About Joy for Beginners Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (June 9, 2011) Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read.” —Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate’s recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain […]
Summer Wood, author of Wrecker, on tour April/May 2011
About Wrecker Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (February 15, 2011) Set amid the giant trees of northern California’s magical Lost Coast, Wrecker is the story of a nearly broken boy who unexpectedly finds a family. After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left […]
Jael McHenry, author of The Kitchen Daughter, on tour April/May 2011
About The Kitchen Daughter: Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gallery; Original edition (April 12, 2011) After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna […]
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 […]
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 […]