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 […]
Archives for 2011
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 […]
Matt Rees, author of Mozart’s Last Aria, on tour November 2011
About Mozart’s Last Aria • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 1, 2011) The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a […]
Jeff R. Spalsbury, author of Merry Christmas Stories, on tour November/December 2011
About Merry Christmas Stories Paperback: 214 pages Publisher: Black Rose Writing (September 23, 2010) Merry Christmas Stories is a collection of 25 Christmas tales that emphasize the value of Christmas love and laughter. These short stories will make you laugh, smile and just feel good about this magical time of year. These delightful stories, written in a variety […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 26th – 30th
. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews Monday, September 26th: Life in Review Tuesday, September 27th: The Book Nest Wednesday, September 28th: Nose in a Book Thursday, September 29th: My Bookshelf Friday, September 30th: In the Next Room Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Monday, September 26th: Well Read Wife Tuesday, September 27th: Unabridged Chick Wednesday, September 28th: Mocha Momma […]