About The House Girl • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 5, 2013) Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action suit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. […]
Jane O’Connor, author of Almost True Confessions, on tour October 2013
About Almost True Confessions • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (October 1, 2013) This comic mystery set in the elite zip codes of Manhattan will leave you breathless . . . literally What could be more fun for a freelance copy editor than work- ing on a juicy tell-all about one of Manhattan’s most […]
Suzan Still, author of Fiesta of Smoke, on tour October 2013
About Fiesta of Smoke • Paperback: 524 pages • Publisher: The Story Plant (March 5, 2013) Against a backdrop of rebellion and intrigue, love between Javier Carteña, commander of insurgent Mexican forces, and Calypso Searcy, an American novelist at the pinnacle of her career, sizzles with passion across a broad sweep of history. Encompassing time from the Conquest of […]
Liad Shoham, author of Lineup, on tour September 2013
About Lineup • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 3, 2013) International bestselling author Liad Shoham makes his American debut in this compelling, superbly plotted crime thriller. After a brutal rape disturbs a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, baffled detectives find no clues, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. The father of the shattered victim refuses to rest until justice […]
John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted, on tour September 2013
About Help for the Haunted • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon […]
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, on tour September 2013
About The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) “Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?” How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly […]
Ann Patchett, author of This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, on tour November 2013
About This is the Story of a Happy Marriage • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 5, 2013) Ann Patchett’s novels have been feats of imagination—from the tale of an opera singer held hostage inside a vice presidential mansion, to a forgotten tribe along the banks of the Amazon river—she has created entire worlds for the reader to […]
Wally Lamb, author of We Are Water, on tour October/November 2013
About We Are Water • Hardcover: 576 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 22, 2013) In middle age, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Anna has fallen in love with Vivica, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success. Anna and Viveca plan […]
Mitch Albom, author of The First Phone Call From Heaven, on tour November/December 2013
About The First Phone Call From Heaven • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 12, 2013) One autumn day, in a small town on Lake Michigan, the phones begin ringing. The people calling are all deceased. They talk about heaven. They say they are safe and happy. Each call is greeted differently—some with relief, some with love, some […]
Joanna Trollope, author of Sense & Sensibility, on tour October/November 2013
About Sense & Sensibility • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 29, 2013) John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half-sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood’s daughters. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, […]