Category: From Publisher
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Blog Tour: LADY IN THE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you so much Faber & Faber for my free copy. Description: Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn’t hard to understand why: it’s 1964 and neither the police, the public, nor the papers care much when…
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Blog Tour: THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA HILL by Abbi Waxman
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy. Description: The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than…
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Blog Tour: LAST SUMMER by Kerry Lonsdale
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate…
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Blog Tour & Review: THE FLATSHARE by Beth O’Leary
Thank you so much Flatiron Books for my copy. Description: Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes…
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Blog Tour & Review: VALENCIA AND VALENTINE by Suzy Krause
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours, Lake Union Publishing, and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia’s therapist suggests that she fly somewhere—anywhere—before her upcoming…
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Review: THE PARTING GLASS by Gina Marie Guadagnino
Thank you so much Atria Books for my gorgeous free copy! Description: By day, Mary Ballard is lady’s maid to Charlotte Walden, wealthy and accomplished belle of New York City high society. Mary loves Charlotte with an obsessive passion that goes beyond a servant’s devotion, but Charlotte would never trust Mary again if she knew…
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Blog Tour: A WOMAN IS NO MAN by Etaf Rum
Special thank you to Harper Books for this amazing opportunity. Description: Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to…
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Blog Tour and Review: BEAUTIFUL BAD by Annie Ward
Thank you so much @tlcbooktours and @harlequinbooks for my free copy of BEAUTIFUL BAD by Annie Ward. Description: A devoted wife, a loving husband and a chilling murder that no one saw coming. Things that make me scared: When Charlie cries. Hospitals and lakes. When Ian drinks vodka in the basement. ISIS. When Ian gets…
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Book Spotlight: GO HIGH & HUGS FROM OBAMA edited by M. SWEENEY
Many thanks to @stmartinspress for sending me these lovely free books! Heartwarming photographs combined with inspirational quotes from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama is everything! You definitely want to pick these two books up if you’re having a bad day – I have nothing but smiles and adoration for these two! Go High:…
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Blog Tour and Review: THE CURRENT by Tim Johnston
THE CURRENT: A Novelby Tim JohnstonAlgonquin Books / Publication Date: January 22, 2019Price: $27.95; Hardcover; 416 pages; ISBN: 978-1616206772Follow Algonquin books on Twitter at @algonquinbooks or on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/algonquinbooksAmazon Purchase Link Description: New York Times bestselling author Tim Johnston’s debut novel, Descent, achieved that rare feat—widespread critical acclaim and a spot on the New York Times bestseller…