2012 Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge

Book Review and Giveaway: The Most Dangerous Thing

May 15, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Most Dangerous Thing Synopsis: Something terrible happened in the woods on that day so long ago. Was it what the children said happened … or something else? The man who sometimes lived in the ramshackle cabin the children discovered when exploring, whom they called Chicken George after […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Milestone Tapes

May 13, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for The Milestone Tapes Synopsis: Jenna Chamberland last saw her mother healthy as she left for college. By the time she made her first trip back home, her mother was dying. Responsibility to care for their mother fell to Jenna’s sister, Sophie, with whom Jenna has […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Whole Latte Life

May 5, 2012

Synopsis: Everyone has had a moment — or several — when they contemplated running away from home: just turning one’s back on everyone and everything, and disappearing for a while or even forever. But then the dream ends, reality intrudes, and we carry on, honoring our commitments to ourselves and those people who matter to […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Girl Unmoored

April 30, 2012

Synopsis: Apron Bramhall is a thirteen-year-old seventh grader for whom life has been extremely difficult lately. Her mother died just six months ago from cancer and Margie, the Brazilian nurses’ aid who cared for her mother, has taken up permanent residence in Apron’s home. Her father, a Latin professor, wants Apron to get along with […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Good Father

April 28, 2012

Synopsis: Travis Brown thinks that things can’t possibly get any worse for him and his four-year-old daughter, Bella. He’s about to find out how wrong he is. Travis has lived his entire life in Carolina Beach and can’t imagine life anywhere but by the shore. He has also never lived on his own. After taking custody […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Afterwards

April 24, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Afterwards Synopsis: Grace is at her son, Adam’s, school for sports day. Nearly all of the children are outdoors when suddenly the building erupts in fire. As Grace looks around for her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenny, she realizes that she is still inside where she has been serving as […]

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Book Review: The Iguana Tree

April 23, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Iguana Tree Synopsis: Héctor has longed dreamed of a better life for himself, his wife Lilia, and their infant daughter, Alejandra. He has been making plans for some time to cross the border that divides their native Mexican and the United States with the help of a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: A Grand Murder

April 18, 2012

Welcome to the Partners In Crime Blog Tour for A Grand Murder Synopsis: Catherine O’Brien and her partner, Louise, are homicide detectives with the St. Paul, Minnesota police department. As the story begins, Nathan Stanley has been found murdered on the front porch of his opulent home. He just happens to one of the chief of […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Comeback Love

April 16, 2012

Synopsis: Gordon Meyers has neither seen nor spoken with Glenna Rising for thirty years. They met in 1968 and lived together for the better part of two years before breaking up. Gordon served in Vietnam and returned home to launch a successful consulting firm. In the ensuing years he has traveled the world, been married […]

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Book Review: The Wedding Dress

April 14, 2012

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for The Wedding Dress Synopsis: Charlotte Malone is having second thoughts about her upcoming wedding to Tim Rose, but she’s not exactly sure why. She escapes to a familiar hideaway, Red Mountain, the site of the Ludlow Estate, where she and her mother, Phoebe, used to picnic, enjoying each other’s […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Unbroken

April 13, 2012

Welcome to Virtual Author Book Tours’ Blog Tour for Unbroken Synopsis: Gwen Swan was a rodeo queen, sitting glamorously in the saddle as she waved to the crowds. She still rides, but its on the Swan family ranch that she works alongside her husband, Will, and his father, John. Ranch life twenty-five miles outside Laramie, Wyoming […]

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Book Review: By the Light of the Silvery Moon

April 8, 2012

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for By the Light of the Silvery Moon Synopsis: Amelia Gladstone is an eighteen-year-old beauty from Southampton who has accepted the kind invitation of Mr. Chapman to journey to New Haven, Connecticut and take up residence with her cousin, Elizabeth, and her husband, Nel, Mr. Chapman’s neighbors. Through correspondence, Amelia […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Song Remains the Same

