About Marriage Confidential • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 5, 2012) With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a “post-romantic” mood and a fair number of marriages end up “semi-happy.” It’s a world where the husbands of “workhorse wives” pursue the Having […]
Archives for March 28, 2012
Alafair Burke, author of Long Gone and Angel’s Tip, on tour May/June 2012
About Long Gone • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 22, 2012) After months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a trendy new Manhattan art gallery. According to Drew Campbell, the well-heeled corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy owner. Everything is […]
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on tour June 2012
About Beautiful Ruins • Hardcover:352 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 12, 2012) The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea—blue as his eyes—and sees a vision: a slender blonde woman, a vision in […]
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis, on tour April 2012
About Out of the Silent Planet • File Size: 365 KB • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis’s timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, […]
Debbie Ford, author of Courage, on tour May/June 2012
About Courage • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) “In this insightful book, my friend and colleague Debbie Ford has detailed a very inspiring and pragmatic blueprint for living a courageous life…. In between the covers of the book you hold in your hand is a thorough delineation of all that you […]
Kate White, author of The Sixes, on tour June 2012
About The Sixes • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 5, 2012) Right after Phoebe Hall’s long-term boyfriend breaks off their relationship, she’s falsely accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to put her life back together, she jumps at the offer to teach in a small […]
Steve Coll, author of Private Empire, on tour May 2012
About Private Empire • Hardcover: 704 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (May 1, 2012) Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. […]
Katherine Webb, author of The Unseen, on tour May/June 2012
About The Unseen • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 22, 2012) From Katherine Webb, the author of the acclaimed international bestseller The Legacy, comes a compelling tale of love, deception, and illusion A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, […]
Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, on tour May 2012
About State of Wonder • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 8, 2012) In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain […]
Francine Prose, author of My New American Life, on tour May 2012
About My New American Life • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 8, 2012) Lula, a twenty-six-year-old Albanian woman living surreptitiously in New York City on an expiring tourist visa, hopes to make a better life for herself in America. When she lands a job caring for a rebellious high schooler in wealthy, […]