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The Boone Series Concludes with "Finding Home"

By: Jim Hartsell on Tuesday, 11 July 2023
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The sixth and final book in the Boone Series, Finding Home, goes on sale today in all the usual places: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble's website, Apple Books, and GooglePlay. I'll be taking a couple of copies to Union Avenue Books here in Knoxville, and the whole series will be available at festivals I'm scheduled to attend. Also, you can check with your local bookstore and if they don't have... Read More


A Boone Series Box Set

By: Jim Hartsell on Thursday, 07 July 2022
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I’m pleased to announce the release of an ebook box set of all five books in the Boone Series. Stumbling Into Adulthood takes the reader from meeting Boone at 16, trying to survive in an abusive household, through the disintegration of his family and a long journey of learning how the adult world works and where his place is in it, to the beginnings of his realization of what family can mean in ... Read More


Book Five in the Boone Series

By: Jim Hartsell on Thursday, 28 April 2022
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I’m pleased to announce the publication of Choosing Family, the fifth book in the Boone series.  A few weeks after returning from his road trip through the Southeast, Boone is feeling restless. He and Frankie are soon back on the road, heading to Virginia to visit some friends he made on the trip they just finished. When he gets word that his sister Hannah is in trouble he turns around, ... Read More


New book in the Boone Series

By: Jim Hartsell on Thursday, 20 May 2021
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I’m pleased to announce that Following Frankie, the fourth book in the Boone series, will be released June 4th; the ebook is available for pre-order now on Amazon. If you haven’t met Boone yet, check out the first three books in the series, available in both print and ebook versions. The print versions are also available for member checkout from our library, If all goes well the Following Fran... Read More


AGT Book Exchange

By: Leoma Gilley on Thursday, 18 February 2021
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After nearly a year, authors got together to exchange books and learn what our colleagues have been writing during this time.... Read More


An Alternative to Amazon

By: Jim Hartsell on Wednesday, 14 October 2020
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I’m pleased to announce my new affiliation with Bookshop, an organization that supports independent bookstores, bypassing Amazon to purchase directly from a distributor and donating a share of their profits to a pool that is divided among independents on a regular basis. Disclosure: as an affiliate, I will earn a commission if you make a purchase through my Bookshop page. My bookstore on the ... Read More


Videos about Children's Book - updated

By: Harry on Monday, 05 October 2020
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House Mountain Views.com offers Youtube videos introducing my children’s books. All four are now available (in English version only); I provide the narration and background music. Print copies are, of course, still available on Amazon and through my website, housemountainviews.com, in both English and Spanish versions. Please visit the site, take a look, and if you enjoy the video order a print ... Read More