April 6, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Song Remains the Same Synopsis: Eleanor “Nell” Margaret Slattery survives the crash of a 757 airliner over Iowa. In fact, she is one of only two survivors, the other being Anderson Carroll, a well-known actor whose exploits often make tabloid headlines. Nell awakens in a hospital to find […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Dark is the Sky

April 4, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Dark is the Sky Synopsis: The Camerons have not gathered together for twelve years — not since the fateful weekend that was supposed to be a relaxing getaway at Olivia and Joel’s new country dream home ended in disaster. On that occasion, a recession threatened the […]

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Book Review: The Replacement Wife

April 1, 2012

Synopsis: Camille Hart is devastated, frightened, and unsure how to break the news to her physician husband of twenty years, Edward Constantin. The cancer they thought she beat last year has returned and her odds of survival are slim, at best, even if she agrees to undergo risky treatment that might make her final days […]

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Book Review: Beauty for Ashes

March 26, 2012

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Beauty for Ashes Synopsis: Carrie Daly has been living with her brother, Henry, on the family farm Hickory Ridge, Tennessee. She has long been courted by Nate Chastain, the local bookseller. Although Carrie cares a great deal for Nate, she has not yet accepted his long-standing marriage proposal, unsure if […]

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Book Review: Sixty Acres and a Bride

March 23, 2012

Welcome to Litfuse Publicity’s Blog Tour for Sixty Acres and a Bride Synopsis: Weston Garner is handsome, well-respected by family and the community, and honorable. He has also been reclusive during the five years since the tragic death of his wife, Cora. Wracked by guilt and remorse, he has sworn he will never marry again, choosing instead […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Sonoma Rose

March 16, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Sonoma Rose Synopsis: Rosa Diaz knew, as a child growing up in California, that her family held a long-standing grudge against the Jorgenson family, Norwegians who now owned the land that had once belonged to the Diaz family, Triumph Ranch. The Jorgensons produced delicious apricots and Rose longed […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Garden Intrigue

March 9, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Garden Intrigue Synopsis: Historian Eloise Kelly has come to England to work on her doctoral thesis, met Colin, and has taken up residence with him in his ancestral home where a film crew has been allowed to utilize the premises. She is researching the Pink Carnation, Jane […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Lone Wolf

March 5, 2012

Synopsis: Luke Warren was driving his seventeen-year-old daughter, Cara, home from a party when he swerved to avoid striking a deer and lost control of his vehicle. Cara awakens to the smell of gasoline and realizes that she cannot use her right arm. Seeing that her father is unconscious, she manages to pull him from […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Walter’s Muse

March 1, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Walter’s Muse Synopsis: Maggie Lewis is sixty-five years old and has just retired after a forty-year career as an elementary school librarian. She has come to Vashon Island near Seattle, accessible only by ferry, to live full-time in a rustic cabin with no window screens. Long divorced, her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Delicacy

February 27, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Delicacy Synopsis: Natalie was just twenty years old when she was approached by Francois on a Paris street. From that conversation, their relationship bloomed into two years of living together, followed by five of marriage. They were happy and almost never quarreled until one tragic day when everything […]

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Book Review: Defending Jacob

February 25, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Defending Jacobb Synopsis: Andy Barber is a seasoned prosecutor. At the age of fifty, he is the senior assistant to the District Attorney and used to litigating the most complex and high profile cases. When fourteen-year-old Ben Rifkin is found murdered on an April morning […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Honor Redeemed

February 21, 2012

Welcome to Pump Up Your Book’s Virtual Book Tour for Honor Redeemed Synopsis: Honor MacKenzie has been trying to soldier on after an unscrupulous reporter’s salacious stories forced her to give up the career she loved as a firefighter. Her career and work as a Search and Rescue (SAR) trainer and crew member sustained her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

February 19, 2012

Every leaf while on its tree sways in unison; bears the same light and shadow, is sustained by the same sap that will release it in blazing color. It is that moment before falling we all live for, to see ourselves for the first time, to hear our name being called from the inside. ~~ […]

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