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The Evidence of Flossing; What We Leave Behind  Poems by Jennifer A. Payne About the Book: Part social commentary, part lament, the 73 poems in Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind are, at their heart, love poems to the something greater within all of us. Their investigation of the human condition and its folly — politics, religion, development, technology, consumerism — is juxtaposed to a series of poems about our natural world and the possibility of divine connection. Poetry + Trash Ask Readers to Consider “What is our legacy in this vast and wondrous Universe?” Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection? Explore the answers to these questions and more in Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind , a new book by Connecticut author/artist Jen Payne. A timely publication given the state of our world, Evidence of Flossing is more than a simple poetry chapbook. Its pages are illustrated by a random, absurd, and heartbreaking assor...

Run out and grab a copy of Naked Joy. I'll wait... while I'm waiting I'm going to grab a cup of coffee and leaf through the mail... do you have your copy? wait, what...you aren't coming back because you can't put down this fabulous read? I get it! About the book: What do you know about Idaho other than potatoes or maybe that Ernest Hemingway killed himself here? NAN KILMER BAKER grew up in this sparsely populated northwestern state, a skittish Catholic raised in a town full of eccentric characters who intrigued her enough to write about them years later. Welcome to NAKED JOY, where the author’s heroine AUNT MILLIE raises peacocks, sews an elaborate wardrobe for her detergent bottles, campaigns for JESUS and ignores her sinister husband. Tortured by her mother’s hideous shoes and insensitivity, BAKER is traumatized when before she knows the word “cancer,” the town surgeon cuts off her neighbor CLAIRE’S right leg. An unforgettable visit to the prostheti...

Dr. Leona Stucky’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF The Fog of Faith Stops today at Bring on Lemons with an inspirational guest post! The Fog of Faith SURVIVING MY IMPOTENT GOD Paperback: 340 pages Genre: Memoir Publisher: Prairie World Press (May 25, 2017) ISBN-10: 099864742X ISBN-13: 978-0998647425 Amazon Link: click here About the Book: After the trauma of a savage attack, a farm girl recovers physically, but her identity, faith, and relationships are shattered. This is the true story of Leona Stucky’s childhood on a Kansas farm, surrounded by a loving family and the simple tenets of her Mennonite community. Violence enters her world in the guise of a young man who seems normal to everyone else but who Leona knows to be deranged in his obsession with her. His unrelenting abuses take root, and Leona must deal with them utterly alone. Her pacifist father cannot avenge or protect her, nor can a callous justice system. Even God is impotent. Leona is ...

About Burtrum Lee: Coated with a life of lies and deceit, Burtrum Lee Conner is sick to her stomach. Dozens of times throughout her life the feeling of not being who she is has tormented her. But she kept it to herself, believing that maybe it’s just a chemical imbalance of some kind considering she is one of the first artificially-inseminated babies of the 1960s. Now, there’s more though, something much deeper, much more maniacal than she could have ever imagined. She’s not the first test tube baby at all, but the first… Burtrum Lee Conner, born into a world of scientific mystery, discovers that the life she’s been leading for the past forty years, is the wrong one. Her parents, Jed and Jane Conner, stealing her as an infant, brought Lee up as their own. Even her devoted grandmother, Clair Conner, kept this secret close to her chest until they were found out. And now, Lee Conner’s biological mother, Katie Lee, wants her back, but not before the diabolical Dr. Stone has his say. ...

Dr. Leona Stucky’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF The Fog of Faith Stops today at Bring on Lemons with a book spotlight! The Fog of Faith SURVIVING MY IMPOTENT GOD Paperback: 340 pages Genre: Memoir Publisher: Prairie World Press (May 25, 2017) ISBN-10: 099864742X ISBN-13: 978-0998647425 Amazon Link: click here About the Book: After the trauma of a savage attack, a farm girl recovers physically, but her identity, faith, and relationships are shattered. This is the true story of Leona Stucky’s childhood on a Kansas farm, surrounded by a loving family and the simple tenets of her Mennonite community. Violence enters her world in the guise of a young man who seems normal to everyone else but who Leona knows to be deranged in his obsession with her. His unrelenting abuses take root, and Leona must deal with them utterly alone. Her pacifist father cannot avenge or protect her, nor can a callous justice system. Even God is impotent. Leona is cast into a bewilderi...

