About Flesh • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Black Heron Press (May 18, 2012) The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his […]
Archives for March 2012
Lisa Bedford, author of Survival Mom, on tour April 2012
About Survival Mom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 13, 2012) Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe and Secure—No Matter What Undaunted by the prospect of TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It), Lisa Bedford tackles every what-if and worst-case scenario head-on, offering practical advice on how to […]
Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, on tour April 2012
About Narcopolis • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A fantastical portrait of the beautiful and damned residents of an opium den and brothel in the underworld of Bombay. Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story… […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour April 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 3, 2012) The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the […]
Cynthia Sass, author of S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim, on tour April 2012
About S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 20, 2012) Nutritionist Cynthia Sass, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Flat Belly Diet!, delivers the ultimate weight loss plan in S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches. When Cynthia’s weight loss plan was first published last year, […]
Doug Magee, author of Darkness All Around, on tour June/July 2012
About Darkness All Around Touchstone, June 2012 Trade Paperback, 352 pages When there’s DARKNESS ALL AROUND . . . some memories are best forgotten Within the span of one harrowing week, Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears, and her best friend, Carol, is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has seemingly put her life back together […]
Grace O, author of FoodTrients, on tour April/May 2012
About FoodTrients: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life FOODTRIENTS A Revolutionary Recipe for Anti-Aging FOODTRIENTS: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life is a new cookbook (and website) dedicated to bringing the science of aging out of the lab and into your kitchen. Delicious foods and rejuvenating nutrients combine to create enticing and nourishing recipes that […]
Saima Wahab, author of In My Father’s Country, on tour April/May 2012
About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for March 5th – 9th
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus Monday, March 5th: Dolphinstreet . . . The Irish Way by James R. Barrett Monday, March 5th: Chew & Digest Books Tuesday, March 6th: Me & My Shadow . . Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini Monday, March 5th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, March 6th: Joyfully Retired Wednesday, March 7th: Colloquium […]