About Chosen • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (November 8, 2011) It all begins with a fantasy . . . The caseworker in her “paperwork-signing” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour November 2011
About A Train in Winter • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 8, 2011) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newpapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for October 2011
We have three fantastic books in our Book Club of the Month Contest for October! ________________________________________________________ Forced to start over in a world where they don’t fit in… Book clubs will find much to talk about in Me Again Me Again by Keith Cronin Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim […]
Matt Rees, author of Mozart’s Last Aria, on tour November 2011
About Mozart’s Last Aria • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 1, 2011) The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a […]
Jeff R. Spalsbury, author of Merry Christmas Stories, on tour November/December 2011
About Merry Christmas Stories Paperback: 214 pages Publisher: Black Rose Writing (September 23, 2010) Merry Christmas Stories is a collection of 25 Christmas tales that emphasize the value of Christmas love and laughter. These short stories will make you laugh, smile and just feel good about this magical time of year. These delightful stories, written in a variety […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 26th – 30th
. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews Monday, September 26th: Life in Review Tuesday, September 27th: The Book Nest Wednesday, September 28th: Nose in a Book Thursday, September 29th: My Bookshelf Friday, September 30th: In the Next Room Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Monday, September 26th: Well Read Wife Tuesday, September 27th: Unabridged Chick Wednesday, September 28th: Mocha Momma […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 19th – 23rd
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas Monday, September 19th: The Book Nerd Club . . . Believing is Seeing by Errol Morris Monday, September 19th: Duckrabbit . . . My God, What Have We Done? by Susan Weiss Monday, September 19th: A Bookish Libraria Tuesday, September 20th: “That’s Swell!” Wednesday, September 21st: Lit […]
C.C. Harrison, author of Picture of Lies, on tour October/November 2011
About Picture of Lies • Hardcover: 326 pages • Publisher: Five Star (October 21, 2011) Investigative journalist Keegan Thomas is living a nightmare of guilt and grief since her little girl Daisy was kidnapped practically in front of her eyes. When the police investigation dead ended, she turned her grief to anger and buried herself in her work. The […]
Vivienne Schiffer, author of Camp Nine, on tour November 2011
About Camp Nine • Hardcover: 151 pages • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press (October 10, 2011) The time of fear and prejudice following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Arkansas Delta are the setting for Camp Nine. The novel’s narrator, Chess Morton, lives with her widowed mother in Rook, a town too tiny to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 12th-18th
. The Legacy by Katherine Webb Monday, September 12th: Amusing Reviews Tuesday, September 13th: Reviews from the Heart Wednesday, September 14th: Colloqium Thursday, September 15th: The Lost Entwife Friday, September 16th: Jenn’s Bookshelves . The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen Monday, September 12th: Rundpinne Tuesday, September 13th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Wednesday, September 14th: Book Addiction Thursday, September 15th: BookNAround Friday, September 16th: Colloquium . […]