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  Join us for this tour from Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: MY WAY HOME by Holly Heaton Category: Children's Fiction (Ages 3-7), 32 pages Genre: Children's Fiction Publisher: Holly Heaton Release date: August 11, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (MOBI for Kindle and PDF) internationally. Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024 Content Rating: G: The book follows Kit on a whirlwind of an adventure trying to reclaim a precious item and return it home all while facing external dangers. Book Description: Enter the hidden realm of the Little Folk and follow Kit on a thrilling adventure. Can he reclaim an object precious to his people and return home to the Hollow Chestnut? Using his wits and environment, Kit embarks on this miniature odyssey through a lushly illustrated world.  Meet the Author: Whether through pictures, words, or her dad’s castoff camcorder, Holly has spent her life telling stories. She can usually be found chasing exciting bits of history and spending time with her husband, sons, and dog, Wesser, in metro Atlanta. connect with author: instagram ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
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  Join us for this tour from Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: The Bad Luck Nickel by Matthew Leslie Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 370 pages Genre: YA Fiction Publisher: Ausable Books Release date: August 11, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF) internationally. Tour dates: Oct 21 to Nov 15, 2024 Content Rating: PG: The book is a YA novel that touches on mature themes. There are profanities in the dialogue, and the story touches on themes of addiction, drug abuse, mental health, sexuality, underage drinking, but there are no descriptive sex scenes, and while there is some mild violence there are no guns. Book Description: When Blair Matthews, teen celeb and son of rock legend, The Blade, shows up at a high school in Montreal amidst rumors of a drug-fueled sex scandal, it’s the most excitement the students at Trudeau High have seen in years. And when Marco and his twin sister Julianna become fast friends with Blair, it seems like a dream. For Marco, Blair lifts him out of his post-breakup funk, and joins his band, The Bad Luck Nickel, instantly making it one of the hottest groups in town. And for Jules, Blair is her celebrity crush come to life in her living room. But can Blair leave his past behind and start fresh at Trudeau High? Or will his infamy follow him from LA to MTL?  Meet the Author: Matthew Leslie grew up in Windsor, Ontario, where he played bass in bands during high school and university. He reckons himself a writer, musician, and lover of lovely things. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches his favourite books to teens with the goal of inspiring a love of reading... connect with author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ goodreads Tour Schedule: Coming Soon! Enter the Giveaway:
Coming Soon!   Join Us for This Tour from October 7 to October 25, 2024 Book Details: Book Title: Sometimes When I'm Jealous by Deborah Serani, Psy.D Category: Children's Non-Fiction (Ages 3-7), 40 pages Genre: Children's Picture Book Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Release date: September 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-hardback USA, PDF Tour dates: October 7 to October 25, 2024 Content Rating: G. Rated G. Book Description: Sometimes When I'm Jealous helps young children work through the complicated emotions of jealousy. As with other books in the "Sometimes When" series, Dr. Deborah Serani, Psy.D, grounds every page in research with gentle prose, while illustrator Kyra Teis brings textured illustrations to deepen the reading experience. A special section at the back of the book provides more information and tips for adults to help little ones work through the jealous feelings.  Meet the Author: Deborah Serani, Psy.D. is psychologist in practice over 30 years. She is an award-winning author of numerous books on the subject of psychology. She is also a senior professor at Adelphi University. Connect with the author: website ~X/twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads Tour Participants:
