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November Virtual Tour for MOTHERLAND: A Memoir by Paula Ramón translated by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue

From Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramón comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Journalist Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw their quality of life deteriorate. In her deeply personal new book MOTHERLAND: A Memoir, Ramón poignantly and eloquently recounts what it was like growing up in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez won his first election through his death and beyond. Translated by the talented Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue, MOTHERLAND will be published in English for the first time by Amazon Crossing on October 31, 2023.

“This book is a very personal story, but also very relatable to people who are trying to come to terms with who they are, their relationships to their families and their loyalties to their countries,” Ramón said. “I’m thrilled about this new English version because it allows me to share this story – mine and my country’s – with more people.”

MOTHERLAND is not a political book, but rather a poignant and sentimental search for one’s roots and for the answers to the often-asked questions: What defines us? Who are you in a new country? What truly matters?

By the time Ramón started high school in the 1990s, Venezuela was already experiencing turbulent times. The crisis got progressively worse. In the decades that followed, public services no longer functioned. Money lost its value. Eventually, her mother couldn’t afford to buy food, which was increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramón’s family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they loved.

In the end, it was Ramón’s mother, a widow, who stayed behind, loyal to the only home she’d ever known. In this heartbreaking mix of lived experience, family chronicle, and journalistic essay, Paula Ramón explores the anguish of her own relationships set against the staggering collapse of a country.

MOTHERLAND is a uniquely human account about the ties that bind—and the fragile concept of home.

Here’s the fantastic lineup of bloggers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along:

10/31 – We Love Big Books And We Cannot Lie

11/1 – Book Dragon 217

11/2 – Nurse Bookie

11/3 – Low Key Bookish

11/5 – We Break For Books

11/6 – Books and Coffee MX

11/7 – Bookish Spren

11/8 – My Bursting Book Bag

11/9 – Danish Mustard Reads

11/10 – Bookphile Belle

11/12 – Dog Mom Bookworm

11/13 – The Book Club Mom

11/14 – Momma Leighellen’s Book Nook

11/15 – Sue the Bookie

11/16 – Bookapotamus

11/17 – Angels Mom Reads

11/20 – Diaries of a Bibliophile

11/21 – Reading with Melann Rosenthal

11/22 – Suzy Approved Book Reviews

11/26 – Lexijava

11/27 – Gloriana Wong

11/27 – Literary Quicksand

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon Crossing, Memoir, OTRPR, Over the River Public Relations, Paula Ramon, translated literature, Venezuela

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October Virtual Tour for DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair by Rosa Lowinger

An illuminating debut memoir by a renowned conservator of art and architecture, DWELL TIME is an epic account of family, art, and the deterioration and restoration of both.

“A masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“DWELL TIME is as intellectually engaging as it is profoundly moving.” —Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year

“DWELL TIME is the story of a family, a mother-daughter relationship, but forged of what seems like new building materials entirely. An artist has many duties, among them to conserve the traditions and innovations of the past but also to ‘make it new.’ This memoir does just that, and delivers on its final promise, that of repair.” —Gary Shteyngart, the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure and novels that include Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and Our Country Friends

“It’s no exaggeration to call this book a work of genius. Weaving together her vast knowledge as an art conservator with the haunting intergenerational trauma of her Cuban Jewish family, Rosa Lowinger reveals how even when our world feels broken, repair is still possible. A stunning achievement!” —Ruth Behar, author of Letters from Cuba

In her moving and compulsively readable new memoir, DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Row House Publishing; October 10, 2023), Rosa Lowinger – a leading sculpture and architectural conservator, one of the few prominent Latinas in her field, as well as author of the award-winning Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub – interweaves the materials and science of her work with the story of her Jewish Cuban family and their state of double exile: from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and then Cuba in early 1961. Inspired by and structured similarly to Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, DWELL TIME is organized by chapters based on the materials Rosa handles in her private practice– Marble, Limestone, Bronze, Ceramics, Concrete, Silver, Wood, Mosaic, Paint, Aluminum, Terrazzo, Steel, Glass and Plastics. Lowinger offers insider accounts of conservation that form the backbone of a personal story about love and sacrifice that often centers on her efforts to deal with a charismatic and mercurial mother.

