Posted By admin on July 1, 2009

About Ru

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan writer whose political journalism and fiction has been published internationally. She lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, will also be published in Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Hebrew. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and countries underneath her skin.  

 

Visit Ru Freeman’s website HERE.

 

About A Disobedient Girl 

Hardcover: 384 pages

Publisher: Atria (July 21, 2009)

Language:  English ISBN-10:  1439101957

ISBN-13: 978-1439101957

In one of the most impressive debuts of the year, Ru Freeman delivers an epic, searing novel about betrayal and salvation, the strength of the human spirit, and the boundlessness and limits of love.

Set against the volatile events of the last forty years of Sri Lankan history, A Disobedient Girl traces the lives of three characters whose interwoven fates and histories force them to answer life’s most difficult questions. Beautiful, haunting, alive, and brimming with truth, it is, above all, a novel about extraordinary circumstances that change life in an instant and the power of love to transcend time and place.

The story begins with two little girls, mistress and servant, one with every luxury and opportunity that money can buy and the other with nothing but her yearning for a better life. Together, they grow up bound by love, betrayal, resentment, and an impossible secret.

Then there is Biso, a devoted mother of three, who risks everything to escape from the hands of her tyrannical husband. But her journey, which begins with such hope, takes her on a disastrous path that ultimately leads her to give her life over to strangers she never imagined she would have reason to know, binding her story with that of the girls in the most unexpected and heartbreaking of ways.

A Disobedient Girl is a compelling exploration of personal desire set against the volatile backdrop of class and prejudice, as three women journey toward their future, united by a shared history but separated by different fates. A bold and deeply moving account that spans three decades of love and loss, it is a tale about the will to survive and the incredible power of the human spirit to transcend the unforgiving sweep of tragedy.

“An earnest, worthy, well-crafted debut.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Freeman illustrates contemporary Sri Lankan life through the battles waged between lovers, friends and strangers alike in this study in dignity, strength of character, tolerance and perseverance.”—Publishers Weekly 

“… readers will find the bond Freeman creates between Latha and Biso quite gratifying.”—Booklist

Ru Freeman’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 17th:  Jenn’s Bookshelf

Tuesday, August 18th:  Worducopia

Thursday, August 20th:  My Friend Amy

Monday, August 24th:  Maw Books

Tuesday, August 25th:  Lost in Books

Thursday, August 27th:  Bibliophile by the Sea

Tuesday, September 1st:  A Sea of Books

Tuesday, September 8th:  Wordlily

Monday, September 14th:  Shhh I’m Reading

Wednesday, September 16th:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Thursday, September 17th:  Ticket to Anywhere

Tuesday, September 22nd:  Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Thursday, September 24th:  Fizzy Thoughts

Monday, September 28th:  Book Addiction

Wednesday, September 30th:  Caribousmom

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Posted By admin on June 28, 2009

Please stop by our tour stops this week and check out these great books and blogs!

The Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Monday, June 29th:  Nerd’s Eye View

Tuesday, June 30th:  Pop Culture Junkie

 

 

Beach Trip by Cathy Holton

Monday, June 29th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Monday, June 29th:  It’s All About Books

Tuesday, June 30th:  Bermuda Onion

 

A World I Never Made by James LePore

Tuesday, June 30th:  Beth Fish Reads

 

 

 

The Local News by Miriam Gershow

Monday, June 29th:  Worducopia

Thursday, July 2nd:  Redlady’s Reading Room

 

 

Something Beyond Greatness by Judy Rodgers and Gayatri Naraine

Monday, June 29th:  In The Shadow of Mt. TBR

Wednesday, July 1st:  The Bookworm

Thursday, July 2nd:  Happy Lotus

Starfinder by John Marco

Monday, June 29th: Drey’s Library

Tuesday, June 30th: The Written World

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Posted By admin on June 26, 2009

About Mark

Mark Millhone is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, columnist and teacher. 

After graduating from Columbia University with an MFA in Film Direction and winning the Academy Award for Best Student Film, Mark spent more than five years wandering the vast desert of Hollywood development hell before resurfacing as a screenwriting professor at NYU Film School and the Dysfunctional-Male-in-Residence at Men’s Health Magazine. His humorous columns for that magazine (and his need to deal with a very un-humorous year from hell for his family) are what begat his memoir, The Patron Saint of Used Cars & Second Chances (coming out in hardcover on July 7th). 

But, of course, like every other moron who went to film school, what Mark really wants to do is direct and has several projects in development: The Other Jennifer (a romantic-comedy based on one of his magazine columns) and Serenity Falls (his Sisyphusian attempt to re-make Chinatown set in present-day Dallas, Texas). Cameras roll on his feature film directorial debut Minuteman, this summer. 

Mark lives in New York and has two lovely children and two rather strange-looking dogs.

About The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances

Hardcover: 208 pages

Publisher: Rodale Books (July 7, 2009)

ISBN-10: 1594868239

ISBN-13: 978-1594868238

A man reconnects with his dad and finds his way back from a year filled with tragedy and loss in this touching memoir that puts a humorous cast on some of life’s darkest moments

In the course of one nine-month period, filmmaker Mark Millhone’s youngest son nearly died from birth complications, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his mother had a heart attack and passed away, a freak illness claimed the life of one of his friends, and his career imploded.  As a result of his membership in what he calls the “tragedy of the month club,” his marriage also began to fray.

