About First You Try Everything • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 17, 2012) An engrossing tale of a marriage that’s falling apart and a wife who will stop at nothing to keep it together. From their early days in college, Evvie and Ben were drawn to each other by feelings of isolation stemming […]
Archives for 2011
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, on tour February 2012
About Cinderella Ate My Daughter • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher:Harper Paperbacks (January 31, 2012) The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from […]
Tamara Chalabi, author of Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, on tour February 2012
About Late for Tea at the Deer Palace Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the homeland she’d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family’s history […]
Jane Harris, author of Gillespie and I, on tour February 2012
About Gillespie and I • Paperback: 528 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) From the award-winning author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland. As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her […]
Lynda La Plante, author of the Prime Suspect series, on tour January, February, and March 2012
To celebrate the re-release of the Prime Suspect series, all three books will be on tour. About Prime Suspect • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 17, 2012) The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard’s investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 26th – 30th
More Than Words Can Say by Robert Barclay Monday, December 26th: Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms Tuesday, December 27th: Amused By Books Wednesday, December 28th: BookNAround Thursday, December 29th: Reflections of a Bookaholic Friday, December 30th: Wandering Thoughts of a Scientific Housewife . Little Princes by Conor Grennan Tuesday, December 27th: sidewalk shoes Wednesday, […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma Rose, on tour February/March 2012
About Sonoma Rose Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 21, 2012) From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but flawed man. As the […]
Michael O’Hanlon, author of The Wounded Giant, on tour February 2011
About The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity (An eSpecial from The Penguin Press) • Format: Kindle Edition • File Size: 1685 KB • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 15, 2011) America spends as much on its military as the rest of the world put together. But its share of global […]
Melissa Marr, author of Graveminder, on tour January/February 2012
About Graveminder • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 17, 2012) Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. While growing up, Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual at every funeral: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 19th – 23rd
. The CHICKtionary by Anna Lefler Monday, December 19th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, December 20th: 2 Kids and Tired . . . You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney Monday, December 19th: Books, Movies, and Chinese Food . . . . The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber Monday, December 19th: Melody & Words […]