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Book Blast: Sensible Shoes

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Cindy Causey will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. At her fiftieth birthday party, Tess Thomason, a plain-Jane, divorced mother and decidedly unprepared women’s newspaper columnist, is blindsided by her well-meaning family with a stack of gift cards she interprets as meaning she’s fat, frumpy, and wrinkled. Facing a lonely future and failing career, Tess embarks on a journey of self-discovery, taking her readers along for the ride. But her resolve is nearly derailed by a hilarious season of family chaos that includes a surprise pregnancy, rushed wedding, and unexpected houseguests. In the midst of it all, Tess is drawn into a confusing new relationship with a man who is impossibly perfect for her. But if she can keep herself, her family, and her willpower firmly seated on the crazy roller coaster of her life, ma...
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Virtual Book Tour: These Are Not My Words (I Just Wrote Them)

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  THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS (I JUST WROTE THEM) Donovan Hufnagle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   GENRE :   Poetry   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   Echoing Chuck Palahniuk’s statement. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known,” this collection explores identity. These poems drift down rivers of old, using histories private and public and visit people that I love and loathe. Through heroes and villains, music and cartoons, literature and comics, science and wonder, and shadow and light, each poem canals the various channels of self and invention. As in the poem, “Credentials,” “I am a collage of memories and unicorn stickers…[by] those that have witnessed and been witnessed.”   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   EXCERPT:: [Big Tony] or Those Girls   Those girls up at Reliable's were funny as hell. Ask them, darn near any one of them, where’d they work. They didn't want anybody to know; they didn’t tell. ...
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Virtual Book Tour: The Angel Scroll

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  THE ANGEL SCROLL Penelope Holt   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   GENRE :   Spiritual Romance, Mystery/Thriller   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   ONE ANCIENT PROPHECY, TWO HEARTBROKEN LOVERS, AND A WORLDWIDE SCAVENGER HUNT FOR THREE MIRACULOUS PAINTINGS.   After her husband’s death, New York artist Claire Lucas has baffling dreams and waking visions as she channels an enigmatic and healing painting of a holy man in India at the deathbed of a young woman. When widowed antiquarian Richard Markson announces that Claire’s canvas is one-third of three paintings prophesied by the Angel Scroll, a recently discovered Dead Sea parchment, she is pulled into an international scavenger hunt to find the stolen scroll and the paintings it predicts.   As she pursues the paintings with Richard across historic and holy sites in America, Israel, and Europe, Claire encounters a series of remarkable teachers. A Buddhist, a Benedictine monk, and a profess...
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Virtual Book Tour: The Fate of Our Union

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  THE FATE OF OUR UNION Hildebrand Hermannson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   GENRE :   Fantasy   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   A mountainous thundering bull breaks up battling tribesmen, summoning three struggling youths, as an insidious unseen enemy turns tribes against tribes—pitting rich against poor, sons against fathers, and men against gods. Its insatiable hunger for division threatens to plunge mankind into a dystopian realm ruled by man-eating wolves.   A miraculous seven-headed horse, a symbol of unity, assembles the struggling youths of extraordinary origin into a journey of self-discovery. There Sunu the Saxon Poet, Rufus the Roman Stoic, and Keresaspa the Sarmatian Priestess must overcome pride, aversion, and unforgiveness; there they must learn from historical heroes, philosophers, and amazingly similar gods to battle the unseen monster and its rising wolfmen.   Fated to part ways to face the demons at home, Sunu, Rufus, and K...
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Book Blast: Mindcraft - The Educational Singularity

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Darryl Vidal will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. On the eve of the Global MindCraft Universe Challenge, Justin Turner, a teenage master of the titular virtual reality game, and his friends (known online as the Digital Mavericks) discover a sinister underbelly within the MindCraft Universe that may use artificial intelligence and virtual manipulation to end the world as we know it. Read an Excerpt With a blend of excitement and trepidation, Justin twisted the knob and stepped through the virtual doorway. He found himself in an expansive space as big as an airplane hangar stacked high with scaffolds and what seemed to be massive computer systems aligned in seemingly infinite vertical and horizontal rows. His sweat seemed to freeze in the cold, ambient temperature of the massive warehouse chilled by unseen cool...
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Book Blast: Curveballs

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Gail Taylor will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Here you are on the brink of a journey all about self-discovery and chasing dreams. With personal stories and tools that shaped the author's path, she focuses on embracing authenticity. You'll explore how living with purpose and passion is achievable. This personal-growth book combines cutting-edge technology and music interaction, reflecting the author's belief that music can transform and positively impact individuals and communities. Read an Excerpt Many people spend years—decades, even—in jobs that are safe, but not challenging. Stable, but far from rewarding. I refer to that choice as settling. If you are in this situation, you might tell yourself you are staying in this role for your family or for their future. Sometimes you plan to leav...
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Book Blast: Our Global Crisis

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> This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . The author will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Modern society has reached a critical juncture in its existence. Like past civilizations ours has reached a point where its future is far from certain, with its decline, or even collapse, being distinct possibilities. The Incas, the Mayans, the Romans, the Rapanui, and many others, had seemingly successful societies, yet collapsed when faced with challenges that threatened their continued existence. Are we to suffer the same fate? What could possibly cause our downfall? Climate change and environmental issues? Perhaps. It is now almost a certainty that these events are destined to inflict catastrophic damage to our global society. Our coastal cities and island nations, as well as our global economy and agricultural output, will be irreparably damage...
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