About Afterwards: A Novel Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sister comes a compelling, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school is on fire. Her children are inside. Grace runs toward the burning building, desperate to reach […]
Deborah Lawrenson, author of The Lantern, on tour March 2012
About The Lantern • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Deluxe edition (February 28, 2012) When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to Les Genévriers, an abandoned house set among the fragrant lavender fields of the south of France. Deeply in love and surrounded by music, books, and […]
David Foenkinos, author of Delicacy, on tour February 2012
About Delicacy • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 14, 2012) Reminiscent of novels by Nick Hornby, Muriel Barbery, and Jonathan Tropper, internationally acclaimed novelist David Foenkinos delivers a heartfelt and deftly comedic tale of new love brightening the dark aftermath of loss—and of wounded hearts finding refuge in the strangest of places. After her […]
Mary Kay McComas, author of What Happened to Hannah, on tour February 2012
About What Happened to Hannah • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 7, 2012) As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old […]
Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life, on tour February 2012
About This Beautiful Life • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 7, 2012) When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately, their […]
Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, on tour February 2012
About The Flight of Gemma Hardy • Hardcover: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 24, 2012) When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of […]
Joan Frank, author of Make It Stay, on tour May 2012
About Make It Stay • Hardcover: 176 pages • Publisher: The Permanent Press (April 28, 2012) In the tree-nestled Northern California town of Mira Flores, writer Rachel (“an aging typist with an unprofitable hobby” and her Scottish husband Neil prepare dinner for a familiar “crew” of guests – among them Neil’s best friend, the burly, […]
Lauren Willig, author of The Garden Intrigue, on tour February/March 2012
About The Garden Intrigue Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 16, 2012) Just in time for the post-Valentine’s Day chocolate hangover, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE is the latest novel in the nationally bestselling Pink Carnation series by RITA Award winner Lauren Willig (Dutton, On sale: February 16, 2012). In this ninth installment, long-time readers and newcomers alike […]
Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter, on tour February 2012
About Russian Winter • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Arrow (5 Jan 2012) When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former Bolshoi Ballet star finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, and of the events that changed her life half a century earlier. It was in Russia that she […]
Ryan David Jahn, author of The Dispatcher, on tour February/March 2012
About The Dispatcher Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 27, 2011) The phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months. So begins Ian Hunt’s fight to get his daughter back. Hunt is a police dispatcher in the small East Texas town of Bulls Mouth. The call comes at the end of […]