About Commuters • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) After losing her husband of many years, seventy-eight-year-old Winnie Easton has found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy, elderly Chicago businessman; their decision, however, to buy one of the biggest houses in the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, ignites […]
Emma Larkin, author of Everything is Broken, on tour June 2010
About Everything is Broken • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press HC On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc, and leaving an official toll of 138,300 dead and missing. In the days that followed, the sheer scale of the disaster became apparent as information began […]
Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand, on tour July 2010
About Bird in Hand • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 29, 2010) The accident was just that — an accident. It was dark, it was raining, ALISON had two drinks in her, and the other car ran the stop sign. She just didn’t get out of the way fast enough. But now […]
Ilie Ruby, author of The Language of Trees, on tour July/August 2010
About The Language of Trees Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Avon A (July 20, 2010) Devastated over the breakup of his marriage, Grant Shongo returns to his hometown of Canandaigua Lake, a little community where everyone knows everyone’s business, though they may pretend not to. Living in isolation at his family’s old cabin, Grant begins to wonder […]
Lynne Griffin, author of Sea Escape, on tour July 2010
About Sea Escape Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 6, 2010) Acclaimed novelist and nationally recognized family life expert Lynne Griffin returns with Sea Escape–an emotional, beautifully imagined story inspired by the author’s personal family letters about the ties that bind mothers and daughters. Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling […]
David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide, on tour May 2010
About Legend of a Suicide • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 16, 2010) In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father’s suicide. The wild outback of the author’s […]
A. Manette Mansay, author of Good Things I Wish You, on tour June/July 2010
About Good Things I Wish You Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 22, 2010) The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a century. Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, […]
Heather Barbieri, author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara, on tour June/July 2010
About The Lace Makers of Glenmara • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 22, 2010) “You can always start again,” Kate Robinson’s mother once told her, “all it takes is a new thread.” Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old fashion designer follows her mother’s advice and flees to her ancestral homeland […]
Mary Kay Andrews, author of The Fixer Upper, on tour June 2010
About The Fixer Upper • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 15, 2010) After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father’s offer to help refurbish […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 5th – 9th
Seeing Stars by Diane Hammond Sunday, April 4th: BookNAround Wednesday, April 7th: Write Meg Thursday, April 8th: A Sea of Books . The Lunatic, The Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin A. Hermes Monday, April 5th: Raging Bibliomania Tuesday, April 6th: Wordsmithonia Wednesday, April 7th: BookNAround Thursday, April 8th: Laughing Stars . Chow Hounds by […]