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New Book for Review: The Deliverer by Kathi Macias

Kathi Macias is touring September 10th – 21st with the third and final book of her contemporary international suspense “Freedom” series. The Deliverer picks up just months after Special Delivery leaves off, continuing with the stories of Mara, freed from slavery but still struggling with scars and memories from the past; Jonathan, attending Bible college but strongly drawn to Mara, despite her past; and Lawan, having escaped the brothel in Thailand and miraculously reunited with her younger sister in the US and adopted by the same family. Will Mara be able to move past the pain and hatred that bind her, even if it means traveling back to the
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New Inspirational Fiction Novel for Review: Rosemary Opens Her Heart by Naomi King

Naomi King will be touring November 5 – December 28, 2012 with her inspirational fiction novel, Rosemary Opens Her Heart ! Another spring reminds the Amish of Cedar Creek, Missouri, that for everything there is a season. Zanna Lambright is finally marrying Jonny Ropp, and friends and family have come from far and wide to celebrate. Among them is young widow Rosemary Yutzy, mother of toddler Katie, whose husband was tragically killed last fall. With a willing heart Rosemary has taken over care of her in-law’s family and continued to run a baked goods business from home, but privately she still mourns her lost Joe…and is unprepared for the changes
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New Inspirational Fiction Novel for Review: Autumn Winds by Charlotte Hubbard

Charlotte Hubbard will be touring September 4 – October 26, 2012 with her inspirational fiction novel, Autumn Winds! The leaves are falling and there’s a chill in the air in Willow Ridge, Missouri, the quaint, quiet Amish town where love, loyalty, and faith in the Old Ways are about to be put to the test … AUTUMN WINDS Winds of change are blowing through Willow Ridge, and they’re bringing a stranger to the Sweet Seasons Bakery. At first, widowed Miriam Lantz has misgivings about Ben Hooley, a handsome but rootless traveling blacksmith. But as she gets to know the kind-hearted newcomer, she wonders if his arrival was providential. Perhaps
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New Science Fiction Novel for Review: Order of the Seers by Cerece Rennie Murphy

Cerece Rennie Murphy, will be touring September 4 – September 28, 2012 with her science fiction novel, Order of the Seers! What would you do if you held infinite power in the palm of your hand? Part One of the thrilling Order of the Seers trilogy will take you on a journey that fuses action, mystery, romance and adventure in a science fiction novel that keeps you at the edge of your seat. Order of the Seers begins with the journey of Liam and Lilith Knight, a brother and sister who are hunted by The Guild, a ruthless world organization that seeks to capture and exploit Lilith’s unique ability
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review: Whirlpool by Eileen Hodgetts

Eileen Hodgetts, will be touring September 4 – November 30, 2012 with her historical fiction novel, Whirlpool! The year is 1923 and the jazz age is in full swing. Evangeline Murray, a young widow from Ohio, is recruited by the Women’s Freedom Movement to represent the spirit of modern womanhood by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Evangeline eagerly embraces her opportunity to achieve fame and fortune, until she sees the power of the River and begins to understand the risk she is taking. Joshua McClaren, an enigmatic battle-scarred veteran of World War I, and the best boatman on the river, reluctantly agrees to launch the headstrong Evangeline.
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New Romance Mystery for Review: Angie of the Garden by J.E. Hall

J.E. Hall will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with his romance mystery, Angie of the Garden. Short Description: Hollis Simms, a psychiatrist, encounters the spirit of Angie Barton, a woman from the 1800s. Long Description: Angie of the Garden is a story about a psychiatrist named Hollis Simms. He is an affable individual who is dedicated to his patients, and his family. Hollis is married to a provocative and wealthy woman named Olivia: their irrepressible teenage daughter is named Annabelle. She used her considerable resources to purchase the estate called Fairhaven for them to live in. As a boy Hollis found a diary written by a woman
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New Dystopian Thriller for Review: The Miracle Inspector by Helen Smith

Helen Smith will be touring September 4 – October 26 2012 with her dystopian thriller, The Miracle Inspector. The Miracle Inspector is a dystopian thriller set in the near future. England has been partitioned and London is an oppressive place where poetry has been forced underground, theatres and schools are shut, and women are not allowed to work outside the home. A young couple, Lucas and Angela, try to escape from London – with disastrous consequences. 252 pages You can visit Helen online at www.emperorsclothes.co.uk. Book Excerpt: Chapter One: Lucas was dressed smartly, ready for work. He sat at the kitchen table and buttered his toast, and cracked at
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New Paranormal Fantasy for Review: Sam & Emily: A Love Story from the Underground (Tales From Earth’s End – 3) by Sandy Nathan

Sandy Nathan will be touring September 4 – November 30 2012 with her paranormal fantasy, Sam & Emily: A Love Story From the Underground (Book 3 in the Tales From Earth’s End series). The End of the World Was Just the Beginning of Sam’s Troubles Sam Baahuhd has been the headman of the village for twenty-two years. He has the Voice and he has the Power. With them, he can control others with his speech and heal with a touch. Even with his powers, Sam has survived as the headman only because he’s tough and canny enough to keep his fellow villagers from murdering him. Together, they live on
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New Paranormal Fantasy for Review: Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love (Tales From Earth’s End – 2) by Sandy Nathan

Sandy Nathan will be touring September 4 – November 30 2012 with her paranormal fantasy, Lady Grace: A Thrilling Adventure Wrapped in the Embrace of Epic Love (Book 2 in the Tales From Earth’s End series). The Earth has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust. Technological wizard Jeremy Edgarton and a few of his friends were whisked off planet moments before the horror by the goldies, a race of super-evolved aliens who seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for Jeremy, that’s exactly what they were and now he wants out. Jeremy’s mother, Veronica Edgarton, is awakening from a cryogenic sleep in a chamber deep beneath the ice near
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New Suspense Thriller Novel for Review: One Last Lie by Rob Kaufman

Rob Kaufman will be touring September 4 – 28, 2012 with his suspense thriller novel, One Last Lie! Philip and Jonathan have had the perfect life together for ten years – fulfilling every dream except that of having a child. Along comes Angela, Philip’s college friend who apparently conquered her old demons of obesity and manic-depression. After reacquainting and becoming good friends, the three decide to have a child together through artificial insemination of Jonathan’s sperm. From that point, Philip and Jonathan’s idyllic life begins to unravel. Angela’s mask of deceit gradually slips as her pregnancy awakens psychological and physical problems, leaving Philip and Jonathan regretting ever allowing her
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New Women’s Fiction for Review: The Third Grace by Deb Elkink

Deb Elkink will be touring October 1 – November 30 2012 with her women’s fiction, The Third Grace. This tour is part of a Kindle Fire giveaway.  All tour hosts who participate are eligible to win! The past casts a long shadow—especially when it points to a woman’s first love. A single, thirty-two-year-old costume designer in Denver is climbing the ladder to success in the posh world of the arts. She projects cool self-possession, but confusion surges beneath her calcified exterior and her soul is thirsty, remembering . . . When Mary Grace Klassen was seventeen—the summer her brother died—she fell in love with the French exchange student visiting
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New Women’s Health Book For Review: Breast Cancer! You’re Kidding…Right? by Catherine Doughty

Catherine Doughty will be touring September 10 thru November 9, 2012 with her Women’s Health/Women’s Interest book, Breast Cancer! You’re Kidding…Right? Living Life Through the Prism of Uncertainty and Having a Good Time! New Award Winning Book Reveals The Secret to Defeating The Second Leading Cause of Death in Women! When the award winning author, Catherine Doughty, MS, CCHI, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she felt stunned and alone. What gave her the comprehensive strength and strategy to become cancer free and look stunning is revealed in her new award winning book, Breast Cancer! You’re kidding…right? Living Life Through The Prism of Uncertainty
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New Science Fiction Young Adult Book for Review: Charlie’s Trips

Jack Felson, will be touring September 4-28, 2012 with his science fiction young adult novel, Charlie’s Trips! A Sci-Fi version of The Wizard of OZ, about the adventures of a teenage soldier, in a special condition after a space-time travel Charlie Bradshaw is an American teenage soldier, living in the deep Midwest. At only 16, he’s the youngest voluntarily committed US Army soldier ever. After a drill, he’s taken away by a violent tornado and is hurled into space-time, after lightning hits him at point blank, disintegrating him. He’s “reintegrated” 21 years later, on the West Coast, his memory lost but replaced with an ability to see into the
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New Thriller Suspense Novel for Review: Greco’s Game

James Houston Turner, will be touring September 10 – October 12, 2012 with his thriller suspense novel, Greco’s Game! Colonel Aleksandr Talanov — the “ice man” — is married to a woman he wishes he could love. But he can’t, and it’s an ugly consequence of his training with the KGB. Even so, no one should have to experience what Talanov experiences: the brutal murder of his wife in front of his eyes. Wracked with guilt and suspected of plotting her death, Talanov spirals downward on a path of self-destruction. He should have been killed, not her. He was the one whose violent past would not leave them alone.
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New Book for Review: Falstaff’s Big Gamble

Author Hank Quense will be touring from September and October with his humorous rewrite of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Falstaff’s Big Gamble. About Falstaff’s Big Gamble This novel is Shakespeare’s Worst Nightmare. It takes two of the Bard’s most famous plays, Hamlet and Othello, and recasts them in Gundarland.  There, Hamlet becomes a dwarf and Othello a dark elf and Iago and his wife, Emilia, are trolls. If that isn’t bad enough, these two tragedies are now comedies with Falstaff, Shakespeare’s most popular rogue, thrown in as a bonus. Both Hamlet and Othello are plagued by the scheming Falstaff, who embezzles money from Othello.  After Hamlet becomes king (with
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New Paranormal Fiction Novel for Review: Blood and Whiskey by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall

Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall will be touring September 3 – 28 2012 with their paranormal fiction novel, Blood and Whiskey (PumpJack Press). Humor Wanted: Lizzie Vaughan, Dead or Alive Relationships are always hard, but for a broke cowboy and a newly turned Vampire, true love may be lethal. After barely surviving an undead apocalypse in The Cowboy and the Vampire, Tucker and Lizzie hightail it back to quirky LonePine, Wyoming (population 438), to start a family. But she’s got a growing thirst for blood and he’s realizing that mortality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be when your girlfriend may live forever. With a scheming Vampire nation hot
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New Young Adult Novel For Review: Latitudes-A Story of Coming Home by Anthony Caplan

Anthony Caplan will be touring September 3 – 28 2012 with his young adult novel, Latitudes – A Story of Coming Home(Hope Mountain Press). LATITUDES – A story of one boy overcoming dysfuntion, dislocation and distance… When Father and Mother, a highflying young American lawyer and his party-hard bride, fall prey to the self-destructive lure of alcohol and sexual liberation, Will and his sisters pay the price in divorce and kidnappings that take them back and forth between the rain forest hideaways of coastal Latin America and the placid suburbs of Long Island. Will identifies with the oppressed workers laboring in his father’s fast food restaurant and longs for
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New Biography for Review: Felice’s Worlds by Henry Massie

Henry Massie will be touring September 3 – 28 2012 with his biography, Felice’s Worlds (booksBnimble). FIRST SHE ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST AND THE POVERTY OF THE SHTETL. AFTER THAT, SHE MOVED IN MANY WORLDS. AND IN EVERY ONE SHE MADE HER MARK. Felice Massie was a student in France, caught up in the horrors of Naziism when she was 20 years old. Cut off by the war from her family living in a small village in Poland, she shifted from one country to another attempting to find a home for herself and a means to rescue her parents, brother and sister. As the Holocaust descended on her shtetl, she
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review: Willow Pond by Carol Tibaldi

Carol Tibaldi will be touring September 3 – September 29, 2012 with her historical fiction novel Willow Pond. As the Roaring Twenties crumbles into the Great Depression, Virginia Kingsley, owner of New York’s swankiest and most popular speakeasy, Baccanal, learns her baby nephew is kidnapped. Is she somehow involved? His movie star father and her niece must set aside their differences to work with Virginia and her shady contacts to find the stolen child. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who befriends the mother may hold a key to the mystery. 324 pages You can visit Carol online at http://caroltibaldi.com. * * * * If you would like to review
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review – Flesh by Khanh Ha

Khanh Ha will be touring August 6 through September 29, 2012 with his historical fiction novel, Flesh! The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On this quest, Tai’s entire world will shift. FLESH takes the reader into dark and delightful places in the human condition, places where allies are not always your friends, true love hurts, and your worst enemy may bring you the most comfort. In that emotionally harrowing world, Tai
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New Paranormal Romance: A Campy Vampire Western~”Blood and Whiskey” by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall

Blood and Whiskey, delivers double-barreled action, heart-pounding passion and wicked humor when the best of the true west meets the worst of the undead.  A campy and cool book that will set a new and exciting tone for vampire literature! Authors Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall will be touring with us September 3-29th, 2012! Overview : Wanted: Lizzie Vaughan, Dead or Alive Relationships are always hard, but for a broke cowboy and a newly turned Vampire, true love may be lethal. After barely surviving an undead apocalypse, Tucker and Lizzie hightail it back to quirky LonePine, Wyoming (population 438), to start a family. But she’s got a growing thirst
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New Paranormal Fantasy for Review: The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy (Tales From Earth’s End – 1) by Sandy Nathan

Sandy Nathan will be touring September 4 – November 30 2012 with her paranormal fantasy, The Angel & the Brown-Eyed Boy (Book 1 in the Tales From Earth’s End series). Tomorrow morning, a nuclear holocaust will destroy the planet. Two people carry the keys to survival: A teenage boy and an intergalactic traveler. By the late 22nd century, the Great Recession of the early 2000s has lead to a worldwide police state. A ruined United States barely functions. Government control masks chaos, dissenters are sent to camps, and technology is outlawed. War rages while the authorities proclaim the Great Peace. Finally it all breaks down. We’re in New York
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New Holiday Christian Fiction for Review: The Christmas Star by Ace Collins

