About Things Remembered • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 16, 2012) To face the future, a woman must let go of the past. . . . Returning to her childhood home in the golden hills of Northern California means regret and pain for Karla Esterbrook. Yet she can’t refuse when her ailing grandmother, Anna, asks […]
Jenn Ashworth, author of Cold Light, on tour October 2012
About Cold Light • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 16, 2012) I’m sitting on my couch, watching the local news. There’s Chloe’s parents, the mayor, the hangers on, all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. It’s ten years since Chloe and Carl drowned. You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. […]
Jessica Grose, author of Sad Desk Salad, on tour October 2012
About Sad Desk Salad • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 2, 2012) As a writer for Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women’s website, Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. She’s churning out several posts a day, and she saves her juiciest ones for blog prime time, when working women eat their sad desk […]
Courtney Miller Santo, author of The Roots of the Olive Tree, on tour August/September 2012
About The Roots of the Olive Tree • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 21, 2012) Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women—an unbroken line of daughters—living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to […]
Monica McInerney, author of Lola’s Secret, on tour October/November 2012
About Lola’s Secret Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 16, 2012) Praised as “Australia’s answer to Maeve Binchy, a modern-day Jane Austen” (The Sun Herald, Australia), Monica McInerney, internationally bestselling author of The Alphabet Sisters, returns with a poignant novel of love, loss, and the enduring strength of family ties. Nestled in a picturesque corner […]
Susan Elia MacNeal, author of Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery, on tour October/November 2012
About Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Bantam (October 16, 2012) Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and […]
Vincent Lam, author of The Headmaster’s Wager, on tour September/October 2012
About The Headmaster’s Wager Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Hogarth (August 14, 2012) Percival Chen is the wealthy headmaster of the most respected English-language academy in Saigon in 1966. Chen is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He builds a rich life for himself and his […]
Caryl Rivers, author of Virgins, on tour October 2012
About Virgins • File Size: 638 KB • Print Length: 256 pages • Publisher: Diversion Books (June 3, 2012) For the seniors at Immaculate Heart High, hormones jousted with the quest for the State of Grace, and the hormones usually won. The Map of Forbidden Sexual Delights extended its boundaries nightly in the back seats of tail-finned cars. But the girls […]
Tina Connolly, author of Ironskin, on tour October 2012
About Ironskin Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (October 2, 2012) After establishing herself with her short fiction, Tina Connolly becomes a novelist to watch with her debut IRONSKIN (Tor Hardcover; $24.99; On-sale October 2, 2012)—a loose re-imagining of Jane Eyre set in the aftermath of a Great War between the humans and fey. […]
Clifford Garstang, author of What the Zhang Boys Know, on tour October 2012
About What the Zhang Boys Know Paperback: 218 pages Publisher: Press 53 (October 1, 2012) Set in a condominium building on the edge of Chinatown in Washington, D.C., these stories present the practical and emotional struggles of Zhang Feng-qi, originally from Shanghai, to find a new mother for his sons following the death of his American wife. Along […]