TLC Book Tours

Book Review and Giveaway: The Most Dangerous Thing

May 15, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Most Dangerous Thing Synopsis: Something terrible happened in the woods on that day so long ago. Was it what the children said happened … or something else? The man who sometimes lived in the ramshackle cabin the children discovered when exploring, whom they called Chicken George after […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Afterwards

April 24, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Afterwards Synopsis: Grace is at her son, Adam’s, school for sports day. Nearly all of the children are outdoors when suddenly the building erupts in fire. As Grace looks around for her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenny, she realizes that she is still inside where she has been serving as […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Song Remains the Same

April 6, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Song Remains the Same Synopsis: Eleanor “Nell” Margaret Slattery survives the crash of a 757 airliner over Iowa. In fact, she is one of only two survivors, the other being Anderson Carroll, a well-known actor whose exploits often make tabloid headlines. Nell awakens in a hospital to find […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Sonoma Rose

March 16, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Sonoma Rose Synopsis: Rosa Diaz knew, as a child growing up in California, that her family held a long-standing grudge against the Jorgenson family, Norwegians who now owned the land that had once belonged to the Diaz family, Triumph Ranch. The Jorgensons produced delicious apricots and Rose longed […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Garden Intrigue

March 9, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Garden Intrigue Synopsis: Historian Eloise Kelly has come to England to work on her doctoral thesis, met Colin, and has taken up residence with him in his ancestral home where a film crew has been allowed to utilize the premises. She is researching the Pink Carnation, Jane […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Walter’s Muse

March 1, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Walter’s Muse Synopsis: Maggie Lewis is sixty-five years old and has just retired after a forty-year career as an elementary school librarian. She has come to Vashon Island near Seattle, accessible only by ferry, to live full-time in a rustic cabin with no window screens. Long divorced, her […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Delicacy

February 27, 2012

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Delicacy Synopsis: Natalie was just twenty years old when she was approached by Francois on a Paris street. From that conversation, their relationship bloomed into two years of living together, followed by five of marriage. They were happy and almost never quarreled until one tragic day when everything […]

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Book Review: father-mucker

December 23, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for father-mucker Synopsis: Josh Lansky is a screenwriter with a serious case of writer’s block. Although he optioned one script a few years ago, netting enough capital to flee New York City and purchase a home in suburban New Paltz, the movie was never produced and the script is […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: Opening Doors

December 16, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The CHICKtionary If you think the Merriam-Webster dictionary has it all covered, think again. Author Anna Lefler provides definitions for many of the words not included in standard dictionaries in her new book, The CHICKionary: From A-Line to Z-Snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know. Invite your girlfriends […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Conversations and Cosmopolitans

November 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Conversations and Cosmopolitans Synopsis: Robert Rave was just twenty-one years old when he struck out on his own in New York City after growing up in the Midwest, the youngest of three children raised by typical middle-class parents. He could no longer hide the truth of who he […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Her Sister’s Shadow

November 12, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Her Sister’s Shadow Synopsis: George and Blythe Niles were raising their four daughters — Bea, Charlotte, Lilli, and Dori — just outside the small town of White Head on the Massachusetts coast in a beautiful house where Blythe tended the lush gardens and painted vines running up the […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Smartest Woman I Know

November 4, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Smartest Woman I Know It is said that there’s nobody as smart as an old woman. The old woman at the center of author Ilene Beckerman’s delightful memoir, The Smartest Woman I Know, is her grandmother. This story is mostly about Ettie, all 4’10″ of her. She was […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Everything We Ever Wanted

November 2, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Everything We Ever Wanted Synopsis: Silvie Bates-McAllister has lived her life steeped in family history. For many years, she has served on the Board of Directors of Swithin, the private school that her grandfather rebuilt and reestablished after it was destroyed by a fire. Both of her sons, […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Holy Ghost Girl

October 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Holy Ghost Girl Synopsis: Donna was a mere three years old and her younger brother, Gary, was barely a year old when their divorced mother left her parents’ home to travel the country with evangelist David Terrell during the 1960’s. Her children in tow, Carolyn and the other members […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Little Goblins Ten

October 5, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Little Goblins Ten Halloween will be here soon! Around town, a number of homes have already been decorated with bright orange pumpkin lights strung across their front porches, piercing the darkness that is overtaking our little city earlier and earlier each day. The first real storm of the […]

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Book Review: The Grief of Others

September 19, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Grief of Others Synopsis: One year ago, the Ryrie family suffered an unspeakable loss. The child Ricky was carrying was determined to have anencephaly early in the pregnancy. Simon Isaac Ryrie lived just fifty-seven short hours. He was quietly cremated, and John placed the small cardboard box […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Call Me Irresistible

September 15, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Call Me Irresistible Synopsis: Meg Koranda has come to Wynette, Texas, for the wedding of her best friend, Lucy Jorik, to Wynette’s favorite son, Ted Beaudine. He is so perfect that Meg can practically hear angels singing every time he enters the room. He and Lucy are a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Lantern

September 14, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for The Lantern Synopsis: Eve and Dom fell in love and into a relationship practically instantaneously. He was handsome, older, and charmingly mysterious. Dom was a composer who had already made his fortune and now had the luxury of devoting his time to his musical pursuits. Eve was a […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Before Ever After

September 5, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Before Ever After Synopsis: Shelley’s life practically ended three years ago when she was widowed. Since the terrible day when her husband Max was killed, she has been bereft, adrift. Finding out that Max left her a substantial estate made it unnecessary for her to attempt to resume working […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Let’s Take the Long Way Home

August 29, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Let’s Take the Long Way Home Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell tells the story of her deep, abiding friendship with Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story. The two women had much in common: They were both writers, recovering alcoholics, serious athletes, dog lovers, extremely private, and […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Two for Sorrow

August 27, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Two for Sorrow Synopsis: Josephine Tey has returned to the Cowdray Club in London, a club for nurses and professional women, where she stays when in town. Her friends, the Motley sisters, are designing gowns for all of the women who will be attending the upcoming charity gala, […]

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Book Review and Autographed Giveaway: Little Black Dress

August 24, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Little Black Dress Synopsis: Evie and her younger sister, Anna, could not have been more different. While Evie was tall, slender, and somewhat plain, Anna was considered beautiful and vivacious. Evie was calm, reliable, and responsible, but Anna always craved adventure and excitement. She dreamed of traveling the world. Their […]

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Guest Post: Putting on My Little Black Dress

August 22, 2011

Today I am delighted to welcome Susan McBride to Colloquium! Susan is the author of young adult fiction series The Debs, Debutante Dropout Mysteries, and Maggie Ryan Mysteries, as well as two novels for adults, The Cougar Club and her latest, Little Black Dress. Two sisters’ lives seemed forever intertwined, but are torn apart when […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Domestic Violets

August 15, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Domestic Violets Synopsis: Tom Violet and his wife, Anna, want to have another child. After all, their little Allie is seven years old already and there will be a wide enough age span between their two children. But if Tom doesn’t find a cure for his erectile dysfunction, […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Next to Love

August 11, 2011

Welcome to the TLC Book Tour for Next to Love Synopsis: Babe, Grace, and Millie have been friends since they met in kindergarten. The story begins in 1941 and World War II has just begun. Babe is from below Sixth Street, the wrong side of the tracks, but is fierce, determined, and loyal to her friends. She […]

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