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THE SUMMER CALLED ANGEL A story of hope on the journey through prematurity written by Sola Olu Createspace, 2012 Memoir Print copy provided by author for blog tour in return for honest review. All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK Sola Olu was expecting: expecting to receive a graduate degree from DePaul University and expecting her first child. Instead she went for a routine doctor's visit and found herself delivering her daughter Angel at a perilously premature time. Sola and her husband Chris were thrust into an unimaginable odyssey spanning seven months, several surgeries, and a painful separation with their newborn. The Summer Called Angel provides intimate, hands-on details of the medical complexity as well as the emotional toll taken on parents who must witness their tiny baby struggle for life. The Summer Called Angel also touches on Sola's second premature birth. This memoir serves as a powerful tribute to maternal love in the face of un...

THE ADVENTURES OF TILDA PINKERTON Book 1: Crash Landing on Ooleeoo By Angela Shelton Quiet Owl Books, 2011 ISBN: 9780615646770 Middle Grade Fantasy Review copy received in return for honest review. ABOUT THE BOOK A modern Mary Poppins in space. In the middle of cosmic danger, the electrifying secret that Tilda Pinkerton, the magical hat maker, hides from the children she teaches - becomes her most miraculous gift, securing the safety of the planet she crashes on. -- Somewhere out in the Sombrero Galaxy, Tilda Pinkerton–mystical maker of mysterious, magnificent, magical hats–is being hunted by the Keeper of Darkness. Yet Tilda simply does not recall, at all, after taking a tremendous fall. No one on Ooleeoo, where Tilda crash-landed, knows she is from another planet. Only Star Jumper Randy can tell her—but he’s light years away, frantically searching for his missing love, desperate that without her, the entire galaxy soon may be lost. Even in the middle of cosmic d...