About Close Your Eyes Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets. For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her […]
S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep, on tour June/July 2011
About Before I Go to Sleep • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 14, 2011) S. J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who […]
Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, on tour May/June 2011
About Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 17, 2011) In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas “32” Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of […]
Evan Fallenberg, author of When We Danced on Water, on tour May/June 2011
About When We Danced on Water • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 17, 2011) At eighty-five, Teo is ready to retire from the bombast and romance of life as one of the world’s most influential choreographers. But when he meets Vivi, a fortyish waitress at a Tel Aviv café, the fires of […]
Craig Robinson, author of A Game of Character, on tour May/June 2011
About A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (May 3, 2011) This inspirational memoir by Craig Robinson pays tribute to his parents, his coaches, and the lessons his experiences have taught him. Foreword by Marian Robinson When he stepped into history’s […]
Cheryl Robinson, author of Remember Me, on tour August 2011
About Remember Me Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: NAL Trade (August 2, 2011) What happens when the loyalty that defines the friendship of two women is tested? For Mia and Danielle, finding the answer takes a lifetime… Mia Marks is a black girl from inner-city Detroit with an eye for the hottest fashions and a penchant […]
Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Storm at the Door, on tour June/July 2011
About The Storm at the Door Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House (June 21, 2011) The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two […]
Lisa Grunwald, author of The Irresistible Henry House, on tour August 2011
About The Irresistible Henry House Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 16, 2011) It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, […]
Gail Caldwell, author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home, on tour August 2011
About Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail […]
Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit, on tour May/June 2011
About When God Was a Rabbit Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011) This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love […]