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 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 21st – June 25th
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson Monday, June 21st: 1330v Tuesday, June 22nd: My Two Blessings Wednesday, June 23rd: Thoughts From an Evil Overlord Thursday, June 24th: The Tome Traveler . The Love Ceiling by Jean Davies Okimoto Wednesday, June 23rd: Mooncat Farms Meanderings . . . Psychic by Sylvia Browne Monday, June 21st: Winterspells: A Magical […]
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 […]
Amy Boesky, author of What We Have: A Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, on tour August/September 2010
About What We Have: A Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 5, 2010) At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake […]
Robin Easton, author of Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, on tour September 2010
About Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest: Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010) Mildly autistic and dangerously disconnected from life, Robin Easton was reborn in the Australian rainforest. In the deepest recesses of the forest, far from everything that was modern and familiar, Robin and her husband, Ian, […]
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 […]