About This Dark Road to Mercy • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 23, 2014) After their mother unexpectedly dies, twelve-year-old Easter Quillby and her six-year-old sister, Ruby, aren’t expecting to see their errant father, Wade, ever again. But the ex–minor league baseball player who’s been gone for years has […]
Mary McNear, author of Butternut Summer, on tour September/October 2014
About Butternut Summer • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (August 12, 2014) Caroline’s life is turned upside down the moment her ex-husband, Jack, strides through the door of her coffee shop. He seems changed—stronger, steadier, and determined to make amends with Caroline and their daughter, Daisy. Is he really different, […]
Kate Kerrigan, author of Land of Dreams, on tour October 2014
About Land of Dreams • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (October 7, 2014) Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the compelling final installment in New York Times bestselling author Ellie Hogan’s sweeping immigrant trilogy begun in Ellis Island and City of Hope—a story of family, love, danger, and ambition in Hollywood […]
Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl, on tour September/October 2014
About How to Build a Girl • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 23, 2014) What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself. It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, […]
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea, on tour August/September 2014
About The Story of Land and Sea • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 26, 2014) Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave—characters who yearn for redemption amid a heady […]
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of GI Brides, on tour September 2014
About GI Brides • Paperback: 592 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (September 2, 2014) They left everything behind to follow their hearts. . . . True stories that illuminate the experiences of British war brides in America after World War II American soldiers stationed in the UK came away winning more than […]
Lacy Crawford, author of Early Decision, on tour August/September 2014
About Early Decision • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 26, 2014) A delightful and salacious novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up Anne Arlington is twenty-seven, single, and in demand: she is the […]
Susan Gloss, author of Vintage, on tour September 2014
About Vintage • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 2, 2014) A small-town girl with a flair for fashion, Violet Turner had always dreamed of owning a shop like Hourglass Vintage. But when faced with the possibility of losing the store to an unscrupulous developer, she realizes that despite her usual […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Story Hour, on tour August/September 2014
About The Story Hour • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014) From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, love, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she agrees to treat a young Indian […]
Thomas McNeely, author of Ghost Horse, on tour October 2014
About Ghost Horse • Publisher: Gival Press Set amidst the social tensions of 1970’s Houston, Ghost Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Buddy Turner’s shifting alliances within his fragmented family and with two other boys—one Anglo, one Latino—in their quest to make a Super-8 animated movie. As his father’s many secrets begin to unravel, Buddy […]