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 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 20th – 24th
The Wounded Giant by Michael O’Hanlon Monday, February 20th: The Moderate Voice . . . All There Is by Dave Isay Monday, February 20th: Reviews from the Heart . . . Delicacy by David Foenkinos Monday, February 20th: Book Hooked Blog Tuesday, February 21st: Life In Review . . Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus Monday, February 20th: […]
Melanie Dugan, author of Dead Beautiful, on tour May/June 2012
About Dead Beautiful Dead Beautiful is a contemporary retelling of the classic Greek myth of Persephone. This was the myth the Greeks used to explain how we came to have the change of seasons. In the traditional version of the myth, Persephone – the daughter of Demeter, Goddess of agriculture and fertility, and Zeus, the […]
Francine du Plessix Gray, author of The Queen’s Lover, on tour April/May 2012
About The Queen’s Lover • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (June 14, 2012) Few figures have as strong a hold on the public’s imagination as Marie Antoinette. Centuries after her death, she remains a fascinating character, whose life, loves, and death have been the subject of numerous books and films. Francine du […]
Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory, on tour March/April 2012
About The Idea Factory • Hardcover: 432 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 15, 2012) A sweeping, atmospheric history of Bell Labs that highlights its unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century’s most influential technologies. In the decades between 1920 and 1980, Bell Laboratories in New Jersey was the […]
Christopher Benfey, author of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, on tour March/April 2012
About Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 15, 2012) An incandescent journey to unearth the beginnings of American art. An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the story of America’s artistic birth. […]
Kathy Hepinstall, author of Blue Asylum, on tour April 2012
About Blue Asylum • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 10, 2012) Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only reasonable explanation the court can see for her willful behavior, so she is sent away to […]