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 […]
Jean Davies Okimoto, author of Walter’s Muse, on tour February/March 2012
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 […]