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BOOK TOUR: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

4/15/2019

Book Details:

Book Title: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
Category:  Adult Fiction, 399 pages
Genre: Literary
Publisher:  Lake Union
Release date:  September 2018
Format available for review:  print and ebook (gifted Kindle copy, PDF)
Will send print books to: USA & Canada
Tour dates: June 3 to July 12, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 (There are some non-explicit sex scenes)

Book Description:

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller!

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.

Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.

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Meet the Author:

A former attorney, Sejal Badani left the law to pursue writing full time.

She is a USA Today, Washington Post & Amazon Charts bestselling author, Goodreads Fiction Award Finalist and ABC/DISNEY Writing Fellowship Finalist.

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BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE:

June 3 - Avid Inspri - review / giveaway
June 3 - 100 Pages A Day - review / giveaway
June 4 - Found In Words - review
June 4 - The Moon Who Listens - book spotlight / giveaway
June 5 - Elizabeth McKenna - Author of Happy Endings - book spotlight / giveaway
June 6 - Paulette's Papers - book spotlight / giveaway
June 7 - Viviana MacKade - book spotlight / author interview
June 10 - Locks, Hooks and Books - review / giveaway
June 11 - JB's Bookworms with Brandy Mulder - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
June 12 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway
June 13 - #redhead.with.book - review / giveaway
June 14 - Books for Books - review
June 17 - Olio by Marilyn - review / author interview / giveaway
June 17 - Mama Panda Bear - review / author interview / giveaway
June 18 - The Avid Reader - review
June 19 - gwendalyn_books_ - review
June 20 - The Book Chick - review / giveaway
June 21 - Mystery Suspense Reviews - book spotlight
June 24 - Sefina Hawke's Books - review
June 25 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review
June 26 - Literary Flits - book spotlight / giveaway
June 26 - I'm Into Books - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
June 27 - Shalini's Books & Reviews - review
June 28 - B for Bookreview - book spotlight / author interview
July 1 - The Magic of Wor(l)ds - book spotlight / author interview
July 2 - Celticlady's Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
July 3 - Just One More Chapter - review / giveaway
July 4 - StoreyBook Reviews - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
July 5 - Peaceful Pastime - review
July 9 - Amy’s Booket List - review / giveaway
July 11 - Sahar's Blog - review
July 11 - Country Gal Book Blog - book spotlight / author interview
July 12 - Cheryl's Book Nook - review / guest post / giveaway
July 12 - Svetlana's Reads and Views - review
July 20 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
TBD - On My Bookshelf - review / author interview
TBD - A Fountain of Books - review / giveaway

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BOOK REVIEW TOUR: Nightfall (Book 1 in the Clemhorn Trilogy) By Andrew J Harvey

4/13/2019

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Join us for this tour from June 3 to 14, 2019!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Nightfall (Book 1 in the Clemhorn Trilogy) By Andrew J Harvey
Category:  Adult Fiction, 250 pages
Genre: Science Fiction Military, Alternate History
Publisher:  Zmok Books, an imprint of Pike and Powder Publishing Group LLC
Release date:  February 2019
Format available for review: ebook (mobi file for Kindle), ePub
Tour dates: June 3 - 14, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 (My book includes some violence and adult themes including one off-camera torture scene)

Book Description:

After eighty years of war the remnants of humanity on the Nayarit Line struggled to survive in sealed domes, surrounded by radioactive wasteland and genetically engineered viruses. It was in the last, desperate years of the war that the first trans-temporal portal was developed at Chiqu, a small research facility on the west coast of North America. As the domes finally failed and civilization collapsed around them, Iapura led fifty-three survivors to found a new empire on a parallel Earth; an Earth where, in 1884, Russian and English armies faced each other across America’s Great Plains, totally unprepared for the technology of the invading Nayarit. The Cross-Temporal Empire now encompasses fifty-four parallel Earths. But with its ruling Council riven by dissent the death of First Leader Manet, sets the Council into a slow and irrevocable slide into civil war.

A war that threatens not only the lives of the Clemhorn siblings: Conrad, Arnold, Donald, and Ivy; but the very future of the Empire.

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Meet the Author:

Andrew spent his high-school years in the school's library lost in the worlds of Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov.

His first novel to be accepted for publication was originally completed to be read to his two sons at night. Now his children have left home he lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife, one dog, and sixty-four goldfish.

