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Light Bulb Baking by Todd Coopee – Book Tour

This first definitive retrospective of the Easy Bake® Oven celebrates its journey from children’s toy to pop culture icon and inductee to The National Toy Hall of Fame. The book explores the innovation, history, economics, commerce, advertising, and marketing behind the toy’s 50 year history. This book is a must read for vintage toy collectors, nostalgia buffs, foodies, and anyone who has ever peered through the oven’s watch it bake window, eagerly anticipating the moment they will be able to serve and enjoy their very own culinary concoction.

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About the Author:

Todd Coopee is a writer, award-winning business owner, toy historian, and pop-culture enthusiast. His affinity for nostalgia, vintage toys, and baking fed his passion for the Easy-Bake Oven, which led to his 2013 retrospective, Light Bulb Baking: A History of the Easy-Bake® Oven.

Todd lives in Ottawa, Ontario and has been known to bake tiny treats for his friends and family.

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Fall Into Winter Romance Giveaway Hop

 

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Winter is the perfect time to curl up with a glass of wine and a good book! You can enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card below and also to win an ebook of the romance The Posse by Tawdra Kandle.  Visit all the blogs to enter to win fabulous prizes!

 

 

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Garrison’s Creed by Cristin Harber #BookReview

by Cristin Harber

A SPY RUNNING FOR HER LIFE
Nicola is an injured CIA agent on the run from a failed undercover operation. Her escape plan shatters when she slams into the man who buried her a decade ago. Cash Garrison. Her first and only love. Now, sexier than her best memory and cradling a sniper’s rifle, he has questions she can’t answer. Why was she alive? And armed?

AND THE MAN SHE COULD NEVER SEE AGAIN
Cash is an elite member of a black ops organization, The Titan Group. He thought Nicola died his senior year of college and swore off love to focus on a decade of military missions. But when she shows up behind enemy lines, bleeding out and wielding a weapon, his heart and mind are unsure how to proceed.

BATTLE BETRAYAL TO SAVE THEMSELVES
Titan and the CIA join forces to uncover a mole hidden in a network of international terrorists and homegrown mobsters, teaming Cash and Nicola again. They fight old wounds and re-ignite sparks while closing in on a double agent. When disaster strikes, Nicola’s hidden past makes her the hunted target and Cash’s best kill shot may not be enough to save them.

Review:

Oh my hot-men-goodness! I absolutely adored Winter’s Heat so couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one. It again follows a story centered on one member of the Titan group. Cash is sexy and funny. When he finds out the love of his life is alive and well when he had thought she had died 10 years earlier, he is stunned.

Nicola, the love interest, is one tough cookie.  She is working undercover and knows how to handle herself.  She had not planned on revealing herself to Cash or her family but circumstances beyond her control make her do just that.

They are thrown into unknown territory. It is 10 years later so they have both changed. But one thing hasn’t; their hot desire for each other.  And the author doesn’t make us wait to long to see that steaminess in action!

And don’t forget about the dangerous mission they have to work on together. Again, the author brings us action aplenty. Guns, explosives and even more hot men. And she sets it up for yet another adventure with a Titan man.

There are twists and turns and you never know what to expect next.  And did I mention hot sexy men?  If you like your sexiness with lots of action on the side, these books fit the bill perfectly. But be prepared to sit and read from start to finish, you will not be able to put it down.

 

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Meet the author:

Cristin Harber is an award-winning romantic suspense author. She lives outside Washington, DC with her husband, toddler, and English bulldog. Coming fall 2013, she’s expecting a baby and will debut her Titan series. Couple that with the holidays, and it’ll be a busy time of year. There’s a special place in her heart for the men and women who serve and protect. Since she can’t save the world alongside them, she’s content to write their happily ever after stories.

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Tough Love by Marcie A. Bridges #BookReview #Giveaway

Tough Love

Janessa knows she should run in the other direction when Brendan enters her life. Her squeaky-clean upbringing is in direct opposition to his piercings, a myriad of tattoos and the rumors that surround him. But she doesn’t run. Love, betrayal and lies become the foundation of their lives, but one heartbreaking confession makes Janessa question everything. After a devastating diagnosis, Janessa’s world crumbles around her. When she can no longer ignore the reality of who Brendan really is, she must choose between those who love her and the only one she has ever loved.

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 Review:

Every once and awhile, I read something really amazing. Like wow, how could that be possible?  As I am <ahem> a woman of a certain age, I kept thinking as I read this…NO!  Don’t do that, how could you do that? And then I brought myself back to when I was a young teenage girl.  I may not have been exactly like Janessa but the insecurity, oh boy, yes.  I remember feeling that for sure. Not pretty enough, not cool enough, not anything enough.  And then I could see Janessa and how this could have happened.

And I see it today, in women as well.  Women beaten down by domestic-violence, verbal abuse and think how could they let this be done to them?  The self-esteem issues we have as young girls certainly can continue to adulthood.

I can say I would never let that happen to me but I’m sure these women said the very same thing.

This is a brave book. More brave than I would ever be.  The author tells us everything Janessa was feeling and doing even though she knew in her heart it was wrong.  She has a loving family…friends…people around her who knew what was going on and tried to help her. But she was in love and couldn’t help herself. Although I sometimes wanted to yell no at Janessa, I couldn’t help but love her. She was just a girl who wanted to love and be loved.  Which is what we all want,.right?

This is a book I will share with my daughter and should be shared with all young people. It is a gritty, painful but beautiful story about how someone you believe loves you could manipulate you and treat you as less than you deserve. And portrayed in a way that is real. You can see the neighborhood, you are in her family, and you are back in high school again. It is a story of hope, love, and family above all and why it is a must read.

 

Marcie Bridges has always wanted to be a writer, from the time she started keeping a diary in seventh grade. Since then, she has earned a master’s degree in education from Cumberland University while teaching some wonderful children with special needs in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky.

While she will always bleed scarlet and gray (GO BUCKS!), she now lives south of Cincinnati with her husband and daughter. When Marcie isn’t writing, she can be found reading, watching her favorite TV shows, listening to music, or browsing her favorite websites.

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Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MarcieABridges

Twitter: @marcie_ann

Blog: http://marcieshrinks.blogspot.com/

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Dawning Apocalypse (Dream Slayer Series) – Jill Cooper

by Jill Cooper

Protection, murder, deception….

No one can know Natalie works for a supernatural protection agency and is charged with protecting Meadow’s Creek from vampires. But as their numbers swell, their presence doesn’t go unnoticed throwing her town under the microscope from the local government and the FBI.

Natalie’s job is pushed even further into the shadows where she must dodge the police, concerned citizens and even her own parents.

Meanwhile a deadly plague grips the town and Natalie suspects it’s more than just a hacking cough. While the stress of working overtime erodes her relationships she will race against time, illness, to face a familiar enemy, save an old friend, and stop an undead seize that wants nothing more than to suck Meadow’s Creek dry.

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Dream Slayer (Book 1)
Demon Royal (Book 2)
Dawning Apocolypse (Book 3)

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