About Darkness All Around Touchstone, June 2012 Trade Paperback, 352 pages When there’s DARKNESS ALL AROUND . . . some memories are best forgotten Within the span of one harrowing week, Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears, and her best friend, Carol, is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has seemingly put her life back together […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
Gary Buslik, author of Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls, on tour April/May 2012
About Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Travelers’ Tales/Solas House (March 27, 2012) Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat […]
Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, on tour April 2012
About Butterfly’s Child Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (April 10, 2012) When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a […]
Melanie Dugan, author of Dead Beautiful, on tour May/June 2012
About Dead Beautiful Dead Beautiful is a contemporary retelling of the classic Greek myth of Persephone. This was the myth the Greeks used to explain how we came to have the change of seasons. In the traditional version of the myth, Persephone – the daughter of Demeter, Goddess of agriculture and fertility, and Zeus, the […]
Michel Stone, author of The Iguana Tree, on tour April 2012
About The Iguana Tree Hardcover: 220 pages Publisher: Hub City Press (March 1, 2012) Library Journal says The Iguana Tree “recalls the work of John Steinbeck.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “exceptional … a haunting tale of hope and heartbreak.” Michel Stone’s debut novel, set against the backdrop of illegal immigration, is one family’s story of fateful decisions, […]
Louise Doughty, author of Whatever You Love, on tour March/April 2012
About Whatever You Love Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 27, 2012) “I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it […]
Lola Jaye, author of Being Lara, on tour March 2012
About Being Lara • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 13, 2012) What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word “adopted.” Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows […]
Ashley Ream, author of Losing Clementine, on tour March 2012
About Losing Clementine • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 6, 2012) In thirty days Clementine Pritchard will be finished with her last painting and her life. World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she’s done. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty […]
Meg Donohue, author of How to Eat a Cupcake, on tour March 2012
About How to Eat a Cupcake • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (March 13, 2012) Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs’ housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond […]