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Pump Up Your Book Presents Train Up A Child Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Johnny Holloway’s TRAIN UP A CHILD Book Tour September 5 – 30!   Inside the Book: Title: Train Up a Child Author: Dr. Johnny Holloway Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Family & Relationship Format: Ebook Have you ever wished for a handbook that could help you train your children to become upstanding, responsible, and successful adults? Unfortunately, many parents feel compelled to raise their children in the same way they were raised, despite the fact that the world is very different than it was when they were children. As a result they may be destined to repeat mistakes their parent’s made and they risk
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Thirteenth Man Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.L. Doty’s novel THE THIRTEENTH TALE on tour August 22 – September 2!   Inside the Book: Title: The Thirteenth Man Author: J.L. Doty Release Date: September 6, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Action/Adventure Format: Ebook After five years as a prisoner of war, Commander Charlie Cass-bastard son of the Duke de Maris-is finally home. But his arrival is cause for consternation as much as celebration, because when he was thought dead, he was considered a hero to the Empire. Alive, he’s a political liability. Because the war with the Syndonese is not yet over, and while the King technically answers to the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Can This Be Home Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Bobbe Palmer’s CAN THIS BE HOME? AND FOUR OTHER STORIES Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Can This Be Home? And Four Other Stories Author: Bobbe Palmer Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Annie has just suffered an unimaginable loss. While she spirals into the darkness of grief, her rancher husband, Ray, appears to lack emotion. But as a storm approaches their Wyoming ranch, Annie finally sees something in Ray’s blue eyes that transforms everything. In a compelling collection of stories, Bobbe Palmer shines a light on five women of different ages and circumstances as each faces
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Train Up a Child Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Johnny Holloway’s TRAIN UP A CHILD Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Train Up a Child Author: Dr. Johnny Holloway Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Family & Relationship Format: Ebook Have you ever wished for a handbook that could help you train your children to become upstanding, responsible, and successful adults? Unfortunately, many parents feel compelled to raise their children in the same way they were raised, despite the fact that the world is very different than it was when they were children. As a result they may be destined to repeat mistakes their parent’s made and they
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cyril H. Price’s THE TINFOIL PRINCE OF HARLEM Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: The Tinfoil Prince of Harlem Author: Cyril H. Price Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback By all reasonable calculations, a black child who started life with as many formidable challenges as author Cyril H. Price shouldn’t have prospered to the point of happiness he currently enjoys. In fact, at eight years of age, Price’s policy was to stay out of trouble, eat, and just survive. Growing up in the heart of Harlem during the Great Depression, Price and his family did what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Geertje Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak’s GEERTJE Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Geertje: Was Seen Through the Eyes of a Child as an Adult Author: Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography Format: Ebook World War II officially ended some seventy years ago, but for some people, it lives on. Gerda Blokhuis Vandenhaak, who spent the war in the Netherlands, still recalls the hunger and fear she felt throughout the war-that sticks out more than hearing about the two little boys killed or the blank expression of her father when she visited him in a concentration camp. She looks
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Corruption Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Gill’s CORRUPTION Book Blast August 15 – August 26!   Inside the Book: Title: Corruption Author: Mike Gill Publisher: AuthorHouse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Milo Devine had spent his life cutting corners and bending the rules to make his fortune until a late-night phone call from Parvez Iqbal helps him discover a conscience that leads him into a world of corruption and crime beyond his imagination. Politics, business, and organised crime merge into one as Milo investigates the bad guys while his friends perish at the hands of two gangs of ruthless criminals who think nothing of killing in the name of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Happen Like Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian Warburton’s HAPPEN LIKE Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: Happen Like Author: Brian Warburton Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 156 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook   The text of this book has been written for children in the range nine to fourteen, maybe older. Possibly it is of interest for slow readers and boys at pre-teenage who need absorbing stories. The subject matter covers adult affairs for children, not excluding greed, jealousy and mention of crime and drugs. One story depicts girls and boys together. But no sexual content. On that, the book could be seen as rather subdued. there
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lycantis Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Malaena Medford’s LYCANTIS Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: Lycantis: Rage of Wolves Author: Malaena Medford Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 208 Genre: General Fiction Format: Ebook Milavenai is a young woman from the strong Norse-like seaside village, Piascas Dulu. Her people’s way of life has always been the same – peria farmers trading frost-hardy fruit in the northern regions of Gordanadar while illegally hunting dangerous beasts and game to feed her village. An ominous foreboding surrounds the land like a shoal of deadly lurkers. There is no question that it is a time of human oppression. One day, Milavenai’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Beginner’s Guide to God Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Neal’s A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GOD (AND WE’RE ALL BEGINNERS) Book Blast August 15 – August 26! Inside the Book: Title: A Beginner’s Guide to God Author: Eric Neal Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 64 Genre: Religion/Faith Format: Ebook When it comes to religion, people often have more questions than answers. In A Beginner’s Guide to God, author Eric Neal hopes to eliminate some confusion surrounding religion and provide a clear and universal pathway to the creator. In this guide, Neal addresses some of life’s biggest questions: Does God exist? What happens when we die? Is this our only life? Who created the universe? How
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sweet Carolina Morning Book Tour

 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Schild’s SWEET CAROLINA MORNING virtual book tour August 8 – August 19! Inside the Book:   Title: Sweet Carolina Morning Author: Susan Schild Release Date: August 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Contemporary Women Format: Ebook/Paperback Life down South just got a whole lot sweeter in Susan Schild’s new novel about a woman whose happily-ever-after is about to begin…whether she’s ready for it or not. Finally, just shy of forty years old, Linny Taylor is living the life of her dreams in her charming hometown of Willow Hill, North Carolina. The past few years have been anything but a fairy tale: Left
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Elan Golomb, author of Unloved Again

  Inside the Book: Title: Unloved Again Author: Elan Golomb Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook/Paperback Love can be hell. It is not an accident which moves us to love the wrong person or to hate the right one, over and over again. Most of us remain unaware of how to escape this perpetual cycle of bad relationships. • Do you continually fall for the wrong person? • Do you find yourself driving the right person away? • Do your relationships quickly switch from blissful to tortured? • Do you criticize unreasonably or find yourself being criticized disproportionally? In Unloved Again, Dr. Elan Golomb identifies the crux of emotional and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Putting Out the Fire: Nurturing Mind, Body and Spirit in the First Week of Loss and Beyond Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Claire M. Schwartz’s book PUTTING OUT THE FIRE: NURTURING MIND, BODY & SPIRIT IN THE FIRST WEEK OF LOSS AND BEYOND on tour August 1 – 30!   Inside the Book: Title: Putting Out the Fire: Nurturing Mind, Body & Spirit in the First Week of Loss and Beyond Author: Claire M. Schwartz Release Date: May 1, 2015 Publisher: Helian Press Books Genre: Self-Help/Grief and Bereavement Format: Ebook/Paperback The phone rings – your breath falls away – and each moment becomes a lifetime. The death of someone significant in your world can rewrite the scope and breadth of who you are. But in this exact
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Syndicate’s Pawns Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Davila LeBlanc’s novel SYNDICATE’S PAWNS: A TALE OF THE JINXED THIRTEENTH on tour July 5 – July 18!   Inside the Book: Title: Syndicate’s Pawns Author: Davila LeBlanc Release Date: July 5, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Action/Adventure Format: Ebook A month has passed since the eclectic crew of the Covenant Patrol vessel Jinxed Thirteenth endured a harrowing mission on the abandoned space station of Moria 3 and rescued its sole surviving crew member. During the mission, Moria 3’s deranged AI all but crippled the Jinxed Thirteenth, and the skeletal crew is now desperately trying to get it repaired. Waking from several millennia
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Crossroads of Space and Time Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charles & Irene Nickerson’s THE CROSSROADS OF SPACE AND TIME Book Tour! Inside the Book: Title: The Crossroads of Space and Time Author: Charles and Irene Nickerson Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 262 Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Ebook Captain Bancroft couldn’t believe this resort. The beaches were pristine. The rooms were comfortable. Everything was so relaxing. The only area off limits was the northern beaches and an area they called the trench. He asked a Mr. Jones why. Mr. Jones told him that since he was head of security. He would take him out to the cliffs and show him the reason. While out there they
