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Blog Tour – Book Review: The Healing Spell
Twelve-year-old Livie is living with a secret and it’s crushing her. She knows she is responsible for her mother’s coma, but she can’t tell anyone. It’s up to her to find a way to wake her momma up. Stuck in the middle of three sisters, hiding a forbidden pet alligator, and afraid to disappoint her daddy, whom she loves more than anyone else, Livie struggles to find her place within her own family as she learns about the powers of faith and redemption. Livie’s powerful, emotional, and sometimes humorous story will stay with readers long after the last line is…
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Blog Tour – Shadow Hills: Zach Character Interview
Today I’m happy to be hosting the amazing Zach from Shadow Hills. For those of you who haven’t read Anastasia Hopcus’ stunning novel, I can’t recommend it enough! Zach is here for an interview today and was even sweet enough to bring along a signed poster for a giveaway! I’ll let him have the floor now. ***** 1) Tell us something about yourself, something we don’t already know? You can actually get up on top of my dad’s store, and from the Book Stop roof you can walk onto two other roofs. I go up there when I don’t want…
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Blog Tour: Character Interview – Sunny from The Blood Coven Series
Good morning ya’ll! Today I’m happy to have Sunny, a character from Mari Mancusi’s Blood Coven Series, on my blog! She and her sister Rayne are two of the most hilarious and snarky characters that you will ever meet and I love them dearly! So of course when I had the chance to have Sunny stop by my blog, I snapped it up! Take it away Sunny! ***** 1) Welcome to my blog Sunny! If you had to describe yourself in a tweet (140 characters) what would you say? Ugh. Twitter is sooo much more Rayne’s thing. But here goes!…
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Blog Tour – Book Review: Fixing Delilah
Things in Delilah Hannaford’s life have a tendency to fall apart. She used to be a good student, but she can’t seem to keep it together anymore. Her “boyfriend” isn’t much of a boyfriend. And her mother refuses to discuss the fight that divided their family eight years ago. Falling apart, it seems, is a Hannaford tradition. Over a summer of new friendships, unexpected romance, and moments that test the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, Delilah must face her family’s painful past. Can even her most shattered relationships be pieced together again? Rich with emotion, Sarah Ockler delivers a…
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Blog Tour: Sneak Peek at The Eternal Sea
Those of you who have read and loved Everlasting I’m sure are waiting with bated breath for The Eternal Sea, Ange Frazier’s new sequel! With the cover still mostly under wraps, it’s hard to find out too much about the inner workings of the book. Until now. Angie has sweetly offered this sneak peek at The Eternal Sea up to you, my lovely blog readers! You can of course add it to your Goodreads, or your LibraryThing and wait eagerly for its June release. Hopefully this will sate you a bit for now. Enjoy. *** The tidal wind lifted the ivory lace…
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Blog Tour – Book Review: Red in the Flower Bed
The journey of adoption is beautifully depicted with the comforting imagery of a poppy flower who is welcomed into a garden family. It is a charming story of “seeds” being planted in the perfect place – exactly where they belong. Children and adults will enjoy this simple yet meaningful story and homespun illustrations. The book’s loving approach helps children to understand adoption. Andrea Nepa has captured the essence of adoption and family, and has illustrated it beautifully with images and poetry that even a small child can comprehend and enjoy. –From Goodreads Book on YouTube: My Review: Red in the…
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Blog Tour – Book Review: I Know It’s Over
PURE. UNPLANNED. PERFECT. Those were Nick’s summer plans before Sasha stepped into the picture. With the collateral damage from his parents’ divorce still settling and Dani (his girl of the moment) up for nearly anything, complications are the last thing he needs. All that changes, though, when Nick runs into Sasha at the beach in July. Suddenly he’s neck-deep in a relationship and surprised to find he doesn’t mind in the least. But Nick’s world shifts again when Sasha breaks up with him. Then, weeks later, while Nick’s still reeling from the breakup, she turns up at his doorstep and…
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Blog Tour: Book Review – Everything I Never Wanted to Be
Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera is the true story of a family’s battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. Dina’s grandfather and father were alcoholics. Her grandmother was a pill addict. Dina is an alcoholic and pill addict, and all three of her daughters struggle with alcohol and drug addiction including her youngest daughter, who started using heroin at age fourteen. –More at Goodreads Why I chose this: I didn’t choose this book, so much as it chose me. It showed up at my door one day and I read the back of the book, completely blown…
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Blog Tour: Pandora’s Succession – Author Interview
Today I’m proud to offer my blog up to Russell Brooks, author of Pandora’s Succession! His book is action-packed, fantastically researched and written extremely well. My review will be posted tomorrow, but today Russell was kind enough to answer some of my interview questions! Enjoy! 1) I always like to start my interviews with a challenge! If your book was set to become a movie, what would your tagline be? Where will you hide when The Succession begins? 2) This is your debut thriller novel correct? What inspired you to write a thriller? Yes. As every story idea that came…
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Blog Tour: Cry of the Fallen – Book Review
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Black Chronicles: Cry of the Fallen Author: Joel M. Andre Publisher: Darkcountry Publications Pages: Paperback; 216 Release Date: September 8, 2010 Source: Pump Up Your Book Promotions ———————————————— Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who appreciate blood and gore mixed in with their mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N On a warm summer afternoon, in Northern Arizona, a double homicide stains the ground with blood. Detectives are called out to handle the investigation, each plagued with their own internal demons, and aren’t prepared for what they…