• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012)

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child.

The school was on fire, and Grace’s last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno.  While their bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state.  When they learn that someone purposefully set the fire, and Jenny may still be in grave danger from someone who wants her dead, Grace realizeds she may be the only one who can discover who might be responsible.  The police are looking at Adam, Jenny’s younger brother, who is struck mute by the horror he witnessed and can’t defend himself when he is accused of the arson.

But a mother will do anything to protect her children, and Grace will do whatever it takes to save Adam and Jenny and find out who committed the crime that rocked their lives.

“Lupton enters the highly charged ring where the best psychological detective writers spar, her hands raised in a victory clench…”–New York Times Book Review

About Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton lives with her husband and two sons in London.

For more information on Rosamund and her work, please visit her website, rosamundlupton.com, her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter @Rosamundlupton.

.

.

.

The Garden Intrigue

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 16, 2012)

Just in time for the post-Valentine’s Day chocolate hangover, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE is the latest novel in the nationally bestselling Pink Carnation series by RITA Award winner Lauren Willig (Dutton, On sale: February 16, 2012). In this ninth installment, long-time readers and newcomers alike will be delighted to meet a character sure to become a fan favorite—a poet whose fervent ardor leads him to declare his feelings for the Pink Carnation in atrociously overwrought verse.

Lovable modern day grad student Eloise Kelly is back and on the trail of the Pink Carnation when she discovers a wretched poem among the papers of a code book. Poetry penned by the notorious fop Augustus Whittlesby for Jane Wooliston (aka the Pink Carnation)—Eloise can’t help but wonder; can anyone really be that bad of a poet? Or is something else hiding behind his putridly saccharine words? Back in 1804, New York born Paris socialite Emma Morris Delgardie doesn’t think so. She’s too busy sipping champagne to notice Whittlesby’s strange interest in a top-secret device Napoleon has commissioned. Unfortunately for Emma, she’s the poet’s entrée into the emperor’s inner circle. Fortunately for Augustus, this plucky American heroine could turn out to be his true muse.

Acclaim for Lauren Willig’s novels is as plentiful as her quirky and charming cast of characters: Marie Claire called her writing “History textbook meets Bridget Jones,” and Library Journal compared the series to “getting a plate of warm-from the oven chocolate chips cookies; it’s hard not to eat them all at once, but you want to savor each bite.”

The perfect addition to a much-beloved series, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE will leave readers clamoring for more of the spunky Eloise Kelly and the ever elusive Pink Carnation.

“As fresh and charming as its floral theme.”                                 

-Kirkus Reviews

“Enlightening and entertaining as always, and full of plenty of romance and intrigue.”                               

–Library Journal

“Readers will be pleased to see the spy who inspired the series in action and will enjoy the charming, witty rapport between Augustus and Emma.”

–Booklist

About Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is the bestselling author of eight previous Pink Carnation novels. She received a graduate degree in English history from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, though she now writes full-time. Willig lives in New York City.

For more information about Lauren and her work, please visit her website, laurenwillig.com.

.

.

Lauren Willig’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, February 16th:  Unabridged Chick

Friday, February 17th:  I’m Booking It

Monday, February 20th:  In the Hammock

Tuesday, February 21st:  A Fair Substitute for Heaven

Wednesday, February 22nd:  Book Reviews by Molly

Thursday, February 23rd:  Broken Teepee

Monday, February 27th:  Calico Critic

Tuesday, February 28th:  Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, February 29th:  The Allure of Books

Thursday, March 1st:  Colloquium

Monday, March 5th:  The Bookworm

Tuesday, March 6th:  A Chick Who Reads

Wednesday, March 7th:  Library of Clean Reads

Monday, March 12th:  YA Book Nerd

Wednesday, March 14th:  Write Meg

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 27, 2011)

The phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months. So begins Ian Hunt’s fight to get his daughter back. Hunt is a police dispatcher in the small East Texas town of Bulls Mouth. The call comes at the end of his shift, and it’s from his daughter, Maggie. Maggie, whose funeral he recently attended.

The call is cut-off by the man who snatched Maggie from her bedroom seven years ago. Up until that moment, the assumption was that Maggie had been murdered, but Ian has never given up hope of finding her. A basic description of the kidnapper is all Ian has to go on.

The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of Ian’s battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to California.

An action-packed thriller whose East Texas setting evokes No Country for Old Men and whose story calls to mind that of Jaycee Dugard, THE DISPATCHER is sure to keep readers hooked until the very last page.

