Posted By admin on May 22, 2012

About The Forrests

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (August 7, 2012)

For fans of Zoë Heller and Zadie Smith, a vibrant and vital novel about the way family—with its dysfunctional bonds, sibling love, and rivalry—enduringly defines us.

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.

From the wilderness of a commune to falling in love to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return oflove, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes, revelations come to light, death changes everything, but somehow life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won’t let her go.

In a narrative that shifts and moves, singing with color and memory, growing as wild as its characters, The Forrests speaks to the unexpected ways in which life can change—“if you’re lucky enough to be around for it.”

Praise for Emily Perkins:

“A writer very much in command not only of her language but of the unique and surprising variations she brings to the form.” —T. C. Boyle, author of When The Killing’s Done

“Brimming with talent.” —Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky and Lucky Break

“An expansive and ambitious novel, beautifully written, and covering great swathes of emotional territory.”
—Lawrence Norfolk, author of Lempriere’s Dictionary

About Emily

Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories that won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl, and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Book Award. She lives in New Zealand.

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Posted By admin on May 21, 2012

The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri

Monday, May 21st: Savvy Verse & Wit

Tuesday, May 22nd: Amused By Books

Tuesday, May 22nd: Paperback Princess

Wednesday, May 23rd: All Grown Up?

Friday, May 25th: Kritters Ramblings

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarity

Monday, May 21st: Never Too Fond of Books

Tuesday, May 22nd: The Compulsive Reader

Wednesday, May 23rd: Kritters Ramblings

Thursday, May 24th: Literate Housewife

Friday, May 25th: Paperspines

Dead Beautiful by Melanie Dugan

Monday, May 21st: Into the Hall of Books

Tuesday, May 22nd: A Soul Unsung

Wednesday, May 23rd: Sweet Southern Home

Thursday, May 24th: Book Him Danno!

The Anti-Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman

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The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller

Monday, May 21st: Sophisticated Dorkiness

Tuesday, May 22nd: so much shouting, so much laughter

Wednesday, May 23rd: Book Hooked Blog

Thursday, May 24th: Under My Apple Tree

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The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones

Monday, May 21st: Life In Review

Tuesday, May 22nd: Wordsmithonia

Wednesday, May 23rd: Colloquium

Thursday, May 24th: Wandering Thoughts of a Scientific Housewife

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The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

Monday, May 21st:  Redlady’s Reading Room

Tuesday, May 22nd:  Boarding in My Forties

Wednesday, May 23rd:  Book Club Classics!

Thursday, May 24th:  Luxury Reading

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The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

Monday, May 21st: Book Hooked Blog

Tuesday, May 22nd: Brandi Reads

Wednesday, May 23rd: Man of La Book

Thursday, May 24th: Walking With Nora

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The Exceptionals by Erin Cashman

Monday, May 21st: Life is Short. Read Fast.

Tuesday, May 22nd: Just Joanna

Wednesday, May 23rd: Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, May 24th: Broken Teepee

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I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits

Monday, May 21st:  Raging Bibliomania

Wednesday, May 23rd:  The 3 R’s Blog

Thursday, May 24th:  Stiletto Storytime

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In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab

Monday, May 21st:  Chew & Digest Books

Tuesday, May 22nd:  Twisting the Lens

Wednesday, May 23rd:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

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The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall

Tuesday, May 22nd: Bibliophiliac

Wednesday, May 23rd: Peppermint PhD

Thursday, May 24th: The Written World

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Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

Monday, May 21st:  Dolce Bellezza

Wednesday, May 23rd:  Knowing the Difference

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Make it Stay by Joan Frank

Monday, May 21st: “That’s Swell!”

Wednesday, May 23rd: Reading on a Rainy Day

Thursday, May 24th: Caribousmom

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Slant of Light by Steve Wiegenstein

Monday, May 21st:  Life in Review

Tuesday, May 22nd:  Unabridged Chick - author interview

Wednesday, May 23rd:  So Simply Sara

Thursday, May 24th:  Bookish Habits.

