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 […]
Rainbow Rowell, author of Attachments, on tour April/May 2011
About Attachments Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (April 14, 2011) Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can’t seem […]
Oscar Hijuelos, author of Thoughts Without Cigarettes, on tour June 2011
About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
Anene Tressler, author of Dancing with Gravity, on tour April 2011
About Dancing with Gravity Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press “Whether we love–or fail to love–there is always a cost.” – Nikolai Father Whiting is asleep in his own life. As a St. Louis priest and the head of Pastoral Care at a local teaching hospital, he’s already on edge wondering if he’s up […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Samaritan, on tour March 2011
About The Samaritan Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough to touch, but healing is forgetting. Healing […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for January 17th-21st
Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan Monday, January 17th: Jen’s Book Thoughts Tuesday, January 18th: Fiction State of Mind Wednesday, January 19th: Along the Way Thursday, January 20th: Reading with Martinis Friday, January 21st: Inside of a Dog The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld Monday, January 17th: We Be Reading Tuesday, January 18th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage […]
Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling, on tour April 2011
About The Uncoupling “Wolitzer writes of a spell cast upon a town—but she superbly casts it upon the reader as well. This deftly written tale of bewildered women (and their men) is always surprising and always engaging, both funny and serious at the same time, a wonderful read.”—Elizabeth Strout, New York Times–bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge Hardcover: 288 pages […]
Lisa Napoli, author of Radio Shangri-La, on tour February/March 2011
About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011) When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public […]
Sarah Blake, author of THE POSTMISTRESS, on tour March 2011
About The Postmistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) An ocean apart, two women—Frankie Bard, a gifted, intrepid, and beautiful young radio journalist in London to report on the Blitz, and Iris James, the dedicated, spinster postmistress of Franklin, Massachusetts—are entrusted with letters that concern the same man, to be […]
Tim O’Donnell, author of A View from the Back Pew, on tour March 2011
About A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth: Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Linchpin Publishing (March 1, 2011) Since the time Tim O’Donnell was a nuisance to the nuns, he has been asking questions about religion. He went on to become a successful owner of daily newspapers and consulting […]