About The Fifth Servant • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 8, 2011) In 1592, Prague is a relatively safe refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But the peace is threatened when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish […]
Ellen Horan, author of 31 Bond Street, on tour March 2011
About 31 Bond Street Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 1, 2011) Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell in his opulent Manhattan town house? At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Mapping of Love and Death, on tour February/March 2011
About The Mapping of Love and Death • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 22, 2011) In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and […]
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, on tour March/April 2011
About The Four Ms. Bradwells • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) Meg Waite Clayton’s national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters was a word-of-mouth sensation and book club favorite. Now the beloved author is back with a page-turning novel that explores the secrets we keep, even from those closest to us, and […]
Camilla Gibb, author of The Beauty of Humanity Movement, on tour March/April 2011
About The Beauty of Humanity Movement • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 17, 2011) This deeply observed novel of contemporary Vietnam interweaves stories of a venerable soup seller, a young Vietnamese American curator, and an enterprising tour guide in ways that will mark all of their lives forever. Maggie, an art […]
Susan Juby, author of Home to Woefield, on tour March 2011
About Home to Woefield • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (March 8, 2011) Prudence Burns, a well-intentioned New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, just inherited Woefield Farm—thirty acres of scrubland, dilapidated buildings, and one half-sheared sheep. But the bank is about to foreclose, so Prudence must turn things around fast! Fortunately […]
Lionel Shriver, author of So Much For That, on tour March 2010
About So Much For That • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (March 8, 2011) Shep Knacker has long saved for “the Afterlife,” an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it’s never the right time […]
Anna Quindlen, author of EVERY LAST ONE, on tour March/April 2011
About Every Last One Format: Random House Trade Paperback 400 pages On Sale: March 22, 2011 In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions. Mary Beth Latham […]
About The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Bantam (March 29, 2011) “Every good love story has another love hiding within it.” Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in […]
Kelly Simmons, author of The Bird House, on tour February/March 2011
About The Bird House Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition (February 1, 2011) An intergenerational school project unlocks a Pandora’s box of unsettling truths. Evocative and detailed.” – Kirkus Reviews Such crisp, tight prose I was hooked from the very first page.” — Chevy Stevens, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of STILL […]