Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Harper (August 3, 2010)

Set against a vivid and lush South Florida background during the years of Miami’s coming-of-age, Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and romance—that deepens over the course of three decades.

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house’s owner, Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals itself.

Turning away from her life, Frances moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she earns the confidence of his wild-at-heart sister and the approval of his oldest friend. Frances and Dennis marry and have a child—but rather than growing complacent about their good fortune, they continue to face the challenges of intimacy, and of the complicated city they call home.

Stiltsville was called “an exquisite debut” by Publishers Weekly, and “a perfect balance of wit, weakness and tenderness . . . wonderfully buoyant” by BookPage.  Susanna Daniel interweaves the beauty, chaos, and humanity of Miami with an enduring story of a marriage’s beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise.

Learn more about Stiltsville at the author’s website.

About Susanna Daniel:

Susanna Daniel was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she spent much of her childhood at her family’s stilt house in Biscayne Bay. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Susanna lives with her husband and son in Madison, Wisconsin, where during the long winter she dreams of the sun and the sea, and of jumping off the stilt house porch at high tide. She is at work on a second novel.

Connect with Susanna:

On her Website

On Twitter

On Facebook

Follow along as we give away copies of Dracula, My Love on various blogs, then come back and chat with us about all things vampire.

On August 13th at 1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST, we’ll have a Vampire Lit Twitter chat (#TLCbookchat) with Syrie joining us in the chat. We’ll be giving away copies of Dracula, My Love before, during, and after the chat.. please join us!

About Dracula, My Love:  The Secret Journals of Mina Harker

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Avon A (July 20, 2010)

What if you were in love with an immortal being
who everyone you knew was determined to destroy?

Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective–as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth.

Who is this young, magnetic, handsome, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?

Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she’s found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. This haunted and haunting creature has awakened feelings and desires within her that she has never before known, which remake her as a woman.

Although everyone she knows fears Count Dracula and is pledged to destroy him, Mina sees a side to him that the others cannot: a tender, romantic side; a man who’s taken full advantage of his gift of immortality to expand his mind and talents; a man who is deeply in love, and who may not be evil after all. Soon, they are connected in a way she never thought humanly possible.

Yet to surrender is surely madness, for to be with him could end her life. It may cost Mina all she holds dear, but to make her choice she must learn everything she can about the remarkable origins and unique, sensuous powers of this man, this exquisite monster, this … Dracula!

Read an excerpt HERE.

“A spooky yet thoroughly romantic love story.”
—Chicago Tribune

About Syrie

Syrie James is the bestselling author of The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë. A member of the Writers Guild of America, she is also a screenwriter and lecturer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons, and welcomes visitors to her website at www.syriejames.com.

Connect with Syrie:

On her Website

On Facebook

On YouTube

Follow the tour for Dracula, My Love:

Monday, August 2nd:  LoveVampires

Monday, August 2nd:  Tynga’s Reviews

Tuesday, August 3rd:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Tuesday, August 3rd:  Pirate Penguin’s Reads

Wednesday, August 4th:  Parajunkee

Wednesday, August 4th:  Hist-Fic Chick

Thursday, August 5th:  Book Junkie

Thursday, August 5th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Friday, August 6th:  Mindful Musings

Monday, August 9th:  Scandalous Women

Monday, August 9th:  Passages to the Past

Monday, August 9th:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Tuesday, August 10th:  Historical-Fiction.com

Tuesday, August 10th:  Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, August 11th:  Dark Faerie Tales

Thursday, August 12th:  Lovin’ Me Some Romance

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (August 17, 2010)

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novel—a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim’s life….I’d Know You Anywhere.

Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life with her successful husband and children, thirteen-year-old Iso and eight-year-old Albie. But her tranquillity is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects—or wants—to hear from: Walter Bowman. There was your photo, in a magazine. Of course, you are older now. Still, I’d know you anywhere.

In the summer of 1985, when she was fifteen, Eliza was kidnapped by Walter and held hostage for almost six weeks. He had killed at least one girl and Eliza always suspected he had other victims as well. Now on death row in Virginia for the rape and murder of his final victim, Walter seems to be making a heartfelt act of contrition as his execution nears. Though Eliza wants nothing to do with him, she’s never forgotten that Walter was most unpredictable when ignored. Desperate to shelter her children from this undisclosed trauma in her past, she cautiously makes contact with Walter. She’s always wondered why Walter let her live, and perhaps now he’ll tell her—and share the truth about his other victims.

