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A. ParaStories-Stories/Information Wanted
B. ParaReviews-Reviews on Amazon and B&N wanted
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ANNOUNCING
5th Annual Global Ebook Awards--2015
Registration opened September 1, 2014.
Registration closes April 30, 2015
Ebooks with a copyright date of 2013 or more recent are
eligible to enter.
See http://GlobalEbookAwards.com
Questions? Contact Becky@GlobalEbookAwards.com
A. ParaStories
STORIES/INTERVIEWS/INFORMATION WANTED
NEED STORIES to flesh-out your book? List your wants here. Focus on a single
topic and provide your contact information. Write tight. Conform to the format so
we can Copy\Paste and do not have to edit. Send your listing to
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email. There is no charge for listings.
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STORIES REQUESTED:
1. I do a monthly online litmag, TimeWell, which combines contemporary stories
and poems with excerpts from classics on the same monthly theme.
September's theme at TimeWell is Confession.
For October, the theme will be Seasons.
Show me whatcha got.
-..oooO.........
...(....)...........
....)../...Oooo
...(_/.....(....)..
.............)../....
............(_/.....
If we're facing in the right direction,
all we have to do is keep on walking.
Birdie Newborn
birdie.newborn@gmail.com
www.bandannabooks.com
www.betabooks.us
2. What training courses or groups have best prepared you to become an
effective and powerful Elder?
I mean Elder as differentiated from the terms adult, old and aged. Elder, in the
sense that for untold thousands of generations, humans lived a three-stage life ―
Child, Adult and Elder. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, a mere eightgenerational blink of the evolutionary eye, we have lost the Elder stage, source of
cultural wisdom. My thesis is that our species has devolved into a two-stage life
as all other mammals, no longer being differentiated by our unique Elder stage.
This third stage – Elder -was our evolutionary ‘edge’, as important as the
opposable thumb or the neocortex. The re-invention of Elder seems critical for
humanity’s future.
With loss of the three-generational family, we have also lost the basic training
ground of Elder. However there are large numbers of Elders who, lacking that
family training, have trained themselves or received wisdom-training in other
groups. As an Elder, what groups have best prepared you?
Response must be tight, clear and specific, 250 words or less. Email me at
HarveyWAustin@Yahoo.com. I will acknowledge receipt. The book’s working title
is “Become an Elder Instead of Just...Getting...Old: An Instruction Manual”. My
intent, but not promise, is to use what you send, unedited, edited, or
summarized. If used, I shall name you in a special acknowledgement section.
Harvey Austin
703 798 2290
World Crises? Birth Pains. Barbara Marx Hubbard
My Business is the Future of Humanity. Harvey W Austin, MD
3. SITUATION: I'm publishing a newsletter and am working on books on how to
fight fatigue and have abundant energy. I'm looking for "success stories,"
additional know-how and statements that I can quote.
REQUESTED: (1) Stories of persons who overcame perennial fatigue and
dissatisfaction, and turned themselves into energetic, outgoing, successful, happy
people through lifestyle changes (such as new sleeping, eating, exercising,
thinking and other habits). (2) Contacts with experts who helped others to make
such changes (such as coaches, educators, health care providers, lifestyle
consultants, etc.) whom I can quote or ask questions.
PLEASE CONTACT: Hugo Tschudin, LLD, at htschudin@tschudin.com. -- Publisher
of EnergizingLife Newsletter. -- Author of Unstoppable: Zap Fatigue & Zoom
Ahead. -- Now working on two additional books on lifestyles. -Website: EnergizingLife.com. THANK YOU!
Hugo Tschudin
Author of the book "UNSTOPPABLE: Zap Fatigue & Zoom Ahead"
Click to order book via Amazon.
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htschudin@tschudin.com
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in the subject line.
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1. TRANSPLANT HANDBOOK FOR PATIENTS:
Replacing Stem Cells in Your Bone Marrow
By Dan Poynter
Medical Problems That New Stem Cells Might Help
Nearly everyone has one of these diseases or knows someone who does.
Alzheimer’s Disease
Autism
Cancers
Cerebral Palsy
Crohn’s Disease
Diabetes 1
Epstein-Barr
Heart Disease
Hodgkin Lymphoma
Huntington’s Disease
Immune Deficiency Disease
Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Leukemia
Lou Gehrig’s Disease, ALS.
Lung Disease
Lupus
MS
Multiple Myeloma
Muscular Dystrophy
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Parkinson’s Disease
Severe Aplastic Anemia Other Marrow Failures
Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia
Spinal cord injury
And more.
To get the very-latest information, make a Google search for
Stem cell + (the disease).
See http://TransplantHandbook.com
For a review copy, ebook or paper, contact
Para Publishing LLC, PO Box 8206, Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206 USA
+1-805-968-7277, DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com
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2. Romantic Suspense Available For Review
Abu Dhabi
By Walter John Trowbridge
ISBN: 978-1499630343
Published: June 2014
Genre: Post 9/11 in Middle East, suspense, romance
Formats available for review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), ebook, kindle
This is a romantic-suspense novel about an American Architect traveling to Abu
Dhabi in the Near East during the immediate “post-9/11” world, and working to
repair the glass facade of a prominent high-rise building. After the World Trade
Center towers in New York City were destroyed, the United States begins to track
the terrorists down in Afghanistan. When America initiates its “War Against
Terrorism” with military action in Afghanistan, the relations between the West
and Muslim countries, and between Christian and Islamic religious groups, begin
to deteriorate and become dangerously tense. Meanwhile the Architect meets an
old high school classmate, and they slowly drift into an affair, even though she is
a married woman. The love affair heats up even as military, religious, and
terrorist tensions reach a climatic conclusion.
For review copies contact:
Walter John Trowbridge
Email: trowwtas@yahoo.com
3. Sins of the Father
by Valerie Allen
ISBN: 978-0-595-44260-7
Pages: 140
Psychological Thriller
Arrested for shoplifting, a woman with amnesia fears both her
past and her future. She claims no knowledge of the mysterious
young girl found with her. Sins of the Father focuses on the efforts of Dr. Allyson
Freemont to bring Feona Parker face to face with a horrifying reality, yet protect
her from a complete emotional breakdown while reuniting the child with her true
family.
For a review copy, contact: Valerie Allen
ValerieAllenWriter.com
VAllenWriter@cs.com
Facebook.com/Valerie.Allen.520
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Amazon.com/Author/ValerieAllen
VAllenWriter@cs.com
ValerieAllenWriter.com
Facebook.com/Valerie.Allen.520
Amazon.com/Author/ValerieAllen
Beyond the Inkblots: Confusion to Harmony
Write Publish Sell!
Summer School for Smarties
Bad Hair, Good Hat, New Friends
Amazing Grace
Sins of the Father
Suffer the Little Children
4. Education/Grammar Book Available For Review
The Great Grammar Book
By Marsha Sramek
Publisher: Arch Press
ISBN: 978-0984115709
Genre: Education, Grammar
Formats Available for review: Print (only available to
qualified reviewers/bloggers), pdf
The Great Grammar Book uses fun facts, amazing trivia,
and odd news events to make learning grammar fun. This entertaining book is
now a best seller, used in over 250 schools and colleges.
The book opens with a 100-question diagnostic grammar test (with answer key)
to help readers discover their grammar weaknesses. Over 2,000 intriguing
practice sentences—more than any other text—enable readers to master even
long-standing grammar problems.
Focusing on the commonly encountered bulk of real-world writing, the book uses
and explains only those grammatical terms which are necessary to avoid
mistakes or to improve writing skills.
If you want to banish grammar errors and write clearer, more concise, and more
readable sentences with confidence and style, this is the book for you.
For review copies contact:
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Marsha Sramek
Email: Marsha747@aol.com
Website: http://www.thegreatgrammarbook.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marsha.sramek
5. Core Ideas In Neuroscience (e-book).
This book is for everyone who needs to be informed by
neuroscience but doesn't want to invest a huge commitment to
learn. It's a small book that gives the big picture, with emphasis
on 75 big ideas, not minutia. A given idea is completely covered in
about four to 8 on-screen pages. Principles of neuroscience are
explained in easily understood, concise summaries. Each module
features a concise statement of the core idea, definition of
relevant terms, explanation of the core idea, examples, links to
related core ideas, general references, and classic references. Illustrations and
examples aid in understanding the material. Study questions are also included in
each chapter. Traditional textbooks are too big, too detailed, too indigestible, and
too expensive. Contact WRKlemmATSIGNgmail.com.
W. R. (Bill) Klemm
Senior Professor of Neuroscience, Texas A&M University
Author:
Memory Power 101,
http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239100060310
Atoms of Mind, http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-94-007-10962/#section=884742&page=1
Web, Personal
Web, University
Blog, memory
Blog, personal responsibility
6. Fantasy Adventure Available For Review
The Chronicle of Casaara
By R.S. Embach
ISBN: 978-1492336785
ASIN: B00FGT2SHS
Pages: 308
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
A world in torment. An Absent Guardian. A girl led by Fate.
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Awakened in a forest with no recollection of her past, and led by ominous visions
of the grave future of a dying world, Casaara must embark on an epic journey to
prevent the encroaching apocalypse. Together with her warrior allies Yoralt and
Dharig, and youthful healer Euhn, she must race against the sands of time to
secure the blessings of the seven Guardians of Creation before the evil heir to the
heavenly throne claims them for himself - and the Spirit of Life is extinguished
forever.
Darkness is swallowing the light...
For review copies contact:
R.S. Embach
Email: contact@rsembach.com
Website: http://www.rsembach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Chronicle-ofCasaara/254459001370873
7. Historical Fiction Available For Review
The C Enigma
By Spiros Gratsias
ISBN: 978-1499625608
ASIN: B00MIWE734
Published: August 2014
Pages: 312
Genre: Historical Fiction
A particular brand of evil has reared its ugly head at certain points throughout
history, and humanity must fight to keep it in check. This balance is sometimes
managed on the scale of world wars, but it can also come down to an individual’s
actions. The C ENIGMA explores the premise that one man’s courage can
influence the outcome of a war on evil as large and powerful as Hitler’s Nazism.
Chance—or perhaps fate—leads Matthias Adkins up to his grandfather’s attic,
where he discovers a hidden picture of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the
German secret service during WWII. A few other items reveal that his
grandfather has left him a set of riddles that will lead him through three time
periods—1945, 1988, and 2008—on a hunt for his family’s identity and his own
destiny…which turns out to be a destiny beyond his wildest dreams.
For review copies contact:
Spiros Gratsias
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Email: graspi13@gmail.com
Website: http://authorspirosgratsias.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGratsias
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spiros.gratsias.7
8. I have just published the 2nd new book in my LEED Exam Guides series,
“LEED v4 Green Associate Exam Guide (LEED GA)” I love to have your
readers review it. Here is some info:
Review Wanted: “LEED v4 Green Associate Exam Guide (LEED GA)”)”
Pass the LEED Green Associate Exam, Get Your Building LEED Certified,
Fight Global Warming, and Save Money!
The USGBC released LEED v4 at the GreenBuild International
Conference and Expo in November 2013. The GBCI started to
include the new LEED v4 content for all LEED exams in late
Spring 2014. We have incorporated the new LEED v4 content in
this book.
Starting on December 1, 2011, GBCI began to draw LEED
Green Associate Exam questions from the second edition of Green Building and
LEED Core Concepts Guide. We have incorporated this information in our book.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one of the most
important trends of development and is revolutionizing the construction industry.
It has gained tremendous momentum and has a profound impact on our
environment.
From this book, you will learn how to do the following:
1. Pass the LEED Green Associate Exam.
2. Use LEED exam preparation strategies, study methods, tips, suggestions,
mnemonics, and exam tactics to improve your exam performance.
3. Effectively understand, digest, and retain your LEED knowledge.
4. Understand the process of registering and certifying a building for LEED.
5. Understand the scope, main intent, core concepts and strategies, as well as
identify the regulations, recognition, and incentives for each major LEED category.
6. Identify the strategies for case studies.
7. Identify the synergy in case studies.
8. Implement the most important LEED related codes and building standards.
9. Get points for categories not yet clearly defined by the USGBC.
This book fills in the blanks and demystifies LEED. It uncovers the secrets, codes,
and jargon for LEED as well as the true meaning of "going green." It provides a
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solid foundation and fundamental framework for LEED. It covers every major
aspect of LEED in plain and concise language, and introduces it to ordinary
people. This guide is small and easy to carry around. You can read it whenever
you have a few extra minutes. It is an indispensable book for ordinary people,
developers, brokers, contractors, administrators, architects, landscape architects,
civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers, interns, drafters,
designers, and other design professionals.
For a review copy, please email Gang Chen at: aa_gangchen@yahooo.com
For more info, see:
GeeForums.com
See all my published books at:
Green Exam Education
9. Please find details of my Award winning historical mystery novel
“Baudelaire’s Revenge” for review.
Many thanks and regards
Bob Van Laerhoven – Belgium
“Baudelaire’s Revenge” – English translation of “De wraak van
Baudelaire,” winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for best mystery
novel of the year in Belgium
It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political
turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers
starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and
séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful
city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts
them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased
Charles Baudelaire’s controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse,
written in the poet’s exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefevre, a lover of poetry
and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his investigation is a
thrilling, intoxicating journey into the sinister side of human nature, bringing to
mind the brooding and tense atmosphere of Patrick Susskind’s Perfume. The plot
dramatically appears to extend as far as the court of the Emperor Napoleon III. A
vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking
revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery
illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry.
Excerpts of Editorial Reviews (NYT, Kirkus, PW, Booklink, Providence Journal,
Washington Independent, Historical Novel Society, etc.):
http://www.bobvanlaerhoven.be/en/pages/12/misdaad-romans
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Hardcover: 256 pages
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Publisher: Pegasus (April 15, 2014)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1605985481
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ISBN-13: 978-1605985480
Mail Iris Blasi at Pegasus Books (iris@pegasusbooks.us) for a review
copy.
