About The Baker’s Daughter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Crown (January 24, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Folly Beach, on tour January 2012
About Folly Beach • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooper’s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband […]
Winifred Gallagher, author of New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, on tour January 2012
About New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (December 29, 2011) Exploring our unique human genius for responding to the new with curiosity and creativity, the bestselling author of Rapt shows us how to embrace our changing world while living a fuller, saner life. In […]
Keija Parssinen, author of The Ruins of Us, on tour January/February 2012
About The Ruins of Us • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 17, 2012) More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying powerful Abdullah Baylani, American-born Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. That discovery plunges their family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia, […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith, on tour January/February 2012
To celebrate the release of the critically acclaimed Faith, Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble, The Condition, and Baker Towers will also be on tour. About Faith • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, […]
Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai, on tour January 2012
About All the Flowers in Shanghai • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 20, 2011) For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires . For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In […]
Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim, on tour January/February 2012
About Night Swim • Paperback: 284 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (January 10, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their […]
Leora Skolkin-Smith, author of Hystera, on tour March 2012
About Hystera • Paperback: 194 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (November 16, 2011) Set in the turbulent 1970s when Patty Hearst became Tanya the Revolutionary, Hystera is a timeless story of madness, yearning, and identity. After a fatal accident takes her father away, Lillian Weill blames herself for the family tragedy. Tripping through failed love affairs with men […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 5th – December 9th
. The CHICKtionary by Anna Lefler Monday, December 5th: A Musing Reviews Monday, December 5th: Silver and Grace – author guest post Tuesday, December 6th: Peeking Between the Pages Wednesday, December 7th: Peeking Between the Pages – author guest post Thursday, December 8th: Sara’s Organized Chaos Friday, December 9th: 2 Kids and Tired Merry Christmas Stories by […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012
About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]