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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ticktock to Triumph Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Betty Wyatt’s TICKTOCK TO TRIUMPH virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Ticktock to Triumph Author: Betty Wyatt Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion Format: Kindle/Paperback Ticktock to Triumph presents a unique collection of prose and poetry written by author Betty Wyatt over the course of fifty years. It is her legacy of soul songs that offers her homespun wisdom captured in God moments, the love of nature and personal insights. She hopes her writing may comfort and give hope to people who are living with life’s daunting challenges, found in the pain of sorrow and loneliness. To Purchase Ticktock to Triumph Journaling
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Crystal Stair Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s NO CRYSTAL STAIR virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: No Crystal Stair Author: Sarah Smith Ducksworth Publisher: Trafford Genre: Poetry Format: Kindle Each poem in this collection is a reflection upon the author’s personal life or is a response to her vicarious interactions in the lives of characters she has met in real life or in books. Through the critical lens of poetry, she has looked for deeper meanings inside those experiences. Though the writer ends with an understanding that her life has not been a “crystal stair,” alluding to the hardships the titular character in Langston
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Principium The Stone Prophecy Series Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexandra Lamarre’s PRINCIPIUM The Stone Prophecy Series virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Principium: The Stone Prophecy Series Author: Alexandra Lamarre Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fantasy Format: Kindle Ever since her mother’s death twelve years ago, fourteen-year-old Kiarra Johnson wonders if she is a good witch or if she is doomed to a lifetime of evil. Her life is anything but mundane as she lives in a rented room in her father’s home in the village of Kiamika, a magical society hidden from mortals who would persecute them for their gifts. For many years, Kiarra has lived across the lake from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Correcting Misconceptions Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza’s CORRECTING MISCONCEPTIONS virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Correcting Misconceptions Author: Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza Publisher: Partridge Publishing Genre: Education Format: Kindle The book, a research paper, reveals and analyzes misconceptions about the Spiritual Baptist Faith, an indigenous religious expression of Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the academic bias to the Faith, which is maligned and misunderstood because of its humble beginnings amidst ex-plantation slaves of African descent and its history of persecution and prosecution by the colonial authorities of the early 20th century.The research provided answers to some
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bookwright Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George R. Dasher’s BOOKWRIGHT virtual book tour April 20-May 1! Title: Bookwright Author: George R. Dasher Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover With his ship crippled and his crew dead, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival in space as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do, and his own death is certain. Oddly enough, rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet unlike anything Jarl has ever encountered. There, the King fights his rivals for control of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sacred Relationships Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Kate Pola Brooks’ SACRED RELATIONSHIPS PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE SOUL virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Sacred Relationships Author: Dr. Kate Pola Brooks Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Psychology/Relationship Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover Everything You Want To Understand About Relationships “Sacred Relationships: Psychology for the Soul”, is designed to define the inter-relatedness of everything and everyone. It gives clarity to the functioning of the mind, the psyche and the heart. “Sacred Relationships” defines the patterns of our thinking, understanding, ‘knowing’ and loving capacities. This book clears up misunderstandings and misinterpretations around our connection to this world, our Selves, and others, within the Universal
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Young Girl’s Testimony: From Disastrous To Evangelist Book Blast Event – Win A $25 Amazon GC

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shana Joseph‘s Christian / Non Fiction / Autobiography, A Young Girl’s Testimony: From Disastrous To Evangelist Book Blast Event  May 1-29!   Title: A Young Girl’s Testimony: From Disastrous To Evangelist Author: Shana Joseph Publisher:   Xulon Press Pubication Date: September 23, 2013 Format: Paperback – 110 pages / eBook ISBN: 978-1628396867 Genre: Christian / Non Fiction / Autobiography   Book Description: In this book is a powerful message that rises out of a true-life story woven in sadness, heartache, pain, joy and God working miracles. You will see lessons learned, wisdom gained, and experiences to share. It’s revealing unforgettable moments all in unforgettable testimonies.   Book Excerpt:  From Page 30: At the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Schade of Night by J.P. Wilder Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Schade of Night by J.P. Wilder’s  book blitz April 6 – April 17!     Title: Schade of Night Author: J.P. Wilder Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 356 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Schade Lee, ex-FBI agent turned PI, is on a mission to prove her dreams wrong. While on a case to find runaway Kylie Berson, Schade follows a gruesome path where she learns Kylie is in love with a serial killer with animalistic instincts. But what she does not know is that the killer is of supernatural origins, that she will inherit a demonic bloodline on her thirty-third
