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 […]
Archives for October 2011
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 10th – 14th
. Little Goblins Ten by Pamela Jane Monday, October 10th: Good Girl Gone Redneck Tuesday, October 11th: Sara’s Organized Chaos Wednesday, October 12th: Presenting Lenore Thursday, October 13th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Friday, October 14th: Wordsmithonia Situations Matter by Sam Sommers Monday, October 10th: arriving at your own door Tuesday, October 11th: Book Club Classics! Wednesday, October 12th: The Parm Farm Thursday, October 13th: Wandering […]
James A. Roberts, author of Shiny Objects, on tour November 2011
About Shiny Objects • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (November 8, 2011) In Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy, James A. Roberts, a leading researcher and expert on consumer behavior, exposes the hidden motivations and erroneous assumptions behind our spending habits. He also reveals the key to reversing […]
Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, on tour November 2011
About The Personal History of Rachel DuPree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin (July 26, 2011) Just optioned for film by Viola Davis, star of The Help; winner of the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, longlisted for the Orange […]
Maud Hart Lovelace, author of The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, on tour October/November 2011
About The Betsy-Tacy Treasury • Paperback: 736 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (November 8, 2011) There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 3rd – 7th
Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney Monday, October 3rd: A Frugal Life . . . Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls by Karl Friedrich Monday, October 3rd: A Bookish Libraria Tuesday, October 4th: Life in Review Wednesday, October 5th: Acting Balanced . Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. Monday, October 3rd: girlichef […]
Chandra Hoffman, author of Chosen, on tour November 2011
About Chosen • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (November 8, 2011) It all begins with a fantasy . . . The caseworker in her “paperwork-signing” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour November 2011
About A Train in Winter • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 8, 2011) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newpapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for October 2011
We have three fantastic books in our Book Club of the Month Contest for October! ________________________________________________________ Forced to start over in a world where they don’t fit in… Book clubs will find much to talk about in Me Again Me Again by Keith Cronin Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim […]