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 […]
Jon Enfield, author of The New Men, on tour July/August 2014
About The New Men Print Length: 303 pages Publisher: Wayzgoose Press (May 14, 2014) For us, the new man, he is one of two things. First, he is the new worker, a man we instruct and investigate until his probation is complete. But also he is an idea. In the foundry, they make parts. On the line, […]
Sara Shepard, author of The Heiresses, on tour May/June 2014
About The Heiresses • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 20, 2014) You know the Saybrooks. Everyone does. Perhaps you’ve read a profile of them in People or have seen their pictures in the society pages of Vogue. Perhaps while walking along that choice block on Fifth Avenue, you’ve been tempted to enter the ornate limestone building with their family […]
Joanna Clapps Herman, author of No Longer and Not Yet, on tour July 2014
About No Longer and Not Yet • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Excelsior Editions (March 1, 2014) A collection of short stories about the city at its best: a human place, teeming with unique souls that somehow, serendipitously, come together in community, spin apart, find one another again.” – Rockland County Times The interconnected short stories in No […]
Lisa O’Donnell, author of Closed Doors, on tour May/June 2014
About Closed Doors • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 20, 2014) In this tense and brilliant tale from the national bestselling author of The Death of Bees, a young boy on a small Scottish island, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, discovers that a secret can be a dangerous thing. Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best […]