About The Next Queen of Heaven • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 5, 2010) With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues after being clocked by a Catholic statuette. Her daughter, Tabitha, and her sons scheme to save their mother […]
Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel, authors of The Recipe Club, on tour October 2010
About The Recipe Club • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (September 21, 2010) Loyalty, loss, and the ties that bind: These are the ingredients of The Recipe Club, a “novel cookbook” that combines an authentic story of friendship with more than eighty delicious recipes. Lifelong friends Lilly and Val are united as much […]
Susan Henderson, author of Up From The Blue, on tour September/October 2010
About Up From the Blue • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (September 21, 2010) Tillie Harris’s life is in disarray—her husband is away on business, the boxes in her new home aren’t unpacked, and the telephone isn’t even connected yet. Though she’s not due for another month, sudden labor pains force Tillie to […]
Erick Setiawan, author of Of Bees and Mist, on tour October/November 2010
About Of Bees and Mist • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (July 6, 2010) Of Bees and Mist is an engrossing fable that chronicles three generations of women under one family tree and places them in a mythical town where spirits and spells, witchcraft and demons, and prophets and clairvoyance […]
Joshua Gaylord, author of Hummingbirds, on tour October 2010
About Hummingbirds • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 5, 2010) Hummingbirds is a wonderfully compelling novel about the intertwining and darkly surprising relationships at the elite Carmine-Casey School for Girls on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where the rivalries and secrets of teachers and students intersect and eventually collide. In the world of […]
Susanna Daniel, author of Stiltsville, on tour September/October 2010
About Stiltsville: Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Harper (August 3, 2010) Set against a vivid and lush South Florida background during the years of Miami’s coming-of-age, Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and romance—that deepens over the course of three decades. One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances […]
Syrie James, author of Dracula, My Love, on tour August 2010
We are so excited to announce a very special tour to celebrate the release of Dracula, My Love by Syrie James! Follow along as we give away copies of Dracula, My Love on various blogs, then come back and chat with us about all things vampire. On August 13th at 1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST, […]
Wally Lamb, author of Wishin’ and Hopin’, on tour November 2010
About Wishin’ and Hopin’ • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (November 2, 2010) Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella of warmth and joy. […]
Laura Lippman, author of I’d Know You Anywhere, on tour August/September 2010
About I’d Know You Anywhere Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow (August 17, 2010) The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novel—a powerful and utterly riveting tale that skillfully moves between past and present to explore the lasting effects of crime on a victim’s life….I’d Know You Anywhere. Eliza Benedict cherishes […]
Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets, on tour September 2010
About The Financial Lives of the Poets • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 7, 2010) The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, about how we get to the edge of ruin—and […]