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Perla by Carolina De Robertis

Monday, May 21st: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

Wednesday, May 23rd: Book Reviews by Molly

Friday, May 25th:  Unabridged Chick

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The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman

Monday, May 21st: Proud Book Nerd

Friday, May 25th: Book Him Danno!

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FoodTrients by Grace O

Monday, May 21st:  Mockingbird Hill Cottage

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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Monday, May 21st: Stiletto Storytime

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My New American Life by Francine Prose

Monday, May 21st: A Bookish Way of Life

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The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen

Tuesday, May 22nd: A Cozy Reader’s Corner

Wednesday, May 23rd: A Chick Who Reads

Thursday, May 24th: Life In Review

Friday, May 25th: “That’s Swell!”

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Arranged by Catherine McKenzie

Tuesday, May 22nd: Twisting the Lens

Wednesday, May 23rd: Creating Comfort

Thursday, May 24th: Book Journey

Friday, May 25th: Tina’s Book Reviews

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The Unseen by Katherine Webb

Tuesday, May 22nd: Raging Bibliomania

Wednesday, May 23rd: No More Grumpy Bookseller

Thursday, May 24th: Colloquium

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Saving Ruth by Zoe Fishman

Tuesday, May 22nd: The Book Bag

Wednesday, May 23rd: West Metro Mommy

Thursday, May 24th: Travel Spot

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Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan

Tuesday, May 22nd: The Psychology of Wellbeing

Wednesday, May 23rd: Happy Simple Living

Thursday, May 24th: Just a Titch

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Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

Tuesday, May 22nd: Jenn’s Bookshelves

Wednesday, May 23rd: Cerebral Girl in a Redneck World

Thursday, May 24th: StephTheBookworm

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Long Gone and Angel’s Tip by Alafair Burke

Tuesday, May 22nd: Kritter’s Ramblings

Wednesday, May 23rd: Literature and a Lens

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The Voluntourist by Ken Budd

Tuesday, May 22nd: Knowing the Difference

Wednesday, May 23rd: Lisa’s Yarns

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Picture This by Jacqueline Sheehan

Tuesday, May 22nd: Silver & Grace

Thursday, May 24th: Iwriteinbooks’ blog

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Courage by Debbie Ford

Tuesday, May 22nd: Patricia’s Wisdom

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The Cove by Ron Rash

Tuesday, May 22nd: Layers of Thought

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Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

Wednesday, May 23rd: Doing Dewey

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Private Empire by Steve Coll

Thursday, May 24th: EmSun

Friday, May 25th: Just Joanna

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In the Bag by Kate Klise

Thursday, May 24th: A Bookworm’s World

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An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer

Thursday, May 24th: A Musing Reviews

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Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls by Gary Buslik

Thursday, May 24th: Lesa’s Book Critiques

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Posted By admin on May 18, 2012

About As Always, Jack

• Publisher: Axios Press

In the days just after the end of World War Two, a young Texas Navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl just before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with her heart. He returns safely; he marries her.

Over thirty years later, a young woman returns to her childhood home in California for her mother’s funeral. Before leaving the house for the last time, without knowing what she’s looking for, she opens a dresser drawer in her mother’s room. Towards the very back of the drawer she discovers a packet of old letters tied up with a pink ribbon. In these letters she meets the man she has forever longed to know and love, the man her mother rarely spoke of during all the years of her childhood. In these letters she meets her father, Jack Sweeney, for the first time.

As Always, Jack is in part the bittersweet story of a daughter’s search for her father, an account of her struggle to unlock the mystery of his disappearance on the eve of her birth. Preserved in this story, however, is another, more universal one: the sweet and classic tale of true love in a time of war.

