About Free Men • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 16, 2016) In 1788 three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama: Cat, an emotionally scarred white man; Bob, a garrulous black man fleeing slavery; and Istillicha, who seeks retribution after being edged out of his Creek town’s leadership. In […]
Gwendolyn Womack, author of The Memory Painter, on tour July 2016
About The Memory Painter • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Picador (July 5, 2016) What if there was a drug that could help you remember past lives? What if the lives you remembered could lead you to your one true love? What if you learned that, for thousands of years, a deadly enemy had conspired […]
Tamara Valentine, author of What the Waves Know, on tour February 2016
About What the Waves Know • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 9, 2016) “A beautifully written story of a daughter’s journey to find her voice, both literally and figuratively. Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a storyteller and a story dweller.”—Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple […]
February 2016 Book Club of the Month Contest
_____________________________ Southern Noir heads to the holy city of Charleston, South Carolina in this present day hard-boiled mystery. Burning Heat Burning Heat by David Burnsworth Brack Pelton, an Afghanistan War Veteran, steps out of a run down bar in the projects after a long night. Before he gets to his truck, he finds himself in the middle of […]
Diane Eickhoff, author of Clarina Nichols, on tour March 2016
About Clarina Nichols • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Quindaro Press (March 1, 2016) In 1827, when Clarina was a teenager, she remembers, “I had a longing desire to do good.” But America wasn’t ready for an ambitious, intelligent young woman. Clarina was supposed to get married and start a family. But her husband turned […]
Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of The Golden Son, on tour January/February 2016
About The Golden Son • Hardcover: 408 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (January 26, 2016) The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends—a young doctor and a newly married bride—must balance the expectations […]
Sarah McCoy, author of The Mapmaker’s Children, on tour February 2016
About The Mapmaker’s Children • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Broadway Books (February 9, 2016) Have you ever wondered if your decisions could change the course of history? Questioned whether or not bad things happen for a reason? In Sarah McCoy’s THE MAPMAKER’S CHILDREN: A Novel (in paperback February 9, 2016), two women’s lives are inextricably linked […]
Aidan Donnelley Rowley, author of The Ramblers, on tour February 2016
About The Ramblers • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 9, 2016) For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of […]
Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens, on tour February 2016
About Private Citizens • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 9, 2016) “Acrobatic language, dead-on observations, and hilarious, heartbreaking storytelling.”—Angela Flournoy, National Book Award finalist and author of The Turner House Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century—call […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2016
_____________________________ Can secrets be our own undoing? Disclaimer Disclaimer by Renée Knight “Sensationally good psychological suspense. . . . exactly what a great thriller should be.”—Lee Child What if you realized the terrifying book you were reading was all about you? When a mysterious novel appears at Catherine Ravenscroft’s bedside, she is curious. She has […]