“Violent, vivid, and disturbing, The Dispatcher is a stomach churner. If you want a book that grabs you—almost chokes you—and won’t let go, this is it. But it should come with a warning label: Caution, a serious writer at work.”—Ridley Pearson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killer Summer

“The Dispatcher grabs the reader on page one and never lets go. It’s a classic yet bracingly contemporary story of kidnapping, violence, and a father’s ferocious courage.”—Jonathan Santlofer, author of Anatomy of Fear 

“A well-written, fast-paced book . . . along the order Quentin Tarantino, with a long and bloody trail to the end.” —Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series

About Ryan David Jahn

photo credit: Noel Bass

Ryan David Jahn won the Crime Writers Association debut novel prize for Good Neighbors (Penguin, 2011). He left school at sixteen to work in a record store and subsequently joined the army. Since 2004 he has worked in television and film. He grew up in Arizona, Texas, and California and recently moved from Los Angeles to Louisville, Kentucky, where he plans to set his next novel.

For more info about Ryan and his work, please visit his website, www.ryandavidjahn.com.

Ryan David Jahn’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 13th:  Chaotic Compendiums

Tuesday, February 14th:  Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms

Thursday, February 16th:  A Bookworm’s World

Monday, February 20th:  Life in Review

Wednesday, February 22nd:  Reading on a Rainy Day

Wednesday, February 29th:  Dan’s Journal

Thursday, March 1st:  Wordsmithonia

Monday, March 5th:  Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White

Tuesday, March 6th:  Man of La Book

Wednesday, March 7th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, March 8th:  Crime Fiction Lover

Monday, March 12th:  Book Addict Katie

Tuesday, March 13th:  The House of Crime and Mystery

Wednesday, March 14th:  A Library of My Own

Thursday, March 15th:  Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Monday, March 19th:  Raging Bibliomania

Wednesday, March 21st:  Fiction Addict

Walter’s Muse

• Publisher: Endicott & Hugh Books
• Publication date: 2/1/2012
• Pages: 285

It’s the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie’s summer becomes about as peaceful as navigating whitewater. Not only does her wealthy sister arrive uninvited with a startling announcement; but Maggie finds herself entangled with her new Baker’s Beach neighbor, Walter Hathaway. A famous children’s author and recovering alcoholic, Walter has a history with Maggie they would each like to forget. Delightfully told with humor and insight, Walter’s Muse is a page turner for romantics, writers, and the young at heart at any age.

“An exhilarating portrait of a woman in her prime…revives in all of us a lust for life, with its splendid twists and turns, gifts of love and friendship, and promises of more surprises to come.” –Nina Sankovitch, Huffington Post, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

“For those who believe in second chances in love and life, Walter’s Muse provides a warm and engaging blueprint.  Okimoto’s loveably quirky characters become a reader’s friends and family.  I hated to finish the last page.”–Connie Burns, School LIbrary Journal, reviewer

“Brimming with wit and wisdom…a delightful celebration of mature love, sure to enchant fans of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand!”–Juli Morser, Books by the Way

About Jean Davies Okimoto

Jean Davies Okimoto is an author and playwright whose books and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, German and Hebrew. She is the recipient  of numerous awards including Smithsonian Notable Book, the American LibraryAssociation Best Book for Young Adults, the Washington Governor’s Award and the International Reading Association Readers Choice Award. Her picture book, Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat was adapted by Shelly Duvall for the HBO and Showtime television series “Bedtime Stories.” Her debut novel for adults The Love Ceiling was a season’s pick by the King County Library System, named to the ABA Indie Next Reading Group List and ebook Fiction Winner in the 2009 Indie Next Generation Awards. She has appeared on CNN, Oprah, and The Today Show. Jeanie began writing for adults when she and her husband Joe retired to Vashon Island in 2004 where they are visited by deer, a raccoon named George who is missing a tail and their six grandchildren.

For more information on Ms. Okimoto, please visit her website at www.jeandaviesokimoto.com.

Jean Davies Okimoto’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 13th:  The Lost Entwife

Thursday, February 16th:  BookNAround

Monday, February 20th:  Luxury Reading

Tuesday, February 21st:  Joyfully Retired

Wednesday, February 22nd:  Book Dilettante

Monday, February 27th:  Library of Clean Reads

Tuesday, February 28th:  Colloquium

Thursday, March 1st:  Patricia’s Wisdom

Monday, March 5th:  Book Club Classics!

Wednesday, March 7th:  Words from the Heart

Monday, March 12th:  Great Imaginations

Wednesday, March 14th:  Simply Stacie

Thursday, March 22nd:  Under My Apple Tree

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012)

Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls.

