Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood by Mona Andrei Book Tour and Giveaway! #iReadBookTours @MoxieDude @iReadBookTours@mona_andrei @iReadBookTours

 

Join Us For This Tour From Aug 8 to Aug 26 

 
Book Details:

Book Title:  Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood by Mona Andrei
Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 174 pages
Genre: HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family
Publisher: Cynren​ Press
​Publication Date: March 2021.
Tour dates: Aug 8 to Aug 26
Content Rating: PG-13: No violence, but a splattering of profanity (including the F-word) and discussion of bad marriages.

 

Book Description:
 

They put the tiny, red-faced bundle into her arms, and time stopped. She gazed at that puckered little face and whispered, Welcome to the world, baby girl. Little did she know that within weeks, she would become a single mother—not exactly what she had imagined for her daughters and herself, but exactly what needed to happen. This is the story of a single mother, but it’s more than that. Sometimes funny, sometimes reflective, it’s also your story—a story of that peculiar, trying, and wonderful state of motherhood.

In Superwoman: A Funny and Reflective Look at Single Motherhood, popular humor blogger Mona Andrei brings you her sage and snickery insights on being a single mom, with all its gore and glory. Through a series of interviews, you’ll also get a voyeuristic peek into the lives of other single mothers—and don’t we all love that feeling of Thank goodness, I’m not the only one! We’re all superwomen here.

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Mona Andrei’s adulting journey took an unexpected turn when she realized that the father of her children was not committed to the family they had started together. At the time, she was twenty-four years old. With a baby in her arms and a toddler in tow, she soon realized that everything had fallen on her shoulders, including any chance for a secure future for her and her girls. With humor and candor as her strongest tools for survival, she went from struggling single mother to accomplished wordsmith to member of an award-winning advertising team to top 100 humor blogger. Today, she continues her journey, writing and speaking about her experiences as a single mother with a focus on changing the way that single mothers are respected and appreciated in the workplace: a win–win for both.

​connect with the author: website ~ blog ~ twitter ~ facebook ~  instagram ~ goodreads

Tour Schedule:

​Aug 8 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 8 - Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 9 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 10 – The Momma Spot – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 11 – Paws.Read.Repeat – book spotlight / author interview
Aug 12 - Rockin' Book Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 12 – Hall Ways Blog – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Aug 15 – Splashes of Joy – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 15 - Lamon Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 – Amy’s Booket list – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 - Westveil Publishing - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 16 - A Mama's Corner of the World - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 17 – She Just Loves Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 18 – The Phantom Paragrapher – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 19 – Celticlady's Reviews – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 22 – Reading Authors Network – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 22 - Stephanie Jane - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 23 – Literary Flits – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Aug 24 – GeauxGetLit – book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 24 - Books are a Blessing - book spotlight / giveaway
Aug 25 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Aug 26 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Aug 26 - Novels Alive - book spotlight / giveaway

 

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Superwoman: by Mona Andrei Book Tour Giveaway

 

Alias Emma by Ava Glass Book Review! #AliasEmma #NetGalley

 

Emma Makepeace is about to spend the longest night in her life.

In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed?

Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name.
 
A newly-minted secret agent, Emma’s barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth, she dives in head-first.
 
Emma must covertly travel across one of the world’s most watched cities to bring the reluctant—and handsome—son of Russian dissidents into protective custody, so long as the assassins from the Motherland don’t find him first. With London’s famous Ring of Steel hacked by the Russian government, the two must cross the city without being seen by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city’s streets, alleys, and gutters.
 
Buses, subways, cars, and trains are out of the question. Traveling on foot, and operating without phones or bank cards that could reveal their location or identity, they have twelve hours to make it to safety. This will take all of Emma’s skills of disguise and subterfuge. But when Emma’s handler goes dark, there’s no one left to trust. And just one wrong move will get them both killed.

KILLING EVE meets JAMES BOND in the first novel of the ALIAS EMMA series: a thrilling, cinematic page-turner starring the most likeable and resourceful of heroines.