Connect with the author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook

BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE:

June 3 - Locks, Hooks and Books - review / giveaway
June 4 - The Autistic Gamer - review / giveaway
June 5 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
June 6 - Dab of Darkness Audiobook Reviews - book spotlight / interview / giveaway
June 7 - Kurt's Frontier - review
June 10 - The Irresponsible Reader - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
June 12 - Blooming with Books - review / giveaway
June 14 - #redhead.with.book - book spotlight / giveaway
June 22 - Books for Books - book spotlight

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BOOK REVIEW TOUR: Velvalee Dickinson: The "Doll Woman" Spy by Barbara Casey

4/8/2019

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Join us for this tour from May 27 to June 7, 2019!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Velvalee Dickinson: The "Doll Woman" Spy by Barbara Casey
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction, 184 pages
Genre:  True Crime / Historical / Biography
Publisher: Strategic Media Books
Release date:  April 2019
Format available for review: print, ebook (PDF, gifted Kindle copy)
Will send print books out: USA & Canada
Tour dates: May 27 to June 7, 2019
Content Rating: PG - Velvalee Dickinson is appropriate for all ages.

Book Description:

Velvalee Dickinson was born in Sacramento, California, graduated from Stanford University, married three times, and then in the early 1930s moved to New York City where she eventually opened her own exclusive doll shop on the prestigious Madison Avenue. It was there that she built her reputation as an expert in rare, antique, and foreign dolls. She traveled extensively around the country lecturing and exhibiting her dolls while building a wealthy clientele that included Hollywood stars, members of high society, politicians, and other collectors.

When medical bills started to accumulate because of her husband’s poor health and business started to fail with the onset of World War II, she accepted the role as a spy for the Imperial Japanese Government. By hiding coded messages in her correspondence about dolls, she was able to pass on to her Japanese contacts critical military information about the US warships. After surveilling Velvalee for over a year, the FBI arrested her and charged her with espionage and violation of censorship laws. She became the first American woman to face the death penalty on charges of spying for a wartime enemy.

Velvalee Dickinson: The “Doll Woman” Spy is a carefully researched glimpse into the “Doll Woman’s” life as a collector of dolls, and as the highest paid American woman who spied for the Imperial Japanese Government during World War II.

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Meet the Author:

Barbara Casey is the author of several award-winning novels for both adults and young adults, as well as book-length works of nonfiction, and numerous articles, poems, and short stories. Her nonfiction true crime book, Kathryn Kelly: The Moll behind Machine Gun Kelly, has been optioned for a major film and television series. Her nonfiction book, Assata Shakur: A 20th Century Escaped Slave, is under contract for a major film. In addition to her own writing, she is an editorial consultant and president of the Barbara Casey Agency.

Established in 1995, she represents authors throughout the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Japan. In 2018 Barbara received the prestigious Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and Top Professional Award for her extensive experience and notable accomplishments in the field of publishing and other areas. Barbara lives on a mountain in Georgia with her husband, and three pets who adopted her: Benton, a hound-mix; Reese, a black cat; and Earl Gray, a gray cat and Reese’s best friend.

Connect with the author:  Website

BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE:

May 27 - Working Mommy Journal - review / giveaway
May 28 - R eaders Cozy Corner - review / giveaway
May 28 - My Devotional Thoughts - review / giveaway
May 29 - Library of Clean Reads - book spotlight / giveaway
May 30 - Literary Flits - review / giveaway
May 31 - #redhead.with.book - review / giveaway
June 3 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review / giveaway
June 3 - Ani's Books - review / author interview / giveaway
June 4 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway
June 7 - Just Reviews - review
June 7 - Cheryl's Book Nook - review / author interview / giveaway
June 7  - Books for Books - review
June 10 - Readers' Muse - review / guest post / giveaway

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BOOK TOUR: Burton Blake by Robert Tucker

4/3/2019

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Join us for this tour from  May 27 to June 28, 2019!

Book Details:

Book Title: Burton Blake by Robert Tucker
Category:  Adult Fiction, 518 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC / Wise Words Publishing
Release date:  1/06/2019
Format available for review: print, ebook (PDF, mobi and ePub)
Will send print books out: USA & Canada
Tour dates: May 27 to June 28, 2019
Content Rating: G (Depictions of violence are minimal. No bad language, religious expletives, sex scenes, drug use or underage drinking.)

Book Description:

In this sequel to the well-received The Revolutionist, the American journey of three generations locks the neophyte company president, Burton Blake, in a vicious struggle with corporate intrigue, financial greed, and social corruption. Born to a taxi dancer at the beginning of the Second World War, Burton’s father, Elias Blake, never knows his natural father, who is killed in the South Pacific. He is raised by his mother and stepfather from her second marriage who makes his fortune during the post war real estate boom of the 50’s. Their untimely death by his business partner leaves the boy Elias in the guardianship of his mother’s best friend and her marine vet husband who introduces him to the macho culture of guns and hunting.