Yet as Walter presses her for more and deeper contact, it becomes clear that he is after something greater than forgiveness. He wants Eliza to remember what really happened that long-ago summer. He wants her to save his life. And Eliza, who has worked hard for her comfortable, cocooned life, will do anything to protect it—even if it means finally facing the events of that horrifying summer and the terrible truth she’s kept buried inside.

An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation that will leave readers racing to the final page, I’d Know You Anywhere is a virtuoso performance from acclaimed, award-winning author Laura Lippman that is sure to be her biggest hit yet.

About Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and returned to her hometown in 1989 to work as a journalist. After writing seven books while still a full-time reporter, she left the Baltimore Sun to focus on fiction. The author of two New York Times bestsellers, What the Dead Know and Another Thing to Fall, she has won numerous awards for her work, including the Edgar, Quill, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity.

I’d Know You Anywhere is Laura Lippman’s 18th book.

To learn more about Laura’s work, visit her website or connect with her on Facebook.

Monday, July 19th:  The 3 R’s Blog

Tuesday, July 20th:  Scraps of Life

Wednesday, July 21st:  A Few More Pages

Thursday, July 22nd:  Novel Whore- Gabriella

Friday, July 23rd:  Starting Fresh

How to Be An American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway

Monday, July 19th:  Life of a Busy Wife

Tuesday, July 20th:  At Home with Books

Wednesday, July 21:  The Book Faery

Thursday, July 22:  Brunette on a Budget

Friday, July 23rd:  Bookalicious

Sea Escape by Lynne Griffin

Monday, July 19th:  Raging Bibliomania

Tuesday, July 20th:  Beth Fish Reads

Wednesday, July 21st: Maw Books Blog

Thursday, July 22nd:  Dolce Bellezza

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Think of a Number by John Verdon

Monday, July 19th: Book Junkie

Tuesday, July 20th:  Lesa’s Book Critiques

Wednesday, July 21st:  Knowing the Difference

Thursday, July 22nd:  Readaholic

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Boys Lie by Belisa Vranich and Holly Eagleson

Monday, July 19th:  Suko’s Notebook

Tuesday, July 20th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, July 22nd:  There’s A Book

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Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline

Monday, July 19th: Coffee Books and Laundry

Wednesday, July 21st: The Lost Entwife

Thursday, July 22nd: Reading at the Beach

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Hidden Wives by Claire Avery

Monday, July 19th:  It’s All About Books

Tuesday, July 20th:  All About {n}

Wednesday, July 21st:  Life in the Thumb

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The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion

Monday, July 19th:  The Feminist Review reschedule

Thursday, July 22nd:  Ask Miss A

Thursday, July 22nd:  The Book Faery Reviews

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Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Monday, July 19th: A Whole Lotta Nothing

Wednesday, July 21st: Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang

Thursday, July 22nd: Six Pixels of Separation

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Twice Tempted by a Rogue by Tessa Dare

Wednesday, July 21st: Borders True Romance Blog

Friday, July 23rd: Laughing Through the Chaos – reschedule

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The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers

Monday, July 19th: The Little Reader

Wednesday, July 21st: Michelle’s Masterful Musings

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Hearts on a String by Kris Radish

Monday, July 19th:  Reading at the Beach

Tuesday, July 20th:  Lit and Life

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I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway by Tracy McMillan

Monday, July 19th: Til We Read Again

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Psychic by Sylvia Browne

Monday, July 19th: Spiritual-Web

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The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva

Tuesday, July 20th:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, July 21st:  Luxury Reading

Thursday, July 22nd:  A Bookworm’s World

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The Language of Trees by Ilie Ruby

Tuesday, July 20th: I’m Booking It

Wednesday, July 21st: Café of Dreams

Thursday, July 22nd: Alison’s Book Marks RESCHEDULED

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Not That Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer

Tuesday, July 20th: Heart 2 Heart

Friday, July 23rd: Knowing the Difference

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The Hypnotist by MJ Rose

Wednesday, July 21st: The Book Vixen

Thursday, July 22nd: Rundpinne

Friday, July 23rd: Fantasy & Sci Fi Lovin’ News and Reviews reschedule for next week

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Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe

Wednesday, July 21st: Chaotic Compendiums

Thursday, July 22nd: lit*chick RESCHEDULED

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Lit by Mary Karr

Thursday, July 22nd:  The Girl from the Ghetto

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Labor Day by Joyce Maynard

Thursday, July 22nd: Jenn’s Bookshelves

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Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 27, 2010)

Dallas MacGregor is living the Hollywood dream. At thirtysomething, she’s an award-winning actress beloved by the public and bound for even bigger success. But when her soon-to-be-ex-husband, producer Emilio Baird, is caught in a sex scandal, Dallas’s charmed life turns tabloid nightmare. Determined to shield her young son, Cody, from the ugly uproar, Dallas seeks refuge in sleepy St. Dennis, Maryland—the Chesapeake Bay town where her happiest childhood days were spent.

Reunited with her boisterous great-aunt, Dallas wants nothing more than to leave her Hollywood days behind. And when she crosses paths with local veterinarian Grant Wyler, her high school summer love, she finds he’s everything she remembers, and more—and that the spark is still there. But Dallas’s promising new life takes a troubling turn when the unimaginable happens and she finds herself living a mother’s worst nightmare—and Emilio storms into St. Dennis to save the day, along with his damaged career. Trapped in the unwanted glare of the limelight once again, Dallas discovers that it’s coolheaded Grant who is willing to risk everything to protect her and her son, and to secure the future they were always meant to share.

Home Again is the second in the Chesapeake Diaries series but can be read as a stand-alone title.  Read an excerpt HERE.

About Mariah

Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-seven novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, their daughter, and their dogs.

Connect with Mariah:

On her website

On Facebook

3 NEW TITLES IN A BREAKTHROUGH TEEN-AUTHORED MEMOIR SERIES!

Alexis Singer gives an honest voice to the very real phenomenon of online solicitation. In Alexis, she shares her harrowing story of being sucked into an emotionally dependent and cybersexual relationship by an older man she met in a chat room. “I probably would have forgotten about that first online conversation if it weren’t for his surprising interest in me…I would have dismissed him as just another creep,” Alexis writes.

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In Hannah, author Hannah Westberg writes, “The psych ward is where you go to get from fragile to shattered. It’s like taking your car to get washed and getting your windshield broken in the process.” As told through brutally honest vignettes, Hannah brings the reader into one teen’s world of dangerous behaviors—from pill popping and excessive dieting to cutting and suicide attempts—brought on by the author’s borderline personality disorder.

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In Rae, brilliant young author Chelsea Rae Swiggett writes, “If I keep acting normal, I hope one day I will be, but every time I try, I just let myself down.” This incredible memoir gives an inside glimpse of living life with a condition more and more common in today’s teens—severe anxiety disorder.

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This cutting-edge series gives teens an opportunity to tell their own stories—authentically and with no holds barred. The authors’ unique teen perspective,along with their fresh, real voices, hook even the most reluctant teen readers.

HCI Books is proud to present these three powerful new teen-authored memoirs as part of the  Louder Than Words series, due out in August 2010.

Visit the Louder Than Words website for more information!

About the authors and editor:

Alexis Singer is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 19, she is about to begin her junior year at Chatham University where she studies political science and women’s studies. She attended the Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts as a writer. She is a writer, a read, an activist, a feminist, and an avid home cook. Her heroes include AlicePaul, Conan O’Brian, and her mother.

18-year-old Hannah Westberg lives in Vancouver, Washington. She earned her GED and plans to enroll in Portland Community College’s drug and alcohol counselor certification program. When she’s not babysitting, she is probably volunteering for political and charity organizations, as well as participating in flash mobs.

Chelsea Rae Swiggett is 18 years old and lives in Ohio. She will soon be heading to college to major in English and immerse herself even further into the world of books and writing. She currently serves on the Ypulse Youth Advisory Board and plans on traveling the world—or at least the US—by the time 2012 hits. Just in case. Visit her on her YA book review blog, The Page Flipper.

Deborah Reber, editor of the Louder Than Words memoirs, is a bestselling author of nonfiction books for teens, including Chill and In Their Shoes. Visit her popular blog for girls,  Smart Girls Know.

TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for LOUDER THAN WORDS:

Monday, August 2nd:  Shooting Stars Mag (HANNAH)

Tuesday, August 3rd:  The Brain Lair (RAE)

Wednesday, August 4th:  The Book Cellar (ALEXIS)

Thursday, August 5th:  Once Upon a Review (RAE)

Friday, August 6th:  A Good Addiction (HANNAH)

Friday, August 6th:  Bri Meets Books (ALEXIS)

Monday, August 9th:  Luxury Reading (ALEXIS)

Tuesday, August 10th:  La Femme Readers (RAE)

Wednesday, August 11th:  Luxury Reading (HANNAH)

Thursday, August 12th:  Book Junkie (RAE)

Friday, August 13th:  Peeking Between the Pages (ALEXIS)

Monday, August 16th:  Pop Culture Junkie (HANNAH)

Monday, August 16th:  Luxury Reading (RAE)

Tuesday, August 17th:  Frenetic Reader (ALEXIS)

