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Sunday, 28 August 2022
Bookishly Inspired Creative Finds 22 - 28 Aug
Friday, 26 August 2022
Call My Name: a Novel by Jenni Ogden + Giveaway
Join us for this tour from Aug 18 to Sep 14, 2022!
Book Details:
Book Title: Call My Name: A Novel by Jenni Ogden
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 384 pages
Genre: Literary/Women's/Bookclub Fiction
Publisher: Sea Dragon Press
Release date: April 2020
Formats Available for Review: print (USA only), ebook (MOBI FILE
(FOR KINDLE), EPUB, PDF, NetGalley download), audiobook (Findaway
download, NetGalley download)
Tour dates: Aug 18 to Sep 14, 2022
Content Rating: PG-13 + M: Has
childbirth/abortion/adoption/surrogacy themes, the brief description of a rape in the past by a Japanese guard of a prisoner in a POW camp in Sumatra in WWII (not explicit but of course disturbing and violent). A mention of cannabis smoking when characters are young, mild in-context use of f-word and other expletives.
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hope ... And The Hedgehog by Tom Vaughan + Giveaway
Book Details:
Book Title: Hope...And The Hedgehog by Tom Vaughan
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 100 pages
Genre: Philosophy/Spirituality/New-Age
Publisher: Choir Press
Release date: May 2022
Content Rating: G. It has no swearwords or sex scenes.
Hope…. And The Hedgehog is a ‘pocketbook philosophy for the present age’, a digestible exploration of the meaning of life which aims to unpick the big questions most of us spend our lives avoiding: how did life begin, how does it end, and what happens to us after we die?
Is there life after death? Is there a higher power? Or, is life one big cosmic accident; a clash of particles and atoms and one big bang? Tom looks instead at the power of faith and spirituality which he separates from religion. While he does not attempt to present any definitive argument, he looks at all sides, gathering thoughts from history’s most influential philosophers and scientists.
He makes the proposition that, between only two possible explanations for the existence of life, there is a greater likelihood of the one over the other. He believes in the importance of opening up our minds and finding more of a sense of purpose and direction in life - a view that, as we look towards a post-lockdown future, will resonate with many people.
"I chose the book’s title Hope ... and the Hedgehog because hope is one of the principal drivers we resort to as human beings when confronted with a challenge to which there is no obvious solution. In the case of this book, that challenge is a very prickly issue: how we came into existence. It is an issue that we are all drawn to, but at the same time we do not want to handle or investigate too closely. Like the proverbial elephant in the room, we know that little hedgehog is there, we just prefer to leave it be – even if, in the end, there is no avoiding it." - Tom Vaughan, May 2022.
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Tom’s life has come full circle from his first career as co-founder of the successful chain of Juliana’s discotheques, which he started in the 60’s and grew to be the world’s largest entertainment group of its type at the time, with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sidney. With no scientific, philosophical or theological training and few school qualifications but armed with heaps of life experience as an entrepreneur, Tom switches gear with his latest work Hope...And The Hedgehog to take on the role of ‘everyman philosopher’, creating a new book that makes people stop and think.
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Aug 15 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book review / giveaway
Aug 16 – Rockin' Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway
Aug 17 –@bookswithstace - book review
Aug 22 – Books are a Blessing - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 24 – Literary Flits – book review / giveaway
Aug 25 – Stephanie Jane - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 26 – @just_another_mother_with_books - book review
Aug 29 – Splashes of Joy – book review / giveaway
Aug 29 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 30 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Aug 31 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book review / giveaway
Sep 1 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 2 – Kam's Place – book review
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Monday, 22 August 2022
Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood by Mona Andrei + Giveaway
Book Details:
Book Title: Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood by Mona Andrei
Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 174 pages
Genre: HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family
Publisher: Cynren Press
Publication Date: March 2021.
Tour dates: Aug 8 to Aug 26
Content Rating: PG-13: No violence, but a splattering of profanity (including the F-word) and discussion of bad marriages.
Book Description:
They put the tiny, red-faced bundle into her arms, and time stopped. She gazed at that puckered little face and whispered, Welcome to the world, baby girl. Little did she know that within weeks, she would become a single mother—not exactly what she had imagined for her daughters and herself, but exactly what needed to happen. This is the story of a single mother, but it’s more than that. Sometimes funny, sometimes reflective, it’s also your story—a story of that peculiar, trying, and wonderful state of motherhood.
In Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood, popular humor blogger Mona Andrei brings you her sage and snickery insights on being a single mom, with all its gore and glory. Through a series of interviews, you’ll also get a voyeuristic peek into the lives of other single mothers—and don’t we all love that feeling of Thank goodness, I’m not the only one!We’re all superwomen here.
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Mona Andrei’s adulting journey took an unexpected turn when she realized that the father of her children was not committed to the family they had started together. At the time, she was twenty-four years old. With a baby in her arms and a toddler in tow, she soon realized that everything had fallen on her shoulders, including any chance for a secure future for her and her girls. With humor and candor as her strongest tools for survival, she went from struggling single mother to accomplished wordsmith to member of an award-winning advertising team to top 100 humor blogger. Today, she continues her journey, writing and speaking about her experiences as a single mother with a focus on changing the way that single mothers are respected and appreciated in the workplace: a win–win for both.
