About Wherever You Go • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (July 25, 2011) A gripping novel about the lengths to which we will go in the name of a cause. Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and […]
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Adam & Eve, on tour July/August 2011
About Adam & Eve • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (July 26, 2011) By decoding light from space, Lucy Bergmann’s astrophysicist husband discovers the existence of extraterrestrial life; their friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, unearths from the sands of Egypt an ancient alternative version of the Book of Genesis. To religious fanatics, […]
David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment, on tour August 2011
About The Twelfth Enchantment Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Random House (August 9, 2011) Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill […]
Deborah Lawrenson, author of The Lantern, on tour August 2011
About The Lantern • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 9, 2011) “Deborah Lawrenson is a master of mood and shadow as she spins this absorbing tale of intense passion and growing dread. Her Provence is sumptuous and forbidding and utterly real. Prepare to be riveted.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife “I […]
Sapphire, author of The Kid, on tour July 2011
About The Kid • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 5, 2011) Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious’s son, Abdul. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push’s unforgettable […]
Keith Cronin, author of Me Again, on tour September/October 2011
About Me Again Hardcover: 322 pages Publisher: Five Star (September 7, 2011) Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim Jonathan Hooper learns when he wakes up after spending six years in a coma. Everyone calls Jonathan’s recovery a “miracle,” but since nobody had expected him to recover, his sudden awakening becomes an […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2011
Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? Island Girl by Lynda Simmons Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is the emotionally riveting story of a 55 year old mother, Ruby Donaldson, fighting to reunite her family as she struggles with the diagnosis of early on-set Alzheimer’s. Facing the […]
Simon Van Booy, author of Everything Beautiful Began After, on tour July 2011
We think Simon Van Booy is one of the best kept secrets in the reading world! To introduce you to him, both The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter will be on tour along with his newest book, Everything Beautiful Began After. About Everything Beautiful Began After • Paperback: 416 […]
Emily Arsenault, author of In Search of the Rose Notes, on tour August 2011
About In Search of the Rose Notes • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 26, 2011) Eleven-year-olds Nora and Charlotte were best friends. When their teenage babysitter, Rose, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the girls decided to “investigate.” But their search—aided by paranormal theories and techniques gleaned from old Time-Life books—went nowhere. Years […]
Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look, on tour July 2011
About A Good Hard Look Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011) In Flannery O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself. Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O’Connor was forced to leave New York City and return […]