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Book Club of the Month Contest for September 2012

September 1, 2012 By TLC Booktours 2 Comments

We have SEVEN fantastic books in our

September Book Club of the Month Contest!

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Book Clubs will lose sleep over

Let the Devil Sleep

Let the Devil Sleep by John Verdon

From the internationally bestselling author of Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, this latest puzzle masterpiece from John Verdon pits superstar detective Dave Gurney against the nation’s law enforcement experts as he offers an alternative explanation for why a once dormant serial killer–enshrined in the textbooks–appears to be reanimated and out for blood..

Dave Gurney, the most decorated homicide detective in the history of the NYPD, is still trying to adjust to life in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on serial killers asks for his input.  Soon after this conversation, odd events begin occurring in Dave’s life: There is a strange problem with his tractor, a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement.  As things grow more bizarre, Dave finds himself reexamining the case of “The Good Shepherd”–which, 10 years before, involved a series of roadway shootings and a “Unabomber-like” manifesto expressing rage at society.  The killings ceased, and a cult of analysis grew up around the case with a consensus opinion that no one would dream of challenging–no one, that is, except Dave Gurney.  Mocked even by some who’d  been his allies in previous investigative outings, Dave is only heeded when the reawakened Good Shepherd proves by his actions that his agenda is more complex than previously thought.

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Book Clubs will discuss the unexpected ways in which life can change in

The Forrests

The Forrests by Emily Perkins

For fans of Zoë Heller and Zadie Smith, a vibrant and vital novel about the way family—with its dysfunctional bonds, sibling love, and rivalry—enduringly defines us.

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.

From the wilderness of a commune to falling in love to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return oflove, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes, revelations come to light, death changes everything, but somehow life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won’t let her go.

In a narrative that shifts and moves, singing with color and memory, growing as wild as its characters, The Forrests speaks to the unexpected ways in which life can change—“if you’re lucky enough to be around for it.”

Praise for Emily Perkins:

“A writer very much in command not only of her language but of the unique and surprising variations she brings to the form.” —T. C. Boyle, author of When The Killing’s Done

“Brimming with talent.” —Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky and Lucky Break

“An expansive and ambitious novel, beautifully written, and covering great swathes of emotional territory.”
—Lawrence Norfolk, author of Lempriere’s Dictionary

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Book Clubs will ponder what it means to be truly healed in

The Healer of Fox Hollow

The Healer of Fox Hollow by Joann Rose Leonard

According to folklore in the Smoky Mountains, “When you enter the world with your feet pawing the air before your eyes can see where to put them, it’s a strong sign you’ll lose your way from time to time.”

Right from the start, Layla Tompkin’s way forward is full of detours after her mother dies in breech birth, leaving only her and her devoted, sorrowful father, Ed. Then, at the age of five, Layla is rendered mute after a devastating injury.

“God is leading Layla to speak in new tongues,” proclaims Pastor Simpson at the local serpent handling church. Soon after, Layla is found to possess the gift of healing others and her reputation spreads. Even Doc Fredericks, the area’s skeptical physician, is forced to re-examine scientific tenets when Layla’s healing touch is the only treatment that brings relief to his son Brian, whose legs were blown off by a landmine in Vietnam.
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Doubt and the miraculous, loss and survival, hurt and forgiveness collide when a secret challenges what everyone holds true, leaving Layla, her family and the community profoundly changed in a story about what it means to be truly healed.
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“…tough, tender, and terrifyingly beautiful. It touches spirituality in ways that will please the Believer and the Doubter alike and for all its simplicity delves into the deep mysteries of life with complexity and nuance. It is a wonderful book.” — John Pielmeier, award-winning screenwriter of Agnes of God, Choices of the Heart, Sins of the Father, The Pillars of the Earth 

“Tender and lyrical, The Healer of Fox Hollow is the story of how a young girl, stripped of her ability to speak, finds beauty and wholeness amidst the brutality hidden in a hollow in the Smoky Mountains. Beautifully written… Leonard makes words shine…” – Naseem Rakha, International bestselling author of The Crying Tree

A Note from the author:
The Healer of Fox Hollow began as a personal exploration. To better understand what unifies us as well as what separates us, I imagined myself with radically different mindsets from my own. Guided by the all-too-real, this story pushed me to places where ordinary language fails. Places of darkness and the horrific. Places of doubt where we stand naked in our fear, loneliness, suffering. Places of healing and light where we experience heartbreaking human kindness, forgiveness, grace, love, and ultimate mystery.
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For more info about Joann Rose Leonard, visit her website at joannroseleonard.com.

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Book club readers will laugh and cry through this story of two emotionally damaged people who find love and hope in an English garden.

The Unfinished Garden by Barbara Claypole White

The Unfinished Garden is a love story about grief, OCD, and dirt, set in the forests of North Carolina and the woodland gardens of Southern England.

James Nealy is haunted by irrational fears, inescapable compulsions. A successful software developer, he’s thrown himself into a new goal—to finally conquer the noise in his mind. And he has a plan. He’ll confront his darkest fears and build something beautiful: a garden. When he meets Tilly Silverberg, he knows she holds the key…even if she doesn’t think so.

After her husband’s death, gardening became Tilly’s livelihood and her salvation. Her thriving North Carolina business and her young son, Isaac, are the excuses she needs to hide from the world. So when oddly attractive, incredibly tenacious James speeds into her life, demanding she take him on as a client, her answer is a flat no.

When a family emergency lures Tilly back to England, she’s secretly glad. With Isaac in tow, she retreats to her childhood village, which has always stayed obligingly the same. Until now. Her best friend is keeping secrets; her mother is plotting; her first love is unexpectedly, temptingly available. And then James appears on her doorstep.

Away from home, James and Tilly forge an unlikely bond, tenuous at first but taking root with every day. And as they work to build a garden together, something begins to blossom between them—despite all the reasons against it.

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 Book clubs will love discussing how far a parent

will go for a child in And When She Was Good

And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman

Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself.

When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a nothing face, it was just another bit of tossed-off cruelty from a man who specialized in harsh words and harsher deeds. But twenty years later, Heloise considers it a blessing to be a person who knows how to avoid attention. In the comfortable suburb where she lives, she’s just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she’s the redheaded lobbyist with a good cause and a mediocre track record.

But in discreet hotel rooms throughout the area, she’s the woman of your dreams—if you can afford her hourly fee.

For more than a decade, Heloise has believed she is safe. She has created a rigidly compartmentalized life, maintaining no real friendships, trusting few confidantes. Only now her secret life, a life she was forced to build after the legitimate world turned its back on her, is under siege. Her once oblivious accountant is asking loaded questions. Her longtime protector is hinting at new, mysterious dangers. Her employees can’t be trusted. One county over, another so-called suburban madam has been found dead in her car, a suicide. Or is it?

Nothing is as it seems as Heloise faces a midlife crisis with much higher stakes than most will ever know.

And then she learns that her son’s father might be released from prison, which is problematic because he doesn’t know he has a son. The killer and former pimp also doesn’t realize that he’s serving a life sentence because Heloise betrayed him. But he’s clearly beginning to suspect that Heloise has been holding something back all these years.

With no formal education, no real family, and no friends, Heloise has to remake her life—again. Disappearing will be the easy part. She’s done it before and she can do it again. A new name and a new place aren’t hard to come by if you know the right people. The trick will be living long enough to start a new life.

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Epic love, the immigrant experience, and family are themes book clubs will enjoy from The Shoemaker’s Wife  by Adriana Trigiani.

The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York’s Little Italy, apprenticed to a shoemaker, leaving a bereft Enza behind. But when her own family faces disaster, she, too, is forced to emigrate to America. Though destiny will reunite the star-crossed lovers, it will, just as abruptly, separate them once again—sending Ciro off to serve in World War I, while Enza is drawn into the glamorous world of the opera . . . and into the life of the international singing sensation Enrico Caruso. Still, Enza and Ciro have been touched by fate—and, ultimately, the power of their love will change their lives forever.

A riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny, inspired by the author’s own family history, The Shoemaker’s Wife is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write.

Check out the discussion questions for The Shoemaker’s Wife.

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Book clubs will love the universal themes of community, love, friendship, and loyalty in Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon.

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart—half tavern, half temple—stands Brokeland.

When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples’ already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe’s life.

An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own, Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we’ve been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon’s most dazzling book yet.

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Please fill out our super short registration form (<—click here) by September 30th for a chance to win a set of up to ten copies of Let the Devil Sleep, up to ten copies of The Forrests, up to ten copies of The Healer of Fox Hollow, up to ten copies of The Unfinished Garden, up to ten copies of And When She Was Good, up to ten copies of The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani, or up to ten copies of Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon for your book club! We will randomly choose a winner 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).

Best of luck!

We LOVE Book Clubs!

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Comments

  1. rhonda says

    September 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Love the selections want to read and talk about each one.

    Reply
  2. Susan Schleicher says

    September 13, 2012 at 8:36 am

    I loved, loved, loved The Healer of Fox Hollow – I would love to have my book club read this one. All the other selections this month are awesome too. September is a great month! Thanks so much!

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September Book Club Giveaway

tlcbooktours

This sounds like such a cute and fun enemies-to-lo This sounds like such a cute and fun enemies-to-lovers romance! Thanks, @bookbriefs!