My e-mail address: bob.van.laerhoven@telenet.be
My website: www.bobvanlaerhoven.be/en
YouTube trailer of the novel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMz1poUVmUw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bob.vanlaerhoven
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobvanlaerhoven
Retails:
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Baudelaires-Revenge-Bob-VanLaerhoven/dp/1605985481/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389641492&sr
=1-1&keywords=baudelaire%27s+revenge
B&N hardcover http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/baudelaires-revenge-bobvan-laerhoven/1116879856?ean=9781605985480
B&N e-book : http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/baudelaires-revenge-bob-vanlaerhoven/1116879856?ean=9781605985893
IndieBound http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781605985480
10. Question Authority to Think for Yourself
Beverly A. Potter, PhD
RONIN Publishing, Fall 2012
Isbn: 978-1-57951-162-3
$14.95; 200 pg
Thinking for yourself is not so easy. When encountering an
argument to a long held opinion or a wild idea, we use critical
thinking, as we were taught to do in school. The problem is that
critical thinking is critical, focusing our thinking on the negative—
what doesn’t work, what’s wrong with the idea—and encourages my-side thinking
where we evaluate evidence in a way that favors our beliefs and entraps us into
closed-mindedness. Thinking for yourself requires open-mindedness.
Thinking is not driven by answers but by questions. To think, you must question.
To think through or rethink anything, one must ask questions that stimulate
thought. The quality of your questions determines the quality of your thinking.
Our own opinions is one authority we should frequently question. Times change.
We change. Perspectives and values change. Book explores how opinions and
values we held in the past need periodic evaluation and challenge. Independent
thinkers evolve and need to shed the shackles of old views and opinions.
If you’ve bitten your tongue and later wished you’d spoken up and not been
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cowed into silence by a mocking co-worker when you revealed a “politically
incorrect” viewpoint, you’ll find much of interest in Question Authority; Think for
Yourself .
How Independent Thinking Are You? Take the quiz:
<http://www.docpotter.com/thifor-test.html>
More Info:
Docpotter: <http://www.docpotter.com/QA.html>
Ronin <http://www.roninpub.com/QA.html>
For review copy, send request to ronin@roninpub.com.
Put “Review Copy Request” in subject line
11. STATINS: Miraculous or Misguided?
Mark j Estren, PhD
RONIN Publishing
Pub 2013
978-1-57951-166-1
$16.95, 150 pp
Do you or a loved one use statins—the most-prescribed drugs
in the nation? Many believe they are miracle medicines
because they change the balance of good and bad cholesterol
in ways favorable to health. They can even be beneficial for
people without a history of high cholesterol or cardiac disease.
On the downside, STATINS: MIRACULOUS OR MISGUIDED? reveals that almost
everything people think they know about statins is wrong. We’ve been told that
problematic cholesterol comes from eating rich foods when actually the body
makes it. Statins work by interfering with the body’s ability to manufacture
cholesterol, which is its “miracle”. Unfortunately, statins also have side effects,
including muscle pain, digestive problems and potential liver damage. Research
suggests that statins increase the risk of diabetes and are implicated in
generalized fatigue.
STATINS: MIRACULOUS OR MISGUIDED? explains the risks in clear, jargon-free
language, tells danger signs—such as forgetfulness, confusion, excessive thirst or
urination, muscles aches and symptoms of liver damage—and explains how to
address such symptoms with your doctor. STATINS: MIRACULOUS OR
MISGUIDED? describes alternative approaches used by naturopathic
practitioners, which may include substituting red yeast rice extract or plant
sterols for a statin, eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as wild salmon,
and avoiding trans fatty acids such as are found in deep-fried foods, snacks, and
some bakery products.
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STATINS: MIRACULOUS OR MISGUIDED? is an easy-to-understand
explanation—for patients and doctors alike—of the pluses and minuses of statins,
and essential reading for anyone taking these drugs. It is a wonderful gift for a
friend or loved one using statins.
Additional Info
Dr. Estren’s site http://www.markjestren.com/home
Statin book page http://www.roninpub.com/statins.html book
For a Review copy
Send email to: ronin@roninpub.com, put “Review copy request” in subject line.
12. Self-Help/Self-Management Book Available For Review
The Worrywart's Companion: Twenty-One Ways to Soothe Yourself and
Worry Smart
By Dr. Beverly Potter
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Published: April 2014
Second Edition
ISBN: 978-1579511753
ASIN:B00H6UOGEI
Genre: Self-Management
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers)
Are you a worrywart? Do you lie awake at night mulling over things that might
happen? Do you always expect the worst? Have you worried obsessively about
something only to have everything turnout okay? Do you drive your friends and
family crazy with your worrywarting?
Worrywarts work themselves into a near panic with scary thoughts, going around
and around, making themselves sick. The solution is not to stop worrying. Worry
is useful in planning and preparing – a kind of mental “fire drill” – for mentally
rehearing options. The problem is that worrywarts get stuck in the dangers and
downside, convinced the worst is inevitable. The Worrywart’s Companion shows
how to worry smart. You’ll learn how to worry a problem through, then act to
soothe yourself so that you can get a good night’s sleep.
Brimming with practical ideas, positive, easy to understand, and fun to read, The
Worrywart’s Companion explains how worrywarting is learned. The good news is
that it can be unlearned! Includes twenty-one simple things you can do when you
feel a worry coming on. Instead of worrying yourself sick, you’ll learn how to do
the work of worry, then take action to soothe yourself so you can let the worry
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go—so you can get a good night’s sleep!
Are YOU a worrywart? Take the quiz.
For review copies contact:
Beverly Potter
Email: beverly@docpotter.com
Website: http://www.docpotter.com
Put "Review request" in subject line
13. Book on Stress and Hormones Available For Review
Healing Hormones: How To Turn On Natural Chemicals to Reduce Stress
By Mark J Estren, PhD & Beverly A Potter, Phd
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
ISBN: 978-1579511678
ASIN: B00G1SRC2Y
Genre: Wellness
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers) or pdf
Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? About to jump out of your
skin from pressures of everyday life? We all feel that way at
times: ready to explode from everything going on—unrelenting demands, all the
time. So we take medicines, see doctors, overeat, even use alcohol or drugs. Still
the pressures mount. It’s unbearable! There must be a better way!
There is. Your body knows what to do. Your body makes healing hormones that
fight stress, promoting calm and balance. Nitric oxide, dopamine, endorphins,
serotonin and oxytocin will help you cope with the demands of living in our hectic
modern world—if you let your body do its job!
Healing Hormones shows what you can do to help yourself without pills or
supplements. It shows that stress is not what most people think—not something
“out there.” Stress is a response to external events—positive or negative. Since
stress is your reaction, you can learn to control runaway stress by encouraging
your body to produce anti-stress chemicals that will keep you calmer and better
balanced.
Healing Hormones shows how we create stress by reacting to what we think is
happening around us—not what is really happening. We make our own reality—
one much more stress-filled than it has to be. Since we make it, we can change it.
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Healing Hormones tells how. A wonderful counterbalance to the pressures
urging us to take more medicines and look outside ourselves for health, Healing
Hormones explains how you can be healthier and happier—today and every day.
Includes the quiz: “Is My Doctor a Healer?”
For review copies contact:
Beverly Potter
Email: beverly@docpotter.com
Website: http://www.docpotter.com
14. Memoir Of Escaping Communism During WWII Available For Review
From Hell To Iowa
By Charles Notis
Publisher: Corn Publishing
Published: June 2014
ISBN: 978-1627750202
ASIN: B00N4ESYLQ
Genre: Autobiography
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers), eBook, Kindle, pdf
One man's tale of escape from Communism in WWII to his new and successful
life and family in the United States.
"From Hell to Iowa" is a true story of a journey in life that very few have taken.
Through incredible circumstances Charlie Notis and his mother were separated
from the rest of the family and stuck inside communist Albania under the ruthless
dictatorship of Enver Hoxha when Charlie was a baby at the end of the second
World War. He and his mother made a harrowing escape when he was 10 years
old and joined the rest of the family in Brockton, MA. He eventually ended up in
Iowa where he earned a Master of Science degree in meteorology and co-founded
a weather consulting company called Freese-Notis Weather in Des Moines, got
married, and raised a family. The twists and turns in Charlie's life are nothing
short of miraculous.
For review copies contact:
Charles Notis
Email: charlie.notis@weather.net
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15. Women's Memoir on Marriage and Christianity Available For
Review
In His Way
By Rebecca Duvall
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-1499280401
ASIN: B00MO01VIE
Genre: Memoir, Women, Christianity
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to
qualified reviewers/bloggers), kindle
Book Description:
Throughout much of my married life, I lived under the illusion that I had it all
together - it was everyone else that needed fixing. Several years into my second
marriage my husband, a Deputy Sheriff, became a workaholic and was never
home. Meanwhile, I became a volunteeraholic, too busy to face the fact that we
had become two strangers under one roof, raising three kids.
God revealed Himself to me through the different women I volunteered with. As
my heart slowly opened to God's presence, my marriage came crashing down
around me. As I cried out for God's help, I discovered my husband’s affair. I
found myself surrounded by faithful people who gave me the strength to face the
problems in my marriage and the tools needed to begin fixing it.
Over the next four years, my husband’s health deteriorated and he was forced to
retire. Through this God continually showed me I was In His Way and then, when
He knew He had my attention, He would proceed to show me how to do things In
His Way. In the end, what God told me to do, saved my husband’s life, and our
marriage. What was broken is now fixed by the grace and love of God.
For review copies contact:
Rebecca Duvall
Email: duvall827@comcast.net
Website: http://www.inhisway.net
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/duvall827
16. Police Officer's Autobiography Available For Review
My Road to the Badge: Becoming a Police Officer
By Brett Calman
Published: April 2014
ISBN: 978-1484070079
ASIN: B00K5ZC1NE
Genre: Autobiography/Memoir
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Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), kindle
Ever since Brett Calman was a little boy, he dreamed of becoming a police officer.
But over the decades the ordinary progress of life seemed to get in the way of
that dream. As an adult, he found himself working as an upholsterer; he
maintained a successful business for a few years, but, despite the name he’d
made for himself and how far he’d come, something was missing from his life,
and he knew exactly what it was. He just had to figure out how to get it.
Brett didn’t know anything about the process of becoming a police officer or
about policing itself. He didn’t know any cops. But he did know that he wanted to
be one, and that he’d do whatever it took.
It was ten years ago that Brett came to this critical decision in his life, and, within
a short period of time, he realized his dream and became an active member of an
Ontario, Canada, police force. My Road to the Badge is the story of how he got
where he is today and the incredible insights, experiences, and information he
collected along the way.
For review copies contact:
Brett Calman
Email: brettcalman@rogers.com
Website: http://www.BrettCalman.com
17. Battlefields of Gray
By Erik N. Fourie
Genre: Suspense, Thriller
Published: August 2012
ISBN: 9780615616476
ASIN: B008Y51CS2
Length: 313 pages (estimated)
Formats Available For Review: Kindle, Nook
Disgraced Army officer Mark Van Ryker enters the shadowy world of domestic
terrorism in order to find his son, James.
Mark’s quest turns ominous when he discovers that billionaire financier Courtney
Galloway has allied with Iran in a plot to annihilate the United States. Mark learns
that Courtney, with Iranian assistance, plans on fomenting a bloody coup d’état—
a revolution that is supposed to leave America powerless, and Courtney ruling
over the spoils.
Only Mark can derail Courtney’s mad scheme—and his success may cost him his
sanity...and his son’s life.
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For review copies contact:
Erik N. Fourie
Email: erik_fourie@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.erikfourie.com/
18. Parallels to Paradise
Georgia eats her blanket. Aiden gets drunk on Red Eye and falls in
a bathtub of wallpaper paste. Alice loves a one-legged Mexican
cowboy. Parallel to Paradise - Addiction & Other Love
Stories makes the ordinary askew. Included in this collection of 14
award-winning short stories is a tale of a Catholic girl
contemplating an abortion; a gay boy growing up in the Wild Wild
West; a mother of a heroin addict.
The topics are raw and quirky, the writing lyrical:
Cal didn't look like a heroin addict, but he was as skinny as the word lily.
.......
I married Paul, not in the Catholic Church, but in the Muir Redwoods. It
was very early in the morning and I wore a veil of fog held in place with a single
gardenia.
.......
The pretty angel on my hospital bed begins to fade and gold angel dust
falls all around me and I kind of want to snort it, but I fall back asleep without
saying good-bye.
Laura Newman
laura.newman8888@gmail.com
775-233-9793
Author - PARALLEL TO PARADISE -Addiction & Other Love Stories
leruepress.com
facebook.com/AddictionOtherLoveStories
LauraNewmanAuthor.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKL6NLrJEo
WATCH THE VID
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19. New Age/Self-Help Book Available For Review
The Wisdom Keys
A Channeler's Quest Reveals Four Steps to Your Highest Self
By Judi Thomases
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 978-1452516417
ASIN: B00M96SHG2
Published: July 2014
Genre: self-help, philosophy, spirituality, new age,
metaphysics
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), kindle
The Wisdom Keys has three parts:
(1) Four Steps to Your Highest Self - moving from everyday life into four new
perspectives (worldviews) as your consciousness pierces the illusion (hologram)
and discovers ever more vast and mystical realms while opening the heart and
becoming the loving self-realized master you are meant to be
(2) the Cosmic Plan of it all
(3) the channeled messages that guided the path.
The Wisdom Keys journey is eternally repeated, yet individually taken. It is your
journey into your true self.
Benefits to reading The Wisdom Keys:
~ Master emotions, and appreciate the role of suffering or dissatisfaction
~ Realize that, as the creator of your reality, you have the power to shift rapidly
to better it
~ Understand how the workings of karma in yours and everyone's lives is a selfchosen design
~ See through illusion to discover your true self (not your personality)
~ Learn how to quiet the thought process, develop an illuminated mind, and lose
the fear of death
~ Gain protection and assistance from the Universe by understanding the role of
compassion and serenity
~ Activate your psychic abilities
The Wisdom Keys explains how to:
~ Recognize your karmic pattern
~ Move upward and inward through four new perspectives
~ Reach the special understanding that age-old wisdom talks about, and spiritual
paths promise
The Wisdom Keys reveals the truth about:
~ Who you really are!
