Eric Burkhart is the only American spy who was poisoned by a Russian and lived to tell the tale
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Book Details:

Book Title:  Mukhabarat, Baby! My Life as a Wartime Spy for the CIA by Eric Burkhart
Category:  Adult non-fiction, 280 pages
Genre:  Memoir
Publisher:  Scottsdale Multimedia, Inc.
Release date:  May 1, 2015
Available for review in:  Print, ebook (mobi file for Kindle)
Will send books:  USA & Canada
Tour dates: February 22 - March 4, 2016
Content Rating: PG-13 + M (Includes profanities, violence and includes mature themes such as physical abuse)

Book Description:

This is the story of a young American who would eventually fulfill his dream of becoming a CIA Case Officer, only to have a promising career cut short after having been purposely poisoned by a contact. 

Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe in a bilingual household, and accepted a job in Africa right out of college. Upon his return to the United States, he was hired as an Immigration Agent in Laredo, Texas, working Inspections on one of the busiest port-of-entries connecting the United States and Mexico. This experience is detailed in this humorous, occasionally heartbreaking memoir about choosing to be a survivor. 

 In 2000, Burkhart accepted a position as a Case Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. The book includes details of both the notoriously arduous hiring process and the rigorous training program, including Burkhart's eventual successful completion of the Espionage Course taught at the famous "Farm". Burkhart's first overseas working experience was in war-torn Kosovo, where he was unwittingly poisoned by an unstable intelligence contact. Burkhart would struggle with the repercussions of this episode for the remainder of his career, and eventually be obliged to accept full medical retirement from the CIA. 

However, before retiring, Burkhart completed tours in Iraq and Africa. His time spent in the Green Zone almost immediately following the occupation of Baghdad, constitutes the majority of this enlightening book. Burkhart exposes the reader to the human element within the CIA, and we are introduced to a variety of characters, some who will seem familiar, and some who reveal the eccentricities we expect with this kind of occupation. 

Follow Burkhart through the battlefields of Iraq, past the Iraqi Insurgency, and to his next assignment in Africa. Burkhart leaves no emotion unexpressed as he details his medical struggles with the horrific damage caused to his body from Toxic Exposure. Wracked by pain, Burkhart reaches the point where he must consider quality of life issues, and has to accept retirement as a necessary decision. Burkhart has a story to tell, and leaves no stone unturned during this turbulent time both in his life, and in our history.

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 Meet the author:  

Eric Burkhart was born in North Carolina in 1965, and raised in France by his mother while his father was serving in Vietnam. Eric's parents retired to San Antonio, Texas in 1978, and Eric has considered himself a Texan since that time.

​After completing college, Burkhart relocated to South Africa for a job in community planning and design. After returning to the United States in 1994, Eric started a career in federal service by becoming a Federal Agent. In 1999 he moved over to the CIA, which became his passion and focus in life. After being poisoned by while working in Kosovo in 2001, Burkhart was eventually obliged to medically retire, but not before extending his career to include tours in Iraq and Africa. Mukhabarat, Baby! is Burkhart's first book.

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TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 22 -   Library of Clean Reads - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 22 -   Olio by Marilyn - review / author interview
Feb 23 -   Amie's Book Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 23 -   Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - review
Feb 24 -   Corinne Rodrigues - review / giveaway
Feb 25 -   Heidi's Wanderings - review / giveaway
Feb 26 -   Library Educated - review
Feb 26 -   Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - author interview
Feb 29 -   Book Reviews Nature Photos and Everything Between - review
​March 1 - Puddletown Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway
March 2 - A Blue Million Books - book spotlight /author interview / giveaway
March 2 - Ali - The Dragon Slayer - review / guest post
March 3 - The World As I See It - review / giveaway
​March 4 - One Frugal Girl - review / giveaway

ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!

Emmy Nation is an independent woman in 1913 London.   She is tired of the inescapable damp seeping through her worn shoes and the hopeless grumblings of her stomach.

When she receives an offer from Scotland Yard to boost her typist income by spying on the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), Emmy jumps at the chance.  But how far is she willing to go to secure her equality?

Join us for this  tour from Feb 15 to 26! If you're interested in this tour, and you haven't received an email offer of review, please feel free to fill out the sign-up form.