In this first memoir by a working art conservator, Lowinger not only offers insights into her unique line of work, but also beautifully juxtaposes repair of the material with repair of the personal. Her stories include memories of her trips back to her native Cuba, the country where she was born and which shaped her world view.

“How, I wondered, was it possible that no one in my family had ever told me that Havana, the place where we were from, was so closely aligned to my work?” Lowinger asks. “More importantly, how had I managed to reencounter this ornately decorated, sagging city at the precise moment when I was beginning to see a link between restoration of the material world and personal healing? The answer to these questions forms the basis for my memoir.”

Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen—immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and, in art conservation, the time it takes for a chemical to react with a material. The term is at the nexus between Lowinger’s art-and-science based vocation and her personal journey as an immigrant, employer, wife, mother, and the daughter of parents whose difficult personalities were shaped by the abrupt loss of their country and way of life.

Rosa Lowinger has written a captivating memoir that vividly demonstrates the power of family, art and repair.

We have a fantastic group of bloggers who will post reviews, features, excerpts and giveaways. We hope you will join us!:

Sunday, October 1 – Angels Mom Reads

Monday, October 2 – My Bursting Book Bag

Tuesday, October 3 – Reading with Mel Ann Rosenthal

Wednesday, October 4 – Lilacs and Literature

Thursday, October 5 – Sue the Bookie

Friday, October 6 – Book Review Crew

Friday, October 6 – Storeybook Reviews

Sunday, October 8 – We Love Big Books and We Cannot Lie

Monday, October 9 – Green Eyed Girl

Tuesday, October 10 – Nurse Bookie

Wednesday, October 11 – Karla Mendez

Thursday, October 12 – A Needle in my Bookstack

Friday, October 13 – Suzy Approved Book Reviews

Saturday, October 14 – Lexijava

Monday, October 16 – Gloriana Wong

Tuesday, October 17 – What Is That Book About

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Reviews & Features Tagged With: Art Conservation, Dwell Time, Jewish literature, Memoir, OTRPR, Over the River Public Relations, Rosa Lowinger, Row House Publishing

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Haunting Fall Virtual Book Tour for THE COURT OF SHADOWS by Victor Dixen: Sept. 19 – Oct. 19, 2023

“Supernatural alternate histories don’t come much more suspenseful or fully realized than this impressive series debut from Dixen…. Dixen excels at concocting unexpected detours and jaw-dropping cliffhangers. Anne Rice fans will be especially enthralled.” –Publishers Weekly

“With all of the intricacies of Castlevania, readers explore an alternate France where vampyres have taken over and are high nobility, while most humans are commoners…Fantasy fans who like their speculative fiction filled with vampyre aristocrats and plenty of twists along the way will enjoy taking a bite out of this series starter.” –Library Journal

“Victor Dixen’s THE COURT OF SHADOWS is an entirely original version of a world ruled by vampires. His protagonist, Jeanne, makes choices that are genuinely unpredictable as she seeks vengeance for the deaths of her family. I could not put this book down.” –Charlaine Harris, author of All the Dead Shall Weep

A fiery heroine seeks vengeance against a royal court of deadly vampires in this epic alternate history set in lavish Versailles.

Two-time winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Victor Dixen stands at the forefront historical horror fantasy in France. Now, thanks to an impeccable translation by Françoise Bui, English readers will have the opportunity to experience Dixen’s thrilling writing firsthand. THE COURT OF SHADOWS: Vampyria Saga Book One will be published in hardcover by Amazon Crossing on September 19, 2023.

Victor Dixen, who grew up in Versailles, has long been interested in the Grand Siècle, which shaped France into what it is today: centralization of power, development of architecture and the arts, the rise of gastronomy, and the art of living. It’s a pivotal moment in French history that brims with paradoxes. It’s the time of Descartes, of Pascal, and of the advent of reason, which prefigured the Age of Enlightenment. But paradoxically, it’s also an age of darkness, with an incredible resurgence of superstitions and of the occult. Witchcraft was never more practiced in France than under Louis XIV, while in Spain, the Inquisition reached its sinister apogee, and in America, suspected witches were burned in Salem.

In THE COURT OF SHADOWS, Dixen has composed a baroque and horrifying alternate history of this pivotal period in history. “Essentially, this story is a way for me to tackle an icon that has always fascinated me, the vampire,” says Dixen. “The vampire is, in fact, the supreme literary creation, truly immortal, always reborn from its ashes, from century to century, from book to book.” In writing THE COURT OF SHADOWS, Dixen was inspired by Anne Rice for her intoxicating Gothic ambiance and characters with psychological depth; Alexandre Dumas for his breadth of epic adventure; and Quentin Tarantino for his frenzied pacing, the eruption of “pop” patterns in the narrative, and psychological tension.

We have gathered an impressive group of bloggers who will post reviews, offer giveaways, share excerpts, and more, starting on September 19th, and we hope you will join us!

Tuesday, September 19 – LEXIJAVA

Tuesday, September 19 – MONIKA’S BOOK BLOG

Wednesday, September 20 – ELSIE QUAIL WRITES

Thursday, September 21 – BOOKS, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

Friday, September 22 – GREEN EYED GIRL 0704

Monday, September 25 – SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Tuesday, September 26 – DIVE INTO A GOOD BOOK

Wednesday, September 27 – TINA MAY READS

Thursday, September 28 – BOOKISH MARIE

Friday, September 29 – READING FOR THE SEASONS

Saturday, September 30 – MISS LARIS

Monday, October 2 – WHAT JESSIE READS

Monday, October 2 – PAPERBACK HART

Tuesday, October 3 – PUNKER’S FICTION READS

Tuesday, October 3 – NK LITERARY NERD

Tuesday, October 3 – NAAYTASH READS

Wednesday, October 4 – SUBAKKA BOOKSTUFF

Thursday, October 5 –  AMY’S BOOKET LIST

Friday, October 6 – NURSE BOOKIE

Monday, October 9  – TALI’S LIBRARY

Monday, October 9 – LIVING MY BEST BOOK LIFE

Monday, October 9 – MY BOOK COVE

Tuesday, October 10 – GONE WITH FLYNN

Tuesday, October 10 – JOYFUL READER

Wednesday, October 11 – CELIA McMAHON READS

Thursday, October 12 – BOOKS AND COFFEE MX

Friday, October 13 – DREAMING IN PAGES

Friday, October 13 – TANVIS READ VENTURES

Monday, October 16 – BOOKISH CORNERR

Monday, October 16 – BOOKPHENOMENA

Tuesday, October 17 – A LITTLE BIBLIO

Tuesday, October 17 – BOUVIE BOOKS

Wednesday, October 18 – THE BOY WHO READS BOOKS

Wednesday, October 18 – BOOKS AND BASILISKS

Thursday, October 19 – STEPH HORROR MAMA 03

Thursday, October 19 – BALANCING BOOKS AND BEAUTIES

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon Crossing, Dark Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, horror, Novels in translation, Vampyria, Vampyria Saga Book One, Victor Dixen

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Pub Week Virtual Book Tour for RAVAGE & SON by Jerome Charyn Aug 21 – 25

“Rollicking. . . . Ravage & Son brings New York City’s criminal underground to vibrant life.”

—Foreword Reviews

“Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights has nothing on Charyn’s Lower East Side. . . . A bold effort.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Charyn continues to deliver boisterous and flavorful prose.”

—Publishers Weekly

A master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan, available on August 22, 2023 from Bellevue Literary Press

Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror.

Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish “Mr. Hyde,” a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man.

A lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.

Below is our stellar group of bloggers who will share reviews and features and offer giveaways during publication week of August 21st:

Monday, August 21 – We Love Big Books And We Cannot Lie AND The Book Connection

Tuesday, August 22 – Bookphile Belle

Wednesday, August 23 – Nurse Bookie AND What Is That Book About

Thursday, August 24 – Sue the Bookie AND Andrea C. Lowry Reads

Friday, August 25 – Lit by Lilli AND The Book Decoder

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Books, Fiction, Reviews & Features, Uncategorized Tagged With: Jerome Charyn, Jewish fiction, Literary fiction, noir thriller, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations

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Join bestselling author Ann Garvin for the August Virtual Book Tour on behalf of her wonderful novel, THERE’S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS

“The show must go on” takes on a whole new meaning for one single mom in a witty and emotional novel by the USA Today bestselling author of I Thought You Said This Would Work, a Good Morning America May ‘21 recommended book!

