About Flight Behavior • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 6, 2012) Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman’s narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel’s inhabitants and unearths the […]
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, on tour October/November 2012
About The Round House The Round House has just been named a National Book Award Finalist! • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 2, 2012) One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized […]
Craig Heimbuch, author of And Now We Shall Do Manly Things, on tour November 2012
About And Now We Shall Do Manly Things • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 30, 2012) In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods and A. J. Jacobs’s The Know-It-All, Craig J. Heimbuch takes a wry look at some of our most deeply cherished cultural beliefs Craig J. Heimbuch had never even thought of […]
Joan Frank, author of Because You Have To, on tour November 2012
About Because You Have To • Paperback: 184 pages • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press (September 15, 2012) Part memoir, part handbook, part survey of the contemporary literary scene, Because You Have To: A Writing Life is a collection of essays that, taken together, provide a walking tour of the writing life. Original, witty, and practical, […]
Danny Wallace, author of Charlotte Street, on tour October 2012
About Charlotte Street • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 23, 2012) Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don’t read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Elegy for Eddie, on tour November 2012
About Elegy for Eddie • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden—sellers of fruits and vegetables on the London streets—Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. So who would want to kill him . . . and why? […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour October/November 2012
About A Train in Winter • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 23, 2012) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera; a midwife; a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 15th – 19th
The Good Pope by Greg Tobin Monday, October 15th: Man of La Book . . . . The Bookie’s Son by Andrew Goldstein Monday, October 15th: Fiction Addict . . . . Before the Rain by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa Monday, October 15th: Stuff as Dreams are Made On . . . . The Lady Risks All by […]
Lori Wilde, author of A Cowboy for Christmas, on tour November 2012
About A Cowboy for Christmas • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (October 30, 2012) It’s Christmastime in Jubilee, Texas, but Lissette Moncrief is having a hard time celebrating . . . Especially after she accidentally smashes her car into Rafferty Jones’s pick-up truck. Yes, he’s a whole lot of handsome-from the tips of his boots […]
Gaelen Foley, author of My Scandalous Viscount, on tour October/November 2012
About My Scandalous Viscount • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (September 25, 2012) Meet the courageous men of the Inferno Club as they face their greatest challenge yet: marriage! Sebastian, Viscount Beauchamp, lives by a code of honor, and now honor dictates he must marry Miss Carissa Portland. He has no regrets over stealing a kiss […]