About The Storm at the Door Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House (June 21, 2011) The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two […]
Lisa Grunwald, author of The Irresistible Henry House, on tour August 2011
About The Irresistible Henry House Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 16, 2011) It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, […]
Gail Caldwell, author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home, on tour August 2011
About Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail […]
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit, on tour May/June 2011
About When God Was a Rabbit Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011) This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love […]
Sarah Addison Allen, author of The Peach Keeper, on tour April/May 2011
About The Peach Keeper Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Bantam (March 22, 2011) The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as […]
Ellen Sussman, author of French Lessons, on tour July 2011
About French Lessons Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 12, 2011) A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning not just about language but also about love and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways. . […]
Lorna Graham, author of The Ghost of Greenwich Village, on tour June/July 2011
About The Ghost of Greenwich Village Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 28, 2011) In this charming fiction debut, a young woman moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement—only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor. […]
Hilary Thayer Hamann, author of Anthropology of an American Girl, on tour June/July 2011
About Anthropology of an American Girl Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) This is what it’s like to be a high-school-age girl. To forsake the boyfriend you once adored. To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher. To discover for the first time the power […]
John Burnham Schwartz, author of Northwest Corner, on tour July/August 2011
About Northwest Corner Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters in a superb new […]
You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz, MD and Rebecca Gladding, MD on tour June 2011
About You Are Not Your Brain: The 4 Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life: Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Avery (June 9, 2011) Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good. A leading neuroplasticity […]