About The Lantern • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 9, 2011) “Deborah Lawrenson is a master of mood and shadow as she spins this absorbing tale of intense passion and growing dread. Her Provence is sumptuous and forbidding and utterly real. Prepare to be riveted.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife “I […]
Archives for June 2011
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 13th-17th
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton Monday, June 13th: Mod Vintage Life Tuesday, June 14th: La Dolfina Wednesday, June 15th: 52 Flea Thursday, June 16th: English Major’s Junk Food Thursday, June 16th: The Shabby Nest Friday, June 17th: No Minimalist Here The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block Monday, June 13th: Luxury Reading Tuesday, June 14th: […]
Sapphire, author of The Kid, on tour July 2011
About The Kid • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 5, 2011) Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious’s son, Abdul. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push’s unforgettable […]
David Matthews, author of Kicking Ass and Saving Souls, on tour July/August 2011
About Kicking Ass and Saving Souls • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 21, 2011) The story of a boy from Baltimore who evolves from a safecracking, jewel-heisting, deep-sea diving, ultimate-fighting, international playboy into a globetrotting humanitarian. Stefan Templeton was born a child of extremes. The son of Ebba, an aristocratic Norwegian […]
Minrose Gwin, author of Wishing for Snow, on tour July/August 2011
About Wishing for Snow • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (June 21, 2011) A daughter’s brave and beautiful tribute to a remarkable damaged soul . . . For novelist Minrose Gwin, growing up was a time of chaos and uncertainty, the result of being raised by a parent with a serious […]
Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year, on tour August, 2011
. About The Gap Year Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Knopf (July 5, 2011) From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest. […]
Donna M. Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir, on tour October 2011
About Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 13, 2011) Donna Johnson’s remarkable story of being raised under the biggest gospel tent in the world, by David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. Holy Ghost Girl is a compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 6th-June 10th
. Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Monday, June 6th: We Be Reading Tuesday, June 7th: Chaotic Compendiums Thursday, June 9th: Lit and Life Friday, June 10th: Nerds in Babeland Friday, June 10th: Luxury Reading. Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister Monday, June 6th: Peeking Between the Pages Tuesday, June 7th: Raging Bibliomania Wednesday, June 8th: Books, Movies, and […]
Keith Cronin, author of Me Again, on tour September/October 2011
About Me Again Hardcover: 322 pages Publisher: Five Star (September 7, 2011) Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim Jonathan Hooper learns when he wakes up after spending six years in a coma. Everyone calls Jonathan’s recovery a “miracle,” but since nobody had expected him to recover, his sudden awakening becomes an […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2011
Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? Island Girl by Lynda Simmons Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is the emotionally riveting story of a 55 year old mother, Ruby Donaldson, fighting to reunite her family as she struggles with the diagnosis of early on-set Alzheimer’s. Facing the […]