About A Far Piece to Canaan • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (May 28, 2013) Celebrated retired professor Samuel Zelinsky reluctantly leaves New Hampshire after his wife’s death to visit a farm in the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child. The son of sharecroppers, Samuel has long since left that life behind—yet now […]
Archives for May 6, 2013
Katherine Webb, author of A Half Forgotten Song, on tour May/June 2013
About A Half Forgotten Song • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) A spellbinding tale about the power of love, the danger of obsession, and the unfaithful nature of memory, A Half Forgotten Song is by turns haunting, joyous, and heartbreaking 1937. In a windswept village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher […]
Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Wonder Bread Summer, on tour May/June 2013
About The Wonder Bread Summer • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (May 28, 2013) It’s 1983 in Berkeley, California. Twenty-year-old Allie Dodgson is a straitlaced college student working part-time at a dress shop to make ends meet. But when the shop turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug-dealing business, Allie finds herself […]
Julie Thomas, author of The Keeper of Secrets, on tour May/June 2013
About The Keeper of Secrets • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) A priceless violin. A family torn apart. A decision that could change everything. Berlin, 1939. Fourteen-year-old Simon Horowitz is awash in a world of music. His family owns a superb collection of instruments and at its heart is his father’s […]
Lori Carson, author of The Original 1982, on tour May/June 2013
About The Original 1982 • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 28, 2013) It’s 1982, and Lisa is twenty-four years old, a waitress, an aspiring singer-songwriter, and the girlfriend to a famous musician. That year, she makes a decision, almost without thinking about it. But what would have happened if she had chosen […]
Meg Donohue, author of All the Summer Girls, on tour May/June 2013
About All the Summer Girls • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 21, 2013) In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old […]
Michael W. Clune, author of White Out, on tour July 2013
About White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin Softcover: 272 pp. Publisher: Hazelden Published Year: 2013 It is a desperate chase that lasts the rest of your addiction or your life, whichever ends first. After Michael Clune was introduced to drugs for the first time, his life became a series of ill-fated attempts to capture the ultimate high. […]