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New Mainstream Fiction for Review: The Things I Do For You by Mary Carter

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Mary Carter will be touring August 6 – 31 2012 with her mainstream fiction, The Things I Do For You (Kensington Books). Short Description: What happens to a marriage when a husband buys a lighthouse behind his wife’s back? Long Description: Bailey Jordan has loved her husband, Brad, since they were ten years old. She’s followed him on every adventure–opening a sweater store in Seattle, a café in Colorado, a surf shop in Santa Monica. Each time, she’s picked up the pieces when things fell apart. But now, it’s her turn. Bailey has a successful real
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New Christian Fiction Suspense for Review: Shattered Silence by Margaret Daley

Margaret Daley will be touring October 1 – 26 2012 with her Christian fiction suspense, Shattered Silence (Abingdon Press). Short Description: A series of murders seem like a hate crime, but things aren’t what they appear. Long Description: A serial killer is targeting illegal aliens in southern Texas. Texas Ranger Cody Jackson is paired with a local police officer, Liliana Rodriguez, to investigate the murders. While the case brings Cody and Liliana ever closer, the tension between Americans and Mexican Americans heightens. Fighting their attraction, Cody and Liliana race to discover who is behind the murders and bring peace to the area. What they uncover isn’t what they expected.
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New Christian Fiction for Review: Twang by Julie L. Cannon

Julie L. Cannon will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with her Christian fiction, Twang (Abingdon Press, August 2012). Short Description: Haunted by a dark past, country music diva Jenny Cloud pours her pain into the autobiographical lyrics of one hit song after another, until finally the soul-wrenching aspect of her art gets to be too much and she knows she cannot revisit an unmentionable time from childhood without losing her sanity. Long Description: The songs Jennifer Clodfelter writes and sings aren’t from her imagination. With innocence and passion, Jenny pours the pain from her childhood into the lyrics of one Billboard Country hit after another. Her manager
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New Christian Fiction for Review: River’s End by Melody Carlson

Melody Carlson will be touring September 4 – 28 2012 with her Christian fiction, River’s End. Short Description: Anna’s dream of a successful river inn is fully realized, but her family is still fractured—until forgiveness, patience, and unfailing love merge their lives back together again. Long Description: In the final story of the Inn at Shining Waters, Anna’s granddaughter Sarah is struggling to find herself. And in an attempt to escape her parents’ dysfunctional lives, Sarah travels away from all that is familiar. But her grandmother’s love and the pull of the river draw Sarah back. Still it’s not an easy journey to find the healing and forgiveness that’s
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New Christian Fiction Romance for Review: Sandwich With a Side of Romance by Krista Phillips

THIS TOUR IS NOW BOOKED. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPATING REVIEWERS AND TOUR HOSTS! Krista Phillips will be touring October 1 – 26 2012 with her Christian fiction romance, Sandwich with a Side of Romance. Short Description: She moved to Sandwich, IL in search of a new life, but ended up in a giant pickle. Long Description: Sandwich represents hope for twenty-year-old Maddie Buckner and Kyle, the eleven-year-old brother Maddie wants to spring out of foster care. Then she loses her new job after less than a day on the clock. It’s all Reuben-the-Jerk’s fault, and she’s determined to make him right the wrong. He does so, reluctantly, by giving
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New Police Mystery for Review: A Leprechaun’s Lament by Wayne Zurl

Wayne Zurl will be touring August 6 – 31 2012 with his police mystery, A Leprechaun’s Lament. A stipulation of the Patriot Act gave Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looked like a routine chore to the gritty ex-New York detective, turned into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal a middle-aged employee didn’t exist prior to 1975. Murray McGuire spent the second half of his life repairing office equipment for the small city of Prospect, Tennessee, but the police can’t find a trace of the first half. After uncovering nothing but dead ends during the background investigation and
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New Suspense Novel for Review: Humanizing the Jaguar by Monica Daddio

Monica Daddio will be touring August 6 – September 29,2012 with her thriller, Humanizing the Jaguar. How do you tame the untamable? Bryan Wharton has been through more than any child should bear, leaving him emotionally scarred. When his new family proves to him that love and encouragement do exist, Bryan pursues his only dream. With the friendship and support of a few boys from school, they succeed in making their wild fantasies of becoming rock stars a reality. Through their hard work they rise to fame, while Bryan’s confident, cocky attitude generates animosity within the group. After a particularly grueling ordeal, he meets a young woman who captivates
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New Thriller for Review: Ride the Tiger by Pat Silver-Lasky

