#MMBBR #Review #PopUpBlogTour #LyingtoChildren @AlexShahla @BookSpark #FitzwildeLLC

"The flawless celebration of the quintessential suburban family and raising children, Lying to Children is perfect for fans of Tom Perrota, Jonathan Tropper and Nora Ephron. It'll have you experiencing happiness, laughter, sadness, heartache, and every emotion in between." --Redbook

A fictional father writes letters to his college-aged daughter and son remembering events, large and small, from their family's past in the poignant and hilarious Lying to Children. In this collection of sometimes outrageous, sometimes sad, often heartwarming interconnected vignettes, author Alex Shahla enters the fray with a delightful confessional celebration of family life told in stories from a dad's unique perspective. Centered around the untruths parents regularly tell their kids in an effort to protect (or silence) them--from "Daddy Loves his Job" to "There's a Jolly Fat Man who Brings You Presents (Assembly Required)" --Lying to Children is an unforgettable familial history filled with laughter, tears, and life lessons, and brimming over with a somewhat-less-than-perfect suburban dad's unwavering love.

#FirstLine - 1 DADDY LOVES HIS JOB  

Kids, I have not always been the happy-go-lucky man -- who, I grant you, is neither overtly happy or terribly go-lucky, but who instead worries about everything, including the impending zombie apocalypse, the very real threat of thermonuclear war, and the gag reflex induced by expired milk 

-- you know today as your father.  

REVIEW:  This book is so fantastic.  I adored it, devoured it and savored it.  I loved it cover to cover and thought it was brilliant, funny, real and humorous, as well as, delightful, fun and inspiring.  I was laughing, crying and felt nothing short of adoration for this gift of a book.  I think it is special and I am left wanting more!

#PopUpBlogTour via @booksparks @AlexShahla

Alex is a recovering lawyer living and writing in Los Angeles. 
Lying to Children is his debut novel.

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#MMBBR #Review #FirstLine #BringHerHome @DavidBellNovels @BerkleyPub

In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Awayand Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father’s worst nightmare.... 

Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Summer, and her best friend, Haley, disappear. Days later, the girls are found in a city park. Haley is dead at the scene, while Summer is left beaten beyond recognition and clinging to life.

As Bill holds vigil over Summer’s bandaged body, the only sound the unconscious girl can make is one cryptic and chilling word: No. And the more time Bill spends with Summer, the more he wonders what happened to her. Or if the injured girl in the hospital bed is really his daughter at all.

When troubling new questions about Summer’s life surface, Bill is not prepared for the aftershocks. He’ll soon discover that both the living and the dead have secrets. And that searching for the truth will tear open old wounds that pierce straight to the heart of his family...

#FirstLine ~ Bill Price stepped into the whirling chaos of the emergency room.

I loved this book.  Cover to cover it was amazing.  I found myself staying up late last night to finish.  I wanted to devour it and I wanted it to last forever at the very same time.  It had some very unsuspecting twists and turns that I was both thrilled by and floored by.  There was nothing I did not love in this book.  I cannot stress enough how much I loved this book.  It was told in a way that keeps you fully engaged, heart racing and holding your breath and leaves you so fully satisfied!  Amazing....so impressive and wonderful.  I want this book on the big screen...like now!  

David Bell is the bestselling and award-winning author of seven novels from Berkley/Penguin: BRING HER HOME, SINCE SHE WENT AWAY, SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, THE FORGOTTEN GIRL, NEVER COME BACK, THE HIDING PLACE, and CEMETERY GIRL. He is an Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky and can be reached through his website www.davidbellnovels.com.

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#MMBBR #Review #The8HourSleepParadox by #DrMarkBurhenne #MaxVeraPublishing

The #1 Amazon Best Seller
Could you be living with an undiagnosed disease that is making you fat, tired, grumpy, unproductive and depressed?

If you...

• Wake up exhausted every morning, even though you're getting your 7-8 hours
• Blame your lack of energy on your busy lifestyle or getting older...
• Have been told your snoring sounds like a freight train...
• Grind or clench your teeth...
• Are truly terrified to give up coffee...

