About A Replacement Life Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper (June 3, 2014) A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, ”didn’t suffer in […]
Mary Vensel White, author of The Qualities of Wood, on tour May/June 2014
About The Qualities of Wood • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Authonomy (June 17, 2014) When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his young wife take a break from city life to prepare the house for sale. Nowell Gardiner leaves first to begin work on his second mystery novel. By the time his […]
Mhairi McFarlane, author of Here’s Looking at You, on tour May/June 2014
About Here’s Looking at You • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Avon (June 3, 2014) Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the […]
Sara Shepard, author of The Heiresses, on tour May/June 2014
About The Heiresses • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 20, 2014) You know the Saybrooks. Everyone does. Perhaps you’ve read a profile of them in People or have seen their pictures in the society pages of Vogue. Perhaps while walking along that choice block on Fifth Avenue, you’ve been tempted to enter the ornate limestone building with their family […]
Joanna Clapps Herman, author of No Longer and Not Yet, on tour July 2014
About No Longer and Not Yet • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Excelsior Editions (March 1, 2014) A collection of short stories about the city at its best: a human place, teeming with unique souls that somehow, serendipitously, come together in community, spin apart, find one another again.” – Rockland County Times The interconnected short stories in No […]
Lisa O’Donnell, author of Closed Doors, on tour May/June 2014
About Closed Doors • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 20, 2014) In this tense and brilliant tale from the national bestselling author of The Death of Bees, a young boy on a small Scottish island, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, discovers that a secret can be a dangerous thing. Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Care and Management of Lies, on tour May/June 2014
About The Care and Management of Lies • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 1, 2014) The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant […]
Georgia Bockoven, author of Return to the Beach House, on tour May 2014
About Return to the Beach House • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 13, 2014) Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockoven’s The Beach House andAnother Summer Alison arrives […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for May 2014
__________________________________________________ Book clubs will enjoy the wonderfully layered saga of suspense, betrayal, and redemption in The Orphans of Race Point. The Orphans of Race Point by Patry Francis Set in the close-knit Portuguese community of Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Orphans of Race Point traces the relationship between Hallie Costa and Gus Silva, who meet as children in the wake of […]
Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, authors of The Tilted World, on tour June 2014
About The Tilted World • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 10, 2014) Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author […]