About Good Things I Wish You Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 22, 2010) The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a century. Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, […]
Heather Barbieri, author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara, on tour June/July 2010
About The Lace Makers of Glenmara • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 22, 2010) “You can always start again,” Kate Robinson’s mother once told her, “all it takes is a new thread.” Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old fashion designer follows her mother’s advice and flees to her ancestral homeland […]
Mary Kay Andrews, author of The Fixer Upper, on tour June 2010
About The Fixer Upper • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 15, 2010) After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father’s offer to help refurbish […]
M. L. Malcolm, author of Heart of Lies, on tour June 2010
About Heart of Lies Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 8, 2010) Inspired by the author’s family history, Heart of Lies is an epic tale of intrigue, passion, and adventure, and heralds the debut of a remarkable writer. Meet Leo Hoffman, a dashing young Hungarian born with a gift for languages. After his dreams […]
Alix Strauss, author of Based Upon Availability, on tour June 2010
About Based Upon Availability • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 8, 2010) Based Upon Availability is the story of eight women, each exploring the basic need for human connection while seeking to understand themselves better. They are lonely, strong and driven women who, when pushed to the edge, must fight for their […]
Margaret Dilloway, author of How to Be an American Housewife, on tour July/August 2010
About How To Be An American Housewife Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (August 5, 2010) A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother’s standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness. How to Be an American Housewife is […]
Tish Cohen, author of The Truth About Delilah Blue, on tour June 2010
About The Truth About Delilah Blue Delilah Blue has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since she moved from Toronto to Los Angeles when she was eight. Twenty now, and desperate to become an artist like her long-lost mother but unable to pay for classes, she takes a job as an art model […]
Jill Dawson, author of The Great Lover, on tour June 2010
About The Great Lover An imaginative, fascinating novel about one of the most enduringly popular and romantic figures of the first world war: the radical, handsome young poet Rupert Brooke. In her old age, Nell Golightly receives a strange letter. A Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to […]
Attica Locke, author of Black Water Rising, on tour May 2010
About Black Water Rising Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall—where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl—and he’s determined to leave the sins of his past buried: the guns, the FBI file, the […]
Jennifer McMahon, author of Dismantled, on tour May/June 2010
About Dismantled Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto—”To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart”—these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts […]