About The American Bible • Hardcover: 544 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (May 29, 2012) Since Thomas Jefferson first recorded those self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen Prothero reveals which texts continue to generate controversy […]
Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, on tour June/July 2012
About The Flight of Gemma Hardy • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) Taken from her native Iceland to Scotland in the early 1950s when her widower father drowns at sea, young Gemma Hardy comes to live with her kindly uncle and his family. But his death leaves Gemma under the […]
J.J. Keeler, author of I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands, on tour July 2012
About I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands • Paperback: 170 pages • Publisher: Paragon House (March 1, 2012) I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD focuses on harming obsessions (fear of hurting oneself or others), rather than the traditional hand-washing compulsion normally associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and provides a candid look at the daily challenges faced […]
Natalie Serber, author of Shout Her Lovely Name, on tour June/July 2012
About Shout Her Lovely Name • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 26, 2012) Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a battle between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread and plain yogurt become weapons. […]
Ken Budd, author of The Voluntourist, on tour May 2012
About The Voluntourist • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 8, 2012) VOL·UN·TOUR·IST n. 1. A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself. 2. Someone who can only do it two weeks at a time. When Ken Budd was thirty-nine, his father collapsed after eighteen holes […]
Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, on tour June/July 2012
About My Dear I Wanted To Tell You • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) The lives of two very different couples—an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart—are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. […]
Kristina Riggle, author of Keepsake, on tour June/July 2012
About Keepsake • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 26, 2012) From the critically acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars and Things We Didn’t Say comes a timely and provocative novel that asks: What happens when the things we own become more important than the people we love? Trish isn’t perfect. She’s […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 14th – 19th
The Queen’s Lover by Francine du Plessix Gray Monday, May 14th: Scandalous Women Wednesday, May 16th: Enchanted by Josephine . . The Song Remains the Same by Allison Winn Scotch Monday, May 14th: All Grown Up? . . . In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab Monday, May 14th: Tiffany’s Bookshelf Tuesday, May 15th: Luxury Reading Wednesday, […]
Nikki Gemmell, author of With My Body, on tour June 2012
About With My Body • Paperback:480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 19, 2012) A wife, a mother of three, she has everything a woman should want—and yet she has gone numb inside. Locked in a never-ending cycle of chores, errands, and mealtimes, she cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty […]
Bianca Zander, author of The Girl Below, on tour June/July 2012
About The Girl Below • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 19, 2012) Suki Piper is a stranger in her hometown. . . . After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy—an old family friend who […]