About Emma Sweeney

Emma Sweeney is the author of several gardening books as well as a literary agent based in New York.  She formed her own agency in 2006 and has had five New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 New York Times best seller, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.  She is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives and the Women’s Media Group, where she served as its president in 2003. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature.  She divides her time between New York City and Rhinebeck, New York.

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Posted By admin on May 18, 2012

About The Color of Tea

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Scribner; Original edition (June 5, 2012)

Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace.  It was time to find a life for myself.  To make something out of nothing.  The end of hope and the beginning of it too.

About Hannah Tunnicliffe

Hannah Tunnicliffe was born in New Zealand but is a self-confessed nomad.  After finishing a degree in social sciences, she lived in Australia, England, and Macau.  A career in human resources temporarily put her dream of becoming a writer on the back burner.  The Color of Tea is her first novel.

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Hannah Tunnicliffe’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, July 9th:  Book Club Classics!

Tuesday, July 10th:  BookNAround

Wednesday, July 11th:  girlichef

Monday, July 16th:  Book Addiction

Thursday, July 19th:  Twisting the Lens

Monday, July 23rd:  Regular Rumination

Wednesday, July 25th:  Stiletto Storytime

Monday, July 30th:  A Bookish Affair

Thursday, August 2nd:  Suko’s Notebeook

Friday, August 3rd:  Raging Bibliomania

Monday, August 6th:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Thursday, August 9th:  Southern Girl Reads

Tuesday, August 14th:  The Written World

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Posted By admin on May 16, 2012

About Hosoi

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (June 12, 2012)

Raised at the legendary Marina Del Rey Skatepark—where his father was the manager and the Dogtown and Z-Boys crew were his mentors—Christian Hosoi never questioned that he would become a full-time skateboarder. But no one could have predicted his meteoric rise to the apex of a burgeoning sport—or the spectacular way he would crash and then create himself anew.

A professional skater by thirteen, known for his rock-star flair and dramatic aerials, Hosoi was at the top of the world before he was twenty, engaged in the rivalry that would shape years of skating: Christian Hosoi vs. Tony Hawk. At the height of his celebrity in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Hosoi was the highest-paid skateboarder in the world and made the most of his celebrity status, counting Hollywood’s elite as his friends. But the kid who first got stoned at age eight later found himself smoking meth full-time. And as Hawk walked away with every accolade, Hosoi went underground.

In January 2000, he was convicted for trafficking $65,000′s worth of methamphetamine across state lines. In this gripping memoir, Hosoi recounts the crushing reality of his prison sentence and the day he made the phone call that would save him—to his now-wife, Jennifer. She guided Hosoi toward Christianity, to the faith that sustained him in prison, welcoming him into a new life when he was released nearly five years later.

In the summer of 2009, Hosoi won the gold medal in the X Games Legends Competition. He won gold again in 2010. And now Hosoi’s classic skateboard designs are flying off the shelves once again.

Packed with interviews from skateboarding stars past and present, Hosoi is not only a tell-all about fame, fortune, and failure—it’s also a strong testimony to the power of faith and the gift of change.

About Christian Hosoi

Christian Hosoi is widely recognized as one of the greatest skateboarders of all time. A professional by thirteen, he went on to become an industry icon. After serving time in prison for drug trafficking, he devoted his life to Christianity. Since then, he has risen to prominence in the skateboarding world once again and was the subject of a full-length documentary narrated by Dennis Hopper, Rising Son. Hosoi is an outreach pastor at the Sanctuary, “the raddest church” in Huntington Beach, and lives in Southern California with his wife, Jennifer, and four sons.

Chris Ahrens has worked as a full-time writer for nearly thirty years, with four popular books on surfing to his credit and bylines in publications that include the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Outside, Family Circle, Skateboarder, Surfer, Surfing, and The Surfer’s Journal. He wrote and directed the award-winning skateboarding documentary D.O.P.E. (Death or Prison Eventually), and served as editor-in-chief of Risen magazine from its inception in 2002 until May 2010.

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