About The Year of the Gadfly • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012) Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls. A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris […]
Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments, on tour March 2012
About Enchantments Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Random House (March 6, 2012) From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire. St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is […]
Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters, on tour January/February 2011
“What a joy to read… If wit and language could protect against growing old, these bewitching sisters might never have to grow up.” — Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand About The Weird Sisters Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (January 20, 2011) The Andreas sisters were raised on books – their family […]
Matthew Gallaway, author of THE METROPOLIS CASE, on tour January 2011
About The Metropolis Case Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Crown (December 28, 2010) Readers of sweeping literary fiction such as The Hours, The Emperor’s Children, and The Historian will be immediately drawn into Matthew Gallaway’s debut novel: THE METROPOLIS CASE (Crown; On-Sale: January 2011). From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers […]
TLC’s Book Club of the Month Contest for October!
We have FOUR fabulous books in our Book Club of the Month Contest for October! ____________________________________________________________________________________ A frightening legacy, a difficult decision. Book club members will ask each other, “What would you do?” Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by October 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of What We Have by Amy Boesky for […]
Thaisa Frank, author of Heidegger’s Glasses, on tour November 2010
About Heidegger’s Glasses Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Counterpoint (November 1, 2010) A mysterious compound deep underground. A love affair larger than a World War. A fairy tale with atrocities. And it all begins with one single letter…. Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the […]
Dori Ostermiller, author of Outside the Ordinary World, on tour November 2010
About Outside the Ordinary World Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Mira; Original edition (July 27, 2010) Sylvia Sandon is at a crossroads in her life. A wife and mother of two daughters, she and her city-planner husband are grappling with the escalating renovation of their antique farmhouse—a situation that mirrors the disarray in Sylvia’s life. Facing […]
TLC’s Book Club of the Month Contest for August!
Book Club of the Month Contest – August Here’s one to make your heart race! Register your book club with TLC Book Tours by August 31st and you could win up to 10 copies of Think of a Number by John Verdon for your book club! Arriving in the mail one day is a taunting […]
Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day, on tour July/August 2010
About Labor Day Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 3, 2010) The dog days of August . . . All summer long, thirteen-year-old Henry kept hoping that something different would happen, but it never did. Then, just as the Labor Day weekend gets under way, in the Pricemart where Henry?s mother, Adele, on one […]
Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart, on tour January 2010
About The Summer We Fell Apart “[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel…a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.” —Publishers Weekly The Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry—and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect new voice in […]