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 […]
Michael Alenyikov, author of Ivan and Misha, on tour September 2011
About Ivan and Misha Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press (October 30, 2010) In Ivan and Misha, Michael Alenyikov portrays the complexities of love, sexuality, and the bonds of family with boldness and lyric sensitivity. As the Soviet Union collapses, two young brothers are whisked away from Kiev by their father to start life […]
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones, on tour September, 2011
About Salvage the Bones Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (September 8, 2011) A stunning new voice from the Gulf Coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, […]
Samantha Sotto, author of Before Ever After, on tour August 2011
About Before Ever After Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (August 2, 2011) What if ‘til death do us part meant more than you could ever know? In Samantha Sotto’s debut novel BEFORE EVER AFTER (Crown Trade: Aug. 2, 2011) a love story defies the bounds of time and space to redefine our notion of forever. […]
Nicola Upson, author of Two for Sorrow, on tour August 2011
About Two For Sorrow Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based on Amelia […]