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The After Spotlight

Posted: January 8, 2025 in Blog Tour Hosting, cover reveal, Crowdfunding, excerpt, FREE eBook, giveaway, iRead Book Tours, Now Available in Paperback, Polls, Press Release, Promo, rafflecopter, Recommended Reading, Showcase, Spotlight, Win autographed copy!
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Book Details:

Book Title: THE AFTER by Joanne Taylor
Category:  Middle-Grade Fiction & YA Fiction (10 to 15 yrs old),  183 pages
Genre: Fictional Dystopian
Publisher:  FriesenPress
Release date:  October 2024
Content Rating: G. No swearing, drug use, sex scenes, violence (minimal)
“Taylor’s debut is a taut tale of survival in a post-pandemic world that’s buoyed by an amiable protagonist and a well- developed setting. … A riveting beginning to a promising new series.” – Kirkus Reviews

“The After introduces an intrepid teenage heroine as she explores a changed world… this first series title lays ample groundwork for the coming volumes.” – Foreword Clarion Review
Book Description:

Despite the deadly virus that caused borders to close and governments to fall ten years earlier, fourteen-year-old Charlotte and her family have lived a challenging yet relatively peaceful life, isolated on their acreage in rural Nova Scotia. However, when Charlotte discovers that an interloper has infiltrated their property, she must decide between keeping the potential threat a secret or embracing the potential for companionship that the intrusion represents. As the chaotic world that lurks outside the fence surrounding her farm disrupts Charlotte’s life even further, she must reach deep within herself and find the courage to become the mature young woman she claims to be—or risk losing everything that she and her family have worked so hard to build.
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First Violin Book Tour

Posted: September 18, 2024 in Announcements, Blog Tour Hosting, cover reveal, Crowdfunding, FREE eBook, giveaway, iRead Book Tours, Now Available in Paperback, Polls, Press Release, Promo, rafflecopter, Recommended Reading, Showcase, Spotlight, Win autographed copy!
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The year is 1938 and Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany.

Klaus Lehner plays first violin for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and when the concertmaster is amongst other Jews expelled from Philharmonic, he sees the opportunity for a position he covets He is bitterly disappointed when he is passed over.

In the wake of his disappointment, Klaus’s lover Eva, a virtuoso cellist, urges him to become a soloist. To determine whether he is merely brilliant or can truly move an audience she tasks him with mastering difficult pieces by Bach and Paganini, and with fathering her baby – both of which he does.

Meanwhile, at home, Klaus’s wife Helga gives birth to their firstborn.

When Eva’s Nazi husband finds out about the love affair, he has Klaus arrested and sent to a Mauthausen subcamp to supervise Ukrainian laborers. Amidst the suffering, Klaus composes a tone poem, Silence Interrupted, translating his nightmares into sound.

After the camp is liberated, Klaus returns to a war-torn Vienna devastated by American bombers and occupied by the Soviet army. He makes a living busking in front of the Soviet Vienna City Kommandatura. Klaus faces a choice between the two women he left behind.

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Meet the Author:

Richard Tomlinson’s working life has been divided between being an academic and an urban policy consultant.

As an academic, either in full-time or visiting capacity, he has been located in Australia at the University of Melbourne (Chair of the Urban Planning Program); in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand; and in the USA at Columbia and New School Universities and MIT, and in think tanks at the Brookings Institution and the Wilson Center; and at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. A Fulbright Scholar, he did his PhD at Rutgers University.

As a post-1990 consultant based in Johannesburg, Richard’s clients in Southern Africa included the post-apartheid South African government, various local and international NGOs, the World Bank, USAID and the private sector, during which time he also facilitated multi-party negotiations. He has also worked with community organizations.

Richard’s current activities depend on the weather: kayaking, swimming, hiking and mountain climbing and writing. Surfing has given way to age.
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First Violin, set in a wonderful city, Vienna, is his debut novel.

