About Together Tea • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Ecco; Original edition (May 21, 2013) Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s endless matchmaking and grading of available Iranian American bachelors. After Darya’s last ill-fated attempt to find Mina a husband, mother and […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for June 3rd-8th
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection Monday, June 3rd – Book Addict Katie – Beautiful Chaos, Book 10 Monday, June 3rd – No More Grumpy Bookseller – The Silent Stars Go By, Book 11 Tuesday, June 4th – Bookfoolery – Ten Little Aliens, Book 1 Tuesday, June 4th – In Bed with Books – Only Human, Book 9 Wednesday, June 5th – Tiffany’s Bookshelf – Last of the Gaderene, Book 3 […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2013
Is it possible to make a fresh start? Book clubs will find out in The Exiles The Exiles by Allison Lynn Nate, a mid-level investment banker on Wall Street, and his longtime girlfriend Emily can no longer afford their cramped apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Tired of trying to keep up with their jet-set […]
Laura Lippman, author of And When She Was Good, on tour June 2013
About And When She Was Good • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) In the comfortable suburb where Heloise Lewis lives, she’s just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she’s […]
Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion of Separateness, on tour June/July 2013
About The Illusion of Separateness • Hardcover: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 11, 2013) The characters in Simon Van Booy’s The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in a chain we cannot see. This gripping novel— […]
Pamela Moore, author of Chocolates for Breakfast, on tour June/July 2013
About Chocolates for Breakfast • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (June 25, 2013) Courtney Farrell is a disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen-year-old. She splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress. After a boarding-school crush on a female teacher ends badly, […]
Shohreh Aghdashloo, author of The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, on tour June 2013
About The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in this dazzling memoir of family, faith, revolution, and hope. Enchanted by the movies she watched while […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour June 2013
About Flight Behavior • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with […]
Alafair Burke, author of If You Were Here, on tour June 2013
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 […]