Thank you all for voting in my poll! The winners of last weeks giveaway are @BodifordLauren and @itsSanIIIII Find out the winning titles below! As well as make sure to check out the new polls on our Twitter Click Here
Friday, September 21, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
#BookReview: Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath
About the Book:
The author of Rejected Princesses returns with an inspiring, fully illustrated guide that brings together the fiercest mothers in history—real life matriarchs who gave everything to protect all they loved.
Mothers possess the "maternal instinct"—an innate fierceness that drives them to nurture, safeguard, fight, and sacrifice for the most important things that matter to them. For some mothers, it’s their children. For others, it’s artistic expression, invention, social cause, or even a nation that they helped to birth. In Tough Mothers, Jason Porath brings his wisdom and wit to bear on fifty fascinating matriarchs.
In concise, deeply researched vignettes, accompanied by charming illustrations, Porath illuminates these fearsome women, explores their lives, and pays tribute to their accomplishments. Here are famous women as well as lesser known figures from around the globe who have left their indelible mark as they changed the course of history, including:
The Mother Who Sued to Save Her Children from Slavery—Sojourner Truth
The Mother of Rock n’ Roll—Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Mother of Holocaust Children—Irena Sendler
The Mothers of The Dominican Republic—The Mirabal Sisters
The Mother of Yemen’s Golden Age—Arwa al-Sulayhi
A celebration of motherhood and female achievement, Tough Mothers reminds us of the power of women to transform our lives and our world.
#CoverReveal: Kate’s Congressman (Bright Sisters, #1) by Carmela Goff @XpressoTours
Kate’s Congressman
Carmela Goff
(Bright Sisters, #1)
Publication date: October 5th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Kate Bright lost the love of her life to tragedy. Now all she wants is to pick up the pieces and shelter herself from further pain. The last thing she needs is the attention of a handsome, arrogant politician who hungers for publicity. But Kate has a hunger of her own, whether she likes it or not. Being with Blake will require her to step into the limelight in spite of her private torment. Do his feelings for her extend beyond the public stage?
Kate’s Congressman is the first standalone novel in the Bright Sisters Romance series.
Watch for other volumes, including June’s Arresting Officer, coming soon.
#BookTour: A Heart in a Body in the World by @debcaletti #Giveaway @JeanBookNerd
About the Book:
When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run?
So that’s what Annabelle does—she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She’s not ready to think about the why yet, just the how—muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person—The Taker—that haunts her.
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. They say it isn’t her fault, but she can’t feel the truth of that.
Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. There, she’ll finally face what lies behind her—the miles and love and loss…and what is to come.
#NerdBlast: The Iron Flower (The Black Witch Chronicles, #2) by @laurieannforest #Giveaway @JeanBookNerd
About the Book:
Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs, but their actions have propelled them straight into the ranks of the realm-wide Resistance against Gardnerian encroachment. As the Resistance struggles against the harsh rulings of High Priest Marcus Vogel and the Mage Council, Elloren begins to realize that none of the people she cares about will be safe if Gardneria seizes control of the Western Realm.
With tensions heating up in Verpacia, more and more Gardnerian soldiers continue to descend upon the university…led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of the newly rebuilt Fourth Division base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm’s length, Lukas is determined to wandfast to her, convinced that she has inherited her grandmother’s magic—the prophesied power of the Black Witch. As his very nearness seems to awaken a darkness inside her, Elloren finds it more and more difficult to believe that she’s truly powerless, as her uncle always claimed.
Caught between her growing feelings for the rebellious Yvan Guriel and the seductive power offered by Lukas Grey, Elloren must find a way to stay true to what she knows is right and protect everyone she loves…even if that means protecting them from herself.
#Discussion: Get Your Blog In Shape Planner!
Get Your Blog In Shape!
I am not sure about the rest of you but I have a hard time keeping track of all of the information that deals with my website. I have two calendars now one for reviews and one for promo posts and well I haven’t done a real posting schedule for social media in ages. But recently I really wanted to take the time and do it the way I should be doing it.
#Giveaway with @Running_Press and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita by @TimFederle
I am here today to share with you a wonderful collaboration with Hachette Book Group who is offering a chance to win copies of several drink recipe books by Tim Federle, author of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita,” as well as a margarita mixer and entertainment set! So check out the book below and then click the link and enter to win!
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
#BookReview: Wandfasted (The Black Witch Chronicles, #0.5) by Laurie Forest
About the Book:
Magic, romance and adventure collide in WANDFASTED, the irresistible ebook prequel to THE BLACK WITCH
"When they painted "Heretics" on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get.
Until they sent the dragons.
But they didn't count on us having dragons of our own.
And they certainly didn't count on Her. Our Great Mage.
The Bringer of Fire. The Storm of Death. The Crow Sorceress.
Our Deliverance.
The Black Witch."
- From WANDFASTED
#BookReview: The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1) by @laurieannforest #Giveaway
About the Book:
A new Black Witch will rise…her powers vast beyond imagining.
Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else.
When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University to embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother’s legacy. But she soon realizes that the university, which admits all manner of people—including the fire-wielding, winged Icarals, the sworn enemies of all Gardnerians—is a treacherous place for the granddaughter of the Black Witch.
As evil looms on the horizon and the pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she knew will be challenged and torn away. Her best hope of survival may be among the most unlikely band of misfits…if only she can find the courage to trust those she’s been taught to hate and fear.
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