Book Details:

Book Title:  Emmy Nation, Undercover Suffragette by L. Davis Munro
Category:  Adult fiction, 320 pages
Genre:  Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Publisher:  L. Davis Munro
Release date:  November 2015
Available for review in:  Print, mobi, PDF
Will send print books:  USA & Canada
Tour Dates:  Feb 15 to 26, 2016
Content Rating:  PG + M (My book will describe the force feeding of women in jail and some violence such as, window smashing, post box bombings, and street fights as well as some mild profanity. Mature content relates to the feminist movement's militant activities and the subsequent force feeding of women when they were imprisoned.)

Book Description:  

Being an independent woman in 1913 London is certainly empowering, but Emmy Nation is tired of the inescapable damp seeping through her worn shoes and the hopeless grumblings of her stomach.

When she receives an offer from Scotland Yard to boost her typist income by spying on the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), Emmy jumps at the chance. But as she grows closer to the WSPU women the lines begin to blur, and when a painful part of her past resurfaces Emmy begins to question her choices.

​How far are you willing to go to secure your equality?

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Meet the author:

​L. Davis Munro holds a master’s degree with a focus on women’s suffrage theatre and works in theatre and dance. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with her husband and her dog.


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TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 15 - Working Mommy Journal - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 15 - Amie's Book Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 16 - Jorie Loves a Story - author interview
Feb 16 - Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - review
Feb 17 - Laura Fabiani - Top 500 Amazon.ca Reviewer - review
Feb 17 - Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - guest post
Feb 18 - Reviews by Martha's Bookshelf - review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 19 - #redhead.with.book - review / giveaway
Feb 22 - Book Reviews Nature Photos and Everything in Between - review
Feb 23 - History from a Woman's Perspective - review
Feb 23 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review / giveaway
Feb 23 - Bound 4 Escape - review / giveaway
Feb 24 - Jorie Loves a Story - review
Feb 24 - Sahar's Blog - review
Feb 25 - Laura's Interests - review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 26 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway

Enter the Giveaway!

He has known evenings contemplating the slow descent of the moon over an inexorably westernizing China, mornings navigating the unflinching waters of the Yukon River in northern Canada, and afternoons propelling an IV-bound child through forbidding hospital corridors.

Like Prufrock, Richman shivers at the thought of growing old, of becoming stale.

Join us for this memoir book touring from Feb 15 - 26! If you're interested in this tour, and you haven't received an email offer of review, please fill out the sign-up form.

Book Details:

Book Title:  Shivers and Signposts by Len Richman
Category:  Adult non-fiction, 156 pages
Genre:  Memoir
Publisher:  Friesen Press
Release date:  September 2015
Available for review in:  Print, ebook
Will send books:  USA & Canada
Tour dates: February 15 - 26, 2016
Content Rating: G 

Book Description:

Shivers & Signposts: The Journey Continues is Len Richman’s second exploration of a life measured out by a distinct rhythm of his own devising. Picking up where his first memoir, Raindrops Glimpses Moments: An Unconventional Memoir of an Unplanned Journey, left off, Richman shows in Shivers & Signposts that he still has much to do, and much to say.

Richman attacks life with uncommon vigour. Never motionless, he moves forwards - and sometimes backwards - suffusing each manoeuvre with unique energy…vitality and constant evolution.

Shivers at the thought of growing old, of becoming stale…occasional alienation and loneliness, Richman, is driven onwards by “a pressing need to redefine and redirect his innermost self”, a self that he continually re-evaluates through the lens of modern technology, literature, theatre and film.

These are the signposts that guide him through his fascinating quest for renewal of spirit and self…Let us hear his decisive commentary on modern social and cultural mores, his unapologetic tackling of issues from racism to materialism to present-day psychoanalysis. Let us listen to the music of Richman’s own Love Song, about the love of a life well-lived – and still well-worth living. Let us be challenged, through Richman’s examination of his own life, to ask of ourselves: How should we presume?

From the “Introduction” by Stuart Lubarsky, M.D.
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Meet the author:   

Len Richman has a long history with the Thomas More Institute of Montreal: student, course designer/ leader, Board of Directors member, and Chair of the Accreditation Committee.

He holds a teaching certificate from McGill University’s MacDonald College; a B.A. from the University of Montreal (Literature); an M.A. in education from Concordia University (Outdoor Education), and a post-graduate Comprehensive Certificate from TMI (Culture and Identity Studies.)

