About Walter’s Muse Publisher: Endicott & Hugh Books Publication date: 2/1/2012 Pages: 285 It’s the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie’s summer becomes about […]
Catherine McKenzie, author of Spin, on tour February 2012
About Spin • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 7, 2012) Kate’s To-Do List: 1. Go to rehab 2. Befriend/spy on “It Girl” 3. Write killer expose 4. Land dream job Piece of cake! When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, The Line, it’s the chance of a lifetime. So […]
Jane McCafferty, author of First You Try Everything, on tour February 2012
About First You Try Everything • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 17, 2012) An engrossing tale of a marriage that’s falling apart and a wife who will stop at nothing to keep it together. From their early days in college, Evvie and Ben were drawn to each other by feelings of isolation stemming […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma Rose, on tour February/March 2012
About Sonoma Rose Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 21, 2012) From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but flawed man. As the […]
Michael O’Hanlon, author of The Wounded Giant, on tour February 2011
About The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity (An eSpecial from The Penguin Press) • Format: Kindle Edition • File Size: 1685 KB • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 15, 2011) America spends as much on its military as the rest of the world put together. But its share of global […]
Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly, on tour May 2012
About The Year of the Gadfly • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012) Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls. A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris […]
Sarah McCoy, author of The Baker’s Daughter, on tour February/March 2012
About The Baker’s Daughter • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Crown (January 24, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Folly Beach, on tour January 2012
About Folly Beach • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 27, 2011) Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooper’s childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband […]
Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith, on tour January/February 2012
To celebrate the release of the critically acclaimed Faith, Jennifer Haigh’s Mrs. Kimble, The Condition, and Baker Towers will also be on tour. About Faith • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (January 17, 2012) It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, […]
Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim, on tour January/February 2012
About Night Swim • Paperback: 284 pages • Publisher: Fiction Std (January 10, 2012) Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their […]