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~ What the Great Cosmic Plan for the earth truly is
~ How to create a happier life and good karma
What you will discover:
~ The Four Keys and their gates to higher paradigms
~ The Holographic Universe as created by thought projection
~ The M Field of energetic oneness
~ The Observer who directs your lower self
~ The Quantum Shift for mastering the Art of Manifestation
~ The Continuum of Awareness (Rainbow Bridge) between lower and higher
consciousness
~ Your deepest true Self -- simultaneously yourself, the entire world, and a spark
of godlike energy
~ The prophecies of this design in The Age of Aquarius
For review copies contact:
Judi Thomases
Email: Judi@WisdomPath.com
Website: http://www.WisdomPath.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/judithomases
20. Book on Archaeology, Science & Religion Available For Review
Sun God Sacred Secrets: The Archaeology, Art & Science
of Altered States of Consciousness
By Carlton Brown
Publisher: Atitlan Press
ISBN: 978-0992775001
ASIN: B00HWIJ8EW
Genre: Archaeology, Religion & Spirituality, Science
Formats Available For Review: mobi
Would you like to know humankind’s best-kept and most
profound secret?
This secret provides a set of access codes to humankind´s fourth state of
consciousness. Consummated through sacred ritual processes, you are able to
access transcendental states of consciousness, commune directly with the
immanent and transcendental source of life (your god), and transform your life.
This thought-provoking book, with an investigative pulse, reveals unique
archaeological discoveries shared by four different Sun god religions spanning
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five millennia of human history. Your curiosity will be piqued and you will
assuredly learn much about pyramid archaeology, and the sciences and esoteric
subjects involved in humans attaining altered states of consciousness.
If you meditate, pursue a spiritual path, or suffer death anxiety, and wish to
experience transcendental states of consciousness to help eliminate your
suffering, then you need to read this book. For those seeking objective answers
to pyramid archaeology´s enigmas and their shared archaeological fingerprint, I
hope you enjoy reading about it here.
View the YouTube book trailer: http://youtu.be/LRndS9pN3VQ
For review copies contact:
Carlton Brown
Email: author@carltonbrownv47.com
Website: http://www.carltonbrownV47.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlton.brown.7146557
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@carltonbrownV47
Linked In: http://gt.linkedin.com/pub/carlton-brown/32/662/13b
21. Suspenseful Mystery Available For Review
Muddlin' Through
By Steven M. Moore
Publisher: Carrick Publishing
Published: August 31, 2014
ASIN: B00N842FQW
Genre: Suspense, Mystery, Crime Thriller
Mary Jo is framed. Mary Jo wants revenge. Mary Jo settles for
something less, but finds herself...and romance.
Ex-Master-at-Arms Mary Jo Melendez, trying to restart her life after the Navy,
becomes a security officer for a company with Pentagon contracts. Her upward
mobility takes a fast downward turn. You can follow her adventures as she
hurtles around Europe, South America, and the U.S. This book is cross-genre,
having elements of mystery, suspense, and thriller. Mary Jo is like Heinlein's
Friday or Jolie's Salt, only better, because she's more human.
For review copies contact:
Steve Moore
E-mail: steve@stevenmmoore.com
Website: http://stevenmmoore.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorStevenMMoore
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22. Coming of Age/GLBT Fiction Available For Review
The View From A Rusty Train Car
By DeeJay Arens
ISBN: 978-1927044346
ASIN: B009079Y6K
Publisher: Writers AMuse Me Publishing
Genre: literary, glbt, coming-of-age
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), pdf, epub, mobi
"No one talks about what happens when you fall in love with the boy next door -not when you're the boy living beside the boy next door." Jared didn't want to do
it, but it had to be done. Someone had to sit before the government hearing to
explain why a gay man was nothing to be vilified, nothing to be hated or feared...
that he was just a man. That is what Jared Montgomery is determined to do. He
does so by sharing his story -- his and Luke's story -- in the hopes that perhaps
even just one more person could understand. Luke and Jared were battling the
odds from the beginning. Growing up beside each other, being best friends, they
soon learned that if they wanted to share each other's company, it had to be
done in secret, in the confines of the old train car behind the junkyard. There,
they were free of the taunts and jibes, the ridicule and hatred... or were they?
Unable to embrace who he is, unable to deal with the tactics used by his family to
'cure' him, Luke forces himself into a traditional marriage that is doomed from
the start. His true, self-denied love for Jared, and the hatred surrounding it, is
killing him. The question is, can Jared get to him before it is too late?
The View From A Rusty Train Car won the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book
Awards for GLBT, placed second in the Fore Word Book of the Year Awards for
GLBT, and was a finalist in the 2014 NIEA Indie Excellence Awards in the GLBT
category.
For review copies contact:
DeeJay Arens
Email: arens@paulbunyan.net
Website: http://www.writersamuseme.com/deejayarens.htm#878120977
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeeJayArens
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deejayarensauthor
Wordpress: http://deejayarens.wordpress.com/
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23. Murder Mystery Available For Review
Murder on Vacation (A Molly Tinker Mystery)
By Misty Reddington
Publisher: Lulu Publishing
Published: July 2014
ISBN: 978-1483414478
ASIN: B00MMM41TA
Genre: Murder Mystery
Formats Available For Review: pdf
Molly Tinker and her husband, Police Chief Eric Wade, are
ready for some warmth and relaxation. It is the middle of
winter in their small New England town. Every day is gray and the temperature is
well below freezing.
When Molly's old college friend, Ellen, and her husband, Jake, invite the two of
them to a Florida paradise, a beach town in South Florida, Molly and Eric jump at
the chance, leaving behind their best friend, a big white poodle.
There's one huge problem.
This Florida paradise is filled with evil.
Ellen sends Jake to the airport to get Molly and Eric while she goes shopping for
fresh crab for dinner, and she never returns.
She is never seen again, alive or dead.
Molly and Eric help the police track down a killer. A killer that has an appetite for
the blood of pretty women.
There are several suspects in this Florida paradise, but which one is the
killer? It's difficult to know. Finally, the suspect list is narrowed down to two men,
but both may be capable of murder.
Murder on Vacation is light fun reading. It is the fifth book in the Molly Tinker
Mystery Series. See Facebook. All profits from the sale of these books go to the
Poodle Club of America Rescue Foundation.
For review copies contact:
Misty Reddington
Email: tobyandmisty@gmail.com
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24. Book on Teaching/Elementary Education Available For Review
Elementary Educ 101: What They Didn't Teach You in
College
By Gretchen E. Schultek
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: August 27, 2014
ISBN: 978-1478711865
Genre: Elementary Education
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to
qualified reviewers)
Your first year as a teacher is full of exciting moments and of course some
blunders. Why not decrease the likelihood of encountering these blunders by
reading this book and learning from my experiences in an elementary school
classroom? Here’s to wishing you a successful first year teaching and beyond!
Gretchen Schultek is a general education teacher of 8 years. She has taught
grades 2, 3, and 5 at both low and high performing elementary schools in
Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2006, she received her Bachelor’s degree from
Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2010, she received her Master’s
degree in Curriculum and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. Gretchen attained National Board Certification as an Early Childhood
Generalist in 2012. She is passionate about educating the whole student so that
they are best prepared to be successful both in and outside the classroom.
“ELEMENTARY EDUC 101” is Gretchen’s first published book and she is currently
in the process of writing a children’s book.
For review copies contact:
Gretchen Schultek
Email: gschultek@gmail.com
Website: http://outskirtspress.com/elementaryeduc101/
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/AlwaysALesson
Twitter- https://twitter.com/GSchultek
Blog- http://alwaysalesson.com/
25. Innovative Presentations for Dummies
"For those wanting to stand far apart and far above
other speakers and presenters, you may be interested
in Ray Anthony's latest book on how to give innovative
presentations. The authors (including Barbara Boyd)
tell us how to powerfully combine Creativity,
Technology, Psychology and Strategy in ways to create and deliver a talk that is
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a breakthrough synthesis of being compelling, captivating, concise, clear and
convincing. The book has fresh new imaginative ideas, tactics and techniques to
give an over-the-top speech or presentations. The interesting photos include
showing how to produce and use eye-opening props, business proposals,
impressive handouts. The book is sold online and in most bookstores everywhere.
Ray Anthony's previous book was Killer Presentations With Your iPad (McGraw Hill,
2013)."
Let me know if I need to modify this writeup.
Thanks!
Ray Anthony
President
Anthony Innovation Group
The Woodlands, TX
281-364-7739
26. Literary Fiction Available For Review
The Lion Trees
By Owen Thomas
Publisher: OTF Literary
Published: August 2014
Part One: Unraveling
ISBN: 978-0692235904
Part Two: Awakening
ISBN: 978-0692248379
Genre: Literary Fiction
What happens when you get the life you aim for and it
hurts like hell?
The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in
esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Susan,
his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might
have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career
capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of
Christopher Columbus. And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary
promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define
herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the
judgments of an uncompromising writer.
By turns comical and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery
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that sometimes you have to let go of your identity to find out who you are.
Recent Praise for The Lion Trees:
“[A] cerebral page turner…a powerful and promising debut.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[FOUR STARS]… In its structure and nature, [The Lion Trees] reminds me above
all of John Updike’s wonderful Harry Rabbit novels and their ability to summarize
the essence of change in American society across a decade at a time.” –
BookIdeas.com
For review copies contact:
Owen Thomas
E-mail: owenthomasfiction@gmail.com
Website: http://www.owenthomasfiction.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/owen.thomas.fiction
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OTFiction
27. Sci-Fi Fantasy Available For Review
Bob the Bubble Gum Spider
By Gary E. Marche
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-1483522098
ASIN: B00JQM72EU
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Bob the Bubble Gum Spider is a spellbinding account of a
physically challenged hatch-ling orb weaver named Bob and an evil organization
of black widow spiders called the Immaculate Order of the Web that requires him
killed . . . but the black widows are after a lot more than just Bob.
The IOW seeks to subjugate the world and the hairy two-legs are very much in
their way . . . and the black widows of the IOW are not tolerant of that which is in
their way:
"Nedra was always of the mind that she could handle things herself and had
come up with a few solutions of her own. For one, she was fondly considering
eating some of the no-account, malingering pledging priests, starting with
Osiris. That would surely provide the rest with the proper incentive to be more
productive. Of course, she had another solution that was even simpler and
required no action on her part: She dearly wished the forest would catch fire and
burn."
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Bob and his associates try to defend themselves, but can they save the hairy
two-legs?
For review copies contact:
Gary E. Marche
E-mail: gmarche@cox.net
Website: http://my.bookbaby.com/book/bob-the-bubble-gum-spider
28. Fantasy Novel Available For Review
Noddy In Wonderland
By Paddy Bostock
Publisher: Wings ePress
Published: August 31, 2014
ASIN: B00N842F76
Genre: Fantasy
Formats Available For Review: pdf
In his wildest dreams, Afghanistan war veteran Noddy Stoddart fantasised about
becoming king of Liverpool, even though his brother, Knobby, told him he was
crazy. But shooting government minister St John Jaunston in the bottom with an
air rifle on a visit to the city leads bizarrely to Noddy’s dream coming true--as
president of the newly created People’s Republic of Liverpool.
Outraged as Noddy and his Goth/Punk girlfriend set Britain against him through
further “bottom blasting” and then faux vampire actions before escaping to a
castle in France, the prime minister initially threatens ancient punishments. But,
facing Cabinet backstabbing and the loss of a general election, he succumbs to
realpolitik and invites the miscreants home as voter bait.
Mistake, because that’s when--with a little help from his friends, and the
involvement of an elf and his dog, Noddy takes full advantage.
For review copies contact:
Paddy Bostock
Email: paddy@boscav.eclipse.co.uk
Website: http://www.authorsden.com/paddybostock
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29. Contemporary Fiction Novel For Review
Blow Out Summer
By Denise Ann Stock
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: July 2014
ISBN: 978-1628570823
Genre: Fiction/Action & Adventure
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers)
urf, party, and romance take center stage in the breezy novel
Blow Out Summer, as a group of local surfers in Huntington Beach, California,
enjoy a summertime of hanging out and having fun.
Their story takes place in the mid 1970s, when no one was paying much
attention to the drugs being brought into California at an alarming rate. But Dee
Dee’s eyes are about to be opened.
Dee Dee lives in a very well-to-do area and is introduced to social drug
experimentation and drug trafficking while maintaining a normal family life. She
and her friends enjoy the surf up and down the coast of California.
Her friends run the gamut from the very wealthy to beach bums she met at the
pier. Dee Dee’s lazy summer is spent under beautiful sunny days with slow
drifting clouds and perfect barrel waves. But the ups and downs in her
relationships and the dangers of dabbling in drugs ultimately force a decision that
will change her life.
For review copies contact:
Denise Ann Stock
Email: deniseastock@gmail.com
Website: http://sbprabooks.com/deniseannstock/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/deniseastock
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006763396050
30. YA Fantasy Novels Available For Review
The Six, and the Crystals of Ialana
The Ialana Series Book 1
By Katlynn Brooke
ASIN: B00KK5IPN4
Published: May 2014
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Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Is it magic, or is it science? The Six are about to find out. Life
will never be the same for them again as the collective dreams
that six young people share turns into a nightmare. Three boys
are kidnapped by soldiers in a mandatory draft: Jarah, a baker’s
boy, and best friends Adain and Blaidd. They are helped by a
soldier, Tristan, whose treasonous actions find them all on the
run from the vicious Captain Eglog. As they flee towards the
mountains, they are joined by three girls: Kex, a young girl
whose parents have threatened murder if she refuses to marry,
Tegan, the shoemaker’s daughter, and Djana, a tomboyish
socialite from the City of Rhiannon. They encounter a shape-shifter named Irusan
under whose tutelage they begin to understand that they can never return to
their previous lives.
