About The Girl in the Garden Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 15, 2011) The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched […]
Karleen Koen, author of Before Versailles, on tour July 2011
About Before Versailles Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: Crown (June 28, 2011) Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a […]
Keith Donohue, author of Centuries of June, on tour June/July 2011
About Centuries of June Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (May 31, 2011) Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as […]
John Verdon, author of Shut Your Eyes Tight, on tour July/August 2011
About Shut Your Eyes Tight Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Crown (July 12, 2011) When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative […]
Juliet Grey, author of Becoming Marie Antoinette, on tour August 2011
About Becoming Marie Antoinette Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 9, 2011) This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 9th-13th
Books by Isabel Allende Monday, May 9th: Books Like Breathing (Ines of My Soul) Tuesday, May 10th: The Lost Entwife (Island Beneath the Sea) Wednesday, May 11th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom (Island Beneath the Sea) Thursday, May 12th: Life In Review (Daughter of Fortune) Thursday, May 12th: Lit and Life (Island Beneath the Sea) Ten Beach Road […]
Lynn Cullen, author of Reign of Madness, on tour July/August 2011
About Reign of Madness Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (August 4, 2011) From the author of The Creation of Eve comes a tale of love and madness, royal intrigue and marital betrayal, set during the Golden Age of Spain. Juana of Castile, third child of the Spanish monarchs Isabel and Fernando, grows up with no […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 2nd-6th
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Monday, May 2nd: Fizzy Thoughts Tuesday, May 3rd: Coffee and a Book Chick Wednesday, May 4th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Thursday, May 5th: Alison’s Book Marks Friday, May 6th: Bookfoolery and Babble Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay Monday, May 2nd: Historical Tapestry Tuesday, May 3rd: Man of La Book Wednesday, May 4th: In […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for May 2011
Passion, betrayal, tradition Book clubs will find much to discuss in The Peach Keeper The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous […]
Elisabeth Eaves, author of Wanderlust, on tour June/July 2011
About Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Seal Press (June 7, 2011) Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’s insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she […]