About Chosen • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (November 8, 2011) It all begins with a fantasy . . . The caseworker in her “paperwork-signing” suit alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn: this is the blissful picture that keeps Chloe Pinter, director of Portland’s Chosen Child domestic adoption program, happy as she […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for October 2011
We have three fantastic books in our Book Club of the Month Contest for October! ________________________________________________________ Forced to start over in a world where they don’t fit in… Book clubs will find much to talk about in Me Again Me Again by Keith Cronin Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim […]
Matt Rees, author of Mozart’s Last Aria, on tour November 2011
About Mozart’s Last Aria • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 1, 2011) The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a […]
Mary Curran Hackett, author of Proof of Heaven, on tour November 2011
About Proof of Heaven • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 1, 2011) A mother’s faith, a child’s courage, a doctor’s dedication—a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he’s sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fiercely […]
Sara Shepard, author of Everything We Ever Wanted, on tour October 2011
About Everything We Ever Wanted • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 11, 2011) A recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son Scott teaches. Allegations of Scott’s involvement […]
Trevor Cole, author of Practical Jean, on tour October/November 2011
About Practical Jean • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 18, 2011) Jean Vale Horemarsh is content, for the most part, with the small-town life she’s built: a semi-successful career as a ceramics artist, a close collection of women friends (aside from that terrible falling-out with Cheryl years ago), a comfortable marriage with […]
Peter Sis, author of The Conference of the Birds, on tour November 2011
About The Conference of the Birds • Hardcover: 160 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 27, 2011) A gorgeous and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem by the same name, The Conference of the Birds speaks to what is meaningful and hopeful in our passage through life. This deeply felt adaptation […]
Susan Schoenberger, author of A Watershed Year, on tour November 2011
About A Watershed Year • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: GuidepostsBooks (March 1, 2011) Months after the funeral of her best friend Harlan, Lucy McVie continues to be haunted by what was left unsaid between them when she receives the first of Harlan’s emails, arranged to be sent after his death. So begins Lucy’s watershed […]
Mariah Stewart, author of Hometown Girl, on tour October/November 2011
About Hometown Girl Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 27, 2011) Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. […]
Susana Fortes, author of Waiting for Robert Capa, on tour September/October 2011
About Waiting for Robert Capa • Paperback: 208 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 27, 2011) Susana Fortes offers a gorgeously written, English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between two photojournalists furiously in love: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. During the Spanish Civil War, Capa and Taro risked everything documenting Francisco Franco’s Fascist uprising—even as they risked everything for […]