Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal Monday, January 31st: Reading Through Life – reschedule Tuesday, February 1st: In the Next Room Wednesday, February 2nd: Total Fan Girl Wednesday, February 2nd: Juggling Life Thursday, February 3rd: Po(sey) Sessions Friday, February 4th: GeekDad Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson Monday, January 31st: Novel Whore Tuesday, February 1st: Debbie’s […]
Archives for January 2011
Rainbow Rowell, author of Attachments, on tour April/May 2011
About Attachments Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (April 14, 2011) Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can’t seem […]
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes, on tour June 2011
About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
John Pollack, author of The Pun Also Rises, on tour April/May 2011
About The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Gotham (April 14, 2011) The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 24th – 28th
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning Monday, January 24th: Loves to Read for Fun Tuesday, January 25th: A Buckeye Girl Reads Wednesday, January 26th: Hanging with Bells . The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown Monday, January 24th: Caribousmom Tuesday, January 25th: I’m Booking It Wednesday, January 26th: Book Addiction Thursday, January 27th: Life in Review . Small […]
Dan DeWeese, author of You Don’t Love This Man, on tour March 2011
About You Don’t Love This Man • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (March 1, 2011) On the morning of his daughter Miranda’s wedding, Paul learns that the bank he manages has been robbed—apparently by the same man who robbed it twenty-five years before. As if that weren’t enough, Miranda, who is […]
Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology, on tour March 2011
About Angelology • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Penguin (February 22, 2011) A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time – between a hidden society and heaven’s darkest creatures There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters […]
Anene Tressler, author of Dancing with Gravity, on tour April 2011
About Dancing with Gravity Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press “Whether we love–or fail to love–there is always a cost.” – Nikolai Father Whiting is asleep in his own life. As a St. Louis priest and the head of Pastoral Care at a local teaching hospital, he’s already on edge wondering if he’s up […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Samaritan, on tour March 2011
About The Samaritan Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough to touch, but healing is forgetting. Healing […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 17th-21st
Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan Monday, January 17th: Jen’s Book Thoughts Tuesday, January 18th: Fiction State of Mind Wednesday, January 19th: Along the Way Thursday, January 20th: Reading with Martinis Friday, January 21st: Inside of a Dog The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld Monday, January 17th: We Be Reading Tuesday, January 18th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage […]