About The Personal History of Rachel DuPree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin (July 26, 2011) Just optioned for film by Viola Davis, star of The Help; winner of the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, longlisted for the Orange […]
Maud Hart Lovelace, author of The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, on tour October/November 2011
About The Betsy-Tacy Treasury • Paperback: 736 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (November 8, 2011) There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for October 3rd – 7th
Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney Monday, October 3rd: A Frugal Life . . . Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls by Karl Friedrich Monday, October 3rd: A Bookish Libraria Tuesday, October 4th: Life in Review Wednesday, October 5th: Acting Balanced . Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. Monday, October 3rd: girlichef […]
Chandra Hoffman, author of Chosen, on tour November 2011
About Chosen • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (November 8, 2011) It all begins with a fantasy . . . The caseworker in her “paperwork-signing” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour November 2011
About A Train in Winter • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 8, 2011) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newpapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest […]
Matt Rees, author of Mozart’s Last Aria, on tour November 2011
About Mozart’s Last Aria • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 1, 2011) The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 19th – 23rd
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas Monday, September 19th: The Book Nerd Club . . . Believing is Seeing by Errol Morris Monday, September 19th: Duckrabbit . . . My God, What Have We Done? by Susan Weiss Monday, September 19th: A Bookish Libraria Tuesday, September 20th: “That’s Swell!” Wednesday, September 21st: Lit […]
C.C. Harrison, author of Picture of Lies, on tour October/November 2011
About Picture of Lies • Hardcover: 326 pages • Publisher: Five Star (October 21, 2011) Investigative journalist Keegan Thomas is living a nightmare of guilt and grief since her little girl Daisy was kidnapped practically in front of her eyes. When the police investigation dead ended, she turned her grief to anger and buried herself in her work. The […]
Vivienne Schiffer, author of Camp Nine, on tour November 2011
About Camp Nine • Hardcover: 151 pages • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press (October 10, 2011) The time of fear and prejudice following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Arkansas Delta are the setting for Camp Nine. The novel’s narrator, Chess Morton, lives with her widowed mother in Rook, a town too tiny to […]
Steve Inskeep, author of Instant City, on tour October 2011
About Instant City • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 13, 2011) From the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from […]