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Join us for this review tour from June 7 to June 18, 2021!
Book Details: Book Title: The Kiminee Dream: A Novel Author: Laura McHale Holland Category: Adult Fiction (18+ and older), 342 pages Genre: Literary fiction, magical realism Publisher: WORDforest Release date: April, 2020 Formats Available for review: print soft-back (USA and Canada), ebook (mobi for kindle, epub, pdf, Gifted Kindle) Tour dates: June 7 to June 18, 2021 Content Rating: PG-13 + M. A few scenes contain violence and sexual assault. These are not major aspects of the book and don't go into great detail, but these experiences have repercussions for some of the characters that they have to resolve.
Book Description:
A deeply poetic, riveting debut novel, The Kiminee Dream is a tale of Midwest charm and quirky characters, but with twists and turns that reveal a dark side you don't see coming. It's true that odd things happen in Kiminee, Illinois. Lilacs bloom in winter. Gravel glows golden on occasion. The river sings as it wends through town. But this is normal for the tight-knit folks who call Kiminee home. So when auburn-tufted Carly Mae Foley learns to read at age two and masters multiplication at age three, the denizens take it in stride and embrace her with pride. But all is not well in Carly Mae's family. And when a twister roars though, it decimates their home, along with their emotional bonds, as her mother's affair is exposed and her father goes missing. A determined grandmother, one-eared dog and generous benefactor come to the gifted child's aid, but not everyone is rooting for her, and when an appalling crime occurs, long-held animosities boil over. No one can say whether the good folks of Kiminee will pull closer together—or be torn apart. Influenced by folklore and magical realism, The Kiminee Dream is both hypnotic and endearing. If you like depth as well as whimsy, arresting twists, and details that stir your heart, you’ll love what is ultimately an eloquent exploration of acceptance and a tender tribute to the people of Illinois. Don’t delay. Experience this literary gem today.
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Book Title: Aunt Truly's Tales: Enchantment for Story Lovers Author: Laura McHale Holland Category: Adult Fiction (18+ and older), 100 pages Genre: Fantasy: short stories/folk and fairy tales Publisher: WORDforest Release date: June 5, 2021 Formats Available for review: ebook (mobi for kindle, epub, pdf, Gifted Kindle) Tour dates: June 7 to June 18, 2021 Content Rating: PG. These are all stories that could be shared with a teenager, probably even a 10 year old.
Book Description:
A dash of whimsy and a dose of wisdom for our times. If you like stories that call to mind a simpler era and words strung in lyrical ways, this collection will take you to a wondrous world where ordinary rules do not apply. Podcasts, blogs, movies, vlogs—people spin yarns in many ways. But nothing dazzles like a story told in person. In the right teller's hands, a simple narrative has unfathomable power. Such is the case with Aunt Truly, a spellbinding character in Laura McHale Holland's novel The Kiminee Dream. She is old, but no one knows her age; she travels, but where she goes is a mystery. One thing is certain: she collects stories. The ten tales in this book present traditional and original stories Aunt Truly might tell you if you happened by her home, Windy Wood, where snow falls from November through April, and reality is open to interpretation. In her tales, you'll meet a determined frog, clever seamstress, wise handyman, stolen wife and more unlikely heroes who face daunting trials. Some succeed; others do not. In the process, they are all transformed. 
Meet the Author:
As a child, Laura McHale Holland loved the musicality of language and often recalled, verbatim, conversations she heard. A lost soul in her teens and early twenties, she righted herself in her mid-twenties and discovered a deep love of the creative process. In her work, she often finds hope in unlikely places. Laura writes stories true and untrue in multiple forms from flash fiction to novels, memoirs to short plays. Her coming of age memoir, Resilient Ruin, won a National Indie Excellence Award for new adult nonfiction. Prior award-winning books include Reversible Skirt, a childhood memoir, and Sisters Born, Sisters Found, an anthology on sisterhood. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Best of Every Day Fiction Three and Wisdom Has a Voice. Two of her short plays were produced recently in Northern California; two others received staged readings. The Kiminee Dream is Laura's first novel. To connect with her, please visit her website. connect with author: website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads
Tour Schedule:
June 7 –Olio by Marilyn – book review of The Kiminee Dream / giveaway June 7 –Olio by Marilyn – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway June 8 –Cheryl's Book Nook – book review of The Kiminee Dream / giveaway June 8 - @twilight_reader – book review of The Kiminee Dream June 9- Sefina Hawke’s Books – book review of The Kiminee Dream June 10 -Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of The Kiminee Dream June 10 -Literary Flits – book review of The Kiminee Dream / giveaway June 10 – Welcome To MLM Opinion’s Reviews – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales June 10 -World of My Imagination – book review of The Kiminee Dream / guest post / giveaway June 11 – The Avid Reader – book review of The Kiminee Dream / author interview / giveaway June 11 -@twilight_reader – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales June 14 –Books for Books – book review of The Kiminee Dream June 14 -Sefina Hawke’s Books – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales June 15 –Books for Books – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales June 16 –Peaceful Pastime – book review of The Kiminee Dream June 16 - Splashes of Joy – book review of The Kiminee Dream / author interview / giveaway June 16 – Peaceful Pastime – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales June 16 –Bigreadersite – book review of The Kiminee Dream / giveaway June 17-Splashes of Joy – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales / giveaway June 17 –Bigreadersite – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales / giveaway June 17 -Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of The Kiminee Dream / giveaway June 17 -World of My Imagination – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales / giveaway June 17 –Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of Aunt Truly's Tales / giveaway June 18 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book review of The Kiminee Dream / guest post / giveaway June 18 – Kymiee Tries to Read – book review of The Kiminee Dream / guest post June 18 -Gina Rae Mitchell – book review of Aunt Truly’s Tales / giveaway
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Book Details: Book Title: It Happened in Tuscany by Gail Mencini Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 408 pages Genre: Mainstream Fiction, Historical Fiction Publisher: Capriole Group Release date: Feb 18 2020 Format available for review: print (USA), ebook (mobi file (for Kindle), ePub), audiobook (audible download) Tour dates: Mar 8 to Apr 2, 2021 Content Rating: PG-13. The novel includes violence in war scenes and non-explicit sex scenes, but not f-words, religious profanities, or crude terms as described.
Book Description:
From the multiple-award-winning author of To Tuscany with Love comes a captivating story of the epic tug of war between honor and duty, the irrepressible power of love, and the concept of family. In 1945, Will Mills and his fellow soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division scaled Italy’s treacherous Riva Ridge in the frigid night to break through the nearly impenetrable German line of defense. Severely wounded, Will was rescued by Italian partisans and one, a beautiful girl, tended his injuries until he had the strength to rejoin the U.S. troops. Tormented and haunted by his decisions and actions during wartime, Will knows he has unfinished missions in Italy to complete. The passage of time and years of carrying this unfulfilled need have molded Will into a bitter, angry man. Seventy-five years later, Will’s spunky thirty-two-year-old neighbor, Sophie Sparke, faces disaster in her life. Everything is going wrong—her job, her love life, even her dog. Part of the problem is that confident and fiercely independent Sophie lets her quick mouth get her into trouble. Grouchy, mean-spirited Will finagles Sophie into traveling with him to Tuscany to find the partisan who saved his life. Will also secretly hopes to confront the demons his wartime actions created. Sophie and Will comb enchanting Tuscan hill towns on an improbable and unfolding mission with few clues to aid them. Will’s passionate tenacity drives their quest and in the process exposes their darkest secrets. The journey alters the course of their lives, and Will and Sophie find more than they had imagined in the hills of Tuscany. 
