About Night Swim • Paperback: 284 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (January 10, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their […]
Archives for 2011
Allison Winn Scotch, author of The Song Remains the Same, on tour March/April 2012
About The Song Remains the Same Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 12, 2012) One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes in the hospital with no memory of the horrific experience-or who she is, or was. Now she must piece together both body and mind, with the help of family and […]
Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Hystera, on tour March 2012
About Hystera • Paperback: 194 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (November 16, 2011) Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 5th – December 9th
. The CHICKtionary by Anna Lefler Monday, December 5th: A Musing Reviews Monday, December 5th: Silver and Grace – author guest post Tuesday, December 6th: Peeking Between the Pages Wednesday, December 7th: Peeking Between the Pages – author guest post Thursday, December 8th: Sara’s Organized Chaos Friday, December 9th: 2 Kids and Tired Merry Christmas Stories by […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for December 2011
Book Clubs! We have two terrific new books in our December Book Club of the Month Contest! ________________________________________________________________________ Mothers & sons, honesty, acceptance Book Clubs will be touched by Conversations and Cosmopolitans Conversations and Cosmopolitans by Jane and Robert Rave After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012
About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 28th – December 2nd
Mozart’s Last Aria by Matt Rees Monday, November 28th: Life Is Short. Read Fast. . . . The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis Monday, November 28th: Alexandra Boiger Tuesday, November 29th: Abigail Halpin . . Chosen by Chandra Hoffman Monday, November 28th: The Book Chick Tuesday, November 29th: A Cozy Reader’s Corner Wednesday, […]
Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, on tour March/April 2012
About A Partial History of Lost Causes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: The Dial Press (March 20, 2012) In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 21st – 25th
. Food Rules by Michael Pollan Monday, November 21st: Anne Strawberry Tuesday, November 22nd Geninne’s Art Blog Tuesday, November 22nd: Kitchen Stewardship Thursday, November 23rd: The Amateur Gourmet . The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber Monday, November 21st: Raging Bibliomania Tuesday, November 22nd: The Brain Lair Wednesday, November 23rd: Historical Tapestry – author guest post, “Why […]
Robert Barclay, author of More Than Words Can Say, on tour January 2012
About More Than Words Can Say • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 20, 2011) From the author of If Wishes Were Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . . . Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit […]