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Book Details: Book Title: Anna: A Life of Faith and Courage by Travis E. Short Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 245 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Publish Authority Release date: July 2023 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only), ebook (Gifted Kindle, EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Sep 2 to Sep 29, 2025 Content Rating: G. Suitable for all readers; no sexual content, and no vulgar language
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Anna's story begins and ends in a convalescent center in Michigan and is told by the author, whose brother looks after her in her waning years. The story is based on a short memoir written by Anna for her children. Her life is filled with trials and tribulations that test her faith to its limits. With a desperately impoverished and undernourished childhood in an itinerant and abusive family living in rural Pennsylvania, Anna is faced with obstacles that could break most people. She finds solace in God with constant prayer and attendance in church services. Although she has little formal education, she is nominated by her pastor to attend bible college. where she excels and meets her future husband. They start a family and despite their own hardships, they devote their lives to helping others. Her powerful story of sacrifice, faith, and courage is an inspiration to us all.
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Book Title: The Adventures of Faraday Fox: A story for Young Readers by Travis E. Short Category: Middle-Grade Fiction (Ages 8-12), 65 pages Genre: Adventure Publisher: Publish Authority Release date: January 2024 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only), ebook (Gifted Kindle, EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Sep 2 to Sep 29, 2025 Content Rating: G. Suitable for young readers
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The Adventures of Faraday Fox is the story of a domesticated red fox that is released back into the Cherokee National Forest to find happiness. Instead, he encounters perils, danger, and hunger, and he decides to return to the home he left in Georgia. His adventures take him across the United States by walking and hitching rides on a train, a tractor-trailer, a boxcar, and in the luggage compartment of a bus. He meets many wild and domesticated animals along the way. When he arrives in California, a wonderful surprise awaits him. The story contains many life lessons and is written with readers, eight to twelve years old, in mind. It contains over twenty prints of original paintings of forest scenes, bears, birds, and other animals by accomplished artist Shirley Adams. 
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Book Title: Killers Can't Hide by Travis E. Short Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 270 pages Genre: Thriller Publisher: Publish Authority Release date: May 2024 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only), ebook (Gifted Kindle, EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Sep 2 to Sep 29, 2025 Content Rating: PG-13. Contains cursing, street talk and sexual implications, no explicit sex.
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Glamour, passion, and horses are a deadly combination for Carmen Cantrell. When the former beauty queen is murdered on her horse ranch, the logical suspect is her estranged husband, Delbert Cantrell. Caught in the throes of a bitter reelection campaign for sheriff, Delbert, a wealthy contractor, must find a way to clear his name. He enlists the help of renowned lawyer Sydney Saperstein and a local investigator by the name of Isadore Holt. Their investigation takes them to Mexico and the southwest USA. More murder, treachery, and romance keep the reader guessing as to the outcome. 
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Book Title: Corners of My Mind: American Short Stories by Travis E. Short Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 329 pages Genre: Short Stories Publisher: Publish Authority Release date: September 2024 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only), ebook (Gifted Kindle, EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Sep 2 to Sep 29, 2025 Content Rating: PG-13. Most stories are G rated, but some contain curse words and street language. No explicit sex.
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Step into the captivating world of Corners of My Mind, a rich tapestry of new American short stories. In this collection by a master storyteller, ordinary people navigate the unexpected twists of fate with resilience and heart. From soldiers and warriors—both real and imagined—to revival preachers and lonely women, each takes a window into the human experience. Drawing inspiration from real-life encounters, dreams, and whimsical imagination, the stories are as diverse as they are compelling. Meet men of action, contemplative souls, and even talking dogs whose thoughts will linger in your mind long after you turn the last page. Whether you seek moments of laughter, tears, or thrilling surprises, Corners of My Mind promises an unforgettable journey. 
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Travis Short is the writer and author of several books, including Anna: A Life of Faith and Courage, Killers Can’t Hide, and The Adventures of Faraday Fox. Among other books, he has also published the illustrated epic poem, Old White Men, a story of the sacrifices by America’s warriors since 1775. His favorite pastime is writing short stories, many of which are contained in this book. Retired as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, he pursued a career in shipbuilding and manufacturing. He has extensive experience in technical writing and business consulting. He is a graduate from the U. S. Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, with a degree in Engineering Sciences. He is the father of four daughters and three sons, and currently resides in Moss Point, Mississippi, with his constant companion, A Lhasa Apso named Choi.
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Aug 10: @therearenobadbooks * - book mail Sep 2 - Liese's Blog - book spotlight of ANNA Sep 2 - Cover Lover Book Review - books spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 2 - @bubbleswrapherbooks * - book review of ANNA Sep 2 - @onemorechap * - book review of ANNA Sep 2 – @bearyintobooks * - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 2 - @youngpink_bibilophile * - book review of ANNA Sep 2 - @my_fair_fiction * - book review of ANNA Sep 2 - @adriftinfictionalworld * - book review of ANNA Sep 3 – Gina Rae Mitchell - book review of ANNA / guest post / giveaway Sep 3 - Kim's Book Review and Writing Aha's - book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX / giveaway Sep 3 - @michellegodardricher * - book review of ANNA Sep 4 - Locks, Hooks and Books - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 4 - Kim's Book Review and Writing Aha's - book review of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE / giveaway Sep 4 - @nessas_book_reviews * - book review of ANNA Sep 5 - @tia.reads * - book review of ANNA Sep 5 – @therearenobadbooks * - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 7 - @readwithinsoul * - book review of ANNA Sep 9 - Liese's Blog - book spotlight of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX Sep 9 - @Leannebookstagram - book review of ANNA Sep 9 - @anjiscape * - book review of ANNA Sep 10 – Gina Rae Mitchell - book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX / giveaway Sep 11 – @reader_ceygo * - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 11 - Locks, Hooks and Books - book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX / giveaway Sep 12 - FUONLYKNEW - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 12 – Writer with Wanderlust – book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX / giveaway Sep 15 – @acourtofspinesnpages * - book review of ANNA Sep 15 - @ablueboxfullofbooks * - book review of ANNA Sep 16 - @Leannebookstagram - book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX Sep 16 - Liese's Blog - book spotlight of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE Sep 16 - @onceuponamaltesereader * - book review of ANNA Sep 17 – Gina Rae Mitchell - book review of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE / giveaway Sep 17 - Deanna’s Bookstagram - books spotlight / giveaway Sep 18 – GetUrBook!!! * - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 18 - @Bookworm86 - books spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 19 - @the_secret_bookreview * - book review of ANNA Sep 19 – Locks, Hooks and Books - book review of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE / giveaway Sep 19 - @respecka * - book review of ANNA Sep 22 – Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of ANNA / giveaway Sep 22 - @Leannebookstagram - book review of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE Sep 22 - @this.human.reads * - book review of ANNA Sep 23 - Liese's Blog - book spotlight of CORNERS OF MY MIND Sep 23 – Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of KILLERS CAN’T HIDE / giveaway Sep 24 - @jilljemmett * - book review of ANNA Sep 24 - Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of CORNERS OF MY MIND / giveaway Sep 24 – Gina Rae Mitchell - book review of CORNERS OF MY MIND / giveaway Sep 25 – @betweentheclassics * - book review of ANNA Sep 25 - Locks, Hooks and Books - book review of CORNERS OF MY MIND / giveaway Sep 26 - @kiv_coffeeandpages * - book review of ANNA Sep 28 - @nissa_the.bookworm * - book review of ANNA Sep 29 - @nyahreadsbooks * - book review of ANNA Sep 29 - @whatsenalireads * - book review of ANNA Sep 29 - @Leannebookstagram - book review of CORNERS OF MY MIND Sep 29 - @readsandmusic * - book review of ANNA Sep 30 - @lizzies.reading.recs * - book review of ANNA Sep 30 - @bookarlo * - book review of ANNA TBD - @the.librarymouse * - book review of ANNA TBD – @rajendra_kumar02 - book review of ANNA TBD - @bookwale_sharmaji * - book review of ANNA TBD – The Life We Build - book review of ANNA / giveaway TBD – The Life We Build - book review of THE ADVENTURES OF FARADAY FOX / giveaway TBD - @doyenne_in_tbilisi * - book review of ANNA
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Book Details: Book Title: SUNNY GALE: A NOVEL by Jamie Lisa Forbes Category: Adult Fiction 18+, 268 pages Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Novel Publisher: Pronghorn Press Release date: May, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA only) and ebook (PDF, NetGalley download) Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 8, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13 +M: There is no profane language. There are some sexual scenes, non explicit. There is one instance of sexual abuse that is more recollected than described. My specific reason for giving this rating was two scenes where animals are harmed intentionally.