Repost: @bookbriefs

QOTD: What are some of your favorite funny TV shows?

I love rewatching funny tv shows, and one I have been recently re-watching is Parks and Rec. If you love parks and rec you should check out Bethany Turner's new novel- Brynn and Sebasian Hate Each Other. It is said to be like Parks and Rec meets The Morning Show.

She’s a sunny morning-show host. He’s a cynical ex-reporter. They’re destined to hate each other . . . Aren’t they?

Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup. She’s America’s Ray of Sunshine. All it took was one huge on-air mistake to expose her snarky side to the world and make it all come crumbling down. Now she’s back in her hometown of Adelaide Springs, Colorado, in a last-ditch attempt to convince viewers she’s not the mean girl they think she is. All she has to do is apologize and capture some feel-good footage reminding everyone she’s just a girl from humble beginnings who’s grateful for her big break, and she might manage to preserve both her career and her image. But this town holds painful memories that she’s not ready to face.

Sebastian Sudworth was on the fast track to the journalist hall of fame. A superstar reporter with a reputation for being in the center of the action, his fearless, relentless coverage of major events around the globe was winning him awards and accolades–until something snapped inside him and he vanished from the scene under mysterious circumstances.

When Sebastian is assigned to chauffeur Brynn around town, Brynn is sure he can see right through her carefully cultivated, sunny persona. But she’s determined to do what it takes to maintain her image and save her career–so she’ll just have to charm the socks off Sebastian the same way she charmed her viewers. Easier said than done. 

#BrynnandSebastianHateEachOther #BethanyTurner #RomanticComedy #EnemiestoLovers #SmallTown #FoundFamily #BookMagic #IGReader #BookishPhotography #ReadAllTheBooks #AvidReader #BibliophileLife #BookNerds #BookAddiction #ReadersOfIG #AlwaysReading
Doesn’t this sound like the perfect late summer Doesn’t this sound like the perfect late summer read? Thanks for the review, Andrea! Repost from @andrea.c.lowry.reads -

🐚💜𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖💜🐚

Thank you @tlcbooktours @amazonpublishing and @barbaraonealauthor for this #gifted copy.

Synopsis 👉

Barbara O’Neal’s latest, The Starfish Sisters, is a rich story that will touch your heart in so many ways.

💜𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆?

O’Neal has a way of tapping into all your emotions, while drilling straight down into the soul of her characters, and she did this with each of her characters through the theme of found family…which I can never get enough of. I loved the way Pheobe and Suze were basically sisters and how sisterhood played a part in their summers, and everything wasn’t always peachy keen. Their childhoods and teen years slowly unfold throughout the story through dual timelines, as each woman remembers different experiences and traumas, while in the present they seek to find their way back to each other.

🐚 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲?

This was a slow burn character driven story.

💜 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸?

This is a heartbreaking and at the same time heartwarming story about two women coming back together and coming to terms with a tragic past and realizing that they still have each other and more.

💬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠?

AOTD: I finally started Strange Sally Diamond and I’m definitely getting the hype!
Need a great page-turner for the weekend? We got y Need a great page-turner for the weekend? We got you! Repost from @audreyoaksreadseverything -

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🌸It’s finally time for me to rave about Come With Me by Erin Flanagan! I read it in June because I couldn’t wait. Flanagan is the Edgar Award winning author of Deer Season so I knew it would be awesome - and it was! It published August 22, so what are you waiting for?

🌸Gwen Manet had the perfect life until her husband died unexpectedly and she needed to provide for her young daughter. Finding a job wasn’t easy until she happened to reconnect with Nicola Kimmel -someone she once interned with. Nicola is a godsend! She helps with housing, salary negotiation, babysitting- you name it! But what is Nicola’s motivation? It might turn out to be deadly! 

🌸This book was a page turner! Just when I thought I had things figured out- there would be another twist.

🌸Thanks to @tlcbooktours @amazonpublishing and @erinlflanagan for the opportunity to read this one! 

🌸What are your plans for the weekend?
THRILLER THURSDAY! Thanks for the great post, @let THRILLER THURSDAY! Thanks for the great post, @letmollyread! Not sure if I’d want to read this while vacationing in a cabin, though!

📚Book Spotlight📚
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger 
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It might still be August, but I am already thinking of what book I want to read on a family vacation in October! The setting is an isolated cabin on the shore of Lake Michigan, and while I wouldn’t describe it as luxurious, it is a trip I’ve been thinking about for months! What would make the trip even better? A suspenseful read about a dreamy vacation gone wrong, and a mystery guest determined to exact revenge!

⛰Synopsis: Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller. 

An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah’s generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It’ll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R. But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare.

A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?

