About Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (September 22, 2009) The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy who lived on the coast of Maine, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behavior. He walked and ate with his eyes shut, refused to bathe, […]
Drs. Mike and Mary Dan Eades, authors of The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle, on tour November 2009
About The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle As you’ve gotten older, have you noticed your waistline ballooning—even when you weigh the same? If you’re like most people, no matter what you’ve tried—eating healthy, exercising, full-on detoxing—you can’t seem to get rid of that bulge. Respected obesity experts, Mary Dan Eades, M.D., and Michael R. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 28th-October 2nd
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Monday, September 28th: Book Addiction Tuesday, September 29th: Lost in Books Wednesday, September 30th: Caribousmom City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Monday, September 28th: Devourer of Books Tuesday, September 29th: Lesa’s Book Critiques Wednesday, September 30th: Luxury Reading The Promised World by Lisa Tucker Monday, September 28th: A Sea of Books Tuesday, September 29th: GalleySmith […]
Jacqueline Sheehan, author of Now and Then, on tour November 2009
About Jacqueline Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, roofing, clerking in a health food store, and directing […]
Tobias Hil, author of The Hidden, on tour November 2009
About Tobias Poet and novelist Tobias Hill was born in London, England, on 30 March 1970. He read English at Sussex University and spent two years teaching in Japan. He is the author of the collections of poetry Year of the Dog (1995), Midnight in the City of Clocks (1996), influenced by his experiences living in […]
Henry Pollack, MD, author of A World Without Ice, on tour November 2009
About A World Without Ice THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT ICE AND PEOPLE — the role ice has played in the development of Earth’s landscape, climate, and human civilization, and the reciprocal impact of people on the planet’s ice. Geophysicist Henry Pollack paints a compelling portrait of the delicate geological balance between ice and climate, […]
Dr. Irene M. Pepperberg, author of Alex & Me, on tour November 2009
About Dr. Irene Pepperberg Irene M. Pepperberg is an associate research professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and teaches animal cognition at Harvard University. She is head of the Alex Foundation and author of The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots. Don’t miss the website for the Alex Foundation! About Alex & […]
Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets, on tour October 2009
About Jess Jess Walter is the author of five novels, including The Zero, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and Citizen Vince, winner of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Prize in both fiction […]
John Grogan, author of The Longest Trip Home, on tour October/November 2009
About John I was born in Motor City, Detroit, Michigan, on March 20, 1957. My very Catholic parents were hoping for a St. Patrick’s Day baby. Then for a St. Joseph’s Day baby. I was having no part of it. Instead, I arrived on the first day of spring, the youngest of four. Not long after, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of Sept. 14th- Sept. 18th
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Monday, September 14th: Shhh I’m Reading Wednesday, September 16th: Savvy Verse and Wit Thursday, September 17th: Ticket to Anywhere Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch Monday, September 14th: Presenting Lenore Wednesday, September 16th: Stephanie’s Written Word Thursday, September 17th: Diary of an Eccentric City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Wednesday, September 16th: Linus’s […]