About Clever Girl • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 4, 2014) Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibín, Tessa Hadley possesses the remarkable ability to transform the mundane into the sublime—an eye for the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives that elevates domestic fiction to literary art. In Clever Girl, she offers the indelible story of one woman’s […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 6th – 12th
The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani Monday, January 6th: Reflections of a Bookaholic Tuesday, January 7th: A Bookish Way of Life Wednesday, January 8th: Time 2 Read Wednesday, January 8th: Stephany Writes Thursday, January 9th: Walking With Nora . The In-Between Hour by Barbara Claypole White Monday, January 6th: cupcake’s book cupboard Tuesday, January 7th: Kritters Ramblings Wednesday, January 8th: Tina’s Book […]
Matthew Quick, author of The Good Luck of Right Now, on tour February 2014
About The Good Luck of Right Now • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014) Call it fate Call it synchronicity Call it an act of God Call it . . . The Good Luck of Right Now For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea […]
Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Perfume Collector, on tour February 2014
About The Perfume Collector • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London’s most refined and ambitious social circles. However, playing the role of the sophisticated socialite her husband would like […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2014
__________________________________________________ Starter House is a compelling ghost story that will keep you turning the pages long into the night. Starter House by Sonja Condit Her dream home is about to become a house of nightmares… From the moment Lacey glimpses the dusty-rose colonial cottage with its angled dormer windows and quaint wooden shutters, she knows […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 30th – January 3rd
The Howling Heart by April Bostic Monday, December 30th: Literally Jen . . . . Escaping Home (The Survivalist Series) by A. American Monday, December 30th: Mental Foodie . . . . The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani Monday, December 30th: red headed book child Wednesday, January 1st: The Lost Entwife Wednesday, January 1st: Tiffany’s Bookshelf Thursday, January […]
Peter Swanson, author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, on tour February 2014
About The Girl with a Clock for a Heart • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 4, 2014) An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears George Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary […]
Katharina Hagena, author of The Taste of Apple Seeds, on tour February 2014
About The Taste of Apple Seeds • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 4, 2014) The internationally bestselling tale of love, loss, and memories that run deep When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother’s house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that live there. Iris gives herself a one-week stay at the old […]
Jan Shapin, author of A Snug Life Somewhere, on tour February 2014
About A Snug Life Somewhere • Paperback: 294 pages • Publisher: Cambridge Books (April, 2014) A Snug Life Somewhere is about Penny Joe Copper, daughter of a roustabout shingle weaver, who is caught up in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. Her brother Horace is killed, as is the cousin of a radical organizer, Gabe. When […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 23rd – 27th
The Howling Heart by April Bostic Monday, December 23rd: Kristen’s Book Blog . . . . The Seduction of Miriam Cross by W. A. Tyson Monday, December 23rd: Bookchickdi . . . . The Spirit Keeper by K. B. Laugheed Monday, December 23rd: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books . . . . The Red Phone Booth, edited by […]