AVA GLASS is a former crime reporter and civil servant. Her time working for the government introduced her to the world of spies, and she's been fascinated by them ever since. She lives in the south of England. 

https://www.avaglass.uk/

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My Thoughts

Meet Emma Makepeace, who just graduated from training from the "Agency" and gets her first real assignment. Her task, protect a young doctor, Michael Primalov. The Russians are after him and his family, in particular his mother, a former Russian scientist, who defected years ago. He fights this protection, claiming he does not need it, but after certain events, he reluctantly agrees to work with Emma.

Emma is an eager spy, who is determined to protect her charge with all that she has. The Russians are ruthless, not afraid to kill them both. She needs to get the young doctor to the offices of MI6 before daybreak. It will end up being the longest night of her life. They dodge the Russians at every turn and seem to be one step ahead of them, but the Russians always seem to find them. How can that be? Someone hacked the CCTV cameras all over London.

Along with following the steps that Emma and Michael need to follow to other to where they need to be, the reader learns more about Emma and her past and why she wanted to be a spy. Not only that, she is not sure who she can trust at MI6.

It is always helpful when an author knows about what they write. Ava knows her way around the spy culture and it shows in her writing. I really enjoyed this novel, fast-paced. lots of action, spies, bullets flying. Can they make it to MI? Well, you will just have to go get a copy of the book and read it for yourself!

I rate it 4 stars

I received a copy of the book for review purposes only!

Walks by Big Alex's Pond by Henry Van Berkel Book Tour and Giveaway!

 

Walks by Big Alex's Pond

by Henry Van Berkel

GENRE: Autobiography (Nature)

BLURB:

Ten years after Big Alex MacDonald leaves his home in Ashdale, Nova Scotia, in the 1880's to find his fortune, he amasses fabulous wealth almost overnight in the Yukon and becomes known as "the King of the Klondike". At his death a decade later, there is not enough money in his estate to cover expenses. What happened to his immense riches? A century after Alex's departure from Nova Scotia, the author purchases "Big Alex's" family land and finds his own El Dorado amongst the riches of friends, neighbours and family, and the endless fascinations of nature. On hikes along the roads of the historic property he muses about the drama of his own past, and the life journeys of his family members and those of his neighbours.

EXCERPT

I helped my son, David, build his cabin in the late eighties when he was still a teenager. David picked the location, and we constructed it: twelve feet by sixteen feet, out of rough spruce lumber purchased from Teasdale’s mill in North Grant, with two-by-six floor joists, two-by-four studding and rafters, and one- inch boards of assorted widths to cover it in. Inside, we built a half ceiling seven feet from the floor to make a loft. We found some used windows and an old door, put in two windows facing the pond, one window on the opposite wall, a window with hinges to allow it to swing open at the end of the loft, and a doorway facing the road. On the inside, we insulated all the walls and roof and then boarded the entire interior with rough boards.

My niece, Janine (Thomson) Wilson, in Skye Glen, Cape Breton, had an old-fashioned kitchen range for sale. David and I went down with my truck to pick it up. On the way, I got a speeding ticket in Whycocomagh. Back by the pond we cut a sixteen-inch square hole in the wall three feet from a corner, built a box around it, fashioned an eight-inch chimney pipe to hang in the middle of the hole, and then filled the hole with concrete. We set the stove on a steel sheet and secured steel sheets on the walls behind the stove. There was plenty of old furniture around our house to provide the simple needs of the cabin.

Everything for rustic living was now in place. Well, not everything. We needed a toilet. Back to the mill for more rough lumber. We cleared a spot in the woods about 50 feet away, dug a hole and constructed an old-fashioned outhouse. Just a one-seater.

I never stayed in the cabin overnight, but David did, frequently alone. He loved the solitude. To tell the truth, I was a bit afraid of staying in such an isolated place in the woods by myself at night. We were still living on Ponderosa Drive, in a subdivision on the outskirts of town, and the cabin on Big Alex’s pond was fourteen kilometres away, a half kilometre into the woods and a half kilometre from the nearest house, the old farmhouse.

One storming winter night, Elaine was still tossing and turning in bed at twelve o’clock, an hour after we had retired. David had gone out to the cabin a couple of days before. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “Worried about David?”

“Yes,” she said. “It’s such a miserable, stormy night, and he’s out there all by himself.”