Tuesday, August 17th:  Katie’s Book Blog (HANNAH)

Wednesday, August 18th:  The Book Scout (RAE)

Thursday, August 19th:  Carrie’s YA Bookshelf (HANNAH)

Friday, August 20th:  YA Book Queen (RAE)

Monday, August 23rd:  Shooting Stars Mag (ALEXIS)

Tuesday, August 24th:  Peeking Between the Pages (HANNAH)

Thursday, August 25th:  Ticket to Anywhere (ALEXIS)

Thursday, August 26th:  WORD for Teens (RAE)

Friday, August 27th:  Rundpinne (ALEXIS)

Monday, August 30th:  The Compulsive Reader (HANNAH)

Tuesday, August 31st:  Peeking Between the Pages (RAE)

]]> http://tlcbooktours.com/2010/07/teen-authored-memoir-series-louder-than-words-on-tour-august-2010/feed/ 0 http://tlcbooktours.com/2010/07/the-mackayla-lane-novels-by-karen-marie-moning-on-tour-fall-2010/ http://tlcbooktours.com/2010/07/the-mackayla-lane-novels-by-karen-marie-moning-on-tour-fall-2010/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:21:06 +0000 admin http://tlcbooktours.com/?p=6220 In anticipation and celebration of the release of Shadowfever (January 2011), Karen Marie Moning’s final book in this series, we are putting all of the MacKayla Lane Novels on tour this fall!

Darkfever – Book One – on tour August/September

MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….

As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands….

TLC TOUR STOPS for Darkfever:

Monday, August 16th:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Wednesday, August 18th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Monday, August 23rd:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, August 25th:  Tynga’s Reviews

Thursday, August 26th:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Monday, August 30th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, September 1st:  The Cajun Book Lady

Tuesday, September 7th:  Book Junkie

Thursday, September 9th:  Angieville

Friday, September 10th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, September 13th:  Dark Faerie Tales

Bloodfever – Book Two – on tour September/October

“I used to be your average, everyday girl but all that changed one night in Dublin when I saw my first Fae, and got dragged into a world of deadly immortals and ancient secrets. . . “

In her fight to stay alive, MacKayla must find the Sinsar Dubh—a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over the worlds of both the Fae and Man. Pursued by assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she can’t trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and powerful men: V’lane, the immortal Fae Prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man as irresistible as he is dangerous.

For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.

TLC TOUR STOPS for Bloodfever:

Monday, September 20th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Wednesday, September 22nd:  Rundpinne

Monday, September 27th:  Book Lover Carol

Tuesday, September 28th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, September 29th:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Friday, October 1st:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Wednesday, October 6th:  The Cajun Book Lady

Monday, October 11th:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, October 13th:  Dark Faerie Tales

Faefever – Book Three – on tour  October/November

“He calls me his Queen of the Night. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him, too.”

When MacKayla Lane receives a page torn from her dead sister’s journal, she is stunned by Alina’s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister’s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil that it corrupts anyone who touches it.

Mac’s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shapeshifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V’lane, a lethal Fae prince, and Jericho Barrons, a man of deadly secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul.

TLC TOUR STOPS for Faefever:

Monday, October 18th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Thursday, October 21st:  Rundpinne

Monday, October 25th:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Wednesday, October 27th:  Mindful Musings

Monday, November 1st:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, November 3rd:  Parajunkee’s Views

Monday, September 13th:  Dark Faerie Tales

Monday, November 8th:  The Cajun Book Lady

Wednesday, November 10th:  Luxury Reading

Dreamfever – Book Four – on tour November/December

MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down.

He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust.

With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew.

TLC TOUR STOPS for Dreamfever:

Monday, November 15th:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, November 16th:  Bookalicious

Wednesday, November 17th:  All Things Urban Fantasy

Monday, November 22nd:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Wednesday, November 24th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Monday, November 29th:  The Cajun Book Lady

Wednesday, December 1st:  Parajunkee’s Views

Thursday, December 2nd:  Luxury Reading

Monday, December 6th:  Dark Faerie Tales

About Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning is the internationally bestselling author of the Highlander and Fever novels. Her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, and have one numerous awards, including the prestigious Rita. She lives in Georgia and Florida with her husband Neil and the world-traveling cat, Moonshadow.

