About The Color of Tea Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Scribner; Original edition (June 5, 2012) Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace. It was time to find a life for myself. To make something out of nothing. The end of hope and the beginning of it too. […]
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. […]
Kristina Riggle, author of Keepsake, on tour June/July 2012
About Keepsake • Paperback:384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (June 26, 2012) From the critically acclaimed author of Real Life & Liars and Things We Didn’t Say comes a timely and provocative novel that asks: What happens when the things we own become more important than the people we love? Trish isn’t perfect. She’s […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2012 on tour
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 10, 2012) Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and […]