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Book Tour; Accessible Fine Dining by Noam Kostucki and Quentin Villers

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Book Details: Book Title: Accessible Fine Dining - The Art of Creating Exciting Food in Your Everyday Kitchen by Noam Kostucki, with Chef Quentin Villers Category: Adult Non-fiction , 128 pages Genre: Creative Cookbook / Fine Dining Publisher: Amazon Release date: Dec 10, 2018 Tour dates: Jan 7 to 31, 2019 Content Rating: G Book Description: Six months after opening my first restaurant, one of my dishes was selected as "25 dishes to travel around the world", featuring me next to culinary legend Heston Blumenthal. Exciting and healthy food doesn’t have to be complicated, and it doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Over the years, I have seen some of the most exciting dishes come from the simplest kitchens and the most modest ingredients. The purpose of this book is to focus our attention away from the distractions of fancy kitchen equipment and luxury produce and instead focus our attention towards ingenuity in the kitchen and culinary innovatio...

Deck the Halls With Books 2018 Holiday Extravaganza; Black Dog - A Christmas Story by Victoria Danann

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Black Dog: A Christmas Story Knights of Black Swan Book Thirteen Victoria Danann Genre: paranormal fantasy Publisher: 7th House, Imprint of Andromeda LLC      Date of Publication: December 22, 2018 ASIN: B07JBK9DNR Number of pages: 201 Word Count: 43k Cover Artist: Victoria Danann Book Description: Old dogs tell no tales. New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Victoria Danann, brings a moving triumph-over-darkness story to the world of Black Swan. The Hawking family is at home at the Northern Ireland farm and wolf-dog kennel for Yuletide when Blackie goes missing. Instead of a joyous celebration of family and friends, Ram's mate and elflings are beside themselves with fear and worry. As Song and Litha bring their respective paranormal abilities to aid in the search, the story takes a turn into the dark world of dogfighting and the abduction of adult male dogs matching the profile of fighters. ...

Spotlight; CrossTown by Loren W. Cooper

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CrossTown Loren W Cooper Genre: Fantasy/SF Publisher: Red Hen Books Date of Publication: Nov 14, 2017 ISBN: 978-1939096029 Number of pages: 340 Word Count: 95000 Cover Artist: Red Hen Staff Artist Tagline: CrossTown is the crossroads of possibility. Book Description: Zethus is a sorcerer―a self-described spiritual thug for hire. He makes his living in CrossTown, a place where the manyworld hypothesis of modern physics manifests itself, where possibilities and probabilities overlap. Caught up in a web of intrigue as he investigates the death of his master, Corvinus, and pursued by agents that want to erase all knowledge of Corvinus’ work, Zethus discovers that the key to his master’s murder lies in the last project he had pursued before his death. The roots of this project lie deep in the past, at the origin of CrossTown’s fractured reality. Once he understands the stakes, Zethus must make the dangerous journey to the cradle of his...

Spotlight; The Painter's Apprentice by Laura Morelli

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Book Details: Book Title: The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice Author: Laura Morelli Category: Adult Fiction, 482 pages Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: The Scriptorium Release date: November 15, 2017 Tour dates: Oct 16 to Nov 17, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 (some adult situations but no sex or explicit violence) Book Description: Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you’d better decide quickly. Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more than to carry on her father’s legacy as a master gilder. Instead, her father has sent her away from the only home she’s ever known to train as an apprentice to Master Trevisan, a renowned painter. When the painter’s servants uncover the real reason why Maria has been sent away, they threaten to reveal a secret that could tear down her family and the future of their trade. She is forced to buy the servants’ silence,...

Spotlight; Dancing in the Rain av Lucy Appadoo

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Can she end the turmoil and escape the firmly built trap to find the freedom she craves? Book Details: Book Title: Dancing in the Rain (The Italian Family Series) Author: Lucy Appadoo Category: Adult Fiction, 274 pages Genre: Historical Coming of Age/Romance/Family Drama Publisher: Lucy Appadoo Release date: March 24, 2017 Tour dates: June 5 to 23, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 + M (There is physical abuse and death involved.) Book Description: Fifteen-year old Valeria Allegro works diligently on the family farm in Italy, where she is torn between her duty to her family and her desire to find freedom from her strict, domineering father. She finds solace in Dario, a young student who provides a blissful escape—until a neighbour’s son, Gregorio, decides he wants her for himself. This raises an alarm for her father, which leads to family conflict and aggression. When Dario is threatened and her family is plagued by a series of suspicious accidents, Vale...

Spotlight; More Than A Soldier av Angelo DiMarco

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More Than a Soldier, based on a true story   is Angelo DiMarco’s powerful story of survival,  resilience and courage. Book Details: Book Title: More Than a Soldier: One Army Ranger's Daring Escape From the Nazis Author: D.M. Annechino Category: Adult Fiction, 316 pages Genre: Historical Biography, WWII Publisher: CreateSpace Release date: April 2017 Tour dates: April 24 to May 19, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 (A few four-letter words and violence associated with war) Book Description: Feeling a patriotic duty to defend his country after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, seventeen year old, Angelo J. DiMarco, enlists in the U.S. Army. Severely short of frontline fighters, the Army rushes Angelo through Ranger training and sends him to Italy as part of the 1st Ranger Battalion. Their objective: stop the German invasion. Fighting on the front lines in Italy, the German’s teach Angelo a sobering lesson on life when they capture him during the bloody battle ...

Spotlight; Mama Says, Money Doesn't Grow On Trees av Iris Marie Mack

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Book Description: Globe Newswire reports that Dr. Iris Mack's mathematics edutainment book is "turning heads across the country in a response similar to the widely promoted 'Hooked on Phonics,' that improved children's reading skills." Her unique approach to math became one of Xlibris/Random House Publisher's top children's picture book royalty earners. If there is one word that sums up our recent economic woes, it is interest. There’s interest on credit card balances, student loans, car loans, home mortgages, corporate borrowings and most prominently, on state and national debt. But there is surprisingly little interest in this interest. We all pay it. But not many of us really understand how it works. Dr. Iris Mack has filled the gap – and for young consumers. Her financial literacy book “Mama Says Money Doesn't Grow on Trees!'' is focused on teaching students that math can be fun and key to understanding money and interest. In...

Spotlight; Middle South av Maya Nessouli Abboushi

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On a hilarious journey that takes Layla from the Southeast to the Middle East and back, she finds out a little more about herself and what she is looking for in life and in love. Book Details: Book Title: Middle South by Maya Nessouli Abboushi Category: Adult Fiction, 215 pages Genre: Women's Fiction Publisher: Lanier Press Release date: March 8, 2017 Tour dates: April 17 to May 5, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 Book Description: Layla has recently moved out of her parents’ home in the Atlanta suburbs and into an apartment in the city to assert her independence. Between her job as a feature writer for a small newspaper and her social life, Layla has little time to think about marriage and children, much to the dismay of her Lebanese parents. On a hilarious journey that takes Layla from the Southeast to the Middle East and back, she finds out a little more about herself and what she is looking for in life and in love. Buy the Book: Amazon  ~...