About The Killing of Mindi Quintana Hardcover – 256 pages Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. More than his life in corporate America bondage. More than selling china to bluebloods in Philadelphia’s landmark department store, Chanet’s. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only, onlyan occasion to rise to. And now that occasion is […]
Archives for February 2010
Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, on tour April 2010
About The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott In her debut novel, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Kelly O’Connor McNees deftly mixes fact and fiction as she imagines a summer lost to history, carefully purged from Louisa’s letters and journals, a summer that would change the course of Louisa’s writing career—and inspire the […]
Karen White, author of On Folly Beach, on tour May 2010
About On Folly Beach • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: NAL Trade (May 4, 2010) The latest Southern novel from the acclaimed bestselling and award-winning author of The Memory of Water. To most people, Folly Beach, South Carolina, is simply the last barrier island before the Atlantic. To some, it’s a sanctuary, which is why […]
Suzie Gilbert, author of Flyaway, on tour March/April 2010
About Flyaway In this captivating memoir, Suzie Gilbert tells the rollicking story of how she turned her family life upside down to pursue her unusual passion for rehabilitating wild birds. Through adolescence and into adulthood, Suzie Gilbert struggled to find her calling. But when she took a job working at the animal hospital near her […]
Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad, on tour April 2010
About South of Broad Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well […]
Dr. Sean Kenniff, author of Etre the Cow, on tour April 2010
About Etre the Cow Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: HCI (April 1, 2010) Humiliated by his hoofed legs, the flies on his haunches, and the grass in his mouth, a bull named Etre tells his tender and thought-provoking story about the brutal insignificance of cow life at Gorwell Farm. In a world where the line between […]
Bruce Frankel, author of What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life, on tour March 2010
About What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life: True Stories of Finding Success, Passion, and New Meaning in the Second Half of Life Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Avery (March 4, 2010) It is a common refrain. Be it an impending retirement or the fear of growing older, many of us find ourselves […]