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Pump Up Your Book Presents Games of Mind Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dennis Quiles’ GAMES OF MIND Book Blast March 14 – 25!   Title: Games of Mind Author: Dennis Quiles Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Suspense Format: Ebook When former naval intelligence officer Jack Steele opens a letter from his aunt, he makes an immediate decision to head to Nome, Alaska. Although he hasn’t seen Marie in twenty years, he’s concerned when she tells him her husband, Uncle Jimmy, is in trouble. From the moment Jack picks up that envelope, he knows he’s about to enter a situation better left alone. But loyalty to family is stronger than a gut feeling. Jack, a private investigator
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Guest House Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you W. Jacqueline Johnson’s THE GUEST HOUSE Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: The Guest House Author: W. Jacqueline Johnson Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook As a healer, author W. Jacqueline Johnson knew a cancer diagnosis could be a gift in one’s life, bringing valuable life lessons and even transformation. But nothing prepared her for her own diagnosis and the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and radiation. In The Guest House, she narrates the story of her diagnosis, treatments, and the surprising aftermath. Johnson shares how, as a healthy woman who only saw the doctor for checkups,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark Transmissions Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Davila LeBlanc’s DARK TRANSMISSIONS virtual book tour March 7 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Dark Transmissions Author: Davila LeBlanc Release Date: March 1, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Sci-fi/Space Opera Format: Ebook/Paperback It is the late 23rd century. For engineers Jessie Madison and her husband David, a routine maintenance contract on board the orbital mining station Moria 3 has become a nightmare. Upon awakening from cryo-stasis, they learn a horrifying truth: while they were asleep, machines rose up against humanity…and won. Marooned and at the mercy of the station’s malicious artificial intelligence, OMEX, David and Jessie rig an emergency transmission
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Journey In and Out of Community Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katherine Zyczynska’s MY JOURNEY IN AND OUT OF COMMUNITY Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: My Journey In and Out of Community Author: Katherine Zyczynska Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religious Format: Ebook After Kata’s father dies in a car accident when she is just eleven and a half years old, she continually searches for parental love. She makes bad choice after bad choice and looks for love in all the wrong places. When she’s eighteen years old, her family decides she needs a change. The idea of moving to California sounds exciting to Kata, but she knows
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Tour June 6 – 30!   Inside the Book: Title: A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Author: Dudley Mecum Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Visionary and Metaphysical Format: Ebook Chris Cole enjoys aiming for the stars. After he rockets into orbit aboard the space shuttle, his mission is cut short when he is the victim of an accident aboard the International Space Station. Whisked back to earth for medical observation, Chris is eventually released. Before his return flight to Kennedy Space Center the next day, Chris decides to attend a nearby medieval fair
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gillian Murray Kendall’s THE BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WISDOM virtual book tour March 7 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Author: Gillian Murray Kendall Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption… But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to understand—or bear. On Angel’s sixteenth birthday, her younger sister, Silky, wakes her to prepare her for a marriage to Leth, a man
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sin and the Millionaire and Every Vow She Breaks Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you SIN AND THE MILLIONAIRE and EVERY VOW SHE BREAKS virtual book tour March 1 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Sin and the Millionaire Author: Lucy Farago Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ebook What happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but when an innocent woman is pinned with someone else’s lethal mistake, the bright lights of Sin City threaten to dim for good… At seventeen, Lizzy’s first love swindled her out of a small fortune in lottery winnings, and her own small business—forcing her to strip to keep loan sharks at bay. That’s what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Boss Jackson’s REFLECTIONS OF A NEGRO REVOLUTIONARY Book Blast March 14 – 25! Inside the Book: Title: Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Author: Boss Jackson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 64 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook The turbulent years of the sixties and early seventies, a time of the flowering of a people and a nation, we thought we knew what it meant to black in America, but everything we knew was changing. From the civil rights movement Led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The watts Riot, the so called Black Revolution, the rise of the Black Student Unions on college campuses, to the anti