Meet the Author:
Gail Mencini is the acclaimed author of It Happened in Tuscany and To Tuscany with Love, both of which are Denver Post #1 bestsellers and award winners. Gail grew up in DeWitt, Nebraska, graduated from Wartburg College with a BA in Accounting and Economics, and earned a master of taxation degree from the University of Denver. A frequent visitor to Tuscany and a homegrown gourmet cook, Gail has toured Italy by car, train, bus, Vespa, and foot. She lives in Colorado with her husband. Connect with the author: Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~Instagram ~ Pinterest ~ Goodreads
Tour Schedule:
Mar 8 – Working Mommy Journal – book review / giveaway Mar 8 - Cover Lover Book Review – book review / author interview / giveaway Mar 9 – She Just Loves Books – audiobook review / giveaway Mar 10 –Laura's Interests – audiobook review / giveaway Mar 11 –Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Mar 12 – Stephanie Jane – book spotlight / giveaway Mar 15 – I'm All About Books – book spotlight / giveaway Mar 16 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book review / giveaway Mar 17 –Library of Clean Reads – book review / giveaway Mar 18 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway Mar 19 - Rockin' Book Reviews – audiobook review / guest post / giveaway Mar 19 - Hall Ways Blog - audiobook review / giveaway Mar 23 – Splashes of Joy – audiobook review / author interview / giveaway Mar 23 -Viviana MacKade – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Mar 24 -Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway Mar 25 -Lisa Everyday Reads - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Mar 26 –Deborah-Zenha Adams – book spotlight / guest post Mar 26 -Books Lattes & Tiaras – book review / giveaway Mar 26 – Book World Reviews – book review Mar 29 – Sadie Spotlight – book spotlight / giveaway Mar 30 – StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Mar 31 –Pick a Good Book – book review / guest post / giveaway Apr 1 – michellemengsbookblog3 – book review / author interview / giveaway Apr 1 - Books for Books – book spotlight Apr 2 - Locks, Hooks and Books – audiobook review / giveaway TBA – High Society Book Club & Review – book review / author interview / giveaway TBA –Totally Honest Reviews – book review
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Book Details: Book Title: Queen of the Owls by Barbara Linn Probst Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 307 pages Genre: Upmarket Women's Fiction Publisher: She Writes Press Release date: April 2020 Tour dates: Sep 9 to Sep 25, 2020 Content Rating: PG-13: Includes situations and discussions of adult subject matter.
"A stunner" — Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author
"A must-read" — Barbara Claypole White, best-selling author "Nuanced and insightful" — Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times best-selling author
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A chance meeting with a charismatic photographer will forever change Elizabeth’s life. Until she met Richard, Elizabeth's relationship with Georgia O’Keeffe and her little-known Hawaii paintings was purely academic. Now it’s personal. Richard tells Elizabeth that the only way she can truly understand O’Keeffe isn’t with her mind―it’s by getting into O’Keeffe’s skin and reenacting her famous nude photos. In the intimacy of Richard’s studio, Elizabeth experiences a new, intoxicating abandon and fullness. It never occurs to her that the photographs might be made public, especially without her consent. Desperate to avoid exposure―she’s a rising star in the academic world and the mother of young children―Elizabeth demands that Richard dismantle the exhibit. But he refuses. The pictures are his art. His property, not hers. As word of the photos spreads, Elizabeth unwittingly becomes a feminist heroine to her students, who misunderstand her motives in posing. To the university, however, her actions are a public scandal. To her husband, they’re a public humiliation. Yet Richard has reawakened an awareness that’s haunted Elizabeth since she was a child―the truth that cerebral knowledge will never be enough. Now she must face the question: How much is she willing to risk to be truly seen and known?
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BARBARA LINN PROBST is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic American painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Endorsed by best-selling authors including Christina Baker Kline and Caroline Leavitt, QUEEN OF THE OWLS was selected as one of the twenty most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother, a debut novel “too good to ignore” by Bustle, and "one of the best new novels to read during the quarantine" by Parade Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. It won the bronze medal for popular fiction from the Independent Publishers Association, placed first runner-up in general fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award, and was short-listed for the $2500 Grand Prize. Barbara has a PhD in clinical social work and blogs for several award-winning sites for writers. Connect with the Author: website ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads
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Sep 9 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 9 -Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 9 - Working Mommy Journal - book spotlight / giveaway Sep 10 – My Fictional Oasis – book spotlight Sep 10 - Bookish Paradise – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 10 - Book Corner News and Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 11 –Elizabeth McKenna – Author – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 15 –Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 15 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 16 – I'm Into Books – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 16 - Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 17 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 17 - Library of Clean Reads - book spotlight / giveaway Sep 18 – Hall Ways Blog – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 22 –Literary Flits – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 22 - Deborah-Zenha Adams - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Sep 22 - Sylv.net – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 23 – StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 23 - Alexis Marie Chute Blog - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Sep 23 - Books for Books – book spotlight Sep 24 –Mystery Suspense Reviews – book spotlight / guest post Sep 25 -100 Pages A Day – book spotlight / giveaway Sep 27 – Sefina Hawke's Books – book spotlight TBD – Pen Possessed – book spotlight / giveaway TBD - Novel Escapes - book spotlight
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Join us for this tour from July 14 to Aug 10, 2020!