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Two Brothers Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Two Brothers’s C. (Mike) Dunaway book blitz April 6 – April 17!     Title: Two Brothers Author: C. (Mike) Dunaway Publisher: Trafford Pages: 296 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle/Hardcover Purchase at AMAZON The story is about two brothers, fraternal twins. They move to California from Oklahoma with their parents in 1871 in an exchange of properties with a friend in Oklahoma and settle in on a three-hundred-acre ranch. They are attacked by three escapees from Yuma state prison who murdered their parents. For the next fifteen years, they would attempt to hunt down these killers and seek revenge. The boys are not
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Berceuse: The Song Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Trynia Merin’s BERCEUSE: THE SONG book blitz April 6 – April 17!   Title: Berceuse: The Song Author: Trynia Merin Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 350 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Now that Trisha Maypierce is safely back on Earth, she has forgotten much of her last adventure, or has she? Everyday life on earth suddenly becomes far more surreal when she invents a new polymer, and her life is possibly in danger. Her protection, Temporal Anthropologist Professor Esmentaur, who must study the link between his charge and the being Berceuse they encountered on Avious. More questions are generated then answered, as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Getting It Right Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.M. Arthur’s GETTING IT RIGHT book blast April 20 – May 15! Title: Getting It Right (Book one of the Restoration series) Author: A.M. Arthur Publisher: Carina Press (Harlequin) Pages: 249 Genre: Contemporary Romance / M/M Format: Kindle/Nook For a dramatic male/male read, look no further than Getting It Right by A.M. Arthur. This contemporary romance is full of heart-wrenching moments guaranteed to draw you in and leave you wanting more. Detective Nathan Wolf might just be a junior detective, but he tackles every case with the passion that he lacks in his personal life. A series of failed relationships
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Monster Squad: The Iron Golem Book Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christian Page’s MONSTER SQUAD: THE IRON GOLEM book blast March 16 – April 17!   Title: Monster Squad: The Iron Golem Author: Christian Page Publisher: New Generation Publishing Genre: Young Adult Format: Kindle/Paperback Monsters. Mad Scientists. Danger. Dark forces are converging on the sleepy town of Autumn’s Hallow. Monsters in the woods, mad scientists on the loose and sinister minions lurk. Four young friends must band together to uncover a secret plot that threatens them, the town they live in and the people they love. It’s up to Blaine Davis, Daschle Gaunt, Shelley Merry and Drake Harker, heirs to fantastic powers to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Defining Intelligence Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Pat Keogh’s DEFINING INTELLIGENCE book blitz March 16- March 27!   Title: Defining Intelligence Author: Dr. Pat Keogh Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 168 Genre: Education Format: Ebook/Paperback/Hardcover Purchase at AMAZON It may be unethical for a person to conduct an intelligence assessment on another human being. Human intelligence is unquantifiable. Observing or analysing behaviour, appearance, personality, beliefs or acquired knowledge cannot produce a quantifiable measure of a person’s intelligence. The brain can perform millions of billions of calculations per second. This gives the person enormous power and incalculable potential. Yet, saying ‘I use my brain to think’ awards the ‘I’ (the mind) a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Silver Diaspora Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher T. Rand’s SILVER DIASPORA book blitz March 16- March 27!   Title: Silver Diaspora Author: Christopher T. Rand Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 320 Genre: Historical Memoir Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON At the outset, the members of author Christopher T. Rand’s family lived in a world of great wealth. They were among the richest people in the United States. But they then faced a dilemma: compelled to choose between staying on in their ancestral world or keeping up with the times in the nation around them and integrating themselves into the American mainstream. With each generation, the pressure on these individuals to choose