"Forbes is an experienced author, and her latest novel is beautifully, even poetically written...A moving, memorable, and fully realized rodeo saga." Kirkus Reviews, starred.
"Those who have an interest in historical fiction...will find this book enlightening. It's an eye-opening read and an evocative mixture of fact and fiction." Michaela Gordoni for Portland Book Review. "Forbes showcases her remarkable storytelling skills, promising readers an unforgettable experience." Suzie Housley for Midwest Book Review
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It's 1895 and fourteen year old Hannah Brandt is struggling with the hard life on a new Nebraska homestead. When her imagination is captured by a wild filly she becomes obsessed with horses, which opens the door to her destiny. Just four years later she enters the first Cheyenne Frontier Day rodeo where she wins the relay race and her fate is sealed. She gives herself a new name, Sunny Gale, and pursues a rodeo career, much to the disgust of her young husband and her very proper mother. Sunny defies convention with every move as the drive to compete takes over her life, leaving everything else behind, including husbands and children. It is a rough life she has chosen, but she craves the glory of the spotlight and refuses to bow to the expectations for a woman in her time. Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes has once again brought us complex characters in a story based on real women and the early days when rodeo was wide open for them to become stars. It is a story of the social mores of the times and of a woman determined to defy them no matter how high the personal cost or where that choice might take her. 
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Jamie Lisa Forbes was raised on a ranch in the Little Laramie Valley near Laramie, Wyoming. She attended the University of Colorado where she obtained degrees in English and philosophy. After fourteen months living in Israel, she returned to her family’s ranch where she lived for another fifteen years. In 1994, she moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2001, she graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and began her North Carolina law practice. Forbes’ first novel, Unbroken, won the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction in 2011. Her collection of short stories, The Widow Smalls and Other Stories, won the High Plains Book Awards for a short story collection in 2015. Forbes’ novel of rural North Carolina in the segregation era, entitled Eden, was published in 2020. Her historical novel about women bronc riders in the early days of rodeo, entitled Sunny Gale, was published in May 2024 by Pronghorn Press. Ms. Forbes continues to live—and write—in North Carolina. Connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ X ~ goodreads
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Oct 21 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight Oct 21- @stars.and.embers * - book review Oct 22 - @acourtofspinesnpages * - book review Oct 22 - @bearyintobooks * - book review Oct 22–@adriftinfictionalworld - book review Oct 24 – Deborah-Zenha Adams – book spotlight / author interview Oct 24 - @this.human.reads * – book review Oct 25–Book Corner News and Reviews - book review Oct 28 – Sharing Life’s Moments – book review Oct 28- Gina Rae Mitchell – book review / guest post Oct 28 - @kiv_coffeeandpages * - book review Oct 28 - @jilljemmett * - book review Oct 30 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / guest post Oct 31 -Cheryl's Book Nook – book review Nov 1 – @Leannebookstagram – book review Nov 4 – FUONLYKNEW – book review / guest post Nov 5 – Books R Us – book spotlight / guest post Nov 5 - @CountryMamasWithKids – book review Nov 6 – Bigreadersite – book review Nov 7 – Connie's History Classroom – book review / author interview Nov 7 – @bookscape__ * - book review Nov 7 - @onceuponamaltesereader * - book review Nov 8– Liese's Blog – book spotlight Nov 8 – @bookameme * – book review Nov 8 – @bookameme * – book review (tiktok) Nov 8 - @readsandmusic * - book review TBD - @alwaysreadingxo * - book review 
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Book Details: Book Title: A Song that Never Ends (Hamilton Place Book I) by Mark A. Gibson Category: Adult Fiction 18 yrs +, 338 pages Genre: Family Saga Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction Publisher: Hamilton Press (Self) Release date: January, 2024 Format available for review: print (print - softback / USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF) Tour dates: Feb 5 to Feb 23, 2024 Content Rating: A soft R for the following: Language, although appropriate for situation, does have a smattering (perhaps 5 uses over 350 pages) of the F-word. Sexual situations are more so implied than graphic, although there is one soft description of fellatio. There is no use of derogatory descriptions for persons, sexes or races. No graphic violence is described.
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Home. For over three hundred years, that’s what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Home. That’s the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the farm more profitable, but his plans are interrupted by World War II and family heartbreak. Walter returns from the war a changed man, and finds Maggie, too, has changed; neither of them for the better. But at least their family is together at... Home. More than anything, that’s where their eight-year-old son, Jimmy Hamilton, wants to be. However, after an unspeakable tragedy, he’s sent away from the only life he’s ever known—to live with a kindly uncle in North Carolina, far from… Home. That’s where Jimmy is finally going to be, unless fate has plans of its own… A Song that Never Ends is the first installment of the Hamilton Place series, an epic family saga extending from the Great Depression to present day. Through war and peace, love and loss, triumph and tragedy; follow the Hamilton family on their journey from a run-down farm in South Carolina, through the jungles of Vietnam, to the top of the world in New York City, and beyond the gardens of stone at Arlington.
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Book Title: Roses in December (Hamilton Place Book 2) by Mark A. Gibson Category: Adult Fiction 18 yrs +, 358 pages Genre: Family Saga Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction Publisher: Hamilton Press (Self) Release date: April, 2024 Format available for review: print (print - softback / USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF) Tour dates: Feb 5 to Feb 23, 2024 Content Rating: A soft R for the following: Language, although appropriate for situation, does have a smattering (perhaps 5 uses over 350 pages) of the F-word. Sexual situations are more so implied than graphic, although there is one soft description of fellatio. There is no use of derogatory descriptions for persons, sexes or races. No graphic violence is described.
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Jimmy Hamilton overcame childhood tragedy to become a hero in Vietnam, only to die there in 1967. All but forgotten, Jimmy leaves behind a young wife, an infant son, and a man wracked by guilt. Circumstances allow Becca, his young widow, to be manipulated into an abusive, loveless union with Jimmy’s brother and into raising her son ignorant of his father’s true identity—a wrong she knows must be set right…but how? When? Like Jimmy before him, James, Jr. is an intellectually gifted, albeit troubled man. Hamstrung by the false narrative of his life and then tormented by an unspeakable loss, his days are spent treading the knife’s edge between present day reality and a past he’s incapable of forgetting. With his final act of bravery, Jimmy unknowingly saved the scion of a powerful Washington family. In so doing, he set in place circumstances that just might draw his son back from the abyss…but only if he can somehow make it home from Vietnam. Roses in December concludes the Hamilton Place series, an epic family saga extending from the Great Depression to present day. Through war and peace, love and loss, triumph and tragedy, follow the Hamilton family on their journey from a run-down farm in South Carolina, through the jungles of Vietnam, to the top of the world in New York City, and through the gardens of stone at Arlington. 
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Mark A. Gibson is a physician who practices Cardiology in the mountains of rural North Georgia. He was raised on a small farm in upstate South Carolina—the last postage-stamp sized sliver of a much larger parcel granted to the family by land grant from King Charles II in 1665—and may or may not have once gotten in trouble for digging up his mom’s calla lily bed in search of the family’s long-lost charter. Dr. Gibson graduated from the Citadel in Charleston, SC with a BS in Biology. Afterwards, he received his medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. He received his Internal Medicine training through the University of Tennessee Medical System and Cardiology training through the Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center. He served for eight years on active duty with the US Air Force, before leaving the military for private practice. Although a cardiologist by profession, Dr. Gibson is a dreamer by nature. He is a self-styled oenophile who enjoys travel and fine food. In his spare time, he builds sandcastles and dreams of distant shores. Roses in December represents Dr. Gibson’s second offering to the world of literature, and the conclusion of his Hamilton Place Series. All previous publications have been of the professional, peer-reviewed, medical variety, and make for lovely sleep aids. Connect with the author: amazon ~ X/Twitter
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Feb 5 – Cover Lover Book Review – book series spotlight / giveaway Feb 5 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 6 – Bigreadersite – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 7 – JB's Bookworms with Brandy Mulder – book series spotlight / guest post / giveaway Feb 7 - Leanne Bookstagram – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 8 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / guest post / giveaway Feb 8 - Country Mamas With Kids – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / author interview / giveaway Feb 9 – The Sexy Nerd Revue – book series spotlight / giveaway Feb 9 - Liese's Blog – book spotlight of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS Feb 9 - Rockin' Book Reviews - book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / guest post / giveaway Feb 12– fundinmental – book series spotlight / giveaway Feb 12 – Welcome To MLMOPINIONS Reviews – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 13 – Welcome To MLMOPINIONS Reviews – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 13 – Bigreadersite – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 14 – StoreyBook Reviews – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 14 - Leanne Bookstagram – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 15 –Novels Alive – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 15 - Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 15- Liese's Blog – book spotlight of ROSES IN DECEMBER Feb 16 - Book Reviews by Linda Moore – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 16 – Novels Alive – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 16 - Book Corner News and Reviews - book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 16 – StoreyBook Reviews – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 19 - Rockin' Book Reviews - book spotlight of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 19- Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 20 - Connie's History Classroom – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / guest post / giveaway Feb 20 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / guest post / giveaway Feb 21 - Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's – book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / author interview / giveaway Feb 21 - @dana.loves.books - book review of A SONG THAT NEVER ENDS / giveaway Feb 22 - Connie's History Classroom – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 22 – Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 22 - Country Mamas With Kids – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 23 –Diane’s Book Journal – book series spotlight / giveaway Feb 23 - Teatime and Books - book series spotlight / giveaway Feb 27 -- Book Reviews by Linda Moore – book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway Feb 27 - @dana.loves.books - book review of ROSES IN DECEMBER / giveaway
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Book Details: Book Title: Two Rivers: De Trouble I Be See by Bob Rogers Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 333 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: BookLocker Release date: June 19, 2023 Formats Available for Review: ebook (MOBI FILE (FOR KINDLE), EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Oct 23 to Nov 10, 2023 Content Rating: R. My book is rated R because of foul language, rape, infanticide, and homicide.
"Rogers...tells the story [in Two Rivers] with the restraint of a gifted writer. Very highly recommended." - Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
"[Two Rivers is] a fast-paced tale of enslaved people in a land on the brink of war...a novel about the iniquities of slavery in pre-Civil War South Carolina." - Kirkus Reviews "For me, the standout feature of the work is its ensemble cast and the passion and emotional intelligence that [Bob] Rogers displays in crafting so many different, realistic, and fully fleshed-out viewpoints...Two Rivers is intricately penned with much to experience, be intrigued by, and learn from." - K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
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Rich with history, the geriatric romance in Two Rivers entertains and educates. Without fear of causing “discomfort” to some, Two Rivers takes us deep into the lives of two peoples—Africans and Europeans—in 1854 near Charleston, South Carolina. In Two Rivers, the parallel courtships of enslaved widow Ella wooing 84-year-old widower Posey and Tiffany Plantation manager James’ pursuit of Jacqueline, daughter of a bank president, reveals the side-by-side lifestyles of enslavers and the enslaved. Attorney James’ dream was to join the elite planter-banker class by any means necessary. Rebuffed by Congressman William Aiken’s daughter, James turned to Jacqueline. Meanwhile, Angolan Ella was determined to marry Posey, whose ancestry was Igbo. Though enemies from the day James arrived, both Posey and James respected Senator John C. Calhoun—but for vastly different reasons. For James, Calhoun represented the “rule-maker class” he wanted to join. Posey welcomed Calhoun’s prediction of war between white people. By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1,100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina’s Colleton District. While the toil of enslaved Africans earned untold riches for the Tiffanys, the Africans endured violence inflicted to force increased rice production and profits followed by the indignity of the bodies of loved ones being stolen from their graves and delivered to a medical school. Rich with history and a cast of unforgettable characters, Two Rivers is a sweeping saga of two peoples—European immigrants and African abductees. Together, they experience courtships, infanticide, homicide, rape, rebellions, revenge, sabotage, storms, high-stakes gambling, grave-robbing, counterfeiting, slave mortgage-backed securities, and more. “De troubles Posey be sees” in Two Rivers reminds one of Southern Gothic storytelling.
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Book Title: First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier's Story by Bob Rogers Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 516 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: BookLocker Release date: September 19, 2015 Formats Available for Review: ebook (MOBI FILE (FOR KINDLE), EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: Oct 23 to Nov 10, 2023 Content Rating: R.
