About The Girl in the Green Raincoat • Paperback: 176 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 18, 2011) In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor’s orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small […]
Jo Nesbø, author of The Devil’s Star, on tour February 2011
About The Devil’s Star • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 1, 2011) In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for December 2010!
Do women see war differently than men? This book will make you think about questions of love and loyalty against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. In the final days of a falling Saigon, The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naive ingenue […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 29th – December 3rd
Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank Monday, November 29th: In the Next Room . . . Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Paul De Angelis Monday, November 29th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage . . . Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller Monday, November 29th: Starting Fresh Wednesday, December 1st: Peeking Between the Pages . . A Secret Gift […]
Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on tour January/February 2011
About Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 11, 2011) An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents want to do what’s best for […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 22nd – 26th
Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Paul De Angelis Monday, November 22nd: Bookin’ with Bingo Tuesday, November 23rd: Daydream Believer Wednesday, November 24th: Rundpinne . . Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb Monday, November 22nd: The Book Faery Reviews Tuesday, November 23rd: red headed book child . . . Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera Thursday, […]
Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken, on tour January/February 2011
About Reality is Broken • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 20, 2011) Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will […]
Karen Marie Moning, author of Shadowfever, on tour January/February 2011
About Shadowfever Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 18, 2011) MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that […]
Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City, on tour February 2011
About Triumph of the City • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (February 3, 2011) A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 15th – 19th
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Monday, November 15th: Ashley’s Bookshelf . . . Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning Monday, November 15th: Rundpinne Tuesday, November 16th: Bookalicious Wednesday, November 17th: All Things Urban Fantasy . Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee Monday, November 15th: girlichef Tuesday, November 16th: Celebrations at Home Wednesday, November […]