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Thoughts for a New Perspective Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kurt M. Jordan’s Thoughts for a New Perspective book blitz March 9- March 20! Title: Thoughts for a New Perspective Author: Kurt M. Jordan Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 204 Genre: Body, Mind, Spirit Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Too often in life, we see only what we are conditioned to see. Influenced by our parents, environment, education, religious beliefs, mass media, or society in general, these narrow-minded perspectives limit our growth and prevent us from truly connecting with others. In his guidebook Thoughts for a New Perspective, an innovative transformational leader shares fascinating insight on how to remove our blinders, open our minds to a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ribbons of Death Book Blitz!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edith A. Petrick’s RIBBONS OF DEATH book blitz March 2 – 13! Title: Ribbons of Death Author: Edita A. Petrick Publisher: Solstice Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Suspense Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle The ancients believed that once in a Blue Moon a child with Peacetaker powers is born. Such child, when grown to maturity, can seed murderous madness in people’s minds by merely walking amongst them. A simple amulet activates the Peacetaker’s powers. When a horribly scarred man knocks on the door of Stella Hunter’s ramshackle cottage in upstate Montana, she lets him in. What’s there to lose? The book critics killed
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Full Circle Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patty Bryant’s FULL CIRCLE book blast March 2 – March 13!     Title: Full Circle Author: Patty Bryant Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 298 Genre: Mystery Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON It looks like someone left the door to the nether region open again, and reporter Molly Martindale has got another batch of otherworldly supplicants who need her help. Not long ago, Molly quite literally went to hell to help secure peace for her friend Dennis, who was born Buddy Parker in the 1920s in her beloved, adopted hometown of Oxbow, Florida. Oxbow has always felt charmed to Molly—that is, if she doesn’t count
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wonderful Worlds Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robert Greenough’s WONDERFUL WORLDS book blitz March 2 – 13!   Title: Wonderful Worlds Author: Robert Greenough Publisher: Trafford Pages: 494 Genre: Religion/Spirituality Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Wonderful Worlds is an explanation to laymen of events in cosmos and earth history, sequences of species life, and interactions of the brain, mind, soul, genome, enzymes, organs, and body. We see development of cultures directed from positions of logic and reason, eventually describing what makes us human. Proposed as beginning even before the accepted moment of the big bang, the cosmos erupts later over billions of years to first life in a progression of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Angel Hair Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Margot Griffith’s ANGEL HAIR book blitz February 16 – 27!     Title: Angel Hair Author: Margot Griffiths Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 280 Genre: General Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Victoria BC 1958: A haunting first novel of a privileged, tight-knit neighborhood—an insular world of stifling traditional values; a world where the eccentric and gifted Morgan family doesn’t fit. Eleanor and Hugh have settled into the rhythms of a long rift, bound by history and remnants of love. Their ten year old daughter Myfanwy escapes into the world of her imagination, but as conflicts escalate, her older brother Owen seeks a more desperate
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Better Believe: A Story of Hope Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ruby Lee Tuesday’s BETTER BELIEVE book blitz February 16 – 27!   Title: Better Believe Author: Ruby Lee Tuesday Publisher: Trafford Pages: 132 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Ruby Lee Tuesday was born to be her father’s property. Trapped in an abusive home where only perfect was good enough for the devil, Ruby attempted to distract herself from his ways through her music, poetry, art, and most importantly, her faith in God. Tuesday shares a heartbreaking story of childhood trauma as she bravely pursued her dreams, despite living with parents who seemed determined to destroy her, both physically and emotionally. While
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Chronicles of Elizabeth Highland Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elizabeth Highland’s The Chronicles of Elizabeth Highland book blitz February 16 – 27!   Title: The Chronicles of Elizabeth Highland Author: Elizabeth Highland Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 370 Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON 1973 This is the love story of Elizabeth Highland and Timothy Blumefield. To be or not to be… that is their question. Friends for 40 years… they have lived 3000 miles apart for the past 20. Through the twists and turns of life somehow fate and destiny brings them together in an uncanny spiritual journey guided by the universe. Elizabeth chronicles their story… a tale that takes her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Gray Skies Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elle Emtage’s GRAY SKIES book blitz February 16 – 27! Title: Gray Skies Author: Elle Emtage Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 170 Genre: Romance Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Dunstan’s dashing good looks, thriving business and exotic lifestyle made him one of the world’s most sought after bachelors; but none of this seemed to quell Dunstan’s desire for Destiny. As their courtship evolves their romance is woven from a tapestry of classical beauty and romantic places in the orange light of the Tuscan sun. To Destiny, her life once filled with endless days of meetings and long nights alone is now full of life and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love is the Essence of Time Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Samuel Douglas’s LOVE IS THE ESSENCE OF TIME book blitz February 16 – 27!     