About Shanghai Girls In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, […]
Mia Lundin, author of Female Brain Gone Insane, on tour January ’10
About Mia With a growing reputation as an authority on women’s hormonal and emotional balance, Mia Lundin, R.N.C., N.P.. attributes her success to her own experience and her personal understanding of the physical and emotional effects of hormonal changes and from listening and treating thousands of women suffering from depression, anxiety, and irrational behavior due […]
Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei, authors of Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat, on tour December ’09/January ’10
About Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat?: The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby Beauty activists Claire Mysko and Magali Amadei offer a much-needed forewarning on what to expect from your changing body, as well as a reality check for each stage of your pregnancy, exposing the myths, challenges, and […]
Beth Maloney, author of Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD, on tour November 2009
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for Aug. 31st – Sept. 4th
Babydoll by Allyson Roy Monday, August 31st: Books on the Brain (guest post) Wednesday, September 2nd: Chick With Books . . Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch Monday, August 31st: Devourer of Books Wednesday, September 2nd: 2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews . . The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf Monday, August […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 17th-August 21st
Please stop by our tours this week and check out these great books and blogs! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows Monday, August 17th: Books and Movies Tuesday, August 18th: Bending Bookshelf Wednesday, August 19th: Bookish Ruth reschedule Thursday, August 20th: Books on the Brain A […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 3rd-August 7th, 2009
Please stop by our tours this week and check out these great books and blogs! Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman Monday, August 3rd: Pop Culture Junkie Tuesday, August 4th: The Story Siren Wednesday, August 5th: The Book Muncher Thursday, August 6th: Write for a Reader reschedule Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey Monday, August […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Last Dickens, on tour September/October 2009
About Matthew Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens. He is also the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. About The […]