You may be one of the 42 million Americans battling the most urgent epidemic of our time--sleep apnea. (Of those 42 million, up to 90% of them have no idea they aren't getting quality sleep.)

The good news: The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox can get you feeling better than you thought possible.

Dr. Mark Burhenne is a dentist with a 30-year old practice based in California. The day his wife, a healthy petite woman, received her sleep apnea diagnosis was the day he began learning everything he could about sleep breathing.

Why would a dentist write about sleep? The signs of sleep-disordered breathing show up first in the mouth, jaw and face. Which means that now, most dentists are screening disordered breathing at every six-month check up.

Dr. Burhenne has helped millions of people get the best sleep of their lives through his blog, AsktheDentist.com. Today, as a way to end the epidemic, he wants to help you too with his proven 3-step system.

The 8-Hour Paradox is not just a book to be read. It's a new way of sleeping and a new way of living.

"There are few iron laws of the universe, but here's one: if you want to be happier, healthier, and more productive, you need to get enough sleep. The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox will help you improve the quality of your sleep, so you'll feel more alive than ever."
--Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project

"I can't stress enough how important this book is for understanding why you need quality sleep, what the pitfalls or correctable problems may be that are preventing you from getting it, and what you can do about it. I highly recommend you read it and get yourself feeling better than you thought possible."
--Eva Selhub, MD, Harvard Medical School Lecturer in Medicine and author of Your Health Destiny

This is a great look at how sleep is affecting your life in a huge way.  There is so much about how much and how well you sleep and its connection to every other thing in your life.  Not everyone is made the same, therefore everyone needs things specific to them as individuals.  Sleep is one of the things that is most important.  This book is perfect for helping you create the life you want and to wain off fatigue, disease and unhappiness.   It is easy to follow and allows anyone to do better for themselves and to find a way to sleep their way to a better self.  

#MMBBR #Review #TheBufferZoneDiet by @FredCuellar #MaxVeraPublishing

WHAT'S YOUR LIFE WORTH?

When you're drowning, the last thing you do before you go unconscious is take a breath. The carbon dioxide rises so much in your blood it overpowers the last few molecules of oxygen in your body. You reach your breaking point, then you inhale. I inhaled food my whole life and I reached my breaking point in my battle with weight loss.

Right at the moment I was ready to give up, I had some last thoughts:

What if there were things I believed that weren't true? What if calories in and calories out had exceptions? What if we don't all metabolize food the same? Why can't we successfully lose weight and keep it off? I had to find out - my life depended on it. In my quest to break my weight loss code, the Buffer Zone is the space where I found my truth. 

The Buffer Zone diet is the answer to all of these questions and more. In this book you will learn:

·         The Top Ten lies we've been told about our diet
·         Tips for distinguishing between emotional hunger and physical hunger
·         How to create nutrient-dense meals to keep physical hunger at bay
·         Science between weight loss and weight gain 
·         Five distinct blueprints for designing the new and healthiest you 
·         Strategies for breaking through weight loss plateaus 
·         The Four Laws of Weight Management 
·         And most importantly, the formula that regulates weight for the human body!

No matter where you are in your weight-loss journey or quest for a healthy lifestyle The Buffer Zone Diet is a must-read to help you get started on a path to success!

A great book for those that want to make healthier choices.  It is important to focus on where you are at and where you want to go from there.  This book helps anyone figure out how to eat better, exercise more effectively and live a better life for yourself.  This book will be the focus of my future fitness and diet plan.  My friend and I are going to really buckle down and this book will help us find the path to a better and more fulfilling life.  I highly recommend this book no matter where you are on your fitness journey.  

