Frank Delaney, author of Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, on tour March/April 2010

admin | February 12, 2010

About Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show

Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Random House (February 23, 2010)

“PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY on Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show
“This hybrid quest saga, bildungsroman, and grassroots view of Ireland in its post–civil war era is immersive and enjoyable, and it showcases Delaney’s talent for inventive metaphor, which he manipulates with an expert hand.””
“LIBRARY JOURNAL on Venetia Kelly’s [...]

Colum McCann, author of Let The Great World Spin, on tour May 2010

admin | January 14, 2010

About Let The Great World Spin
2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, [...]

Laurie Perry, author of Home is Where the Wine Is, on tour February 2010

admin | November 24, 2009

About Home is Where the Wine Is
She’s back. And quirkier than ever. In her debut narrative, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair, blogger extraordinaire Laurie Perry gave people a hilarious yet heartfelt glimpse into her misadventures as a recent divorcée with three cats, a slight wine and Cheetos problem, and scores of unfinished—and—uneven knitting [...]

Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, on tour January 2010

admin | October 29, 2009

About Shanghai Girls
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, [...]

Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, on tour December 2009/January 2010

admin | October 27, 2009

About Jennie
Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has four published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven (2005),  Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008), and now When She Flew (2009). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer has [...]