About The Bookie’s Son Paperback: 248 pages Publisher: (sixoneseven) books (May 1, 2012) In 1960, as a way to pay off some of his debt, the bookie, Harry Davis, starts collecting loan payments for the Bronx gangster, Nathan Glucksman. Making his rounds, Harry visits a sweet tailor named Morris, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Whether […]
Archives for July 2012
Patricia Harman, author of The Midwife of Hope River, on tour August/September 2012
About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, author of Before the Rain, on tour August 2012
About Before the Rain • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 7, 2012) In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]
Tom Ryan, author of Following Atticus, on tour August 2012
About Following Atticus • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 7, 2012) After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s […]
Giles Kristian, author of Blood Eye: Raven, Book 1, on tour
About Blood Eye (Raven, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Bantam (August 28, 2012) In a thrilling adventure of brotherhood, warfare, and treachery, Giles Kristian takes us into ninth-century England, a world of darkness, epic conflict, and an unforgiving God served by powerful priests. On ships shaped like dragons, bristling with oars and armor, Jarl […]
Tahmima Anam, author of The Good Muslim, on tour August 2012
About The Good Muslim • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 14, 2012) In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. Almost a decade later, Sohail’s sister, Maya, returns home after […]
Laura Lippman, author of And When She Was Good, on tour August/September 2012
About And When She Was Good • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 14, 2012) Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. When Hector Lewis told his daughter […]
Yvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, on tour August 2012
About A Cupboard Full of Coats • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Amistad; Original edition (July 31, 2012) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, Jinx has spent the years since her mother’s death alone, estranged from her husband, withdrawn from her son, and entrenched in a childhood home filled […]
Peter and Cheryl Barnes, authors of Woodrow for President, on tour August 2012
About Woodrow for President • Reading level: Ages 5 and up • Hardcover: 32 pages • Publisher: Little Patriot Press (May 21, 2012) Written and illustrated by bestselling authors Peter and Cheryl Barnes, this adorable children’s book explains the presidential election process from start to finish. Woodrow for President is the story of Woodrow G. Washingtail, a little mouse whose parents […]