About The Oracle of Stamboul • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 8, 2011) Late in the summer of 1877, as Tsar Alexander II’s Royal Cavalry descends on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta, a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world […]
Pamela Schoenewaldt, author of When We Were Strangers, on tour January/February 2011
About When We Were Strangers • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (January 25, 2011) “The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American’s.” —Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers […]
Karen Bell, author of Walking With Elephants, on tour February 2011
About Walking With Elephants • Paperback: 210 pages • Publisher: Literaryroad.com (August 10, 2010) Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her […]
Dana Precious, author of Born Under a Lucky Moon, on tour February 2011
About Born Under a Lucky Moon • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Morrow Paperbacks (February 8, 2011) Born Under a Lucky Moon is the tale of two very important (but distant) years in the lives of Jeannie Thompson and her (embarrassing, crazy) colorful family members to whom “things” just seem to happen. From the Great […]
Jo Nesbø, author of The Devil’s Star, on tour February 2011
About The Devil’s Star • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 1, 2011) In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to […]
Karen Marie Moning, author of Shadowfever, on tour January/February 2011
About Shadowfever Hardcover: 608 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press (January 18, 2011) MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that […]
Ellen Meister, author of The Other Life, on tour February/March 2011
About The Other Life • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Putnam Adult (February 17, 2011) “This is the thinking woman’s beach read, a love story to the modern family, written with a deep and lovely understanding of mothers and daughters and the sacrifices they’ll make for each other.” —Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of […]
Louise Erdrich, author of Shadow Tag, on tour February 2011
About Shadow Tag Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden […]
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench, on tour January/February 2011
About Wench • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Amistad (January 25, 2011) An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses wench \’wench\ n. from Middle English “wenchel,” 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Tawawa House […]
Ruth Pennebaker, author of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, on tour January/February 2011
About Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (January 4, 2011) Joanie’s ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won’t be having more babies, since she’s decided never to have sex again. But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to […]