About The Baker’s Daughter • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Broadway (August 14, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Carolina De Robertis, author of Perla, on tour May 2012
About Perla • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Knopf (March 27, 2012) Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires with a polished yet aloof mother and a straight-laced Naval officer father, whose profession she learned early not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. […]
Charles Todd, author of An Unmarked Grave, on tour June 2012
About An Unmarked Grave • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (June 5, 2012) World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford matches wits with a devious killer in this exciting and suspenseful adventure from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd In the spring of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic spreads, killing […]
Ann Blumenthal Jacobs, Patricia Ryan Lampl, and Tish Rabe, authors of Love for Grown-Ups, on tour May 2012
About Love for Grown-Ups • Paperback: 240 pages • Publisher: Harlequin (July 19, 2011) Ann Blumenthal Jacobs, Patricia Ryan Lampl and Tish Rabe are “The Garter Brides.” Why do they call themselves The Garter Brides? Because they all got married after the age of thirty-five, and each bride wore the same lucky garter at her […]
Devon Pearse, author of A Lighter Shade of Gray, on tour June 2012
About A Lighter Shade of Gray • Paperback: 470 pages • Publisher: Neverland Publishing Company (May 1, 2010) What does it feel like to stare into the face of madness? Or to anticipate your own? Would you drive away your only love? Could you pretend it didn’t matter? How far would you go to protect […]
Pamela Haag, author of Marriage Confidential, on tour June 2012
About Marriage Confidential • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 5, 2012) With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a “post-romantic” mood and a fair number of marriages end up “semi-happy.” It’s a world where the husbands of “workhorse wives” pursue the Having […]
Alafair Burke, author of Long Gone and Angel’s Tip, on tour May/June 2012
About Long Gone • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 22, 2012) After months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a trendy new Manhattan art gallery. According to Drew Campbell, the well-heeled corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy owner. Everything is […]
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on tour June 2012
About Beautiful Ruins • Hardcover:352 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 12, 2012) The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea—blue as his eyes—and sees a vision: a slender blonde woman, a vision in […]
Out of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis, on tour April 2012
About Out of the Silent Planet • File Size: 365 KB • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis’s timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, […]
Debbie Ford, author of Courage, on tour May/June 2012
About Courage • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) “In this insightful book, my friend and colleague Debbie Ford has detailed a very inspiring and pragmatic blueprint for living a courageous life…. In between the covers of the book you hold in your hand is a thorough delineation of all that you […]