Dr. Leona Stucky’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF The Fog of Faith Stops today at Bring on Lemons with a review by Michelle DelPonte 5 Star Review: In so many ways, I am speechless. The life that Dr. Leona Stucky has not only survived, but thrived with, is astounding. “The Fog of Faith Surviving My Impotent God” has taken me on a roller coaster ride of emotions that I never expected to feel. There were to many nights that I simply could not put the book down, and stayed up all night. I have reread numerous chapters in complete disbelief of what I had just read. I found myself in shock and horror, yet encouragement, love, and most importantly hope. While I know these events took place years ago, I still find myself praying for Dr. Leona and her family, including the man who nearly took everything away from her. As a Christian and caregiver, I believe that prayer has a power to move mountains. Why is it that in times of strife, we turn from Him instead of towards Him? Dr. ...

Dr. Leona Stucky’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF The Fog of Faith Stops today at Bring on Lemons with a review by Crystal J. Casavant-Otto 5 Star Review: The provocative title of Dr. Stucky's book scared me a bit. Ok, it scared me a lot; the word impotent in reference to God stopped me in my tracks. I'm a Lutheran and and active in my faith and my religion and the title of this book is very provocative but was off-putting for me at first. I know how important it is to follow the age old rule of "don't judge a book by it's cover" and in this case, I didn't stop at the title of Dr. Stucky's book. I cracked the cover and dug right in without letting my own ideas, religion, and background stand in my way. I'm certainly glad I read this book and it didn't take long for me to really appreciate the path Dr. Stucky has traveled. I've never thought of my God as helpless, and yet as I read page after page, I couldn't imagine a more fitting t...

Thank you  for another great WOW! Women On Writing book blog tour! Date: October 30th through December 1st 2017 Location: WOW! Women on Writing Blog and Beyond!!!  Book Title: Free Will Odyssey Author: Larry Kilham Details Print Length: 158 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Publisher: FutureBooks.info (August 27, 2017) Publication Date: August 27, 2017 Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC Language: English ASIN: B07566LDCQ We worked together with  WOW! Women on Writing  on this fun book blog tour! The tour will began October 30th with a giveaway and author interview on the WOW! Blog ( the Muffin ), and runs for a month. If you are interested in reading and reviewing Free Will Odyssey by Larry Kilham, please email: crystal@wow-womenonwriting.com as soon as possible! About the Book:  Peter Tesla, a prodigious young inventor, develops an electronic device to enhance the user’s free will. A major application is drug detoxificati...

About the Book:  The Jews of Aleppo, Syria, had been part of the city’s fabric for more than two thousand years, in good times and bad, through conquerors and kings. But in the middle years of the twentieth century, all that changed. To Selim Sutton, a merchant with centuries of roots in the Syrian soil, the dangers of rising anti-Semitism made clear that his family must find a new home. With several young children and no prospect of securing visas to the United States, he devised a savvy plan for getting his family out: “exporting” his sons. In December 1940, he told the two oldest, Meïr and Saleh, that arrangements had been made for their transit to Shanghai, where they would work in an uncle’s export business. China, he hoped, would provide a short-term safe harbor and a steppingstone to America. But the world intervened for the young men, now renamed Mike and Sal by their Uncle Joe. Sal became ill with tuberculosis soon after arriving and was sent back to Aleppo alone....

About the Book:  The Jews of Aleppo, Syria, had been part of the city’s fabric for more than two thousand years, in good times and bad, through conquerors and kings. But in the middle years of the twentieth century, all that changed. To Selim Sutton, a merchant with centuries of roots in the Syrian soil, the dangers of rising anti-Semitism made clear that his family must find a new home. With several young children and no prospect of securing visas to the United States, he devised a savvy plan for getting his family out: “exporting” his sons. In December 1940, he told the two oldest, Meïr and Saleh, that arrangements had been made for their transit to Shanghai, where they would work in an uncle’s export business. China, he hoped, would provide a short-term safe harbor and a steppingstone to America. But the world intervened for the young men, now renamed Mike and Sal by their Uncle Joe. Sal became ill with tuberculosis soon after arriving and was sent back to Aleppo alone....