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Book Title: Bringing in Finn
Author: Sara
Connell (Seal Press Pub. October 2013)
Genre: Memoir
/ Family
WOW! Blog Tour Dates: 10/21/2013-11/21/2013
Book Hashtag: #BIFinn
Book Details:
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Hardcover: 336 pages
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Publisher: Seal Press (August 28, 2012)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1580054102
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ASIN: B00BJYM6IU
Book Summary: Bringing in Finn is an incredibly moving story of surrogacy and how it
created a bond like no other between a mother and daughter
In February 2011, 61-year-old Kristine Casey delivered the
greatest gift of all to her daughter, Sara Connell: Sara’s son, Finnean. At
that moment, Kristine—the gestational carrier of Sara and her husband Bill’s
child—became the oldest woman ever to give birth in
Chicago. Bringing in Finn: An Extraordinary Surrogacy
Story tells this modern family’s remarkable surrogacy story.
After trying to conceive naturally without success, Sara and her
husband Bill dedicated years to a variety of fertility treatments—but after
Sara lost a third pregnancy (including the loss of twins at twenty-two weeks),
they started to give up their hope. When Kristine offered to be their
surrogate, they were shocked; but Kristine was clear that helping Sara become a
mother felt like a calling, something she felt inspired to do.
In this achingly honest memoir, Connell recounts the tragedy and
heartbreak of losing pregnancies; the process of opening her heart and mind to
the idea of her sixty-one-year-old mother carrying her child for her; and the
profound bond that blossomed between mother and daughter as a result of their
unique experience together.
Bringing in Finn is the true story of a couple who wanted
nothing more than to have a family and a mother who would do anything for her
daughter. After unsuccessfully trying to conceive naturally, years of fertility
treatments, miscarriage and a late term loss of twins, Sara and Bill Connell
were emotionally and financially depleted and at a loss as to how they could
have a family. When Sara’s mother Kristine offered to be their surrogate, the
three embark on the journey that would culminate in Finnean’s miraculous birth
and complete a transformation of their at-one-time strained mother-daughter
relationship. - See more at: http://www.saraconnell.com/books/#sthash.2dbPO5eJ.dpuf
Bringing in Finn is the true story of a couple who wanted
nothing more than to have a family and a mother who would do anything for her
daughter. After unsuccessfully trying to conceive naturally, years of fertility
treatments, miscarriage and a late term loss of twins, Sara and Bill Connell
were emotionally and financially depleted and at a loss as to how they could
have a family. When Sara’s mother Kristine offered to be their surrogate, the
three embark on the journey that would culminate in Finnean’s miraculous birth
and complete a transformation of their at-one-time strained mother-daughter
relationship. - See more at: http://www.saraconnell.com/books/#sthash.2dbPO5eJ.dpuf
Author Bio:
Sara
Connell is an author, speaker and life coach with a private practice in
Chicago. She is a frequent contributor in the media and has appeared on Oprah,
NPR, WGN, FOX News Chicago- upcoming: Good Morning America, Nightline an The
View. Sara's writing has been featured in: Elle Magazine, Good Housekeeping,
Parenting, Psychobabble, Evolving Your Spirit and Mindful Metropolis magazines.
Her first book- Bringing in Finn; an Extraordinary Surrogacy story- nominated
for Book of the Year 2012 by Elle Magazine- is Sara's first book. (Sept 4, 2012
Seal Press)
Finding Sara online:
Book Title: Home World
Author: Bonnie
Milani
Genre: Science
Fiction / Fantasy
WOW! Blog Tour Dates: 11/18/2013-12/23/2013
Book Hashtag: #HWorld
Book Summary:
Amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Waikiki, Jezekiah Van Buren
thinks he’s found a way to restore Earth – Home World to the other worlds of
the human Commonwealth – to her lost glory.
Ingenious even by the standards of the genetically enhanced
Great Family Van Buren, Jezekiah has achieved the impossible: he has
arranged a treaty that will convert Earth's ancient enemies, the Lupans, to her
most powerful allies. Not only will the treaty terms
make Earth rich again, it will let him escape the Ring that condemns
him to be Earth's next ruler. Best of all, the treaty leaves him
free to marry Keiko Yakamoto, the Samuari-trained woman he
loves. Everything’s set. All Jezekiah has to do is
convince his xenophobic sister to accept the Lupan's alpha warlord in marriage.
Before, that is, the assassin she's put on his tail succeeds in killing
him. Or the interstellar crime ring called Ho Tong succeed in
raising another rebellion. Or before his ruling relatives
on competing worlds manage to execute him for treason.
But Jezekiah was bred for politics and trained to
rule. He’s got it all under control. Until his Lupan warlord-partner
reaches Earth. And suddenly these two most powerful men find
themselves in love with the same woman. A woman who just may
be the most deadly assassin of them all.
Author Bio:
I
still remember the book that made me decide I could out-write another writer:
it was a junior reader's biography of Sir William Harvey, the 17th century
English physician credited (in the West) with discovering how blood circulates.
After about 30 pages of telling myself "I can write better than
that!" So I grabbed a crayon that just happened to be blue and started
editing. I was maybe 7 at the time. And unfortunately for my juvenile bottom it
was a library book. I followed the dream through college and after grad school,
freelancing feature articles for newpapers along the East Coast. Even wrote a
cover story for Science Digest! Only life and grown up responsibilities caught
up with me by my late twenties and I put writing away with too many of my other
dreams while I followed a career track. Wasn't until I lost my whole family
that I realized story telling wasn't something i just wanted to do - it's the
gift God gave me to do. So here I am: a middle-aged pudge working on getting
back into a writer's kind of real life.
Finding Bonnie online:
bonnie.milani@yahoo.com
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