Pat Silver-Lasky will be touring August 6 – August 31,2012 with her thriller, Ride the Tiger. Fame, money and sex, that’s what tinsletown is all about. Madelaine Brent wanted them all and she always got everything she wanted. But sometimes everything is too much and somebody gets murdered. Maddie remembered an ancient Chinese proverb her agent told her as a warning, so long ago: ‘She who rides the tiger better not dismount.’ Was she about to fall off? This is the deeply penetrating story of a film star who puts her career and her erotic desires above all else. Madelaine Brent is willing to undergo the tortuous beauty treatments
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New Legal Thriller for Review: Terminal Ambition by Kate McGuinness

Kate McGuinness will be touring August 13 – November 16,2012 with her legal thriller, Terminal Ambition. Maggie Mahoney wants justice for women at her law firm. The firm chairman wants to be Attorney General. Only one can win. Sweeny, Owens & Boyle sits at the top of Wall Street law firms. Brilliant and beautiful, Maggie Mahoney became a partner and the trophy wife of its managing attorney. Her husband’s death renders Maggie an outsider with the firm’s male establishment and creates a power vacuum. Obsessed with his dream of becoming the next Attorney General, firm chairman, Andy Anderson, chooses a surprising replacement: Jack Slattery, a reputed sexist. Jack’s background
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New Body, Mind and Spirit/Self-Help Book for Review: Let’s Talk Intuition by Darlene Pitts

Darlene Pitts will be touring August 6 – August 24,2012 with her body, mind, and spirit/self-help book, Let’s Talk Intuition. How do I trust my intuition? Can my intuition help me reduce stress? How do I use my intuition to find a good relationship? In Let’s Talk Intuition, intuition consultant Darlene Pitts answers these questions and many others clients have asked her over ten years, to show you how quick and easy it is to use your intuition at home, work, school, and play right now. She describes the ways your intuition helps you save money, time, and energy in twenty-eight areas of life, including career, finances, health, and
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New Adventure Fantasy Novel for Review: The Big Throw

C.V. Rosasco will be touring September 4 – October 26,2012 with his thriller novel, The Big Throw. The terrifying challenges Charlie faces in a strange, parallel world called the Devic Realm, must be faced alone. His animal and spirit guides can only point the way. An ominous test awaits him that will throw him into the shadowy forces of Washington D.C., al-Qaida, and the envoys of darkness on Earth. On a planet lost in political violence and disconnected from the natural world, Charlie is challenged to grow up and embody the nature of love, commitment, and ferocity. 432 pages * * * * * If you would like to
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New Crime Detective Novel for Review: Fit to Kill

Donnie Ray Whetstone will be touring August 6 – August 24,2012 with his thriller novel, Fit to Kill. How do you stop a personal trainer, who fantasizes about killing his clients, then carries out his gruesome desire on someone else? Making matters worse, how do you stop desires for your own trainer, jeopardizing your marriage? More troubling, do you want to? That’s what Detective Tara Tanner must solve in this crime thriller. La Flore is renowned for its elite personal trainers. This model city however, faces a crisis. Someone is on a killing binge. The killer is vicious and cunning. He harbors a profound irony for one of the
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New Thriller Novel for Review: The Prisoner

Norm Applegate will be touring August 6 – August 24,2012 with his thriller novel, The Prisoner. Syria A brutal killing in a city jail. Isolation. Escape. Murder. A prisoner walks out and disappears. England A stranger enters an apartment, a grotesque murder, a passport is seized. Canada A woman meets a stranger, a sultry night together, in the morning she’s dead… USA A FedEx driver is mutilated, a .50 caliber sniper rifle is missing… Houston The President makes an appearance… The Prisoner: a merciless assassin, cold and ruthless with no compassion for human life. Jack Dwyer ex-military psychologist puts together the pieces. You go to the FBI, they don’t
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New Spiritual Self Help Book for Review: Finding Home – Breaking Free From Limits

Joleen Bridges will be touring July 16 – August 17,2012 with her self help spiritual book, Finding Home – Breaking Free From Limits. Within our soul, we are already free. There is within us an indescribable place where we know this instinctively and intuitively – this is a place we call “home.” Finding Home, Breaking Free from Limits is a charter to discover that place, and in doing so, transform our lives and the lives of others. Finding Home, Breaking Free from Limits intention is to energize the mind to challenge the propaganda of fear and limitations and enable one to embrace a new attitude of personal and spiritual
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New Horror/Fantasy Novel for Review: The Difference by Alessandro Tesio