Connect with Karen on her Website, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

Monday, June 28th: Feminist Review

Monday, June 28th:  carp(e) libris reviews

Wednesday, June 30th: Crazy for Books

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The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen

Monday, June 28th:  Take Me Away

Tuesday, June 29th:  Galleysmith

Wednesday, June 30th:  Write Meg

Thursday, July 1st:  1330v

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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White

Monday, June 28th: Michelle’s Masterful Musings

Tuesday, June 29th: Chocolate & Croissants

Wednesday, June 30th: A Bookshelf Monstrosity

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Heart of Lies by M. L. Malcolm

Monday, June 28th:  Heart 2 Heart

Tuesday, June 29th:  Chefdruck Musings

Wednesday, June 30th:  Dolce Bellezza

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The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri

Monday, June 28th:   Bookalico.us

Tuesday, June 29th:  Drey’s Library

Wednesday, June 30th:  The Tome Traveler RESCHEDULED

Friday, July 2nd: Redlady’s Reading Room

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Psychic by Sylvia Browne

Monday, June 28th: Breathe Books

Tuesday, June 29th: Psychotic State

Wednesday, June 30th: Your Dark Passenger

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Losing My Cool by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Monday, June 28th:  The Prissy Mommy Chronicles

Monday, June 28th:  Rundpinne

Tuesday, June 29th:  APOOO

Tuesday, June 29th:  Gunfighter

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Leaving Unknown by Kerry Reichs

Monday, June 28th: Pop Culture Junkie

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The Great Lover by Jill Dawson

Monday, June 28th:  1330v

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The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews

Tuesday, June 29th: I’m Booking It

Wednesday, June 30th: Books By Their Cover

Thursday, July 1st: Pudgy Penguin Perusals

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Not That Kind of Girl by Carlene Bauer

Tuesday, June 29th: Literate Housewife

Thursday, July 1st: Tales of a Capricious Reader

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Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Tuesday, June 29th: Convince and Convert

Wednesday, June 30th: Library Queue

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Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss

Tuesday, June 29th: Booksie’s Blog

Wednesday, June 30th: Starting Fresh

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Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart

Tuesday, June 29th: Solo Lisa

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Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Mansay

Wednesday, June 30th: Rundpinne

Thursday, July 1st: Lisa’s Yarns

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Twice Tempted by a Rogue by Tessa Dare

Thursday, July 1st: Pop Culture Junkie

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Denial by Jessica Stern

Thursday, July 1st: lit*chick

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Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe

Thursday, July 1st: Devourer of Books

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Hidden Wives by Claire Avery

Friday, July 2nd:  Rundpinne

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• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (November 16, 2010)

Joy Ballard has a secret: she’s a cooking show host who can’t really cook.

When her South Carolina-based cooking show, Dining With Joy, is picked up by a major network, Joy Ballard’s world heats up like a lowcountry boil.

Joy needs help. Then she meets chef Luke Davis who moved to Beaufort after losing his Manhattan restaurant. A cook at the Frogmore Cafe, he’s paying debts and longing to regain his reputation in the elite foodie world.

Luke and Joy mix like oil and water…until Joy is exposed on national television. With her career and his reputation both under fire, they’ll have to work together to fix the mess. Is it possible that they can learn to feast on God’s love and dine with joy?

About Rachel Hauck

Hardcover: 264 pages

Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010)

“The truth is that we all have felt ugly.  The sin is that we let this word shame us, control us, and define us.”

– Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW

Have you heard about the Ugly Problem?  Vanity and disgust over our looks, our weight, our inevitable aging have become commonplace-even expected-but their pervasiveness and control over our well being, our decision-making, and our identity have gotten out of control!  Ugly as Sin is a brave and searingly honest exploration of the taboo subject of ugliness and how it affects every one of us in a direct and profound way.

The fear of being ugly has poisoned our minds, impeded our spirits, and sidetracked us from what really matters.  This universal fear, which psychotherapist Toni Raiten-D’Anotonio calls “ugliphobia” affects how we develop as individuals, how we relate to each other, and, most of all, how we feel about ourselves.  Our politics, religion, and cultural development even rely heavily on appearance-based bigotry that acts as the last acceptable form of prejudice.  Ugly as Sin is a provocative and timely call to action to reverse the devastating repurcussions of the Ugly Problem.

Overcoming ugliphobia begins with having the courage to embrace our own ugliness and, in the process, accept our humanity.  That sounds easier said than done, which is why it is with profound empathy and wisdom that Raiten-D’Anotonio ultimately offers readers inspiration, hope, and peace, as well as tools for finding

About Toni Raiten-D’Antonio

Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW, is a well-known psychotherapist with a thriving private practice in Suffolk County, Long Island. She is a professor of psychology and social work at Empire State College. Prior to becoming a therapist she worked in television and theater as both a performer and producer. She has two daughters and lives in New York with her husband, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D’Antonio.