About How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Bailout in U.S. History: A Guide to the 7 Greatest Bargains from Main Street to Wall Street Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Avery (January 4, 2010) For those in the know, today’s financial headlines don’t spell disaster–they spell the sale of the century. But it takes a […]
Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust, on tour January/February 2010
About American Rust Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (January 12, 2010) Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to […]
Charles Farrell, author of Your Money Ratios, on tour January 2010
About Your Money Ratios: 8 Essential Tools for Financial Success and Security Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Avery (December 24, 2009) According to the 2009 Retirement Confidence Survey, only 13% of workers were “very confident” about saving enough money for a comfortable retirement—down from 27% in 2007. But they need not worry. YOUR MONEY RATIOS: 8 […]
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: […]
Michael Gates Gill, author of How to Save Your Own Life, on tour January 2010
About How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places Pub. Date: January 4, 2010 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Format: Hardcover, 160pp Michael Gill’s lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response […]
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 […]
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, on tour January 2010
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, […]
Therapy Revolution on a TLC Book Tour in December 2009/January 2010
About Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On without Wasting Time or Money Paperback: 226 pages Publisher: HCI (November 2, 2009) THE THERAPY CRISIS – Each year, millions of people enter therapy hoping and believing they’ll be helped—but studies show that many aren’t being helped. In fact, some patients find they are struggling […]
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 […]