About The Story of Land and Sea • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 26, 2014) Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave—characters who yearn for redemption amid a heady […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Story Hour, on tour August/September 2014
About The Story Hour • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014) From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, love, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she agrees to treat a young Indian […]
Joshilyn Jackson, author of Someone Else’s Love Story, on tour August/September 2014
About Someone Else’s Love Story • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 5, 2014) For single mom Shandi Pierce, life is a juggling act. She’s finishing college, raising precocious three-year-old Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents.Then she gets caught in the middle of a stickup at a gas […]
Courtney Miller Santo, author of Three Story House, on tour August 2014
About Three Story House • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 19, 2014) As they renovate a historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel reminiscent of The Postmistress and The Secret Life of Bees. Approaching thirty and […]
Justin Taylor, author of Flings, on tour August/September 2014
About Flings • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014) In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is […]
Laura Lippman, author of After I’m Gone, on tour August 2014
About After I’m Gone • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 12, 2014) Dead is dead. Missing is gone.. When Felix Brewer vanishes on July 4, 1976, to avoid serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for mail fraud, he leaves behind five devastated women: his sophisticated wife, Bambi, their three lovely daughters, and his […]
Sarah Creech, author of Season of Dragonflies, on tour August 2014
About Season of the Dragonflies • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 12, 2014) For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured a fragrance unlike any other. Hidden in the quiet rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their perfumery guards unique and mysterious ingredients. A secret known only to a select clientele of movie stars, politicians, […]
Jim Snowden, author of The Summer of Long Knives, on tour September/October 2014
About The Summer of Long Knives Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Booktrope Editions (July 26, 2013) In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the […]
Liz Rosenberg, author of The Moonlight Palace, on tour October 2014
About The Moonlight Palace Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 1, 2014) Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over […]
Lynne Hugo, author of A Matter of Mercy, on tour September 2014
About A Matter of Mercy Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (August 1, 2014) Caroline Marcum thought she’d escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home […]