The young people learn that if they do not recover the Healing Crystal and insure
its security, all of Ialana could be pitched into darkness. And when they learn
what their true identity is, a betrayal that none of them expected to happen
again threatens to defeat them.
The Six will find adventures they never dreamed about; adventures that take
them to dark places where danger lurks at every step. They will also discover the
answers to who they really are: answers that will shock and amaze them as their
journey unfolds.
The Six, and the Gardeners of Ialana
The Ialana Series Book 2
By Katlynn Brooke
ASIN:
Published: August 2014
Genre: YA Fantasy
In the second of the Ialana series, The Six have escaped the destruction of the
Citadel in Rhiannon, but they find themselves caught in a power struggle
between the competing rulers of Ialana. Unable to complete their healing mission,
to heal those who were genetically altered by crystal manipulation, they flee the
Galonese War-Lord, Ortzi, and attempt a dangerous journey back to their homes
in northern Ialana.
Trapped by malevolent creatures, hunted by a monster who seeks them for
reasons of its own, and on the run from a king and a conniving shape-shifter,
there seems to be no place of safety for them.
Will they find the mysterious abode of the Gardeners? Who are the Gardeners,
and what is their purpose for the Six? Will The Six be able to find Queen Catrin,
who sets off on a quest of her own, or will Catrin run afoul of her husband, King
Brenin, before she can find The Six?
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In the Gardeners of Ialana, the Six explore the mysteries of healing, elemental
command, and through many trials, learn their true purpose in life.
For review copies contact:
Katlynn Brooke
Email: artamber@yahoo.com
Website: http://katlynnbrooke.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katlynnbrookeauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KBrookeAuthor
31. Book of Poetry for Review
This Long Trip To Myself
By Steve Saari
Publisher: Writers AMuse Me Publishing
ISBN: 978-1927044742
ASIN: B00EO73ZSY
Genre: Poetry
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), PDF, EPUB, MOBI
Life is a singular journey filled with upheavals both joyful and tragic. Whether you
have walked life’s path for a short time or have experienced a good length of the
road, “This Long Trip to Myself” will speak to you personally. Dramatic, yet
quietly reflective; humorous and offbeat; this collection of poems is the beginning
of a new life adventure for the author, Steve Saari.
For review copies contact:
Steve Saari
Email: marketing@writersamuseme.com
Website: http://www.writersamuseme.com/stevesaari.htm#901230694
Blog: http://saaristuff.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steve_Saari
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steve.saari.35
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32. Literary Historical Fiction with Mystery For Review
Redemption
By Mary Cote
Publisher: Writers AMuse Me
ISBN: 978-1927044001
ASIN: B004XMOLPQ
Genre: Literary, Mystery, Historical Fiction
Formats Available For Review: PDF, EPUB, MOBI
Corruption and manipulation are running rampant when Father
Adamo Bianchi returns to Rome to attend his mother's funeral. He is sure that his
two younger sisters are condemned to eternal damnation because of their
activities. Abuse of power, indulgences, espionage, and murder all become
integral aspects of Adamo’s life while he disregards the moral virtues that
propelled his vocation. Will he sacrifice his sisters on the altar of lust for Crimson
silk?
For review copies contact:
Mary Cote
Email: marketing@writersamuseme.com
Website: http://www.marycotewalkden.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmandaLynD
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.cotewalkden
33. Mystery/Suspense Available For Review
Skeleton Trail
By Kasey Riley
Publisher: Webb Lane Enterprises
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-1500863265
ASIN: B00MTUQLH0
Pages: 299
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Bethany and Roger Meadows plan for a bright future, a guest camp and pack
station that will cater to horse owners and adventure campers. The campgrounds,
cabins, stables, and pavilion are ready, but there are no trails for the guests to
explore.
Bethany and Megan venture into the woods to mark a trail, but a frightening
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accident brings her face to skull with a mummified corpse. She sends Megan
and Kam out to guide FBI Forensic specialist David Harrison to the location of the
body. After Megan leaves, an unknown shooter attempts to keep the murder a
mystery.
Agent David Harrison finds when the bullets start flying Kam leads him to an
abandoned cabin where they wait out the storm and the shooter. He discovers he
wants to explore their shared heritage, in private.
With the evidence they uncovered in the cabin and the corpse itself, the mystery
unfolds and the connections to current day become clearer. Crimes of the distant
past link to crimes of the closer past and even to crimes of the present; blackmail,
extortion, arson, and murder attempts link the body and some of the current
residents of Riverview. David and Kam work with Megan and Aaron to uncover
connections and reveal what occurred so long ago and how it might affect people
in the town today.
David and Kam grow closer with each new danger, coming to appreciate the
similarities in their pasts and the differences that draw them to each other. Once
all the mysteries are solved, can they find a way to become a lasting couple, or
will her past interfere with their future?
This book, like the first Riverview mystery, Desperate Endurance, shows the
values and cohesiveness of small town and rural America. People are willing to
help each other and sacrifice as needed to keep each other safe in a very rugged
and unforgiving land.
For review copies contact:
Kasey Riley
Email: www.kaseyriley.com
Website: http://www.kaseyriley.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorKCRiley
34. The Occupy Movement Explained,
Author Nicholas Smaligo offers a personal, passionate, and
truthful account of Occupy Wall Street in his new book The Occupy
Movement Explained, releasing September 16 in time for Occupy
Wall Street’s third anniversary on September 17.
From publisher, Open Court Publishing Company, comes a
readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests,
showing how the movement changed the thinking of both its
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participants and of the wider public. Nicholas corrects many misunderstandings
of Occupy, such as the myth that it came out of nowhere. The Occupy Movement
Explained is volume 13 in Open Court’s Ideas Explained series.
We encourage you to share this exciting book release with your readers/viewers.
For reference, additional information about The Occupy Moment Explained ,
Nicholas Smaligo and Occupy Wall Street can be found below my signature.
Sheila Tayebi
On behalf Open Court Publishing
stayebi@360pr.com
About the Book: The Occupy Movement Explained- From Corporate
Control to Democracy
A readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, The Occupy
Movement Explained is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully
documented. Debunking a number of prominent myths and misunderstandings,
Nicholas Smaligo shows how the movement arose out of radical currents that
have been active below the media's radar since the 1970s. Occupiers are not all
the same, and the author reviews some of the debates and changes within the
movement. The occupations began under a slogan that conjured up a naive sense
of unity — "We Are the 99%!" It did not take very long for that sense of unity to
give way to an appreciation of just how socially, economically, and ideologically
fragmented American society is. For some, this was an excuse to return to their
cynicism; for others, it was an invitation to lose their illusions and begin to see
the world from the viewpoint of political activists. The Occupy Movement
Explained describes this process of education and the lessons learned about "the
99%," the police, direct democracy, political demands, and the intimately related
questions of social change, violence, and property.
About the Author: Nicholas Smaligo
Nicholas Smaligo is a PhD student, activist, and speaker. He was an active
participant in the Occupy movement. He lives and works in southern Illinois,
where he is involved in activism related to the environment, debt, and mass
incarceration.
About Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began September 17,
2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District and spread to over 100
cities in the United States and over 1,500 cities globally. The movement fought
against the corrosive power of banks, corporations, and oppressive democracy as
well as combatted the richest 1% of people that created an unfair global
economy. Occupy Wall Street is credited with the achievement of changing the
national conversation, making inequality a central political issue.
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35. Education/Special Education Book For Review
Facilitating Early Social Communication Skills: From Theory to Practice
By Pamela Rosenthal Rollins, MS, CCC-SLP, EdD
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
ISBN: 978-1937473846
Published: September 2014
Genre: Education and Special Education
Facilitating Early Communication, Language, and Social Skills:
From Theory to Practice, presents a developmental socialpragmatic approach to facilitating language and social
communication in children. Reflecting the principles of the SCERTS model (Social
Communication Emotional Regulation and Transactional Supports; Prizant et al.),
it makes a major contribution to the training and support of young children on
the autism spectrum, ages 3-5. While the focus is on the preschool environment,
suggestions are provided for how to extend the approach to the home and other
environments where the child spends time. The textbook is divided into five
chapters representing the theoretical and organizational framework of social
pragmatic intervention as well as 12 instructional units each focused on a
particular theme chosen to be developmentally appropriate and functional in the
lives of children such as bedtime, birthdays, restaurants, grocery stores, etc.
For review copies contact:
Zach Gouldsmith
Email: zach.gouldsmith@aapcpublishing.net
Publisher: https://www.aapcpublishing.net/productdescription.aspx?productid=1164
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aapcpub
36. Humorous Novel About Tennis For Review
Slammin'
By Marcus Paul Cootsona
Publisher: Pro Tennis Press
ISBN: 978-1496082404
ASIN:B00KRGWIKW
Published: May 2014
Pages: 246
Genre: Humorous Sports Fiction
SLAMMIN’ takes place in a different 2011. Fifty-three year-old tennis pro and
family man, Wally Wilson is happily teaching Silicon Valley’s millionaires and
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billionaires at the double-wide estate of his temptress and benefactor, 17 yearold Ashley Margincall. But when Wally’s serve speed spikes and unidentified
government agents appear, he begins a pro tennis odyssey that might lead him
to the U.S. Open or the twisted nexus of a Grand Slam conspiracy. Strangely
blessed, but always behind the curve, Wally realizes he’s been given all the
power, but none of the control.
For review copies contact:
Marcus Paul Cootsona
Email: myprotennis@comcast.net
Website: http://www.marcuscootsona.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcus.cootsona
37. Contemporary Humorous Fiction For Review
Tossed Off the Edge
Patrick Brown
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-1495359873
ASIN: B00N43OHFE
Pages: 196
Genre: Fiction/Humor
Indie author Patrick Brown has released his second book
Tossed Off the Edge, a clever and hilarious sendup of the celebrity tell-all genre.
The soap opera known as The Edge of Conflict has been keeping viewers tuned in
every afternoon since 1970. The show was centered on the exploits and troubles
of the very rich Knight Family of Hillvale. At the heart of this long-running drama
is Regina, played by soap diva Sheila Wozniak, who grew from troubled teen to
matriarch over the decades. Wozniak has won many awards, and once had an
enormous fan base.
However, as times have changed and soap opera audiences have dwindled,
Wozniak found that her influence with the network and the international soap
company Poplar & Grindle had waned just like her fan base. Refusing to change
along with the show’s producers, she finds that she has been fired. There will be
no more Regina, and to make her understand that they no longer want her, her
televised funeral turns out to be an on-air cremation. There was no way for her
to escape the flames.
With very little acting experience outside of her four-decade role, Sheila Wozniak
is unsure what to do next until a publishing house comes calling and asks her to
write her memoirs. She is a drinker not a writer; so she hires her favorite former
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head writer from The Edge of Conflict to ghost write her autobiography.
The fun ensues almost immediately as Ms. Wozniak, ever the dramatic diva, goes
into detail about her past. Due to the many years of playing the same character
and being a fan of TV herself, she tells her story, leaving the reader entertained
but wondering if she really was married to a successful Madison Avenue
advertising agent (Bewitched) followed by a marriage to a successful California
architect with three sons (The Brady Bunch) or went on a spiritual pilgrimage to
Puerto Rico (The Flying Nun). From the book: “Regina Knight Harrison Donavan
Taylor Donavan McDonald McDonald Woodward Merriweather Todd’s funeral was
held on channel seven at 1:00 p.m. local time in every time zone across the
country. If you had ever watched daytime TV between 1970 until her demise, you
couldn’t have missed her. She was blond and dramatic, and she had been shot,
paralyzed, kidnapped, raped and tortured numerous times. On her better days,
she had given or received a number of internal organs, suffered heart attacks
and endured a radical mastectomy… In spite of all the difficulties, Regina
maintained a strong faith in the power of love. She was a one-man woman in
spite of having been married nine times to seven different husbands who got
younger and younger as Regina aged.
For readers who thrive on an actor’s conflicts with ungrateful children, they won’t
be disappointed since Miss Wozniak is under the impression that Mommie Dearest
was intended to be a guide to raising children!
For review copies contact:
Patrick Brown
Email: pbrown8745@gmail.com
Website: http://writtenbypatrickbrown.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onemorethingtoread
TWitter: https://twitter.com/patrickwrote
38. Historical/Regency Romance Available For Review
The Maid of Milan
By Beverley Eikli
Publisher: Choc Lit
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-1781891285
ASIN: B00I80ZUQ8
Genre: Regency/Historical Romance
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), pdf, ebook, mobi, kindle
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1818
Who is The Maid of Milan?
Reformed ‘party girl’ Adelaide, Lady Leeson, knows it’s time to leave London
when a sensational new book of poetry has high society eagerly speculating on
the identity of its adventurous heroine.
But returning to enforced obscurity in the country when she’s already paid such a
high price to keep secret her youthful folly is a bitter pill to swallow.
When Adelaide’s husband asks her to remain in London as his political hostess
following the public’s enthusiastic reception of her recently unveiled painting, she
can’t say no.
As Adelaide becomes further embroiled in the lies and secrets required to protect
her husband’s political career and maintain his untarnished image of herself,
Adelaide realises she has more enemies than she’d imagined.
And the deadliest are the ones who refuse to reveal themselves.
For review copies contact:
Beverley Eikli
Email: beverley.writer@gmail.com
Website: http://www.beverleyeikli.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beverley-EikliAuthor/240314762834577
Twitter: @BeverleyOakley
39. Horror Novel Available For Review
Forgotten Sin
By Brian Hershey
Publisher: McWood Publishing
Published: June 2014
ISBN: 978-0989108201
ASIN: B00KQ2ACA0
Genre: Horror
Formats Available For Review: ebook, pdf, and mobi
Dr. Mya Bishop, an expert on medieval mythology and folklore
at the University of Cambridge, is more than she appears to be. Cursed, haunted
by guilt, and desperate to be free from her terrible past, Dr. Bishop seeks the
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help of an animal specialist, Marcus Holland, from Australia.
