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Cover Reveal - Ninja Girl by Cookie O'Gorman

Ninja Girl
Author: Cookie O'Gorman
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 30th, 3017Read more »

Blog Tour Review - Agoraphobic: Inside Out by Sara Secora

Agoraphobic: Inside Out
Author: Sara Secora
A short story - 11 pages
Release Date: January 30th, 2017

Book Description:
28-year-old Kade hasn't been able to make it past his sidewalk in eight years. In this chilling short story, you will be given a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind as he goes through the process of trying to face his irrational, but very real fears.

Experience firsthand what goes on in an Agoraphobic's mind and begin to understand the silent disorder that million...

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Birthright by Jessica Ruddick

Birthright
Author: Jessica Ruddick
Genre: YA Supernatural
Release Date: March 20th, 2017

Book Description:
How do you live with yourself when you decide who dies?

Ava Parks would have killed for an iPod for her sixteenth birthday. Anything would have been better than coming into her birthright of being a seeker for the Grim Reaper, an arrangement made by her fallen angel ancestor in exchange for his re-admittance to heaven. And she isn’t just any seeker—she finds souls that have the potential for b...

Blog Tour Spotlight - The Lord of the Infield Flies by Steve Reilly

The Lord of the Enfield Flies
Author: Steve Reilly
Publisher: Strong Books
Pages: 126
Genre: Sports Memoir

Book Description:
The Lord of the Infield Flies will thrill readers with Coach Steve Reilly’s harrowing, challenging, and adventuresome baseball team’s trek from Connecticut to play in Maine. As a prequel to his award winning memoir, The Fat Lady Never Sings, Reilly, a high school baseball coach, narrates the true story from the beginning of his coaching career at the age of 20. In summer 1977...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode

The Secrets of Eden
Author: Brandon Goode
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: March 18th, 2017

Book Description:
When Eden discovers he possesses forbidden magic, keeping his affair with the crown prince a secret becomes the least of his worries.

Eden has always obeyed the laws of Rolaria. He spends his days teaching children how to read in order to distract him from his mother’s bizarre disappearance. She worked in the castle before suddenly vanishing, and when Eden mistakenly receives an invitation...

Book Blast & Giveaway - Guys Read: Heroes & Villains Edited by Jon Scieszka

Guys Read: Heroes & VillainsEditor: Jon Scieszka
Book Description:Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters—with and without capes.

Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting writers for kids working today, this collection is the perfect book for you...

Blog Tour Spotlight - There's a Stinky Goblin in the Shed by Andrea Kaczmarek

There’s a Stinky Goblin in the Shed
Author: Andrea Kaczmarek
Illustrated by: Eva Künzel
Release Date: March 10, 2017Keywords: Fantasy, Adventure, Fun, Goblins, Monsters, Middle Grade, Magical
Categories: Early Middle Grade/FantasyPage Count: 88
ISBN: 978-1542805629
Imprint: Sunquills
ONE LINER: Looking after a goblin is not easy, ask the twins Jerry and Jacob who stumble across a lost goblin, and foolishly help him out. Hiding and feeding him are bad enough – but when his sister goblin turns up – th...

Blog Tour Excerpt - Evanthia's Gift & Waiting for Aegina by Effie Kammenou

Evanthia's GiftAuthor: Effie KammenouGenre: Women’s fiction/ contemporary romance 
Date Published: August 7, 2015  

Book Description:
In the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood. Left with emotional wounds, she resists her growing affection for Alexandros Giannakos, an old acquaintance. But his persis...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Give Me Chaos (The Wolfegang Series #5) by Jillian Ashe

Give Me Chaos
(The Wolfgang Series #5)
Author: Jillian Ashe
Genre: YA/NA Science Fiction Adventure
Release Date: March 16th, 2017

Book Description:
The fifth book in the Wolfegang series follows Katerina back to the top secret military base, Enzo, where she is Lt. Donnelly’s prisoner. The lieutenant puts her through tests and experiments to find out what makes her so special, and why the genetic enhancements aren’t degrading her brain. He wants answers for his own cure. Katerina might not survive h...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Daybreak by Cheree Alsop

  Daybreak
(Girl from the Stars #1)Author: Cheree Alsop
Publication Date: October 7th, 2015
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Book Description:Liora Day, half-human, half mess-with-her-and-you’ll-die Damaclan, had been thrown onto a rough path at a very early age. But when she is broken out of a cage by Devren, the young captain of the SS Kratos, she is shown that perhaps humanity does have a heart. The Kratos is set on a mission to rescue fallen surveyors from the Revolutio...