Millhone responded to the chaos as many men might:  Late one night, he logged on to eBay and bid on a vintage BMW-his fantasy car, but not exactly what the doctor ordered when it came to his family’s finances.  As if sharing the news that he’d won the auction with his already-peeved wife weren’t bad enough, it turned out that he had to travel from New York to Texas to collect the car.  His estranged dad joined him, and together they embarked upon a dysfunctional road trip-a comedy of errors that would lend Millhone the perspective he needed to save his marriage and to understand what was really important in his life:  his family.

Acerbic and hilarious but with heart, this memoir will appeal to readers of Chuck Klosterman, David Sedaris, and Nick Hornby, as well as readers of Millhone’s “Guy Wisdom” column in Men’s Health.  His male perspective on a troubled marriage, raising children, coping with loss, and rejuvenating a relationship with a parent will appeal equally to both sexes.

Mark Millhone’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 3rd:  A High and Hidden Place

Wednesday, August 5th:  Book, Line, and Sinker

Thursday, August 6th:  The Book Lady’s Blog

Monday, August 10th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Wednesday, August 12th:  A Sea of Books

Friday, August 21st:  Beth Fish Reads

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Posted By admin on June 24, 2009

About Lisa

LISA TUCKER is also the author of The Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once Upon a Day, and The Cure for Modern Life, and her work has been featured in Seventeen, Pages, and The Oxford American.  she has advanced degrees in English and Math, and she has taught creative writing at the Taos Conference and at UCLA.  Lisa Tucker lives in Pennsylvania.

Visit Lisa’s website HERE. 

 

About The Promised World

Atria, September 2009

Hardcover, 336 pages

ISBN-10: 1-4165-7538-3

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-7538-2

 Critically acclaimed bestselling author Lisa Tucker is back with an emotionally charged novel about a woman whose world unravels when an unthinkable tragedy strikes.  A riveting story about the earth-shattering secrets revealed in the aftermath of a crisis, THE PROMISED WORLD grips the reader on the first page and never lets go. 

A literature professor’s carefully constructed life is shattered after the death of her twin brother and the unraveling of the secret world they shared. 

A provocative and suspenseful novel with multi-faceted characters so real that they inhabit the reader’s mind long after the last page is turned, THE PROMISED WORLD delivers an intensely charged, yet delicately nuanced, story that fans of Lisa Tucker will devour.  Readers who are just discovering Lisa Tucker are in for a treat, and they will surely find themselves eager to run out and get her previous novels as soon as possible. 

Read the first chapter of The Promised World HERE.

Lisa Tucker’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, September 1st:  Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Thursday, September 3rd:  Peeking Between the Pages

Tuesday, September 8th:  Fizzy Thoughts

Wednesday, September 9th:  The Eclectic Book Hoarder

Thursday, September 10th:  My Friend Amy

Friday, September 11th:  Serendipitous Reading

Monday, September 14th:  Cindy’s Love of Books

Tuesday, September 15th:  Booking Mama

Wednesday, September 16th:  Jenn’s Bookshelf

Thursday, September 17th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Monday, September 21st:  Janel’s Jumble

Tuesday, September 22nd:  Caribousmom

Wednesday, September 23rd:  The Tome Traveller

Thursday, September 24th:  Books and Movies

Monday, September 28th:  A Sea of Books

Tuesday, September 29th:  GalleySmith

Wednesday, September 30th:  Shhh.. I’m Reading

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Posted By admin on June 21, 2009

About Allyson Roy

Allyson Roy translates into Alice & Roy, husband and wife collaborating authors. Roy, a graduate of the University Of The Arts in Philadelphia, has a background in theater, art and standup comedy. Alice, dancer/choreographer/teacher, double majored in dance and philosophy at the State University of New York. They spent many gypsy years living and working in the different neighborhoods of New York City and Philadelphia. Aside from being marriage and writing partners, they are also best friends, which is reflected in the heartfelt, go-the-distance friendship of their two main characters.

Allyson Roy’s website

About Babydoll

Combining wacky humor with gritty, urban suspense and a dash of romance, BABYDOLL is the second book in the Madcap Noir Saylor Oz mystery series set in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood.

Three dead fashion models. A womanizing agent on the hunt for virgin talent. A daredevil boxer turned high-rise window washer. A burned out porn actress with a grudge. A pretty boy Irish illegal who’s good with a knife. A world famous lawyer with a bad case of self-importance.

It would all be just another tabloid headline to Saylor Oz — except the young Nuyorican artist wrongly convicted of the killings is the brother of Benita Morales, her best friend.

Height-challenged, warmhearted oddball, Saylor Oz, is convinced someone is reenacting murders from an old, X-rated movie called Bad, Bad Babydoll. But no one else thinks so, not even the sexy PI on the case. In her hunt to find the killer, Saylor ends up being part of a young genius designer’s zany plan to tweak the fashion world — and becomes the killer’s next target.

“Babydoll is a fast, fun read with action that never stops. Allyson Roy is a future star.”
—New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards

“Gripping . . . fun . . . exciting . . . hard to put down . . . comparable to Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels (with) a bit more substance and more going for it . . . a sure-to-be successful series”
—Bookreporter.com

” . . . will leave you breathless. I would recommend this to any hip, modern adult who likes thrilling rides, hot men, and women who know how to hold their own.”
– Front Street Reviews

” . . . fast paced . . . laugh out loud escapades.”
– Follow The Clue

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