About Ivan and Misha Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press (October 30, 2010) In Ivan and Misha, Michael Alenyikov portrays the complexities of love, sexuality, and the bonds of family with boldness and lyric sensitivity. As the Soviet Union collapses, two young brothers are whisked away from Kiev by their father to start life […]
Archives for June 2011
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones, on tour September, 2011
About Salvage the Bones Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (September 8, 2011) A stunning new voice from the Gulf Coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 27th – July 1st
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton Monday, June 27th: Gypsy Brocante . . . 212 by Alafair Burke Monday, June 27th: red headed book child . . . When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman Monday, June 27th: In the Next Room . . . The Blue Light Project by Timothy […]
Samantha Sotto, author of Before Ever After, on tour August 2011
About Before Ever After Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (August 2, 2011) What if ‘til death do us part meant more than you could ever know? In Samantha Sotto’s debut novel BEFORE EVER AFTER (Crown Trade: Aug. 2, 2011) a love story defies the bounds of time and space to redefine our notion of forever. […]
Nicola Upson, author of Two for Sorrow, on tour August 2011
About Two For Sorrow Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based on Amelia […]
Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, on tour August 2011
About Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 9, 2011) Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of life—–the chicken destined for your dinner plate or […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 20th-24th
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton Monday, June 20th: BookNAround Tuesday, June 21st: hello lovely inc. Wednesday, June 22nd: Rusty Rooster Vintage Wednesday, June 22nd: Chaotic Compendiums Thursday, June 23rd: Books Like Breathing Friday, June 24th: Freckled Laundry . Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Monday, June 20th: Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White Tuesday, June 21st: Total […]
Joan Leegant, author of Wherever You Go, on tour August/September 2011
About Wherever You Go • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (July 25, 2011) A gripping novel about the lengths to which we will go in the name of a cause. Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and […]
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Adam & Eve, on tour July/August 2011
About Adam & Eve • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (July 26, 2011) By decoding light from space, Lucy Bergmann’s astrophysicist husband discovers the existence of extraterrestrial life; their friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, unearths from the sands of Egypt an ancient alternative version of the Book of Genesis. To religious fanatics, […]
David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment, on tour August 2011
About The Twelfth Enchantment Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Random House (August 9, 2011) Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill […]