About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, author of Before the Rain, on tour August 2012
About Before the Rain • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (August 7, 2012) In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]
Tom Ryan, author of Following Atticus, on tour August 2012
About Following Atticus • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 7, 2012) After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s […]
Tahmima Anam, author of The Good Muslim, on tour August 2012
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 […]