Elias’s youth is influenced by the adult world’s drive for personal material gain. Over the next decades, he expands his parents’ original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional, multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son, Burton. Upon his forced return from traveling and working with oppressed third world people, Burton learns increasingly more about the true nature of his deceased father as he undertakes the challenges of leading the company in a new direction.

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Although Burton Blake is a stand-alone novel, the author is offering the first book The Revolutionist for review also. Interested? Just choose this option on the sign-up form.

Book Details:

Book Title: The Revolutionist by Robert Tucker
Category:  Adult Fiction, 649 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC / Wise Words Publishing
Release date:  12/03/2017
Format available for review: print, ebook (gifted Kindle copy)
Will send print books out: USA & Canada
Tour dates: May 27 to June 28, 2019
Content Rating: PG + M (This book does not contain any gratuitous violence. Any depicted violence is relevant to the historical period, as are scenes of white slave prostitution, sexual and physical abuse, and one of an abortion mill. They are written with sensitivity as to time and place and with appropriate literary language.)

Book Description:

Two different families escape from the political tyranny of their respective homelands, the Josephsons from Sweden and Matias and Kurt Bauman, brothers from Germany and Austria Hungary, with the aid of a Viennese opera diva, Sophie Augusta Rose, and Jean Guenoc, a former Jesuit priest, family friend and protector and partisan of the French underground. Their journey brings them to America in the throes of the industrial revolution during the 1890s and early 1900s.

Ingrid and Olaf Josephson settle on a small wheat farm in North Central Minnesota to raise their children, Newt and Julie. Among the Jewish entrepreneurs forced to leave Germany and Austria-Hungary, Matias and Kurt Bauman re-establish their transportation company in Chicago, Illinois. In search of a secret list of insurgent social democrats, the bounty hunter assassin, Luther Baggot, tracks his victims to the American heartland. Following the murder of their mother and father, Newt, Julie, and their friends, Aaron and Beth Peet, hide from the killer in a Northern Minnesota logging camp. Believing the children have taken possession of the list, Luther tracks them down and they are forced to flee again, this time to Chicago where a different world opens up to them as they are thrust into the turmoil and violence of an urban society and economy careening into the new century.

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Meet the Author:
Robert is published by Tell-Tale Publishing Group LLC / Wise Words Publishing under a multi-book contract. The author of four previous earlier novels, Robert infuses his books with unique dynamic stories and characters that portray social and cultural conflicts of their time. His career encompasses many years as a business consultant that have given him access to a wide range of organizations and an appreciation for people in all areas of society. His life experience is reflected in the literary quality of his work. Born and raised in the Middle-West, he has traveled throughout the United States and abroad.

Now retired, he resides with his wife in Southern California where he devotes full-time to writing. Robert is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Masters Degree in Communications at the University of California, Los Angeles where he received the Samuel Goldwyn and Donald Davis Literary Awards.

An affinity for family and the astute observation of generational interaction pervade his novels. His works are literary and genre upmarket fiction that address the nature and importance of personal integrity.

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BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE:

May 27 - Working Mommy Journal - review of The Revolutionist
May 28 - #www.redhead.with.book - book spotlight / giveaway
May 29 - Corinne Rodrigues - book spotlight / giveaway
May 29 - Viviana MacKade - book spotlight / guest post
May 30 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review of The Revolutionist / guest post / giveaway
May 30 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review of The Revolutionist / giveaway
June 3 - Working Mommy Journal - review of Burton Blake
June 4 - Jayne’s Books - review of The Revolutionist
June 5 - Paulette's Papers - book spotlight / giveaway
June 5 - T's Stuff - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
June 6 - Locks, Hooks and Books - review of The Revolutionist / giveaway
June 11 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review of Burton Blake / giveaway
June 12 - My Devotional Thoughts - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
June 13 - Locks, Hooks and Books - review of Burton Blake / giveaway
June 14 - Jayne’s Books - review of Burton Blake
June 17 - StoreyBook Reviews - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
June 18 - Haddie's Haven - review of The Revolutionist / giveaway
June 18 - Celticlady's Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
June 21 - Cheryl's Book Nook - review of The Revolutionist / giveaway
June 24 - Literary Flits - book spotlight / giveaway
June 25 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review of Burton Blake / giveaway
June 27 - Haddie's Haven - review of The Burton Blake / giveaway
June 28 - Cheryl's Book Nook - review of Burton Blake / giveaway
July 16 - Svetlana's Reads and Views - review of The Revolutionist
July 17 - Svetlana's Reads and Views - review of Burton Blake
July 23 - Library of Clean Reads - review of The Revolutionist
TBD - Library of Clean Reads - review of The Burton Blake/ giveaway

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