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 […]
Irene Ziegler, author of Ashes to Water, on tour August 2010
About Ashes to Water • Hardcover: 394 pages • Publisher: Five Star (June 16, 2010) Ashes to Water is a mystery/thriller, and Irene Ziegler’s first novel. Set in the 1980s, Ashes to Water is an atmospheric story of a small-town Florida murder and one young woman’s reluctant involvement in its resolution. When Annie Bartlett returns […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 31st – June 5th
The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin Monday, May 31st: Green Jello Tuesday, June 1st: Crazy for Books Wednesday, June 2nd: Bluestalking . Psychic by Sylvia Browne Monday, May 31st: Mommy Mystic Tuesday, June 1st: In Pencil Wednesday, June 2nd: Sitting in the South . Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon Monday, May 31st: I’m Booking It […]
Margot Berwin, author of Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, on tour July – September 2010
About HotHouse Flower HotHouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire is one woman’s journey from the modeling and advertising world of New York City to the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula. From the hot and steamy plant dealers in the Union Square Green Market, to the curanderos, herbalists and shamans of Southern Mexico. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 17th – 21st
Days of Prey Blog Tour Monday, May 17th: Wicked Prey: A Bookworm’s World Tuesday, May 18th: Storm Prey: Bermuda Onion . Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Monday, May 17th: Sophisticated Dorkiness Tuesday, May 18th: Starting Fresh Tuesday, May 18th: Books on the Brain: Reading Series Discussion . The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff […]
Announcing the winners of the Tea with Adriana Trigiani Contest!
We had a really fun contest for tea with Adriana Trigiani that started back in January and just wrapped up at the end of April. Winners will get to have tea with Adriana Trigiani at Alice’s Tea Cup at the end of May. Participants who ultimately qualified for the drawing read and reviewed Very Valentine […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 10th – 14th
Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Monday, May 10th: The Serpentine Library Tuesday, May 11th: Books Are Like Candy Corn . . The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Monday, May 10th: One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books Tuesday, May 11th: Life in the Thumb Wednesday, May 12th: lit*chick . Letter to […]