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Me Tenor Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Annabeth Albert’s LOVE ME TENOR virtual book tour February 29 – March 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Love Me Tenor Author: Annabeth Albert Release Date: February 16, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook There’s no way he’ll shake this off…. Trevor Daniels is feeling aimless. A recent college grad, he’s not sure what to do with his useless degree, and his family all but abandoned him after he revealed the truth about himself. But a friend’s suggestion that he take his chances on a reality show aimed at finding the next big boy band strikes a chord with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Swept Away Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kristina Mathews’ SWEPT AWAY Cover Reveal February 24! Inside the Book: Title: Swept Away Author: Kristina Mathews Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Carson Swift may look exactly like his twin brother Cody, but they’re as different as tie dye and camouflage. Reliable, responsible, and usually the designated driver, Carson is also over being his brother’s keeper, but suddenly his plans to break free are complicated by the woman they fish out of Hidden Creek . . . Lily Price is not your typical damsel in distress. Infidelity, infertility, and downsizing provide a triple threat to her ego, but
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Charlotte and Loving Lies Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you CHARLOTTE and LOVING LIES virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Charlotte Author: Virginia Taylor Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook A marriage most inconvenient… After losing his first love in childbirth, Nicholas Alden knows with a great certainty that he must never be a father. But to be a husband is a very different matter—mandated by South Australian society, necessary for his family name. So when he meets beautiful social climber Charlotte, he believes he has found a wife he can keep at arm’s length. He is terribly
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Falling Grace, Moving On, Two to Wrangle and Wild Hearts Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you FALLING GRACE, MOVING ON, TWO TO WRANGLE and WILD HEARTS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Falling Grace Author: Melissa Shirley Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook Finding the fairytale in Storybook Lake . . . Grace Wade left Storybook Lake hoping to escape her crazy family and the demands of her job as a defense attorney. But not twenty-four hours after landing in a small Texas town where she hopes to find new beginnings, Grace instead finds herself in the middle of an investigation that’s turning the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder on Wheels Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynn Cahoon’s MURDER ON WHEELS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18! Inside the Book: Title: Murder on Wheels Author: Lynn Cahoon Pages: 198 Publisher: Lyrical Underground Genre: Cozy Mystery Format: Ecopy/Paperback/Audio The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner—owner of Coffee, Books, and More—can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . . Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there’s no curbing her enthusiasm—not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Blast February 22 – March 4!   Inside the Book: Title: A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Author: Dudley Mecum Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Visionary and Metaphysical Format: Ebook Chris Cole enjoys aiming for the stars. After he rockets into orbit aboard the space shuttle, his mission is cut short when he is the victim of an accident aboard the International Space Station. Whisked back to earth for medical observation, Chris is eventually released. Before his return flight to Kennedy Space Center the next day, Chris decides to attend a nearby medieval
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Young American Traveler Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Albert Park’s A YOUNG AMERICAN TRAVELER Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: A Young American Traveler Author: Albert Park Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 422 Genre: World Travel Format: Ebook In a journey 11-years in the making, Park takes the reader on an extensive holiday to over 30 countries, friendly and hostile, exotic and metropolitan, all infused with the pleasures of life as well as the dangers of the same. Park sets the scene as a young undergraduate army cadet in southern California in the hopes of becoming an army officer during the Global War on Terrorism in 2003. His