In an attempt to uncover the mysteries behind Dr. Bishop’s curse, Marcus upsets
the internal balance of emotions and the habits that have kept Dr. Bishop’s dark
secret hidden from society. No longer able to conceal her true nature from the
world, she finds herself facing a new menace that is relentless in pursuing her for
one purpose, to kill her.
It’s a stunning thrill ride, a tale of ill-begotten revelations and long-lost evil that
will have you dreading the glowing night sky.
For review copies contact:
Tameca Woods
McWood Publishing
Email: mcwp@mcwoodpub.com
Website: http://www.mcwoodpub.com
FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/McwoodPublishing
Twitter - https://twitter.com/McWoodPub
40. Dammit, I Learned a Lot from That Son-of-a-Gun
12 stories, 12 authors
Totally Real, Totally True, Totally New
What happens when someone shares a story with us—a true
story, a story from their heart-of-hearts?
We feel connected. We realize the commonality of our emotions.
How we are, as human beings, all the same. We all falter. We
all fear. We all stumble. And we can all come back stronger.
Every son-of-a-gun in this book of twelve new, true stories is
different, but you’ll recognize each one. We’ve all had them in
our lives, these sons-of-guns. And whether we love them or we hate them, they
are our teachers. They impart some kernel of truth that we carry with us always.
You may not know these people, but you will know these stories. They’re about
emotions we all feel—fear, anger, temptation, even those times you slap yourself
on the forehead and call yourself an idiot. The circumstances may be different,
but the pain, the heartache and the triumph, those remain true.
For a review copy, ebook or paper, contact
Brandt Street Press, PO Box 8243, Pittsburgh PA 15217
anita@brandtstreetpress.com
http://www.brandtstreetpress.com
http://dammitbook.com
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41. Christianity/Memoir For Review
When God Intervenes
By Jean John
ISBN: 978-1449038595
Pages: 80
Genre: Christianity/Memoir
Formats available for review: pdf
When God Intervenes is an inspiring story about a shy insecure
woman who was empowered by God to carry out a big mission
far beyond her own level of expectation in a needy community
where people dared her to perform the task. Faced with the daunting possibility
of achieving the goal, her passion and concern for people suffering the effects of
mental illness drove her to pursue that mission regardless of the obstacles faced.
This book is funny, honest, touching, and shows that God can hide his face for
several seasons at times. Nevertheless He can be trusted in the deepest of
valleys to show up and work alongside an individual that is willing to trust Him
and go the distance.In doing this she also successfully managed what has now
grown to become a well established and sought after organisation.
For review copies contact:
Jean John
Email: jeanvjohn@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.jeanvjohn.com
42. Young Adult/Middle Grade Fantasy For Review
Bobby Ether and the Academy
by R Scott Boyer
ISBN: 978-1482084825
ASIN: B00FFHPKLW
Published: September 2013
Pages: 366
Genre: YA Fantasy, Middle Grade Fantasy
“There is no such thing as magic.” That’s what the mysterious
stranger named Cassandra tells Bobby after helping him
narrowly escape from the small army of secret agents who surround his house.
What follows is an amazing adventure – from indoor forests to vast archives,
from a labyrinth of jade mines to the dark recesses of a bear’s lair. Along the way,
Bobby will learn that, while there may be no such thing as magic, there is
powerful energy within us all. In fact, the entire universe is connected by energy
– and he has the rare ability to control it.
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Join Bobby and his best friend Jinx as they avoid school bullies, a suspected
assassin, and meta-human henchmen alike to unravel the many mysteries of the
Academy – the ancient and enigmatic monastery in Tibet where kids with
extraordinary potential are sent to study. But is the Academy truly what it claims
to be?
For review copies contact:
R Scott Boyer
Email: scoby27@yahoo.com
Website: http://rscottboyer.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BobbyEtherAndTheAcademy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RScottBoyer
43. Book On Pregnancy For Review
Getting Ready for Baby: The Practical Parent's Organizer
By Helene Tragos Stelian
ISBN: 9781497395596
Published: April 2014
Pages: 206
Genre: Parenting, Pregnancy
Building on the success of the original Getting Ready for Baby,
this brand new edition offers even more:
Completely updated charts and checklists
The latest in healthcare and safety guidelines
Revamped step-by-step instructions for finding the best obstetrician,
pediatrician, and childcare - with detailed interview questionnaires
Loads of new resources for maternity and baby gear
All the latest books and magazines on parenting and baby care
New recommendations on parenting organizations, apps, even blogs
All this in addition to these tried-and-true features, thoroughly updated to meet
the needs of today's expectant parents:
A master to-do list for pregnancy and beyond
The most detailed baby gear checklist, with "lingo" explained and hundreds of
shopping tips, as well as specific advice for those expecting twins
Logs for doctor visits and calls, borrowed items, baby feedings, and more
An extensive checklist for babyproofing the home, including many dos and
don'ts
Countless "practical parent tips" from parents who've been there
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For review copies contact:
Helene Tragos Stelian
Email: hstelian@comcast.net
44. Coming of Age Fiction For Review
Getaway Day
Ken White
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-1629949154
ASIN: B00IX0D7L8
Pages: 400
Genre: Coming of Age
When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son
gives to his father, they both cry.
It's the 1962 World Series. New York Yankees versus San Francisco Giants.
Tropical storm Freda has delayed the crucial sixth game in San Francisco. It's dry
as a bone in Modesto, California, where the Yankees have a farm team and a field
named after Yankee owner Del Webb. A flurry of phone calls leads to a bus ride
to the Central Valley town of 30,000. On October 14th, 1962, a crowd of more
than 5,000 fills the small minor league park. This once-in-a-lifetime event
features eight future Hall of Famers. Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle
from the Yankees; Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal
and Gaylord Perry from the Giants.
One of the fans is thirteen-year-old Mikey Wright. Unlike the rest of the
spectators, he's not there to see his idol and namesake, Mickey Mantle. He's
there to convince the Commerce Comet to play catch with Mikey's father, who is
dying of cancer.
Getaway Day chronicles Mikey's journey to save his father's life. And learn the
meaning of his own.
Getaway Day will appeal to Baby Boomers, young adults, and anyone who loves
baseball and remembers the joy and sorrow of adolescence.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others is, and remains,
immortal.
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For review copies contact:
Ken White
Email: KenWhite@kw209.com
Website: http://kenwhite.tateauthor.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KenWhite209
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ken.white.7106
45. Noddy in Wonderland by Paddy Bostock
Noddy in Wonderland — A Magical Mystery, is out now! In his
wildest dreams, Afghanistan war veteran Noddy Stoddart
fantasised about becoming king of Liverpool, even though his
brother, Knobby, told him he was crazy. But shooting
government minister St John Jaunston in the bottom with an
air rifle on a visit to the city leads bizarrely to Noddy’s dream
coming true--with a little help from his friends, and the
involvement of an elf and his dog.
Email: Jewelx7@aol.com
Available as a PDF file: http://www.amazon.com/Noddy-Wonderland-PaddyBostock-ebook/dp/B00N842F76/ref=sr_1_1?s=digitaltext&ie=UTF8&qid=1409617739&sr=1-1&keywords=Noddy+In+Wonderland
46. YA Fantasy For Review
Stuart Duffelmeyer and the Masters of Plagues
By Dewey B. Reynolds
ISBN: 978-1500302191
Published: August 2014
ASIN: B00MQA68WQ
Pages: 258
Genre: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult
Mystical powers. Cosmic adventure. Universally dynamic forces. A certain gifted
individual is granted all three. Meet Stuart Duffelmeyer. Brilliant, kind-spirited,
and 100% human best describe him. He is an NYU student whose classmates
play a horrible prank on him and his life spirals into utter agony. Fooling with him
was their ultimate mistake. Stuart suffered severely as a result of their malicious
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behavior and is bent on getting even with his tormentors.
A chance encounter allows him to discover a magical Hebrew talisman with
indescribable powers. Stuart is thrust into the regions of a far away galaxy once
the talisman is consecrated. The spirit of his one-time advisor, Rabbi Irwin
Wedemeyer, explains to him that the talisman will grant him miraculous powers
over all the creatures and elements of the Earth. The rabbi cautions Stuart not to
abuse the powers bestowed upon him, nonetheless, Stuart returns to Earth and
quickly seeks out his revenge armed with his new abilities. Stuart – and the rest
of Humanity – soon discover the true consequences of revenge……
For review copies contact:
Dewey B. Reynolds
Email: db44success@gmail.com
Website: http://db44success.wix.com/deweybreynolds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SUCCESS4DR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stuart-Duffelmeyer-and-theMasters-of-Plagues-Book-1/336602953174563
47. Test Prep Guide Available For Review
How to Write a Killer SAT Essay
By Tom Clements
Publisher: Hit 'Em Up
ISBN: 978-0578076652
ASIN: B00GMV5VYQ
Pages: 172
Genre: Education/Test-Prep
How to Write a Killer SAT Essay is the only award-winning book with dozens of
real essays written by real students. The net is full of abstract information on
WHAT to write about when constructing an SAT essay -- my book is full of
information on exactly HOW to write it. I include dozens of top-scoring, detailed
essays from students of mine who have put my principles into practice.When you
see step-by-step instructions on HOW someone has put an essay together, it's
much more valuable that simply knowing "what" the principles of good writing
entail. My book is also full of practical advice on the seven Rules of Engagement
you need to know about when constructing an essay. These seven rules provide a
clear and comprehensive writing methodology that every student can follow to
obtain a top-scoring SAT essay.
A "Snapshot" chapter provides a complete sample essay from start to finish with
all the component pieces highlighted and analyzed for impact. Examples of
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introductory paragraphs full of quotes and anecdotes are included along with
an entire chapter of prefabricated content with student paragraphs from history,
literature, pop culture, music, sports, movies, and technology. Finally, a chapter
entitled "Spin the Prompt" demonstrates how to take any SAT prompt and "spin"
it to the content examples you've prefabricated.
For review copies contact:
Tom Clements
Email: tctutoring@comcast.net
Website: http://www.tctutoring.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/How-to-Write-a-Killer-SATEssay/140144259401653
48. Career Guidance For Women - Available For Review
Avoiding the Dodgeballs … at Work
A Young Woman’s Guide to Succeeding at a First Job
Author: E. Marie
ISBN: 978-1484033951
Pages: 206
Published: October 2014
Genre: Career Guidance, Non-Fiction
After working 25 years in various industries, supervising and
mentoring numerous of young professional men and women,
E. Marie was inspired to write a book that prepares entry
level employees for the world of work.
This career guidance book addresses a variety of subject matters including:
project management, team work, managing your boss, performance evaluations,
sexual harassment, difficult coworkers and networking.
It is an easy to read guidance book with two main characters. One of the fictional
characters is a female, a recent college graduate, who is preparing to enter the
workforce. The other character is the narrator, who gives the new employee
straight to the point advice –with a touch of humor- on how to handle or avoid
potential work related issues.
There are funny scenarios and illustrations scattered throughout the book. An
index is included to locate specific subject matter.
E. Marie is hopeful that upon reading her book, readers will get a heads-up on
what to expect during the first year of employment while obtaining some tips on
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how to avoid first job “hiccups” and smoothly move up the ladder.
For review copies, interview requests, or rights inquiries, please contact:
E. Marie
Email: e.marie@notadisgruntleemployee.com
Website: http://www.avoidingthedodgeballs.com
49. THE HOPE OF A BIPOLAR CHRISTIAN
My 20+ year journey of learning to live with bipolar disorder, as
my faith grew, with joy and gratitude. I am seeking reviews: To
receive an e-copy, (PDF) please contact:
Author: Cindy Butler
hoabc2014@gmail.com -or- website:
https://www.facebook.com/TheHopeofaBipolarChristian
It is currently on Amazon.com as a pre-order only (launch date 10-15-14)
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File Size: 3648 KB
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Print Length: 201 pages
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Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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Language: English
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ASIN: B00NJTIR90
50. Forever There For You, was released in 2012 and is 98,000 words in length.
I came across Publishing Poynters Marketplace through
Carolyn's newsletter.
Please, consider Forever There For You for review.
"When NADINE is confronted with the reality of her failing
marriage, her first instinct is to work it out. She has had it
drummed into her that marriage is ‘for better, for worse’.
Walking out is just not an option - her faith would condemn her
and her culture would make her a pariah.
The combination of Nadine’s background, education, social standing, friendships,
faith, experiences and past relationships is meant to equip her to become a
success. Failure is alien to her and love means forgiving at all cost.
As she tries to survive and make the most of the curves that life has thrown her,
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she discovers that ’success’ is a subjective term, and ‘happily ever after’ is
something that you have to discover and define for yourself …
You can read a sample here http://chiomannani.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/forever-there-for-you-sneakpreview.html
Thank you for your time.
Name - Chioma Nnani
Email address - chioma.nnani@gmail.com
Blog URL - www.chiomannani.blogspot.co.uk
Chioma Nnani
Award-winning Author of FOREVER THERE FOR YOU
Blog: http://chiomannani.blogspot.com
Email: chioma.nnani@gmail.com
Twitter: @ChiomaNnani
LinkedIn: Chioma Nnani
Google+: https://google.com/+ChiomaNnani
Skype: chi-chi.n
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ForeverThereForYou
51. Self-Help Book Available For Review
Actions Against Distractions: Managing Your Scattered, Disorganized,
and Forgetful Mind
By Geraldine Markel, PhD
Publisher: Managing Your Mind, LLC
ISBN: 978-0615586397
Genre: Self-Help
Formats available for review: pdf
Here's a practical guide to ban work/life distractions, increase
productivity and reduce stress. Whether you're a
businessperson, community leader, parent or retiree, you can
adapt an active role in enhancing your performance and quality of life--distraction
free! Discover the root causes of your distractions, develop a 5-step plan and
adapt strategies to move from good intention to positive action.
