About When the Cypress Whispers • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 1, 2014) On a beautiful Greek island, myths, magic, and a colorful cast of mortals come together in a lushly atmospheric debut celebrating the powerful bond between an American woman and her Greek grandmother. The daughter of Greek immigrants, Daphne has been brought up […]
Archives for March 2014
Phyllis T. Smith, author of I Am Livia, on tour April/May 2014
About I Am Livia Paperback: 390 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (May 1, 2014) In this wonderfully imagined historical novel, a noblewoman skirts the political perils and pitfalls of ancient Rome while navigating the dangerous landscape of her own heart. At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting the assassination […]
Paullina Simons, author of Bellagrand, on tour March/April 2014
About Bellagrand • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 27, 2014) From internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons comes another compelling saga of heartbreak and redemption, and the devastating love story that led to The Bronze Horseman Love was just the beginning of their journey Gina and Harry gave up everything to be together. But they both want different things—from […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for March 9th – 14th
Alice Will and Tilt by Ashley Chappell Sunday, March 09, 2014: Book Marks the Spot – Alice Will and Tilt Monday, March 10, 2014: Bibliophilia, Please – Alice Will Thursday, March 13, 2014: Pingwing’s Bookshelf – Alice Will . The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley Monday, March 10th: She Treads Softly . Monday, March 10th: Why Girls Are Weird . Tuesday, March 11th: Knowing the […]
Natalia Sylvester, author of Chasing the Sun, on tour June 2014
About Chasing the Sun Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: New Harvest (June 3, 2014) Partially inspired by her grandfather’s kidnapping in Peru, CHASING THE SUN: A Novel (Lake Union/New Harvest; on sale June 3, 2014) is Natalia Sylvester’s suspenseful debut about a man whose wife is kidnapped just as their marriage is falling apart. After going out for […]
Katharine Britton, author of Little Island, on tour May/June 2014
About Little Island Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (September 3, 2013) Grace Flowers By the water Have fun! These are Grace’s mother’s last words – left behind on a note. A note that Grace interprets as instructions for her memorial service. And so her far-flung clan will gather at their inn on Little Island, Maine, to […]
Darragh McKeon, author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air, on tour April/May 2014
About All That Is Solid Melts into Air • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 29, 2014) In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbors. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In […]
Jana McBurney-Lin and Hi-Dong Chai, authors of Blossoms and Bayonets, on tour May 2014
About Blossoms and Bayonets • Paperback: 316 pages • Publisher: Redwood Publishing (May 12, 2013) Hi-Dong Chai and Jana McBurney-Lin, the award-winning author of My Half of the Sky, turn their hands to a remarkable story of a family and country torn apart by outside forces. The time is 1942, the place is Japanese-occupied Seoul, Korea. Since occupation, the Japanese have […]
John Manos, author of Dialogues of a Crime, on tour May 2014
About Dialogues of a Crime Paperback: 300 pages Publisher: Amika Press (July 26, 2013) In this crime drama, Michael Pollitz must decide whether to protect the mobster who has protected him. When Mike, a college student in 1972 Illinois, is arrested on drug charges, his father insists he use a public defender. His childhood friend’s father, Dom […]
Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch, on tour July 2014
About Losing Touch Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Oneworld Publications (July 15, 2014) After Indian Independence Arjun brings his family to London, but hopes of a better life rapidly dissipate. His wife Sunila spends all day longing for a nice tea service, his son suddenly hates anything Indian, and his daughter, well, that’s a whole other […]