About Shanghai Girls In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, […]
Archives for October 2009
Therapy Revolution on a TLC Book Tour in December 2009/January 2010
About Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On without Wasting Time or Money Paperback: 226 pages Publisher: HCI (November 2, 2009) THE THERAPY CRISIS – Each year, millions of people enter therapy hoping and believing they’ll be helped—but studies show that many aren’t being helped. In fact, some patients find they are struggling […]
Mia Lundin, author of Female Brain Gone Insane, on tour January ’10
About Mia With a growing reputation as an authority on women’s hormonal and emotional balance, Mia Lundin, R.N.C., N.P.. attributes her success to her own experience and her personal understanding of the physical and emotional effects of hormonal changes and from listening and treating thousands of women suffering from depression, anxiety, and irrational behavior due […]
Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei, authors of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat, on tour December ’09/January ’10
About Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby Beauty activists Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei offer a much-needed forewarning on what to expect from your changing body, as well as a reality check for each stage of your pregnancy, exposing the myths, challenges, and […]
Stacy Parker Aab, author of Government Girl, on tour January/February 2010
About Stacy Writer, blogger, and former political aide, Stacy Parker Aab served for five years in the Clinton White House, first as a long-time intern in George Stephanopoulos’s office, and later as an assistant to Paul Begala. She traveled as a presidential advance person, preparing and staffing trips abroad for the president and Mrs. Clinton. She also served […]
Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, on tour December 2009/January 2010
About Jennie Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has four published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven (2005), Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008), and now When She Flew (2009). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 26th-October 30th
The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan Monday, October 26th: Book Club Classics Tuesday, October 27th: Readaholic Wednesday, October 28th: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books Looking After Pigeon by Maud Carol Markson Monday, October 26th: A Sea of Books Tuesday, October 27th: Literate Housewife Thursday, October 29th: Steph and Tony Investigate After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr Tuesday, October 27th – The Brain Lair […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 19th – October 23rd
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace Monday, October 19th: Joelle Anthony Wednesday, October 21st: KidLit History Thursday, October 22nd: A High and Hidden Place The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl Monday, October 19th: The Tome Traveller Tuesday, October 20th: Book Club Classics Wednesday, October 21st: Luxury Reading Thursday, October 22nd: Savvy Verse and Wit Haunting Bombay […]
Karen White, author of The Girl on Legare Street, on tour December 2009
About Karen They had her at hello. From her first moments on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, novelist Karen White was in love. Was it the history—especially that of Charleston and Savannah—the architecture, the sound of the sea, the light, the traditions, the people, the food, the lore? Check all of the above. Add Karen’s […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for Oct. 12th-Oct. 16th
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter Tuesday, October 13th: Lit and Life Wednesday, October 14th: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books Thursday, October 15th: Jo-Jo Loves to Read! The Return by Victoria Hislop Tuesday, October 13th – Bending Bookshelf Wednesday, October 14th – All About {n} Thursday, October 15th – The Tome Traveller In a Perfect […]