"The book ... is an impressive feat of historical fiction, offering many traditionally underrepresented perspectives in a sprawling work of love and warfare." -- Kirkus Reviews
"An ambitious and lush tale set during the Civil War and Reconstruction." -- Kirkus Reviews "The Gripping saga of Isaac Rice is a hero's journey. [Don't] be surprised if First Dark ends up as a popular movie. It's also a darn good read." -- Baltimore Post-Examiner "First Dark is a powerful story of the underbelly of American history that has been carefully researched and written. Characters are well-developed and believable, and the dialogue and description throughout the book are brilliant." -- Reader's Favorite
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First Dark is a coming-of-age story, an epic adventure, and a compelling examination of the primary feelings that drive human nature – hate, hope, desire, love, loss, grief, revenge, and forgiveness – as seen by Apache, black, Mexican, and white young adults during and shortly after America’s Uncivil War. The San Francisco Review described Bob Rogers as a rising author who takes readers back to life and times in the early years of the Civil War, blending a brilliant mix of historic persons with his fictional characters. Celebrating the sesquicentennial year of the famed Buffalo Soldiers, Bob Rogers delivers his most ambitious work yet–a novel that spans their first generation–from Charleston and Vicksburg to Appomattox and desert Apache battlefields. First came dark days that beset Isaac Rice's epic journey–America’s wars to settle the "Negro and Indian problems.” First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier’s Story–Sesquicentennial Edition (with a foreword by General (Ret) Lloyd “Fig” Newton) is an historically correct action novel that follows Isaac Rice, the Tenth Cavalry, and the women who love him. His nineteenth century saga begins in Charleston and contributes to the story of how twenty-first century America came to be. Telling Isaac’s story, Rogers surrounds a host of diverse fictional characters with an impressive nonfiction cast, including historic political, military, religious figures, and entrepreneurs of that era. Subsequent volumes follow Isaac’s descendants, ordinary nineteenth and twentieth century working people, into and out of calamities–recessions, panics, droughts, world wars, a depression, natural disasters, and the division of people by race, class, and caste. The view through their eyes serves to enhance twenty-first century readers’ understanding of “how things got this way” in America. Isaac Rice, a teenager on a South Carolina rice plantation, traveling alone, follows a treacherous waterborne route filled with incredible hardships and danger to escape from slavery. Too young to be a soldier, the Union Army hires him to shovel coal on a gunboat. Thus begins Isaac’s westward journey, in which he encounters storms, stampeding buffalo, and the hate of zealous patriots whose causes are antithetical to the nation he is sworn to defend. Undaunted, he pursues respect and dignity on an odyssey from the middle of the Civil War in South Carolina’s Low Country and the Mississippi Heartland, to the Indian Wars on the Great Plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. Isaac’s is an epic tale of young North Americans coming of age amid the violence of the U.S. Civil War, Indian Wars, Reconstruction, and spillover bloodshed from a Mexican Revolution. Telling Isaac’s story required extensive research of 19th and 20th century books, official documents, and letters, plus multiple visits to relevant geographic locations over a period of twenty years. A memorable set of characters revolve around Isaac–a Confederate guerilla, a black female activist in a Mississippi Constitutional Convention, a Mescalero Apache warrior, a white Union cavalry sergeant, and a Mexican nurse–who raise their voices and bare their souls as the world they seek constantly changes, bringing tragedy to their lives and danger for Isaac. 
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Bob Rogers is the author of the historical novels First Dark and The Laced Chameleon, which earned critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Review, and Baltimore Examiner. Bob is a meticulous researcher, known to spend extra time, magnifying glass in hand, deciphering 18th and 19th-century handwriting for “just the facts, ma’am.” Bob, a former U.S. Army captain and combat leader during the Vietnam War in Troop A, 1/10 Cavalry, finds his topographic experiences useful in field research. If not closeted in libraries or museums, you are likely to find him walking centuries-old rice fields, battlefields, or in a canoe following the river trails of his characters. He studied at South Carolina State University and the University of Maryland. Bob tends his flowers, okra, and tomato plants in Mérida, Yucatán, México. connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads ~ bookbub - youtube
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Oct 23 – Liese's Blog – books spotlight Oct 24 – Pick a Good Book – books spotlight / author interview / giveaway Oct 25 – StoreyBook Reviews – books spotlight / author interview / giveaway Oct 26 – Novels Alive – book review of FIRST DARK / giveway Oct 26 – Book Corner News and Reviews– book review of FIRST DARK / giveaway Oct 27 – Book Corner News and Reviews– book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE / giveaway Oct 30 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of FIRST DARK / giveaway Oct 31 – Leanne Bookstagram – book review of FIRST DARK Nov 1 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of FIRST DARK / giveaway Nov 1 – Leanne Bookstagram – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE Nov 2 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of FIRST DARK / giveaway Nov 3 – Authors on iTours: Let's Talk Books – book review of FIRST DARK Nov 6 – Stephanie Jane– books spotlight / giveaway Nov 7 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE / giveaway Nov 8 - Locks, Hooks and Books – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE / giveaway Nov 8 – Novels Alive – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE / giveaway Nov 9 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE / guest post / giveaway Nov 10 – Authors on iTours: Let's Talk Books – book review of TWO RIVERS: DE TROUBLE I BE SEE