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Aug 8 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 8 - Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 9 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 10 – The Momma Spot – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 11 – Paws.Read.Repeat – book spotlight / author interview
Aug 12 - Rockin' Book Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 12 – Hall Ways Blog – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Aug 15 – Splashes of Joy – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 15 - Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 – Amy’s Booket list – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 - Westveil Publishing - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 - A Mama's Corner of the World - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 17 – She Just Loves Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 18 – The Phantom Paragrapher – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 19 – Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 22 – Reading Authors Network – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 22 - Stephanie Jane - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 23 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Aug 24 – GeauxGetLit – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 24 - Books are a Blessing - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 25 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 26 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Aug 26 - Novels Alive - book spotlight / giveaway
Superwoman: by Mona Andrei Book Tour Giveaway
Sunday, 21 August 2022
Bookishly Inspired Creative Finds 15 - 21 Aug
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Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Practical M.B.A. on Economics by Joseph Gulesserian + Giveaway + Guest Post
Join us for this tour from August 1 to August 19, 2022!
Book Details:
Book Title: The Practical M.B.A. on Economics "What They Do & Don’t Teach You At Business School" by Joseph Gulesserian
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 526 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction Business Economics History
Publisher: Brands Fifth Avenue Inc
Release date: June 2022
Content Rating: G. Business Book on Economics
#1 Best-Seller in Inflation & Economics History!
A Plethora of Wealth - Knowledge - Insights, that will help you take over the World and Beyond!
Government and the Central Banks have been managing the economic business cycle for over 100 years, creating the biggest Ponzi scheme of money printing ever invented in the history of civilization, as we now find ourselves living in a precarious house of cards. By hallowing out our manufacturing, have we diminished our inventiveness? What role did China really play in this, and what role did our own selfish desire affect the outcome, and what was the trade-off?
Is this the beginning of the end of US monetary global dominance, and how long can we print fiat money to support the vestiges of a declining Empire? Is the cost of living going up, or is it because currency is rapidly depreciating? What is the true source of effective inflation, and why is the wealth divide becoming greater?
The pages of this book bring to light the roots of our economic order of today, and help explain the world around us, how we arrived here, and what might lie ahead.
The Practical MBA on Economics is comprehensive, fast-paced, making for magnificent theatre, full of spills and chills, from stock market crashes to sovereign debt default, to the 1944 Bretton Woods reset, the IMF, the WTO, U.S. Dollar reserve, and mercantilism. We come to meet the economic thinkers that shape our world today from Adam Smith, Richard Cantillon, John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, Murray Rothbard, and Milton Friedman.
With intellectual clarity, insights, wit and humour, Gulesserian challenges the narrative, simplifies complex economic ideas, and draws from historical events, to explain how we came to the current financial world order, its perils, and the future of tomorrow!
With compelling antidotes that entertain, filled with relevance and a library of knowledge that leaves the reader feeling full, and liberated to unlock the future. So, butter your popcorn, do fasten your seat belts, and enjoy the ride.
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Joseph Gulesserian is an entrepreneur and a published author, who wrote “Newspaper Boys Always Deliver”, a story of pop culture and technology. He has built and brought to market health and beauty Brands with global reach that has sent him around much of the world.
With his technical training, he has spent time on the factory floor with technologies from machine building to software information systems, for competitive advantage.
He has an insatiable eclectic curiosity for flirting with the outer parameters of the human imagination, is a student of history, loves the arts, design, the digital age, math, while believing in the tenets of the marketplace of ideas and personal liberty.
After earning his MBA from Edinburgh Business School in the U.K., he taught Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Statistics and marketing, as an adjunct professor at Toronto colleges.
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Aug 1 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 2 - Rockin' Book Reviews - book review / guest post / giveaway
Aug 3 –Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Aug 5 – Books for Books - book spotlight
Aug 8 –Jazzy Book Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 8 – TC Marti's Action-Packed Book Reviews – book review / author interview / giveaway
Aug 9 – Splashes of Joy – book review / giveaway
Aug 10 – My Reading Getaway – book review / author interview / giveaway
Aug 11 –Book Corner News and Reviews - book review / giveaway
Aug 12 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 15 - Adventures of a Traveler's Wife - book review / giveaway
Aug 16 – Lisa's Reading – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 17 - Books are a Blessing - book review / giveaway
Aug 18 – Stephanie Jane - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 19 – Dashes of Love After 45 – book review / giveaway
Aug 19 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
THE PRACTICAL MBA: ECONOMICS Book Tour Giveaway
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Child Of Etherclaw by Matty Roberts + Giveaway
Book Details:
Book Title: CHILD OF ETHERCLAW by Matty Roberts
Category: Young Adult Fiction (13-18+), 348 pages
Genre: Sci-Fi/Dystopian
Publisher: Twilight Fox LLC
Release date: August 2, 2022
Formats Available for Review: print (softback) (USA and Canada) and ebook (EPUB and PDF)
Tour dates: August 2 to August 22, 2022
Content Rating: PG-13 PG-13 for some profanity and mild violence.
