About The Myths of Happiness • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 3, 2013) In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (singlehood, divorce, financial ruin, illness) to reveal that our misconceptions about the impact of such […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 7th – 11th
Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit by Karen Horneffer-Ginter, Ph.D. Monday, January 7th: Evolution You Tuesday, January 8th: Life in the Bogs Wednesday, January 9th: A Life Sustained . . The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell Monday, January 7th: Mrs. Q: Book Addict Tuesday, January 8th: Tiffany’s Bookshelf Wednesday, January 9th: Broken Teepee Thursday, January 10th: Sweet Southern Home . Into the Darkest […]
Phillip Rock’s The Passing Bells trilogy, on tour January and February 2013
About The Passing Bells • Paperback: 544 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reissue edition (December 4, 2012) The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances play on. Alexandra Greville […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of News From Heaven, on tour January/February 2013
About News From Heaven • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 29, 2013) The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home. When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic—”compassionate and powerful . […]
TLC Tours TOUR STOPS for December 24th – 28th
Never Hug a Nun by Kevin Killeen Monday, December 24th: BookNAround . . . . The Round House by Louise Erdrich Monday, December 24th: Seaside Book Corner . . . . Televenge by Pamela King Cable Thursday, December 27th: My Bookshelf . . . . An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava Wednesday, December 26th: BookNAround Thursday, […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour February 2013
About The House Girl • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 12, 2013) Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house […]
Anna Funder, author of All That I Am, on tour January/February 2013
About All That I Am • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 22, 2013) When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth’s journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour January/February 2013
About The Uninvited Guests • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 8, 2013) One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, on tour January 2013
About Into the Darkest Corner • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 2, 2013) When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can’t believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine […]
Jennifer McMahon, author of The One I Left Behind, on tour January 2012
About The One I Left Behind • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 2, 2013) The summer of 1985 changes Reggie’s life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the […]