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📖First Chapter: Mistletoe Season by Sheila Roberts, Kathleen Fuller and Pepper Basham #FirstChapter

Title: Mistletoe SeasonAuthor: Sheila Roberts, Kathleen Fuller and Pepper BashamPublisher: Thomas NelsonPublication Date: October 8, 2024Pages: 320Genre: Romance/Women’s Fiction/Holiday Romance This Christmas, three couples find themselves under the mistletoe . . . whether they want to be there or not. Say No to Mistletoe by Sheila Roberts—Mistletoe is Hailey Fairchild’s kryptonite. Every time she’s kissed someone under the mistletoe it’s led to love disaster. Not a good thing for a romance writer! When she was a gawky high school girl, her hunky neighbor, Carwyn Davies, star of the basketball team (and her dreams) kissed her under the mistletoe on a dare. But the kiss wasn’t a dream come true.
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Pump Up Your Book Trailer Of The Week: A Heart’s Journey to Forgiveness by Terese Luikens #BookTrailer #BookTeaser

*** We’re happy to announce Terese Luikens’ A Heart’s Journey to Forgiveness Book Teaser Trailer is this week’s PUYB Trailer of the Week! *** About the Book For Terese Luikens, a picture-perfect childhood it was not. Frequent cross country moves, an emotionally absent mother and an alcoholic father who ends his life by suicide when Terese is just thirteen years old.  The sixth of seven children, Terese grew up in an unstable and chaotic household–invisible to her mom yet cherished by her father.  This heartfelt memoir documents the chain reaction of a tumultuous family history. From her stormy childhood to the far-reaching effects of her father’s suicide, Terese shares
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📖First Chapter: Iron in the Scepter (Stele Prophecy Pentalogy Book 5) by Randy C. Dockens #FirstChapter

Title: Iron in the Scepter (Stele Prophecy Pentalogy Series Book 5)Author: Randy C. DockensPublisher: Carpenter’s Son PublishingPublication Date: April 12, 2020Pages: 304Genre: Christian Fiction After Janet’s proposal for increasing teleporter efficiency to an all-time high is rejected by the King, she sets in motion a plan of revenge that has devastating consequences far greater than she ever imagined. A co-worker puts Janet on the path to a prophecy that supposedly states the King will one day be deposed by a coming Overtaker who will bring true freedom to everyone. She puts her efforts, and those of her family, into the fulfillment of this prophecy. She marries a romantic who
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📚{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Paolo Mazzukato’s AJ and the Incredible Fish Virtual Book Tour #FantasyAdventure

· ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Paolo Mazzucato’s AJ and the Incredible Fish Virtual Book Tour November 4 – 29! We are looking for Reviews – Paperbacks (U.S.) only Interviews – the blogger sends the questions Guest Posts – the author will write a guest post especially for your blog Book Spotlight – we send you the book info, author bio, book cover, author photo and banner.  All you have to do is cut and paste. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Are you a Blogger, Instagrammer or BookTokker and want
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📖First Chapter: Darkness in the Light (Stele Prophecy Pentalogy Book 4) by Randy C. Dockens #FirstChapter

Title: Darkness in the Light (Stele Prophecy Pentalogy Series Book 4)Author: Randy C. DockensPublisher: Carpenter’s Son PublishingPublication Date: January 14, 2020Pages: 272Genre: Christian Fiction After Princess Me’ira breaks protocol and falls in love with someone not vetted by prescribed law, heartache seems unpreventable for either herself or someone she loves. Me’ira discovers the man for whom she has romantic feelings is tied to a prophecy that may put her father, the Prince who leads the world in worship of the King, in grave danger. Her father forbids her to marry the man of her dreams. Me’ira tries to circumvent the demand by devising a plan of her own to
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Pump Up Your Book Trailer Of The Week: How Soon is Now? by Paul Carnahan #BookTrailer #BookTeaser

*** We’re happy to announce Paul Carnahan’s How Soon Is Now? Book Teaser Trailer is this week’s PUYB Trailer of the Week! *** About the Book A troubled ex-journalist launches a perilous mission into his own past after being recruited by a mysterious group of time travelers. Luke Seymour uncovers the secrets of the eccentric Nostalgia Club as he battles to solve the riddle of their missing leader, honing his newly discovered – and dangerously addictive – talent for time travel and plunging ever deeper into his own time stream … where the terrible mistake that scarred his life is waiting. Set in Glasgow and Edinburgh in the 1980s,
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📖First Chapter: The Mirror by P.K. Eden #firstchapter

Title: The Mirror Author: P.K. Eden Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: October 14, 2024 Pages: 390 Genre: Urban Fantasy What if you found out the artifacts from the fairy tales you loved as a child were real and one of them just predicted your death? That’s the dilemma Scientist Ben Michaels faces when Siene Dower, descendant of the Brothers Grimm, tells him that Snow White’s Magic Mirror sent her to stop him from getting into the cab that crashed and burst into flame right before his eyes at the intersection at Penn Station, New York City. Does practical Dr. Michaels dismiss everything he knows about reality and
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📚{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Jennifer Chase’s Count Their Graves Virtual Book Tour #CrimeThriller

· ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s Count Their Graves Virtual Book Tour November 4 – December 27! We are looking for Reviews – PDFs available Interviews – the blogger sends the questions Guest posts – the author is willing to write guest posts especially for your blog readers Book Spotlight – we send you the book info, author bio, book cover, author photo and banner.  All you have to do is cut and paste. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Are you a Blogger, Instagrammer or BookTokker and want
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📖First Chapter: A Heart’s Journey to Forgiveness by Terese Luikens #firstchapter

Title: A Heart’s Journey to Forgiveness Author: Terese Luikens Publisher: Redemption Press Publication Date: November 3, 2022 Pages: 282 Genre: Memoir For Terese Luikens, a picture-perfect childhood it was not. Frequent cross country moves, an emotionally absent mother and an alcoholic father who ends his life by suicide when Terese is just thirteen years old.  The sixth of seven children, Terese grew up in an unstable and chaotic household–invisible to her mom yet cherished by her father.  This heartfelt memoir documents the chain reaction of a tumultuous family history. From her stormy childhood to the far-reaching effects of her father’s suicide, Terese shares her inspiring journey to escape the
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📖First Chapter: An Exploratory Study of GPT-4o Poetry 2024 by Deborah Levin #FirstChapter

Title: An Exploratory Study of GPT-4o Poetry 2024Author: Deborah LevinPublisher: Allenjo Publishing, LLCPublication Date: May 6, 2024Pages: 226Genre: Nonfiction Discover the creative abilities and constraints of artificial intelligence with “An Exploratory Study of GPT-4o Poetry 2024.” This groundbreaking study examines the creative capabilities and limitations of GPT-4o, an advanced AI model that mirrors human expressiveness. Drawing on the insights of the latest research, this book explores whether AI can truly replicate the depth and nuance of human creativity in poetry. From structured sonnets to open-ended free verse, poetry is a profound literary form that captures the essence of human emotions and experiences. But can an AI model like GPT-4o
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