On average, dealing with interruptions at work consumes more than two hours a
day or 28% of your whole workday. For many, it feels like there are mysterious
forces that thwart your best efforts to be productive at work and beyond. These
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forces are labeled demons of distraction. And, these distractions deplete your
psychic energy and divert your attention from important tasks, creating a barrier
to being productive. You don't have to let your life spin out of control; you can
take action against your distractions now. Increasing productivity by reducing
distractions is a skill everyone can learn and improve. Confronted with today's
uncertainties and challenges, banning distractions from your work/life can help
manage your scattered, disorganized and forgetful mind.
Drawing on the author's years as a trainer and coach, Markel's Actions Against
Distractions: Managing Your Scattered, Disorganized and Forgetful Mind provides
a step-by-step guide to banning common distractions from work/life. It provides
a 5-step plan of attack and 7 strategies to implement an action plan against
common distractions such as technology, interruptions, an unruly mind, stress
and fatigue. With amusing stories, readers are guided to adapted research-based
strategies to their individual needs and style. Ample examples and exercises
allow the reader to answer the question, how do I change ineffective habits and
move from good intentions to positive actions. Actions Against Distractions can
be used alone as a workbook or in tandem with Defeating the 8 Demons of
Distraction: Proven Strategies to Increase Productivity and Decreasing Stress.
For review copies contact:
Geraldine Markel, PhD
Email: geri@managingyourmind.com
Website: http://www.managingyourmind.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/8Demons
52. YA Reality Fiction For Review
The Shadow of Loss
By Josefina Gutierrez
ISBN: 978-1483536736
ASIN: B00NB65GGS
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: September 2014
Genre: Young Adult Realistic Fiction
Formats Available For Review: pdf, epub, ebook, mobi,
kindle
Evelyn Gonzalez keeps losing people, which is always hard, but has she lost
something much more? Has she lost her soul? Evelyn has a nervous breakdown
and is institutionalized, after months of sorrow and pain she is thrust back into
the world. The world of teenage angst and Calculus. Can she trust people again?
Especially after hurtful assumptions and judgments made her miss her junior
year of high school. Evelyn is just trying to heal what she lost and graduate from
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high school.
For review copies contact:
Josefina Gutierrez
Email: josefina.a.gutierrez@gmail.com
Website: http://www.josefinagutierrez.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yajosefinagutierrez
Google +: http://www.google.com/+JosefinaGutierrezauthor
53. Historical Fiction/Western For Review
Silver
By Kristen Lynch
Publisher: Pen-L Publishing
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-1940222264
ASIN: B00K3EQ9A8
Genre: Historical Fiction
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), pdf, mobi
"Silver" is an historical novel that recounts the glory days of the silver mining
boom. Set in 1860's Silver City, Idaho Territory, the reader is introduced to the
heroine, Miss Adelaide Johnston, local schoolteacher and news reporter
extraordinaire. She is a busy young woman, reporting current events and of
course, a bit of local gossip, in addition to her teaching duties. When she
unexpectedly stumbles upon news of a mining battle between two of the largest
mines in the Owyhees, she suddenly becomes the subject of her very own story.
One that quickly becomes heated and deadly.
Turn back the pages of the Old West and experience a first hand account of
pioneering life through the eyes and words of Adelaide Johnston. Based upon the
documented events of the 'Owyhee War', "Silver" is bound to please both history
buffs and fiction readers alike.
For review copies contact:
Kristen Lynch
Email: kristenkari04@gmail.com
Website: http://www.silverthenovel.com
Blog: http://silverthenovel.wordpress.com
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54. Coming of Age Fantasy for Review
Tears of a Heart
By Chase Blackwood
Series: Kan Savasci Cycle, Book 1
Published: September 2014
ISBN: 978-1501060298
ASIN: B00MSV67YW
Genre: Fantasy, Coming of Age Fantasy
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to
qualified reviewers/bloggers), kindle, ebook
A continent on the verge of war.
A boy who is destined to become a legend.
A truth waiting to be uncovered.
A powerful coming-of-age tale of a young man destined to become one of the
most powerful men Verold has ever known.
It’s a unique tale of adventure, adversity, and strength. Written with the hand of
a poet and the heart of a warrior. The book’s action and depth will astound as the
reader delves deeper into the masterful world painted in detailed strokes.
For review copies contact:
Chase Blackwood
Email: plenaryfitness@gmail.com
Website: http://www.plenary-fitness.com
Website: http://www.chaseblackwood.blog.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlenaryFitness
55. Personal Health/Wellness Book For Review
Heal Yourself!: How to Harness Placebo Power
By Beverly A. Potter, PhD
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
ISBN: 978-1579511739
ASIN: B00GL9SKD8
Published: March 2014
Genre: Wellness
Formats Available For Review: pdf, print (only available to
qualified reviewers/bloggers)
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Your body wants to be well—and it knows what to do to get better when
something goes wrong. Doctors do not understand this, so they give you drugs.
But drugs do not heal the body—they simply control certain processes to facilitate
healing, while your body heals you. Research has revealed that the secret of the
body's healing power can be found in "The Placebo Effect."
The Placebo Effect frustrates doctors, because they don't understand it. The body
does the healing. When your body knows something is out of balance, it moves
to correct it — no matter what medicines you take or do not take. HEAL
YOURSELF! shows how to harnessing your body's natural healing power to get
well and stay well.
The placebo’s amazing effects are not just "in the mind." They can be observed
and measured in the body's physiology. When patients believe in a fake
treatment, ulcers heal, warts disappear, cancer goes into remission, swelling
reduces—cells actually look different under the microscope.
And medical research reveals that it is not just fake treatments administered as
"real" that can elicit the power of placebo. Relationships matter. Being married
seems to help extend life more than stopping smoking!!! Similarly, spiritual life
matters. Those who regularly attend church live up to 14 years longer than those
who do not. Attitude matters, too. Happy people live 7-10 years longer and
optimists are 77% less likely to get heart disease.
HEAL YOURSELF! explains what happens in the brain to change the body. It
explains how researchers believe that the stress response creates an
environment that promotes physiological breakdown, while the "Relaxation
Response" creates a healing environment. More importantly, HEAL YOURSELF!
offers specific things you can do, and do today, to turn on your body's innate
healing mechanisms.
For review copies contact:
Beverly Potter
Email: beverly@docpotter.com
Website: http://www.docpotter.com
56. Travel (Non-Fiction) Available For Review
Beyond The Horizon: Sailing Around The World on
"Colombine"
By Werner H. Kraus
ISBN: 978-1456822743
ASIN: B004FPZ23Q
Genre: Travel/Adventure
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to
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qualified reviewers/bloggers),ebook,kindle
The book chronicles the authors 7 1/2 year circumnavigation. Starting and ending
in Hawaii, sailing as far north as Alaska and south to New Zealand. In addition to
covering the places visited there are many descriptions of problems encountered
and how they were solved. Ranging from 70 knot winds, 50 foot waves,
equipment and engine failures and the dealings with officials and bureaucrats
around the world. Boarded by armed vigilantes in Indonesia, the author holding
an Rumanian marine's Uzi hostage and a fellow cruiser killed by escaped convicts
in Panama, add excitement, not generally found in a sailing adventure.
For review copies contact:
Werner H. Kraus
Email: worldsailingbook@gmail.com
Website: http://world-sailing-book.com
57. Crime Thriller For Review
The Schwarzschild Radius
By Gustavo Florentin
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-62007-610-1
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-62007-611-8
ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1-62007-612-5
ISBN (Smashwords): 978-1-62007-613-2
Published: September 23, 2014
Pages: 290
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery
Rachel, an 18-year-old Columbia University student, descends into the
netherworld of runaways and predators to find her sister, Olivia, who has
suddenly disappeared.
After getting a job in a strip joint where Olivia worked, then doing private shows
in the homes of rich clients, Rachel discovers that Olivia has been abducted by a
killer who auctions the deaths of young girls in an eBay of agony.
When she finds Olivia, Rachel becomes the killer’s next target.
For review copies contact:
Gustavo Florentin
Email: gushf@yahoo.com
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Website: http://www.gustavoflorentin.com/
Publisher: http://curiosityquills.com/books/the-schwarzschild-radius/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GustavoFlorentinAuthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gflorentin6
58. Women's Fiction/Romance For Review
The Christmas Women
By Elyse Douglas
ISBN: 978-1500692667
ASIN: B00MSVF3LK
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: September 2014
Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction
Formats Available For Review: pdf, mobi
When 38-year old Trudie Parks learns that her high school drama teacher is
seriously ill, she immediately contacts her two best friends in high school, Kristen
and Mary Ann. Together, they’d been known as “The Christmas Girls.” They’d
produced and starred in the annual high school Christmas show, which their
teacher, Mrs. Childs, had directed.
Determined to show their love for Mrs. Childs, they plan a 20-year reunion to
recreate the Christmas show for her. What they don’t anticipate is the
complicated emotions this provokes, as former sweethearts appear and rekindle
romance, painful memories and the sting of unrealized dreams. All three women
must reassess their lives and their friendships, while struggling to produce the
show, even while Mrs. Childs seems to grow weaker by the day.
As Christmas Eve approaches, The Christmas Women prepare for an event that
will take them and the audience to the farthest reaches of the human heart and
resonate throughout the rest of their lives.
For review copies contact:
Elyse Douglas
Email: elysedouglass@gmail.com
Website: http://www.elysedouglas.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/douglaselyse
BookReviewBuzz: http://bookreviewbuzz.com/womens-fictionromance-thechristmas-women/
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59. Murder/Crime Mystery For Review
The Valentine Circle (A Silas de San Michel Mystery)
By Reinaldo DelValle
Published: September 2014
ASIN: B00NDHXPVI
Genre: Mystery & Crime
Formats Available For Review: Kindle, Mobi, Epub, PDF, Print
(only available to qualified reviewers/bloggers in print)
Boston, winter of 1885.
A string of kidnappings plagues the snow-laden city of Boston while a murderer
runs amok, hunting and killing the unborn babies of the city's social elite.
A powerful group called the Valentine Society controls the city's police
department, and the people of Boston's last hope for justice lies in the hands of a
man who mysteriously washes ashore from a distant foreign land, battered and
bruised.
To complicate matters, he doesn't remember who he is or where he's from...
Just a week after he is found unconscious aboard a cargo ship, Officer Silas de
San Michel is thrust into a mysterious case dealing with the vicious killings of
pregnant teenage girls. But what he doesn't know is that these young girls
belong to the secret Valentine Society, an elite group of Boston socialites that
have corrupted the city's top officials, unashamedly operating above the law.
With the help of his boss, the highly intelligent Inspector Belloc, and his lovely
assistant, the boisterous and spirited Miss Posy Chapman, Silas embarks on a
journey that takes him inside a secret world of rules and privileges, of oppressive
parents and mischievous alliances.
Weighed down by the sickness of memory loss, Silas struggles to maintain his
sanity as he begins to discover the darkness plaguing his own sordid past, a
darkness that ultimately brings him to the brink of becoming that which he hunts,
a serial killer who was raised and trained by an insidious organization known only
as The Factory.
For review copies contact:
Name: Reinaldo DelValle
Email: rdv@reinaldodelvalle.com
Website: http://www.reinaldodelvalle.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/silasdesanmichel
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60. Book of Poetry For Review
Love Poems : Are You The One?
By Steve Ryan
ISBN: 978-0615937946
ASIN: B00HDE7V4E
Genre: Poetry
Formats Available For Review: pdf
"Love Poems: Are You The One?" digs deep into the heart of love. These poems
and insights are written in a way that most people will relate to. There are many
questions that people ask about love. Here are some of those questions. When
am I going to find "The One"? Is the person that I’m with "The One"? Are we
going to work out? How does this person feel about me? What does this person
think about me? This book addresses many love situations. It will answer some of
the questions that people want answered.
Most people have gone through some type of experience involving love. Some
people get lucky and find the right person for them and they spend the rest of
their lives with that person. Other people are not so lucky and they go through
different experiences from falling in love to heartbreak. And after the heartbreak,
the famous questions arise, "Will We Reconnect?" or "Should I Just Move on?".
"Love Poems: Are You The One?" addresses those different experiences and
cycles that people go through.
This book is divided into five chapters; Dreaming of Love, Falling in Love, The
Relationship, Heartbreak and Reconnect or Move on. Each chapter has a word of
insight about the topic at the beginning of the chapter. Following the insight will
be a collection of poems about the topic of the chapter. You will find the poems
very enjoyable but insightful at the same time. Enjoy the experience and begin
your journey through "Love Poems: Are You The One?".
For review copies please contact:
Steve Ryan
Email: steveryanband@gmail.com
Website: http://www.steveryan.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/steveryanonline
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/steveryanonline
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/steveryanband
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61. Inspirational Poetry For Review
Life Destiny
By Steve Ryan
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-0692269176
ASIN: B00MH94PZI
Genre: Poetry
Formats Available For Review: pdf, kindle, epub
Life Destiny is a very interesting concept. It’s a question that
people often ask themselves. I've even asked myself questions
about my own Life Destiny. What is my purpose here? Where is my life heading?
Why do people treat me this way? Why did it happen to me? What is the meaning
of it all? When it comes to Life Destiny, the questions are endless. .
This book will take you through a journey through some of the different stages of
Life Destiny. The voyage of this book starts off with the inspiring chapter of
"Turning Lemons into Lemonade." Then we will venture into the anger land of
"Ticked Off." After that, we will calm down, breathe and we’ll arrive at "Letting
Life Flow." After we are flowing for some time, we will be pulled into the sea of
"Depression." Once we survive this, we will finally arrive at the last chapter of
this book, "What Does Life Mean?"
The up and down cycles of life have touched us all at some point in our lives. It’s
like a roller coaster ride that’s unpredictable. I've experienced this before. One
minute my life was going great and then all of a sudden, an obstacle was thrown
my way. During those times, I have asked myself these questions. What do I do?