Title: Love is the Essence of Time Author: Samuel Douglas Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 114 Genre: Family/Relationship Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON This book is all about love as seen through the eyes of the author. Love Is the Essence of Time explores his deepest thoughts as he seeks to relate his understanding of the most powerful word on earth. He attempts to answer burning questions that affect everything that love touches. It is one of those books straight from the heart.   Samuel Douglas was born in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rendezvous in Baghdad Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ben Sheldon’s RENDEZVOUS IN BAGHDAD book blitz February 16 – 27!   Title: Rendezvous in Baghdad Author: Ben Sheldon Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 208 Genre: Thriller Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON As throngs of humanity pack Rome’s St. Peter’s Square, all await the news from the Sistine Chapel as to who will be the next Pope. But no one is more anxious than Iraqi American Sami Yusuf, for he and one of the papal candidates share a well-kept secret. When it is finally announced that Cardinal Paul Rogan has been elected Pope, Sami knows the one thing about Father Rogan that no one
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Letters from a Doughboy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Margie Howd and Melissa Watkins Starr’s Love Letters from a Doughboy book blitz February 2 – 13! Title: Love Letters from a Doughboy Author: Margie Howd with Melissa Watkins Starr Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 178 Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Thomas Fletcher first sees her in 1916, at a drug store in Birmingham, Alabama. He doesn’t know her, but her brown hair and beautiful eyes captivate him. He soon learns her name—Juliette Wilcox—and she would learn his. Their attraction cannot be denied, but something stands in their way. Thomas is a drafted soldier, about to be sent to Europe to fight
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Saints and Heroes Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andrew Schultz’s Saints and Heroes book blitz February 2 – 13!   Title: Saints and Heroes Author: Andrew Schultz Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 244 Genre: Action Adventure Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON This book is about hope, despair and faith. It follows Anselm from his boyhood on the rugged Isle of Iona through a course of study at Glastonbury and ultimately through his long association with King Malcolm Caenmore, a ruthless despot who begins a 300 year dynasty of a united Scotland. AUTHOR BIO: Teacher, professor and writer, Andrew Schultz lives in Lincoln, Nebraska where he works with wood, walks his dog Seanie and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Costly Illusions Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vesna Grudzinski Sutija’s Costly Illusions book blitz February 2 – 13!     Title: Costly Illusions Author: Vesna Grudzinski Sutija Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 248 Genre: Literary Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Alexandra, daughter of her Croatian town’s favorite physicians, is hardly an obedient child. As a teenager, she lingers in the streets, lights forbidden cigarettes, and falls in love. But when she is seventeen, Alexandra is forced to leave everything behind when her family decides to immigrate to America. As the ship leaves the dock, Alexandra helplessly watches her hometown disappear in the distance as her tears transform the boat into a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beautiful Land of the Sky Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Loren M. Wood’s Beautiful Land of the Sky book blitz February 2 – 13!     Title: Beautiful Land of the Sky Author: Loren Wood Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 624 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelsey’s journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Importance of Christian Friendships Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Beth Gable Hick’s Fading Shadows book blitz February 2 – 13!   Title: The Importance of Christian Friendships Author: Beth Gable Hicks Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 130 Genre: Christianity Format: Ebook/Hardcover Purchase at AMAZON Life is full of transitions. As we grow up, we experience changes in schools—grade school, high school, and then maybe off to college. Then life really gets confusing. The global economy often means job changes and relocating. Most of the time, we get married and have children along the way. Many of these changes are great, but others can be quite lonely and tough—divorce, empty nest, health issues, the loss
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Hope For a Better World Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Monique Mitchell’s Hope for a Better World book blitz January 19- 30! Title: Hope for a Better World Author: Monique Mitchell Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 244 Genre: Biography/Autobiography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The book is basically my memoir; however, there are some fictitious characters but all is based on real events. Flashback to my childhood in Madagascar: country with a fascinating history and a unique population, with ethnic characteristics in my own family. Recollecting past personal tragedies in childhood and situating myself in the present where loving people( my family and church friends) are surrounding me, motivating me to be a good person
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