About Separate Kingdoms • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (March 29, 2011) From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia […]
William Boyd, author of Ordinary Thunderstorms, on tour April/May 2011
Ordinary Thunderstorms • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with […]
Vanora Bennett, author of The Queen’s Lover, on tour March 2011
About The Queen’s Lover Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 8, 2011) Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is […]
Joe Hill, author of Horns, on tour March 2011
About Horns • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 8, 2011) The New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box returns with a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . . Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the […]
Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye, on tour April 2011
About The Long Goodbye: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (April 14, 2011) From one of America’s foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for February 7th – 11th
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua Monday, February 7th: Peaceful Parenting Tuesday, February 8th: Susan Heim on Parenting . . Hush by Kate White Monday, February 7th: Reviews from the Heart Tuesday, February 8th: Teresa’s Reading Corner . . Someone Else’s Garden by Dipika Rai Monday, February 7th: Rundpinne Tuesday, February 8th: […]
Cindy Jones, author of My Jane Austen Summer, on tour April 2011
About My Jane Austen Summer • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Morrow Paperbacks (March 29, 2011) Lily has squeezed herself into undersized relationships all her life, hoping one might grow as large as those found in the Jane Austen novels she loves. But lately her world is running out of places for her to fit. […]
February Book Club of the Month Contest #2
Here’s a book you’ll wish you could hand your younger self! Multi-generational book clubs will get a kick out of this! The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper Author Donna Estes Antebi Which not-so-brilliant Neanderthal said all women have to learn the hard way? Introducing The Real Secrets Women Only Whisper, the essential 21-century playbook for […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for February 2011
A chance encounter sent Lisa Napoli halfway around the world to the happiest place on earth, where she met someone unexpected: Herself About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli “Radio Shangri-La grabs you by the heart and takes you on a winding dual journey — into the self […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 31st – February 4th
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal Monday, January 31st: Reading Through Life – reschedule Tuesday, February 1st: In the Next Room Wednesday, February 2nd: Total Fan Girl Wednesday, February 2nd: Juggling Life Thursday, February 3rd: Po(sey) Sessions Friday, February 4th: GeekDad Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson Monday, January 31st: Novel Whore Tuesday, February 1st: Debbie’s […]