About 15 Seconds • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 10, 2012) 15 seconds can tear your life apart . . . Henry Steadman didn’t know what was about to hit him when he pulled up to a red light. A successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in town to deliver a keynote address […]
Julia Quinn, author of A Night Like This, on tour June/July 2012
About A Night Like This • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Avon (May 29, 2012) Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is . . . But she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge—in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet […]
Emma Sweeney, author of As Always, Jack, on tour July 2012
About As Always, Jack • Publisher: Axios Press In the days just after the end of World War Two, a young Texas Navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl just before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with […]
Christian Hosoi, author of Hosoi, on tour June/July 2012
About Hosoi • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (June 12, 2012) Raised at the legendary Marina Del Rey Skatepark—where his father was the manager and the Dogtown and Z-Boys crew were his mentors—Christian Hosoi never questioned that he would become a full-time skateboarder. But no one could have predicted his meteoric rise to the apex of a burgeoning […]
Stephen Prothero, author of The American Bible, on tour June/July 2012
About The American Bible • Hardcover: 544 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (May 29, 2012) Since Thomas Jefferson first recorded those self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen Prothero reveals which texts continue to generate controversy […]
Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, on tour June/July 2012
About The Flight of Gemma Hardy • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) Taken from her native Iceland to Scotland in the early 1950s when her widower father drowns at sea, young Gemma Hardy comes to live with her kindly uncle and his family. But his death leaves Gemma under the […]
J.J. Keeler, author of I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands, on tour July 2012
About I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands • Paperback: 170 pages • Publisher: Paragon House (March 1, 2012) I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD focuses on harming obsessions (fear of hurting oneself or others), rather than the traditional hand-washing compulsion normally associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and provides a candid look at the daily challenges faced […]
Natalie Serber, author of Shout Her Lovely Name, on tour June/July 2012
About Shout Her Lovely Name • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 26, 2012) Mothers and daughters ride the familial tide of joy, regret, loathing, and love in these stories of resilient and flawed women. In a battle between a teenage daughter and her mother, wheat bread and plain yogurt become weapons. […]
Ken Budd, author of The Voluntourist, on tour May 2012
About The Voluntourist • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 8, 2012) VOL·UN·TOUR·IST n. 1. A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself. 2. Someone who can only do it two weeks at a time. When Ken Budd was thirty-nine, his father collapsed after eighteen holes […]
Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, on tour June/July 2012
About My Dear I Wanted To Tell You • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) The lives of two very different couples—an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart—are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. […]