About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Harry Hunsicker, author of The Contractors, on tour February 2014
About The Contractors Paperback: 514 pages Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (February 4, 2014) In THE CONTRACTORS (Thomas & Mercer; February 4, 2014), acclaimed thriller writer Hunsicker turns his attention to the shadowy world of private military contractors and the hypocrisies of the War on Drugs, delivering a heart-pounding, complex standalone thriller in the vein of […]
Michael Landweber, author of We, on tour February 2014
About We Paperback: 194 pages Publisher: Coffeetown Press (September 1, 2013) After an accident, forty-year-old Ben Arnold regains consciousness in the kitchen of the house he grew up in. Only he feels different, lighter somehow. Something is horribly wrong. Ben is swept into the arms of his mother, who he hasn’t seen in twenty years. She calls […]
Carla Buckley, author of The Deepest Secret, on tour March 2014
About The Deepest Secret Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Bantam (February 4, 2014) For fans of Jodi Picoult, Kim Edwards, and William Landay, The Deepest Secret is part intimate family drama, part gripping page-turner, exploring the profound power of the truths we’re scared to face . . . about our marriages, our children, and ourselves. Eve Lattimore’s family […]
Adriana Páramo, author of My Mother’s Funeral, on tour January 2014
About My Mother’s Funeral Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Cavankerry (October 1, 2013) Every woman has stories to tell about her mother. The mother that she remembers, the mother she wishes she’d had, the mother she doesn’t want to become, and then eventually, the mother she buries. Every immigrant woman has stories to tell about her homeland. My […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 18th – 22nd
The Sowing by K. Makansi Monday, November 18th: Bibliotica Monday, November 18th: Priscilla and her Books Tuesday, November 19th: Kritter’s Ramblings Thursday, November 21st: The Best Books Ever . Buying In by Laura Hemphill Monday, November 18th: Luxury Reading Tuesday, November 19th: Sarah’s Book Shelves Wednesday, November 20th: A Bookish Affair Thursday, November 21st: […]
Chris Pavone, author of The Accident, on tour March 2014
About The Accident Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Crown (March 11, 2014) From the author of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning The Expats comes an elegant and riveting espionage thriller about spies, secrets, and the devastating power of the truth In New York, in the early dawn hours, literary agent Isabel Reed is reading frantically, […]
Nancy Horan, author of Under the Wide and Starry Sky, on tour February 2014
About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]
Mitchell S. Karnes, author of The Pact, on tour January/February 2014
About The Pact Paperback: 232 pages Publisher: Black Rose Writing (August 22, 2013) Scott Addison never set out to be a hero. But sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can’t run away from your destiny. On the heels of his father’s death, Scott and his mother move from Iowa City, Iowa to the small Southern […]
Anish Majumdar, author of The Isolation Door, on tour February 2014
About The Isolation Door Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ravana Press (February 4, 2014) From an award-winning journalist comes a haunting debut novel examining the inner world of the mentally ill and those within their gravitational pull. Neil Kapoor, 23, is desperate to create a life beyond the shadow of his mother’s schizophrenia. Years of […]