About First You Try Everything • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 17, 2012) An engrossing tale of a marriage that’s falling apart and a wife who will stop at nothing to keep it together. From their early days in college, Evvie and Ben were drawn to each other by feelings of isolation stemming […]
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, on tour February 2012
About Cinderella Ate My Daughter • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher:Harper Paperbacks (January 31, 2012) The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from […]
Tamara Chalabi, author of Late for Tea at the Deer Palace, on tour February 2012
About Late for Tea at the Deer Palace Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the homeland she’d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family’s history […]
Jane Harris, author of Gillespie and I, on tour February 2012
About Gillespie and I • Paperback: 528 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 31, 2012) From the award-winning author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland. As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her […]
Lynda La Plante, author of the Prime Suspect series, on tour January, February, and March 2012
To celebrate the re-release of the Prime Suspect series, all three books will be on tour. About Prime Suspect • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (January 17, 2012) The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard’s investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay, two grim facts become immediately clear to her. […]
Michael O’Hanlon, author of The Wounded Giant, on tour February 2011
About The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity (An eSpecial from The Penguin Press) • Format: Kindle Edition • File Size: 1685 KB • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 15, 2011) America spends as much on its military as the rest of the world put together. But its share of global […]
Melissa Marr, author of Graveminder, on tour January/February 2012
About Graveminder • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 17, 2012) Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. While growing up, Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual at every funeral: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the […]
Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly, on tour May 2012
About The Year of the Gadfly • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012) Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls. A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris […]
Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes, on tour January 2012
About Little Princes Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) An astonishing testament to true courage, the transformative power of love, and the ability of one man to make a real difference. In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint […]
Sam Sommers, author of Situations Matter, on tour January 2012
About Situations Matter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (December 29, 2011) An “entertaining and engaging” exploration of the invisible forces influencing your life-and how understanding them can improve everything you do. The world around you is pulling your strings, shaping your innermost instincts and your most private thoughts. And you don’t even realize it. Every […]