Title: A Thread of Sky Author: Deanna Fei Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 368 Genre: Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever. A [...]

Title: Heart of Deception Author: M. L. Malcolm Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: A man of many contradictions, Leo Hoffman is a Hungarian national with a French passport, a wealthy businessman with no visible means of support, and a [...]

Title: The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Author: John Pollack Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 224 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: A former word pun champion’s funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the [...]

Title: The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White Author: Daniel Sharfstein Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 416 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction [...]

Title: The Beauty of Humanity Movement Author: Camilla Gibb Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 320 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Source: Review copy from the publisher, for TLC Tours From the cover: Maggie, an art curator who is Vietnamese by birth but who has lived most of her life in the United States, has returned to her country [...]