• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 5, 2012)

About Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty earned a degree in social work before returning for her M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She was the recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and is now a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and is at work on her next novel.

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Laura’s Tour Stops

Tuesday, May 1st: Sophisticated Dorkiness

Wednesday, May 2nd: bookchickdi

Thursday, May 3rd: From Left to Write

Friday, May 4th: Rayment’s Readings, Rants and Ramblings

Monday, May 7th: Frenzy of Noise

Thursday, May 10th: Bewitched Bookworms

Friday, May 11th: The Well-Read Wife

Monday, May 14th: Fire and Ice

Tuesday, May 15th: Book Journey

Wednesday, May 16th: Babbling About Books and More

Thursday, May 17th: Workaday Reads

Friday, May 18th: Verb Vixen

Saturday, May 19th: Midnight Book Girl

Wednesday, May 23rd: Kritters Ramblings

Thursday, May 24th: Literate Housewife

Friday, May 25th: Paperspines

Monday, May 28th: Sassymonkey Reads

Tuesday, May 29th: Picky Girl

Wednesday, May 30th: Chaos is a Friend of Mine

Thursday, May 31st: An Unconventional Librarian

Friday, June 1st: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness

Date TBD: An Avid Reader’s Musings

Date TBD: The Compulsive Reader

Date TBD: Never Too Fond of Books

Remember Me

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade (August 2, 2011)

What happens when the loyalty that defines the friendship of two women is tested? For Mia and Danielle, finding the answer takes a lifetime…

Mia Marks is a black girl from inner-city Detroit with an eye for the hottest fashions and a penchant for the good life. Danielle King is a suburban white girl with artistic ambitions. When a series of circumstances thrust Danielle and Mia together their freshman year at an all-girls Catholic high school, neither expects to form a deep bond that transcends race and background, and lasts for years. And neither could have anticipated the one indiscretion that destroyed it forever.

Twenty years later, Danielle is a successful novelist living in Miami. Mia is a school teacher in Detroit. But they’re still on common ground–both unhappily married and raising teenage daughters, and both far too proud to make the first move and reconnect. Until tragedy brings them back together in the most unexpected way. Now they must confront the past, discover its untold truths, and learn to survive the increasing complexities of their lives, and a friendship destined to endure.

About Cheryl Robinson

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Cheryl Robinson has a Bachelor’s of Science from Wayne State University. Her love of writing was sparked while taking a fiction writing course as a college elective.  She began her literary career by self-publishing two novels before acquiring a literary agent and then a publishing deal.  Remember Me is her sixth novel with New American Library, an imprint of the Penguin Group.

Cheryl lives in Ocala, Florida.

Connect with Cheryl on Facebook, or visit her website at cherylrobinson.com.

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Cheryl Robinson’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 1st:  The Brain Lair

Tuesday, August 2nd:  Book Club Classics!

Wednesday, August 3rd:  Books, Movies, and Chinese Food

Thursday, August 4th:  Life in the Thumb

Friday, August 5th:  Chick Lit Reviews

Monday, August 8th:  Colloquium

Wednesday, August 10th:  Life in Review

Thursday, August 11th:  Laura’s Reviews

Monday, August 15th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Tuesday, August 16th:  Black Diamond’s Book Reviews

Tuesday, August 23rd:  Rundpinne

Thursday, August 25th:  Books and Movies

Monday, August 29th:  Book Addiction

Thursday, September 8th:  Arms of a Sister

Monday, September 12th:  Knowing the Difference

Thursday, September 15th:  Well Read Wife

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011)

It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”

So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge.

They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became best friends, talking about everything from their shared history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships with men and colleagues, to their love of books. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. From disparate backgrounds but with striking emotional similarities, these two private, fiercely self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen.

The friendship helped them define the ordinary moments of life as the ones worth cherishing. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion and grief in this moving memoir about treasuring and losing a best friend. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of life and of the transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.

“Acutely observed and beautifully written….If you have tears, prepare to shed them….What an astonishing friendship.  What great women.  What a stellar, unforgettable book.”
–The Huffington Post

About Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell is the former chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she was a staff writer and critic for more than twenty years. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She is also the author of A Strong West Wind, a memoir of her native Texas. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gail Caldwell’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 1st- Knowing the Difference

Thursday, August 4th- Book Reviews by Molly

Monday, August 8th- Peeking Between the Pages

Friday, August 12th-  Rundpinne

Monday, August 15th- Life in Review

Thursday, August 18th- BookNAround

Monday, August 22nd- Book Hounds

Tuesday, August 23rd- Amused by Books

Wednesday, August 24th- Crazy for Books

Thursday, August 25th- Colloquium

Tuesday, August 30th- Starting Fresh

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011)

This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love in all its forms.

In a remarkably honest and confident voice, Sarah Winman has written the story of a memorable young heroine, Elly, and her loss of innocence—a magical portrait of the pull and power of a fabulous but flawed family and the ordinary and extraordinary events that shape their everyday lives. Beginning in 1968 and spanning four decades, from Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, When God Was a Rabbit follows the bond of love and secrets between Elly and her brother, Joe—and the increasing concern Elly feels for her spirited best friend, her soul mate, who has secrets of her own.  With its wit and sparkle, its engaging, sometimes dark portrayal of eccentricity, and its themes of memory and identity, When God Was a Rabbit is a love letter to true friendship and the unbreakable bond of fraternal love.

Funny, poignant, joyous, and utterly compelling, When God Was a Rabbit heralds the start of a remarkable literary career from an extraordinary new voice in fiction.

“Affecting and original.”—Library Journal

“Sarah Winman has written this book in the exact way events in a childhood—and a life—accrue, and I’ve never seen anyone able to do that so well. Brilliant, funny, and moving, When God Was a Rabbit is a captivating novel!”—Robb Forman Dew, author of Being Polite to Hitler

About Sarah Winman

Sarah Winman is an actress who attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and has gone on to act in theater, film, and on television. When God was a Rabbit is her debut novel. She lives in London.

Connect with Sarah on Facebook.

Sarah Winman’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, May 16th:  Books Like Breathing

Wednesday, May 18th:  Life in Review

Thursday, May 19th:  Bellas Novella

Friday, May 20th:  Chick Lit Reviews

Monday, May 23rd:  A Bookworm’s World

Wednesday, May 25th:  Book Reviews by Molly

Thursday, May 26th:  Books and Cooks

Thursday, June 2nd:  Take Me Away

Monday, June 6th:  Nomad Reader

Thursday, June 9th:  Rundpinne

Monday, June 27th:  In the Next Room

Wednesday, June 29th:  In the Next Room (author guest post)

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (June 7, 2011)

Set in rugged New Hampshire in the aftermath of a fatal accident, this assured debut novel wrestles with grief and desire as a young woman finds her way over the course of one summer.

In Down From Cascom Mountain, newlywed Mary Hall brings her husband to settle in the rural New Hampshire of her youth to fix up the house she grew up in and to reconnect to the land that defined her, with all its beauty and danger. But on a mountain day hike, she watches helplessly as her husband falls to his death. As she struggles with her sudden grief, in the days and months that follow, Mary finds new friendships–with Callie and Tobin, teenagers who live and work on the mountain, and with Ben, the gentle fire watchman. All are haunted by their own losses, but they find ways to restore hope in one another, holding firmly as they navigate the rugged terrain of the unknown and the unknowable, and loves lost and found. 

About Ann Joslin Williams

Ann Joslin Williams grew up in New Hampshire. She earned her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the author of The Woman in the Woods, a collection of linked stories, which won the 2005 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, and her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Iowa Review, the Missouri Review,Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She was the winner of an NEA grant for her work on Down from Cascom Mountain. Williams is an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire.

Visit Ann Joslin William’s website at www.annjoslinwilliams.com.

Ann Joslin William’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 13th:  Along the Way

Thursday, June 16th:  Caribousmom – review

Thursday, June 16th:  Caribousmom – author guest post

Monday, June 20th:  Nomad Reader

Wednesday, June 22nd:  Debbie’s Book Bag

Thursday, June 23rd:  A Cozy Reader’s Corner

Monday, June 27th:  BookNAround

Wednesday, June 29th:  Life in the Thumb

Friday, July 1st:  Rundpinne

Friday, July 1st:  Colloquium

Wednesday, July 6th:  A Library of My Own

Monday, July 25th:  Simply Stacie

Monday, August 1st:  In the Next Room

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (May 3, 2011)

In Ten Beach Road, Madeline Singer, Avery Lawford and Nikki Grant each arrive to Pass-a-Grille, FL desperate for a second chance.  Their trusted financial manager has vanished–along with all of their life savings–and left them with nothing but co-ownership of the rundown property that is Ten Beach Road.

Madeline is struggling with an unemployed husband, ailing mother-in-law and irresponsible children, Avery has lost both her marriage and her career, and Nikki is still reeling from the betrayal of the one person she thought she could trust.  Yet just as the women are reinventing themselves and beginning to believe in the power of their friendship and second chances, their secrets once again threaten to destroy everything they have built.

About Wendy Wax

Wendy Wax is the author of eight previous novels.  A former broadcaster, she lives in the Atlanta suburbs with her husband and two teenage sons, who have turned her into the shortest member of the family.

Visit Wendy on the web at www.authorwendywax.com or connect with her on Facebook.

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Wendy Wax’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, May 2nd:  Teresa’s Reading Corner

Tuesday, May 3rd:  Along the Way

Wednesday, May 4th:  BookNAround

Thursday, May 5th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Monday, May 9th:  A Cozy Reader’s Corner

Tuesday, May 10th:  One Book Shy of a Full Shelf

Wednesday, May 11th:  Reviews from the Heart

Thursday, May 12th:  Book Club Classics

Monday, May 16th:  Life in Review

Tuesday, May 17th:  Book Hooked Blog

Wednesday, May 18th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, May 19th:  Book Reviews by Molly

Friday, May 20th:  Colloquium

Friday, May 20th:  Colloquium – author guest post – “Addicted to HGTV”

Tuesday, May 24th:  Deb’s Book Bag

Thursday, May 26th:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, May 31st:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, June 1st:  Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, June 2nd:  Redlady’s Reading Room

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Dutton Adult (June 9, 2011)

A moving and insightful debut novel of great friendship interrupted. Can the relationship survive when the memories are gone?

