About Anthropology of an American Girl Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) This is what it’s like to be a high-school-age girl. To forsake the boyfriend you once adored. To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher. To discover for the first time the power […]
Ellen Airgood, author of South of Superior, on tour June 2011
About South of Superior • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 9, 2011) “A heartfelt ode to the simpler things in life.” —Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County A debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. […]
John Burnham Schwartz, author of Northwest Corner, on tour July/August 2011
About Northwest Corner Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) 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 in a superb new […]
Leah Stewart, author of Husband and Wife, on tour April/May 2011
About Husband and Wife • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 19, 2011) Sarah Price has never regretted trading her MFA for a steady job so that her husband, Nathan, could write fiction. But at age thirty-five, her world is turned upside-down by a shocking revelation: Nathan’s upcoming novel, Infidelity, is […]
Ann Joslin Williams, author of Down From Cascom Mountain, on tour June/July 2011
About Down From Cascom Mountain Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (June 7, 2011) Set in rugged New Hampshire in the aftermath of a fatal accident, this assured debut novel wrestles with grief and desire as a young woman finds her way over the course of one summer. In Down From Cascom Mountain, newlywed Mary Hall […]
Mariah Stewart, author of Almost Home, on tour May/June 2011
About Almost Home Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) When she was young, Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days, Steffie is the proud owner of […]
Alison Pick, author of Far to Go, on tour April/May 2011
About Far to Go • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 19, 2011) When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich’s advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world […]
Amy Stolls, author of The Ninth Wife, on tour May 2011
About The Ninth Wife • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 10, 2011) Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, D.C. Just as she’s about to give up all hope of marriage, she meets Rory, a charming Irish musician, and they fall in love. But Rory is […]
Lynda Simmons, author of Island Girl, on tour May/June 2011
About Island Girl: Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (December 7, 2010) Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? 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 […]
Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter, on tour April 2011
About Russian Winter Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 5, 2011) “An exceptional debut novel…of secrets, intrigue, and wonderfully described priceless gems.” –USA Today “This novel, about an oppressive Soviet Russia, a mysterious amber pendant, and the lives of ballerinas, composers, and poets, is fantastic.” —The Rumpus When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry […]