About Wishin’ and Hopin’ • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (November 2, 2010) Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella of warmth and joy. […]
Maira Kalman, author of And the Pursuit of Happiness, on tour October/November 2010
About And the Pursuit of Happiness • Hardcover: 480 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (October 14, 2010) Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, beloved artist and author Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., on inauguration day, launching a national tour that would take her from a town hall meeting in Newfane, Vermont, […]
Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets, on tour September 2010
About The Financial Lives of the Poets • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 7, 2010) The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, about how we get to the edge of ruin—and […]
Deborah Willis, author of Vanishing and Other Stories, on tour August/September 2010
About Vanishing and Other Stories • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 17, 2010) A finalist for the Governor General’s Awards, Vanishing and Other Stories is the stunning debut short story collection from Deborah Willis. Evocative and passionately written, Vanishing brilliantly explores emotional and physical absences; the ways in which people leave and […]
Janet Mullany, author of Jane and the Damned, on tour October 2010
About Jane and the Damned • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Avon A (September 28, 2010) In 1797, when aspiring novelist Jane Austen becomes one of the Damned, the beautiful, fashionable, sexy vampires of Georgian England, her family insists she takes the waters at Bath, the only known cure. But the city becomes a blood […]
Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Debutante, on tour October 2010
About The Debutante • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Avon A (October 5, 2010) A gifted artist, Cate has come to London from New York to escape her recent past. Working for her aunt’s auction house, she is sent down to Devon to value the contents of Endsleigh House, the once gracious but now crumbling […]
Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told me, on tour August/September 2010
About Lies My Mother Never Told Me • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (August 17, 2010) Her mother, Gloria, was a brainy knockout whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was James Jones, the award-winning author of From Here to Eternity and other acclaimed novels […]
Shandi Mitchell, author of Under This Unbroken Sky, on tour August/September 2010
About Under This Unbroken Sky • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 24, 2010) Spring 1937. Ukrainian immigrant Theo Mykolayenko returns to his wife, Maria, and their five children after nearly a year spent in prison—two hundred and seventy five days and nights, each a scratch on his cell wall—for the crime of […]
Kristina Riggle, author of The Life You’ve Imagined, on tour August/September 2010
About The Life You’ve Imagined • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Avon A (August 17, 2010) Is the life you’re living all you imagined? Have you ever asked yourself, “What if??” Here, four women face the decisions of their lifetimes in this stirring and unforgettable novel of love, loss, friendship, and family. Anna Geneva, a […]
Pamela Jane, author of A Vampire’s Coming to Dinner! 10 Rules to Follow, on tour October 2010
About A Vampire’s Coming to Dinner • Reading level: Ages 4-8 • Hardcover: 16 pages • Publisher: Price Stern Sloan (August 12, 2010) Read along as the narrator of this story comes up with some very practical rules for dealing with a vampire. But rules are meant to be broken, aren’t they? From feeding the […]