About Her Sister’s Shadow Paperback: 352 pagePublisher: Berkley Trade; 1st edition (June 7, 2011) Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call. Her elder sister Bea — at the family homestead in White Head, Massachusetts — has just lost her husband, and she’d like Lilli to fly home for […]
Dorothy Love, author of Beyond All Measure, on tour October/November 2011
About Beyond All Measure Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 31, 2011) Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man. Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada […]
Leah Hager Cohen, author of The Grief of Others, on tour September/October 2011
About The Grief of Others • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (September 15, 2011) “How does a family transcend its own pain? How do the secrets we keep shape our lives and the lives of those we love? In this gracefully written, elegantly structured novel, Leah Hager Cohen has created an indelible cast of characters whose […]
Seth Steinzor, author of To Join the Lost, on tour November 2011
About To Join the Lost • Paperback: 216 pages • Publisher: Antrim House; First edition (May 1, 2010) Who would have thought that Dante would return to hell, this time in the company of a middle-aged Jewish lawyer from Vermont? Seth Steinzor’s To Join the Lost revisits the route that Dante traveled through his Inferno, […]
Karl Friedrich, author of Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, on tour October 2011
About Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011) Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak […]
BONUS Book Club of the Month Contest for August/September 2011!
A powerful family drama… Book clubs will find much to discuss in Northwest Corner by John Burham Schwartz The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters […]
Greg Olear, author of Fathermucker, on tour October 2011
About Fathermucker • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 4, 2011) A day in the life of a dad on the brink: Josh Lansky—second-rate screenwriter, fledgling freelancer, and stay-at-home dad of two preschoolers—has held everything together while his wife is away on business . . . until this morning’s playdate, when he finds out through […]
Michael Stanley, author of Death of the Mantis, on tour September 2011
About Death of the Mantis • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (September 6, 2011) In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana—an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods—a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying in a dry ravine from a severe head wound. […]
Miriam Toews, author of Irma Voth, on tour September 2011
About Irma Voth • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 6, 2011) “The nicely drawn contrast between what Irma knows and suspects and what the reader understands about her world gives Irma Voth a suspenseful charge from the first pages.” —Jane Smiley, Globe and Mail (Toronto) That rare coming-of-age story able to blend the […]
Michael David Lukas, author of The Oracle of Stamboul, on tour September 2011
About The Oracle of Stamboul • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 30, 2011) An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire’s history Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of […]