About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]
Archives for 2011
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
John McWhorter, author of What Language Is, on tour August 2011
About What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in […]
Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, on tour May/June 2011
About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]
Timothy Taylor, author of The Blue Light Project, on tour June/July 2011
About The Blue Light Project Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press (April 12, 2011) When an armed man seizes a television studio in the center of town, Thom Pegg, a former investigative journalist turned tabloid reporter, is as surprised as anyone to learn that he is the only person to whom the hostage taker […]
M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist, on tour June 2011
About The Hypnotist Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Mira; Trade Paperback Edition (April 19, 2011) We are celebrating the trade paperback release of The Hypnotist with another tour! The Hypnotist is part of the non-sequential series, The Reincarnationist. Each book is a free standing novel, all set in the same world but with different main characters. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 11th – 15th
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen Tuesday, April 12th: Rundpinne . . Heart of Deception by M. L. Malcolm Monday, April 11th: Rundpinne Tuesday, April 12th: Amused By Books Wednesday, April 13th: Book Journey . The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer Monday, April 11th: Red Headed Book Child Tuesday, April 12th: Regular Rumination Wednesday, April […]
Joseph Braude, author of The Honored Dead, on tour June/July 2011
About The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our […]
Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Close Your Eyes, on tour July/August 2011
About Close Your Eyes Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets. For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her […]
S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep, on tour June/July 2011
About Before I Go to Sleep • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 14, 2011) S. J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who […]