About Between a Rock and a Hot Place • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 21, 2012) As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone’s lips: “Fifty is the new thirty.” With a comedy writer’s training and a screenwriter’s eye for detail, Jackson skewers that […]
Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman, on tour February/March 2012
About The Pioneer Woman • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 14, 2011) “That’s when I saw him—the cowboy—across the smoky room.” I’ll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne western rolled into one. Out for a quick drink with friends, I […]
David Foenkinos, author of Delicacy, on tour February 2012
About Delicacy • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 14, 2012) Reminiscent of novels by Nick Hornby, Muriel Barbery, and Jonathan Tropper, internationally acclaimed novelist David Foenkinos delivers a heartfelt and deftly comedic tale of new love brightening the dark aftermath of loss—and of wounded hearts finding refuge in the strangest of places. After her […]
Mary Kay McComas, author of What Happened to Hannah, on tour February 2012
About What Happened to Hannah • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 7, 2012) As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old […]
Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life, on tour February 2012
About This Beautiful Life • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 7, 2012) When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately, their […]
S.J. Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep, on tour February 2012
About Before I Go To Sleep • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 7, 2012) Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you […]
Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, on tour February 2012
About The Flight of Gemma Hardy • Hardcover: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 24, 2012) When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of […]
Joan Frank, author of Make It Stay, on tour May 2012
About Make It Stay • Hardcover: 176 pages • Publisher: The Permanent Press (April 28, 2012) In the tree-nestled Northern California town of Mira Flores, writer Rachel (“an aging typist with an unprofitable hobby” and her Scottish husband Neil prepare dinner for a familiar “crew” of guests – among them Neil’s best friend, the burly, […]
Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter, on tour February 2012
About Russian Winter • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Arrow (5 Jan 2012) When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former Bolshoi Ballet star finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, and of the events that changed her life half a century earlier. It was in Russia that she […]
Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo, on tour February 2012
About Going Solo • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (February 2, 2012) A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom-the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone-that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change. Renowned sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg explores […]