I knew what I would have to do, though I didn’t feel much like it. 

“Okay,” I said, doing my best to hide my reluctance. “I’ll go out to get him.”

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AUTHOR Bio and

Ten years after Big Alex MacDonald leaves his home in Ashdale, Nova Scotia, in the 1880's to find his fortune, he amasses fabulous wealth almost overnight in the Yukon and becomes known as "the King of the Klondike". At his death a decade later, there is not enough money in his estate to cover expenses. What happened to his immense riches? A century after Alex's departure from Nova Scotia, the author purchases "Big Alex's" family land and finds his own El Dorado amongst the riches of friends, neighbours and family, and the endless fascinations of nature. On hikes along the roads of the historic property he muses about the drama of his own past, and the life journeys of his family members and those of his neighbours.

Links:

Connect with Henry Van Berkel

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/walksbybigalexspond/ 

GOODREADS https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50277404-walks-by-big-alex-s-pond 

Get a copy of Walk by Big Alex's Pond

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Charleston Conundrum: A Liz Adams Mystery by Stacy Wilder Book Tour and Giveaway!

Charleston Conundrum: A Liz Adams Mystery
by Stacy Wilder

About Charleston Conundrum

Charleston Conundrum: A Liz Adams Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – South Carolina
Wild Hawk Press (January 15, 2022)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 235 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8985426618
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QK1CWJY

A Cozy Mystery With a Twist…

Liz Adams never imagined when she moved to Charleston with her truth sniffing Labrador retriever, Duke, that she would use her skills as a private investigator to avoid winding up on Death Row. 

Liz’s life is upended when her best friend, Peg, is murdered and she becomes a suspect.Liz’s gun was the murder weapon. Tensions flare between Liz and the cops as she rises to the top of their suspect list. 

At the request of Peg’s father, Liz agrees to take on the investigation. Riding a roller coaster of emotions, Liz uncovers many secrets Peg kept from her despite their being best friends. The suspects include a cast of characters: the ex-husband, the boyfriend, a coworker, several neighbors, and family members.

Charleston Conundrum takes the reader from Charleston, South Carolina, to Paris and back in the emotional unraveling of Peg’s life and death to a killer ending.

About Stacy Wilder

Stacy writes mysteries, children’s stories, short stories, and poetry. Her debut novel, Charleston Conundrum, is the first in the Conundrum mystery series.

Stacy’s mission is to deliver a delightful story to readers of all ages while benefiting a larger community. She donates a portion of the proceeds from the sales of her books to causes that support wildlife conservation, and the homeless, both people and pets. A portion of the proceeds from Charleston Conundrum are donated to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

As well as writing, Stacy is passionate about her faith, family, Labradors, the causes that she supports, the beach, art, and reading books.

She and her husband live in Houston, Texas with a totally spoiled Labrador retriever, Eve.

Author Links

• Website – www.storystacy.com
• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/wilderstacy
• Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/authorstacywilder/
• YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j63f0qJdJYE

Purchase Links – Amazon – B&N – Google – Blue Willow Bookshop – Murder by the Book ‘

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

August 15 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

August 15 – Christa Reads and Writes – REVIEW

August 16 – Cozy Up With Kathy – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

August 16 – The Mystery Section – SPOTLIGHT WITH RECIPE

August 16 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews – REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 17 – I Read What You Write – GUEST POST

August 17 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT

August 17 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

August 18 – Celticlady’s Reviews – SPOTLIGHT WITH RECIPE

August 18 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – SPOTLIGHT WITH PLAYLIST

August 18 – Nellie’s Book Nook – REVIEW  

August 19 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT

August 19 – Literary Gold – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

August 20 – #BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog – SPOTLIGHT

August 20 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW, GUEST POST

August 20 – Sneaky the Library Cat’s blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 21 – Lady Hawkeye – SPOTLIGHT

August 21 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT

August 22 – Books Blog – SPOTLIGHT

August 22 – Brooke Blogs – SPOTLIGHT

August 22 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW

August 23 – Mysteries with Character – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

August 23 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

August 23 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

August 24 – BookishKelly2020 – SPOTLIGHT

August 24 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

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