About Ballroom • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 23, 2014) A beautiful debut, Ballroom follows a group of strangers, united by a desire to escape their complicated lives (if only for a few hours each week) at a New York City dance hall that’s about to close its doors for good. The Ballroom used to […]
Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl, on tour September/October 2014
About How to Build a Girl • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 23, 2014) What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself. It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, […]
The new Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery The Monogram Murders by international bestselling author Sophie Hannah, on tour September 2014
About The Monogram Murders • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 9, 2014) The bestselling novelist of all time. The world’s most famous detective. The literary event of the year—an all-new mystery featuring Agatha Christie’s legendary hero Hercule Poirot. Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of […]
Ovidia Yu, author of Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials, on tour September/October 2014
About Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (September 30, 2014) Rosie “Aunty” Lee, the feisty widow and amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant, is back in another delectable, witty mystery involving scandal and murder among the city’s elite Few know more about what goes on in […]
Alix Christie, author of Gutenberg’s Apprentice, on tour September/October 2014
About Gutenberg’s Apprentice • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 23, 2014) An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval Germany—a story of invention, intrigue, and betrayal. Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris […]
Karen Abbott, author of Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, on tour September 2014
About Liar Temptress Soldier Spy • Hardcover: 528 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 2, 2014) Belle Boyd Emma Edmonds Rose O’Neal Greenhow Elizabeth Van Lew In Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything—their homes, their families, and their very lives—during the Civil War. Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 25th-30th
Inamorata by Megan Chance Monday, August 25th: Books Without Any Pictures Tuesday, August 26th: No More Grumpy Bookseller Wednesday, August 27th: Wensend reschedule Thursday, August 28th: Ladybug Literature Friday, August 29th: Under a Gray Sky Left Turn at Paradise by Thomas Shawver Monday, August 25th: 5 Minutes for Books Tuesday, August 26th: Mystery Playground Wednesday, August 27th: […]
Gail Sheehy, author of Daring: My Passages, on tour September 2014
About Daring: My Passages • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 2, 2014) The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s “girl” journalist to fearless bestselling author who made […]
Brian Hart, author of The Bully of Order, on tour September 2014
About The Bully of Order • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 2, 2014) Washington Territory, 1886 Jacob and Nell Ellstrom step from ship to shore and are struck dumb by the sight of their new home—the Harbor, a ragged township of mud streets and windowless shacks. In the years to come this will be known […]
Robert Dugoni, author of My Sister’s Grave, on tour November 2014
About My Sister’s Grave Paperback Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (November 1, 2014) Robert Dugoni’s bestselling legal thrillers have earned him comparisons to John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Nelson DeMille, among others. In MY SISTER’S GRAVE (Thomas & Mercer; October 14, 2014), Dugoni returns with the powerful and poignant story of a homicide detective determined to avenge […]