About Dismantled Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto—”To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart”—these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts […]
Michael Perry, author of Coop, on tour May 2010
About Coop Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs […]
Aidan Donnelley Rowley, author of Life After Yes, on tour May/June 2010
About Life After Yes This is the story of Quinn—born Prudence Quinn O’Malley—a confused young Manhattan attorney who loses her father on that tragic September morning that changed everything. Now, at an existential crossroads in her life, Quinn must confront impossible questions about commitment and career, love and loss. Her idealistic beau desperately wants a […]
Jessica Stern, author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, on tour June/July 2010
About Denial: A Memoir of Terror Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Ecco (June 22, 2010) “DENIAL is one of the most important books I have read in a decade…[a] cogent meditation on the links between sexual sadism, humiliation and political terrorism. This is a groundbreaking book, in terms of how it shows that personal experience–especially the […]
Minrose Gwin, author of The Queen of Palmyra, on tour May 2010
About The Queen of Palmyra In the turbulent southern summer of 1963, Millwood’s white population steers clear of “Shake Rag,” the black section of town. Young Florence Forrest is one of the few who crosses the line. The daughter of a burial insurance salesman with dark secrets and the town’s “cake lady,” whose backcountry bootleg […]
John Sandford and the DAYS OF PREY Blog Tour – May 2010
We’re really excited about this tour and we think you will be, too! Fans of John Sandford’s #1 bestselling Prey series should know that the 20th mystery featuring Lucas Davenport, Storm Prey, will be hitting stores May 18, 2010. To celebrate the release of this newest book, we will be taking all 20 books on […]
Rebecca Wells, author of The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, on tour April/May 2010
About The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide and protect her throughout her […]
Gary Zukav, author of Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power, on tour April/May 2010
About Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power Human relationships used to be built around satisfying needs. In Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power (HarperOne: April 27, 2010; $24.99, hardcover), bestselling author Gary Zukav writes “the old type of relationship helped the old humanity survive by focusing the attention of participants outward onto circumstances […]
Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One, on tour April/May 2010
About God Is Not One God Is Not One is a major book in the tradition of classics like Karen Armstrong’s A History of God and Jack Miles’s God: A Biography. Author and religion scholar Stephen Prothero’s controversial follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy debunks the popular myth that all religions are […]
Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool, on tour April/May 2010
About Dead End Gene Pool In the tradition of Sean Wilsey’s Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough’s Running With Scissors, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. For generations the Burdens were one […]