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Ace Collins will be touring November 5 – 30 2012 with his holiday Christian fiction, The Christmas Star. Short Description: At the end of World War II, a young son mourns the loss of his Marine father who died a hero. Long Description: Robert Reed gave his life for his country in the early days of World War II. His sacrifice was honored when his widow and son were presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor. Each Christmas the final decoration Madge Reed hangs on the family’s tree is that medal. Rather than being a symbol
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New Amish Fiction for Review: The Heart’s Journey by Barbara Cameron

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Barbara Cameron will be touring November  5 – 30 with her Amish fiction, The Heart’s Journey (Abingdon Press). Naomi knows she should be excited about her upcoming wedding but she remains unmoved. Not only are her feelings for her fiance lackluster but she believes he may see her more as a servant than a partner. And he’s so controlling. Is it too late to back out of the marriage? While praying for God’s guidance, Naomi takes a break from her duties as a quilter and travels with her grandmother to Pinecraft, Florida. Along the way Naomi
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New Christian Fiction for Review: The Road to Mercy by Kathy Harris

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Kathy Harris will be touring October 1 – 26 with her Christian fiction, The Road to Mercy (Abingdon Press). Short Description: Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Josh Harrison is taking the Gospel message to thousands of people every night, but his personal faith has never been fully tested until his wife Bethany suffers a deadly brain dissection and the devastating illness leaves her and their unborn child on the brink of eternity—with guilt from Bethany’s past threatening to push her over the edge. Long Description: Dr. Ben Abrams, rescued as an infant from a fiery crash that killed
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New Christian Fiction for Review: Mother of Pearl by Kellie Coates Gilbert

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Kellie Coates Gilbert will be touring October 1 – 26 with her Christian fiction, Mother of Pearl (Abingdon Press). Short Description: A high school counselor seeks justice after learning her own teenage daughter had an inappropriate relationship with the football coach. Long Description: Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as the high school counselor in her close-knit community. Then, without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed by friends and lashes out. Barrie’s attempts to steer her daughter back on course fail. Nothing prepares this mother
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New Christian Romance for Review: A Man of Honor by Loree Lough

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Loree Lough will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with her Christian romance, A Man of Honor (Abingdon Press). Short Description: Dusty and Grace find love together, but will it be enough to pull them through tragedy? Long Description: On a steamy spring morning, Dusty Parker—part-time pastor, part-time search and rescue team leader, and full-time administrator at a school for troubled boys—joins the search for a missing teen girl. He partners with volunteer and inner city school teacher Grace Sinclair, and what they find bonds them in ways neither could have expected. As they begin
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New Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoirs/U.S. History Book for Review: Ashes to Ashes the Twins Fall Down by Pauline L. Hawkins

Pauline L. Hawkins will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with her biography & autobiography/personal memoirs/U.S. History book, Ashes to Ashes the Twins Fall Down: Twin Towers 9/11. Where were you on 9/11? That question has become part of the fabric of our lives as Americans. On that bright, sunny day, none of us had any idea what was in store and how it would change our lives. Depending on what part of the country you lived in, you may not have known anything was going on until several hours after the first plane struck. You may not have heard the news until you got to work, turned
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New Thriller/Romance/Historical for Review: A Matter of Time by Michael Bowler

Michael Bowler will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with his thriller/romance/historical fiction, A Matter of Time (Outskirts Press). Short Description: The world’s greatest evil stalks the world’s greatest ship, and the only one who can stop him hasn’t even been born yet.” Long Description: What is your destiny? This question haunts 20-year-old Jamie Collins. A junior at Santa Clara University in 1986, Jamie has friends, a  professor who mentors him, and a promising future as a writer. Then the dreams begin – nightmarish visions that transport him back to a time and place fifty years before he was born: Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912!  Less than a
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New YA Steampunk for Review: The Hands of Tarot by SM Blooding

SM Blooding will be touring August 6 – September 28 2012 with her young adult steampunk, The Hands of Tarot (Abingdon Press). She killed his father. She imprisoned and beat him. And now she thinks he’s her trophy. Synn El’Asim will do almost anything to prove her wrong. But he’s only proving her right. Queen Nix awakened his Mark of power and inducted him into the House of Wands. She knew what she was doing. The son of the two most powerful Families standing against her is the ultimate prize. What she didn’t take into consideration was that maybe he was too strong for her. Maybe. The Families are weakened,
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