About Instant City • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 13, 2011) From the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from […]
David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, on tour October/November 2011
About You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 27, 2011) An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees […]
Mary Curran Hackett, author of Proof of Heaven, on tour November 2011
About Proof of Heaven • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 1, 2011) A mother’s faith, a child’s courage, a doctor’s dedication—a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he’s sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fiercely […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for September 5th – 9th
How to Love an American Man by Kristine Gasbarre Monday, September 5th: Crazy for Books . . . Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Monday, September 5th: A Bookish Way of Life Tuesday, September 6th: So Many Precious Books, So Little Time Wednesday, September 7th: Raging Bibliomania . Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant Monday, […]
Sara Shepard, author of Everything We Ever Wanted, on tour October 2011
About Everything We Ever Wanted • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 11, 2011) A recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son Scott teaches. Allegations of Scott’s involvement […]
Joel Brenner, author of America the Vulnerable, on tour October 2011
About America the Vulnerable • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (September 29, 2011) A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America’s next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for September 2011
We have three fantastic books in our Book Club of the Month Contest for September! A love story that defies the bounds of time and space.. Book clubs will love BEFORE EVER AFTER Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto What if ‘til death do us part meant more than you could ever know? In Samantha […]
Trevor Cole, author of Practical Jean, on tour October/November 2011
About Practical Jean • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 18, 2011) Jean Vale Horemarsh is content, for the most part, with the small-town life she’s built: a semi-successful career as a ceramics artist, a close collection of women friends (aside from that terrible falling-out with Cheryl years ago), a comfortable marriage with […]
Anna David, author of Falling for Me, on tour October 2011
About Falling for Me • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (October 11, 2011) Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen […]
People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle on tour November, 2011
About People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Nthposition Press (October 4, 2011) Authors, publishers, reporters, musicians, actors, and artists make up the fabric of the “scene” that is New York City. David Finkle has been a part of this world for years as a critic and writer for newspapers and magazines—a […]