• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Avon A (October 5, 2010)

A gifted artist, Cate has come to London from New York to escape her recent past. Working for her aunt’s auction house, she is sent down to Devon to value the contents of Endsleigh House, the once gracious but now crumbling estate of a former socialite. There, hidden in the back of a dusty bookshelf, Cate discovers an old shoebox. Inside is a strange assortment of objects: an exquisite pair of dancing shoes circa 1930; a diamond brooch; a photograph of a young sailor; a dance card; and a pearl and emerald Tiffanys bracelet.

Intrigued by her find, Cate sets out to solve the mystery of the box, becoming immersed in the story of its owner, Baby Blythe. Bright, beautiful, and reckless, Baby was the most famous debutante of her generation . . . and the most dangerous. As the clues begin to reveal a shocking tale of destructive, addictive love, Cate finds herself being drawn deeper into Baby’s tragic life story—a story that will force Cate to face some dark truths about her own.

About Kathleen

Born in Pittsburgh, Kathleen Tessaro emigrated to London where she worked as an actress in films, television, and theater, while training to be a drama teacher and voice coach. She is the author of the novels Elegance, Innocence, and The Flirt. Kathleen currently lives in Pennsylvania.

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Bantam; Original edition (May 25, 2010)

Hearts on a String delves deeply into the emotions of five very different women who are thrown together by chance-only to discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined.

Holly Blandeen has always cherished the story her grandmother told her about the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood. It’s a beautiful idea, but with all the curveballs life has thrown her way, Holly has often felt isolated, different from other women. That starts to change when she meets four strangers in an airport and they agree to share a luxury hotel suite because a powerful spring storm is barreling across the country, stranding travelers from California to Florida.

What begins as a spur-of-the-moment decision becomes an unlikely, unexpected, and sometimes reluctant exercise in female bonding, as these five exceptional women-each at a crossroads-swap stories, share secrets, and seek answers to the questions they’ve been asking about life, love, and the path to true happiness. A storm may have grounded them for the moment, but after this wild adventure in which anything can and does happen, they’ll never have to fly solo again.

“Kris Radish creates characters that seek and then celebrate the discovery of . . . women’s innate power.”—Denver Post

About Kris Radish

Hearts on a String is Kris Radish’s 7th book. Her Bantam Dell novels THE ELEGANT GATHERING OF WHITE SNOWS, DANCING NAKED AT THE EDGE OF DAWN and ANNIE FREEMAN’S FABULOUS TRAVELING FUNERAL have been on the bestseller and Book Sense 76 Selection lists. She also writes two weekly nationally syndicated columns.  Ms. Radish lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.

Connect with Kris:

On her website

On Twitter

On Facebook

On her blog

Kris Radish’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, July 5th:  Joyfully Retired

Wednesday, July 7th:  Sashay Magazine

Thursday, July 9th:  Scraps of Life

Wednesday, July 14th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, July 15th:  Rundpinne

Friday, July 16th:  A Bookish Way of Life

Monday, July 19th:  Reading at the Beach

Tuesday, July 20th:  Lit and Life

Monday, July 26th:  Anniegirl1138

Tuesday, July 27th:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, July 28th:  Along the Way

Monday, August 2nd:  My Random Acts of Reading

Wednesday, August 4th:  One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books

Monday, August 9th:  Crazy for Books

Monday, August 16th:  Peeking Between the Pages

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books (June 1, 2010)

This novel is for anyone who has ever wondered what their future might hold. Most of us question where we will be in five or ten years, who we will marry (if we get married), where we’ll live, if the goals we’ve set for ourselves will actually come to pass. THE ONE THAT I WANT, (Shaye Areheart Books; June 1, 2010), Allison Winn Scotch’s smart, entertaining, and inspiring follow-up to the highly praised Time of My Life, explores what might happen if you could see into your future.

Tilly Farmer is 32 years old and has the life she always dreamed of: married to her high school boyfriend, working as the school guidance counselor, trying for a baby. Perfect. But a chance meeting with a childhood friend in a fortune teller’s tent at the local fair changes everything.

“I’m giving you the gift of clarity,” her friend says, “It’s what I always thought you needed.” That night Tilly has a terrifying dream that her alcoholic father has relapsed, and when she wakes up to learn that he crashed his car into a tree after a night at the bar she can’t help but think she saw it coming. Soon enough Tilly starts seeing more visions: her husband Tyler uprooting their quiet life, a packed U-Haul in their driveway, leaving for a job in Seattle. And even more disturbing, these visions start coming true.

What would you do if you could take a glimpse into your future and how would you react if it wasn’t quite what you expected? What if the life you were living isn’t the one you were meant to? In THE ONE THAT I WANT Allison Winn Scotch allows us to consider that fundamental question…what if?

