Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe Monday, July 5th: My Random Acts of Reading Tuesday, July 6th: Til We Read Again Wednesday, July 7th: Books Like Breathing . Hidden Wives by Claire Avery Monday, July 5th: Luxury Reading Tuesday, July 6th: Novel Whore- Gabriella Wednesday, July 7th: Simply Stacie Thursday, July 8th: Trisha’s Book Blog . […]
Ron Chernow, author of Washington: A Life, on tour October 2010
About Washington: A Life Hardcover: 869 pages Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (October 5, 2010) From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no […]
Justin Kramon, author of Finny, on tour August/September 2010
About Finny • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 13, 2010) Before I started writing my novel, I fell in love with some great coming-of-age books: The World According to Garp, Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and several others. For me, these books brought back the excitement of reading. I […]
Rachel Hauck, author of Dining With Joy, on tour November/December 2010
About Dining with Joy Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (November 16, 2010) Joy Ballard has a secret: she’s a cooking show host who can’t really cook. When her South Carolina-based cooking show, Dining With Joy, is picked up by a major network, Joy Ballard’s world heats up like a lowcountry boil. Joy needs help. Then she meets chef […]
Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW, author of Ugly as Sin, on tour September 2010
About Ugly as Sin: The Truth About How We Look and Finding Freedom from Self-Hatred Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010) “The truth is that we all have felt ugly. The sin is that we let this word shame us, control us, and define us.” — Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW Have you heard about […]
Christie Barnes, author of The Paranoid Parents Guide, on tour September 2010
About The Paranoid Parents Guide: Worry Less, Parent Better, and Raise a Resilient Child Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010) The debate between helicopter parents versus free-range parents causes confusion for parents who want to find the middle ground while raising independent kids, without being wracked with worry and guilt. Somewhere between Free Range Kids and Perfect Madness is […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 14th – June 18th
Based Upon Availability by Alix Strauss Monday, June 14th: Dolce Bellezza . . . One Dance With a Duke by Tessa Dare Monday, June 14th: Pop Culture Junkie Tuesday, June 15th: Rundpinne Thursday, June 17th: Book Junkie – interview and giveaway Thursday, June 17th: Book Junkie – review . Losing My Cool by Thomas Chatterton […]
William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, authors of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, on tour July/August 2010
About The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (July 27, 2010) William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. […]
Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day, on tour July/August 2010
About Labor Day Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 3, 2010) The dog days of August . . . All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did. Then, just as the Labor Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry?s mother, Adele, on one […]
Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz, authors of The Miracles of Prato, on tour August 2010
About The Miracles of Prato • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 2, 2010) Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his […]