About The Last War • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) Photojournalist Flash chases conflicts around the globe with her war correspondent husband, Brando. Now Brando is in Iraq awaiting her arrival, but instead of racing to join him, Flash idles in Istanbul, vaguely aware that her marriage is faltering. Her […]
Archives for April 2010
Mary Karr, author of Lit, on tour July 2010
About Lit Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year is out now in paperback—Mary Karr’s sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry is “as humble and funny as it is beautiful” (Time). Lit is about getting drunk and getting […]
Tracy McMillan, author of I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway, on tour June/July 2010
About I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway I love You Television writer Tracy McMillan managed to work her way into a killer Hollywood career—a privileged world of pool houses, premieres, and big-time producer deals—despite being the daughter of a fur-coat-wearing, El Dorado–driving, smooth-talking pimp named Freddie. But success couldn’t save her from the […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 26th – 30th
The Girls from Ames Monday, April 26th: Feminist Review Tuesday, April 27th: Beth’s Book Reviews Wednesday, April 28th: Bookworm with a View Thursday, April 29th: She Reads and Reads Friday, April 30th: Book Blab The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Monday, April 26th: The 3 R’s: Reading, ‘Riting, and Randomness Tuesday, April 27th: kerrianne Wednesday, April […]
Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool, on tour June 2010
About Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: The Penguin Press HC (April 29, 2010) Like many young men in America, Thomas Chatterton Williams grew up in awe of Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and the parade of bling-bedecked rap stars he saw on Black Entertainment […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 19th – 23rd
Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show by Frank Delaney Monday, April 19th: Fizzy Thoughts Tuesday, April 20th: Rundpinne Thursday, April 22nd: 2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews . Get Lucky by Katherine Center Monday, April 19th: Park City Girl Tuesday, April 20th: The 3 R’s Blog Wednesday, April 21st: Jenn’s Bookshelves Thursday, April 22nd: Maw Books . […]
Marjorie Hart, author of Summer at Tiffany, on tour June 2010
About Summer at Tiffany Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Avon A (March 30, 2010) New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as […]
Kerry Reichs, author of Leaving Unknown, on tour June 2010
About Leaving Unknown Sweetlips, Tennesse; Toad Suck, Arkansas; Okay, Oklahoma; Truth or Consequences, New Mexico: these are just a few of the towns Maeve Connelly passes through on her epic roadtrip to the less interestingly named Los Angeles, CA. But when Maeve’s beloved car Elsie breaks down outside of Unknown, Arizona, she is in for […]
Carlene Bauer, author of Not That Kind of Girl, on tour July 2010
About Not That Kind of Girl Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) Raised in evangelical churches that preached apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, and she becomes skeptical […]
Emily Gray Tedrowe, author of Commuters, on tour July 2010
About Commuters • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) After losing her husband of many years, seventy-eight-year-old Winnie Easton has found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy, elderly Chicago businessman; their decision, however, to buy one of the biggest houses in the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, ignites […]