Thank you @parkrowbooks @htpbooks @lisaunger @tlcbooktours for my #gifted copy of this book! 
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#QOTD: Do you ever plan out books specifically for a vacation, or save a book you want to read for the perfect moment? 
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#bookstagram #bookish #booksbooksbooks #bibliophile #reads #reading #igreads #booklover #instabookstagram #bookishcommunity #bookcommunity #bookflatlay #newbookrelease 
#bookmail #tlcbooktours #LisaUnger #SecludedCabinSleepsSix #suspense #thriller #suspensebook
Sometimes we get asked if we coordinate tours for Sometimes we get asked if we coordinate tours for children’s titles, and the answer is YES. Repost from @dropandgivemenerdy:

Today I’m teaming up with @drdeborahserani @kyrateis @freespiritpublishing @tlcbooktours to share the #SometimesWhenSeries #SometimesWhenImWorried book! This is a great tool for strategies a kid can use when worry overwhelms them, which they can take into their daily lives (complete with examples—in story form—of situations where worry might arise and how the character is helped through it)! There are also parent resources in the back for helping your kid through those strategies. This is very sweet and definitely useful for us, as my kids have their worry moments (one borders on pure panic sometimes so this will be extra useful for her).
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#picturebooks #kidlit #childrensbooks #MinorityMentalHealthMonth #healthykids #kidsbook #kidsbookstagram #bookstagram #childrensbook #childrensbookstagram
Happy Thriller Thursday! Repost @ericabingesbooks Happy Thriller Thursday! Repost @ericabingesbooks -

Do you prefer hot weather or cold weather?

I definitely prefer hot weather, but summers in Florida definitely push it beyond what is comfortable. That’s why it’s so fun to be sharing a #booktour post for a book with a wintery-esque cover right now. 

If you guys have been following me for any amount of time, you will know that I love romantic suspense. So I was sooo excited when I heard there was going to be a book tour for the 3rd book in  @rebeccazanetti Laurel Snow series. You can check out the blurb below. And thank you so much to Rebecca, @kensingtonbooks @btc_books and @tlcbooktours for allowing me to be part of the tour and sending me the book! You Can Die is out now! 

Blurb: Men are dying in the Pacific Northwest, their bodies found near churches, charities, and counseling centers—each with valentine candy hearts shoved down their throats. They’re good men with families and community ties–or so they seem until Laurel Snow and her team begin to investigate. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when the father she’s never met, a former pastor, turns up among the dead.

Now, besides solving her father’s murder, Laurel is on the hunt to discover the truth of his past. Complicating things is Laurel’s troubled half-sister, Abigail, a brilliant sociopath determined to prove that they’ve both inherited their father’s malignant narcissism.

Assisting Laurel is Washington Fish and Wildlife Captain Huck Rivers, a dangerous loner whose reliance on gut instinct puts him at odds with Laurel’s coolly analytic approach. But the choice may be moot when the killer hones in on Huck’s own dark secrets–putting him and Laurel squarely in the crosshairs.

#readingchallenge #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #newbookstagrammer #bookstack #bookchallenge #bookishcommunity #bookishpost #bookishlife #bookishphotography #readersofinsta #readersgonnaread #bookreviewsofig #readerlife #avidreader #bookreaders #bookpost #booklove #bookstackchallenges #thrillerbooks #bookreview #bookrecommendations #RebeccaZanetti #YouCanDie #ALaurelSnowThriller #romanticsuspense #romanticsuspensebook #giftedbooks #newbookrelease
Great cover, great story, and a surprise ending! T Great cover, great story, and a surprise ending! Thanks, Carla @littlelibraryadventures, for sharing your thoughts on BLURRED FATES! Repost:

✨Book Tour & Review✨

Blurred Fates
Anastasia Zadeik
Pub Date: August 2, 2023

Thank you @tlcbooktours and @shewritespress for the gifted copy and including me on your book tour.

🤫Synopsis: 
KATE WHITTIER has it all: a loving, even-keeled husband, two great kids, and a beautiful home in Southern California. But Kate is living a lie. In a desperate attempt to create the safe, happy family she never had, she has been hiding secrets for decades—things she’s convinced make her unworthy of her wellborn husband, Jacob, and the privileged life he has provided.

Then, one ordinary evening, Jacob confesses to a drunken sexual indiscretion he doesn’t quite remember, and Kate cracks open. Molten memories rise to the surface. Volatile emotions swirl. Triggered in ways she didn’t see coming, Kate is overwhelmed by rage she cannot explain and fear of who she might become.
Her marriage unraveling, Kate returns to her childhood home, hoping to find closure. Instead, as the past invades the present and relationships collide, Kate discovers she’s not the only one lying—and the truth may not set anyone free.

