About Girl Runner • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 3, 2015) An unforgettable novel about competition, ambition, and a woman’s struggle to earn a place in a man’s world, Girl Runner is the story of 1928 Olympic gold medalist Aganetha Smart. Will Aganetha’s undeniable talent help her to outrun the social conventions of […]
Archives for January 21, 2015
T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville, on tour February 2015
About Welcome to Braggsville • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 17, 2015) From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ‘Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic […]
John Burley, author of The Forgetting Place, on tour February 2015
About The Forgetting Place • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 10, 2015) Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients—committed by Maryland’s judicial […]
Lou Berney, author of The Long and Faraway Gone, on tour February 2015
About The Long and Faraway Gone • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 10, 2015) In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were brutally killed in an armed robbery. Then a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five […]