Alessandro Tesio will be touring August 6 – August 26,2012 with his fiction novel, The Difference. It’s the beginning of the new millennium. The Delta team is a team of professional soldiers in charge of guarding and protecting against paranormal activities that are spreading throughout the world. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other mutants are running rampant, and when The Delta team is mysteriously rescued by three strangers, they learn of a society known as The Assembly of Hidden Truth. Contact with this secret organization will bring the members of the U.S. Department of the Paranormal section to discover the fate of humanity and ancient prophecies about the end of
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New Fiction Novel For Review: Twelve Months by Steven Manchester

Steven Manchester will be touring August 13 – October 11,2012 with his fiction novel, Twelve Months. Don DiMarco has a very good life – a family 
he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately felled most, Don now wonders if he has time enough. Time enough to show his wife the romance he didn’t always lavish on her. Time enough to live out his most ambitious fantasies. Time enough to close the circle on some of his most aching unresolved relationships. Summoning an
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New Horror Novel For Review: Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Ethridge

Benjamin Ethridge will be touring August 6 – October 26, 2012 with his horror novel, Bottled Abyss. Herman and Janet Erikson are going through a crisis of grief and suffering after losing their daughter in a hit and run. They’ve given up on each other; they’ve given up on themselves. They are living day by day. One afternoon, to make a horrible situation worse, their dog goes missing in the coyote-infested badlands behind their property. Herman, resolved in preventing another tragedy, goes to find the dog, completely unaware he’s on a hike to the River Styx, the border between the Living world and the world of the dead. Long
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New Fantasy Novel For Review: Shadow in the Reflection by Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora

Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora will be touring September 2 – October 26, 2012 with their fantasy novel, Shadow in the Reflection. Can destiny be fulfilled in just one lifetime? Dr. Gregory Ambrose thinks so. Through past-life regression therapy with a young woman named Anne, he finds himself carried over the centuries to not only a different time but a different reality. Anne’s memories act like tendrils, drawing Ambrose into this most savage time with her. Frustrated and confused Dr. Ambrose reaches out to a colleague for help. During their conversations, he learns that one of this doctor’s past-life regression patients believes that he was some kind of Viking
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New Young Adult Fantasy Romance for Review: Voluspa: A Magical World by Sam D. & Ray East

Sam D. & Ray East will be touring August 6 – October 26 2012 with their young adult fantasy romance novel, Voluspa: A Magical World. Centuries ago, war between aliens and humans almost destroyed the world. To prevent such a war from happening again, a mighty ruler then formed a secret society of nine powerful humans and aliens called the Bramhas. These Bramhas each wrote a book imparting ancient wisdom and knowledge. The possession of these books could bring about untold power and success. The nine books were hidden but the desire to possess those books, still cause men to fight wars and turn against each other. One such
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New Historical Nonfiction for Review: The IRA on Film and Television by Mark Connelly

Mark Connelly will be touring August 6 – October 26 2012 with his nonfiction book, The IRA on Film and Television. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has for decades pursued the goal of unifying its homeland into a single sovereign nation, ending British rule in Northern Ireland. Over the years, the IRA has been dramatized in motion pictures directed by John Ford (The Informer), Carol Reed (Odd Man Out), David Lean (Ryan’s Daughter), Neil Jordan (Michael Collins), and many others. International film stars as Liam Neeson, Brad Pitt, James Mason, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Richard Gere, and Anthony Hopkins have portrayed IRA members as heroic patriots, psychotic terrorists and
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Looking for blog hosts for huge Kindle Fire Promotion for The Baby Matrix

Laura Carroll will be touring July 2 – September 24 2012 with her nonfiction book, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World. We are looking for blog hosts who would like to review this book, interview Laura, have her write a guest post for you or post a book spotlight during her July, August and September tour. This tour is also part of a huge Kindle Fire giveaway where you, the blogger, can win, too! Also we are offering incentives for not only your visitors but you, also. Win $50 for the blog with the most comments
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New Horror Novel for Review: The Blood Poetry by Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

