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 […]
Josh Karlen, author of Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir, on tour November 2010
About Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Tatra Press (October 16, 2010) Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, youthful romance in Greenwich Village, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming of age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing […]
Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told me, on tour August/September 2010
About Lies My Mother Never Told Me • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (August 17, 2010) Her mother, Gloria, was a brainy knockout whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was James Jones, the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity and other acclaimed novels […]
Teen Authored Memoir Series LOUDER THAN WORDS on tour August 2010
About LOUDER THAN WORDS: 3 NEW TITLES IN A BREAKTHROUGH TEEN-AUTHORED MEMOIR SERIES! Alexis Singer gives an honest voice to the very real phenomenon of online solicitation. In Alexis, she shares her harrowing story of being sucked into an emotionally dependent and cybersexual relationship by an older man she met in a chat room. “I […]
Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW, author of Ugly as Sin, on tour September 2010
About Ugly as Sin: The Truth About How We Look and Finding Freedom from Self-Hatred Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: HCI (September 1, 2010) “The truth is that we all have felt ugly. The sin is that we let this word shame us, control us, and define us.” — Toni Raiten-D’Antonio, LCSW Have you heard about […]