@this.human.reads @nissa_the.bookworm @acourtofspinesnpages @stars.and.embers @KimBartosch @junebug_reads Cheryl's Book Nook @bookscape__ Country Mamas With Kids @Leannebookstagram @onceuponamaltesereader @readsandmusic @bookameme @ginaraemitchell @amybooksy @regallywritten @onceuponafrida @lottesbookcorner @kiv_coffeeandpages   Join us for this tour from Oct 7 to Oct 25, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: WHO SAVED WHO by Roslyn Cohn Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 151 pages Genre: memoir Publisher: Amazon Release date: November 2023 Format available for review: print-softback (USA only); ebook (GIFTED KINDLE (available only via Amazon.com), EPUB, PDF). Tour dates: Oct 7 to Oct 25, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13: The author uses the F-Word. Book Description: Growing up in beautiful Bohemian 1970s Marin County, the daughter of a funny pawnbroker-jeweler with vision who knew the streets and a warm, independent Mom turned Naturalist-Animal Rights Activist, Roz is an award winning actress who spent 20 years in NYC where she worked on stages from the size of a postage stamp to Broadway. She left NYC and relocated to Los Angeles striving for work in TV and Film and, more importantly, to be closer to her Marin folks. Roz takes us on a quick re-cap of the next 20 years, drawing us into her journey of 2022 full of desperate twists where she didn’t feel there was much purpose left to her life, to the messages from The Other Side and an ultimate life affirming turn that will warm your heart. Who Saved Who is a book for the dog lover in all of us with the purpose of getting them out of Shelters and into your loving homes. It’s a book you will get a kick out of, possibly recognize parts of your own journey in loving dogs and in finding her own ultimate higher mission. It’s a an utterly enjoyable, captivating, and moving read told through words, pictures and video.  Meet the Author:
Roslyn Cohn is an actress who has worked from stages the size of a postage stamp to Broadway with the likes of Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Jerry Stiller, Ellen Greene, and Julie Hagerty, as well as appeared in TV, film, and commercials. Roz has won awards in Intimate Theatre (known as 99 Seat) in Los Angeles; awards for her Short “Essential Tremors” about her neurological disorder; and in 2013, with Jake Anthony and Joshua Finkel, co-wrote and stars in the groundbreaking, Broadway World Award-nominated “diffiCult to leave,” about her 23 years in the Cult of Scientology. The entire show lives on her YouTube channel: RoslynCohn. You can visit her at: www.RoslynCohn.com. #WhoSavedWho #ShelterDogsRock #AdoptDontShop Connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ X ~ goodreads   Join us for this tour from Sep 16 to Oct 4, 2024! Book Details: Book Title: DEAR HADES by Alyssa Roat & Hope Bolinger Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 402 pages Genre: YA Romance, Greek Myths, Chat Fiction, Humor Publisher: Torchflame Books Release date: September, 2024 Format available for review: ebook (EPUB, PDF). Tour dates: Sep 16 to Oct 4, 2024 Content Rating: PG. The book contains some non-graphic, usually cartoonish violence. It also contains a brief vague reference to sexual assault for those familiar with Greek mythology. Characters occasionally use Greek-mythologized versions of mild language (e.g. "oh my gods" or "sweet Hera"). Some kissing (not descriptive). Book Description: She' s a monster. He' s a mortal. Killing each other should be easy... right? When Medusa and Tiresias rise from the Underworld as twenty-first-century teens and meet through Persephone and Hades' new dating app, it seems like a second chance. Dating is hard when you turn everyone to stone, but dating a blind prophet may be a loophole ... even if he does occasionally spout dire prophecies. But not everyone is pleased with an app designed to kindle romance between mortal enemies. As distrust grows between the heroes, monsters, and gods making up the app's user base, it' s easier to fall into old habits than fall in love. With pressure building on both sides, Medusa and Tiresias accept their task: kill their date, no matter how much they bond over their love of dogs or the way the gods have wronged them in the past. Caught amongst meddling gods, murderous heroes, and a classic Greek bet, Medusa and Tiresias may have signed up for more than a dating profile. With war brewing at the hands of the gods, working together may be the only way to save mortals and monsters alike. Told entirely through instant messages and transcripts, this is one mythically funny romantic comedy you don' t want to miss.  