“Ann Garvin’s genius lies in creating endearing, authentic women in the throes of midlife, and
THERE’S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS is another gem. Just when Poppy Lively thinks her life has bottomed out, life throws her one more plot twist, and this fifty-year-old single mom digs deep in her own Midwest Nice way to finally become the hero of her own life. Readers will cheer for Poppy, and her little dog Kevin, too!” –Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of THE HOMEWRECKERS and co-host of Friends & Fiction

Fans of Nora Ephron, Amy Poeppel, Maria Semple, Dolly Alderton, and Laura Zigman will relish Ann Garvin’s eagerly anticipated new novel, THERE’S NO COMING BACK FROM THIS (Lake Union Publishing; August 1, 2023). Bankrupt, Midwestern, Poppy Lively is a stowaway on a Los Angeles movie set, where she must stay hidden & prove her worth—or risk her beloved daughter’s future.

It seems lately that Poppy Lively is invisible to everyone but the IRS.

After her accountant absconded with her life savings, newly bankrupt Poppy is on the verge of losing her home when an old flame, now a hotshot producer, gives her a surprising way out: a job in costumes on a Hollywood film set. It’s a bold move to pack her bags, keep secrets from her daughter, and head to Los Angeles, but Poppy’s a capable person―how hard can a job in wardrobe be? It’s not like she has a choice; her life couldn’t get any worse. Even so, this Midwesterner has a lot to learn about the fast and loose world of movie stars, iconic costumes, and back-lot intrigue.

As a single mom, she’s rarely had time for watching movies, she doesn’t sew, and she doesn’t know a thing about dressing the biggest names in the business. Floundering and overlooked, Poppy has one ally: Allen Carol, an ill-tempered movie star taken with Poppy’s unfiltered candor and general indifference to stardom.

When Poppy stumbles upon corruption, she relies on everyone underestimating her to discover who’s at the center of it, a revelation that shakes her belief in humanity. What she thought was a way to secure a future for her daughter becomes a spotlight illuminating the facts: Poppy is out of her league among the divas of Tinseltown.

Poppy must decide whether to keep her mouth shut, as she’s always done, or with the help of a scruffy dog, show the moviemakers that they need her unglamorous ways, whether the superstars like it or not.

We have an enthusiastic group of bloggers who will be posting reviews, features, Q&As, excerpts and giveaways throughout August. We hope you will join us!

Tuesday, August 1 – BOOKAPOTAMUS

Wednesday, August 2 – SUE THE BOOKIE

Thursday, August 3 – BRIANA’S BEST READS

Friday, August 4 – NURSE BOOKIE

Monday, August 7 –  BOOKS N YOGA PANTS

Tuesday, August 8 – BOOKS LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

Wednesday, August 9 – NIKKI H ROSE

Thursday. August 10 – THE BOOK CLUB MOM

Friday, August 11 – SECRET READING LIFE

Friday, August 11 – LITERARY QUICKSAND 

Saturday, August 12 – PURRFECT PAGES

Sunday, August 13 – WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE 

Monday, August 14 – A BOOKWORM WITH WINE

Tuesday, August 15 – DANISH MUSTARD  READS

Wednesday, August 16 – TINA MAY READS 

Thursday, August 17 – MRS BOOM READS

Friday, August 18 – THE BOOK LOVER BOOK CLUB

Friday, August 18 – WE BREAK FOR BOOKS

Monday, August 21 – MEG’S BOOK CLUB

Tuesday, August 22 – SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Wednesday, August 23 – MOMMA LEIGHELLEN’S BOOK NOOK 

Thursday, August 24 – SUBAKKA BOOKSTUFF

Friday, August 25 – READING WITH MELANN ROSENTHAL 

Monday, August 28 – BOOKS AND COFFEE MX

Tuesday, August 29 – ANDREA C. LOWRY READS

Wednesday, August 30 – TEE’S BOOK JOURNEY

Wednesday, August 30 – ANGELA READS BOOKS

Thursday, August 31 – BOOKS WITH BETHANY

Thursday, August 31 – BOOK OBSESSIONS LINDA

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ann Garvin, Best August 2023 reads, book club fiction, Funny Sad novel, Lake Union Publishing, OTRPR, Over the River Public Relations, Summer reads 2023, Theres No Coming Back From This, Virtual book tour, Womens Fiction

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