About The Oracle of Stamboul • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 8, 2011) Late in the summer of 1877, as Tsar Alexander II’s Royal Cavalry descends on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta, a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world […]
Pamela Schoenewaldt, author of When We Were Strangers, on tour January/February 2011
About When We Were Strangers • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (January 25, 2011) “The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American’s.” —Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR POSTS for December 6th-10th
Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King Monday, December 6th: Royal Reviews – reschedule Tuesday, December 7th: Passages to the Past – interview and giveaway! Wednesday, December 8th: Stiletto Storytime Thursday, December 9th: Scandalous Women Friday, December 10th: Historical Tapestry – reschedule Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag Monday, December 6th: A Bookworm’s World Tuesday, […]
Karen Bell, author of Walking With Elephants, on tour February 2011
About Walking With Elephants • Paperback: 210 pages • Publisher: Literaryroad.com (August 10, 2010) Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her […]
Dana Precious, author of Born Under a Lucky Moon, on tour February 2011
About Born Under a Lucky Moon • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Morrow Paperbacks (February 8, 2011) Born Under a Lucky Moon is the tale of two very important (but distant) years in the lives of Jeannie Thompson and her (embarrassing, crazy) colorful family members to whom “things” just seem to happen. From the Great […]
Laura Lippman, author of The Girl in the Green Raincoat, on tour January/February 2011
About The Girl in the Green Raincoat • Paperback: 176 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 18, 2011) In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan is under doctor’s orders to remain immobile. Bored and restless, reduced to watching the world go by outside her window, she takes small […]
Jo Nesbø, author of The Devil’s Star, on tour February 2011
About The Devil’s Star • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 1, 2011) In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for December 2010!
Do women see war differently than men? This book will make you think about questions of love and loyalty against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. In the final days of a falling Saigon, The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naive ingenue […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for November 29th – December 3rd
Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank Monday, November 29th: In the Next Room . . . Dear Mrs. Kennedy by Paul De Angelis Monday, November 29th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage . . . Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller Monday, November 29th: Starting Fresh Wednesday, December 1st: Peeking Between the Pages . . A Secret Gift […]
Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on tour January/February 2011
About Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 11, 2011) An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents want to do what’s best for […]