Show Some Love :)

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your summer and are getting many reads done!

I am here to introduce to you to a friend of mine who just started a new blog, Lisa!

I've met Lisa through our Bibliophile reading group over at Shelfari. She's an amazing person and I absolutely love how she too has a passion for books AND dance.

This is how she describes herself:

Ballroom-dancing, scuba-diving, cat-adoring, shark-admiring, chocolate-loving, fiction-reading bibliophile.


Please help me welcome her to our book blogging community!
You can visit Lisa at:

 

Lisa's Library: Where the Dancing Bookworms Live

Book Tour + Giveaway: Trust by Mia Fox

 

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Trust

SERIES – Chasing Shadows

AUTHOR – Mia Fox

GENRE – Paranormal romance/contemporary romance

PUBLICATION DATE – July 20, 2014

PUBLISHER – Evatopia Press

PHOTOGRAPHY - Cathleen Tarawhiti

MODEL - Melanie Bevan

DIGITAL ART - Consuelo Parra

TYPOGRAPHY - Eden Crane

Teaser Tuesdays #92

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teasers:

Release Blast Launch Party: Snow in July by Kim Iverson Headlee (Giveaway)

 

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Snow in July

AUTHOR – Kim Iverson Headlee

GENRE – Young Adult Paranormal Historical Romance

PUBLICATION DATE – July 2014

LENTH (Pages/# Words) – 386 pages/94K words

PUBLISHER – Pendragon Cove Press

COVER DESIGNER – Natasha Brown

 

Blog Tour Excerpt + Giveaway: Project Lexi by Lisa Survillas

Title – Project Lexi

Series – The Lexi Series

Author – Lisa Survillas

Genre – NA/Contemporary Romance

Publication Date – June 19, 2014

Publisher – Lisa Survillas

Cover Artist – Cover design by Kimberly Knight

Photographs for cover - Geanette Trumbull of www.TLCbyG.com

 

 

Blog Tour Review + Giveaway: Perdition House by Bonnie Edwards (18+)

 

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Perdition House Part 1 An Erotic Saga

SERIES – Tales of Perdition

AUTHOR – Bonnie Edwards

GENRE – Paranormal Erotic Romance

PUBLICATION DATE – June 28, 2014

LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 91K words

PUBLISHER – Self

COVER ARTIST – Eva Natsumi

 

Blog Tour Interview: Birds of the Nile by N.E. David

Tour Schedule

 

Literary Fiction
Date Published: September 27, 2013

British ex-diplomat MICHAEL BLAKE has been blinded and is confined to his flat in Cairo. Every few days a visitor comes to read to him. It’s a year since he took early retirement and booked a long–awaited birding trip on the Nile.

Half way through the voyage he meets LEE YONG and finds himself falling for her. But she’s falling for REDA, their tour guide. He isn’t all he seems either and when the Egyptian revolution kicks off, BLAKE finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love and intrigue. When REDA is captured and thrown into jail, BLAKE will be forced to decide – to help LEE YONG and join the revolution or stand aside and risk losing everything.

Deep in Death Blitz + Giveaway!

 

Deep in Death – Release Blitz

A Shelby Nichols Adventure – Volume 6

Paranormal Mystery

Date Published: July 22, 2014

  

Running “errands” for her mob-boss employer, Joey “The Knife” Manetto, often ends with Shelby in trouble, making her cautious about continuing her association with him. Instead, she focuses on a new client who hires Shelby to find her missing mother. What seems like a routine case turns into something more sinister and deadly than she ever imagined. In the meantime, Uncle Joey has summoned Shelby to his office, where she runs into her former nemesis. Shelby inadvertently hears something that makes her fear for the lives of Uncle Joey and his hit-man, Ramos. This time, Uncle Joey is not sure he wants to involve Shelby in something he knows could get her killed. Keeping Shelby’s involvement to a minimum has disastrous results, sending Shelby on a dangerous path. As her investigation unfolds, Shelby finds death at every turn, and soon realizes she is in over her head. Can she escape from danger in time? Or will she find herself deep in death?

