About Cartwheel Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Random House (September 24, 2013) Written with the riveting storytelling and moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together. […]
Laura Hemphill, author of Buying In, on tour November 2013
About Buying In Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: New Harvest (November 5, 2013) It’s October 2007, and twenty-two-year-old Sophie Landgraf is a small-town girl who hopes her new job as a Wall Street analyst will be her ticket to the American elite. She knew that giving her life over to the bank would be hard on […]
Lacy Crawford, author or Early Decision, on tour August/September 2013
About Early Decision • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 27, 2013) A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the “application whisperer” is […]
Choire Sicha, author of Very Recent History, on tour August 2013
About Very Recent History • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 6, 2013) What will the future make of us? In one of the greatest cities in the world, the richest man in town is the Mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season’s fashion trends, even as the country’s economy turns inside out and workers are […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Human Remains, on tour August/September 2013
About Human Remains • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 20, 2013) New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes returns with a disturbing and powerful tale that preys on our darkest fears. Police analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work and the needs of her aging mother keep her busy. But Annabel is shocked […]
Michael Perry, author of Visiting Tom, on tour August/September 2013
About Visiting Tom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 12, 2013) From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life. What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his […]
Michael Hurley, author of The Prodigal, on tour October 2013
About The Prodigal For 2,000 years, Christendom has believed that faith and penitence are the narrow gates through which all who seek heaven must pass, and that the church on Earth holds the key. What if a forgotten relic and an abandoned ship thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for August 5th – 9th
The Widows of Braxton County by Jess McConkey Monday, August 5th: A Dream Within a Dream Tuesday, August 6th: Excellent Library . . . Discovery by Lisa White Monday, August 5th: Book Loving Mom Tuesday, August 6th: Bibliojunkies Wednesday, August 7th: Stuck in Y.A. Books Thursday, August 8th: Ramblings of a Book Junkie . The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan Monday, August […]
Rebecca Walker, author of Adé, on tour October/November 2013
About Adé: A Love Story Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (October 29, 2013) Known worldwide for her brilliant, frank memoirs, Rebecca Walker returns with a poetic, lushly written debut novel that is sure to garner major attention. Exploring the themes of memory, longing, passion, and loss, Walker gives us the story of […]
Jennifer Zobair, author of Painted Hands, on tour September 2013
About Painted Hands • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition (June 11, 2013) Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural expectations, and […]