About Too Hurt to Stay • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Element (April 23, 2013) Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands to be taken into care. It’s a desperate act, a cry for help, but his parent’s reaction – good riddance – speaks volumes. Casey’s hackles are immediately up for this […]
Hit the Beach with the Dorothea Benton Frank Read Along, April – June 2013
To celebrate the release of Dorothea Benton Frank’s The Last Original Wife, we’re doing a read along that culminates in a cocktail party with Dorothea Benton Frank during Book Expo America. In order to qualify to attend the cocktail party, participants must: Read and review one of Dorothea Benton Frank’s back list titles as well […]
Kim Wong Keltner, author of Tiger Babies Strike Back, on tour May 2013
About Tiger Babies Strike Back • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby all grown up with a daughter of her own . . . but is she a Tiger Mother? Heck, no. This book describes—in hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking, detail—exactly why not. A battle […]
Tamar Myers, author of The Girl Who Married an Eagle, on tour May 2013
About The Girl Who Married an Eagle • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Based on actual events in Tamar Myers’s life, The Girl Who Married an Eagle is a beautiful addition to her Belgian Congo mystery series When Julia Elaine Newton, a young, pretty Ohio girl, volunteered to go on a mission […]
Isabel Allende, author of Maya’s Notebook, on tour April/May 2013
About Maya’s Notebook • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 23, 2013) Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely […]
Jennifer Gilbert, author of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag, on tour May 2013
About I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 30, 2013) When Jennifer Gilbert was twenty-two years old, someone tried to cut her life short in the most violent way. Not wanting this traumatic encounter to define her life, she buried it within and bravely launched a fabulous career in New […]
Molly McAdams, author of Taking Chances and From Ashes, on tour May 2013
About Taking Chances • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 16, 2013) Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything Eighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. Ready to live life her own […]
Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni, on tour April/May 2013
About The Golem and the Jinni • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 23, 2013) Helene Wecker’s dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 1st – 6th
Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear Monday, April 1st: Oh! Paper Pages – Leaving Everything Most Loved . . . . The Tale of Lucia Grandi by Susan Speranza Monday, April 1st: It’s All About Books . . . . The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Monday, April 1st: Lit and Life Tuesday, April 2nd: Paperback Princess . . . […]
Kelle Hampton, author of Bloom, on tour April 2013
About Bloom • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 2, 2013) There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . . From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When […]