Marissa Rogers never wanted to be an alpha; beta suited her just fine. Taking charge without taking credit had always paid off: vaulting her to senior editor at a glossy magazine; keeping the peace with her critical, weight-obsessed mother; and enjoying the benefits of being best friends with gorgeous, charismatic, absolutely alpha Julia Ferrar.

And then Julia gets hit by a cab. She survives with minor obvious injuries, but brain damage steals her memory and alters her personality, possibly forever. Suddenly, Marissa is thrown into the role of alpha friend. As Julia struggles to regain her memory- dredging up issues Marissa would rather forget, including the fact that Julia asked her to abandon the love of her life ten years ago- Marissa’s own equilibrium is shaken.

With the help of a dozen girls, she reluctantly agrees to coach in an after-school running program. There, Marissa uncovers her inner confidence and finds the courage to reexamine her past and take control of her future.

The Art of Forgetting is a story about the power of friendship, the memories and myths that hold us back, and the delicate balance between forgiving and forgetting.

“Charming and original, The Art of Forgetting weaves a delightful story of friendship, love, and forgiveness while exploring the surprising ways lives are forever reshaped in the aftermath of tragedy.” —Beth Hoffman, bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“The Art of Forgetting is a lively, thoughtful examination of a woman’s tangled relationship with her closest friend. After a traumatic accident re-shapes her oldest friend’s personality as well as her memory of pivotal moments in their shared history, Marissa Rogers is forced to take a second look at her own life choices. This book captivated me from the first page, and I couldn’t bear to put it down until I finished.” —Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling author of The Opposite of Me and Skipping a Beat

About Camille Noe Pagán

Camille Noe Pagán is the author of the debut novel The Art of Forgetting (Dutton / Penguin, June 2011). She’s also a journalist specializing in health and nutrition; her work has appeared in Glamour, O: The Oprah Magazine, SELF and Women’s Health, among others.

For more information on Camille, visit her website, www.camillenoepagan.com.

Camille Noe Pagán’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 6th:  Luxury Reading

Tuesday, June 7th:  Book Club Classics!

Wednesday, June 8th:  Book Addiction

Thursday, June 9th:  That’s What She Read

Friday, June 10th:  Life in the Thumb

Monday, June 13th:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, June 14th:  The Brain Lair

Wednesday, June 15th: Book Hooked Blog

Thursday, June 16th:  Library of Clean Reads

Friday, June 17th:  Dolce Bellezza

Monday, June 20th: Peeking Between the Pages

Tuesday, June 21st:  BookNAround

Wednesday, June 22nd:  Books, Movies, and Chinese Food

Thursday, June 23rd:  2 Kids and Tired

Monday, June 27th:  Stiletto Storytime

Tuesday, June 28th: The Well-Read Wife

Wednesday, June 29th:  Bookworm with a View

Thursday, June 30th:  Unabridged Chick

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Gotham; Reprint edition (April 6, 2010)

The instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture

As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eighth different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, the death of a child, and the mysterious death of the eleventh member of their group. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the enduring, deep bonds of women as they experience life’s challenges, and the power of friendship to overcome even the most daunting odds.

The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend. The Girls from Ames demonstrates how close female relationships can shape every aspect of women’s lives-their sense of themselves, their choice of men, their need for validation, their relationships with their mothers, their dreams for their daughters-and reveals how such friendships thrive, rewarding those who have committed to them. With both universal events and deeply personal moments, it’s a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.

Check out the website for The Girls from Ames HERE.

Meet the girls and see all their photos HERE.

Read an excerpt HERE.

About Jeffrey Zaslow

Coauthor of the international bestseller The Last Lecture, award-winning journalist Jeffrey Zaslow writes the Wall Street Journal‘s “Moving On” column, which has inspired several Oprah segments. He has also written for Time and USA Weekend.

Jeffrey Zaslow’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Wednesday, April 14th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, April 15th:  Silver and Grace

Friday, April 16th:  Chaotic Compendiums

Monday, April 19th:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, April 20th:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, April 21st:  Book Nook Club

Thursday, April 22nd:  Suko’s Notebook

Monday, April 26th:  Feminist Review

Wednesday, April 28th:  Bookworm with a View

Thursday, April 29th:  She Reads and Reads

Monday, May 3rd:  Cafe of Dreams

Tuesday, May 4th:  Janel’s Jumble

Wednesday, May 5th:  Anniegirl1138

Thursday, May 6th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Tuesday, May 11th:  Life in the Thumb

Wednesday, May 12th:  lit*chick