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Monday, June 22, 2026

Tour Kick Off: The Tales of Sidney and JoJo by Lauren Isaacson #nowontour #giveaway #childrensbook #rabtbooktours

Adventures in Thailand

Juvenile Fiction / Multicultural / Animals

Date Published: 06-23-2026

Publisher: Mission Point Press

Illustrated by: Megan Heller

Sidney and JoJo are off to Thailand, where Mama lives.

Join them on an adventure to faraway lands-by crate, van, car, conveyor belt, and airplane-as they discover the sights and sounds of a tropical new world. Along the way, they meet friendly Thai people, encounter a wise dog, and gaze in wonder at the golden Buddhas and temple cats standing guard. With a few bumps in the road-marked by meows, tail twitches, and new surprises-they journey onward until, at last, they arrive at their new home.

About the Author

Lauren Isaacson is an educator, business owner, and is excited to add children’s book author to her repetoire. Inspired by the real-life journey of her two adventurous cats during a move abroad, Lauren wrote this story to share with her students and families around the world. She is the founder of The Tutoring Hub: Tutoring & Advocacy, LLC, where she supports students, families, and educators. As her students learned about her two cats and their adventures, a desire grew to give them a story they could take home. Lauren is excited to continue the adventures of The Tales of Sidney and JoJo. You can contact Luaren at ljisaacson491@gmail.com.

Megan Heller is a Michigan-based contemporary artist who earned her BFA in illustration from the College for Creative Studies. Her work blends intricate detail with rich symbolism. Working primarily in mixed media, such as watercolors and colored pencils, with just a dash of digital magic, her pieces have been shown at Black Box Gallery’s Fantasy Exhibition in Dearborn, the Midland Center for the Arts, as well as galleries and exhibitions throughout Detroit and her hometown of Saginaw. This is her first foray into children’s book illustration.

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June 25 - The Avid Reader - Interview

June 26 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

June 29 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

June 30 - Book Junkiez- Excerpt

July 1 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

July 2 - Ella English - Spotlight

July 3 - Boys' Mom Reads - Review

July 6 - Sandra's Book Club - Review

July 7 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

July 8 - Iron Canuck Reviews - Review

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July 10 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up

Tour Kick Off: Perilous Shores by Thomas M. Wing #nowontour #giveaway #historical #fiction #rabtbooktours @thomasmwing1

Book 2 of The Sea Hawkes Chronicles

Historical Fiction/Nautical Fiction

Date Published: June 23, 2026

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Vengeance is as dangerous to a cause as to the enemy.

The murder of his wife at the hands of British soldiers prompts American privateer Captain Jonas Hawke’s vow to make Britain pay.

A grief-stricken Jonas strikes deep into the heart of the enemy, driven by his personal vendetta. When he raids a port city, one of his men crosses an unthinkable line, which forces Jonas to come to terms with the anguish that distorts his definition of justice.

Concerned his wrath will bring irreparable harm to the cause for America’s freedom, Jonas grapples with his role as a warrior and as a man. When he learns the Royal Navy is hunting his ship, he fears his deadly decisions may have cost him and his crew everything. It’s too late to turn back. Instead, he must continue on and face the inevitable perils of war.

Perilous Shores is a gripping, action-packed, and historically authentic tale of revenge, survival, and one man’s relentless pursuit of his country’s independence.

About the Author

Thomas M. Wing, a Naval Academy and Naval War College graduate, retired after thirty-two years as a Navy Surface Warfare officer. A dedicated sailor for half a century, he created the Continental Navy Foundation, served as its executive director, and commanded its brigantine, Megan D.

Tom’s first novel, Against All Enemies, earned gold medals from the Military Writers Society of America and Literary Titan. In Harm’s Way, the first in the Sea Hawkes Chronicles series has also garnered several awards.

He resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter and a cat and a dog. Whatever free time he has is still spent on the water.

For more about the author and to follow his blog about nautical and naval trivia, visit his website ThomasMWing.com.