Fred Cuellar has distinguished himself in various fields. He is one of the world’s top diamond experts, a three-time Guinness Book record holder in jewelry design, a consultant to investment and financial firms, and a best-selling author. His clients include the Dallas Cowboys, the Denver Broncos, the Detroit Redwings, plus celebrities associated with Lionsgate and the Rubik’s Brand. His personal commitment to making a difference in people’s lives has taken him on a journey into the world of obesity, and his discoveries not only saved his life but can save yours.

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#MMBBR #Review #BigBookofWHY #ActivityBook #TIMEforKidsBigBooks by @timeforkids

Hours of fun await kids with this must-have activity book based on the bestseller, TIME for Kids Big Book of Why.

Hidden pictures, dot-to-dot, mazes, trivia, crosswords, and funny fill-ins are just some of the engrossing activities readers will find in this full-color game book jam-packed with more than 300 photographs and illustrations. Like picture puzzles? Try finding an out-of-place cell phone in a famous Civil War photograph. Think you know about tornadoes? Figure out this word scramble and learn even more! Love word searches? There's one based on the theme of every chapter in the popular book TIME For Kids Big Book of Why. Whether kids are on a summer family road trip, on the plane to grandma's house, or settling into a bunk at sleepaway camp, the Big Book of Why Activity Book is the perfect companion.

Featured topics include sports, animals, history, science, tech, and more! The dozens of different activities include hidden pictures, mazes, word search, trivia Q-and-A, funny fill-ins, dot-to-dot, crosswords, coloring pages, and pictograms.

This book is quite speculator!  Within this amazing activity book there are tons of the coolest activities to grab your child's attention and to keep them busy over the second part of summer.  While you peruse the book you can look through the sections and complete the activities that interest you the most.  The sections are: Animals, Earth, Space, Humans, Around the World, History, Science, Technology and Sports.  When this book arrived my son was instantly working his way through the book...all I heard was "Did you know that...." followed by some amazing factoids and "Wow, look at this..." followed by me looking at some crazy cool things and watching him do some really cool activities.  He was not only learning, but was also engaging his brain with various types of activities like;  hidden pictures, mazes, word search, trivia Q-and-A, funny fill-ins, dot-to-dot, crosswords, coloring pages, and pictograms.  These are the type of books that capture the attention of young readers because they are designed with kids in mind.  I love that I can trust that my child will be learning interesting and important facts and that their attention will be captured over the summer with this book.  Every time you open it up you read and do activities you learn something new. This will be a book for my boys over the summer!

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#MMBBR #Review #TheEndofTemperanceDare by @wendywebbauthor #LakeUnionPublishing @AmazonPub

Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.

When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.” After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them.

But from her first fog-filled moments on the manor’s grounds, Eleanor is seized by a sense of impending doom and realizes there’s more to the institution than its reputation of being a haven for creativity. After the arrival of the new fellows―including the intriguing, handsome photographer Richard Banks―she begins to suspect that her predecessor chose the group with a dangerous purpose in mind. As the chilling mysteries of Cliffside Manor unravel and the eerie sins of the past are exposed, Eleanor must fight to save the fellows—and herself—from sinister forces.

Wow, just wow.  I adored this book.  It was creepy and deep and brilliant and so Webb.  She has such a way with building a sense of time and place.  She knows how to bring out the creeps with such a stunning story.  She can grab you, and engage you and make sure that the reader is left fully satisfied.  You will have thrills, you will dream about the story and it will leave you craving more.  Another brilliant read from a master of the Gothic tales.

Wendy Webb is the bestselling author of four novels of gothic suspense, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, The Fate of Mercy Alban, The Vanishing and The End of Temperance Dare. Since her stories are set in the Great Lakes region, reviewers are calling her the Queen of the Northern Gothic.

Wendy lives in Minneapolis with her dog Zeus, and she's at work on her next novel.

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#MMBBR #Highlight #FirstLine #TheWatcher by @Rarmstrongbooks @harpercollinsuk @hqstories @mushenka @hamiltonhodell #WillTNT

#FirstLine ~ I look in her direction.  

She’s watching you, but who’s watching her?

Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours.

Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat.

But can Lily really trust everything she sees?