About The Legacy • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 30, 2011) When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories […]
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of Call Me Irresistible, on tour August/September 2011
About Call Me Irresistible • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 30, 2011) R.S.V.P. to the most riotous wedding of the year! Lucy Jorik’s the daughter of a former U.S. president. Meg Koranda’s the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible—Ted Beaudine—the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other […]
Joyce Maynard, author of The Good Daughters, on tour August/September 2011
About The Good Daughters • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 23, 2011) The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives The Good Daughters They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, […]
Kristine Gasbarre, author of How to Love an American Man, on tour August 2011
About How to Love an American Man • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 16, 2011) An endearing and unforgettable memoir of love, self-discovery, and enduring, old-fashioned values. Kristine Gasbarre made a New York career of dating driven, inaccessible men. When she realizes her love life will never result in happiness if she continues on the same […]
Susan McBride, author of Little Black Dress, on tour August/September 2011
About Little Black Dress • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 23, 2011) Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a glimpse of an unavoidable future Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career and a committed relationship, […]
Ghita Schwarz, author of Displaced Persons, on tour August/September 2011
About Displaced Persons • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 23, 2011) In May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, finds himself among similarly displaced persons gathered in the Allied occupation zones of a defeated Germany. Possessing little besides a map, a few tins of food, and […]
Evan Mandery, author of Q: A Novel, on tour August/September 2011
About Q: A Novel • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 23, 2011) “You must not marry Q.” This is the fateful and heartbreaking message delivered to the protagonist by someone who knows him very, very well, and it comes deep into a sweet courtship all around New York City. Yet Q is […]
Susan Weiss, author of My God, What Have We Done? on tour September/October 2011
About My God, What Have We Done? • Paperback: 484 pages • Publisher: Fomite (September 19, 2011) In a world afflicted with war, toxicity, and hunger, does what we do in our private lives really matter? Fifty years after the creation of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, newlyweds Pauline and Clifford visit that once-secret […]
Matthew Norman, author of Domestic Violets, on tour August 2011
About Domestic Violets • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (August 9, 2011) Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for July 2011
We have FOUR fantastic books in our July Book Club of the Month Contest! _____________________________________________________________________ Immigrant life, father/son relationships, and the evolution of an unlikely writer Book Clubs will find all that and so much more to discuss in Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his […]