💭Thoughts: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I can’t believe this is a debut. This is a compulsive read. I didn’t want to put it down. The book covers some difficult topics including incest, infidelity, trauma, and mental illness. The author did a great job with the mental health representation. 
The descriptions of bipolar disorder seemed very spot on. 
The ending was a complete surprise, but deals with hope, healing, and redemption. I definitely recommend picking this one up. 

QOTD: What are you doing this weekend?
Thanks @exclusivepalmbeachliving for this amazing Thanks @exclusivepalmbeachliving for this amazing review!! Repost- 
My name is Iris was charged with so much that at moments I felt overwhelmed... but in a good way. This dystopian with a touch of Magical realism story is about our MC Iris Prince, a first-generation Mexican American who has spent her entire life doing what she needs to do (according to her mother) to live up to the American Dream.

Recently divorced, Iris feels she has a second chance at a life she forever dreamed of. Together with her 9-year-old daughter Mel, they move to an upscale mostly white neighborhood where everything just seems right and perfect because her neighbors are people who follow the rules & that is exactly when her "perfect life" starts to crumble.

As soon as she moves into her new home, a magical wall appears in front of their home that only her and her daiughter are able to see. Then a new law goes into effect. All individuals will get an electronic wrist "Band" that will make life more convenient and safer (according to the government UNITY MEANS ONE BAND) To be able to access this bands, you must provide proof of Parents Citizenship. Iris's parents are undocumented making it impossible for them to access this bands, jeopardizing Ines "perfect life & future" and so Your story begins...

This story takes place in the POV of a Mexican American with dark skin. The brown community would easily identify with this take and will feel seen and less alone. Brando Skyhorse did an incredible job at painting the harsh reality for many in the USA, this story was packed with Gender pay inequality, Racism, Classism, Colorism, Crime against Mexicans, Systematic & Institutional racism, Immigration, identity crisis... I mean, this book had it all in one.

This novel is a reflection of the reality POC are currently living under. This is a love letter to finding who you truly are and loving the shit out of you for it. This is about Family and what matters most because at the end of the day We are where We came from and we shouldn't have to be ashamed or discriminated for it. #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #bookcommunity #brandoskyhorse #dystopian #booklover @tlcdiversity
We love seeing the smiling faces of a winning book We love seeing the smiling faces of a winning book club! Elizabeth and the Y-Not Read Book Club won copies of THE HOUSE OF EVE by @sadeqasays in our monthly book club giveaway! Please go to our Campsite link in our bio to see what we’re giving away this month! #bookclubs #bookgiveaways #TheHouseofEve #historicalfiction #bookclubpicks #authorswelove
Do you enjoy Southern fiction? Cristy from @quinnb Do you enjoy Southern fiction? Cristy from @quinnbook says this one’s a must-read!! Repost from @quinnbook:

⛵️Must read contemporary⛵️

What can I say about this book? It was an amazing book from start to finish. The author absolutely captures you with her storytelling. It is so well done and beautifully written that this story will stay with me for a long time. 

We meet Violet Figg and her sister Trudy. They live a quiet life in their small town of Sugar Bend. An unfortunate night almost forty years ago took Trudy's ability to speak, and Violet took her role of protecting her sister very seriously. Fast forward to present times, and they run a quaint little art shop where Trudy makes her sculptures, and Violet runs the shop. Violet gave her entire life to take care of her sister, her career, her life, and the man she loved . 

When a young, beautiful stranger shows up in their shop, everything changes. Maya has been on her own almost her entire life. When she feels a strange urge to go to Sugar Bend, she will find that life is full of surprises and will have to find her destiny. This story is full of sisterhood, love, sacrifice, and above all, second chances. Get the tissues ready because this will absolutely move you to tears, in the best possible way.

👉Thank you tlcbooktours for my gifted copy of this beautiful book!

•#qotd If you owned a store, what type of items would you sell?
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🏷#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #Tlcbooktours #fiction #contemporary #sisterhood #review #reviewer #booksbooksbooks #igcover #igbooks
Too soon? No way! Thanks @oilycaffeinatedmama 🎃 Too soon? No way! Thanks @oilycaffeinatedmama 🎃 

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✨ I’m ready for cooler weather and The Witch Hitch by Elizabeth Bass is the perfect book to take me there.  Wedding planning, small town and witchy vibes = a must read to add to your #tbr ! ✨

⭐️ Thank you to TLC Book Tours, Elizabeth Bass and Kensington Books for a #gifted copy of this book and a part of this Book Tour. ⭐️

👇🏻 About the Book:

👰🏻‍♀️ Enchanted hijinks meet wedding antics in this witty, lighthearted romantic comedy set in the sleepy college town of Zenobia, New York, where magic is very real. Now, a bride-to-be on a quest for the right wedding dress realizes it’s time to embrace her inner witch…

💍 Lots of people get pre-wedding jitters, but Bailey Tomlin’s are a bit extreme. Paranoia . . . the sudden ability to communicate with her pet parrot . . . something odd is definitely happening. And while Bailey searches for the perfect dress, she discovers the unexpected reason why: her birth mother, Esme, is an actual witch, part of a magical clan in the neighboring town of Zenobia, New York. Esme insists that Bailey, too, has witch blood in her veins. That’s not going to play well with Bailey’s uptight future in-laws . . .

🧹 Then there’s Seton Adderbury, the man Esme somehow conjured into the present day from 1929, and who keeps crashing into Bailey’s plans. In addition to figuring out seating charts and boutonnieres, Bailey now has to navigate her new witch family, keep an unseen enemy from hexing the ceremony, placate her fiancé, and get Seton back to his own time. But Seton doesn’t know if he wants to go back. And though Bailey’s about to marry someone else–someone who isn’t technically 130 years old–it’s just possible she doesn’t want Seton to go back either . . .

Pub Day: July 25, 2023
Publisher: Kensington Books
Book Length: 320 pages 

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❔QOTD:  What is your favorite fall drink or food item?

❕AOTD:  I like warm pumpkin pie with whipped cream but I can only eat it once and then I’m good for the year. 

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#thewitchhitch #kensingtonbooks #elizabethbass #tlcbooktours #romcom #paranormal #witchybooks
Stunning!! Thank you @bookapotamus 🦋 🗽💃 Stunning!! Thank you @bookapotamus 🦋 

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Have you ever heard of the Broadway Butterfly?⁣
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When flapper Dot King is found dead in her NYC apartment, all signs point to murder - missing jewels, a bottle of chloroform, a hot-headed boyfriend - yet police are quick to dismiss the signs that lurk beneath the obvious. What follows is an investigation of epic proportions that grips the city and points in all directions - from political agendas and bootleggers, to sugar daddys and socialites - the twisted web of deep, dark secrets runs rampant throughout the east coast. ⁣
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Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman is chasing the story in a male dominated industry and determined to find justice for Dot - no matter how nefarious the cover-ups become, or how dangerous it could be for her.⁣
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It’s an unsolved murder of a Manhattan It Girl in one of the most glamorous of cities during the most glittering of eras, and I was shocked I had never heard of it before. Impeccably researched with riveting prose, it’s a stunning read from start to finish - perfect for true crime junkies, historical fiction fans, and thriller lovers alike - there’s something for everyone in this captivating and tragic story.⁣
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I had the pleasure of meeting Sara at ThrillerFest and she is one of those people who’s joy and smile just lights up a room and a champion in the book world. Her passion and dedication to this story is just incredible and her stunning narrative and infallible chronology of details will be something I will not soon forget. I love how she is keeping Dot’s name alive all these years later, and how this story is a tribute to incredible women like Julia, and the lengths women went to tell stories all those years ago.⁣
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Bravo @Saradivello for an extraordinary debut - available this Tuesday, August 1st!⁣
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Thank you @tlcbooktours @amazonpublishing + @saradivello for the gifted book⁣
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A cover recreation AND a 5 ⭐️ review??! Thanks A cover recreation AND a 5 ⭐️ review??! Thanks, @bigskybooks! 

📖 Book Tour Book Review 📖

Title: The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
Author: Courtney Walsh
Pub Day: 6/13/23

Thank you, @tnzfiction @courtneywalsh @tlcbooktours for having me on this book tour for The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley!  Courtney Walsh is one of my favorite authors of this genre because of the witty dialogue she writes and fully fleshed out, rich characters.  Her books give you all the feels and The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley was no different!

I fell in love with Isadora from page one.  We meet her in the grocery store on her thirtieth birthday buying junk food.  Her inner monologue about avoiding the candy aisle had me chuckling and saying “this is me.  Isadora is me.” While she is at the check out line she sees a headline for a magazine that catches her eye: “Thirty-One Ways To Be Happy”. Now, Isadora is academic researcher, so she thinks this is bogus.  There’s no way.  Of course she does what any respectable researcher would do and sets out on a little experiment of her own proving this ridiculous article wrong!

But, something happens the deeper she gets into her research; and she meets some pretty amazing people, including a handsome professor.  However, Isadora needs to learn some more things about herself first and heal from some hurt too in order to let the happiness and people in.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All the stars.  I loved Isadora.  Courtney had my kryptonite too with a friendship to an older widow man in the story.  I love older people in stories!  There was also an unlikely friendship with a teen girl too; that Isadora sees her former self in.  Someone she’s able to help.  I say it all the time, but the testament to a great author is how well they can write secondary characters too. Courtney passes the test with flying colors. This whole cast…Gahhh…Just so much goodness!  The happiness project becomes a bucket list of sorts, which is always fun.  I just can’t recommend this one enough! 

