• Reading level: Young Adult
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: HCI Teens (July 1, 2010)

Everyone else is doing it. It’s lies like this one that often get young women, particularly ages 10 to 20, to put aside their own nagging thoughts about what is right—and wrong—and make choices they might regret long-term. Boys Lie is a collection of the most common untruths proliferated by boys and an assessment of the exaggerations and misinformation behind them.

Written by an expert with years of clinical experience with thousands of teens, Boys Lie is the first sexual and social health book of its kind. Based on a large national survey, this timely guide sets the record straight on what guys lie about, arming girls with straightforward advice that is understandable, concise, and totally relatable. And while the title may seem anti-boy, it’s more like pro-girl, helping to foster healthier relationships between the sexes.

Boys Lie unearths:

About the authors:

Belisa Vranich, Psy.D., is a renowned clinical psychologist, author, and public speaker who specializes in women’s health issues. She is a regular guest on CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox, and Inside Edition. She has been interviewed as an expert in hundreds of publications, including Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, AARP, and The New York Post. Dr. Vranich has a decade of experience in developing educational campaigns, presenting, and lecturing nationwide.  She is the co-author of He’s Got Potential: A Field Guide to Shy Guys, Bad Boys, Intellectuals, Cheaters, and Everything in Between.  Click HERE to visit Dr. Belisa’s website.

Holly Eagleson is the former features editor for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, who writes regularly for Seventeen, Glamour, CosmoGirl, Everyday With Rachael Ray, and AOL. She also authored Mirror, Mirror: Discover Your Inner Beauty, a guide for girls 14-17 funded by the Dove Self-Esteem Fund for Girl Scouts of America.

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TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for BOYS LIE:

Tuesday, July 6th:  Feminist Review

Thursday, July 8th:  Shooting Stars Mag

Monday, July 12th:  The Brain Lair

Tuesday, July 13th:  Book Junkie

Wednesday, July 14th:  I Swim for Oceans – reschedule

Monday, July 19th:  Suko’s Notebook

Tuesday, July 20th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, July 22nd:  There’s A Book

Monday, July 26th:  Write for a Reader

Wednesday, July 28th:  Lovely Undergrad

Monday, August 2nd: La Femme Readers

Reading level: Young Adult

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Avery Trade (January 4, 2010)

As an ob-gyn specialing in adolescent care, Dr. Jennifer Ashton understands better than anyone that being a teenage girl these days is fraught with a special kind of angst. But in her practice she talks openly and nonjudgementally to her young patients like a good friend, answering each of their questions respectfully and with candor. Now she shares this advice in a no-holds-barred guidebook, based on her passion to cut through the embarrassment that girls often feel about their changing bodies and to arm them with the knowledge they need to make smart choices. A comprehensive guide from head to toe, The Body Scoop for Girls covers the basics of puberty and beyond, including:

•Breast development and nipple bumps

•The decision to wait to have sex, and the benefits of waiting

•Birth control

•The lowdown on STIs

•Eating Disorders

•Depression and hormone imbalances

•Grooming, from hair removal to hygiene products

•Body piercings

Writing in a funny and fresh, girl-to-girl voice, Dr. Ashton has created a totally up-to-date health book that speaks directly to young women and the unique pressures they face today. From a doctor who “gets it,” The Body Scoop for Girls makes the road to womanhood an empowering one.

About Dr. Jen Ashton

Dr. Jennifer Ashton is a board-certified ob-gyn who specializes in adolescent gynecology. In March 2009, Dr. Ashton joined CBS as a news medical correspondent. She reports on a broad range of medical topics for CBS News’ The Early Show and contributes to the division’s other broadcasts and platforms.

Dr. Ashton is the author of the upcoming book The Body Scoop for Girls (Avery, January 2010). For more from Dr. Jennifer Ashton, visit cbsnews.com.

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Dr. Jen Ashton’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Wednesday, January 6th: This Full House

Tuesday, January 12th: Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-holic

Wednesday, January 13th: Lit and Life

Thursday, January 14th: Suko’s Notebook

Monday, January 18th: Shooting Stars Mag

Tuesday, January 19th: You’ve GOTTA Read This!

Wednesday, January 20th: Overstuffed

Thursday, January 21st: The Brain Lair

Friday, January 22nd: The Scholastic Scribe

Monday, January 25th: Juggling Life

Tuesday, January 26th: I’m Booking It

Wednesday, January 27th: World of Weasels

Thursday, January 28th: Raging Bibliomania

Friday, January 29th: A Novel Menagerie

Monday, February 1st: Cafe of Dreams

Monday, February 22nd: Feminist Review

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (September 22, 2009)

The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, burst into fits of rage, slithered against walls, and used his limbs instead of his hands to touch light switches, doorknobs, and faucets.

Sammy’s mother, Beth, already coping with the overwhelming responsibility of raising three sons alone, watched helplessly as her middle child descended into madness. Sammy was soon diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and later with Tourette syndrome. Unwilling to accept the doctors’ prognoses for lifelong mental illness and repeated hospitalizations, Beth fought to uncover what was causing this decline. Racing against time as Sammy slipped further from reality, Beth’s quest took her to the center of the medical community’s raging debate about whether mental illness can be caused by infection. With the battle lines firmly drawn, Beth searched until she found two cutting-edge doctors who answered that question with a definitive yes. Together, they cured Sammy. Five years later, he remains symptom free.

Driven by her desire to help others, Beth Maloney has infused every page of this triumphant journey with heart and passion. An important story, Saving Sammy is part manifesto, part medical mystery, but is at its heart the empowering and inspiring story of a mother’s determination to save her son, take on the medical establishment–and win.

Beth Maloney

About Beth

Beth Maloney is a successful Maine attorney. In addition to representing writers and producers, her practice has focused on representing the best interests of children as their Court appointed Guardian ad Litem, primarily in cases of neglect and abuse. Before moving to Maine, the author was an executive and attorney in the entertainment business in Los Angeles, where it was her good fortune to work with a number of creative and athletic stars. Her experience includes serving as Vice-President of Legal Affairs for Orion Pictures Corporation, producing motion pictures, and handling matters in private practice for celebrity entertainers and athletes including Johnny Carson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Shaquille O’Neal. SAVING SAMMY is Ms. Maloney’s first book.

Visit the Saving Sammy website HERE.

Click HERE to view the video from the author’s recent appearance on the Today Show.

Beth Maloney’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, November 5th: Bloggin’ ’bout Books

Monday, November 9th: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books

Tuesday, November 10th: not that you asked

Wednesday, November 11th: Overstuffed

Thursday, November 12th: It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Mine

Tuesday, November 17th: Park City Girl

Wednesday, November 18th: Redlady’s Reading Room

Monday, November 23rd: Book Chatter

Tuesday, November 24th: A Nut in a Nutshell

Monday, December 7th: Rundpinne