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Crazy Love Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Kilraine’s CRAZY LOVE Cover Reveal February 15! Inside the Book: Title: Crazy Love Author: Lee Kilraine Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Tynan Cates’s military days are over. He’s home among family, friends, and his three-legged rescue dog in Climax, North Carolina—but his new employee is stirring up feelings he thought he’d left behind . . . Pint-size Lulubelle Swan is not Ty’s—or anyone’s—idea of a construction worker. But she’s so eager to join his crew for the Climax library renovation that he gives her a shot . . . and she totally lives down to his expectations.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Within a Captain’s Fate Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa A. Olech ‘s WITHIN A CAPTAIN’S FATE Cover Reveal February 12! Inside the Book: Title: Within a Captain’s Fate Author: Lisa A. Olech Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ecopy Wherever the tides take you . . . Guided by the winds of fate, Henry ‘Ric’ Robbins arrives on a hot June day in Port Royal. But the moment he sets foot on what should be a pirate’s paradise, he’s driven to steal a woman destined for slavery, survives the worst natural disaster to ever hit the isle of Jamaica, and answers the call to be captain of the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Forest of Wolves Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chelsea Luna’s A FOREST OF WOLVES Cover Reveal February 11! Inside the Book: Title: A Forest of Wolves Author: Chelsea Luna Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ecopy Prague, 1610 In a few short weeks seventeen-year-old Mila has gone from being Ludmila Novakova, pampered daughter of the High Chancellor of Bohemia, to becoming a traitor escaping the palace at midnight in her wedding nightgown. Her country is in chaos, an army is marching from Austria, and revolution is a breath away. Mila is caught in the middle, between the man she loves—Marc, the son of a blacksmith and a leader
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Practice Makes Perfect Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Title’s PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Cover Reveal February 8! Inside the Book: Title: Practice Makes Perfect Author: Sarah Title Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Sometimes the best surprises come wrapped in a bow-tie… Helen Lee has a top-secret dream: to publish a romance novel. There’s just one problem, and her most recent rejection letter doesn’t mince words: Helen can’t write a love scene to save her life. As Head of Reference at Willow Springs, Kentucky’s Pembroke College, Helen is hoping her library research skills will do the trick. But she may have to resort to a far more
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Star Struck Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Meredith Michelle’s STAR STRUCK Cover Reveal February 9! Inside the Book: Title: Star Struck Author: Meredith Michelle Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Sometimes the best surprises come wrapped in a bow-tie… Helen Lee has a top-secret dream: to publish a romance novel. There’s just one problem, and her most recent rejection letter doesn’t mince words: Helen can’t write a love scene to save her life. As Head of Reference at Willow Springs, Kentucky’s Pembroke College, Helen is hoping her library research skills will do the trick. But she may have to resort to a far more “hands-on” course
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chosen Soldiers Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you R.H. Scott’s novel CHOSEN SOLDIERS on tour February 8 – March 4, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Chosen Soldiers Author: R.H. Scott Release Date: February 9, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: YA Dystopian/Thriller Format: Ebook/Paperback After the missiles tore up the Earth, societies crumbled, leaving scattered patches of humanity struggling to survive. Slowly, a group came together, helping each other regrow a world worth living in. And then the Others attacked. Realizing the need to truly protect themselves, they formed the Academy: a place where young people could be built into an elite military force. The training is intense…and so are the consequences
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Pump Up your Book Presents Candlelight in a Storm Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Naveen Sridhar’s CANDLELIGHT IN A STORM Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: Candlelight in a Storm Author: Naveen Sridhar Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 280 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook “Candlelight in a Storm by Naveen Sridhar is the historical biography of his wife. Born during World War II and fleeing the violence there, later fleeing communist regimes as a teenager, and traveling the world, her story is at once colorful and harrowing. John F. Kennedy came to Germany and said ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ signifying that Germany did not need to be forever tarnished with the legacy of the Nazi
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Conquering William Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Hegger’s CONQUERING WILLIAM Cover Reveal February 10! Inside the Book: Title: Conquering William Author: Sarah Hegger Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ecopy “Sarah Hegger has a gift for storytelling that is not to be missed. She’s a personal favorite of mine.” —Kathryn Le Veque, USA Today bestselling author A practical marriage… He married for convenience, but William of Anglesea had hoped for more than piety from his new bride. Raised in a convent and thrice widowed, prim Lady Alice of Tarnwych seems like an innocent when it comes to the marriage bed—except for the tentative passion he senses
