Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore Monday, July 1st: The Feminist Texican [Reads] Tuesday, July 2nd: Broken Teepee Wednesday, July 3rd: A Bookish Affair Thursday, July 4th: From the TBR Pile Thurday, July 4th: Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews City of Hope by Kate Kerrigan Monday, July 1st: A Book Geek Monday, July 1st: Diary of an Eccentric Wednesday, July 3rd: No […]
Archives for June 2013
Ami McKay, author of The Virgin Cure, on tour July 2013
About The Virgin Cure • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 2, 2013) One summer night in Lower Manhattan in 1871, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. Knowing that her mother is so close while she is locked away in servitude, Moth bides her […]
Jenni Fagan, author of The Panopticon, on tour August/September 2013
About The Panopticon Publisher: Hogarth (July 23, 2013) Pages: 304 As THE PANOPTICON opens, we meet Anais Hendricks, a few months shy of her sixteenth birthday. Anais sits in the back of a police car in Midlothian, Scotland, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can’t remember the events that led her there, […]
Mario Alberto Zambrano, author of Loteria, on tour July 2013
About Loteria • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 2, 2013) Prepare to be enthralled by this lyrical, achingly human debut novel about a young girl’s remarkable resilience in the face of loss. Struggling to cope as her family falls apart, eleven-year-old Luz María Castillo retreats into her beloved set of Lotería cards—a Mexican game featuring […]
David Gordon, author of Mystery Girl, on tour August 2013
About Mystery Girl Publisher: New Harvest (July 16, 2013) Pages: 320 Vertigo meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, has hailed as “one of the smartest, most stylish writers I’ve ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit […]
Jamie Ford, author of Songs of Willow Frost, on tour October 2013
About Songs of Willow Frost Publisher: Ballantine Books (Sept 10, 2013) Pages: 352 From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his […]
Dilly Court, author of The Best of Daughters and The Lady’s Maid, on tour August/September 2013
About The Lady’s Maid Arrow (July 9, 2012) 512 pages In the quiet of a warm summer’s evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie’s world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have […]
Austin Ratner, author of In the Land of the Living, on tour August/September 2013
About In the Land of the Living Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books (March 12, 2013) “A spiky tale of family…The characters are compelling, and the bonds between these brothers and fathers and sons are convincing and raw.” — Publishers Weekly The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 23rd – 28th
League of Somebodies by Samuel Sattin Sunday, June 23rd: A Dream Within a Dream Tuesday, June 25th: Book Addict Katie Thursday, June 27th: Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile . . Our Love Could Light the World by Anne Leigh Parrish Monday, June 24th: BookNAround . . . . Restrike by Reba Williams Monday, June 24th: Traveling With T Tuesday, June 25th: Lavish […]
Justin Kramon, author of The Preservationist, on tour October 2013
About The Preservationist • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Pegasus (October 15, 2013) To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but […]