Book Details: Book Title: The Takeaway Men by Meryl Ain Category: Adult fiction 18 yrs +, 264 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Sparkpress Release date: August 4, 2020 Format available for review: print, ebook (NetGalley dowload), pdf Will send print books out: USA and Canada Tour dates: July 14 to Aug 10, 2020 Content Rating: PG-13 + M because there are references to extra-marital affairs. There is no explicit sex in the book.
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With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after World War II, they experience the difficulties of adjusting to American culture as well as the burgeoning fear of the Cold War. Years later, the discovery of a former Nazi hiding in their community brings the Holocaust out of the shadows. As the girls get older, they start to wonder about their parents’ pasts, and they begin to demand answers. But it soon becomes clear that those memories will be more difficult and painful to uncover than they could have anticipated. Poignant and haunting, The Takeaway Men explores the impact of immigration, identity, prejudice, secrets, and lies on parents and children in mid-twentieth-century America.
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Release date: August 4, 2020 Amazon.com ~ Barnes & Noble ~ IndieBound Add to Goodreads 
Meet the Author:
Meryl Ain’s articles and essays have appeared in Huffington Post, The New York Jewish Week, The New York Times, Newsday and other publications. The Takeaway Men is her debut novel. In 2014, she co-authored the award-winning book, The Living Memories Project: Legacies That Last, and in 2016, wrote a companion workbook, My Living Memories Project Journal. She is a sought-after speaker and has been interviewed on television, radio, and podcasts. She is a career educator and is proud to be both a teacher and student of history. She has also worked as a school administrator. The Takeaway Men is the result of her life-long quest to learn more about the Holocaust, a thirst that was first triggered by reading The Diary of Anne Frank in the sixth grade. While teaching high school history, she introduced her students to the study of the Holocaust. At the same time, she also developed an enduring fascination with teaching about and researching the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case. An interview with Robert Meeropol, the younger son of the Rosenbergs, is featured in her book, The Living Memories Project. The book also includes an interview with Holocaust survivor, Boris Chartan, the founder of the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, New York. Meryl holds a BA from Queens College, an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an Ed.D. from Hofstra University. She lives in New York with her husband, Stewart. They have three married sons and six grandchildren. Connect with the author: Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~Instagram
Tour Schedule:
July 14 –Viviana MacKade – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway July 14 - Working Mommy Journal – book review / giveaway Jul 14 - Book World Reviews - book review July 15 –100 Pages A Day – book review / giveaway July 16 – RebeccaReviewedIt – book review / author interview July 17 – T's Stuff – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway July 18 - Just One More Chapter – book review July 20 – Pick a good book – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway July 21 – Splashes of Joy – book review / author interview / giveaway July 22 - Rockin' Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway July 23 – Olio by Marilyn – book spotlight / author interview July 23 – Olio by Marilyn – book review / giveaway July 24 – THE WORLD AS I SEE IT – book review July 27 – Book after Book – book spotlight / author interview July 28 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway July 28 - Leels Loves Books - book review / giveaway July 29 – She Just Loves Books – book review / giveaway July 30 –Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway July 31 – Reading is My Passion – book review / giveaway July 31 - The Eclectic Review – book review Aug 3 –I'm All About Books – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway Aug 3 - Sefina Hawke's Books – book spotlight Aug 4 - Library of Clean Reads – book review / giveaway Aug 4 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway Aug 4 - Peaceful Pastime – book review Aug 4 - Book Corner News and Reviews – book review / giveaway Aug 5 -Books and Zebras – book review / giveaway Aug 5 - Alexis Marie Chute – book review / author interview Aug 6 – Pen Possessed – book spotlight / giveaway Aug 6 - Pen Possessed - book review Aug 6 - Books for Books – book spotlight Aug 7 –StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway Aug 7 – Svetlanas reads and views – book review Aug 10 – My Fictional Oasis – book review Aug 10 - Adventurous Jessy - book review / giveaway
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