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June 23 - Novel News Network - Review

June 24 - Sarandipity's - Spotlight

June 25 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

June 26 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

June 30 - On a Reading Bender - Review

July 1 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

July 2 - A Life Through Books - Interview

July 3 - Salt and Novels - Guest Post

July 7 - The Avid Reader - Interview

July 8 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

July 9 - The Indie Express - Review

July 10 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

July 13 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

July 14 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

July 15 - Texas Book Nook - Review

July 16 - Our Town Book Reviews - Review

July 17 -Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

July 20 -Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

July 21 -Book Junkiez- Excerpt

July 22 -Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight

July 23 -Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

July 24 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up

Pillywiggin Awakening by Debbie Bishop

The Complete Story ARC

Epic Fantasy, Metaphysical Fiction, Fae Fantasy, Found Family

Date Published: Friday, June 26, 2026
Publisher: Angelgate Entertainment

Peter has spent his life hiding among humans.

A light fae raised at an elite academy, he thought his disguise was to protect his place in the human world. A betrayal and ominous nightmare cause sudden caution, but when a mystical creature he has never seen before warns he is in danger, Peter realizes he must flee. To maintain his cover, he creates a clone and sends him to his home in the mystical realm, then sets out to discover who is hunting him—and why.

CAPTURED. FORGOTTEN. FORGED.

Stolen fae young men face their final day before they become dragon food. Taken from their homes and imprisoned in a brutal mine, they have survived through secret training, strategy, inventive tech, and stubborn hope. They failed to escape before, with severe consequences.

A prophecy whispers that a girl will one day free them.

She doesn’t even know they exist.

At a Paris fashion show, Peter collides with a mysterious girl—and discovers she is his twin sister. Together they possess a dangerous power, and those who control the realms will do anything to claim it. Or destroy it.

PILLYWIGGIN Awakening is a contemporary epic fantasy that weaves dark mystery, military strategy, and technology into a world where power is never given—only built. For fans of Lord of the Rings and Fourth Wing.

This is no tale of a magical savior.
This is the story of stray kids who grow into warriors—and become their own heroes.

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June 22 - Guatemala Paula Loves to Read - Excerpt

June 23 - Sarandipity's - Spotlight

June 24 - Texas Book Nook - Review

June 25 - The Indie Express - Review

June 26 - I Love Books and Stuff - Excerpt

June 27 - The Avid Reader - Excerpt

June 28 - I Smell Sheep - Excerpt

June 29 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

June 30 - Novel News Network - Review

July 1 - Always Reading - Excerpt

July 2 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight

July 3 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

July 3 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up

Tour Kick Off: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Not Giving a F*ck by Oliver Turner #nonfiction #selfhelp #nowontour #rabtbooktours

Nonfiction / Self-Help

Publication Date: October 9, 2025

What happens when life strips away everything you thought defined you?

In Welcome to the Wonderful World of Not Giving A Fck*, Oliver Turner delivers a bold, brutally honest, and deeply motivational guide to self-love, spirituality, resilience, and personal empowerment. This Amazon Bestselling book is a fresh and unapologetic take on personal growth for readers who are tired of living for everyone else’s approval.

Blending humor, raw truth, and hard-earned wisdom, Oliver Turner shares the mindset shifts that helped him survive life-threatening health battles, devastating personal loss, emotional isolation, and years of rebuilding from the ground up. Faced with emergency surgery, homelessness, broken relationships, and severe physical injuries, Turner discovered one life-changing truth: sometimes the greatest freedom comes from letting go of fear, guilt, overthinking, and the need to please others.

This concise yet powerful read is packed with real-life insight, motivational encouragement, and practical perspective for anyone struggling with anxiety, burnout, self-doubt, toxic expectations, or feeling stuck in life. Through relatable storytelling and sharp, no-nonsense advice, readers are challenged to stop apologizing for wanting more and start creating a life rooted in confidence, peace, purpose, and financial independence.

Whether you are rebuilding after hardship, searching for personal freedom, or simply ready to stop caring about things that drain your energy, this book serves as a reminder that your life belongs to you — not to the opinions of others.

Perfect for fans of motivational self-help books, mindset transformation, spiritual growth, emotional healing, confidence building, and personal development, Welcome to the Wonderful World of Not Giving A Fck* is an empowering wake-up call for dreamers, overthinkers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to reclaim their voice.

If you are ready to stop surviving and start living boldly, this book is for you.

In This Inspirational Self-Help Book, You’ll Discover:

● How to let go of people-pleasing and fear of judgment
● Powerful lessons in resilience, healing, and self-trust
● A fresh perspective on confidence, spirituality, and personal freedom
● How to protect your peace and focus on what truly matters
● Motivation to rebuild your life after hardship or failure
● Encouragement to pursue purpose, joy, and financial independence

Start your journey toward self-love, empowerment, and unapologetic living today.

About the Author

Oliver Turner is a writer, creative entrepreneur, motivational voice, and the Amazon Bestselling author of Welcome to the Wonderful World of Not Giving A Fck*, a bold and empowering book focused on self-love, spirituality, resilience, and personal growth. Known for his raw honesty, sharp humor, and unapologetic perspective on life, Oliver inspires readers to break free from fear, self-doubt, and the pressure of living according to other people’s expectations.

Drawing from real-life experiences filled with adversity, healing, and transformation, Oliver Turner’s work resonates with readers searching for confidence, emotional freedom, and a renewed sense of purpose. After surviving a life-threatening medical crisis, enduring homelessness, devastating personal loss, severe physical injuries, and years of emotional rebuilding, Oliver turned his pain into purpose by sharing the mindset and spiritual lessons that helped him keep moving forward.

His writing blends motivational storytelling, practical wisdom, spiritual insight, and modern self-empowerment strategies to encourage readers to stop overthinking, trust themselves, and live more authentically. Through his relatable voice and candid approach, Oliver challenges people to reclaim their energy, protect their peace, and pursue lives rooted in confidence, creativity, healing, and financial independence.

Beyond writing, Oliver Turner is involved in creative business ventures, digital platforms, and entertainment projects designed to inspire transformation and authentic living. His mission is simple: help people let go of fear, embrace who they truly are, and move boldly toward the life they deserve.

Whether speaking through his books, creative projects, or personal message of resilience, Oliver Turner continues to connect with audiences looking for motivation, healing, self-discovery, and the courage to finally put themselves first.

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June 23 - The Faerie Review - Spotlight

June 24 - Interesting Authors - Excerpt

June 25 - Lisa Queen of Random - Spotlight

June 26 - Books 1987 - Spotlight

June 29 - Liliyana Shadowlyn - Spotlight

June 30 - Always Reading - Excerpt

July 1 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight

July 2 - Texas Book Nook - Review

July 3 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt

July 7 - On a Reading Bender - Review

July 8 - My Reading Addiction - Interview

July 9 - A Life Through Books - Interview

July 13 - Book Corner News and Reviews - Spotlight

July 14 - The Indie Express - Review

July 15 - Novel News Network - Review

July 16 - Sapphyria's Books - Spotlight

July 18 -The Avid Reader - Interview

July 19 -Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight

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July 22 -Book Junkiez- Excerpt

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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Week Blast: The Brothers Brown, part 2 by RG Stanford #historical #familysaga #fiction #nativeamerican #rabtbooktours

for the sake of family

Family Saga, Historical Fiction, Native American

Date Published: 12-04-2025

Based on a true story.

Set in the late 1890’s, The Brothers Brown - a family saga, Part 2 - For the Sake of Family is a sweeping frontier saga of love, guilt, and redemption - an unflinching portrait of a man’s descent into madness amid the unforgiving wilds of Indian Territory.

When Matt Brown boards a northbound train, he carries more than a pistol. He carries the weight of his brother’s death, a marriage strained to its breaking point, and a conscience at war with itself. A doctor’s brown vial of medicine offers fleeting relief but soon draws him into a darker world where pain and guilt blur into something far more dangerous.

His wife, Milla, proud and rooted in her Choctaw heritage, stands as both his anchor and his judge as the world around them shifts under the weight of change and loss.

From Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the wooded banks of Bokchito Creek, two families are bound by tragedy and love, vengeance and mercy. A celebration meant to heal ignites old resentments. A family gathering ends in bloodshed. And a winter dance turns deadly, forcing each to face the cost of survival, forgiveness, and the ties that bind them.

Steeped in the spirit of the Choctaw Nation and the rough mercy of the Old West, For the Sake of Family is a haunting tale of madness, murder, and the fragile hope that redemption can be found on the far side of ruin.