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Men Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mira Peck’s MY MEN ! Inside the Book: Title: My Men Author: Mira Peck Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Alina Sherwin has had to fight for every victory in her life. Raised in Poland, she moves to Australia with her family as a young girl. There, in the early 1970s, she becomes the first woman in her state to graduate with an engineering degree and quickly finds that her new industry won’t employ her. Undaunted by rejection from the Australian scientific community and encouraged by her new American husband, Wayne, Alina decides to move again, in hopes of finding what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Palindrome Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.Z. Rinsky’s PALINDROME virtual book tour June 21 – July 15!   INSIDE THE BOOK Title: Palindrome Author: E.Z. Rinsky Publisher: Witness Impulse Pages: 384 Genre: Mystery/Suspense Format: Ecopy/Paperback Private Eye Frank Lamb’s business is simple: He finds things. Be it the world’s hottest pepper seed in a South American dictator’s safe or a pair of Italian art forgers sipping Prosecco in a Miami hotel room, he delivers the goods and collects his check, never with a smile. Work is work, and he doesn’t let it get in the way of the life he’s made for himself and his ten-year-old daughter, Sadie.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Good Deed Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Auston Habershaw’s NO GOOD DEED virtual book tour June 20 – July 1!   INSIDE THE BOOK Title: No Good Deed Author: Auston Habershaw Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 303 Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Format: Ecopy/Paperback Cursed with a magic ring that forbids skullduggery, Tyvian Reldamar’s life of crime is sadly behind him. Now reduced to fencing moldy relics and wheedling favors from petty nobility, he’s pretty sure his life can’t get any worse. That is until he hears that his old nemesis, Myreon Alafarr, has been framed for a crime she didn’t commit and turned to stone in a penitentiary garden. Somebody
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In the Shadow of the Gods Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel Dunne’s novel IN THE SHADOW OF THE GODS on tour June 20 – July 1!   Inside the Book: Title: In the Shadows Author: Rachel Dunne Release Date: June 21, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Fantasy/Action Adventure Format: Paperback/Ebook A breathtaking talent makes her debut with this first book in a dark epic fantasy trilogy, in which a mismatched band of mortals led by a violent, secretive man must stand against a pair of resentful gods to save their world. Eons ago, a pair of gods known as the Twins grew powerful in the world of Fiatera, until the Divine Mother and Almighty
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Just Kiss Me Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel Gibson’s novel JUST KISS ME on tour July 25 – August 5!   Inside the Book: Title: Just Kiss Me Author: Rachel Gibson Release Date: July 26, 2016 Publisher: Avon Books Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Paperback/Ebook/Audio New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gibson returns with this dazzling love story filled with sizzle, sass, and just a bit of southern charm . . . “Hello, Ms. Vivian . . . it’s been a long time.” And with those words, Vivian Leigh Rochet nearly melted. It’s been years since she last saw Harrison Whitley-Shuler. She was a teenager scrubbing houses for a living. He was the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lost Along the Way Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Erin Duffy’s novel LOST ALONG THE WAY on tour July 12 – August 5!   Inside the Book: Title: Lost Along the Way Author: Erin Duffy Release Date: July 12, 2016 Publisher: William Morrow Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Hardcover/Ebook/Audio A fresh, funny, and insightful novel about what it really means to be “friends forever” from the acclaimed author of Bond Girl and On the Rocks. All through childhood and adolescence, Jane, Cara, and Meg swore their friendship would stand the test of time. Nothing would come between them, they pledged. But once they hit their twenties, life got more complicated and the BFFs began to grow distant.
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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 June 6 – June 30!   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 and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents For the Love of I Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patsy Jawo’s FOR THE LOVE OF I virtual book tour June 6 – July 30!   INSIDE THE BOOK     Title: For the Love of I Author: Patsy Jawo Publisher: Vew Publishing Genre: Poetry Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover   ‘For The Love Of I’ is the Inspirational Poetry Book that takes you on a journey of discovery through shared life experiences. It is filled with soul tingling poems to soothe, entertain, heal, motivate, comfort and free your mind, body, soul and spirit. The gift you get from this book is as unique as you are. It inspires as well as dares you to be
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You Are Here Virtual Book Tour!

   Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chris Delyani’s YOU ARE HERE virtual book tour!   Inside the Book: Title: You Are Here Author: Chris Delyani Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Romance Format: Ebook/Paperback All Peter Bankston ever wanted to do was paint. An aspiring painter, Peter scratches out a pauper’s living in San Francisco, wanting nothing more than to be left alone. Instead, he finds himself getting involved with not one but two very different men. Like Peter, getting involved with another man is the last thing on Nick Katsaris’s mind. Smart, handsome, and good-humored, Nick’s done more than just survive—he’s positively thriving in San Francisco. But when he
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Last County Fair Virtual Book Tour

    Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stan Matthews’ THE LAST COUNTY FAIR virtual book tour!   Inside the Book: Title: The Last County Fair Author: Stan Matthews Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Mystery/Detective Format: Ebook/Paperback It is 1967 when a feud begins that could lead to the death of the one-hundred-year-old Chesterton county fair. When veteran reporter Art James is sent to investigate, he immediately delves into a case that will take him six days and hopefully provide him with a much-coveted feature story byline. Bob soon learns that the county is interested in selling the fairgrounds and that there are as many proponents as opponents to the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Musings of a Mad Scientist Virtual Book Tour

   Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Gretch’s MUSINGS OF A MAD SCIENTIST virtual book tour July 4 – July 29   Inside the Book: Title: Musings of a Mad Scientist Author: David Gretch Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Philosophy/Mind and Body Format: Ebook/Paperback What if human nature, in its most primal and innocent stage, is kind and gentle? What if despite the hostility, deception, and corruption of the moment, we earthlings are in fact spirit beings capable of reversion to our innate condition of being a kind and gentle species? If such a synchronous evolutionary leap in consciousness is possible, then past rules can be overlooked as newer
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Realmsic Conquest: The Hero of Legend Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Demethius Jackson’s novel THE REALMSIC CONQUEST on tour June 6 – June 30!   Inside the Book: Title: The Realmsic Conquest: The Hero of Legend Author: Demethius Jackson Publisher: Createspace Pages: 350 Genre: Fantasy From its establishment, The Realm has remained the only magical kingdom in existence. As a result, it has never known peace. For centuries, conquerors have sought the Realm’s power for themselves, while non-magical people known as Laymen have fought to eradicate magic from their lives. Although the kingdom has never fallen, it must now defend against the Warlord Damian – a brilliantly merciless conqueror who uses history as a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Devouring God Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James Kendley’s THE DEVOURING GOD virtual book tour May 30 – June 17!   INSIDE THE BOOK     Title: The Devouring God Author: James Kendley Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Supernatural Thriller Format: Kindle/Paperback Runaways in southern Japan are stripping the flesh from their victims, and only a disgraced former detective can stop the spreading madness in this dark and thrilling sequel to The Drowning God. It’s been three years since security guard Tohru Takuda and his reluctant band of monster hunters defeated the Kappa of the Naga River. Now, a mysterious artifact is driving innocents in Southern Japan to flay their friends
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Massacre of Innocents Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Loren Abbey and Pamela Zibura’s A MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS from June 1 – 30!   INSIDE THE BOOK:         Title: A Massacre of Innocents Author: Loren Abbey & Pamela Zibura Publisher: iUniverse Genre: True Crime/Murder Format: Ebook In 1952 on a highway in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman and four small children are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned. Three of the children are killed. A year earlier, a Folsom gold mine operator had been murdered in a home break-in robbery attempt and five months after the Chester murders, the quiet Southern California city
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Jericho Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alex Gordon’s JERICHO on tour May 23 – June 10! Inside the Book: Title: Jericho Author: Alex Gordon Publisher: Harper Voyager Genre: Supernatural Format: Ecopy/Paperback For readers of Deborah Harkness, J.D. Horn, Lev Grossman, and any supernatural thriller, a young witch must risk death and damnation to defeat a powerful ancient evil in Alex Gordon’s follow-up to the masterful debut Gideon. In unearthing her father’s secret past, Lauren Reardon discovered a shocking truth about herself. She is a Child of Endor, a sect of witches who believe they are the guardians of the “thin places”—areas across the globe where evil can seep through the divide
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