About American Rust Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (January 12, 2010) Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of November 16th – 20th
After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr Monday, November 16th – Starting Fresh Tuesday, November 17th – Beth Fish Reads Thursday, November 19th – Book Addiction A World Without Ice by Henry N. Pollack, M.D. Monday, November 16th: Tripping Towards Lucidity Tuesday, November 17th: ClimateSight Wednesday, November 18th: Climate Science Watch rescheduled for Wednesday, November 25th […]
Charles Farrell, author of Your Money Ratios, on tour January 2010
About Your Money Ratios: 8 Essential Tools for Financial Success and Security Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Avery (December 24, 2009) According to the 2009 Retirement Confidence Survey, only 13% of workers were “very confident” about saving enough money for a comfortable retirement—down from 27% in 2007. But they need not worry. YOUR MONEY RATIOS: 8 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of November 9th-13th
The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan Monday, November 9th: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness Wednesday, November 11th: The Book Lady’s Blog Thursday, November 12th: Cozy Little House . . Looking After Pigeon by Maud Carol Markson Monday, November 9th: Clever Girl Goes Blog Tuesday, November 10th: Book Club Classics Thursday, November 12th: […]
Don Lattin, author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club, on tour January 2010
About Don Don Lattin is one of the nation’s leading journalists covering alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. He is the author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, and is […]
Michael Gates Gill, author of How to Save Your Own Life, on tour January 2010
About How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places Pub. Date: January 4, 2010 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Hardcover, 160pp Michael Gill’s lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response […]
Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, on tour January/February 2010
About Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new […]
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, on tour January 2010
About Shanghai Girls In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, […]
Mia Lundin, author of Female Brain Gone Insane, on tour January ’10
About Mia With a growing reputation as an authority on women’s hormonal and emotional balance, Mia Lundin, R.N.C., N.P.. attributes her success to her own experience and her personal understanding of the physical and emotional effects of hormonal changes and from listening and treating thousands of women suffering from depression, anxiety, and irrational behavior due […]
Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei, authors of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat, on tour December ’09/January ’10
About Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby Beauty activists Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei offer a much-needed forewarning on what to expect from your changing body, as well as a reality check for each stage of your pregnancy, exposing the myths, challenges, and […]