About Dead End Gene Pool In the tradition of Sean Wilsey’s Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough’s Running With Scissors, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. For generations the Burdens were one […]
Boys Lie: How Not to Get Played on tour July 2010
About Boys Lie: How Not to Get Played Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: HCI Teens (July 1, 2010) Everyone else is doing it. It’s lies like this one that often get young women, particularly ages 10 to 20, to put aside their own nagging thoughts about what is right—and wrong—and make choices […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for the week of February 15 – 19, 2010
The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran Monday, February 15th: Luxury Reading Tuesday, February 16th: Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-aholic – reschedule Wednesday, February 17th: Book Club Classics! Thursday, February 18th: My Friend Amy Friday, February 19th: Beth Fish Reads The Believers by Zoe Heller Monday, February 15, 2010: Book Club Classics! Tuesday, February 16, […]
Shana Mahaffey, author of Sounds Like Crazy, on tour April 2010
About Sounds Like Crazy Sounds Like Crazy is as a darkly comic and ultimately healing story about Holly Miller, an Emmy Award winning cartoon voiceover performer who has actual voices in her head, multiple personalities who make her career a huge success, and shield her from a terrible secret in her past. “I couldn’t tell […]
Thich Nhat Hahn & Lillian Cheung, authors of Savor, on tour March/April 2010
About Savor In Savor, New York Times bestselling author and renowned spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh (Peace Is Every Step, The Art of Power) and Harvard nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung combine the timeless wisdom of Buddhism with medical science to deliver a revolutionary guide to end our struggles with weight for good. Savor combines aspects […]
Frank Delaney, author of Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, on tour March/April 2010
About Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Random House (February 23, 2010) “PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY on Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show “This hybrid quest saga, bildungsroman, and grassroots view of Ireland in its post–civil war era is immersive and enjoyable, and it showcases Delaney’s talent for inventive metaphor, which he manipulates with an expert hand.”” […]
Myrlin A. Hermes, author of The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, on tour March/April 2010
About The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (January 26, 2010) A Divinity scholar at Wittenberg University, Horatio prides himself on his ability to argue both sides of any intellectual debate but is himself a skeptic, never fully believing in any philosophy. That is, until […]
Jeffrey A. Cohen, author of The Killing of Mindi Quintana, on tour May 2010
About The Killing of Mindi Quintana Hardcover – 256 pages Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. More than his life in corporate America bondage. More than selling china to bluebloods in Philadelphia’s landmark department store, Chanet’s. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only, onlyan occasion to rise to. And now that occasion is […]
Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, on tour April 2010
About The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott In her debut novel, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Kelly O’Connor McNees deftly mixes fact and fiction as she imagines a summer lost to history, carefully purged from Louisa’s letters and journals, a summer that would change the course of Louisa’s writing career—and inspire the […]
Karen White, author of On Folly Beach, on tour May 2010
About On Folly Beach • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: NAL Trade (May 4, 2010) The latest Southern novel from the acclaimed bestselling and award-winning author of The Memory of Water. To most people, Folly Beach, South Carolina, is simply the last barrier island before the Atlantic. To some, it’s a sanctuary, which is why […]