How do I handle it? How have others handled it? In some cases, knowing other
people’s experiences with similar situations can bring clarity. This has helped me
with some of my life decisions. Obstacles will come. That’s a fact. It’s not a
matter of if; it’s a matter of when. The outcome can be affected by the decision
of how it is managed. We will explore these things and more throughout this
book. So fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride through this book of Life
Destiny.
For review copies please contact:
Steve Ryan
Email: steveryanband@gmail.com
Website: http://www.steveryan.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/steveryanonline
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/steveryanonline
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/steveryanband
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62. Metaphysics/Spirituality Book For Review
Walking with Elijah: The Fable of a Life Journey and a
Fulfilled Soul
By Doobie Shemer
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-0991349449
ASIN: B00M6JGCNM
Genre: Metaphysics, Spirituality
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers), epub, mobi, kindle
Walking with Elijah: The Fable of a Life Journey and a Fulfilled Soul is the story of
Doobie Shemer’s literal and spiritual journey from kibbutznik to shaman. As he
recounts the significant events in his life – his childhood in Israel, the loss of his
father, the influence of Grandma Tova, his introduction to shamanism – Doobie
takes us with him on his journeys to the spirit world to share his vivid mystical
experiences and the answers he finds to life’s key questions.
Now, twenty years on since he first met Elijah, his Spiritual Teacher, Doobie has
incorporated spiritual work into every aspect of his daily life. As a practicing
shaman himself, Doobie regularly helps family, friends, and strangers to find
answers and solutions that are both practical and spiritual.
Walking with Elijah: The Fable of a Life Journey and a Fulfilled Soul inspires us to
fearlessly explore our own spiritual path and to walk paths never walked before.
For review copies contact:
Doobie Shemer
Email: doobie.shemer@gmail.com
Website: http://www.doobieshemer.com/
Book web Site: http://walkingwithelijah.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Walking.with.Elijah
Twitter: @Doobie_Sheme
63. Collection of Travel Short Stories for Review
Driving In Budapest
By Gary Brill
ISBN: 978-1491289235
ASIN: B00F49TIAK
Pages: 216
Genre: Chick Lit, Short Stories, Romantic, History, Family
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Driving In Budapest tells the stories of regular people trying their best to
navigate through life while they also try to navigate through one of Europe’s
most fascinating and beautiful cities. Each one must find their destination while
dealing with one way streets, clogged bridges, bully drivers and crazy taxis.
There is no map to tell them how to get to where they’re going, they just have to
keep trying to find their way.
For review copies contact:
Gary Brill
Email: gary@gvbwrites.com
Website: http://gvbwrites.com/
64. Futuristic Christian Thriller For Review
The Man of Lawlessness
By Alex Lindsey
Publisher: Crooked Creek Publishing
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 978-0991517800
ASIN: B00IJKUJKE
Pages: 244
Genre: Christian Fiction, Futuristic Christian Thriller
The appearance of the antichrist, false prophet, third temple, mark of the beast,
world-wide plague, and a one world government serve as the backdrop for this
action packed thriller.
Full of twists, turns, romance, and the headlines of tomorrow, The Man of
Lawlessness takes the reader through chase scenes in Rome, top secret
laboratories, ancient secret ceremonies, survival in the Colorado Rockies,
subterranean archeology, and ultimately the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The paths of FBI agent Brooke Decker and CIA agent Dillon Knowles cross while
investigating different aspects of the same world events. The bond between them
grows as they work together to thwart an ancient plan to rule the world - and to
keep each other alive.
Also included is an excerpt from the Sons of Perdition (Release Date: March
2015)
What if: The fallen sons of god, the Bene Ha'elohim, were still with us today?
Aliens were part of a great deception perpetrated by fallen angles to turn
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mankind away from the truth? Other dimensions really do exist and much of
the war between good and evil takes place beyond our visible universe? The
spirits of the Nephilim who died in the flood are the demons that plague
humanity to this day?
The residents of Hell want more than worship from humans; they actually want
to consume their spirits for eternity - feeding off terror, anguish, pain, and
hopelessness?
In The Sons of Perdition, the new action thriller from Alex Lindsey, all these
things are in play in the ultimate battle for the souls of man.
For review copies contact:
Alex Lindsey
Email: alexlindsey14@gmail.com
Website: http://www.alexlindsey.com/
65. Book on Health, Fitness, Nutrition, & Vegetarianism For Review from
3 time Guinness World Record Holder
New Jump Swing Healthy Aging & Athletic Nutrition
By Donald "Spiderman" Thomas
ISBN: 978-1462884261 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1462884278 (hardcover)
ASIN: B0098IP3W0 (ebook)
Pages: 217
Publisher: PDN Publishing & Health Products
Genre: Health, Sports, Nutrition
New Jump Swing Healthy Aging & Athletic Nutrition is a world record sports
nutrition program focusing on plant based nutrition and herbs for athletic
performance and healthy aging.
Let Donald 'Spiderman" Thomas show you how through this program he was able
to achieve three Guinness World Records in public speaking.
His topics included:
The history of herbs in maintaining physical fitness and vegetarian athletic
nutrition.
In these pages you will learn how to:
Maximize your health span within your life span
Preserve and improve skin and muscle tone as well as lung capacity
Lower blood pressure and cholesterol through diet and exercise
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Manage the symptoms of BPH (Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy) safely and
effectively
Replace "energy drinks" with drug free herbal sports nutrition
Achieve your goals in life
Thomas developed this program as a part of his rehabilitation from respiratory
disease and knew disease, as well as knee surgery.
For review copies contact:
Donald "Spiderman" Thomas
Email: pdnman@hawaii.rr.com
Website: http://www.newjumpswing.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donaldspidermanthomas
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDNMAN
66. Contemporary Women's Suspense For Review
Resistance Music
By T.A. Barnes
ISBN: 978-1497341890
ASIN: B00HL6YA7U
Published: January 2014
Pages: 302
Genre: Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women's Suspense
They say she can trust them in a fight for her life. The truth is she can’t trust
anyone....
An American rock star is murdered in northern Spain, drawing her sister into the
underground of radical Basque Separatists and those who hunt them. With no
idea of her family’s ties to the feared ETA, Sancia is thrown unwilling into a
deadly baptism by knowledge, the price of which is death. Betrayed by those she
trusts, sought by a cause she can’t support and stalked by those sworn to have
what she holds at any cost, Sancia makes her stand alone. Some things, she
learns, are truly worth one’s life.
From the halls of the cliff-top castle on the Cantabrian Sea to the remote villages
of the Spanish Pyrenees, this is a story of marvelous covenants; of people willing
to die for their cause, and others who commit the unspeakable to stop them. It’s
a story of heroism and the single choices from which it is born that sometimes
make the world a better place.
....When the evening darkened and the breeze through the window grew chill,
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Sancia closed it and left the chamber. In her pocket was the key to the new
lock on the ancient tunnels; in her heart, the fading presence of all that had been
young and innocent in her life....
For review copies contact:
T.A. Barnes
Email: barnes.thomas@yahoo.com
67. YA Fantasy For Review
Prophase: A Present Tale
By Mitchel Street
Publisher: Cseri Consulting
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-0991554300
ASIN: B00JMUVHAG
Pages: 310
Genre: Fantasy, YA Fantasy
Piper Walker, a high school senior, has seen her share
of
hard times. At a young age, she lost her mother to breast cancer shortly after her
brother Charlie was born. Raising her baby brother under the wrathful eye of an
abusive and alcoholic father, she relies heavily on her small, but tight core of
friends. Lisa, her best friend from kindergarten, and Chris, her longtime boyfriend,
help to keep her above water. Along with her friends, Piper’s elderly neighbor,
Ester, and her lynx point Siamese cat, Jazz, become the extended family she
never had.
Even before her mom died, Piper always felt different. She was opposite of her
popular best buddy Lisa, and didn’t enjoy doing what most other teenage girls
liked to do. She wasn’t much for fixing up and thought hanging out was boring.
Music and nature were her muses. Piper grew up next to a forest with countless
paths, one of which led to the high school; the others to myriad of seasonal
wonders. Piper spent countless hours in the woods exploring and finding solace in
the trees, wild flowers, and every kind of animal. Although somewhat shy and
insecure of her voice, Piper was lead vocals and a passionate bass player for a
garage band called ‘The Coat Tails’ that consisted of Lisa, Chris, and their close
friend Josh. Having never sounded better, they were sure to win the senior talent
show.
After a Spring Fling dance, a near-death experience prematurely rebirths Piper to
her destiny, for not even she knows who she really is. Her identity has remained
buried deep for her protection. She awakens to a dimension where light laden
with emotions emits from everything around her. Overnight, Piper and her world
are transformed into something radically different. What she thought was real
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was only the beginning, a thin veneer to actual reality. Universal truths are
turned upside down. She wakes to a magical world with an ancient history and
kingdoms of races. Life becomes way more beautiful, complex, and breathtaking
than she ever imagined.
A menagerie of supernatural and metallic gleaming mythical characters come to
assist Piper to take her first steps in her new world and keep her safe. The realm
of brilliant auras, feelings, and endless color surround her creating a language
she doesn’t understand. She begins a long journey to discovering and mastering
her powers and senses that defy fantasy. Riding gravity waves, casting spells,
and leaping to exotic locations become her new curriculum.
However, amongst the Eden lies a fatal danger. For centuries, a tyrannical rule
has suppressed and strangled the enchanted world she is now part of. A most
brilliant Guardian, named Eli, and his council, the Arbitri, have become the only
voice. Evolution has stopped. Only Piper has the power to bring about change.
Amongst the unspeakable beauty, unknown danger, and the desire to find out
who she really is, Piper stumbles upon an unexplainable, first-time love that
becomes the only thing that she can cling to in her stormy and unexpected life.
From the first time his voice dances on her ear drums, she is taken by something
wonderfully unreal.
Piper now must juggle her two worlds – and disguise her increasing abilities and
morphing appearance while attempting to be the slightly nerdy teenager
everyone knows.
This story captivates the imagination with the beauty of nature and the
celebration of love, life, and light – and the power of one girl.
For review copies contact:
Mitchel Street
Email: mitchelstreet@outlook.com
Website: http://mitchelstreet.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mitchel-Street/171222483063144
68. Book of Poetry For Review
Sprouted Soul: Whole-Souled Poems
By Doobie Shemer
Published: March 2014
ISBN: 978-0991349418
ASIN: B00I5VUPTW
Genre: Poetry, Love Poems, Spirituality, Mysticism
Formats Available For Review: print (only available to qualified
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reviewers/bloggers), epub, mobi, kindle, PDF
Sprouted Soul: Whole- Souled Poems by Doobie Shemer is a soul-lifting
compilation of short poems that will touch your heart and enlighten your life.
This book of poems is short but powerful, very moving and beautifully written.
Every poem came with a picture that helped you to grasp the deeper meaning of
these wonderful poems.
The poems in Sprouted Soul: Whole- Souled Poems are written to bring comfort,
joy, and inspiration into your life.
For review copies contact:
Doobie Shemer
Email: doobie.shemer@gmail.com
Website: http://www.doobieshemer.com/
Book web Site: http://walkingwithelijah.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Walking.with.Elijah
Twitter: @Doobie_Shemer
69. Children's Picture Book Available For Review
Garden Safari Vegetable Soup
By Eluka Moore, Larry Puzniak, Marianne Welsh, Kristen Gau
Publisher: Bread and Butter Publishing
Published: May 2014
ISBN:978-0989029513
Genre: Children's Picture Book
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers)
Explore numbers, colors and vegetables as you learn how
to create a tasty soup in ten easy steps. Join the Kitchen
Club Kids as they visit the garden to find fresh vegetables
to eat. They search and count. They cut, dice and stir until
the meal is complete. This rhymey-good-timey recipe
adventure story offers basic cooking lessons and promotes
healthy eating. The colorful illustrations and layered
learning opportunities on each page will keep your child's
interest from beginning to end. Kitchen Club Kids books are
also real, hands-on cooking activities that help teach 2-6
year olds how to follow recipes. But, you don't have to be a
chef to enjoy these books. Whether you're reading with
your child before mealtime or before bedtime, Kitchen Club Kids books turn story
time into a culinary, learning adventure.
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Gold Medal Winner - Mom's Choice Awards
2014 Book of the Year Award - Creative Child Awards - Creative Child Magazine
For review copies contact:
Eluka Moore
Email: eluka@breadandbutterpublishing.com
Website: http://www.kitchenclubkids.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kitchenclubkids
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kitchenclubkids
70. GRAND CANYON RIVER RAFTING; What to Expect & How to Prepare
For Your Guided River Trip
by Holly M. Stedman
This essential comprehensive manual leads the way to help prepare
the novice for their guided, multi-day Grand Canyon Whitewater
River Adventure. This valuable manual leads the way to appropriate
preparedness, assured peace of mind, and the confidence required to
fully enjoy your Adventure Of A Lifetime!
l Answers to Questions River Guides are Asked Over and Over
l Types and Options of River Trips
l Tips and Suggestions on Choosing Appropriate Clothing, Footwear and Personal
Necessities
l Ideas and Guidance on Selecting the Correct Gear and Equipment
l Pointers on How to Organize and Pack to Retain Your Sanity
l Information on River Life, Camping, and Hiking
l Women’s Concerns — and Questions Answered by Women Who Have Been
There, Done That
l Includes Helpful Resources, Recommended Reading, a Glossary, and an Index
To request a review copy, email Holly Stedman: info@SedonaRRP.com, available
in print format only.
