Pride Book Tours

                                   Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  YERBA BUENA ? Synopsis: The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner. When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, t

                                  Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  I WANT TO BE A VASE ? Synopsis: SNL writer and comedic rising star Julio Torres takes readers on a journey through the lives and intimate dramas of some of the unsung shapes of our time in this picture book inspired by his HBO special My Favorite Shapes. Shapes. You’ve heard of them. You might have even interacted with a few. But do you really know them? From plucky Plunger, who wishes to defy his shape and become a beautiful vase, to other household objects with dreams of a life beyond their predestined roles, I Want to Be a Vase takes readers on an essential and visually stunning journey through the lives and intimate dramas of often-overlooked household appliances. A BOU T THE TOUR The tour for I Want to Be a Vase will take place from May 23rd to June 5th.  This tour is open to bookstagrammers in the USA and physical copies will be provided.  We usually expect reviews from participants but

                                 Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND ? Synopsis: Meet Luis. He's out, he's proud ... and, although he doesn't know it yet, he's about to travel back in time to save a closeted student called Chaz from a tragic end.  All Luis Gonzalez really wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend. But when a hit on the head knocks him back in time to 1985, he finds himself in high school with his own parents and a whole lot of homophobia. It turns out a Christian school in the 1980s probably isn't the safest place to be a gay kid. Soon, Luis is in over his head trying to untangle the mess he's in, figure how to save Chaz ... and somehow get home to his own time. Get ready for an irresistible YA novel that puts an Own Voices twist on Back to the Future. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuiston, this hilarious, intersectional time-slip adventure will make you laugh, cry and

                                Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL ? Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers drawing attention for her killer eyeliner, not for being the new kid at a mostly white, very rich, Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she's gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way. After being outed by her crush and ex-best friend, she could use the fresh start. At Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: make her mom proud, keep her brother out of trouble, and most importantly, don't fall in love. Granted, she's never been great at any of those things, but that’s a problem for Future Yami. The thing is, it’s hard to fake being straight when Bo, the only openly queer girl at school, is so annoyingly perfect. And smart. And talented. And cute. Either way, Yami isn’t going to make the same mistake again. If word got back to her mom, she could face a lot worse than rejectio

                                Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  NOTHING BURNS AS BRIGHT AS YOU ? Synopsis: A thrilling, heartbreaking page-turner, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship from New York Times best-selling author Ashley Woodfolk.   Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end? A BOU T THE TOUR The tour for Nothing Burns as Bright As You will take place from May 16th to May 29th.  This tour is open to bookstagramm

                                Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS ? Synopsis: In a world where girls and women are taught to be quiet, the dragons inside them are about to be set free...  In this timely and timeless speculative novel, set in 1950s America, Kelly Barnhill exposes a world that wants to keep girls and women small - and examines what happens when they rise up.  Alex Green is four years old when she first sees a dragon. In her next-door neighbour's garden, in the spot where the old lady usually sits, is a huge dragon, an astonished expression on its face before it opens its wings and soars away across the rooftops.  And Alex doesn't see the little old lady after that. No one mentions her. It's as if she's never existed.  Then Alex's mother disappears, and reappears a week later, one quiet Tuesday, with no explanation whatsoever as to where she has been. But she is a ghostly shadow of her former self, and

                               Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  THE DANCE TREE ? Synopsis: In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city. First it is just one – a lone figure, dancing in the main square – but she is joined by more and more and the city authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in. The devil will be danced out of these women. Just beyond the city’s limits, pregnant Lisbet lives with her mother-in-law and husband, tending the bees that are their livelihood. Her best friend Ida visits regularly and Lisbet is so looking forward to sharing life and motherhood with her. And then, just as the first woman begins to dance in the city, Lisbet’s sister-in-law Nethe returns from six years’ penance in the mountains for an unknown crime. No one – not even Ida – will tell Lisbet what Nethe did all those years ago, and Nethe herself will not speak a word about it. It is the beginning of a few w

                              Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  His WildFlower ? Synopsis: What is destiny? Do we have the power to change the course of our lives, or are we forever bound by fates formulated by the algorithm of being? And coincidences – are they merely fluke occurrences or are they the results of a planned chain reaction? That is the story of a man who has run away from his past, and another who is running from himself. Pursued by their own demons, the unlikely pair collide fiercely with judgements and misunderstandings. From enemies to lovers, the pair journey on a path to discover truths that they have been denied. But are they ready to face them? Who is the hero and who is the villain in their story? And what is their destiny…? ‘There’s ugliness in beauty, but there’s also beauty in ugliness’ ‘We may be monsters, but we are each other’s monsters’ A dark, slow burn,  suspenseful  and action-filled dystopian sci-fi  fantasy  with drama, myste

                              Would you like to participate in  the bookstagram tour for  I KISSED SHARA WHEELER ? Synopsis: From the bestselling New York Times bestselling author of Red, White and Royal Blue and One Last Stop comes a debut YA romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need . . .  Chloe Green has spent the past four years dodging gossipy, classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that's kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal's perfect daughter.  But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.  On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she's not the only one Shara kissed. There's also Smith, Shara's longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara's bad boy neighbour with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must