Book clubs will ponder.. Are the rich really different? Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden Joining the ranks of Augusten Burroughs & David Sedaris, a descendent of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. The New York Times calls author […]
Jael McHenry, author of The Kitchen Daughter, on tour April/May 2011
About The Kitchen Daughter: Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gallery; Original edition (April 12, 2011) After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 14th-18th
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas Monday, February 14th: Living Read Girl Monday, February 14th: Life is Short. Read Fast. Tuesday, February 15th: Melody Likes Books Tuesday, February 15th: Rayment’s Readings, Rants and Ramblings Wednesday, February 16th: Jenny’s Books Thursday, February 17th: Book Sake Friday, February 18th: Jen’s Book Thoughts Friday, February 18th: Luxury Reading . . Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 7th – 11th
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua Monday, February 7th: Peaceful Parenting Tuesday, February 8th: Susan Heim on Parenting . . Hush by Kate White Monday, February 7th: Reviews from the Heart Tuesday, February 8th: Teresa’s Reading Corner . . Someone Else’s Garden by Dipika Rai Monday, February 7th: Rundpinne Tuesday, February 8th: […]
February Book Club of the Month Contest #2
Here’s a book you’ll wish you could hand your younger self! Multi-generational book clubs will get a kick out of this! The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper Author Donna Estes Antebi Which not-so-brilliant Neanderthal said all women have to learn the hard way? Introducing The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper, the essential 21-century playbook for […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for February 2011
A chance encounter sent Lisa Napoli halfway around the world to the happiest place on earth, where she met someone unexpected: Herself About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli “Radio Shangri-La grabs you by the heart and takes you on a winding dual journey — into the self […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 31st – February 4th
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal Monday, January 31st: Reading Through Life – reschedule Tuesday, February 1st: In the Next Room Wednesday, February 2nd: Total Fan Girl Wednesday, February 2nd: Juggling Life Thursday, February 3rd: Po(sey) Sessions Friday, February 4th: GeekDad Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson Monday, January 31st: Novel Whore Tuesday, February 1st: Debbie’s […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Samaritan, on tour March 2011
About The Samaritan Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough to touch, but healing is forgetting. Healing […]
Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling, on tour April 2011
About The Uncoupling “Wolitzer writes of a spell cast upon a town—but she superbly casts it upon the reader as well. This deftly written tale of bewildered women (and their men) is always surprising and always engaging, both funny and serious at the same time, a wonderful read.”—Elizabeth Strout, New York Times–bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge Hardcover: 288 pages […]
Sarah Blake, author of THE POSTMISTRESS, on tour March 2011
About The Postmistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) An ocean apart, two women—Frankie Bard, a gifted, intrepid, and beautiful young radio journalist in London to report on the Blitz, and Iris James, the dedicated, spinster postmistress of Franklin, Massachusetts—are entrusted with letters that concern the same man, to be […]