_____________________________ An endearing story that will leave your heart full: THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. He thinks he’s found […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 2nd – 6th
All That Glitters by Michael Murphy Monday, February 2nd: From the TBR Pile . . . . Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman Monday, February 2nd: Colloquium Tuesday, February 3rd: Mockingbird Hill Cottage Wednesday, February 4th: From the TBR Pile . . Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht Monday, February 2nd: Lavish Bookshelf Monday, February 2nd: Ageless Pages […]
Joakim Zander, author of The Swimmer, on tour February 2015
About The Swimmer • Hardcover: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 10, 2015) A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew in this electrifying debut thriller— an international sensation billed as “Homeland meets Stieg Larsson”—that heralds the arrival of a new master. Early 1980s, Damascus. A nameless American spy […]
Christopher Moore, author of The Serpent of Venice, on tour Feb 2015
About The Serpent of Venice • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 27, 2015) Venice, a really long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from Britain who also happens to be a favorite of the Doge: the rascal-Fool, Pocket. This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; […]
Molly Bloom, author of Molly’s Game, on tour March 2015
About Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Dey Street Books; Reprint edition (January 20, 2015) The true story of “Hollywood’s Poker Princess” who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all When Molly Bloom was a […]
Jill Dawson, author of The Tell-Tale Heart, on tour February 2015
About The Tell-Tale Heart • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 10, 2015) After years of excessive drink and sex, Patrick has suffered a massive heart attack. Although he’s only fifty, he’s got just months to live. But a tragic accident involving a teenager and a motorcycle gives the university professor a second […]
Steven Gore, author of Night is the Hunter, on tour February 2015
About Night is the Hunter • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 17, 2015) They call it pulling the trigger. Not by a killer in the night, but by a judge on the bench. Twenty years ago, Judge Ray McMullin proved to the people of San Francisco that he could pull that […]
Carrie Snyder, author of Girl Runner, on tour February 2015
About Girl Runner • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 3, 2015) An unforgettable novel about competition, ambition, and a woman’s struggle to earn a place in a man’s world, Girl Runner is the story of 1928 Olympic gold medalist Aganetha Smart. Will Aganetha’s undeniable talent help her to outrun the social conventions of […]
T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville, on tour February 2015
About Welcome to Braggsville • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 17, 2015) From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ‘Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic […]
John Burley, author of The Forgetting Place, on tour February 2015
About The Forgetting Place • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 10, 2015) Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients—committed by Maryland’s judicial […]