About Allison

Allison Winn Scotch is the bestselling author of Time of My Life and The Department of Lost and Found. Prior to her fiction, she was a frequent contributor to numerous magazines and websites including Cooking Light, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, and Redbook, and now focuses on celebrity profiles for a variety of magazines.

Allison lives in New York with her husband and their son and daughter.

Connect with Allison – on her website, on her blog, on Twitter, and on Facebook.

Allison Winn Scotch’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, May 31st:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, June 2nd:  Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, June 3rd:  Books, Movies, and Chinese Food

Monday, June 7th:  Hey, Lady!  Whatcha’ Readin’?

Tuesday, June 8th:  Write Meg!

Wednesday, June 9th:  Life in the Thumb

Thursday, June 10th:  The Brain Lair

Monday, June 14th:  Simply Stacie

Wednesday, June 16th:  Luxury Reading

Friday, June 18th:  ChickLitReviews.com

Monday, June 21st:  Presenting Lenore

Wednesday, June 23rd:  Novel Whore

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (March 16, 2010)

Zoe Fishman’s Balancing Acts, a charming and poignant story of four former college friends helping each other balance their dreams through the power of yoga and friendship, is a must for fans of The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Reading Group, The Jane Austen Book Club, and Girls in Trucks.

With beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it all—until she turned thirty and took stock of her life, or lack thereof. She left it all behind to pursue yoga, and now, two years later, she’s looking to drum up business for her fledgling studio in Brooklyn. Attending her college’s alumni night with fliers in tow, she reconnects with three former classmates whose post-graduation lives, like hers, haven’t turned out like they’d hoped.

Romance book editor Sabine still longs to write the novel that’s bottled up inside her. Once an up-and-coming photographer and Upper East Side social darling, Naomi is now a single mom who hasn’t picked up her camera in years. And Bess, who dreamed of being a serious investigative journalist a la Christiane Amanpour, is stuck in a rut, writing snarky captions for a gossip mag. But at a weekly yoga class at Charlie’s studio, the four friends, reunited ten years after college, will forge new bonds and take new chances—as they start over, fall in love, change their lives…and come face-to-face with haunting realities.

About Zoe Fishman

Zoe Fishman lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband. Balancing Acts is her first novel.

Zoe’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Tuesday, March 16th: Book Addiction

Thursday, March 18th: Books, Movies, and Chinese Food

Tuesday, March 23rd: The Book Faery Reviews

Thursday, March 25th: Pop Culture Junkie

Monday, March 29th: Laughing Through the Chaos

Tuesday, March 30th: Write Meg

Wednesday, March 31st: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books

Thursday, April 1st: Luxury Reading

Monday, April 5th: A Garden Carried in my Pocket

Tuesday, April 6th: Red Lady’s Reading Room

Thursday, April 8th: Wordlily

Susan McBride is the author of The Cougar Club (January 2010, from HarperCollins/Avon) about three 45-year-old friends who happen to date younger men. She has also written three books in The Debs young adult series (Random House/Delacorte) set in Houston, including The Debs; Love, Lies, and Texas Dips; and the forthcoming Gloves Off. In addition, she’s penned five Debutante Dropout Mysteries (HarperCollins/Avon) set in Dallas: Blue Blood,  The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,  The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club,  Night of the Living Deb,  and Too Pretty to Die (HarperCollins/Avon).

Once called “The Lou’s Whodunit Queen” by Sauce magazine in St. Louis, Susan was named one of the city’s “top singles” in 2005 by St. Louis Magazine, but is single no more. She tied the knot in February of 2008. Susan was the cover girl for the February 2009 issue of St. Louis Woman magazine, where she was featured in the article “Paperback Princess.”

Susan has won a Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery, a Romantic Times magazine Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Amateur Sleuth Mystery, and was twice nominated for Anthony Awards for Best Paperback Original, and was one of three finalists for the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Literary Excellence (for Kansas and Missouri Authors). She lives in Brentwood, Missouri, with her husband.

In addition to Susan McBride’s website, and you can also find her at The Book Belles and at The Stiletto Gang.

About The Cougar Club

Meet three women who aren’t about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation.

KAT

Her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position—with his computer!

CARLA

This sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn’t it just yesterday that she was the up-and-coming star?

ELISE

A married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else.

Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn’t about giving up; it’s about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial “Cougar Club” quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today’s youth-obsessed society: True friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you’re never too old to follow your heart.

Susan’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, February 1st: Cindy’s Love of Books

Thursday, February 4th: The Winey Mommy

Monday, February 8th: My Overstuffed Bookshelf

Wednesday, February 10th: The Book Zombie

Monday, February 15th: This That and the Other Thing

Wednesday, February 17th: Stacy’s Books

Thursday, February 18th: All About {n}

Monday, February 22nd: Clever Girl Goes Blog

Tuesday, February 23rd: Simply Stacie

Wednesday, February 24th: My Reading Room

Thursday, February 25th: Write Meg

“[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel…a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.”
—Publishers Weekly

The Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry—and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect new voice in contemporary American fiction. Antalek’s tale of the trials and many tribulations of the hapless and more than a little dysfunctional Haas family recalls the work of Sue Miller and Ann Beattie—and is a wonderful introduction to a superb writer whose short fiction has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Glimmer Train’s Family Matters and Short-Story Award and the Bellingham Review’s Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction.

The children of a once-brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the four Haas siblings grew up in chaos—raised in an environment composed of neglect and glamour in equal measure. When their father dies, they must depend on their intense but fragile bond to remember what it means to be family despite years of anger and hurt. These brothers and sisters are painfully human, sometimes selfish, and almost always making the wrong decisions, but their endearing struggles provide laughter through tears—something anyone who’s ever had a sibling can relate to.

About Robin

After making a career out of changing careers, from PR to tending bar, and from waitressing to managing a modern dance company, Robin Antalek eventually gave in to the voices in her head and began writing fiction. She studied at The New York State Writer’s Institute at the State University of New York at Albany, and has published in many literary journals: Sun Dog: The Southeast Review, Literary Mama, among others, and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters contests as well as a finalist for The Tobias Wolf Award for Short Fiction. You can also find her nonfiction essays monthly on the web at The Nervous Breakdown.

The Summer We Fell Apart is her first novel. She lives in a very needy Victorian house in Saratoga Springs, New York, with her husband, two daughters, and three dogs.

Visit Robin Antalek’s website.

Check out the book trailer below!

Robin’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS

Monday, January 18th: Regular Rumination

Thursday, January 21st: Dolce Bellezza

Tuesday, January 26th: Take Me Away

Thursday, January 28th: Booksie’s Blog

Tuesday, February 2nd: Books and Movies

Thursday, February 4th: Raging Bibliomania

Tuesday, February 9th: Lit and Life

Thursday, February 11th: BookNAround

Tuesday, February 16th: Write Meg

Wednesday, February 17th: All About {n}

Kathleen McCleary was born and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., and lived in New York, Tennessee, and Virginia before settling in Oregon in 1992. She has worked as a staff writer and editor and freelance writer for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Weekend, Good Housekeeping, More, Health, Martha Stewart Living, and Ladies Home Journal. She was a columnist for several years for HGTV.com.

A 2004 job opportunity for her husband brought her reluctantly back to Virginia (which is a beautiful and friendly state that had nothing to do with her discontent other than the fact that it wasn’t Oregon). The move sparked the idea for a novel, and she spent almost three years writing House and Home, while also working as a freelance writer and as a barista at the local, independently owned coffee shop in her town.

She lives in northern Virginia with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.  She recently finished her second novel and is hard at work on a third.

Visit Kathleen’s website HERE.

About House and Home

Kathleen’s novel, House and Home, is the story of a woman who loves her house so much, she’ll do just about anything to keep it.

Ellen Flanagan has two precious girls to raise, a cozy neighborhood coffee shop to run, terrific friends, and a sexy husband. She adores her house, a yellow Cape Cod filled with quirky antiques, beloved nooks and dents, and a million memories. But now, at forty-four, she’s about to lose it all.

After eighteen roller-coaster years of marriage, Ellen’s husband, Sam–who’s charismatic, spontaneous, and utterly irresponsible–has disappointed her in more ways than she can live with, and they’re getting divorced. Her daughters are miserable about losing their daddy. Worst of all, the house that Ellen loves with all her heart must now be sold.

Ellen’s life is further complicated by a lovely and unexpected relationship with the husband of the shrewish, social-climbing woman who has purchased the house. Add to that the confusion over how she really feels about her almost-ex-husband, and you have the makings of a delicious novel about what matters most in the end . . .

Set in the gorgeous surroundings of Portland, Oregon, Kathleen McCleary’s funny, poignant, curl-up-and-read debut strikes a deep emotional chord and explores the very notion of what makes a house a home.

You can read more about House and Home HERE and can visit Kathleen McCleary’s website HERE.

Kathleen McCleary’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, September 1st:  A Novel Menagerie (and interview)

Wednesday, September 2nd: cottage

Thursday, September 3rd:  Book Club Classics

Tuesday, September 8th:  Book Addiction

Wednesday, September 9th: A Lifetime of Books (and guest post)

Thursday, September 10th:  A Reader’s Journal

Monday, September 14th: Beach House: Uniquely Modern

Tuesday, September 15th:  Worducopia

Wednesday, September 16th: Mabel’s House

Monday, September 21st:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Tuesday, September 22nd: Cottage Affairs

Wednesday, September 30th:  Peeking Between the Pages