About The Ruins of Us • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 17, 2012) More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying powerful Abdullah Baylani, American-born Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. That discovery plunges their family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia, […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith, on tour January/February 2012
To celebrate the release of the critically acclaimed Faith, Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble, The Condition, and Baker Towers will also be on tour. About Faith • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, […]
Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai, on tour January 2012
About All the Flowers in Shanghai • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 20, 2011) For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires . For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In […]
Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim, on tour January/February 2012
About Night Swim • Paperback: 284 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (January 10, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their […]
Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Hystera, on tour March 2012
About Hystera • Paperback: 194 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (November 16, 2011) Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 28th – December 2nd
Mozart’s Last Aria by Matt Rees Monday, November 28th: Life Is Short. Read Fast. . . . The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis Monday, November 28th: Alexandra Boiger Tuesday, November 29th: Abigail Halpin . . Chosen by Chandra Hoffman Monday, November 28th: The Book Chick Tuesday, November 29th: A Cozy Reader’s Corner Wednesday, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 21st – 25th
. Food Rules by Michael Pollan Monday, November 21st: Anne Strawberry Tuesday, November 22nd Geninne’s Art Blog Tuesday, November 22nd: Kitchen Stewardship Thursday, November 23rd: The Amateur Gourmet . The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber Monday, November 21st: Raging Bibliomania Tuesday, November 22nd: The Brain Lair Wednesday, November 23rd: Historical Tapestry – author guest post, “Why […]
Robert Barclay, author of More Than Words Can Say, on tour January 2012
About More Than Words Can Say • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 20, 2011) From the author of If Wishes Were Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . . . Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit […]
Katherine Govier, author of The Printmaker’s Daughter, on tour November/December 2011
About The Printmaker’s Daughter • Paperback: 512 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (November 22, 2011) Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live […]
Rashad Harrison, author of Our Man in the Dark, on tour January 2012
About Our Man in the Dark • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Atria Books (November 15, 2011) A stunning debut historical noir novel about a worker in the civil rights movement who became an informant for the FBI during the months leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feeling unappreciated and […]