About The Danish Girl Loosely inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon […]
Katherine Center, author of Get Lucky, on tour April 2010
About Get Lucky Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 6, 2010) How do you change your luck? Katherine Center’s marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing to look for happiness—and maybe getting lucky enough to find it. Sarah Harper isn’t sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes are good choices in […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of January 4th – 8th
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See Monday, January 4th: Suko’s Notebook Tuesday, January 5th: The Literate Housewife Review Wednesday, January 6th: Stephanie’s Written Word Thursday, January 7th: She is Too Fond of Books Friday, January 8th: Book Club Classics When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge Monday, January 4th: The Brain Lair Tuesday, January 5th: Redlady’s Reading Room […]
Diane Hammond, author of Seeing Stars, on tour March 2010
About Diane Diane Hammond, the author of three previous novels, Hannah’s Dream, Going to Bend, and Homesick Creek, is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission literary fellowship and served as a spokesperson for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband and daughter. Learn […]
Shelley Shepard Gray, author of Winter’s Awakening, on tour February 2010
About Winter’s Awakening Joshua Graber knows his future is set. He?s expected to work at his family business, the Graber Country Store. He?s expected to marry Gretta Hershberger, who he?s been courting for several years. But when a new English family moves next door and their lovely teenage daughter, Lilly Allen, catches his eye, Joshua […]
Vanitha Sankaran, author of Watermark, on tour April 2010
About Watermark Watermark is an atmospheric and compelling debut novel about the search for identity, the power of self-expression, and the value of the written word. The daughter of a papermaker in 1320s France, Auda has an ability to read and write that comes from a place of need. Silenced, she finds hope and opportunity […]
Todd Johnson, author of The Sweet By and By, on tour April 2010
About The Sweet By and By Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has […]
Laura Lippman, author of Life Sentences, on tour March 2010
About Life Sentences Author Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers—and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that […]
Lynn Cullen, author of The Creation of Eve, on tour March 2010
About Lynn Lynn Cullen is the author of the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, a 2007 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Her previous award-winning novels and picture books for children include the critically acclaimed Moi & Marie Antoinette, The Backyard Ghost, and The Mightiest Heart, for […]
Malena Watrous, authour of If You Follow Me, on tour March 2010
About If You Follow Me “I love, love, love IF YOU FOLLOW ME. It’s fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife “Dear Miss Marina… First learn gomi law, second Japanese language, and third you can […]