• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: GuidepostsBooks (March 1, 2011)

Months after the funeral of her best friend Harlan, Lucy McVie continues to be haunted by what was left unsaid between them when she receives the first of Harlan’s emails, arranged to be sent after his death. So begins Lucy’s watershed year — a year in which she travels to Russia to adopt a young boy and starts a new relationship that takes her by surprise, all the while learning about how Harlan truly felt when he was alive.

“With subtle humor and grace, A Watershed Year draws out the ways in which our closest relationships can be imperfect and yet continue to transform us.” –Juliette Fay, Best-selling Author of Shelter Me

About Susan Schoenberger

Susan Schoenberger, of West Hartford, CT, is a writer, editor and copy editor with a long history of working for news organizations, including The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant, and Patch.com. A Watershed Year, her debut novel, won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in 2006 under the title Intercession and was short-listed for the Peter Taylor Prize. Susan also received an artist fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism to work toward the novel’s publication. Susan’s short stories have been published in Inkwell, The Rambler, and Bartleby Snopes. When she’s not working or driving one of her three children around, she is writing a second novel. For more information, please visit www.susanschoenberger.com.

Connect with Susan on Facebook and follow her on Twitter.

Susan’s Tour Stops

Monday, October 31st: A Cozy Reader’s Corner

Wednesday, November 2nd: Books and Movies

Tuesday, November 8th: Sidewalk Shoes

Wednesday, November 9th: Books in the City

Wednesday, November 9th: Books Like Breathing

Thursday, November 10th: Kelly’s Lucky You!

Tuesday, November 15th: Chronicles of a Country  Girl

Wednesday, November 16th: Reviews by Lola

Thursday, November 17th: Bibliophiliac

Tuesday, November 22nd: BookNAround

Tuesday, November 29th: Laura’s Reviews

Tuesday, November 29th: Sara’s Organized Chaos

Wednesday, November 30th: The Lost Entwife

Thursday, December 1st: Booksie’s Blog

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (February 15, 2011)

Set amid the giant trees of northern California’s magical Lost Coast, Wrecker is the story of a nearly broken boy who unexpectedly finds a family.

After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from their families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her, fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central character in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life turns around in most unexpected ways. It’s June of 1965 when Wrecker enters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is tripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker’s birth mother, is knocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can barely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she’s in prison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he’s shipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County, California. When he arrives he’s scared and angry, exploding at the least thing, and quick to flee. Wrecker is the story of this boy and the motley group of isolated eccentrics who come together to raise him and become a family along the way.

For readers taken with the special boy at the center of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wrecker will be a welcome companion.

“[An] affecting novel… Wood succeeds with surefooted prose; a lush, earthy California backdrop; and a sensitive story of nurturing and family.” —Publishers Weekly

“Wood moves her characters gracefully through trying times, both cultural and personal.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Summer Wood’s remarkable novel carves its way, sentence by gorgeous sentence, into the great complexity of love and family and community. Her dialogue is so natural and full we feel as though we are illicitly eavesdropping on these complex, flawed, and full-hearted characters. Wrecker is a tender, stunning novel.” — Meredith Hall, author of Without a Map

photo credit: Miriam Berkley

About Summer Wood

Summer Wood is the author of WRECKER, due out from Bloomsbury in February 2011.  Her first novel, Arroyo, was published in 2001 by Chronicle Books.  She lives in Taos, New Mexico, and writes a blog at www.thewhereofit.com.

Connect with Summer on her website, www.summerwoodwrites.com.

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Summer Wood’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, April 18th:  Scraps of Life

Tuesday, April 19th:  Musings of an All Purpose Monkey

Thursday, April 21st:  Book Club Classics!

Friday, April 22nd:  Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

Monday, April 25th:  In the Next Room – review

Monday, April 25th:  In the Next Room – author interview

Tuesday, April 26th:  Life in Review

Wednesday, April 27th:  Boarding in my Forties

Thursday, April 28th:  Red Headed Book Child

Monday, May 2nd:  Joyfully Retired

Thursday, May 5th:  Rundpinne

Monday, May 9th:  Caribousmom

Tuesday, May 10th:  Amused by Books

Wednesday, May 11th:  I’m Booking It

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Vanguard Press (July 27, 2010)

While she was growing up, twelve-year-old Lindsay had to look after three-year-old Kerrie Ann. When their mother was arrested and imprisoned for drugs, the girls entered foster care.

Nearly thirty years later, Lindsay owns a bookstore in the California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay. Adopted by a loving couple, she’s still trying to reconnect with her long-lost sister. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has led a very different life, bounced from one foster home to the next. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of her own little girl.

When the sisters are finally reunited, the two very different women clash. As Lindsay and Kerrie Ann engage in the fiercest battles of their lives—while each embarks on a journey of the heart with the unlikeliest of men—they are drawn together.

Check out the Reading Group Guide for Once in a Blue Moon HERE

Read an excerpt HERE

About Eileen

A native of northern California who now lives in Manhattan, Eileen Goudge is the New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels including Woman in Red and The Diary, 32 young adult novels, numerous short stories and magazine articles and one cookbook. When she isn’t writing, Goudge enjoys baking for friends and neighbors.

Connect with Eileen:

On her Website

On her Blog

On Twitter

On Facebook

Read more about her in this Author Q & A

Eileen Goudge’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 2nd:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, August 4th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, August 9th:  Simply Stacie

Wednesday, August 11th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Monday, August 16th:  Susie QT Pie’s Scraps of Life

Wednesday, August 25th:  Book Club Classics

Thursday, August 26th:  Book Addiction

Friday, August 27th:  Bellas Novella

Saturday, September 11th:   Chick Lit Club

Monday, September 13th:  Ask Miss A

Wednesday, October 6th:  SheKnows

Elizabeth Brundage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received a James Michener Award. Before attending Iowa, she was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has been published in the Greensboro Review, Witness magazine, and New Letters. She is currently at work on her third novel and lives with her family in upstate New York.

About Somebody Else’s Daughter:

In the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts a group of families is connected through the prestigious Pioneer prep school. Into this community enters Nate Gallagher, a teacher and struggling writer haunted by the daughter he gave up for adoption years ago. The girl, Willa—now a teenager and one of Nate’s students—lives with her adoptive parents, Joe and Candace, who have nurtured her with their affection and prosperity. When Willa wins a community service internship and begins working at a local women’s shelter, her friendship with a troubled prostitute raises questions about her own biological past. Despite her parent’s love and care, Willa can’t shake her feelings of confusion and abandonment, and Joe and Candace are too preoccupied with their crumbling marriage to realize her unhappiness. Read more.

Visit Elizabeth’s website here, read an excerpt of the book here, and check out the Somebody Else’s Daughter’s website here.

Elizabeth Brundage’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, November 3rd: It’s All Fun & Games

Wednesday, November 5th: S. Krishna’s Books (this review will also appear as a guest post on Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’?)

Friday, November 7th: Mabel’s House

Wednesday, November 12th: Devourer of Books

Thursday, November 13th: All Thumbs Reviews

Friday, November 14th: Welcome to My Brain

Monday, November 17th: 1 More Chapter

Wednesday, November 19th: My New Reality

Friday, November 21st: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

Tuesday, November 25th: The Friendly Book Nook

Monday, December 1st: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness (this review will also appear as a guest post on Books on the Brain)

Tuesday, December 2nd: Bookroom Reviews

Friday, December 5th: Pieces of Me