About A Matter of Mercy Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (August 1, 2014) Caroline Marcum thought she’d escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home […]
Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing, on tour June 2014
About Elizabeth is Missing • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 10, 2014) In this darkly riveting debut novel, a sophisticated psychological mystery, one woman will stop at nothing to find her best friend, who seems to have gone missing. . . . Despite Maud’s growing anxiety about Elizabeth’s welfare, no one takes her concerns seriously—not her […]
Martha Louise Hunter, author of Painting Juliana, on tour June 2014
About Painting Juliana • Hardcover: 362 pages • Publisher: Goldminds Publishing, LLC (May 20, 2014) A young girl’s terrifying nightmare, five mysterious oil paintings and a red, flaming firebird all carry the same message: Stand still, look up and let the funnel cloud suck you up inside. It’s the last thing Juliana Birdsong wants to hear. Now a […]
Marie-Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, on tour August 2014
About 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown (August 5, 2014) 2 A.M. AT THE CAT’S PAJAMAS begins on a quiet morning in a Philadelphia apartment the day before Christmas Eve, where we meet the precocious and smart-mouthed nine-year-old Madeleine Altimari. Madeleine’s mother has recently died, and her father is still lost in his […]
Rebecca Rotert, author of Last Night at the Blue Angel, on tour July 2014
About Last Night at the Blue Angel • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 1, 2014) Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago—a city in transformation—and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush and immensely heartfelt mother-daughter tale about a talented but troubled singer’s relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter. It is […]
Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, on tour June 2014
About The Ocean at the End of the Lane • Paperback: 208 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 3, 2014) #1 New York Times Bestseller in hardcover A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of The Hurricane Sisters, on tour June 2014
About The Hurricane Sisters • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (June 3, 2014) Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people’s lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on […]
Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life, on tour June 2014
About A Replacement Life Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper (June 3, 2014) A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, ”didn’t suffer in […]
Mary Vensel White, author of The Qualities of Wood, on tour May/June 2014
About The Qualities of Wood • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Authonomy (June 17, 2014) When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his young wife take a break from city life to prepare the house for sale. Nowell Gardiner leaves first to begin work on his second mystery novel. By the time his […]
Mhairi McFarlane, author of Here’s Looking at You, on tour May/June 2014
About Here’s Looking at You • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Avon (June 3, 2014) Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the […]