About All You Could Ask For • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 3, 2013) Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart for fifteen years. Samantha’s newlywed bliss is steam-rolled when she finds shocking evidence of infidelity on her husband’s computer. Katherine works eighteen hours a day for the man who irreparably shattered her […]
Lacy Crawford, author or Early Decision, on tour August/September 2013
About Early Decision • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 27, 2013) A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the “application whisperer” is […]
Choire Sicha, author of Very Recent History, on tour August 2013
About Very Recent History • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 6, 2013) What will the future make of us? In one of the greatest cities in the world, the richest man in town is the Mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season’s fashion trends, even as the country’s economy turns inside out and workers are […]
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Human Remains, on tour August/September 2013
About Human Remains • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 20, 2013) New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes returns with a disturbing and powerful tale that preys on our darkest fears. Police analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work and the needs of her aging mother keep her busy. But Annabel is shocked […]
Michael Perry, author of Visiting Tom, on tour August/September 2013
About Visiting Tom • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 12, 2013) From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life. What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his […]
Michael Hurley, author of The Prodigal, on tour October 2013
About The Prodigal For 2,000 years, Christendom has believed that faith and penitence are the narrow gates through which all who seek heaven must pass, and that the church on Earth holds the key. What if a forgotten relic and an abandoned ship thought to have been lost at sea more than a century ago […]
Jennifer Zobair, author of Painted Hands, on tour September 2013
About Painted Hands • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition (June 11, 2013) Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural expectations, and […]
Yangsze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride, on tour August 2013
About The Ghost Bride • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 6, 2013) A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride. . . . […]
Regina Calcaterra, author of Etched in Sand, on tour August 2013
About Etched in Sand • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (August 6, 2013) In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets—and how she and her savvy crew of homeless siblings managed to survive years of homelessness, abandonment, and […]
Lenore and Daniel Jennewein, authors of Chick-o-Saurus Rex, on tour August 2013
About Chick-o-Saurus Rex • Age Range: 4 – 8 years • Hardcover: 32 pages • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (July 23, 2013) Book summary: About Lenore and Daniel Jennewein Daniel Jennewein is the illustrator of several picture books for children, including Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?, written by Audrey Vernick. Chick-O-Saurus Rex is his first collaboration […]