About Thirty Days With My Father: Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (November 1, 2012) “An incredible memoir…an important part of the still unhealed wounds of war.” —Nikki Giovanni When Christal Presley’s father was eighteen, he was drafted to Vietnam. Like many soldiers who returned home, he was never the same. Days on […]
Archives for August 2012
Lorraine Heath, author of Lord of Temptation, on tour September/October 2012
About Lord of Temptation • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (September 25, 2012) Three young heirs, imprisoned by an unscrupulous uncle, escaped—to the sea, to the streets, to faraway battle—awaiting the day when they would return to reclaim their birthright. Once upon a time, he was Lord Tristan Easton—now he is Crimson Jack, a notorious privateer […]
Greg Tobin, author of The Good Pope, on tour September/October 2012
About The Good Pope • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (September 25, 2012) On November 23, 1958, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the son of peasant Italian farmers, became Pope John XXIII. Widely expected to be a transitional pope, John surprised the Church hierarchy and the world by convoking an ambitious ecumenical council—the first such council in more than […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 27th – 31st
Let the Devil Sleep by John Verdon Monday, August 27th: Musings of a Bookish Kitty . . . Giving Up the Ghost by Eric Nuzum Monday, August 27th: Colloquium Tuesday, August 28th: Jenn’s Bookshelves . . Millie Fierce by Jane Manning Monday, August 27th: Geo Librarian Tuesday, August 28th: Cherry Blossoms Wednesday, August 29th: Heart Cries Wednesday, August […]
Mary DeMuth, author of Everything, on tour October/November 2012
About Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 16, 2012) Readers discover exactly what it takes to grow in Christ and become like Him. You don’t need a plan, and you don’t need a program. To experience the abundant Christian life, you only need Jesus. […]
Marisa de los Santos, author of Falling Together, on tour October 2012
About Falling Together • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 2, 2012) It’s been six years since Pen Calloway watched Cat and Will, her best friends from college, walk out of her life. Through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. […]
Heather McElhatton, author of Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Married, on tour October 2012
About Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Married • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 9, 2012) Sometimes tying the knot just means getting strangled Not too long ago, Jennifer Johnson was stuck in a cubicle, lovelorn and addicted to Cinnabon frosting. Now she’s married to her Prince Charming—the handsome, wealthy son of a […]
Michael Chabon, author of Telegraph Avenue, on tour September 2012
About Telegraph Avenue • Hardcover: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 11, 2012) As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 20th – 24th
The Color of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe Monday, August 20th: Regular Rumination . . . The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair Monday, August 20th: Lance Mannion . . . Brand New Human Being by Emily Jeanne Miller Monday, August 20th: A Novel Source . . . Miss Me When I’m Gone by Emily Arsenault […]
Attica Locke, author of The Cutting Season, on tour September/October 2012
About The Cutting Season • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 18, 2012) In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across […]