About Blossoms and Bayonets • Paperback: 316 pages • Publisher: Redwood Publishing (May 12, 2013) Hi-Dong Chai and Jana McBurney-Lin, the award-winning author of My Half of the Sky, turn their hands to a remarkable story of a family and country torn apart by outside forces. The time is 1942, the place is Japanese-occupied Seoul, Korea. Since occupation, the Japanese have […]
Theresa Shea, author of The Unfinished Child, on tour May 2014
About The Unfinished Child Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Brindle & Glass (April 2, 2013) When Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. Marie’s dilemma is further complicated when she becomes convinced something is wrong […]
Melanie Dugan, author of Bee Summers, on tour May 2014
About Bee Summers The spring she is eleven years old, Melissa Singer’s mother walks out of the house and never returns. That summer her father, a migratory beekeeper, takes her along with him on his travels. The trip and the people she meets change her life. Over the years that follow, Melissa tries to unlock […]
Erin Duffy, author of On the Rocks, on tour April/May 2014
About On the Rocks • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 22, 2014) A funny, bittersweet, yet heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook age—not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of life as a modern young single woman—from Erin Duffy, the author of the acclaimed Bond Girl Ever since she was […]
Doug Cooper, author of Outside In, on tour April/May 2014
About Outside In Hardcover: 253 pages Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press (August 13, 2013) From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd–recently forced out of his job as a junior […]
Carole Giangrande, author of Midsummer, on tour May/June 2014
About Midsummer • Paperback: 150 pages • Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series (April 2014) All her life, Joy’s been haunted by a man she’s never met — her visionary grandfather, the artist Lorenzo. At work on digging a New York subway tunnel, his pickaxe struck the remains of an ancient Dutch trading ship — and a vision lit […]
Ruth Reichl, author of Delicious!, on tour April/May 2014
About Delicious! Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Random House (May 6, 2014) In her New York Times bestselling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl has brilliantly illuminated how food defines us. Now she celebrates this theme in her dazzling fiction debut—a novel of sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must […]
Susan Gloss, author of Vintage, on tour March/April 2014
About Vintage • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (March 25, 2014) At Hourglass Vintage in Madison, Wisconsin, every item in the boutique has a story to tell . . . and so do the women whose lives the store touches. Yellow Samsonite suitcase with ivory, quilted lining, 1950s A small-town girl with a flair for fashion, Violet […]
Mary McNear, author of Up at Butternut Lake, on tour April 2014
About Up at Butternut Lake • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 8, 2014) In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the unforgettable people who call it home. It’s summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family’s […]
Christopher Moore, author of The Serpent of Venice, on tour April/May 2014
About The Serpent of Venice • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 22, 2014) Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket. This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have […]