Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2012

| January 1, 2012

Book club members will want to share their own wedding memories and their hopes and dreams for their daughters while discussing The Magic Room  The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters by Jeffrey Zaslow The New York Times bestselling journalist and author of The Girls from Ames, Jeffrey Zaslow, [...]

Doc Hendley, author of Wine to Water, on tour January 2012

| October 17, 2011

About Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Avery (January 5, 2012) The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who’s changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events [...]

Anna Lefler, author of The CHICKtionary, on tour November/December 2011

| October 15, 2011

About The CHICKtionary: from A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know:   Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Adams Media (October 19, 2011) Your bestie, biffle, and GMF rolled into one! You’re all over the definitions of “low lights,” “ruching,” and a “tankini.” But can you spot a “Mrs. Potato Head” when you see one? [...]

Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 2011

| October 11, 2011

About So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (November 15, 2011) Christine Hartmann’s mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death.  Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the [...]

David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, on tour October/November 2011

| September 9, 2011

About You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 27, 2011) An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees [...]