About Dancing with Gravity Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press “Whether we love–or fail to love–there is always a cost.” – Nikolai Father Whiting is asleep in his own life. As a St. Louis priest and the head of Pastoral Care at a local teaching hospital, he’s already on edge wondering if he’s up […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Samaritan, on tour March 2011
About The Samaritan Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough to touch, but healing is forgetting. Healing […]
Brunonia Barry, author of The Map of True Places, on tour March/April 2011
About The Map of True Places • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (March 22, 2011) Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing […]
Deanna Fei, author of A Thread of Sky, on tour April 2011
About A Thread of Sky • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 1, 2010) Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever. A stunning debut, A Thread of Sky is the story of […]
Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling, on tour April 2011
About The Uncoupling “Wolitzer writes of a spell cast upon a town—but she superbly casts it upon the reader as well. This deftly written tale of bewildered women (and their men) is always surprising and always engaging, both funny and serious at the same time, a wonderful read.”—Elizabeth Strout, New York Times–bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge Hardcover: 288 pages […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of Lowcountry Summer, on tour April 2011
About Lowcountry Summer Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow Trade Paperbacks (March 29, 2011) Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laid-back atmosphere, earthy characters, and charming eccentricities of life in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Written with compelling honesty and emotional depth, her stories have touched readers from […]
M. L. Malcolm, author of Heart of Deception, on tour April 2011
About Heart of Deception • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 5, 2011) A man of many contradictions, Leo Hoffman is a Hungarian national with a French passport, a wealthy businessman with no visible means of support, and a devoted father who hasn’t seen his daughter in years. He is also a […]
Dipika Rai, author of Someone Else’s Garden, on tour February 2011
About Someone Else’s Garden • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (February 1, 2011) The eldest of seven children, born low-caste and female in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to “water someone else’s garden” until a husband is found for her. Seeking […]
Sarah Blake, author of THE POSTMISTRESS, on tour March 2011
About The Postmistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) An ocean apart, two women—Frankie Bard, a gifted, intrepid, and beautiful young radio journalist in London to report on the Blitz, and Iris James, the dedicated, spinster postmistress of Franklin, Massachusetts—are entrusted with letters that concern the same man, to be […]
Kate White, author of Hush, on tour February 2011
About Hush • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) Four months after their separation, marketing consultant Lake Warren faces a tough legal battle with her husband, Jack, for custody of their two kids. Though the timing couldn’t be worse, she finds herself responding to the flirtations of Dr. Mark […]