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Release Your Vision Torch Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock’s novel RELEASE YOUR VISION TORCH on tour February 22 – April 15, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Release Your Vision Torch Author: Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock Release Date: January 8, 2016 Pages: 346 Publisher: Princess of Suburbia Genre: Motivational/Inspirational Format: Ebook/Hardcover/Paperback Release Your Vision Torch will take you on a life journey. The exercises ushers you into a place where you have to be brutally truthful, for restored strength and rejuvenation to occur. Reading Release Your Vision Torch made me get real with myself about my life, relationships, pass failures and aspirations. This book should be used as a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Asset Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anna Del Mar’s novel THE ASSET on tour February 22 – April 15, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: The Asset Author: Anna Del Mar Release Date: February 22, 2016 Publisher: Carina Press Genre: Mystery/Suspense Format: Ebook Anna del Mar’s explosive, sexy debut novel in the Wounded Warrior series, perfect for fans of Lisa Marie Rice and Lora Leigh—the story of a woman desperate to escape her dangerous past and the navy SEAL who would lay down his life to save her Ash Hunter knows what it is to run. A SEAL gravely injured in Afghanistan, he’s gone AWOL from the military hospital. Physically
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ecowarriors Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sandra Dreis’ ECOWARRIORS Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: The Ecowarriors Author: Sandra Dreis Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 190 Genre: Action Adventure Format: Ebook On rare occasions, a writer makes a first appearance on the literature scene and the reader feels the excitement of meeting a new friend. In her debut novel, The Ecowarriors, Sandra Dreis creates young characters with voices that ring true and a story that is perfectly timed to entertain. Setting the fantasy against the background of the all-too-real problem of fracking is nothing short of brilliant. —Leigh Somerville, Author, It All Started with a Dog
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reel Rebels Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joy I. Payne’s REEL REBELS: THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE 1966 to 1996 Book Blast February 22 – March 4! Inside the Book: Title: Reel Rebels Author: Joy I. Payne Publisher: Authorhouse Pages: 294 Genre: Performing Art Format: Ebook The London FilmMakers’ Cooperative was founded in 1966 by a group of artists who sought to explore the possibilities of the moving image whilst maintaining autonomy over the production, distribution, and exhibition of their work. Although their films were not overtly political, artists nevertheless expressed their political attitudes by creating nonnarrative films, thereby rejecting conventional narrative structures associated with mainstream, commercial cinema, which they perceived
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Forbidden Legacy Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diana Cosby’s FORBIDDEN LEGACY Cover Reveal February 5! Inside the Book: Title: Forbidden Legacy Author: Diana Cosby Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ecopy A betrothal neither wants . . . a passion neither can resist. When the English murder Lady Katherine Calbraith’s family, she refuses their demands to wed an English noble to retain her home. Avalon Castle is her birthright, one she’s determined to keep. After Katherine’s daring escape, she’s stunned when Scotland’s king agrees to allow her to return to Avalon, but under the protection of Sir Stephan MacQuistan . . . as the knight’s wife. To
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Moment of Bliss Cover Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Heather McGovern’s A MOMENT OF BLISS Cover Reveal February 4! Inside the Book: Title: A Moment of Bliss Author: Heather McGovern Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Nestled in the lush green mountains of North Carolina, the Honeywilde Inn will be a romantic’s dream getaway—if only the Bradley siblings can keep it running. It will take a combination of hard work, good luck, and the kind of love that dreams are made of… Roark Bradley is no stranger to responsibility. Growing up, he practically raised his younger siblings while his parents threw themselves into working the inn—and arguing with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wagon Train Sisters Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shirley Kennedy’s WAGON TRAIN SISTERS Cover Reveal February 3! Inside the Book: Title: Wagon Train Sisters Author: Shirley Kennedy Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ecopy After the death of her abusive husband, Sarah Gregg is free to join her family along with thousands of others in the nation’s westward march for gold. But in the middle of the hard journey, Sarah’s younger sister, Florrie, disappears. Devastated by the family’s failed attempts to find her missing sister, Sarah now wants only to settle into a quiet, uneventful life when she reaches California . . . But Jack McCoy, a drifter
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