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Book Details: Book Title: Clarissa: A Clean & Wholesome American Historical Romance by Jean Jacobsen Category: Adult Fiction (18+) , 324 pages Genre: Historical Romance Publisher: Jean Jacobsen Release date: Feb 2020 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only), e-book (EPUB, PDF) Tour dates: May 8 to May 26, 2023 Content Rating: G: Wholesome
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Tragedy brings them together. Will love tear them apart? New York City, 1832. Clarissa Tanner is carefree and lighthearted until the sudden death of her parents. Forced to pay off family debts or lose her horse farm, she's given one choice: auction off her beloved horses or reluctantly enter 1830s New York Society social season to face the dreaded marriage market. Nicholas is a man on a mission, searching for his missing brother. Fearing Liam may be the victim of foul play, Nicholas needs to keep a low-profile while conducting his search. He takes a position as a dance instructor, providing refresher lessons to the beautiful but distracted Clarissa. Clarissa and Nicholas find a connection through grief and movement as they fight their attraction to one another. Will they give in to their desires and find true love or will family obligations keep them apart? 
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Jean Jacobsen is an award-winning storyteller of Sweet, Historical Romance. Featuring strong female characters, roguish heroes, and 19th Century adventure tales. She pens stories that transcend the heart and always have a happy ending. Because of Jean’s deep passion for history, she includes real events from the time period, making her stories come to life as they transport you to a by-gone era. Join her on the next adventure. connect with the authors: website ~ facebook ~ bookbub ~ goodreads
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Book Details: Book Title: Freedom Lessons (a novel) by Eileen Harrison Sanchez Category: Adult Fiction (18+) , 245 pages Genre: American Historical Fiction Publisher: She Writes Press Release date: November 2019 Format available for review: print and PDF Will send print books out: USA only Tour dates: Sep 28 to Oct 9, 2020 Content Rating: PG. This book is a clean read. The use of the words Negro, colored and a one time reference use of nigger, though not politically correct by today's standards, is era specific and not intended in any kind of pejorative sense.
Chosen as a 2020 Pulpwood Queens Book Club pick
2019 Best Book Awards Finalist in Fiction (Multicultural) “This powerful tale offers a beacon of hope that individuals can inspire change.” ―Library Journal
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Freedom Lessons begins in Louisiana 1969 as Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small Southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. She meets Frank, a black high school football player, who is protecting his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community, who must decide whether she’s willing to place trust in her new white colleague. Told alternately by Colleen, Frank, and Evelyn, Freedom Lessons is the story of how the lives of these three purportedly different people intersect in a time when our nation faced, as it does today, a crisis of race, unity, and identity. School desegregation is something we all learn about in history class; perhaps we even remember the striking image of Ruby Bridges being escorted to and from school by the U.S. Marshals. But for most of us in 2019, that’s near the extent of what we understand about that tumultuous time. Eileen Sanchez, the debut novelist behind Freedom Lessons (She Writes Press, November 12, 2019), draws on her own remarkable experience as a young, white teacher in the Jim Crow South during desegregation, to write her immersive work of fiction inspired by those events. The result is an unusually authentic exploration of a snapshot in history through the eyes of characters that are relatable and unmistakably human—living lives and navigating relationships against the backdrop of extreme societal upheaval. Sanchez has woven a beautiful story not just about desegregation as an abstract concept, but about the people who lived it—and asks us to question our assumptions about that time, and the issues it has left in its 50-year wake. 
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Eileen Harrison Sanchez is now retired after a forty-year career in education. She started as a teacher and ended as a district administrator. She has been writing part time for seven years with a writers group in Summit, NJ. Eileen is a member of the Historical Novel Society, Philadelphia Stories Writers Community, Goodreads American Historical Novels Group, and several online writers’ groups. A reader, a writer, and a perennial—a person with a no-age mindset—she considers family and friends to be the most important parts of her life, followed by traveling and bird watching from her gazebo. connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ twitter ~ instagram
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