart Author: Mackenzie Crowne Release Date: April 12, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook In order to protect her, they’ll both have to let their guards down… Country music’s It Girl Jessi Tucker is fed up with her family’s stifling security measures. The threat of a dangerous stalker has gotten the men in her life—including her football star cousin, Tuck Tucker—monitoring her every move. To get the freedom she yearns for, Jessi hatches a plan to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dilemma in Yellow Silk Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynne Connelly’s Dilemma in Yellow Silk virtual book tour April 12 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: Dilemma in Yellow Silk: The Emperors of London Author: Lynne Connolly Release Date: April 12, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook   Ever ready to do the right thing, The Emperors of London act bravely—and when it comes to matters of the heart, impetuously…   Despite her cover as the daughter of the land steward for Lord Malton, Marcus Aurelius, spirited Viola Gates is tied by birth to the treacherous Jacobite legacy. Not that this keeps her from falling for
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Accidental Elopement Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maggie Dallen’s THE ACCIDENTAL ELOPEMENT Cover Reveal April 12! Inside the Book: Title: The Accidental Elopement Author: Maggie Dallen Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Romance Format: Ecopy First comes love, then comes marriage—or is it the other way around? Lucia is an Italian spitfire with big dreams like her billionaire grandfather. But she wants to become a top tier fashion designer, not the heir to the family business in Italy. Now is her only chance to forge her own path. And what better place to start than in New York City? But working behind a bar doesn’t exactly pay the rent. Her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Perfect Paige Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ines Saint’s PERFECT PAIGE Cover Reveal April 5! Inside the Book: Title: Perfect Paige Author: Ines Saint Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Romance Format: Ecopy When three sisters arrive in Spinning Hills, Ohio, home of the third most haunted street in the state, they’re looking for solace and support as they clear out the ghosts of their own pasts. But what they find is something a whole lot sweeter . . . Paige Galloway has built her life around one principle—being the perfect mom. When the FBI busts into the PTA meeting Paige is hosting in order to arrest her husband, she’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Flower Fairy Superhero Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Noam and Bryan Atinsky’s THE FLOWER FAIRY SUPERHERO virtual book tour April 18 – May 13!   Inside the Book: Title: The Flower Fairy Superhero Author: Noam and Bryan Atinsky Release Date: January 24, 2016 Publisher: Amazon Digital Genre: Children’s Format: Ebook/Hardcover A read-along eBook (enhanced with audio),has a powerful message; it is a heartfelt example of a father honoring the memory of his daughter. Beautiful and creative Noam wrote this story as play to perform for her family on her 5th birthday. Her tale of a flower fairy that possesses very special powers able to help the meanest of people and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Trifling Favors, How to Please a Lady and Ten Days in August Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you TRIFLING FAVORS, HOW TO PLEASE A LADY and  TEN DAYS IN AUGUST virtual book tour March 29 – April 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Trifling Favors Author: Heather Hiestand Release Date: March 15, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook “The sweetest treat is a kiss… Greggory Redcake’s plate is full. Widowed young and left with two small children, the manager of the Kensington location of the illustrious tea shop is besieged on all sides between the bakery and family matters. If only his remarkably efficient shop assistant, Betsy Popham, could manage his home life, too! But Greggory can’t linger on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unloved Again Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elan Golomb’s UNLOVED AGAIN Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: Unloved Again Author: Elan Golomb Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook/Paperback Love can be hell. It is not an accident which moves us to love the wrong person or to hate the right one, over and over again. Most of us remain unaware of how to escape this perpetual cycle of bad relationships. • Do you continually fall for the wrong person? • Do you find yourself driving the right person away? • Do your relationships quickly switch from blissful to tortured? • Do you criticize unreasonably or find yourself being criticized
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  • March 21, 2016
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Liefdom KindleScout Campaign!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jesse Teller’s LIEFDOM KindleScout Campaign April 4 – 29!   Inside the Book:     A fiery fairy battles for purpose. Liefdom is the story of Gentry Mandrake. Born with natural weapons in a race known for pacifism, he is cast out and hated for his differences. He hunts for a place among his people, while fighting to defend the human child bound to him. His violent nature makes him wonder at the purity of his soul, while the dark creatures he must face seem too great to defeat. Can he overcome such terrible foes to defend those he loves?   Meet
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ten Days In August Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you TEN DAYS IN AUGUST virtual book tour March 29- April 22!   Inside the Book: Title: Ten Days in August Author: Kate McMurray Release Date: March 29, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook   From the Lower East Side to uptown Manhattan, a curious detective searches for clues on the sidewalks of New York—and finds a secret world of forbidden love that’s too hot to handle… New York City, 1896. As the temperatures rise, so does the crime rate. At the peak of this sizzling heat wave, police inspector Hank Brandt is called to investigate the scandalous murder of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Second Death Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T. Frohock’s THE SECOND DEATH virtual book tour March 29 – April 22!   Inside the Book: Title: The Second Death Author: T. Frohock Release Date: March 29, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Historical Fantasy Format: Ebook Save the world, or save his family… For Diago Alvarez, that’s the choice before him. For unless he wants to see his son Rafael die, he must do the unthinkable: Help the Nazis receive the plans to the ultimate weapon. And while Diago grows more comfortable not only with his heritage, but also with his place among Guillermo’s Los Nefilim, he is still
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Saving Jesus Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ralph William Ausman’s SAVING JESUS Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: Saving Jesus Author: Ralph William Ausman Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Alternative History Format: Ebook/Paperback The canvas of history provides a complex pattern of culture, change, and conflict. Colorful individuals were often the driving forces behind the progression of history. Was there a grander purpose behind these developments, beyond the individual people, locations, and events? History often turns on a simple thought or decision by those in a position to have a significant impact on the ultimate course for humankind. What influence did some of the most significant personages in human history unknowingly
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Bomb That Never Was Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.R. Shaw’s THE BOMB THAT NEVER WAS Book Tour!   Inside the Book: Title: The Bomb That Never Was Author: J.R. Shaw Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Alternative History Format: Ebook/Paperback Praise for The Bomb That Never Was “Hitler has the bomb, and it’s headed for the USA. This meticulously researched historical novel will have you asking, ‘What if?’ This is an intelligent, fast-paced page-turner that will make you forget that you already know how it all turns out. Provocative, informative, and entertaining—I couldn’t put it down.” —Joseph P. DeSario, author of Limbo and Sanctuary and coauthor of Crusade: Undercover Against the Mafia & KGB
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unloved Again Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elan Golomb’s UNLOVED AGAIN Book Blast March 28 – April 8!   Inside the Book: Title: Unloved Again Author: Elan Golomb Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook/Paperback Love can be hell. It is not an accident which moves us to love the wrong person or to hate the right one, over and over again. Most of us remain unaware of how to escape this perpetual cycle of bad relationships. • Do you continually fall for the wrong person? • Do you find yourself driving the right person away? • Do your relationships quickly switch from blissful to tortured? • Do you criticize unreasonably
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