About Our Held Animal Breath: Poems Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: WordTech Communications (September 4, 2012) Our Held Animal Breath is a collection of poems grappling with the failure of human political and social structures to effectively address the dilemmas of our crucial historical moment. Registering an eco-feminist consciousness, the narrators of these poems expose the intertwined vulnerabilities […]
Kristiana Kahakauwila, author of This is Paradise, on tour July 2013
About This is Paradise: Stories Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Hogarth (July 9, 2013) A visceral, poignant, and elegantly gritty work of debut fiction set in Hawaii, in the vein of Junot Diaz’s Drown and Danielle Evans’s Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self This is the real Hawai`i: life is not the paradisical adventure that honeymooners or movie-goers see. Danger […]
Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun, on tour August 2013
About Son of a Gun: A Memoir Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Random House (August 13, 2013) In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death in her […]
Anne Leigh Parrish, author of Our Love Could Light the World, on tour in June 2013
About Our Love Could Light the World Publisher: She Writes Press Paperback: 202 pages You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy bunch down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don’t pick up after their dog. The father hasn’t earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. Their five […]
Kelly Braffet, author of Save Yourself, on tour August 2013
About Save Yourself Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (August 6, 2013) Kelly Braffet’s first two novels, Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving, were met with astounding praise: reviewers called her work “rich with suspense…compelling” (New York Times Book Review), “fast-paced and enjoyable” (USA Today), and “wonderfully sick and twisted” (Los Angeles Times). All this and more […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 6 – 12
Highlander Most Wanted by Maya Banks Saturday, April 6th: Unabridged Chick Monday, April 8th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, April 9th: Ticket to Anywhere Wednesday, April 10th: Passionate Encounters Thursday, April 11th: The Romanceaholic Square Peg by L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison Sunday, April 7th: Stiletto Storytime reschedule Wednesday, April 10th: There’s a Book […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for April 2013
Book Clubs will be spellbound by A Constellation of Vital Phenomena A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for March 25th-30th
Month of Maisie Blog Tour – Jacqueline Winspear Monday, March 25th: A Bookworm’s World – Leaving Everything Most Loved Monday, March 25th: cakes, tea and dreams – Leaving Everything Most Loved Tuesday, March 26th: Oh! Paper Pages – Leaving Everything Most Loved Tuesday, March 26th: Nonsuch Book – A Lesson in Secrets Wednesday, March 27th: A Bookish Way of Life – The Mapping of Love […]
Amy Shearn, author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn, on tour April/May 2013
About The Mermaid of Brooklyn Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 2, 2013) SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID. Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped […]
Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, on tour May 2013
About A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Hogarth (May 7, 2013) In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed–a failed physician–to the bombed-out hospital, […]