About The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 5, 2011) Celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones makes a HUGE splash with her first adult novel, The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus, spinning a funny, fierce, and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 21st – 25th
Small Wars by Sadie Jones Monday, February 21st: The Book Faery Reviews . . . Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser Monday, February 21st: Take Me Away Tuesday, February 22nd: Book Club Classics! Wednesday, February 23rd: Library Queue Thursday, February 24th: Reviews from the Heart Thursday, February 24th: Rhapsody In Books . Moonface by […]
Laura Kasischke, author of The Raising, on tour March/April 2011
About The Raising • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (March 15, 2011) Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who […]
William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Education, on tour May 2011
About A Jane Austen Education • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (April 28, 2011) An eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author’s novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, […]
Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of Secret Daughter, on tour April/May 2011
About Secret Daughter • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Morrow Paperbacks (April 5, 2011) Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that binds them together. A masterful work set […]
Karen White, author of The Beach Trees, on tour May 2011
About The Beach Trees • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: NAL Trade (May 3, 2011) In her new novel, White, the national bestselling author of On Folly Beach and the award-winning author of thirteen previous books, weaves together themes of Southern culture, the powerful bond of family, to courage to rebuild in the face of […]
Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance, on tour April 2011
About A Fierce Radiance • Paperback: 560 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 29, 2011) From the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. Claire Shipley is a single […]
Lisa Miller, author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, on tour April 2011
About Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 29, 2011) A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings to the convictions and perceptions of everyday people. The desire for a celestial afterlife is universal. It […]
Valerie Laken, author of Separate Kingdoms, on tour April 2011
About Separate Kingdoms • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (March 29, 2011) From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia […]
William Boyd, author of Ordinary Thunderstorms, on tour April/May 2011
Ordinary Thunderstorms • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with […]