About Bullied • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (August 14, 2012) Carrie Goldman became an unexpected voice for the antibullying movement after her blog post about her daughter Katie’s bullying experience went viral and an online community of support generated international attention. In Bullied, Goldman brings together the expertise of leading authorities with the candid accounts of families dealing […]
Archives for August 2012
Georgia Bockoven, author of Things Remembered, on tour October 2012
About Things Remembered • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 16, 2012) To face the future, a woman must let go of the past. . . . Returning to her childhood home in the golden hills of Northern California means regret and pain for Karla Esterbrook. Yet she can’t refuse when her ailing grandmother, Anna, asks […]
Jenn Ashworth, author of Cold Light, on tour October 2012
About Cold Light • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 16, 2012) I’m sitting on my couch, watching the local news. There’s Chloe’s parents, the mayor, the hangers on, all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. It’s ten years since Chloe and Carl drowned. You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. […]
Jill Dawson, author of Lucky Bunny, on tour November 2012
About Lucky Bunny Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Daring, clever, and alluring, Queenie Dove has spent a lifetime developing the skills of an accomplished thief. Born into a criminal family in London’s East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz, Queenie soon graduates from […]
Marilyn Yalom, author of How the French Invented Love, on tour October/November 2012
About How the French Invented Love • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 23, 2012) Oh, how the French love love! For hundreds of years, they have championed themselves as guides to the art de l’amour through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema. A French man or woman without amorous desire is considered defective, like someone missing the […]
Jessica Grose, author of Sad Desk Salad, on tour October 2012
About Sad Desk Salad • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 2, 2012) As a writer for Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women’s website, Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. She’s churning out several posts a day, and she saves her juiciest ones for blog prime time, when working women eat their sad desk […]
Courtney Miller Santo, author of The Roots of the Olive Tree, on tour August/September 2012
About The Roots of the Olive Tree • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 21, 2012) Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women—an unbroken line of daughters—living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to […]
Clare Clark, author of Beautiful Lies, on tour September/October 2012
About Beautiful Lies • Hardcover: 512 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (September 18, 2012) “A stirring and seductive novel.”—Economist London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art […]
Errol Morris, author of A Wilderness of Error, on tour September 2012
About A Wilderness of Error • Hardcover: 544 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (September 4, 2012) Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor, […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour August/September 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 21, 2012) The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New York’s Little […]