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. […]
Archives for 2011
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 […]
Brunonia Barry, author of The Map of True Places, on tour March/April 2011
About The Map of True Places • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (March 22, 2011) Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing […]
Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History, on tour March/April 2011
About Pox: An American History • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 31, 2011) The untold story of how America’s Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast […]
Deanna Fei, author of A Thread of Sky, on tour April 2011
About A Thread of Sky • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 1, 2010) Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever. A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of […]