Travel, work and field background continue in parts of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Pacific, and Canada’s northern communities. An educator in the areas of literature, wilderness/ outdoor pursuits, adult learning programs, international and multi-cultural studies for decades, a “redirection” of interests after 60 resulted in his becoming engaged in the performing arts: acting, directing, producing and writing. He is presently associated with Quebec Drama Federation (QDF), Black Theatre Workshop (BTW), Advisory Board of Pointe Claire Library, English Language Arts Network (ELAN), Quebec Writers’ Federation (QDF), Playwrights’ Guild of Canada (PGC), and Alliance of Canadian Cinéma Télévision & Radio Artists (ACTRA).

Born, bred and residing in and around Montreal (his favourite city next to New York, Prague, Budapest, and Dawson City, Yukon), he and his wife have three sons who have provided almost “free entertainment” with six grandsons and two “bonus” granddaughters from six to twenty-six years of age. He hopes to maintain sharing his wondering and wandering from his previous book, Raindrops Glimpses Moments: An Unconventional Memoir of an Unplanned Journey, to the present Shivers and Signposts: The Journey Continues, and beyond.

Connect with the author:  Website

TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 15 - Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - review
Feb 16 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
Feb 17 - Jorie Loves A Story - review of Raindrops, Glimpses, Moments
Feb 17 - Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - guest post
Feb 18 - Ali - The Dragon Slayer - review / guest post
Feb 18 - A Mama's Corner of the World - review / giveaway
Feb 19 - The book trail - review
Feb 22 - Sahar's Blog - review
Feb 22 - Book Reviews Nature Pictures and Everything in Between - review
Feb 23 - Puddletown Reviews - review / giveaway
Feb 23 - Jessica Cassidy - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 24 - Jorie Loves A Story - review
Feb 25 - Heidi's Wanderings - review
Feb 26 - Rockin' Book Reviews - review / guest post / giveaway

Enter  the Giveaway!

Four years, over 100,000 km, two banged-up knees and loads of memories.

This project has been close to my heart as I've had the opportunity to play with and document children from all over the world.

Join us for this  tour from Feb 1 to 26! If you're interested in this tour, and you haven't received an email offer of review, please feel free to fill out our sign-up form.

Book Details:

Book Title:  To Be a Child by Debra Schoenberger
Category:  Adult non-fiction, 240 pages
Genre:  Documentary / Photography
Publisher:  Blurb Publishing
Release date:  November 30, 2015
Available for review in:  ebook, (ePub or PDF)
Tour dates:  Feb 1 to 26, 2016
Content Rating:  G

Book Description:

Give a child a cardboard box and his imagination will turn it into anything but!

Today, it is less common to see children playing in the streets, especially in urban areas. The plethora of ready-made toys should make any child happy.  What usually happens is that the box the toy came in becomes the toy!

This book documents children at play (and at times at work) from 10 different countries. A child's ingenuity never ceases to amaze me and I hope you will share these images with your children as well.  

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Meet the author / photographer:  
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Debra Schoenberger aka #girlwithcamera

"My dad always carried a camera under the seat of his car and was constantly taking pictures. I think that his example, together with pouring over National Geographic magazines as a child fuelled my curiosity for the world around me.

I am a documentary photographer and street photography is my passion. Some of my images have been chosen by National Geographic as editor's favourites and are on display in the National Geographic museum in Washington, DC.  I also have an off-kilter sense of humour so I'm always looking for the unusual.  Plus I usually have a lot of scars on my knees.
​(le sigh...)

I live with my creative director, Miss Pickles (my budgie) in Victoria, BC, Canada.

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Connect with the photographer's website:   Website  

TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 1 -   Corinne Rodriguez - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Feb 1 -   Amie's Book Reviews - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 2 -   Giraffe Days - review
Feb 2 -   Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
Feb 3 -   Collecting Moments - review
Feb 4 -   Working Mommy Journal - review / giveaway
Feb 5 -   Collecting Moments - guest post
Feb 7 -   Alexandru Ciobanu - review 
Feb 8 -   T's Stuff - review / guest post / giveaway 
Feb 8 -   Deal Sharing Aunt - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 9 -   Room With Books - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 10 - Bound 4 Escape - review / giveaway
Feb 11 - Readers' Muse - review / author interview
Feb 12 - Anne - Amazon Reviewer - review
Feb 12 - Pretty Panda Reads - review
Feb 15 - View from the Birdhouse - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 16 - Fantastic Feathers - book spotlight / guest post
Feb 17 - Writer with Wanderlust - review / giveaway
Feb 18 - Grant Oakes Photographer - Amazon Reviewer - review
Feb 19 - Book and Ink - review / giveaway
Feb 22 - Svetlana's Reads and Views - review
​Feb 22 - Ali - the Dragon Slayer - review / guest post
Feb 23 - Life As Leels - review
Feb 24 - Novel Escapes - review
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Enter the Giveaway!

Police Chief David O’Callaghan and Chelsea Adams’ wedding day is fast approaching.

Unfortunately, at the last minute, David discovers that there is one small problem to be taken care of before he can tie the knot—divorce his first wife!
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Join us for this mystery book touring from Feb 1 - 29, 2016! If you're interested in this tour, and you haven't received an email offer of review, please fill out the sign-up form.

Book Details:

Book Title:  Cancelled Vows by Lauren Carr
Category:  Adult fiction, 422 pages
Genre:  Mystery
Publisher:  Acorn Book Services
Release date:  January 2016
Available for review in:  Print and ebook: mobi (for Kindle), ePub, PDF 
Will send books:  USA & Canada
Tour dates: February 1 - 29, 2016
Content Rating: PG (There is no graphic violence, explicit sex scenes, or foul language. However, since it is a murder mystery and there is some very mild sexual content (brief nudity).

Book Description:

Police Chief David O’Callaghan and Chelsea Adams’ wedding day is fast approaching. Unfortunately, at the last minute, David discovers that there is one small problem to be taken care of before he can tie the knot—divorce his first wife!

Lauren Carr takes fans of the Mac Faraday mysteries to the Big Apple in this nail biting adventure. In Cancelled Vows, David, Mac, and Gnarly, too, rush to New York City to dissolve David’s marriage to an old girlfriend—and he’s got five days to get it done. When murder throws up a road block, it is up to David’s best man, Mac Faraday, and Gnarly, K9-in-waiting, to sort through the clues to get David to the church in time!

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Meet the author:  

Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday and Lovers in Crime Mysteries and the Thorny Rose Mysteries. Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of writing and publishing by conducting workshops and teaching in community education classes. She lives with her husband, son, and four dogs (including the real live Gnarly!) on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV.


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TOUR SCHEDULE:

Feb 1 -   Rockin' Book Reviews - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 2 -   Working Mommy Journal - review / giveaway
Feb 2 -   Bab's Book Bistro - review / guest post / giveaway
Feb 3 -   T's Stuff - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
​Feb 3 -   Readers' Muse - review / guest post
Feb 4 -   Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - review 
Feb 5 -   #redhead.with.book - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb 5 -   Bound 4 Escape - review / giveaway
Feb 8 -   A Blue Million Books - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Feb 8 -   Jaquo Lifestyle Magazine - author interview
Feb 9 -   A Mama's Corner of the World - review / giveaway
Feb 9 -   Laura Fabiani - Amazon.ca Top 500 Reviewer - review
Feb 10 - Book Reviews Nature Photos and everything in between - review
Feb 10 - Mystery Suspense Reviews - book spotlight / guest post
Feb 11 - Vic's Media Room - review
Feb 11 - 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, &, Sissy, Too! - review / giveaway
Feb 12 - The Autistic Gamer - review
Feb 15 - Library of Clean Reads - review / giveaway
​Feb 15 - Sahar's Blog - review
Feb 16 - Christa Reads and Writes - review
Feb 16 - Olio by Marilyn - review / guest post
Feb 17 - A Bookaholic Blog - review / author interview
Feb 18 - fundinmental - review / author interview / giveaway
Feb 19 - The World As I See It - review / giveaway
Feb 22 - Nighttime Reading Center - review / giveaway
Feb 23 - Heidi's Wanderings - review / giveaway
Feb 24 - fuonlyknew - review / giveaway
​Feb 24 - Pause for Tales - review / author interview
Feb 25 - Allthingsbookie - review / giveaway
Feb 26 - Misty103@HubPages - review / author interview
Feb 29 - Jessica Cassidy - review / author interview / giveaway
​Feb 29 - Melina's Book Blog - review

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