Leland Pitts-Gonzalez will be touring August 6 – 24 2012 with his horror novel, The Blood Poetry. Is Epstein a Despicable Man? He’s certainly trying desperately at something. When his wife disappears he’s frantic to talk to his daughter. But what can he tell her? There must be a reason and he’s all but sure about the gruesome answer. Can he protect Sylvia from the truth, from her terrible lineage and, ultimately, from himself? Off-beat and sordid, The Blood Poetry is a twisted, yet honest look at our desire to connect with others and the ways in which we are often stymied by our own efforts to get closer.
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New Nonfiction Book for Review: The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll

Laura Carroll will be touring July 2 – September 24 2012 with her nonfiction book, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World. Why does our society hold the belief that we are all destined to have children? Why do we believe that parenthood is the ultimate road to fulfillment in life? In The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World, author Laura Carroll answers these questions and more through an exploration of and critical look at the pervasiveness of “pronatalism” – the belief that having children
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New Autobiography for Review: Final Approach: Northwest Airlines Flight 650 Tragedy and Triumph by Lyle Prouse

Lyle Prouse will be touring August 6 – 24 2012 with his autobiography, Final Approach: Northwest Airline Flight 650 Tragedy and Triumph. This is the story of the first airline pilot ever arrested and sent to prison for flying under the influence. He was fired by his airline, stripped of his FAA licenses, tried, convicted, and sent to Federal prison. This was a first. It had never occurred before. Lyle Prouse came from a WWII housing project in Kansas and an alcoholic family where both parents died as a result of alcoholism. He rose through the ranks of the United States Marine Corps from private to captain, from an
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New Drama/Play for Review: The Last Person Who Saw Farrokh by Farrokh Nazerian

Farrokh Nazerian will be touring July 2 – 27 2012 with his 4 act play, The Last Person Who Saw Farrokh. As dusk falls over a desert landscape, a lone woman waits anxiously on a bench near a dried tree to meet someone. She is approached by a young man. The mysterious interaction, and enigmatic conversation, which ensues after their encounter, sets the tune for this esoteric four act play by Farrokh Nazerian, The Last Person Who Saw Farrokh. 104 pages You can visit Farrokh online at www.thelastpersonwhosawfarrokh.com. Book Excerpt: To live a simple life is to live in harmony with life. Cherish it. Understand it rather than reason
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New Crime Fiction/Suspense for Review: Crashers by Lindy S. Hudis

Lindy S. Hudis will be touring August 6 – September 24 2012 with her new crime fiction/suspense novel, Crashers: A Tale of Cappers and Hammers. Fraudulent car accidents is a multi-million dollar racket, involving unscrupulous medical providers, personal injury attorneys, and the cooperating passengers involved in the accidents—and who also receive a portion of the illegal proceeds. Such is the fate of newly engaged, Nathan and Shari, whose joy is tempered by the dark cloud of mounting debt. A chance encounter with a stranger in whom Shari confides her troubles proves fortuitous: he tells her of a get-rich-quick scheme that will put her and her fiancé on easy street.
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New Contemporary Women’s Fiction Novel: Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex by Anna O’Moss

Anna O’Moss will be touring July 2-27, 2012 with her contemporary women’s fiction novel, Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex! When six old friends meet for lunch… they discover things about each other… they never knew existed… Sandra, a writer, excited to have a book deal, which is based on her story of FORBIDDEN LUST, now must tell her friends what really happened on their last church camping trip. They swore they would never speak of it again and now it is going to be exposed to the world.Now in her forties, Darlene is outraged, until she lets them in on her secret. As their day turns into
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New Psychological Thriller for Review: White Lies by Jeremy Bates

Jeremy Bates will be touring July 2 thru August 24, 2012 with his psychological thriller, White Lies! ABOUT WHITE LIES While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and predatory. Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car. But when she later discovers that he is a teacher at the same school, she finds herself feeding that initial lie with more lies. Then Katrina meets a
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review: The Katyn Order by Douglas Jacobson

Douglas W. Jacobson will be touring July 2-27 ’12 with his historical fiction novel,The Katyn Order.  The German War Machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Rising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers
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New Paranormal Thriller for Review: The Evelyn Project by Kfir Luzzatto

Kfir Luzzatto will be touring with us from July 2nd – August 30th showcasing his new book, “The Evelyn Project,” a contemporary thriller with flashbacks to the 1800’s and  featuring paranormal undertones. This book will be blitzing through our reviewers and it’s sure to have a huge following! Specifically, “The Evelyn Project” is the story of how Evelyn’s father did everything in his power to save his dying daughter, black magic included. But when a century later his plea for help gets into the wrong hands, all hell breaks loose. Caught in the slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a cult that wants to change the past, a young
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