About the Author

Raised on the beaches of South Texas, R.G. Stanford has always been drawn to stories that transcend time. That passion was ignited in 1976 with the discovery of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, and deepened with The Feast of All Saints just a few years later. Though historical fiction wasn’t an immediate calling, a personal journey into genealogy changed everything.

With no close relatives nearby, R.G. Stanford turned to online resources in search of extended family. That search became a twenty-year journey through genealogy websites, Federal Census records, the National Archives, and old newspapers. Along the way, R.G. Stanford uncovered incredible stories about her family and the people who once lived in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.

Compelled to record the truth of her family in the lore, sprinkled with imagination, R.G. Stanford is a history lover, a research buff, and a passionate genealogy enthusiast. She is also a mother, a grandmother, and a teller of stories, now living near Orlando.

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Teaser: The Beauty of Individual Things by K. Thomas Yoo #comingsoon #historicalfiction #excerpt #rabtbooktours

Historical Fiction / Jazz Age Romance

Date Published: 07-14-2026

Publisher: Mission Point Press

The Beauty of Individual Things follows Margot Andrews, a young American woman swept from New York high society into the dazzling yet fractured world of 1920s London. When the transactional demands of privilege collide with betrayal and violence, leaving her disillusioned and adrift, she escapes to the freshwater shoreline of lost childhood summers.

With her past unrecoverable and her future uncertain, Margot searches for a different life amid Detroit’s dynamic and monied Prohibition era—with its yacht races, rumrunners, and industrial might. Set against a city on the rise, she must navigate her family’s ruthless pursuit of social standing, the magnetic pull of charismatic boat racer Ellis James, and the relentless echoes of her past. The story explores the weight of loneliness and the personal cost of love and reinvention as Margot decides whether to remain a fragile ornament of her family’s design or forge an identity that is beautiful, imperfect, and entirely her own.

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No one tells a young woman that things usually happen because of money, sex, or power. We learn it on our own. Polite girls go on to elegantly suppress the notion, but most know it, and I was nothing if not polite. It was different for Grace. She was a Maxwell. It wasn’t in their nature to suppress things. They blew them up.

An early lesson remains etched in my mind. It was a summer day in 1913. The Maxwells had secured a white clapboard weekly rental on the shores of Elk Lake, tucked among the rolling farmland and evergreen forests of northern Michigan.

The screen door slammed. I shaded my eyes as Uncle Fred crossed a narrow strip of beach, wearing a faded black-and-white-striped bathing costume.

“You’ll burn, Fred,” Aunt Lou clucked from her canvas sling chair under the shade of a lurid yellow umbrella.

Cousin Grace doubled over, shrieking with laughter. “You look like a ghost,” she sputtered. I suppressed my giggles by intently staring at a beached canoe.

Uncle Fred hadn’t brought any alcohol on that vacation.

“It’s called drying out,” Grace had whispered one night after we were tucked away in our shared bed. “The booze turns dusty and blows away … or something.”

I never saw the dust, but for two or three rocky days Uncle Fred kept to his room, scolding us through the door to lower our voices. Then one bright morning, the dust cleared. All breakfast table chatter quieted as he stood at the head of the table, bright-eyed and eager to lead us on bracing outdoor excursions involving tree identification—white pine versus red—campfires, and fish brought home on stringers. I felt sorry for the fish, but they were delicious.

Now, after nodding in acceptance of his daughter’s ribbing, Uncle Fred called to me, “Margot, I’ll see you at the end of the dock.”

I immediately stopped giggling. I had been forbidden from docks and floating canoes because I didn’t know how to swim. At ten years old, I was mortified by this humiliating precaution yet too frightened to do anything constructive about it.

Aunt Lou had dismissed all petulant objections. “The water doesn’t care, child. It’ll drown you all the same.”

About the Author

Karen Thomas Yoo was born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan and received an MBA from Duke University. When she isn't writing, she can usually be found in her garden or on a paddleboard in Lake Michigan. A mother of three grown children, she lives in Grosse Pointe with her husband. This is her first novel.

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Friday, June 19, 2026

Book Blitz: The China AI Disruption Thesis - CrossVol Research - #investing #nonfiction #artificialintelligence #rabtbooktours

Why The Sell-Side Is Six Months Late On AI Infrastructure

Investing, Analysis & Trading Strategies, Artificial Intelligence

Date Published: May 23, 2026

Wall Street's consensus on US AI infrastructure has converged on a single story: hyperscaler capex grows at 25–30% CAGR through 2028, US power demand doubles by 2027, memory equities enter a supercycle that extends through 2028. The data tables across the major sell-side desks are nearly identical. The price targets cluster within tight ranges.

This book argues, on quantifiable grounds, that the consensus is six months late.

Five convergent shocks are reshaping the AI infrastructure trade through Q2 2026 → Q1 2027 :

1. **Token Commoditization.** DeepSeek V4 Pro inference is priced at $0.87 per million output tokens. The US frontier sells the same intelligence at $25–30. On May 22, 2026, DeepSeek announced the 75% discount becomes *permanent*. A subsidy is, by definition, time-limited. A permanent price is a margin.

2. **Chinese Hardware Reaches Cost Parity.** Huawei's Atlas 800 delivers 60–70% of NVIDIA H100 inference performance at 30% of system cost. The production target is 600,000 Ascend 910C units in 2026.

3. **The US Grid Bottleneck.** The PJM 2026/2027 capacity auction cleared at $329.17/MW-day — an 11.4× increase in two years. Approximately 50% of planned US data center projects are delayed or cancelled. Interconnection queues in the densest markets run 4–7 years.

4. **China's Parallel Energy Buildout.** Chinese nuclear capacity scales from 62 GW to a 110 GW target by 2030. Solar generation has 5× since 2018. The asymmetry is not aggregate capacity — it is execution speed.

5. **The Hyperscaler Bond Wall.** $121 billion of long-dated IG debt was issued in 2025 by Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle — a 4.3× step-up from the prior decade's average. YTD 2026 tracks at $230–240 billion. The duration of the debt does not match the duration of the revenue stream financing it.

Beneath the five operating vectors sits the geopolitical chessboard: **Iran, Greenland, Venezuela, and Cuba** — the four pressure points through which the US administration is restricting Chinese supply and improving US-aligned strategic position simultaneously. To our knowledge, this is the first treatment of the AI infrastructure question that integrates the four-front geopolitical layer into the framework.

Two hard-dated catalysts anchor the window:

- **November 10, 2026** — expiration of the US-China tariff truce

- **November 27, 2026** — expiration of China's gallium, germanium, antimony export-control suspension

We expect a **25–40% drawdown in pure-play AI infrastructure equities** between November 2026 and Q1 2027, with corresponding outperformance from open-source AI architectures, edge inference platforms, critical mineral miners outside China, and Chinese AI platforms with monetization paths.

This is a non-consensus framework, structured to be falsifiable. Every catalyst is dated. Every risk is enumerated with subjective probability estimates. The book closes with a real-time catalyst calendar the reader can use as a checklist over the Q3 2026 to Q2 2027 window.

The framework attaches a 60-70% cumulative probability that at least one documented risk materially invalidates the central thesis. We disclose this explicitly because intellectual honesty requires it.

This is the inaugural volume of the CrossVol Thesis Series. The companion title — *Beyond Gamma Exposure: The Five-Vector Framework for Volatility Traders* — is available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.

— *CrossVol Research, with Djellal Djouad, contributor — May 2026*

this book is available also in spanish, japanese, german, portuguese, like the other one

About the Author

CrossVol Research is a team of derivatives market veterans, on institutional trading desks, from exotic options structuring to cross-asset volatility arbitrage. We've sat on the other side of your trade. We've built the pricing models. We've watched the flows that move markets before they move.

What we publish isn't theory repackaged for retail. It's the operating system that institutional desks use daily : dealer gamma mechanics, the five-step short-vol unwind that precedes every crash, the B-book architecture that turns 80% of retail FX traders into the product, the infrastructure repricing that Wall Street research is six months lateon.

Every claim is sourced. Every framework is falsifiable. Every trade call referenced in our books was publicly posted and time-stamped on X before the move happened, with URLs you can verify yourself.

We don't sell signals. We don't run a chatroom. We write the books we wish someone had handed us on day one, the ones that would have saved us years of learning what the industry deliberately doesn't teach.

If you're done reading what everyone else is reading, start here.

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