The bonds of family go well beyond blood.
But can those bonds hold when the blood itself carries a devastating secret?
Fenlee's opal necklace had always radiated a certain warmth since her mother's death. But now, at sixteen, her world begins to unravel as the stone sparks to life, revealing itself to be an otherworldly artifact of untold power.
Between her mechatronics studies at the academy and scavenging expeditions beneath the sprawling city of New Cascadia, Fenlee and her adopted brother, Elliot, try to decipher the mysteries of her necklace and its link to events in Fenlee's past.
But they're not alone in their search.
Strange undercity dwellers offer cryptic warnings, drones track their movements, and deadly corporate agents lurk in the shadows. When tragedy rips Fenlee's family apart, she must learn to use the artifact's power to save those who are deeply precious to her. But nothing can prepare her for the dark truths that she will uncover on that journey…
“Lee,” Elliot mumbled. “I'm not who you think I am.”
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Matty Roberts began their career in journalism where they earned an Emmy and had the privilege of working on several other award-winning projects. They hold an MS from Johns Hopkins University and are now an engineer in renewable energy in Denver, Colorado where they live with their wonderful partner, two extraordinary kids, and the best doggie ever. In addition to writing, engineering, and parenting, Matty is a vegan enby nerd who is in love with this world and will forever be doing all they can to make it a better place. And they may be known to occasionally play in a punk band here or there.
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Aug 2 - Olio by Marilyn – book spotlight / author interview
Aug 2 – Olio by Marilyn – book review / giveaway
Aug 3 - Kam's Place – book spotlight / author interview
Aug 3 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 4 – JB's Bookworms with Brandy Mulder – book spotlight /guest post / giveaway
Aug 5 - Sadie's Spotlight - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Aug 8 – Splashes of Joy – book review / giveaway
Aug 8 - Rockin' Book Reviews – book review / guest post / giveaway
Aug 9 – The Momma Spot – book review / giveaway
Aug 10 – See Sadie Read – book review / giveaway
Aug 10 - Books are a Blessing – book review / giveaway
Aug 11 – Leels Loves Books – book review / giveaway
Aug 12 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 12 - Books for Books – book review
Aug 15 – HirlGrend, a Vegan Book Blog – book review / giveaway
Aug 16 – The Page Ladies – book review / giveaway
Aug 16 - Stephanie Jane – book review / giveaway
Aug 17 – She Just Loves Books – book review / giveaway
Aug 17 - 411 ON BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHING NEWS - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 18 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book review / giveaway
Aug 19 –Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Aug 22 – Literary Flits – book review / giveaway
CHILD OF ETHERCLAW by Matty Roberts Book Tour Giveaway
Monday, 15 August 2022
The Nikki Bryant Cozy Mystery Series by Lauren Carr
Book Details:
Book Title: The Wrong Side of Murder (A Nikki Bryant Cozy Mystery) by Lauren Carr
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 274 pages
Genre: Mystery/Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Release date: July 21, 2022
Content Rating: This cozy mystery is rated G for everyone!
It's a wonderful book to escape into at the end of the day. And get ready to read into the wee hours as, if you're like me, you won't be able to stop reading until the mystery is revealed. - Marilyn R. Wilson, Olio by Marilyn
Book Description:
Nikki Bryant’s Next Case Takes Her to the Wrong Side of Murder
One spring morning, Jodi Gibbons got up and went to school as she did every day. Her young life went sideways though when the police found that her mother had been brutally killed during the night.
Twenty years later, many in Pine Grove believe Jodi got away with murder. After all, how could she have possibly slept through her
mother’s violent death in the very next room?
After decades of silence, Jodi accepts investigative journalist Nikki
Bryant’s invitation to tell her side of the story. However, before the interview can take place, someone silences Jodi permanently.
Now it is up to Nikki Bryant and her friends to uncover the secret that Jodi Gibbons has been protecting—a secret someone believes it is worth killing to keep from being revealed.
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Be Sure to Check Out the First Installment in the Nikki Bryant Cozy Mysteries:
Book Title: Killer Deadline (A Nikki Bryant Cozy Mystery) by Lauren Carr
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 232 pages
Genre: Mystery/Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Release date: April 23, 2020
Content Rating: This cozy mystery is rated G for Everyone!
Book Description:
Folks in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, claim that where Nikki Bryant goes, trouble is not far behind. Her refusal to back down from a challenge has made Nikki Bryant a top investigative journalist.
When an online friend nudges her to join him in a pact to reconnect with their first loves, Nikki and her boxer dog Elmo leave the bright lights of Las Vegas for the charming town of Pine Grove. There, she must face the biggest challenges in her career and life—the first love she had left behind and her father’s unsolved murder.
But before she has time to unpack her car, Nikki stumbles upon the dead body of local news anchor, Ashleigh Addison, her childhood rival. Could Ashleigh’s death be connected to an explosive news story that she had teased about airing live? Did that explosive story have anything to do with the murder of Nikki’s father?
With the clues in her father’s cold case hot again, Nikki intends to chase down the story of her life until she catches his killer—no matter what it takes.
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