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 […]
Living Well With Bad Credit on tour February 2010
About Living Well With Bad Credit Bad credit happens to good people, but it doesn’t have to ruin their lives. While there are many books about how to repair bad credit, there are exactly zero books about how to live with bad credit (the reality of more than 11.3 million Americans) and zero books about […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of Nov. 23rd-27th
A World Without Ice by Dr. Henry Pollack Tuesday, November 24th: Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! Wednesday, November 25th: Climate Science Watch Wednesday, November 25th: Keyboard Culture/Climate Crisis Saving Sammy by Beth Maloney Monday, November 23rd: Book Chatter Tuesday, November 24th: A Nut in a Nutshell Now and Then by Jacqueline Sheehan Monday, November 23rd: Stephanie’s […]
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: […]
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 […]