About A Good Hard Look Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011) In Flannery O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself. Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O’Connor was forced to leave New York City and return […]
Noelle Hancock, author of My Year With Eleanor, on tour July/August 2011
About My Year With Eleanor • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Ecco (June 7, 2011) After losing her high-octane job as an entertainment blogger, Noelle Hancock was lost. About to turn twenty-nine, she’d spent her career writing about celebrities’ lives and had forgotten how to live her own. Unemployed and full of self-doubt, she had […]
Paul Seesequasis, author of Tobacco Wars, on tour July/August 2011
About Tobacco Wars • Paperback: 113 pages • Publisher: Quattro Books (October 2010) “…and another fascinating voice from the ever-growing chorus of Native-Canadian writers. An important addition…” -Tomson Highway Set in the early 17th century, Tobacco Wars follows the mythical and rollicking adventures of Pocahontas and playwright Ben Jonson, from the inns, alleyways and royal […]
Jason Zinoman, author of Shock Value, on tour July 2011
About Shock Value • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011) An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre. Much has been written about the […]
Mary Horlock, author of The Book of Lies, on tour July/August 2011
About The Book of Lies Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (July 19, 2011) Life on the tiny island of Guernsey has just become a whole lot harder for fifteen-year-old Cat Rozier. She’s gone from model pupil to murderer, but she swears it’s not her fault. Apparently it’s all the fault of history. […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 22nd – May 27th
On China by Henry Kissinger Sunday, May 22nd: Rhapsody In Books Monday, May 23rd: Divided We Stand United We Fall Tuesday, May 24th: Bookworm’s Dinner Wednesday, May 25th: Pacific Rim Shots Thursday, May 26th: Asia Unbound Faith by Jennifer Haigh Monday, May 23rd: As I turn the pages Tuesday, May 24th: Books in the City Wednesday, May 25th: Life In Review Thursday, May […]
Kristina Riggle, author of Things We Didn’t Say, on tour July 2011
About Things We Didn’t Say • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (June 28, 2011) “Things We Didn’t Say is impossible to put down, and even harder to let go of.” —Julie Buxbaum, author of The Opposite of Love What goes unsaid can sometimes speak the loudest . . . What […]
Ernessa Carter, author of 32 Candles, on tour July/August 2011
About 32 Candles • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Amistad; Reprint edition (June 28, 2011) Davie Jones—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to […]
Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, on tour June/July 2011
About State of Wonder • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 7, 2011) “Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book Review Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including The Magician’s Assistant and the New York Times bestselling Bel Canto. Now she raises the bar with State of […]
Karleen Koen, author of Before Versailles, on tour July 2011
About Before Versailles Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: Crown (June 28, 2011) Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a […]