About Nerd Do Well The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor, comedian, writer and self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing […]
Marshall Ulrich, author of Running on Empty, on tour April/May 2011
About Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Avery (April 14, 2011) The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more than 100 foot races averaging over 100 miles each, completed 12 expedition-length adventure races, and ascended the Seven Summits – including Mount […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for March 2011
Book clubs will ponder.. Are the rich really different? Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir by Wendy Burden Joining the ranks of Augusten Burroughs & David Sedaris, a descendent of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. The New York Times calls author […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Iain Reid, author of ONE BIRD’S CHOICE, on tour March 2011
About One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Mar 1, 2011) Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a bug-filled basement apartment and struggling to make ends meet. When Iain lands […]
Linda Gray Sexton, author of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide, on tour January/February 2011
About Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide Hardcover: 300 pages Publisher: Counterpoint Press (January 11, 2011) Despite experiencing the agony of witnessing her mother’s multiple suicide attempts, the last of which was successful, Linda Gray Sexton found herself gripped by the same strong tentacles of mental anguish. Falling into the familiar grooves of […]
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 […]
Dina Kucera, author of Everything I Never Wanted to Be, on tour November 2010
About Everything I Never Wanted to Be • Paperback: 216 pages • Publisher: Dream of Things (October 1, 2010) Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera is the true story of a family’s battle with alcoholism and drug addiction. Dina’s grandfather and father were alcoholics. Her grandmother was a pill addict. Dina is […]