About Lineup • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 3, 2013) International bestselling author Liad Shoham makes his American debut in this compelling, superbly plotted crime thriller. After a brutal rape disturbs a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, baffled detectives find no clues, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. The father of the shattered victim refuses to rest until justice […]
John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted, on tour September 2013
About Help for the Haunted • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon […]
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, on tour September 2013
About The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) “Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?” How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly […]
Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, on tour November 2013
About This is the Story of a Happy Marriage • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 5, 2013) Ann Patchett’s novels have been feats of imagination—from the tale of an opera singer held hostage inside a vice presidential mansion, to a forgotten tribe along the banks of the Amazon river—she has created entire worlds for the reader to […]
Wally Lamb, author of We Are Water, on tour October/November 2013
About We Are Water • Hardcover: 576 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 22, 2013) In middle age, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Anna has fallen in love with Vivica, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success. Anna and Viveca plan […]
Mitch Albom, author of The First Phone Call From Heaven, on tour November/December 2013
About The First Phone Call From Heaven • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 12, 2013) One autumn day, in a small town on Lake Michigan, the phones begin ringing. The people calling are all deceased. They talk about heaven. They say they are safe and happy. Each call is greeted differently—some with relief, some with love, some […]
Joanna Trollope, author of Sense & Sensibility, on tour October/November 2013
About Sense & Sensibility • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 29, 2013) John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half-sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood’s daughters. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, […]
Ovidia Yu, author of Aunty Lee’s Delights, on tour September 2013
About Aunty Lee’s Delights • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 17, 2013) This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore’s “tai tai,” an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a […]
Attica Locke, author of The Cutting Season, on tour September 2013
About The Cutting Season • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 17, 2013) Caren Gray manages Louisiana’s stately Belle Vie, an antebellum plantation-turned-tourist attraction where the past and the present coexist uneasily. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation snaps up sugarcane fields from struggling families, replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when a female migrant […]
Michael Chabon, author of Telegraph Avenue, on tour September 2013
About Telegraph Avenue • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 10, 2013) As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva […]