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 […]
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 […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 22nd – 26th
Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Paul De Angelis Monday, November 22nd: Bookin’ with Bingo Tuesday, November 23rd: Daydream Believer Wednesday, November 24th: Rundpinne . . Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb Monday, November 22nd: The Book Faery Reviews Tuesday, November 23rd: red headed book child . . . Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera Thursday, […]
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 […]
Karen Marie Moning, author of Shadowfever, on tour January/February 2011
About Shadowfever Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 18, 2011) MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that […]
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 […]
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 […]