About If You Were Here • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Magazine journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale—the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures […]
Derek Sherman, author of Race Across the Sky, on tour August 2013
About Race Across the Sky Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Plume (July 30, 2013) Caleb Oberest is an ultra marathon runner, who severed all ties to his family to race brutal 100-mile marathons across mountains. Shane Oberest is a sales rep for a cutting-edge biotechnology firm, creating new cures for the diseases of our time. Shane has […]
Lionel Shriver, author of Big Brother, on tour June 2013
About Big Brother • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa […]
Lisa White, author of Discovery, on tour July 2013
About Discovery • File Size: 374 KB • Print Length: 249 pages • Publisher: Crimson Romance (April 22, 2013) WHAT IS YOUR POWER? Grace Mackay thought she was normal, a little shy maybe, but no less normal than any other struggling young waitress. But she did not know about the secretive Powers world. She did not know she was the only […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 27th – 31st
The Girl Who Married an Eagle by Tamar Myers Monday, May 27th: missris Tuesday, May 28th: From the TBR Pile . . . The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri Monday, May 27th: Joyfully Retired Tuesday, May 28th: Pingwing’s Bookshelf . . . The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Monday, May 27th: Fyrefly’s Book Blog Tuesday, May […]
Jason M. Hough, author of The Darwin Elevator, on tour August 2013
About The Darwin Elevator Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Del Rey (July 30, 2013) Jason M. Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi. In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has succumbed […]
J. Kent Messum, author of Bait, on tour Aug./Sept. 2013
About Bait Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Plume (August 27, 2013) Whatever you do, don’t read this one on the beach. Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their sole commanlity: all are heroin addicts from the slums of Miami. And all […]
Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Chalice, on tour July/August 2013
About The Chalice Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition edition (March 5, 2013) The Chalice is a historical thriller told from the point of view of a young woman caught in the crosswinds of time: She has pledged to become a Dominican nun in an England ruled by Henry VIII, who has ruthlessly smashed his […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 20th – 25th
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection Monday, May 20th – Tiffany’s Bookshelf – Dreams of Empire, Book 2 Monday, May 20th – Black ‘n Gold Girl’s Book Spot – Who-ology: Doctor Who: The Official Miscellany Tuesday, May 21st– No More Grumpy Bookseller –Only Human, Book 9 Wednesday, May 22nd – The Best Books Ever – Earthworld, Book 8 Wednesday, May 22nd – Col Reads – Ten Little Aliens, Book […]
Sarah Jio, author of The Last Camellia, on tour June/July 2013
About The Last Camellia Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (May 28, 2013) On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate […]