About Narcopolis • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A fantastical portrait of the beautiful and damned residents of an opium den and brothel in the underworld of Bombay. Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story… […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour April 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 3, 2012) The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the […]
Cynthia Sass, author of S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim, on tour April 2012
About S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 20, 2012) Nutritionist Cynthia Sass, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Flat Belly Diet!, delivers the ultimate weight loss plan in S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches. When Cynthia’s weight loss plan was first published last year, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for March 5th – 9th
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus Monday, March 5th: Dolphinstreet . . . The Irish Way by James R. Barrett Monday, March 5th: Chew & Digest Books Tuesday, March 6th: Me & My Shadow . . Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini Monday, March 5th: A Chick Who Reads Tuesday, March 6th: Joyfully Retired Wednesday, March 7th: Colloquium […]
Ron Rash, author of The Cove, on tour April/May 2012
About The Cove • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Ecco (April 10, 2012) “Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; his new novel solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls “I wish the whole world spoke the way […]
Rodney King, author of The Riot Within, on tour April/May 2012
About The Riot Within • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. […]
Gary Buslik, author of Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls, on tour April/May 2012
About Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Travelers’ Tales/Solas House (March 27, 2012) Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat […]
Doctors George Pratt and Peter Lambrou, authors of Code to Joy, on tour April 2012
About Code to Joy • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Beneath the surface—undiagnosed, untreated and often unspoken—there is a pervasive cloud of unease affecting virtually everyone. This “fog of distress” is the reason so many people feel unloved, guilty, ashamed, fearful, and unsafe. It’s the basis of addictions, sleeplessness, bad habits, […]
James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way, on tour March 2012
About The Irish Way • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 1, 2012) A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. […]
Linda Campanella, author of When All That’s Left of Me is Love, on tour April 2012
About When All That’s Left of Me is Love • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Tate Publishing (August 2, 2011) In her poignant memoir, Linda Campanella offers readers an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives and reconstructs her last year with her terminally ill mother and, in the process, comes […]