About The Supreme Macaroni Company • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 26, 2013) For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This historic business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the school teacher turned shoemaker, to fall in […]
Archives for September 2013
Jen Turano, author of A Talent for Trouble, on tour in November 2013
About A Talent for Trouble Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (October 1, 2013) For years, Miss Felicia Murdock’s every thought and action have been in pursuit of becoming a minister’s wife. When the minister she’d set her sights on has other ideas, she decides something in her life needs to change–and soon–before she wastes any […]
Cora Carmack, author of Finding It, on tour October 2013
About Finding It • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 15, 2013) Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find where you truly belong . . . Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She’s having […]
Lynda La Plante, author of Backlash, on tour October 2013
About Backlash • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (October 15, 2013) Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London’s Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis. Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home […]
Diane Hammond, author of Friday’s Harbor, on tour October 2013
About Friday’s Harbor Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 15, 2013) Hannah the elephant is thriving in her new home, peacemaker Truman Levy is the new director of the Max L. Biedelman Zoo, and life in Bladenham, Washington, has finally settled down . . . or has it? From his eccentric aunt Ivy, Truman learns […]
Sandra Neil Wallace, author of Muckers, on tour October/November 2013
About Muckers Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (October 8, 2013) Sandra Neil Wallace’s debut historical fiction novel Muckers (Random House/Knopf; October 2013; ($16.99 U.S./$18.99 CAN.), is based on the true story of the 1950 Jerome Muckers football team and the championship season that rallied an Arizona town together and turned tragedy into a […]
William Kuhn, author of Mrs. Queen Takes the Train, on tour October 2013
About Mrs. Queen Takes the Train • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 8, 2013) After decades of service and years of watching her family’s troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain’s Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, […]
House of Earth by Woody Guthrie, on tour October/November 2013
About House of Earth • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 22, 2013) Finished in 1947, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie’s only fully realized novel—a powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, filled with the homespun lyricism and authenticity that have made his songs a part of our national consciousness. Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 9th-14th
The Arrangement by Mary Balogh Tuesday, September 10th- In The Hammock Wednesday, September 11th- Urban Girl Reader Thursday, September 12th- Adventures of an Intrepid Reader Thursday, September 12th- Unabridged Chick Friday, September 13th: Reading Reality Freud’s Mistress by Karen Mack Monday, September 9th: A Bookish Affair Tuesday, September 10th: Books in the Burbs Wednesday, September 11th: A Novel Review Thursday, September 12th: A Chick Who […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour November 2013
About The House Girl • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 5, 2013) Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action suit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. […]