About The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in this dazzling memoir of family, faith, revolution, and hope. Enchanted by the movies she watched while […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour June 2013
About Flight Behavior • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with […]
Alafair Burke, author of If You Were Here, on tour June 2013
About If You Were Here • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Magazine journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale—the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures […]
Lionel Shriver, author of Big Brother, on tour June 2013
About Big Brother • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa […]
Lisa White, author of Discovery, on tour July 2013
About Discovery • File Size: 374 KB • Print Length: 249 pages • Publisher: Crimson Romance (April 22, 2013) WHAT IS YOUR POWER? Grace Mackay thought she was normal, a little shy maybe, but no less normal than any other struggling young waitress. But she did not know about the secretive Powers world. She did not know she was the only […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 27th – 31st
The Girl Who Married an Eagle by Tamar Myers Monday, May 27th: missris Tuesday, May 28th: From the TBR Pile . . . The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri Monday, May 27th: Joyfully Retired Tuesday, May 28th: Pingwing’s Bookshelf . . . The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Monday, May 27th: Fyrefly’s Book Blog Tuesday, May […]
Ilan Mochari, author of Zinsky the Obscure, on tour July 2013
About Zinsky the Obscure • Paperback: 358 pages • Publisher: Fomite (April 15, 2013) Thirty-year-old Manhattan bachelor Ariel Zinsky is still recovering from his abusive childhood when he realizes no one — including his few living relatives — is truly interested in his narrative. While they numb themselves with the latest celebrity rehab story or the third-world atrocities replayed […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 12th – 17th
Too Hurt to Stay by Casey Watson Sunday, May 12th: Adoption Creates Families Monday, May 13th: Xavier and Alice Anne Tuesday, May 14th: Thrifty Mommas Brain Food Wednesday, May 15th: Adoption and Foster Care Wednesday, May 15th: They’re All My Own Friday, May 17th: Always and Forever Family . Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall Monday, May 13th: […]
Adam LeBor, author of The Geneva Option, on tour May/June 2013
About The Geneva Option • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) Yael Azoulay does the United Nations’ dirty work by cutting deals that most of us never hear about. Equally at home in the caves of Afghanistan, the slums of Gaza, or corporate boardrooms all across the world, Yael believes the ends justify […]
Sam Halpern, author of A Far Piece to Canaan, on tour May/June 2013
About A Far Piece to Canaan • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (May 28, 2013) Celebrated retired professor Samuel Zelinsky reluctantly leaves New Hampshire after his wife’s death to visit a farm in the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child. The son of sharecroppers, Samuel has long since left that life behind—yet now […]