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 […]
Louise Erdrich, author of Shadow Tag, on tour February 2011
About Shadow Tag Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden […]
Daniel Akst, author of We Have Met the Enemy, on tour January/February 2011
About We Have Met the Enemy • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 6, 2011) An intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self-control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do. More calories, sex, and intoxicants are more readily and […]
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench, on tour January/February 2011
About Wench • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Amistad (January 25, 2011) An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses wench \’wench\ n. from Middle English “wenchel,” 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Tawawa House […]
Ruth Pennebaker, author of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, on tour January/February 2011
About Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (January 4, 2011) Joanie’s ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won’t be having more babies, since she’s decided never to have sex again. But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to […]
Heather Newton, author of Under the Mercy Trees, on tour January/February 2011
About Under the Mercy Trees • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (January 18, 2011) Thirty years ago, Martin Owenby came to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Now his existence revolves around cheap Scotch and weekend flings with equally damaged men. When he learns that his older brother, […]
Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Death Instinct, on tour January/February 2011
About The Death Instinct • Hardcover: 480 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (January 20, 2011) “Jed Rubenfeld delivers a soul-searching narrative with complex and memorable characters.” – Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow A spellbinding story of war and love, revenge and terror, and the darkest secrets of the human […]