About Coincidence • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 18, 2014) What determines the course of our lives? Chance . . . or destiny? On Midsummer’s Day, 1982, three-year-old Azalea Ives is found alone at a seaside fairground. One year later, her mother’s body washes up on a beach—her link to Azalea unnoticed. On Midsummer’s Day, 1992, […]
Archives for January 2014
Janie Chang, author of Three Souls, on tour February/March 2014
About Three Souls • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 25, 2014) An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I’d been told. But only in death could I confirm this…. So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the […]
Mary Hogan, author of Two Sisters, on tour March 2014
About Two Sisters • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 4, 2014) One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . . The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been an outsider. Short, dark-haired, and round, she worships her beautiful blond sister, Pia, and envies the close bond […]
Deborah Crombie, author of The Sound of Broken Glass, on tour February/March 2014
About The Sound of Broken Glass • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 25, 2014) In the past. . .home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community. Drawn together by loneliness, the […]
Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl, on tour March 2014
About Clever Girl • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 4, 2014) Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibín, Tessa Hadley possesses the remarkable ability to transform the mundane into the sublime—an eye for the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives that elevates domestic fiction to literary art. In Clever Girl, she offers the indelible story of one woman’s […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 6th – 12th
The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani Monday, January 6th: Reflections of a Bookaholic Tuesday, January 7th: A Bookish Way of Life Wednesday, January 8th: Time 2 Read Wednesday, January 8th: Stephany Writes Thursday, January 9th: Walking With Nora . The In-Between Hour by Barbara Claypole White Monday, January 6th: cupcake’s book cupboard Tuesday, January 7th: Kritters Ramblings Wednesday, January 8th: Tina’s Book […]
Matthew Quick, author of The Good Luck of Right Now, on tour February 2014
About The Good Luck of Right Now • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014) Call it fate Call it synchronicity Call it an act of God Call it . . . The Good Luck of Right Now For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea […]
Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Perfume Collector, on tour February 2014
About The Perfume Collector • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London’s most refined and ambitious social circles. However, playing the role of the sophisticated socialite her husband would like […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2014
__________________________________________________ Starter House is a compelling ghost story that will keep you turning the pages long into the night. Starter House by Sonja Condit Her dream home is about to become a house of nightmares… From the moment Lacey glimpses the dusty-rose colonial cottage with its angled dormer windows and quaint wooden shutters, she knows […]