About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]
Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, on tour March/April 2012
About A Partial History of Lost Causes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: The Dial Press (March 20, 2012) In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned […]
Robert Barclay, author of More Than Words Can Say, on tour January 2012
About More Than Words Can Say • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 20, 2011) From the author of If Wishes Were Horses comes a novel of long-buried secrets and self-discovery, showing us that sometimes what goes unsaid is more powerful than words. . . . Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit […]
Katherine Govier, author of The Printmaker’s Daughter, on tour November/December 2011
About The Printmaker’s Daughter • Paperback: 512 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (November 22, 2011) Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei and Hokusai live […]
Rashad Harrison, author of Our Man in the Dark, on tour January 2012
About Our Man in the Dark • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Atria Books (November 15, 2011) A stunning debut historical noir novel about a worker in the civil rights movement who became an informant for the FBI during the months leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feeling unappreciated and […]
Daphne du Maurier, author of The Doll, on tour November/December
About The Doll • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (November 22, 2011) The lost stories of Daphne du Maurier, collected in one volume for the first time. Before she wrote Rebecca, the novel that would cement her reputation as a twentieth-century literary giant, a young Daphne du Maurier penned short fiction in which she […]
Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, on tour November 2011
About The Personal History of Rachel DuPree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin (July 26, 2011) Just optioned for film by Viola Davis, star of The Help; winner of the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, longlisted for the Orange […]
Maud Hart Lovelace, author of The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, on tour October/November 2011
About The Betsy-Tacy Treasury • Paperback: 736 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (November 8, 2011) There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, […]
Chandra Hoffman, author of Chosen, on tour November 2011
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 […]