Alyssa Roat Meet the Authors: Alyssa Roat lives in the cornfields of Indiana, but she hopes to soon discover a portal to a fantasy world where she will run a bookshop for magical creatures. For now, she is an award-winning multi-published author and has worked in a wide variety of roles within the publishing industry as an editor, agent, writer, and publicist. She and her partner have four black cats who allegedly have never been fed in their lives and occasionally help her write by walking across the keyboard. Her name is a pun, which means you can learn more about her at www.alyssawrote.com or on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as @alyssawrote. connect with the author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads  Hope Bolinger Hope Bolinger is the author of more than 25 books, including the award-winning Blaze trilogy, and has contributed to many more. She has worked for various publishing companies, magazines, newspapers, and literary agencies and has edited the work of 300+ authors. She has won awards for her essays, poetry, children’s books, novels, and plays. She’s a theater nerd and spends too much time hiking and petting her fat cats, Freya and Odin. She can be found online @hopebolinger and @hopekbolinger. connect with the author: website ~ X/Twitter ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads Tour Participants:
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Join Us for this Tour: September 3 to September 30, 2024
Book Details: Book Title: FIRST VIOLIN by Richard Tomlinson Category: Adult Fiction 18+, 268 pages Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Publisher: Richard Tomlinson Release date: February 21, 2024 Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF) internationally. Tour dates: Sep 3 to Sep 30, 2024 Content Rating: PG-13 +M: The book is centered around two romantic relationships in Vienna from the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 to the division of Vienna into four occupation zones (USA, UK, France, Soviet) late in 1945. The main character, a virtuoso violinist who played for Vienna Philharmonic, endures a concentration camp where he suffers physical and mental abuse, and after the war busks for a living. Close attention is paid to the history of the period.
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The year is 1938 and Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany. Klaus Lehner plays first violin for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and when the concertmaster is amongst other Jews expelled from Philharmonic, he sees the opportunity for a position he covets He is bitterly disappointed when he is passed over. In the wake of his disappointment, Klaus’s lover Eva, a virtuoso cellist, urges him to become a soloist. To determine whether he is merely brilliant or can truly move an audience she tasks him with mastering difficult pieces by Bach and Paganini, and with fathering her baby – both of which he does. Meanwhile, at home, Klaus’s wife Helga gives birth to their firstborn. When Eva’s Nazi husband finds out about the love affair, he has Klaus arrested and sent to a Mauthausen subcamp to supervise Ukrainian laborers. Amidst the suffering, Klaus composes a tone poem, Silence Interrupted, translating his nightmares into sound. After the camp is liberated, Klaus returns to a war-torn Vienna devastated by American bombers and occupied by the Soviet army. He makes a living busking in front of the Soviet Vienna City Kommandatura. Klaus faces a choice between the two women he left behind.
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Meet the Author:
Richard Tomlinson’s working life has been divided between being an academic and an urban policy consultant. As an academic, either in full-time or visiting capacity, he has been located in Australia at the University of Melbourne (Chair of the Urban Planning Program); in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand; and in the USA at Columbia and New School Universities and MIT, and in think tanks at the Brookings Institution and the Wilson Center; and at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. A Fulbright Scholar, he did his PhD at Rutgers University. As a post-1990 consultant based in Johannesburg, Richard’s clients in Southern Africa included the post-apartheid South African government, various local and international NGOs, the World Bank, USAID and the private sector, during which time he also facilitated multi-party negotiations. He has also worked with community organizations. Richard’s current activities depend on the weather: kayaking, swimming, hiking and mountain climbing and writing. Surfing has given way to age. First Violin, set in a wonderful city, Vienna, is his debut novel. connect with the author: website ~instagram ~ facebook ~ X/Twitter ~ linkedin
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Sep 3 – Cover Lover Book Review– book spotlight / giveaway Sep 3 - @Leannebookstagram– book review Sep 3 – @alwaysreadingxo * - book review / giveaway Sep 3 - @bookscape__ * - book review / giveaway Sep 3 - @bearyintobooks* – book review / giveaway Sep 3 - @this.human.reads* - book review / giveaway Sep 4 – @my_fair_fiction * - book review / giveaway Sep 4 – Cassandra Lynn Literature – book review / giveaway Sep 5 – Bigreadersite– book review / giveaway Sep 5 - @book_withquotes * - book review / giveaway Sep 5 - Cassandra Lynn Literature - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 5 - @acourtofspinesnpages* – book review / giveaway Sep 12 – Country Mamas With Kids– book review / giveaway Sep 12 - @onceuponamaltesereader * - book review / giveaway Sep 15 - @bookarlo * - book review / giveaway Sep 15 – @jannierreads * - book review / giveaway Sep 16 – @bookameme * - book review / giveaway Sep 17 – Liese's Blog – book spotlight Sep 17 - Gina Rae Mitchell - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 18 - 411 ON BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHING NEWS – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 18 – My Reading Getaway – book review / giveaway Sep 18 - @readsandmusic * – book review / giveaway Sep 20 – @kiv_coffeeandpages * – book review / giveaway Sep 20 – @readingwithloe * - book review / giveaway Sep 24 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway Sep 25 – Diane’s Book Journal – book review / giveaway Sep 25 – @pastacoffeeandbooks * - book review / giveaway Sep 25 – @madlymisty * - book review / giveaway Sep 26 – @whatsenalireads * – book review / giveaway Sep 26 – @just_another_mother_with_books * - book review / giveaway Sep 26 - @readwithlaraa * - book review / giveaway Sep 26 – @alyssas_book_obsession * - book review / giveaway
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Book Details: Book Title: X IN PROVENCE by Tani Ruiz Category: Adult Fiction 18 yrs +, 297 pages Genre: Women's Fiction, Romance, Erotica Romance Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers Release date: January 5, 2024 Format available for review: print-softback / USA only), ebook (EPUB, PDF). Tour dates: July 8 to July 26, 2024 Content Rating: R.
“A gripping odyssey through the madness of obsessional love that will surprise, shock, and astound. Netflix will surely come calling."
Richard Moriarty, North West District Editor - The Sun “A thrilling page-turner that reveals a dark underside to paradise when a dream relationship becomes a toxic nightmare. Unmissable." Chris Riches, Correspondent for North-West England and Wales - Daily Express
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X in Provence is a novel about obsession, betrayal and survival set in a place that normally conjures up paradise. Soon after English journalist Rai leaves a thriving career in Hong Kong to live with Alain, a brilliant French sculptor in Provence, she is delighted to discover la dolce vita. But she also encounters a darker demimonde – the sex-sodden underbelly of this region of southern France. Call it the “other” Provence. Rai is captivated by the novelty of it all and the loving reassurances of her charmer beau and is thrilled when he proposes. After marriage, however, Alain turns chilling, and conflict ignites between Rai’s intellect and her internal dysfunctions – a treacherous teetering depicted with stark clarity. Alain has a brother – two if you count the dead one – and the dynamics between these divergent characters deepen the plot. The novel offers a new take on an age-old theme: the perils of addiction to highly charismatic, highly narcissistic personalities and what women will do to cling on. Combining splashes of erotica, psychological suspense, mystery and wonderlust, X in Provence is women’s fiction at its best. 
Meet the Author:
I’m the author of X in Provence, my debut novel that depicts a whole new side of this “slice of paradise” – we’re talking obsessive love, toxic relationships and treachery. And sex-sodden hobbies. I started out in London as an investigative reporter – finding my feet as a journalist purely by happenstance through answering a job advert in a newspaper. Years of sweat followed and so did the payoff. I went on to work for mainstream media outlets – in England and abroad – covering general and financial news. Ten years into my reporting career I switched course, venturing into the area of international development as a communications specialist. I now earn my bread as a freelance editor. The novel was inspired by the time I spent in Provence, a stop on my zigzagging journey across continents – both for work and pleasure. It was also sparked by large and often angst-provoking questions: Why are we attracted to certain partners? Why do some of us have trouble extricating ourselves from unhealthy relationships? Why the struggles with low self-esteem? And then there’s the sibling side of things, the wish to explore relationships where roles are cast and shaped from very early on. I’m currently based in Europe, embracing another new culture and language while raising my children as a proud, if wholly imperfect, single mother. connect with the author: website ~ instagram ~ facebook ~ goodreads
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