A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris Dupont knows that she can break into the ranks of The Devil’s Advocate, the Party’s underground newspaper, and there uncover the real source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors. Some involve her favorite teacher, Mr. Kaplan. Others point to an albino student who left school abruptly, never to return. And everything connects to a rare book called Marvelous Species. But the truth is not without its own dangers, leaving Iris torn between her allegiances, her reporter’s instinct, and her own troubled past.

The Year of the Gadfly is an exhilarating journey of double-crosses, long-buried secrets, and all the charge of adolescence, following in the footsteps of classic school novels like Prep and The Secret History, and reminding us how these years haunt our lives forever.

Photo credit: Diana Levine

About Jennifer Miller

JENNIFER MILLER, author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East, holds an undergraduate degree from Brown and graduate degrees in journalism and fiction from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, the Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, and others. She is a native of Washington, D.C. and lives in Brooklyn.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

Jennifer’s Tour Stops

Tuesday, May 8th: The Scarlet Letter

Wednesday, May 9th: Unabridged Chick

Thursday, May 10th: Just Joanna

Monday, May 14th: Books in the City

Tuesday, May 15th: Drey’s Library

Wednesday, May 16th: Bookstack

Thursday, May 17th: Books Distilled

Monday, May 21st: Sophisticated Dorkiness

Tuesday, May 22nd: so much shouting, so much laughter

Wednesday, May 23rd: Book Hooked Blog

Thursday, May 24th: Under My Apple Tree

Tuesday, May 29th: Reflections of a Bookaholic

Enchantments

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Random House (March 6, 2012)

“What a joy to read… If wit and language could protect against growing old, these bewitching sisters might never have to grow up.” – Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

About The Weird Sisters

Hardcover: 336 pages

Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (January 20, 2011)

The Andreas sisters were raised on books – their family motto might as well be, ‘There’s no problem a library card can’t solve.’  Their father, a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespearean studies, named them after three of the Bard’s most famous characters: Rose (Rosalind – As You Like It), Bean (Bianca – The Taming of the Shrew), and Cordy (Cordelia – King Lear), but they have inherited those characters’ failures along with their strengths.

Now the sisters have returned home to the small college town where they grew up – partly because their mother is ill, but mostly because their lives are falling apart and they don’t know where to go next.  Rose, a staid mathematics professor, has the chance to break away from her quiet life and join her devoted fiance in England, if she could only summon up the courage to do more than she’s thought she could.  Bean left home as soon as she could, running to the glamour of New York City, only to come back ashamed of the person she has become.  And Cordy, who has been wandering the country for years, has been brought back to earth with a resounding thud, realizing it’s finally time for her to grow up.

The sisters never thought they would find the answers to their problems in each other, but over the course of one long summer, they find that everything they’ve been running from – each other, their histories, and their small hometown – might offer more than they ever expected.

As Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress says of this sparkling debut, “Even if you don’t have a sister, you may feel like you have one after reading this hilarious and utterly winsome novel.”

About Eleanor Brown

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Eleanor has lived in St. Paul, San Francisco, Philadelphia, South Florida, and Oxford, London, and Brighton, England.  She works in educational technology and lives in Colorado with her partner, writer and new media superstar, J.C. Hutchins.

Eleanor’s writing has appeared in anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers.  The Weird Sisters, her first novel, will be published by Amy Einhorn Books on January 20, 2011.

Connect with Eleanor:

On her website, blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

..

Eleanor Brown’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 17th:  1330V

Tuesday, January 18th:  Steph and Tony Investigate

Wednesday, January 19th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Thursday, January 20th:  Books, Movies, and Chinese Food

Monday, January 24th:  Caribousmom

Monday, January 24th:  Caribousmom – author guest post

Tuesday, January 25th:  I’m Booking It

Wednesday, January 26th:  Book Addiction

Thursday, January 27th:  Life in Review

Monday, January 31st:  Sophisticated Dorkiness

Tuesday, February 1st:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, February 2nd:  Book Club Classics!

Thursday, February 3rd:  At Home with Books

Friday, February 4th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, February 7th:  Simply Stacie

Wednesday, February 9th: Life in the Thumb

Friday, February 11th:  In the Next Room

Hardcover: 384 pages

Publisher: Crown (December 28, 2010)

Readers of sweeping literary fiction such as The Hours, The Emperor’s Children, and The Historian will be immediately drawn into Matthew Gallaway’s debut novel: THE METROPOLIS CASE (Crown; On-Sale: January 2011). From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, Gallaway imparts the sweeping tale of an unlikely quartet, bound together by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagner’s masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde.