Connect with the author: website ~instagram ~ facebook ~ X/Twitter ~ linkedin

FIRST VIOLIN by Richard Tomlinson Book Tour Giveaway

Tour Schedule:
Sep 3 –Cover Lover Book Review– book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 3 –@Leannebookstagram– book review
Sep 3 – @alwaysreadingxo * – book review / giveaway
Sep 3 – @bookscape__ * – book review / giveaway
Sep 3 –@bearyintobooks* – book review / giveaway
Sep 3 –@this.human.reads* – book review / giveaway
Sep 4 – @my_fair_fiction * – book review / giveaway
Sep 4 – Cassandra Lynn Literature – book review / giveaway
Sep 5 –Bigreadersite– book review / giveaway
Sep 5 – @book_withquotes * – book review / giveaway
Sep 5 – Cassandra Lynn Literature – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 5 –@acourtofspinesnpages* – book review / giveaway
Sep 12 –Country Mamas With Kids– book review / giveaway
Sep 12 –@onceuponamaltesereader* – book review / giveaway
Sep 15 –@bookarlo* – book review / giveaway
Sep 15 – @jannierreads * – book review / giveaway
Sep 16 – @bookameme * – book review / giveaway
Sep 17 –Liese’s Blog– book spotlight
Sep 17 –Gina Rae Mitchell – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 18 –411 ON BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHING NEWS– book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 18 –My Reading Getaway– book review / giveaway
Sep 18 – @readsandmusic * – book review / giveaway
Sep 20 –@kiv_coffeeandpages* – book review / giveaway
Sep 20 – @readingwithloe * – book review / giveaway
Sep 24 –Locks, Hooks and Books– book review / giveaway
Sep 25 –Diane’s Book Journal– book review / giveaway
Sep 25 – @pastacoffeeandbooks * – book review / giveaway
​Sep 25 – @madlymisty * – book review / giveaway
Sep 26 –@whatsenalireads* – book review / giveaway
Sep 26 – @just_another_mother_with_books * – book review / giveaway
Sep 26 – @readwithlaraa * – book review / giveaway
​Sep 26 – @alyssas_book_obsession * – book review / giveaway

Life Interrupted Spotlight

Posted: August 21, 2024 in Blog Tour Hosting, cover reveal, Crowdfunding, FREE eBook, giveaway, iRead Book Tours, Now Available in Paperback, Polls, Press Release, Promo, rafflecopter, Recommended Reading, Showcase, Spotlight
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Book Details:
Book Title:  Life Interrupted: Dr. Dua’s Survival Guide by Dr. Manu Dua
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 94 pages
Genre: Memoir, Self-help, Personal Growth
Publisher: Laurel Elite
Publication Date: August 2021
Content Rating: G. General audience. Clean.
2024 American Legacy Book Awards in Health-Cancer
2024 International Impact Book Awards Winner in Death and Dying (Grief and Bereavement)
2023 Distinguished Favorite by NYC Big Book Award
2022 CIPA EVVY Gold Award Winner in Motivational/Inspirational, Bronze Memoir
Book Description:

This is the story of my younger brother, Dr. Manu Dua, who battled oral cancer for almost two years.

These are a series of blogs that he penned when faced with his own mortality at the young age of 34. He had accepted and made peace with his fate. These blogs are filled with much depth and wisdom. It chronicles his realization of life and what and who truly matters.

May these blogs serve as a gentle reminder to not take life for granted. That no matter what we plan, things are out of our control, call it our fate or destiny. That through the darkest of times, there is still hope, and the power of the human spirit through adversities prevails.

May you find comfort in his words should you or your loved ones walk this difficult road.

-Dr. Parul Dua Makkar
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Meet the Author:

Dr. Manu Dua was a Canadian Dentist. He was born and brought up in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He moved to Canada in his teenage years, went to University of Calgary for Undergrad. He graduated with his DMD from the University of British Columbia and practiced Dentistry in Calgary, AB. He was a foodie, loved playing sports and had an optimistic view on life. He was kind, giving, and he would volunteer his services to the less fortunate which brought him much contentment. He had an infectious laugh and was a joy to be around with. He lived life in his own terms and was at the peak of his life when he was diagnosed with Oral Cancer.

He passed away in Canada at the age of 34. 

His book was printed posthumously. He is survived by his parents, sister, brother in law and nephews.

connect with the author: goodreads

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