About S.E.C.R.E.T Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Broadway (February 5, 2013) In S.E.C.R.E.T there are… No Judgments. No limits. No shame. Cassie Robichaud’s life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2013
Book Clubs will be thrilled by The Expats The Expats by Chris Pavone At first glance, Kate Moore is an ordinary American expat mom whose days are filled with coffee mornings and the mundane demands of childcare. But Kate is also guarding a secret: until recently she’d been leading a double life as a CIA […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for December 31st-January 4th
Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit by Karen Horneffer-Ginter, Ph.D. Monday, December 31st: 2 Kids and Tired Wednesday, January 2nd: Serendipity Smiles Thursday, January 3rd: My Heart’s Desire . . An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava Monday, December 31st: Becca’s Byline Tuesday, January 1st: In the Next Room . . . Never Hug a Nun by Kevin Killeen Monday, December […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of News From Heaven, on tour January/February 2013
About News From Heaven • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 29, 2013) The bestselling author of Faith and The Condition returns with a collection of unforgettable short stories inspired by a Pennsylvania coal-mining town and the people who call it home. When her iconic novel Baker Towers was published in 2005, it was hailed as a modern classic—”compassionate and powerful . […]
TLC Tours TOUR STOPS for December 24th – 28th
Never Hug a Nun by Kevin Killeen Monday, December 24th: BookNAround . . . . The Round House by Louise Erdrich Monday, December 24th: Seaside Book Corner . . . . Televenge by Pamela King Cable Thursday, December 27th: My Bookshelf . . . . An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie LaCava Wednesday, December 26th: BookNAround Thursday, […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour February 2013
About The House Girl • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 12, 2013) Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house […]
Anna Funder, author of All That I Am, on tour January/February 2013
About All That I Am • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 22, 2013) When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth’s journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour January/February 2013
About The Uninvited Guests • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 8, 2013) One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, on tour January 2013
About Into the Darkest Corner • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 2, 2013) When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can’t believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine […]