About The Smartest Woman I Know Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (September 5, 2011) Ilene Beckerman’s first book “illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women,” wrote the New York Times Book Review in a full page of praise for Love, Loss, and What I Wore. It became a bestseller and inspired the hit Off-Broadway play by the […]
Jane and Robert Rave, authors of Conversations and Cosmopolitans, on tour November 2011
About Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are: Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (November 8, 2011) After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing […]
Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie, on tour October/November 2011
About Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen: Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (October 11, 2011) For Donia Bijan’s family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California’s Bay Area, […]
Katharine Britton, author of Her Sister’s Shadow, on tour October/November 2011
About Her Sister’s Shadow Paperback: 352 pagePublisher: Berkley Trade; 1st edition (June 7, 2011) Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call. Her elder sister Bea — at the family homestead in White Head, Massachusetts — has just lost her husband, and she’d like Lilli to fly home for […]
Dorothy Love, author of Beyond All Measure, on tour October/November 2011
About Beyond All Measure Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 31, 2011) Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man. Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada […]
Karl Friedrich, author of Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, on tour October 2011
About Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011) Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak […]
D.E. Johnson, author of Motor City Shakedown, on tour October 2011
About Motor City Shakedown Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (September 13, 2011) Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson’s friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will’s hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help […]
BONUS Book Club of the Month Contest for August/September 2011!
A powerful family drama… Book clubs will find much to discuss in Northwest Corner by John Burham Schwartz The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 15th – 19th
. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald Monday, August 15th: Nomad Reader Tuesday, August 16th: Luxury Reading Wednesday, August 17th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Friday, August 19th: The Literate Housewife Review . . What Language Is by John McWhorter Monday, August 15th: Book Dilettante Tuesday, August 16th: BookNAround Wednesday, August 17th: Acting Balanced Thursday, August […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 8th – 12th
. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy Monday, AUgust 8th: In the Next Room (The Secret Lives of People in Love) Tuesday, August 9th: In the Next Room (Love Begins in Winter) Wednesday, August 10th: In the Next Room (Everything Beautiful Began After) Wednesday, August 10th: My Reading Room (Everything Beautiful Began After) Thursday, August 11th: Books and Movies (The Secret Lives of […]