As you can see I tried to match the cover, but failed.  I was inspired by Lauren @thebookscript & Leighellen @mommaleighellensbooknook who are way better at this stuff.
We love a 5 star review! Thanks, @bookish.bai !! We love a 5 star review! Thanks, @bookish.bai !! 

BOOK REVIEW: The Rebel King by Gina L. Maxwell

Thank you @entangled_publishing @ginalmaxwell and @tlcbooktours for the #gifted copy. #TheRebelKing #DeviantKingsSeries #steamyromance #fantasyromance 

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I loved this one so much. It had all the spice I needed and it kept me hella entertained while I read it. Tiernan and Fiona had so much fire between the two and that banter was SO GOOD. If you’re looking for a spicy fantasy read, you gotta check this one out!  I am so excited to read the next one! 

BLURB:
All work and no wicked play makes Tiernan a very unsatisfied king…
Of all the Verran brothers, Tiernan is the least suited to wear the Night Court crown. The Rebel Prince is happy with no responsibilities or accountability?just the freedom to pursue his own dark, lush pleasures in Sin City. Including his secret hunger for a certain smart-mouthed, fiery redhead.
Only, the possibility of having Fiona is stripped away when Tiernan is thrust into the one role he never wanted: king. As king of the Dark Fae, wanting?let alone pursuing?anything with a lower-caste fae like Fiona would shift from fun…to forbidden.
Now war is emerging from the shadows of Vegas, and Tiernan is caught between who he’s meant to be and who he wants. And somewhere in this maelstrom of lust, love, and rebellion is the key to the Dark Fae’s survival…even if the cost is more than he can imagine.
Each book in the Deviant Kings series is STANDALONE:
* The Dark King
* The Rebel King

QOTD: Is there a book in a series where you liked the second one even more? 
AOTD: This one and I loved ACOMAF more than ACOTAR. same with the second book of the Shatter Me series that I can’t remember the name of lol.
If you see this one peeking at you in the bookstor If you see this one peeking at you in the bookstore, pick it up!! 

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#QOTD: If you are an historical fiction fan, have you read anything by Kelly Rimmer? This was my first book by her but it won’t be my last

The Paris Agent 
By @kelrimmerwrites 

Wow! I was blown away by this book. What a gripping, edge of your seat, and inspiring fictional account of two women who served in the SOE (Special Operations Executive) during World War II. I was blown away. Before reading this one, I had very little knowledge of the SOE and its volunteer force of spies and I was greatly touched after finishing this one. 

Rimmer is a talented historical fiction writer. The research that went into this one shines and is written in a way that I could easily transport myself back into this time. I can’t imagine the amount of bravery and courage these women had in order to do what they did for their country. It was awe inspiring. 

In these pages you will find a dual timeline, multiple POV story that will captivate you from the beginning. I loved both storylines so much and how they came together. You have the POV of both Chloe and Fleur in 1944 and Charlotte who is trying to help her aging father remember his time in the war set during the 1970s. 

Heartbreak, courage, the toll of war on family, secrets, betrayal, loss, love, and more can be found in these pages. I can’t recommend enough. 

Thank you SO much @graydonhousebooks and @tlcbooktours for my #gifted copy and having me along on this review tour. These are my honest thoughts.
Thank you @books_wine_and_sunshine for featuring S Thank you @books_wine_and_sunshine for featuring SUNSHINE NAILS! We’re thrilled you’re enjoying it ☀️

Currently Reading📖

I started Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen yesterday while on the beach and I read 100 pages in one sitting. I’m really enjoying it!! 

When a super boujie new nail salon moves into this little street in Toronto where family owned Sunshine Nails has been for 20 years, the Tran family, the Trans are fearful for their business. Then their landlord raised their rent. Things go from bad to worse! Jessica and Dustin, their adult children, jump in to help save the family business, with a little good old fashion sabotage on the side. 

Sunshine Nails is a fun book so far! It’s an easy, fast read and I’m looking forward to finishing it this afternoon! 

Thank you @tlcbooktours and @atriabooks for my #gifted copy! 

