About Muckers Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (October 8, 2013) Sandra Neil Wallace’s debut historical fiction novel Muckers (Random House/Knopf; October 2013; ($16.99 U.S./$18.99 CAN.), is based on the true story of the 1950 Jerome Muckers football team and the championship season that rallied an Arizona town together and turned tragedy into a […]
Michael Chabon, author of Telegraph Avenue, on tour September 2013
About Telegraph Avenue • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 10, 2013) As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva […]
Rebecca Walker, author of Adé, on tour October/November 2013
About Adé: A Love Story Hardcover: 112 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (October 29, 2013) Known worldwide for her brilliant, frank memoirs, Rebecca Walker returns with a poetic, lushly written debut novel that is sure to garner major attention. Exploring the themes of memory, longing, passion, and loss, Walker gives us the story of […]
Jason Mott, author of The Returned, on tour September/October 2013
About The Returned Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (August 27, 2013) Jason Mott’s debut novel, The Returned (Harlequin MIRA; September 2013; $24.95 U.S./$27.95 CAN.), tells the haunting story of the world turned upside down when the departed come back from death, bringing joy and agony to those they left behind. A riveting high concept wrapped in […]
Jamie Ford, author of Songs of Willow Frost, on tour October 2013
About Songs of Willow Frost Publisher: Ballantine Books (Sept 10, 2013) Pages: 352 From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his […]
Austin Ratner, author of In the Land of the Living, on tour August/September 2013
About In the Land of the Living Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books (March 12, 2013) “A spiky tale of family…The characters are compelling, and the bonds between these brothers and fathers and sons are convincing and raw.” — Publishers Weekly The Auberons are a lovably neurotic, infernally intelligent family who love and hate each other […]
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— […]
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 […]
Derek Sherman, author of Race Across the Sky, on tour August 2013
About Race Across the Sky Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Plume (July 30, 2013) Caleb Oberest is an ultra marathon runner, who severed all ties to his family to race brutal 100-mile marathons across mountains. Shane Oberest is a sales rep for a cutting-edge biotechnology firm, creating new cures for the diseases of our time. Shane has […]
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 […]