With his captivating voice and engaging characters, Gallaway effortlessly moves between Europe in the nineteenth century, 1970s Pittsburgh, and 1980s to twenty-first-century New York City. He introduces us to Martin, a lawyer who, at at age forty, feels disconnected from his life; Maria, a tall, awkward, ostracized teenager, attempting to break free from the doldrums of Pittsburgh and harness the power of her extraordinary operatic voice; Anna, destined to be a grande dame of the international stage, emerging from her cocoon to step into the spotlight; and Lucien, a young singer present at the birth of the modern age, who races through the streets of Europe in an exuberant bid to make the most of every breath.

Together theirs is a story of music and magic, love, death, secrets, and betrayal, grandly operatic in scale, that will keep readers spellbound through the last page.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE METROPOLIS CASE

“I know next to nothing about opera and I loved this book. Let me go further: I actually (don’t tell anyone) find opera a bit dull, but now consider me a big buff — if no other reason than it gave us this powerful, beautiful, wondrous novel.”
–Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and Half a Life

“The Metropolis Case is a terrifically engaging and elegantly panoramic novel that is sure to appeal to fans of majestic fiction such as Kostova’s The Historian.”–Katharine Weber, author of  True Confections and Triangle

“Matthew Gallaway possesses a massive vision and a wizard-like ability to weave story lines. The Metropolis Case is an ambitious and beautiful book sure to find a devoted following.” –Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes

About Matthew Gallaway

Matthew Gallaway s a first-time novelist originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He now lives in New York City.

Connect with Matthew:

On his website

On his blog

On Twitter

On Facebook

.

.

Matthew Gallaway’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 3rd:  The Lost Entwife

Wednesday, January 5th:  Wordsmithonia

Thursday, January 6th:  Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Books

Monday, January 10th:  Life in Review

Tuesday, January 11th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, January 13th:  Dolce Bellezza

Friday, January 14th:  Rundpinne

Monday, January 17th:  Books and Movies

Tuesday, January 18th:  In the Next Room – review

Tuesday, January 18th:  In the Next Room – author interview

Wednesday, January 19th:  A Work in Progress

Friday, January 21st:  Sophisticated Dorkiness

Book Club of the Month Contest for October!

____________________________________________________________________________________

A frightening legacy, a difficult decision. Book club members will ask each other, ”What would you do?”

Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of What We Have by Amy Boesky for your book club!

At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time’s shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family’s medical curse. But Amy didn’t want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life’s smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have: One Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family’s life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief.

In a true story as compelling as the best in women’s fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky’s journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.

For more information on Amy, visit her website, www.Amyboesky.com.

Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer!   We will randomly select winners at the end of the month.  This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).

_____________________________________________________________________________________

A bittersweet portrait of a long term marriage set in a unique and beautiful community

Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel for your book club!

Set against a vivid and lush South Florida background during the years of Miami’s coming-of-age, Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and romance—that deepens over the course of three decades.

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house’s owner, Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals itself.

Turning away from her life, Frances moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she earns the confidence of his wild-at-heart sister and the approval of his oldest friend. Frances and Dennis marry and have a child—but rather than growing complacent about their good fortune, they continue to face the challenges of intimacy, and of the complicated city they call home.

Stiltsville was called “an exquisite debut” by Publishers Weekly, and “a perfect balance of wit, weakness and tenderness . . . wonderfully buoyant” by BookPage.  Susanna Daniel interweaves the beauty, chaos, and humanity of Miami with an enduring story of a marriage’s beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise.

Learn more about Stiltsville at the author’s website.

Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer!   We will randomly select winners at the end of the month.  This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).

_____________________________________________________________________________________

The redemptive power of the human spirit to love, grow, and change despite family history..

Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller for your book club!

Sylvia Sandon is at a crossroads in her life. A wife and mother of two daughters, she and her city-planner husband are grappling with the escalating renovation of their antique farmhouse—a situation that mirrors the disarray in Sylvia’s life. Facing a failing marriage and a stalled career as an art teacher, Sylvia finds herself suddenly powerless to the allure of Tai Rosen, the father of her most challenging art student. As their passion ignites, Sylvia is forced to examine her past, and the seeds of betrayal that were sown decades earlier by her mother’s secret life.

Eloquently written and deeply thought-provoking, Ostermiller’s OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY WORLD crosses many years and miles—from the California brushfires in the 1970s to New England during the first half of this decade. Raised Seventh Day Adventist, Sylvia must reconcile the conflicting values exhibited by her parents—a mother involved in an extramarital affair and a father who was emotionally distant and abusive—while coming to terms with her own troubling role in her family’s dissolution and father’s tragic death.

While infidelity is a subject often explored in fiction, Ostermiller shines a razor-sharp lens on the gray areas surrounding betrayal, the interplay of religion, and the legacy passed down from one generation to the next. At the same time, she reveals the redemptive power of the human spirit to love, grow, and change despite family history.

