About The Love Ceiling Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Endicott and Hugh Books (2009) Steller Press/Canada (May 2010) Women, aging and creativity…a book club favorite! After the death of her Japanese American mother, sixty-four year old Anne Kuroda Duppstaad finds the courage to confront the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist. […]
TLC’s Book Club of the Month Contest!
We are so excited to announce our new feature- TLC’s Book Club of the Month contest! We will choose a Book Club of the Month at the end of April! Register your book club with TLC and you could win up to 10 copies of The Girls from Ames for your book club! The #1 […]
George Bishop, author of Letter to My Daughter, on tour May 2010
As we approach Mothers Day and Fathers Day, perhaps we should consider that a letter composed with an open and honest heart might well be the greatest gift of all to those we love. About Letter to My Daughter Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (February 16, 2010) Dear Elizabeth, It’s early morning and I’m […]
Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool, on tour April/May 2010
About Dead End Gene Pool In the tradition of Sean Wilsey’s Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough’s Running With Scissors, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. For generations the Burdens were one […]
Jeffrey Zaslow, author of The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship, on tour April/May 2010
About The Girls From Ames Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gotham; Reprint edition (April 6, 2010) The instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture As children, […]
Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad, on tour April 2010
About South of Broad Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well […]
Dr. Sean Kenniff, author of Etre the Cow, on tour April 2010
About Etre the Cow Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: HCI (April 1, 2010) Humiliated by his hoofed legs, the flies on his haunches, and the grass in his mouth, a bull named Etre tells his tender and thought-provoking story about the brutal insignificance of cow life at Gorwell Farm. In a world where the line between […]
Ernie Ward, author of Chow Hounds, on tour April 2010
About Chow Hounds: Why Our Dogs are Getting Fatter – A Vet’s Plan to Save Their Lives Dogs are man’s best friend. But unfortunately, our modern lifestyle is the worst thing for their well being. In fact, almost half of the 75 million dogs in North America are overweight or obese. As a practicing vet […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of January 25th – 29th
The Believers by Zoë Heller Tuesday, January 26, 2010: Raging Bibliomania Wednesday, January 27, 2010: Steph and Tony Investigate! Thursday, January 28, 2010: Life in the Thumb . Tainted by Brooke Morgan Tuesday, January 26th: Café of Dreams Thursday, January 28th: Clever Girl Goes Blog . . The Body Scoop for Girls by Dr. Jennifer […]
David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, on tour May 2010
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 […]