ISBN: 978-0-9798483-5-3
Publisher: Red Rocks Publishing Co. (January 1, 2014)
Paperback, 220 Pages
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 6” (w) x 9” (h) x .5” (d)
Web Site: www.SedonaRRP.com
About The Author
Holly Stedman has experienced and shared the wilderness as an Outdoor Leader
and Instructor, enjoyed many exhilarating backcountry backpacking trips in the
Grand Canyon, Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, the Southwest, and Canada;
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rafting expeditions in the United States and Canada, many kayaking
expeditions among the Orca off Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and
several High Arctic canoe expeditions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
Canada’s remote Banks Island, Northwest Territories. Holly was also a member of
the Sedona Fire District High Angle Ropes Rescue Team, and an EMT volunteer.
Other adventures have included numerous caving expeditions in the Southwest,
and snorkeling in the Caribbean and Tahiti. Holly and her husband own and
operate Canyon Outfitters, a specialty outdoor retail store in Sedona, AZ, since
1993.
71. AESOP'S KEYS TO PROFITABLE MARKETING
Business leaders learn to magnify profits by focusing their
marketing strategies. Some of "Aesop's Keys" are to focus on
quality, compete on strength, target key prospects, and reward
the best. Each chapter updates a tale by Aesop, relates his
wisdom to marketing, and coaches how to adapt each key to their
unique situation. A universal law, the 80/20 rule, predicts their
results. Business leaders discover 12 ways to delight key
customers, spark profits, and ignite the engine of their prosperity. Dr. Betsy
provided marketing research to many corporations, commercialized her software
worldwide, and coached more than 2000 start-ups to succeed.
Business: Marketing -management, entrepreneurship, success in business,
branding (marketing)
ISBN 9781928782582, 150 pages, website: BetsyKruger.com
This book will be listed on Amazon.com on October 25, 2014.
I am seeking reviews. For a review copy, please contact
docbetsykruger@gmail.com
72. Children's Action/Adventure Picture Book For
Review
Jump
By Julia Dweck
Publisher: Sleepy Sheep Productions
ASIN: B00N975GGO
Published: September 2014
Genre: Children's Action/Adventure Picture Book
Formats Available For Review: Kindle, pdf, ebook
What’s a Jack-in-the-box without his home? Poor Jack has never jumped out of
anything before, but his worn out box. Can Barker, the neighborhood dog, prove
to Jack that there are many more exciting jumps outside in the great, big world?
Young readers will find lots of giggles in the rhyming text and wondrous jumps
that Barker and Jack discover together. The full screen art by illustrator, Brian
Allen, positively leaps off the page. The author, Julia Dweck, has done a
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wonderful job of weaving in the subtle message that it’s important to believe in
yourself and to think outside of the box in order to realize life’s wondrous
possibilities. This bouncy tale from Sleepy Sheep Productions will leave young
readers jumping for joy! Leveled for young readers ages 4 – 8, but relevant to
readers of all ages.
For review copies contact:
Julia Dweck
Email: jldteach@gmail.com
Website: http://tinyurl.com/pd4judz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliadweckbooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/juleloves2write
73. YA Dark Fantasy For Review
The Patchwork Girl
By Sebastian Bendix
ASIN: B00G2R5PDW
Genre: YA, Dark Fantasy, Steampunk, Sci-Fi, Horror
Formats Available For Review: PDF, EPUB, MOBI, KINDLE
What could be worse for a 16 year-old girl than waking up to
find that your skin has transformed into a bizarre, calico patchwork? For Padget
Beaumont, the answer is: a lot. Looking like a freak turns out to be the least of
her problems when Padget is chased from high school into a nightmare
dimension where science is superstition and the supernatural is real. There she
finds herself caught between an arcane city full of vampires, demons and witches
and a religious zealot intent on burning it all down. Her only hope is to find her
father, an expatriate scientist hiding out somewhere among the towering Gothic
spires and dank, twisting catacombs. But when Padget falls in love with a roguish
demon possessed by the soul of a troubled teenaged boy, she must confront the
most terrifying truth of all to save him: who she really is.
The Patchwork Girl is a dark fantasy novel for young adults that will appeal to
fans of Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The adventures of The
Patchwork Girl promise to draw the reader in with action, romance and fantasy
while at the same time addressing the real-world issues that trouble both young
and adult readers alike.
For review copies contact:
Sebastian Bendix
Email: info@sebastianbendix.com
Website: http://sebastianbendix.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepatchworkgirl
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepwgirl
74. Dark Fantasy For Review
Crossings: A Tale of Andor
By M.K. Theodoratus
Published: August 2014
ASIN: B00N12RNFE
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Formats Available For Review: PDF or Smashwords coupon
Slight of stature and lacking magic, old Ebe must destroy a nest of
frogtrolls who killed a long-time friend and mentor to regain his
self-respect.
Once Crossings was a tranquil town nestled in the foothills of the Sierras—a place
Ebe Brown thought was a paradise. His peaceful life is shattered when strangers
appear to raise guard dogs.
A group of dog farmers led by a brawny trainer, Rabler, takes up residence and
establishes a questionable business raising guard dogs. Sinister events begin to
occur almost immediately after their arrival. Ebe Brown, a lifelong resident,
suspects Rabler and his henchmen are not what they seem to be on the surface.
When Ebe’s dog disappears, he confronts the outsiders and his suspicions deepen,
but local law enforcement turns a blind eye on the dog-farmers’ menacing
behavior and their disturbing presence. The townsfolk are alone in their fight.
Ebe reaches out to the old leader of the magic working hill folk for help. Nance, a
tough as nails herb woman, is determined to set things right again, one way or
another. Unfortunately, Rabler and his crew have other plans. Their threats fail
when Nance refuses to back down, and all hell breaks loose. When Nance is killed,
Ebe is filled with remorse for failing to save her.
This suspense-filled novella reaches a cataclysmic end when Ebe fights to save
his self-respect and the people of Crossings.
For review copies contact:
M. K. Theodoratus
Email: kkkaytheod@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.mktheodoratus.com
Twitter: @kaytheod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/M-KTheodoratus/235376633158175?ref=hl
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75. Family Relationships/Memoir For Review
Who Am I?: How My Daughter Taught Me to Let Go and
Live Again
By Megan Cyrulewski
Publisher: Black Opal Books
Published: July 2014
ISBN: 978-1626941519
ASIN: B00MBKZD9K
Genre: Non-Fiction, Family Relationships
Formats Available For Review: Print, PDF, ebook, Kindle, Nook
Megan Cyrulewski is an ordinary person who has faced extraordinary challenges
and now wants to inspire people and show them that hope gives them the power
to survive anything. Who Am I? is about her journey into post-partum depression,
anxiety disorder, panic attacks, visits to the psych ward, divorce, domestic
violence, law school, and her courageous struggle to survive with her sanity
intact—and how a beautiful little girl emerged from all this chaos.
For review copies contact:
Megan Cyrulewski
Email: mcyrulewski@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.megancyrulewski.com
76. Mystery/Suspense For Review
Patchwork Man
By D.B. Martin
Publisher: IM Books
Published: July 2014
ISBN: 978-0992996109
ASIN: B00M37OUPY
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers in print), pdf, epub, mobi, kindle
Wealthy and successful Lawrence Juste QC finds himself tricked into taking a case
defending a juvenile against a charge of manslaughter by his clever – but dead –
wife. Normally he wouldn’t even have opened the folder without her around to
persuade him, but she’s left something else to do that for her; a list of unsavoury
people and events from his past. The ones he’s carefully hidden until now and
didn’t even know she was aware of.
Disconcertingly, the boy reminds him of himself – not only as a person but in the
crime he’s supposed to have committed. Taking the case catapults Juste into a
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world that touches his own past with alarming regularity and leads him on a
journey back to his worst possible nightmare - and more.
Patchwork Man is the first in a trilogy. The second, Patchwork People, will also be
available for review from 30th September 2014 to reviewers who have asked to
review Patchwork Man
For review copies contact:
Debrah Martin
Email: info@debrahmartin.co.uk
Website: http://www.debrahmartin.co.uk
Twitter: @StorytellerDeb
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeborahMartin.Author
77. Sci-Fi Comedy Thriller For Review
In Favour of Fools
By J. Battle
ASIN: B00ISV15U2
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Formats Available For Review: PDF, Epub, Mobi
A PI/SCI-FI/Comedy/Thriller introducing Philip Humphrey
Chandler as the socially inept hero who likes beer, coffee and
breasts - but not necessarily in that order.
Phil is private investigator; he's got a computer and a comfy chair, and he knows
how to use them.
He doesn't get all sweaty chasing the bad guys; not when his fingers can do the
work as he sips his coffee and looks forward to a nice cool pint. He doesn't
wrestle them to the ground, with a quick quip and a steely gaze; not when he
can sit in his comfy chair and dream about the girl behind the bar; the one with
the breasts.
Then he meets the ex wife of a missing crime lord, and everything changes.
Suddenly he's squirting to distant planets, finding dead bodies, dancing with
aliens, saving a world from the clutches of the cutest of aliens and, for one brief
moment, he becomes the richest man in the universe.
In a tale of treachery, danger, poor customer service and bad jokes, Phil is forced
to put aside his relaxed 'let someone else do the work' attitude, and take up arms
against the might of an alien empire (well, it's a crow bar actually, and the alien
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is a little girl; a very tough little girl) and somehow find a way to save the day,
and Earth's most valuable commodity, and maybe even his dignity.
But where does this story really start?
Of course, for Phil, it’s when he first meets the ex-wife of the missing crime lord;
I guess it’s typical of him to think it all started with him. For Ben, it would be the
misplaced bullet; for Millie, it was, of course, the Joke, and for Sam; well your
guess is as good as mine.
In reality, it started much earlier; nine years earlier, with the robbery...
A laugh a minute comedy science fiction thriller filled with alien worlds, strangely
named AI’s, really bad jokes and a Narrative Facilitator who would really rather
be doing something else.
For review copies contact:
John Battle
Email: jpbattle@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://jpbattle.wix.com/battlewrtie
78. YA Mystery/Detective For Review
Webs
By Lily Stuart
Publisher: I. M. Books
Published: September 2014
ISBN: 978-0992996130
ASIN: B00MR86B2E
Genre: YA realistic fiction - crime - mystery
Formats Available For Review: Print (only available to qualified
reviewers/bloggers in print), pdf, epub, mobi, kindle
Webs opens with teenager, LILY, facing a gun just before it is fired at her. The
story then picks up with her attacker’s account of the events leading on from this
and LILY’S diary recounting events leading up to it, starting three months earlier.
The two narratives gradually converge.
Alongside her own life and problems – her best friend MELEZZ, and her
unreliability, her arch-rival for heartthrob, MATT’S, attentions – JAS, and her
bitchery, and school with its academic impossibilities and ridiculous characters,
Lily’s irreverent teenager’s diary tells of her mother’s foray into the world of
internet dating and how it leads LILY to uncover a murderer. Told in turn by LILY
and the anonymous murderer – her attacker from the opening scene, their
combined story examines different perceptions of love, obsession and
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relationships, and between them they tell the story of The Russian roulette
murder.
Webs is the first in the Lily Stuart teen detective series.
For review copies contact:
Lily Stuart n)
Email: info@lily-stuart.co.uk
Website: http://www.lily-stuart.co.uk
Twitter: @StorytellerDeb
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeborahMartin.Author
79. Travel/Nature Inspired Poetry Collection For Review
Glenely Bay and Nostalgia from Paris
By Gabrielle F. Culmer
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: August 2014
ISBN: 978-1480810181
ASIN: B00N30MSWM
Pages: 56
Genre: Poetry
"Glenely Bay and Nostalgia from Paris" is a collection of 30 poems
with 9 translated to French. The poems were written from
different exotic and luxury locations and signify travel, family life, renewal,
gatherings, personal enhancement, and an appreciation of nature as well as
provide serenity. The collection Includes: "Songs of Spring Time," "Holiday
Tune," "Window," "Mayfair Morning", "Time" and "Glenely Bay." The aura of each
location is symbolized in the poetry. The inspiration for part of the title "Glenely
Bay" is an area on Eleuthera where Culmer spent her early summers and has
connections. Nine poems are also translated to French; the English versions were
written during memorable time in France, and include, "Cheers to You,"
"Reflections from Paris," "Weave" and "Summer Chateau."
For review copies contact:
Gabrielle F. Culmer
Email: info@gabriellefculmer.com
Website: http://www.gabriellefculmer.com/
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80. Memoir of Growing Up in the Bronx During 50's & 60's For Review
A Bronx Boy's Tale
By Jimmy Newell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1490414010
ASIN: B00FXXLLXO
Pages: 206
Genre: Memoir, Family, Social History
A Bronx Boy's Tale is the story of a boy growing up in a special place at a very
special time. Providing a neighborhood context to historical events, A Bronx Boy's
Tale helps you see America through the eyes of one boy who grew up in a time of
tremendous change and strife, but who still had time to live a grand life in the
greatest place on Earth.
For review copies contact:
Jimmy Newell
Email: jimmynewell623@gmail.com
Website: http://www.jimmynewell.com
Blog: http://www.jim-newellpost.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jim.newell.56
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ABronxBoysTale
81. Diary of an Intuitive
Genre: Non-fiction, Inspirational, Mind/Body/Spirit
Author: Vera Gibson
Trade paperback: 346 pages (published 2014)
Publisher: Phoenix Heart Publishing
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0991718016
The author takes the reader through four seasons of her life as a
mother processing the accidental death of her child. Diary of an
Intuitive was written in real time, capturing the pure experiences on a
day-to-day basis. The profound insights, images, and experiences she
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shares are inspirational and thought-provoking. Two prominent
themes that emerged early on in the journey were those of Love and
Gratitude.
Vera Gibson has had a lifelong interest in the metaphysical, spiritual
and intuitive realms. At the urging of her grandmother's spirit she
began writing a daily blog in February 2011. Four weeks later,
tragedy struck. She continued writing daily and this book is based on
that first year's worth of entries. Vera Gibson was born in Vancouver,
BC, Canada where she lives with her husband of 35 years.
For a review copy contact:
Vera Gibson
Email: veragibson@telus.net
Website: www.diaryofanintuitive.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diary-of-anIntuitive/203420709845965
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