View the Reader’s Group Guide HERE.

For more information about Outside the Ordinary World, visit the author’s website.

Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer!   We will randomly select winners at the end of the month.  This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).

____________________________________________________________________

A coming of age memoir set in NYC during the 70s and 80s

Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir by Josh Karlen for your book club!

Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, youthful romance in Greenwich Village, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School.  In this episodic, coming of age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing up in New York’s Greenwich Village, East Village, and crime-ridden Alphabet City in the 70s and early 80s.  Lost Lustre recaptures a downtown Manhattan at a pivotal time of the city’s history, when New York was suffering its gravest financial crisis and soaring crime, yet also was home for a spectacular resurgence of the arts.  Karlen shares a fascinating personal history of the punk rock scene through a prism of The Lustres, a band that played venues such as CBGB a few years after its stage had held the Talking Heads, Patti Smith and the Ramones.  In the title chapter, Karlen poignantly pays homage ot the band’s charismatic and talented lead singer, whose life in many ways seemed to mirror his times in both its shining creativity and nihilistically destructive force.

“A window into a darker, grittier version of the city…[Karlen's] memories of living in the rough neighborhood known as Alphabet City are vibrant…”–Publishers Weekly

“Lost Lustre is a reverberant, strata-rich memoir, written with a relaxed and endearing fluency and modesty. I was engrossed.”–Edward Hoagland, author of NOTES FROM THE CENTURY BEFORE

Listen to basement tapes of The Lustres, circa 1980!

EggshellsRunning My WayTake the Bus

Please sign up HERE by October 31st and let us know which book your club would prefer!   We will randomly select winners at the end of the month.  This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).

Best of luck!

We LOVE Book Clubs!

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Counterpoint (November 1, 2010)

A mysterious compound deep underground.
A love affair larger than a World War.
A fairy tale with atrocities.
And it all begins with one single letter….

Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams.  The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes–translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.

Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who is now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz.  How will the scribes answer this letter?  The presence of Heidegger’s words–one simple letter in a place filled with letters–sparks a series of events that will ultimately threaten the safety and well-being of the entire compound.

Part love story, part thriller, part meditation on how the dead are remembered and history presented, with threads of Heidegger’s philosophy woven throughout, the novel evocatively illustrates the Holocaust from an entirely original vantage point.

“Frank’s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that’s both explosive and ponderous.”–Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“This is stunning work, full of mystery and strange tenderness.  Thaisa Frank has written one of the most compelling stories of the Nazi regime since D.M. Thomas’s PIctures at an Exhibition.  It is a book that will haunt you.”–Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply

“A spellbinding, innovative, intellectually compelling tour-de-force.  Thaisa Frank’s imagination is boundless: she enchants and horrifies and moves us, often on the same page.”  Michele Hunevan, author of Blame

About Thaisa

Photo by Chris Hardy at http://www.chrishardyphoto.com

Thaisa Frank has written three books of fiction, including A Brief History of Camouflage and Sleeping in Velvet (both with Black Sparrow Press, now acquired by David Godine). She has co-authored a work of nonfiction, Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction, which is used in MFA programs.  Her forthcoming novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, is coming out this fall with Counterpoint Press.  Foreign rights have already been sold to ten countries.

Thaisa has taught in the graduate programs at San Francisco State, the University of San Francisco, been on the staff of various summer writing workshops, and written essays, including a recent Afterward in Viking/Penguin’s new edition of Voltaire.  You can find out more about Heidegger’s Glasses and Thaisa by visiting her website at  www.thaisafrank.com.

.

Thaisa Frank’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, November 1st:  Diary of an Eccentric

Tuesday, November 2nd:  ‘Til We Read Again

Wednesday, November 3rd:  Life in Review

Thursday, November 4th:  Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Books

Friday, November 5th:  Simply Stacie

Monday, November 8th:  That’s What She Read

Tuesday, November 9th:  Girls Gone Reading

Wednesday, November 10th:  Books and Movies

Thursday, November 11th:  Unabridged Chick

Friday, November 12th:  Luxury Reading

Friday, November 12th:  Diary of an Eccentric – guest post

Monday, November 15th:  Reviews by Molly

Monday, November 15th:  Unabridged Chick – Q & A

Tuesday, November 16th:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, November 17th:  Life in the Thumb

Thursday, November 18th:  Two Kids and Tired

Tuesday, November 23rd:  Savvy Verse and Wit

Wednesday, November 24th:  Joyfully Retired

Monday, November 29th:  In the Next Room