About Endangered • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Amistad (July 1, 2014) To save her son from a legal system bent on sending African American men to jail, a young mother agrees to an unprecedented, controversial defense offered up from a team of crack lawyers, in this debut novel that speaks to race, class, and justice in America. […]
Michaela Carter, author of Further Out Than You Thought, on tour August 2014
About Further Out Than You Thought • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 5, 2014) From award-winning poet Michaela Carter comes a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about three twentysomethings searching for meaning in their lives In the Neverland that is Los Angeles, where make-believe […]
Stephanie Evanovich, author of The Sweet Spot, on tour July 2014
About The Sweet Spot • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 8, 2014) From New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Evanovich comes another rollicking, sexy story of just how far a couple will go to find true love—and keep it sizzling! When pro baseball player Chase Walker first meets restaurateur Amanda Cole, it’s love at first sight. But […]
Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, on tour July 2014
About Waking Up White • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Elephant Room Press (January 9, 2014) On the heels of a year when films such Django, The Butler, and 12 Years a Slave have made real the lived experience of black Americans, Waking Up White exposes critical aspects of the white experience. White people are thirsting for clarity […]
Deborah Lawrenson, author of The Sea Garden, on tour June/July 2014
About The Sea Garden • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (6/24/2014) Three stories rich in drama and steeped in atmosphere are linked by a single mystery in this spellbinding novel of love and loss in the fog of war. The Sea Garden On the lush Mediterranean island of Porquerolles off the French coast, Ellie Brooke, […]
Alafair Burke, author of All Day and a Night, on tour June 2014
About All Day and a Night • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 10, 2014) A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and an NYPD homicide detective into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from “one of the finest young crime writers working today” […]
Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing, on tour June 2014
About Elizabeth is Missing • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 10, 2014) In this darkly riveting debut novel, a sophisticated psychological mystery, one woman will stop at nothing to find her best friend, who seems to have gone missing. . . . Despite Maud’s growing anxiety about Elizabeth’s welfare, no one takes her concerns seriously—not her […]
Ned Hayes, author of Sinful Folk, on tour August 2014
About Sinful Folk • Paperback: 362 pages • Publisher: Campanile Books (January 22, 2014) Sinful Folk is the new historical novel from Ned Hayes, with cover and internal illustrations by New York Times bestselling illustrator and author Nikki McClure. Like Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent and Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders, Sinful Folk retells history from the perspective of a […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2014
__________________________________________________ Book clubs will enjoy unfolding a passionate affair as they swirl through the classical music world in Sight Reading Sight Reading by Daphne Kalotay On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Though their meeting might seem insignificant, Remy, a gifted violinist, […]
Amy Andrews, author of Risky Business, on tour July 2014
About Risky Business • Publisher: Escape Publishing From bestselling author Amy Andrews comes a new single-title romance about putting pleasure before business, and the risks we all need to take when we find someone worth risking everything for. Samantha Evans’s life is going to hell. Not only has she rage-quit her beloved, high-powered job, but […]