Teaser Tuesdays #91

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teasers:

Review: Les Miserables Manga (UDON)

Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugo's classic novel of love & tragedy during the French Revolution is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! The gorgeous art of TseMei Lee brings to life the tragic stories of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, and the beautiful Fantine, in this epic adaptation of Les Miserables!

UDON’s Manga Classics line features classic stories, faithfully adapted and illustrated in manga style, and available in both hardcover and softcover editions.

Art by TszMei Lee

Adapted by Crystal Chan & Stacy King

Release date: August 12, 2014

More Info: Facebook  * Twitter  * Goodreads

Buy it at: Amazon *  Udon  *  B&N

Review of Goodwill Tour: Paying it Forward by Keith Maginn

In mid-July of 2011, Keith Maginn, and his friend, Emily, set off from Cincinnati, Ohio, on a 3,000-mile road-trip through several southeastern states. The pair stopped in Memphis, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Asheville and smaller towns in between. Goodwill Tour: Paying It Forward is a travelogue detailing a philanthropic experiment in this incredible country the two call home. What makes their trip unique—and Maginn’s book fresh—is that sightseeing wasn’t their sole purpose. Emily and Keith were determined to spread kindness as they worked to make a difference in the lives of others along the way. They gave their own money to hand-picked strangers, who then had to pay the money forward to someone else.

Goodwill Tour is the narrative of the places Emily and Keith visited and the people they met on their journey. It is an ode to the United States and, even more, a tribute to its people. From Beale Street to Bourbon Street and Graceland to the Biltmore Estate, from feeding the needy in downtown Charleston to brainstorming ideas with a female Buddhist monk to help abused teens and high school dropouts in North Carolina, readers will enjoy riding shotgun on the trip as they relive the experience of these life-altering events, and contemplate how people changed as a result.

30 Days of Summer: Sara Walter Ellwood!

BOOK INFORMATION

Title: Heartstrings

Author: Sara Walter Ellwood

Word/Page count: 189 pages

Buy link: Amazon – Barnes & Nobles – iTunes – Kobo

 

He’s determined to set things right, no matter the cost.

The last person Abby Crawford wants to face down is country music superstar Seth Kendall. Last time she did, she flat-out lied so he’d go to Nashville without her. She’s never understood why their mutual best friend proposed, but she went with it so her baby wouldn’t be fatherless. Now she’s a divorced mother of a teenager, and secretly Seth’s biggest fan.

Soulless Cover Reveal

Have you met the Soulless and Passionate? In the world of 1770 where supernatural beings mix with humanity, Alexia is playing a deadly game.

SOULLESS, Book 2 in the Maiden of Time trilogy

 

 

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Double Decker Books Giveaway: Obsessions Alpha City

About the giveaway:

Giveaway of $5.00 Amazon Gift Cards (2 of them) & 1 copy of Obsessions Alpha City #1 By Bryce Evans. There will be three 3 winners. 1st place a copy of Obsessions Alpha City #1 by Bryce Evans 2nd & 3rd place $5.00 Amazon Gift Card.

About the Book:

Spotlight + Excerpt: Destiny's Anvil by Steven Wells Hicks

Will Guidry’s career as a backwater lawyer is going nowhere until he has a couple of beers with up-and-coming political operative Tucker Callahan, whose family’s petrochemical fortune instills in him a confidence bordering on hubris. As Tucker explains to his rudderless brother, Carter, “Guidry and I made a deal because he needed a miracle and I wanted to play God.”

Guidry rides Tucker’s political horse sense into the office of Louisiana’s Attorney General, while Tucker capitalizes on Guidry’s victory to bolster his own political reputation. But what should become a powerful alliance deteriorates into a bitter feud when Guidry tries to flex his political muscle and Tucker suspects he may have maneuvered a calculating sociopath into the marble halls of power.

Teaser Tuesdays #90

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teasers:

Review: Marcel Proust in Taos by Jon Foyt

In Marcel Proust In Taos, a Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico, with his cat Marcel Proust, to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, from Germany, and the two fall in love. They open a microbrewery, using the brewing recipes passed down to Marlene from her brewmaster grandfather. However, together they find themselves confronting terrorism of a new sort with the matriarch of the Taos community, Agnes Havelock Powers, who strongly opposes having a brewery in town. Agnes is rich, powerful, and influential. She has the city authorities tucked in her purse next to her checkbook. Follow the exciting and charming love story of Marlene and Christopher in historical Taos, as they experience the challenges of confronting abusive power.

Amazon * B&N

 

After the End Read-Along Sign-Ups!!!

 

My dear good friend Wendy @ Wall-to-Wall Books is hosting this wonderful read-along for the month of August!

I've never read this book and I haven't heard it before she contacted me about doing it. I was excited because I read and discussed with her Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It last year. I am looking forward to reading another end-of-the-world book with her again and with whomever joins us!

So...what's the book about?

30 Days of Summer + Giveaway: Victoria Barbour

BOOK INFORMATION

Title: Passionate Kisses Boxed Set  

Genre: 10 Sizzling Contemporary Romances 

Author: Victoria Barbour (& 9 others!)  

Word/Page count: 3000 pages  

Buy link: Amazon

Children's Book: Fumbulgrumbul by Jason Sandberg

Fumbulgrumbul by Jason Sandberg
ebook, 25 pages
Published June 21st 2014 by Jason Sandberg eBooks

Meet Mister Fumbulgrumbul. You'll see him when he fumbles, you'll hear him when he grumbles. When a poodle comes after his cookies, you know that hilarity will ensue. This richly illustrated rhyming picture book will be enjoyed over and over, by parent and child alike!

"This book is anchored by the rhyming comedic tale of a man attempting to keep some cookies away from a poodle. The supplementary challenge I set for myself was to work subplots into a Picture Book without making the narrative confusing for a Preschool audience. I did this by parading whimsical and fantastic supporting characters through the backgrounds of the pages. These charming sight gags should add a secondary level of enjoyment to the reading experience." - Jason Sandberg

 

Teaser Tuesdays #89

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teasers:

Review: Moonless by Crystal Collier

Moonless is Jane Eyre meets Supernatural.

In the English society of 1768 where women are bred to marry, unattractive Alexia, just sixteen, believes she will end up alone. But on the county doorstep of a neighbor’s estate, she meets a man straight out of her nightmares, one whose blue eyes threaten to consume her whole world—especially later when she discovers him standing over her murdered host in the middle of the night.

Among the many things to change for her that evening are: her physical appearance—from ghastly to breathtaking, an epidemic of night terrors predicting the future, and the blue-eyed man’s unexpected infusion into her life. Not only do his appearances precede tragedies, but they are echoed by the arrival of ravenous, black-robed wraiths on moonless nights.

Book-to-Movie: Catching Fire (2013)

Director:

 Francis Lawrence

Writers:

 Simon Beaufoy & Michael Arndt

Stars:

 Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth

My thoughts:
I'm a little late about this review, but at least I'm getting to it :)

I first saw this movie when it came out in the movie theaters. I was very much impressed with this film versus the first one. I was mostly stunned on how better everything looked. I recently watched it again for the second time and I was able to concentrate more on how the movie compared to the book.

Cover Reveal: Wanderamid's Crystal Ball by I.V. Phillips

Wanderamid's Crystal Ball - Cover Reveal

By I V Phillips

Fantasy

Date Published: June 2012

Blog Tour Review and Giveaway: Fae- The Wild Hunt by Graham Austin-King

Fae - The Wild Hunt

The Riven Wyrde Saga Book 1

By Graham Austin-King

Release date - March 9^th 2014

Kobo 

June 2014: Wrap Up

Wait...June is over? *scratches head* Wow! Time flew! Here's what I got read this past month:

Teaser Tuesdays #88

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers: