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New Book for Review: Nonfiction ‘As the Sycamore Grows’ by Jennie Helderman

Jennie Helderman will be touring in October with her nonfiction book, As the Sycamore Grows.  Imagine Foxfire living while Sleeping with the Enemy in the hills of Tennessee when the enemy totes a Bible and packs a .38. Mike shoved and slapped but his primary tools were isolation and economic abuse. Until he discovered the power of the Lord. As the Sycamore Grows is a nonfiction narrative about ending the legacy of abuse. Ginger McNeil was brought up to pray and obey, but she escaped the padlocked cabin in the woods where she lived off the land with no electricity or telephone. Today she’s a court advocate in the
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New Book for Review: Self-Help ‘Dare to Take Charge’ by Judge Glenda Hatchett

Judge Glenda Hatchett will be touring in October with her self-help book, Dare to Take Charge: How to Live Your Life on Purpose.  For nearly ten years, Judge Glenda Hatchett has delighted TV audiences with a brand of justice that turns the everyday into something eminently watchable. Her message can be distilled into the following two words: Dare Yourself. Whatever obstacles or fears one faces, Judge Hatchett’s prescription implores readers to write their own story in this life. With care and conviction, Judge Hatchett uses real life stories from the courtroom and her personal life to counsel readers. Shows them how to find their true purpose and gifts, to
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New Book for Review: Self-Help ‘The Ice Cream Theory’ by Steff Deschenes

Steff Deschenes will be touring in September and October with her self-help book, The Ice Cream Theory.  The Ice Cream Theory is ice-cream guru Steff Deschenes’s charming exploration of the parallels between human personalities and ice-cream flavors, a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the variety inherent in a well-lived life. The Theory was hatched when Deschenes was trying to make sense of her first heartbreak.  In the midst of that grief, she realized that, in the same way humans have ice-cream preferences, humans have people preferences. Like ice cream flavors, social preferences shift based on age, experience, even mood. There are exotic flavors that one craves when feeling daring, comforting flavors
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New Book for Review: Suspense Thriller ‘Beyond Justice’ by Joshua Graham

Joshua Graham will be touring in September and October with his suspense thriller, Beyond Justice. Sam Hudson, a reputable San Diego attorney, learns this when the authorities wrongfully convict him of the brutal rape and murder of his wife and daughter, and sends him to death row. There he awaits execution by lethal injection. If he survives that long. In prison, Sam fights for his life while his attorney works frantically on his appeal. It is then that he embraces the faith of his departed wife and begins to manifest supernatural abilities. Abilities which help him save lives– his own, those of his unlikely allies–and uncover the true killer’s
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New Book for Review: Women’s fiction ‘Stay’ by Allie Larkin

Allie Larkin will be touring in September with her women’s fiction Stay.  Savannah “Van” Leone has loved Peter since the day they met. The problem is, Peter has loved Van’s best friend, Janie, since the moment they met. And now they’re walking down the aisle, with Van standing nearby in a Halloween orange bridesmaid dress, her smile as hollow as a jack-o-lantern. After the wedding, Van drowns her sorrows in Kool Aid-vodka cocktails and reruns of Rin-Tin-Tin, and does what any woman in her situation would do: She buys a German Shepherd over the internet. The pocket-sized puppy Van is expecting turns out to be a clumsy, hundred-pound beast
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New Book for Review: Biography ‘Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist by Steven Honigberg

Steven Honigberg will be touring in September with his biography, Leonard Rose: America’s Golden Age and Its First Cellist.  Leonard Rose (1918 – 1984) the great American cellist, was considered one of the most important teachers and musicians of the twentieth century. Author Steven Honigberg, who studied at The Juilliard School from 1979 to 1984 in Leonard Rose’s final class, examines the multifaceted American artist and the classical music context dominating Rose’s twentieth century. This eagerly awaited biography portrays a complex individual during a period of tremendous individualism. Honigberg explores his sympathetic nature, his unyielding devotion to the cello, and, inevitably, his failings. Throughout, the reader sees Rose among
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