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June 14, 2014
Book Review: Liminal Lights by J.M. Bogart
Title: Liminal Lights
Author: J.M. Bogart
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
What if faerie magic is real?Nadia discovers an ancient truth hidden by Liminals, coveted by Shadow Monsters, and protected by humans.
Somewhere, between faerie legends and story books, lies the truth to magic. It grows in children, matures, and is eventually captured by Liminal beings. These sm...
June 13, 2014
Guest Post Legends, Lovers and Lives
Building Relationships Between Authors And Readers
By Bryan Cohen
Readers, you may not realize this, but you are a hot commodity. Authors of every stripe want to snag your attention, affection, and undying loyalty. It’s true! That gives you a lot of power to make your mark on the literary world. Your dollars, your reviews, your comments, and your participation mean a lot to authors, especially independent authors who don’t have the budget of a huge publisher to entice you with big ads or huge b...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Manroot
Manroot is the evocative and stirring story of a lonely town in Missouri, and a young woman named Katherine who discovers a mystical side to herself that she’d never known existed.Anne Steinberg weaves together fantasy, romance, and a young girl’s coming of age into a darkly magical story.
Synopsis
In the spring of 1939, Katherine Sheahan and her father, Jesse, are looking for work in the isolated tourist town of Castlewood. Jesse gets a job as handyman and Katherine as a maid at a small hotel....
June 12, 2014
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Author: A.S. Bond
Publisher: Castle Books
Publication Date: April 24, 2014
Pages: 346
ISBN: 978-1497519541
Format: Kindle / Nook / Paperback
Genre: Adventure / Political Thriller
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Book Description
What would you do for your country? In Afghanistan, a US Army Patrol is devastated by an enemy with sophisticated weaponry, while in D.C., Pentagon staffer Scott Jenson tips off the ambitious young reporter Brooke Kinley about...
Mini-Review: Hanging by a Thread, Renegade and Wicked Kiss
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Hanging by a Thread
Title: Hanging by a Thread
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Paranormal
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Summer is the best part of the year in Winston, California, and the Fourth of July is the highlight of the...
Book Review: Francesca of Lost Nation by Lucinda Sue Crosby
Title: Francesca of Lost Nation
Author: Lucinda Sue Crosby
Genre: Romance, Suspense
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Winner of Four Literary Prizes / Author selected as one of “50 Authors You Should be Reading” by The Authors Show online media outlet
This family saga is “funny at times and filled with little pearls of everyday wisdom, it is as much a romantic thriller as it is a perfect little capsule of a time gone...
June 11, 2014
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Creative Mindpower Techniques
Title:Creative Mindpower Techniques
Author: Dr. Frank Lea
Publisher: Trafford
Pages: 232
Genre:Health
Format: Kindle
Purchase atAMAZON
This book offers simple yet extremely powerful and effective ways to help people overcome the many conditions and issues that conventional medicine can only suppress with drugs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Frank W. Lea, DD, originator of the powerful and effective CREATIVE MINDPOWER TECHNIQUES which uniquely includes using the incredible power of the mind to heal the body, ha...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Coming Home
Title: Coming Home
Author: Holly Kerr
Publisher: Etopia Press
Pages: 495
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Format: Kindle
Purchase at AMAZON
Loving your sisters is easy. Liking them is the hard part.
Brenna Ebans always wanted more than what Hill n’Valley could give her, so it seemed a simple decision to follow her black-sheep sister Dory’s footsteps and leave Hill n’Valley in her rearview, hoping to locate their missing father. Leaving her sisters and her first love Seamus was harder than she thought, but she’...
June 10, 2014
Book Review: Dollhouse by Anya Allyn
Title: Dollhouse
Author: Anya Allyn
Genre: YA Gothic Horror
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Four teenagers chance across a mysterious, crumbling mansion in the depths of the mountains….
- One of them is about to vanish.
- One of them is lying about what he or she knows.
- None of them will escape the fate awaiting them in the terrifying Dollhouse beneath the old mansion–a place of nightmarish horrors and ins...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Dear Mom and Dad
Title:Dear Mom and Dad
Author: Georgia Lee McGowen
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 290
Genre:Biography
Format: Kindle
Purchase atAMAZON
Much has been written both about and by people who feel they were assigned the wrong body at conception, exploring the struggles and too often the tragedies that result from that mismatch of nature. Very little has been written, however, to chronicle the lifelong struggle of people to understand and come to terms with two distinct sets of emotions, one male and one fema...
