Emily Perkins, author of The Forrests, on tour August 2012

| May 22, 2012

About The Forrests Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (August 7, 2012) For fans of Zoë Heller and Zadie Smith, a vibrant and vital novel about the way family—with its dysfunctional bonds, sibling love, and rivalry—enduringly defines us. Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From [...]

Emma Sweeney, author of As Always, Jack, on tour July 2012

| May 18, 2012

About As Always, Jack • Publisher: Axios Press In the days just after the end of World War Two, a young Texas Navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl just before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with [...]

Hannah Tunnicliffe, author of The Color of Tea, on tour July/August 2012

| May 18, 2012

About The Color of Tea Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Scribner; Original edition (June 5, 2012) Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace.  It was time to find a life for myself.  To make something out of nothing.  The end of hope and the beginning of it too. [...]

Christian Hosoi, author of Hosoi, on tour June/July 2012

| May 16, 2012

About Hosoi • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (June 12, 2012) Raised at the legendary Marina Del Rey Skatepark—where his father was the manager and the Dogtown and Z-Boys crew were his mentors—Christian Hosoi never questioned that he would become a full-time skateboarder. But no one could have predicted his meteoric rise to the apex of a burgeoning [...]

Stephen Prothero, author of The American Bible, on tour June/July 2012

| May 16, 2012

About The American Bible • Hardcover: 544 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (May 29, 2012) Since Thomas Jefferson first recorded those self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen Prothero reveals which texts continue to generate controversy [...]