About Walking With Elephants • Paperback: 210 pages • Publisher: Literaryroad.com (August 10, 2010) Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her […]
Dana Precious, author of Born Under a Lucky Moon, on tour February 2011
About Born Under a Lucky Moon • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Morrow Paperbacks (February 8, 2011) Born Under a Lucky Moon is the tale of two very important (but distant) years in the lives of Jeannie Thompson and her (embarrassing, crazy) colorful family members to whom “things” just seem to happen. From the Great […]
Laura Lippman, author of The Girl in the Green Raincoat, on tour January/February 2011
About The Girl in the Green Raincoat • Paperback: 176 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 18, 2011) In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor’s orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small […]
Jo Nesbø, author of The Devil’s Star, on tour February 2011
About The Devil’s Star • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 1, 2011) In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 29th – December 3rd
Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank Monday, November 29th: In the Next Room . . . Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Paul De Angelis Monday, November 29th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage . . . Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller Monday, November 29th: Starting Fresh Wednesday, December 1st: Peeking Between the Pages . . A Secret Gift […]
Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on tour January/February 2011
About Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 11, 2011) An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents want to do what’s best for […]
Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken, on tour January/February 2011
About Reality is Broken • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (January 20, 2011) Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will […]
Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City, on tour February 2011
About Triumph of the City • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (February 3, 2011) A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 15th – 19th
Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Monday, November 15th: Ashley’s Bookshelf . . . Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning Monday, November 15th: Rundpinne Tuesday, November 16th: Bookalicious Wednesday, November 17th: All Things Urban Fantasy . Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee Monday, November 15th: girlichef Tuesday, November 16th: Celebrations at Home Wednesday, November […]
Ellen Meister, author of The Other Life, on tour February/March 2011
About The Other Life • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Putnam Adult (February 17, 2011) “This is the thinking woman’s beach read, a love story to the modern family, written with a deep and lovely understanding of mothers and daughters and the sacrifices they’ll make for each other.” —Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of […]