About The Good Muslim • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 14, 2012) In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. Almost a decade later, Sohail’s sister, Maya, returns home after […]
Yvette Edwards, author of A Cupboard Full of Coats, on tour August 2012
About A Cupboard Full of Coats • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Amistad; Original edition (July 31, 2012) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Plagued by guilt, paralyzed by shame, Jinx has spent the years since her mother’s death alone, estranged from her husband, withdrawn from her son, and entrenched in a childhood home filled […]
Peter and Cheryl Barnes, authors of Woodrow for President, on tour August 2012
About Woodrow for President • Reading level: Ages 5 and up • Hardcover: 32 pages • Publisher: Little Patriot Press (May 21, 2012) Written and illustrated by bestselling authors Peter and Cheryl Barnes, this adorable children’s book explains the presidential election process from start to finish. Woodrow for President is the story of Woodrow G. Washingtail, a little mouse whose parents […]
Liz Carlyle, author of The Bride Wore Pearls, on tour August 2012
About The Bride Wore Pearls • Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Avon (July 31, 2012) Beneath the elegant façade of Victorian high society, the mysterious men of the St. James Society play only by rules of danger and desire. Rance Welham, the Earl of Lazonby, has survived scandal and disgrace, even evading the Queen’s justice at the […]
Lucy Wood, author of Diving Belles: And Other Stories, on tour August 2012
About Diving Belles: And Other Stories • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Mariner Books (August 7, 2012) In the tradition of Angela Carter, this luminous, spellbinding debut reinvents the stuff of myth. Straying husbands lured into the sea by mermaids can be fetched back, for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true. Houses creak and keep […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The World We Found, on tour August 2012
To celebrate the release of the paperback of The World We Found, two backlist titles will also be on tour: The Weight of Heaven and The Space Between Us. About The World We Found • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 31, 2012) As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta […]
Cecelia Ahern, author of The Book of Tomorrow, on tour July/August 2012
About The Book of Tomorrow • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 24, 2012) Raised in the lap of luxury, spoiled and tempestuous sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin has never had to think about tomorrow. But when her world is irrevocably shaken by her father’s self-imposed death, she and her mother are left drowning in debt and forced […]
Emily Arsenault, author of Miss Me When I’m Gone, on tour August 2012
About Miss Me When I’m Gone • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 31, 2012) Author Gretchen Waters made a name for herself with her bestseller Tammyland—a memoir about her divorce and her admiration for country music icons Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton that was praised as a “honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love.” But her […]
Lou Berney, author of Whiplash River, on tour August 2012
About Whiplash River • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 10, 2012) Having left his life of crime behind, former getaway driver Charles “Shake” Bouchon has finally realized the dream of owning his own restaurant in Belize. Unfortunately, to do so he’s had to go deep in debt to a murderous local drug lord […]
David Crist, author of The Twilight War, on tour July/August 2012
About The Twilight War • Hardcover:656 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 19, 2012) The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in […]