About The Year of the Gadfly • 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 […]
Archives for 2011
Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes, on tour January 2012
About Little Princes Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) An astonishing testament to true courage, the transformative power of love, and the ability of one man to make a real difference. In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 12th – 16th
Mozart’s Last Aria by Matt Rees Monday, December 12th: That’s What She Read . . . The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber Monday, December 12th: The Brain Lair . . . So Far Away by Christine W. Hartmann Monday, December 12th: Book Dilettante Tuesday, December 13th: Luxury Reading Wednesday, December 14th: She […]
Sam Sommers, author of Situations Matter, on tour January 2012
About Situations Matter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (December 29, 2011) An “entertaining and engaging” exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do. The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don’t even realize it. Every […]
Sarah McCoy, author of The Baker’s Daughter, on tour February/March 2012
About The Baker’s Daughter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Crown (January 24, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Folly Beach, on tour January 2012
About Folly Beach • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooper’s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband […]
Winifred Gallagher, author of New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, on tour January 2012
About New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (December 29, 2011) Exploring our unique human genius for responding to the new with curiosity and creativity, the bestselling author of Rapt shows us how to embrace our changing world while living a fuller, saner life. In […]
Keija Parssinen, author of The Ruins of Us, on tour January/February 2012
About The Ruins of Us • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 17, 2012) More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying powerful Abdullah Baylani, American-born Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. That discovery plunges their family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia, […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith, on tour January/February 2012
To celebrate the release of the critically acclaimed Faith, Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble, The Condition, and Baker Towers will also be on tour. About Faith • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, […]
Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai, on tour January 2012
About All the Flowers in Shanghai • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 20, 2011) For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires . For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In […]