We have FOUR fabulous books in our
Book Club of the Month Contest for October!
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A frightening legacy, a difficult decision. Book club members will ask each other, “What would you do?”
Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of What We Have by Amy Boesky for your book club!
At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time’s shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family’s medical curse. But Amy didn’t want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life’s smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have: One Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family’s life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief.
In a true story as compelling as the best in women’s fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky’s journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.
For more information on Amy, visit her website, www.Amyboesky.com.
Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer! We will randomly select winners at the end of the month. This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).
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A bittersweet portrait of a long term marriage set in a unique and beautiful community
Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel for your book club!
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.
Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer! We will randomly select winners at the end of the month. This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).
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The redemptive power of the human spirit to love, grow, and change despite family history..
Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller for your book club!
Sylvia Sandon is at a crossroads in her life. A wife and mother of two daughters, she and her city-planner husband are grappling with the escalating renovation of their antique farmhouse—a situation that mirrors the disarray in Sylvia’s life. Facing a failing marriage and a stalled career as an art teacher, Sylvia finds herself suddenly powerless to the allure of Tai Rosen, the father of her most challenging art student. As their passion ignites, Sylvia is forced to examine her past, and the seeds of betrayal that were sown decades earlier by her mother’s secret life.
Eloquently written and deeply thought-provoking, Ostermiller’s OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY WORLD crosses many years and miles—from the California brushfires in the 1970s to New England during the first half of this decade. Raised Seventh Day Adventist, Sylvia must reconcile the conflicting values exhibited by her parents—a mother involved in an extramarital affair and a father who was emotionally distant and abusive—while coming to terms with her own troubling role in her family’s dissolution and father’s tragic death.
While infidelity is a subject often explored in fiction, Ostermiller shines a razor-sharp lens on the gray areas surrounding betrayal, the interplay of religion, and the legacy passed down from one generation to the next. At the same time, she reveals the redemptive power of the human spirit to love, grow, and change despite family history.
View the Reader’s Group Guide HERE.
For more information about Outside the Ordinary World, visit the author’s website.
Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer! We will randomly select winners at the end of the month. This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).
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A coming of age memoir set in NYC during the 70s and 80s
Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir by Josh Karlen for your book club!
Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, youthful romance in Greenwich Village, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming of age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing up in New York’s Greenwich Village, East Village, and crime-ridden Alphabet City in the 70s and early 80s. Lost Lustre recaptures a downtown Manhattan at a pivotal time of the city’s history, when New York was suffering its gravest financial crisis and soaring crime, yet also was home for a spectacular resurgence of the arts. Karlen shares a fascinating personal history of the punk rock scene through a prism of The Lustres, a band that played venues such as CBGB a few years after its stage had held the Talking Heads, Patti Smith and the Ramones. In the title chapter, Karlen poignantly pays homage ot the band’s charismatic and talented lead singer, whose life in many ways seemed to mirror his times in both its shining creativity and nihilistically destructive force.
“A window into a darker, grittier version of the city…[Karlen’s] memories of living in the rough neighborhood known as Alphabet City are vibrant…”–Publishers Weekly
“Lost Lustre is a reverberant, strata-rich memoir, written with a relaxed and endearing fluency and modesty. I was engrossed.”–Edward Hoagland, author of NOTES FROM THE CENTURY BEFORE
Listen to basement tapes of The Lustres, circa 1980!
Eggshells
Running My Way
Take the Bus