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 […]
Katherine Webb, author of A Half Forgotten Song, on tour May/June 2013
About A Half Forgotten Song • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) A spellbinding tale about the power of love, the danger of obsession, and the unfaithful nature of memory, A Half Forgotten Song is by turns haunting, joyous, and heartbreaking 1937. In a windswept village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher […]
Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Wonder Bread Summer, on tour May/June 2013
About The Wonder Bread Summer • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (May 28, 2013) It’s 1983 in Berkeley, California. Twenty-year-old Allie Dodgson is a straitlaced college student working part-time at a dress shop to make ends meet. But when the shop turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug-dealing business, Allie finds herself […]
Julie Thomas, author of The Keeper of Secrets, on tour May/June 2013
About The Keeper of Secrets • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) A priceless violin. A family torn apart. A decision that could change everything. Berlin, 1939. Fourteen-year-old Simon Horowitz is awash in a world of music. His family owns a superb collection of instruments and at its heart is his father’s […]
Lori Carson, author of The Original 1982, on tour May/June 2013
About The Original 1982 • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) It’s 1982, and Lisa is twenty-four years old, a waitress, an aspiring singer-songwriter, and the girlfriend to a famous musician. That year, she makes a decision, almost without thinking about it. But what would have happened if she had chosen […]
Meg Donohue, author of All the Summer Girls, on tour May/June 2013
About All the Summer Girls • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 21, 2013) In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old […]
Samuel Sattin, author of League of Somebodies, on tour June/July 2013
About League of Somebodies • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Dark Coast Press (April 9, 2013) This astounding original debut tells the tale of Lenard Sikophsky whose father has fed him plutonium since the age of six in the hopes of making him the world’s first superhero. He is forced to pass the unusual tests of manhood locked in […]