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 […]
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, […]