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 […]
Katharine Britton, author of Her Sister’s Shadow, on tour October/November 2011
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, […]