About City of Hope • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (June 25, 2013) The heartrending and inspiring sequel to Ellis Island, Kate Kerrigan’s City of Hope is an uplifting story of a woman truly ahead of her time When her beloved husband suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York, […]
Marjan Kamali, author of Together Tea, on tour June/July 2013
About Together Tea • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Ecco; Original edition (May 21, 2013) Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s endless matchmaking and grading of available Iranian American bachelors. After Darya’s last ill-fated attempt to find Mina a husband, mother and […]
Laura Lippman, author of And When She Was Good, on tour June 2013
About And When She Was Good • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) In the comfortable suburb where Heloise Lewis lives, she’s just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she’s […]
Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion of Separateness, on tour June/July 2013
About The Illusion of Separateness • Hardcover: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 11, 2013) The characters in Simon Van Booy’s The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in a chain we cannot see. This gripping novel— […]
Pamela Moore, author of Chocolates for Breakfast, on tour June/July 2013
About Chocolates for Breakfast • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (June 25, 2013) Courtney Farrell is a disaffected, sexually precocious fifteen-year-old. She splits her time between Manhattan, where her father works in publishing, and Los Angeles, where her mother is a still-beautiful Hollywood actress. After a boarding-school crush on a female teacher ends badly, […]
Shohreh Aghdashloo, author of The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines, on tour June 2013
About The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Oscar nominee and Emmy Award–winning actress Shohreh Aghdashloo shares her remarkable personal journey—from a childhood in the Shah’s Iran to the red carpets of Hollywood—in this dazzling memoir of family, faith, revolution, and hope. Enchanted by the movies she watched while […]
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Flight Behavior, on tour June 2013
About Flight Behavior • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with […]
Alafair Burke, author of If You Were Here, on tour June 2013
About If You Were Here • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Magazine journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale—the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures […]
Lionel Shriver, author of Big Brother, on tour June 2013
About Big Brother • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a striking new novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa […]
Lisa White, author of Discovery, on tour July 2013
About Discovery • File Size: 374 KB • Print Length: 249 pages • Publisher: Crimson Romance (April 22, 2013) WHAT IS YOUR POWER? Grace Mackay thought she was normal, a little shy maybe, but no less normal than any other struggling young waitress. But she did not know about the secretive Powers world. She did not know she was the only […]