About Scent of Butterflies Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (January 7, 2014) Betrayal, forgiveness, identity and obsession churn against the tumultuous landscape of the Islamic revolution and seemingly perfect gardens of southern California in this compelling novel from bestselling author Dora Levy Mossanen. Amidst a shattering betrayal and a country in turmoil, Soraya flees Iran to make a […]
Gerard Kelly, author of The Boy Who Loved Rain, on tour February/March 2015
About The Boy Who Loved Rain • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Lion Fiction (January 27, 2015) Colom had the perfect childhood, the much-loved only child of a church pastor. Yet he wakes screaming from dreams in which his sister is drowning and he can’t save her. Fiona turns to her husband, desperate to help […]
Lynne Hugo, author of A Matter of Mercy, on tour January 2015
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 […]
Tatjana Soli, author of The Last Good Paradise, on tour February 2015
About The Last Good Paradise Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (February 10, 2015) From New York Times bestselling author, Tatjana Soli, comes The Last Good Paradise… On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they’ve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to […]
Kevin Fortuna, author of The Dunning Man, on tour November 2014
About The Dunning Man • Paperback: 140 pages • Publisher: Lavender Ink (October 19, 2014) The six stories in Kevin Fortuna’s hilarious and gripping debut story collection, The Dunning Man, feature anti-heroes who reject society’s rules, and often show a gritty, Irish American take on the worlds in which they live. Characters from all walks of life—a […]
Ellen Hawley, author of The Divorce Diet, on tour January 2015
About The Divorce Diet Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Kensington (December 30, 2014) The Divorce Diet is dedicated to every woman who ever walked away from a relationship—or a diet. Abigail, an inspired cook and stay-at-home mother, decides to repair the problems in her marriage with a diet book for herself and an elaborate birthday dinner for her husband. […]
John Vanderslice, author of Island Fog, on tour January 2015
About Island Fog • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Lavender Ink (April 28, 2014) Island Fog is a thematic, novel-length collection of stories, all set on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Nantucket as we know it began as an English settlement relatively early in the colonial period of the United States. In the heyday of its nineteenth century success […]
David Nicholls, author of Us: A Novel, on tour October/November 2014
About Us: A Novel • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 28, 2014) David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when […]
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea, on tour August/September 2014
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 […]