• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: HCI (April 1, 2010)

Humiliated by his hoofed legs, the flies on his haunches, and the grass in his mouth, a bull named Etre tells his tender and thought-provoking story about the brutal insignificance of cow life at Gorwell Farm. In a world where the line between disgrace and dignity is drawn by a pasture fence, Etre finds himself alone in his awareness and utterly powerless to change his circumstances. The farmer and his men control everything–herding the cows from pasture to pasture, raising the sun in the morning, and taking it down at night. Etre searches for understanding among the broads, bulls, and calves on the pasture, but finds none. On the best of days, Etre listens to the farmer’s boy sing lullabies at the fence. He likes those songs and loves the boy. But the grasses thin as the seasons pass, the cows hunger, and Etre grows desperate. He is the only cow truly starving.

About Sean Kenniff, M.D.

Sean Kenniff, M.D., is a neurologist, radio host, and television journalist who appeared as one of the original castaways in the hit CBS television reality series Survivor. He made the transition to network television journalism at CBS News where he developed a reputation for delivering practical but inspirational advice on health and emotional wellbeing. Kenniff has shared his expertise on several television programs including The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, Live! With Regis and Kelly, The CBS Early Show, The Howard Stern Show, Fox News, MSNBC, Extra!, Access Hollywood, Lifetime and many others. He is the creator of Healthapalooza.com, a health news website and he has appeared in video programming featured on WebMD. He hosts the popular radio program, the Dr. Sean Show, in South Florida.

Sean Kenniff’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, April 1st: Books and Cooks

Thursday, April 8th: Bok Choy Bohemia – A Vegetarian Blog

Friday, April 9th: The Book Faery Reviews

Tuesday, April 13th: Have Cake, Will Travel

Monday, April 19th: Vegansaurus! Reschedule

Thursday, April 22nd: Rawdorable

Monday, April 26th: Vegan Crunk

Wednesday, April 28th: Haiku Tofu

Monday, May 3rd: Simply Stacie

Monday, May 3rd: Manifest: Vegan

Wednesday, May 19th: Rundpinne

Stop Entitlement Issues in Their Tracks and Take Back Your Parental Power

Who’s In Charge? Parents have become afraid to say ‘no’ to their children’s demanding behavior. In Give Me, Get Me, Buy Me, Donna Corwin helps parents take back power by stopping overindulgence, and getting their child’s demanding behavior in check. She uses psychological methods of mirroring children with positive versus indulgent actions, correct versus incorrect responses and techniques. There is a discussion of the media’s role in our lives and its influence over children’s behavior. This book will show parents how to create positive role models—and set limits on self involved children. How to teach kids about values, money and manners. And most important – that entitlement is not synonymous with having money.

About Donna

Donna Corwin is a national parenting spokesperson for Plus Media’s Satellite Media and Live Television tours. She has appeared on over fifty national news and morning shows, including Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Newswatch, and the Daily Buzz. Corwin has also appeared as a parenting guest expert on numerous television and radio shows, including Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen Network, The Rolanda Watts Show, The Other Half, Home and Family, and several times as a parenting expert on The Leeza Show, Good Morning Denver, Good Morning Utah, ABC radio and Parents Journal on NPR. Corwin’s articles on parenting have appeared in several national magazines. She has been a lecturer on parenting issues for the Motion Picture Wellness Program and the Educational Records Bureau (ErB) convention. Corwin has written eight parenting books including the bestselling Time-Out for Toddlers, now in its twentieth printing.

Donna Corwin’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, March 2nd: This Full House

Thursday, March 4th: Overstuffed

Monday, March 8th: Books on the Brain

Tuesday, March 9th: The Book Faery Reviews

Wednesday, March 10th: Joe Taxpayer

Thursday, March 11th: Not That You Asked

Monday, March 15th: Suburb Sanity

Tuesday, March 16th: Trapped Between a Scream and a Hug

Thursday, March 18th: Just SO

Monday, March 22nd: The Sound You Hear is… Living!

Thursday, March 25th: Enemy of Debt

Monday, March 29th: Fiscal Fizzle

Loosely inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change?

It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women’s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. “Of course,” he answers. “Anything at all.” With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.

Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow are slated to star in the film adaptation of this masterful novel that The Boston Globe calls “heartbreaking and unforgettable.”

About David

David Ebershoff is the author of four books of fiction, including The Danish Girl, The Rose City,and Pasadena. His most recent novel is the international bestseller, The 19th Wife. He has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lambda Literary Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award for excellence in gay and lesbian literature. His books have been translated into eighteen languages to critical acclaim. Two of his novels are being adapted for film and television. Ebershoff has taught creative writing at New York University and Princeton and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He is an editor-at-large at Random House and lives in New York City.

David Ebershoff’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, May 3rd: Peekin’ Between the Pages

Tuesday, May 4th: Bermuda Onion

Wednesday, May 5th: Lit and Life

Thursday, May 6th: Rundpinne

Friday, May 7th: Redlady’s Reading Room

Monday, May 10th: Wordsmithonia

Tuesday, May 11th: Book Addiction

Wednesday, May 12th: Shooting Stars Mag

Thursday, May 13th: The 3R’s Blog

Monday, May 17th: The Zen Leaf

Monday, May 17th:  GLBT Reading - author interview

Tuesday, May 18th: Eclectic Eccentric

Wednesday, May 19th: Luxury Reading

Thursday, May 20th: Worducopia

Monday, May 24th: She is Too Fond of Books

Tuesday, May 25th: The Feminist Review

Thursday, May 27th: Book Club Classics

Tuesday, June 1: Regular Rumination

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 6, 2010)

How do you change your luck? Katherine Center’s marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing to look for happiness—and maybe getting lucky enough to find it.

Sarah Harper isn’t sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes are good choices in disguise—or if they’re really just stupid. But either way, after forwarding an inappropriate email to her entire company, she suddenly finds herself out of a job.

So she goes home to Houston—and her sister, Mackie—for Thanksgiving. But before Sarah can share her troubles with her sister, she learns that Mackie has some woes of her own: After years of trying, Mackie’s given up on having a baby—and plans to sell on eBay the entire nursery she’s set up. Which gives Sarah a brilliant idea—an idea that could fix everyone’s problems. An idea that gives Sarah the chance to take care of her big sister for once—instead of the other way around.

But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. After a decade away, Sarah is forced to confront one ghost from her past after another: the father she’s lost touch with, the memories of her mother, the sweet guy she dumped horribly in high school. Soon everything that matters is on the line—and Sarah can only hope that by changing her life she has changed her luck, too.

About Katherine

Katherine Center is the author of two novels about love and family —The Bright Side of Disaster and Everyone is Beautiful— and has two more on the way. Her books and essays have appeared in Redbook, People, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle, as well as the anthology Because I Love Her. Varsity Pictures optioned Katherine’s first novel last fall, and Library Journaljust called her new novel, Get Lucky, “another thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp.” Katherine lives in Houston with her husband and two young children.

Visit Katherine’s blog HERE.

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Katherine Center’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, April 1st:  Bermuda Onion

Friday, April 2nd:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Monday, April 5th:  Book Club Classics!

Tuesday, April 6th:  Thoughts of an Evil Overlord

Wednesday, April 7th:  Pop Culture Junkie

Thursday, April 8th:  Caribousmom

Friday, April 9th:  Write for a Reader

Monday, April 12th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Tuesday, April 13th:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, April 14th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Thursday, April 15th:  My Friend Amy

Friday, April 16th:  Lit and Life

Monday, April 19th:  Park City Girl

Tuesday, April 20th:  The 3 R’s Blog

Wednesday, April 21st:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Thursday, April 22nd:  Maw Books

Monday, April 26th:  Write Meg!

Tuesday, April 27th:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, April 28th:  Diary of an Eccentric

Monday, December 7th:  Linus’ Blanket – review and giveaway!

Tuesday, December 8th:  Book, Line, and Sinker – review and giveaway!

Wednesday, December 9th:  Luxury Reading – review and giveaway!

Thursday, December 10th:  The Literate Housewife Review includes a giveaway!

The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White

Monday, December 7th: Natalie’s Sentiments

Tuesday, December 8th: Literary Feline

Wednesday, December 9th: Bibliophile by the Sea

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Saving Sammy by Beth Maloney

Monday, December 7th: Rundpinne

• Pub. Date: January 4, 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
• Format: Hardcover, 160pp

Michael Gill’s lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including:

·Leap…With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim).

·Let Yourself…Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear.

·Look…with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path.

·Lose…Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness.

photo credit: Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times

Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, How to Save Your Own Life provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves.

About Michael

Michael Gates Gill is the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill and he was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising where he was employed for over 25 years. He currently lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he’s ever had.

Michael Gates Gil’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 4th:  MidLifeBloggers

Tuesday, January 5th:  Life and Times of a “New” New  Yorker

Wednesday, January 6th:  Books on the Brain

Monday, January 11th:  The Written World

Tuesday, January 12th:  TexasRed’s Books

Wednesday, January 13th:  It’s All A Matter of Perspective

Thursday, January 14th:  A Novel Menagerie

Wednesday, January 20th:  Thoughts of an Evil Overlord

Monday, January 25th:  Silver and Grace

Tuesday, January 26th:  Inventing My Life

Wednesday, January 27th:  Write for a Reader

Thursday, January 28th:  Confessions of a Book a Holic

Friday, January 29th:  Simply Forties

Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has four published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven (2005),  Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008), and now When She Flew (2009). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer has been called “an accomplished and superior novelist” by the Statesmen Journal and “a writer to watch out for,” by the Rocky Mountain News.

When not writing, she spends time in the community helping kids and adults learn to write better, and has recently co-founded (with fellow Seattle author Garth Stein) a collective of Northwest authors (Seattle7Writers.org) who use their powers for good in the community as well.

About When She Flew

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade (November 3, 2009)

When She Flew, Jennie’s fourth novel, was inspired by true events, and after much research, she let her imagination run wild to create this evocative story of an Iraq war vet raising his daughter in the wild and the single mom/policewoman who breaks all the rules when ordered to separate them, risking everything to help them escape. This story explores the issues of raising children in today’s world, living within the system as opposed to rejecting it, the toll of war on families, and introduces a young heroine raised in the forest who thrives through the worst of circumstances.  Publishers Weekly says, “Examining people willing to sidestep the rules in pursuit of a greater good, Shortridge’s fourth novel recalls Barbara Kingsolver’s Pigs in Heaven…”

Learn more about When She Flew on Jennie’s website.

Jennie Shortridge’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, December 3rd:  The 3 R’s Blog: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness

Monday, December 7th:  Linus’ Blanket

Tuesday, December 8th:  Book, Line, and Sinker

Wednesday, December 9th:  Luxury Reading

Thursday, December 10th:  The Literate Housewife Review

Monday, December 14th:  Book Addiction

Tuesday, December 15th:  Hey, Lady!  What’cha Readin’?

Wednesday, December 16th:  A Novel Menagerie

Thursday, December 17th:  Book Club Classics

Tuesday, December 22nd:  Dolce Bellezza

Monday, December 28th:  Book Chatter

Tuesday, December 29th:  Caribousmom

Wednesday, December 30th:  Presenting Lenore

Thursday, December 31st:   Entertainment Realm

Monday, January 4th:  The Brain Lair

Tuesday, January 5th:  Redlady’s Reading Room

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens.

He is also the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue:  The Dupin Tales.

About The Last Dickens

*  Category: Fiction

* Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages

* On Sale: October 6, 2009

* Price: $14.00

* ISBN: 978-0-8129-7802-5 (0-8129-7802-1)

Boston, 1870.  When news of Charles Dickens sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished final manuscript.  But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest to find the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer.  With Daniel’s sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a genius’s last mystery and save his own-and Rebecca’s- lives.

Matthew Pearl’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, September 28th:  Book Chatter and Other Stuff

Wednesday, September 30th:  Book Chatter and Other Stuff - guest post

Wednesday, September 30th:  Raging Bibliomania

Thursday, October 1st:  Linus’s Blanket

Monday, October 5th:  Life in the Thumb

Tuesday, October 6th:  The Brain Lair

Wednesday, October 7th:  Bookish Ruth

Thursday, October 8th:  A High and Hidden Place

Monday, October 12th:  Life and Times of a “New” New Yorker

Tuesday, October 13th:  Beth Fish Reads

Wednesday, October 14th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Thursday, October 15th:  Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Friday, October 16th:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Monday, October 19th:  The Tome Traveller

Tuesday, October 20th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, October 21st:  Luxury Reading

Thursday, October 22nd:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Tom Piazza is the author of the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War, and the short-story collection Blues And Trouble, winner of the James Michener Award for Fiction. He lives in New Orleans.

About City of Refuge

In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront Hurricane Katrina, a storm that will change the course of their lives. Reaching across America—from the neighborhoods of New Orleans to Texas,Chicago, and elsewhere—City of Refuge explores this turning point in American culture, one whose reverberations are only beginning to be understood.

Tom Piazza will be interviewed by Book Club Girl on Blog Talk Radio on September 10, 2009 at 4:00pm EST.

Tom Piazza’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Wednesday, August 26th: Rough Edges

Thursday, August 27th: Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

Monday, August 31st: Word Lily

Tuesday, September 8th: Book Chase

Thursday, September 10th: Cheryl’s Book Nook

Wednesday, September 16th: Linus’s Blanket

Thursday, September 17th: Book Addiction

Monday, September 28th: Devourer of Books

Tuesday, September 29th: Lesa’s Book Critiques

Wednesday, September 30th: Luxury Reading

Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens

Tuesday, July 21st:  Suko’s Notebook

Wednesday, July 22nd: Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-holic

Thursday, July 23rd:  Suko’s Notebook – author interview

Honey, It’s ALL in the Shoes by Phyllis Hoffman

Monday, July 20th:  Southern Lady

Tuesday, July 21st:  The Book Lady’s Blog

Wednesday, July 22nd:  Southern Hospitality

Thursday, July 23rd:  Cindy’s Love of Books

Friday, July 24th:  Shhh I’m Reading

Conversations with Richard Bandler by Richard Bandler and Owen Fitzpatrick

Tuesday, July 21st: life@work

Have a great week!