Do you get your nails done? I have my nails a break for a year, but I’m back to the dip! 💅

🏷️: #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #beachvibes #sunshinenails #atriabooks #tlcbooktours #boggbag #beachday #emeraldcoast #floridaliving #booksparks #botwxbs #summerreading 

Summer reading, beach day, bogg bag, book recommendations, beach
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Do you have any unusual animals?  Or any pet that holds your heart?  In The Year of Jubilee the family has a pet rooster 🐓that means a great deal to their youngest child, Isaac who becomes ill.  My son loved having therapy dogs visit him while he was in the hospital during cancer treatment.  They helped his overall mood. ➡️

Thank you @crazy4fiction @tyndalehouse @cindymorganmusic @tlcbooktours for inviting me to be a part of the The Year of Jubilee book tour.  The Year of Jubilee is written by Cindy Morgan and publishes today April 18, 2023. 

📚Blurb: The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s.

The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite the divisions that mark their small town. Until the tense summer of 1963, when their youngest child, Isaac, falls gravely ill. Middle sister Grace, nearly fourteen, is determined to do whatever it takes to save her little brother. With her father and mother away at the hospital, Grace is left under the loving but inexperienced eye of her aunt June, with little to do but wait and worry. Inspired by a young teacher’s mission for change, she begins to flirt with danger and with a gifted boy named Golden, who just might be the key to saving Isaac’s life. Then the unthinkable happens, and the world as she knows it shifts in ways she never could have imagined. Grace must decide what she believes amid the swirling, conflicting voices even of those she loves the most.

From gifted songwriter Cindy Morgan comes this lyrical, tender tale of a girl standing at the threshold of adulthood, learning the depths of the human heart and the bonds of family that bend, break, and bind together over and over again.

📕Review: This story is beautiful.  The themes of forgiveness, redemption and walking through hard times will speak deeply to your heart. I recommend! 
I was given a copy and not  required to write a review. 

#Southernfiction #TheYearOfJubilee #beckysbookshelves #fiction #hospitaldogs #therapydogs #cindymorgan
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If you’ve been around you’ve heard me talk nonstop about Yellow Wife!!! I'm just happy to have a new SJ book to rave about!

👉🏽 REVIEW👈🏽

This one is completely different from Yellow Wife and just as compelling.
Told through dual stories of two young black girls in the 1940’s that are living in two different worlds but both experiencing how their lives are restricted by being women, Black and not wealthy.

Ruby’s story takes place in Philadelphia. She has the brains and the ambition to blaze the trail as the 1st in her family to go to college. Her first love is a forbidden  love that can potentially derail her dreams. 

Eleanor’s story takes place in D.C.  She has the family support that Ruby lacks and is following her dreams by attending Howard University. She did not count on the racism and classism that she is faced with. She falls in love with William and although he is Black, he is from the wealthy Black elite.  Love may not be enough for their relationship to survive. 

There is lot of history in this book. Also tough topics such as teenage pregnancy, infertility, racism, and classism. Add this one to your #readblackstack 

What is a book you can't stop recommending ?

#thehouseofeve #yellowwife #sadeqajohnson #blackstoriesmatter #blackhistoryalways #blackhistorymonth #booktour #tlcbooktours #reesesbookclub #diversespines #bookreview #simonandschuster #diversifybookstagram #readblackauthors #20booksbyblackfolx
We are blown away by this amazing post from @momma We are blown away by this amazing post from @mommaleighellensbooknook 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 Repost from @mommaleighellensbooknook
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⭐️GIVEAWAY!⭐️

BOOK:  Code Name Sapphire
Author:  @pamjenoff 
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pub Date:  February 7, 2023

I am so excited to help promote the new book by @pamjenoff - It is our @bookfriendsbookclub pick and we are going to host a zoom with Pam on Sunday, February 26 at 4pm MST.  You won’t want to miss it!

So I’ve teamed up with @tlcbooktours to offer one lucky winner a chance to win a copy.  I could not resist this stunning cover and making my own recreation of it.  Check out the synopsis and how to enter below!

SYNOPSIS: 
1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.

Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother. But when a grave mistake causes Lily’s family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves? 

Inspired by incredible true stories of courage and sacrifice, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful novel about love, family and the unshakable resilience of women in even the hardest of times. A riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris.

PLEASE GO TO THE ORIG. POST AT @mommaleighellensbooknook TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY! 

#tlcbooktours #codenamesapphire #historicalfiction #wwiifiction #bookfriendsbookclub #mommaleighellensbooknook #booklover #readthisbook #amreading #mustreadbooks #bookstagram
Did you know that we have a monthly giveaway for b Did you know that we have a monthly giveaway for book clubs? If you’re in a book club,  please see our campsite link in our bio to sign up for our book club newsletter so you’ll never miss a giveaway! Becky and The Park Readers won copies of THE CALL OF THE WRENS by @jennilwalsh in our November book club giveaway! Happy reading, ladies!! #bookclubs #bookclubgiveaway #tlcbooktours
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