About Five Night Stand Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (May 12, 2015) Legendary jazz pianist Oliver Pleasant finds himself alone at the end of his career, playing his last five shows, hoping the music will draw his estranged family back… Frank Severs, a middle-aged, out-of-work journalist, is at a crossroads as his longtime […]
Christopher Moore, author of The Serpent of Venice, on tour Feb 2015
About The Serpent of Venice • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 27, 2015) Venice, a really long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from Britain who also happens to be a favorite of the Doge: the rascal-Fool, Pocket. This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; […]
Jill Dawson, author of The Tell-Tale Heart, on tour February 2015
About The Tell-Tale Heart • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 10, 2015) After years of excessive drink and sex, Patrick has suffered a massive heart attack. Although he’s only fifty, he’s got just months to live. But a tragic accident involving a teenager and a motorcycle gives the university professor a second […]
Tania James, author of The Tusk That Did the Damage, on tour March/April 2015
About The Tusk That Did the Damage Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Knopf (March 10, 2015) From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an […]
T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Welcome to Braggsville, on tour February 2015
About Welcome to Braggsville • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 17, 2015) From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ‘Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic […]
Dora Levy Mossanen, author of Scent of Butterflies, on tour February/March 2015
About Scent of Butterflies Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (January 7, 2014) Betrayal, forgiveness, identity and obsession churn against the tumultuous landscape of the Islamic revolution and seemingly perfect gardens of southern California in this compelling novel from bestselling author Dora Levy Mossanen. Amidst a shattering betrayal and a country in turmoil, Soraya flees Iran to make a […]
Liza Palmer, author of Girl Before A Mirror, on tour January/February 2015
About Girl Before A Mirror • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (January 27, 2015) The author of Conversations with a Fat Girl—optioned for HBO—returns with the hilarious and heartfelt story of a woman who must learn how to be the heroine of her own life—a journey that will teach her […]
Mary Helen Specht, author of Migratory Animals, on tour January/February 2015
About Migratory Animals • Print Length: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 20, 2015) When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin after five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes torn between her two homes. Having left behind her loving fiancé without knowing when she will return, Flannery learns that […]
Gerard Kelly, author of The Boy Who Loved Rain, on tour February/March 2015
About The Boy Who Loved Rain • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Lion Fiction (January 27, 2015) Colom had the perfect childhood, the much-loved only child of a church pastor. Yet he wakes screaming from dreams in which his sister is drowning and he can’t save her. Fiona turns to her husband, desperate to help […]
Mike Greenberg, author of My Father’s Wives, on tour January 2015
About My Father’s Wives • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (January 20, 2015) The cohost of ESPN’s Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man’s search for the secret to understanding his father, his marriage, and himself Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed […]