About The Council of Dads Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (May 17, 2011) The inspiring story that touched people all over the world, The Council of Dads is the life-changing portrait of a group of friends who offer wisdom, humor, and guidance for how to live our lives with meaning and joy. […]
Diana Spechler, author of Skinny, on tour April/May 2011
About Skinny • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 26, 2011) “Skinny will be my go-to recommendation all year for anyone who wants smart, endearing, beautifully written women’s fiction.” —Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life After her father’s death, twenty-six-year-old […]
Susan Newman, P.h.D., author of The Case for the Only Child, on tour June 2011
About The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: HCI (June 1, 2011) What’s really wrong with having one child? Is one enough for you? For your partner? What constitutes a complete, happy family? Will your only child be lonely, spoiled, bossy, selfish? Read this book and find out. Despite […]
Ellen Feldman, author of Next to Love, on tour June/July 2011
About Next to Love Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (July 26, 2011) “A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.”—Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for April 18th-22nd
Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon Monday, April 18th: Sara’s Organized Chaos Tuesday, April 19th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Wednesday, April 20th: Life In Review . . Running on Empty by Marshall Ulrich Monday, April 18th: Endurance Isn’t Only Physical Tuesday, April 19th: I Am Boring Wednesday, April 20th: Run Faster Mommy! Thursday, April 21st: Run to the Finish […]
Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 2011
About The Long Journey Home Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (May 17, 2011) First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern […]
Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business, on tour May/June 2011
About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
John McWhorter, author of What Language Is, on tour August 2011
About What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in […]
Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, on tour May/June 2011
About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]