About This Life Is in Your Hands • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 10, 2012) A true story, both tragic and redemptive, This Life Is in Your Hands tells of the quest to make a good life, the role of fate, and the power of forgiveness. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman’s parents […]
Philip Delves Broughton, author of The Art of the Sale, on tour April 2012
About The Art of the Sale • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A revelatory examination of the elusive mix of talents that sparks successful selling and the essential role of sales in business, religion, romance, art, and every other corner of human experience. Sales permeates everything we do-not just moving product, […]
Kate Klise, author of In the Bag, on tour May 2012
About In the Bag • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 1, 2012) A European vacation. A luggage mix-up. A note from a secret admirer. Meet two single parents who think they’re too busy to date. And two teenagers who can’t stop writing flirty emails. This is a tale of connections—missed and […]
Laura Lippman, author of The Most Dangerous Thing, on tour May 2012
About The Most Dangerous Thing • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 1, 2012) Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget about the past—and the terrible lie they all […]
Khanh Ha, author of Flesh, on tour June/July 2012
About Flesh • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Black Heron Press (May 18, 2012) The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his […]
Lisa Bedford, author of Survival Mom, on tour April 2012
About Survival Mom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 13, 2012) Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe and Secure—No Matter What Undaunted by the prospect of TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It), Lisa Bedford tackles every what-if and worst-case scenario head-on, offering practical advice on how to […]
Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, on tour April 2012
About Narcopolis • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A fantastical portrait of the beautiful and damned residents of an opium den and brothel in the underworld of Bombay. Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story… […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, on tour April 2012
About The Shoemaker’s Wife • Hardcover: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 3, 2012) The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the […]
Cynthia Sass, author of S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim, on tour April 2012
About S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (March 20, 2012) Nutritionist Cynthia Sass, coauthor of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Flat Belly Diet!, delivers the ultimate weight loss plan in S.A.S.S. Yourself Slim: Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches. When Cynthia’s weight loss plan was first published last year, […]
Saima Wahab, author of In My Father’s Country, on tour April/May 2012
About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]