About Practical Jean • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 18, 2011) Jean Vale Horemarsh is content, for the most part, with the small-town life she’s built: a semi-successful career as a ceramics artist, a close collection of women friends (aside from that terrible falling-out with Cheryl years ago), a comfortable marriage with […]
Anna David, author of Falling for Me, on tour October 2011
About Falling for Me • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (October 11, 2011) Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen […]
Peter Sis, author of The Conference of the Birds, on tour November 2011
About The Conference of the Birds • Hardcover: 160 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 27, 2011) A gorgeous and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem by the same name, The Conference of the Birds speaks to what is meaningful and hopeful in our passage through life. This deeply felt adaptation […]
Susan Schoenberger, author of A Watershed Year, on tour November 2011
About A Watershed Year • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: GuidepostsBooks (March 1, 2011) Months after the funeral of her best friend Harlan, Lucy McVie continues to be haunted by what was left unsaid between them when she receives the first of Harlan’s emails, arranged to be sent after his death. So begins Lucy’s watershed […]
Sam Sommers, author of Situations Matter, on tour October 2011
About Situations Matter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (December 29, 2011) An “entertaining and engaging” exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do. The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don’t even realize it. Every […]
James Martin, author of Between Heaven and Mirth, on tour October 2011
About Between Heaven and Mirth • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (October 4, 2011) In Between Heaven and Mirth, James Martin, SJ, assures us that God wants us to experience joy, to cultivate a sense of holy humor, and to laugh at life’s absurdities—not to mention our own humanity. Father Martin invites believers to rediscover the importance of […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 22nd – 26th
Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto Monday, August 22nd: Books, Movies, and Chinese Food Thursday, August 25th: Savvy Verse and Wit – author guest post . . Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey Monday, August 22nd: The Broke and the Bookish Tuesday, August 23rd: Stephanie’s Written Word Wednesday, August 24th: 2 Kids and Tired Book […]
Errol Morris, author of Believing is Seeing, on tour September 2011
About Believing is Seeing • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (September 1, 2011) Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography. In his inimitable style, Morris untangles […]
Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, authors of Your Medical Mind, on tour September/October 2011
About Your Medical Mind • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (September 20, 2011) Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether we’re deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting expert opinions, confusing statistics, conflicting media reports, […]
Susana Fortes, author of Waiting for Robert Capa, on tour September/October 2011
About Waiting for Robert Capa • Paperback: 208 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 27, 2011) Susana Fortes offers a gorgeously written, English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between two photojournalists furiously in love: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. During the Spanish Civil War, Capa and Taro risked everything documenting Francisco Franco’s Fascist uprising—even as they risked everything for […]