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 […]
Holly Peterson, author of The Idea of Him, on tour April 2014
About The Idea of Him • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 1, 2014) From the New York Times bestselling author of The Manny—a vibrant novel of love, life lessons, and learning to trust yourself Allie Crawford has the life she always dreamed of—she’s number two at a high-profile P.R. firm; she has two kids she adores; and her […]
Rene Denfeld, author of The Enchanted, on tour March 2014
About The Enchanted • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 4, 2014) A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King. “This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do.” The enchanted place […]
Normandie Fischer, author of Sailing Out of Darkness and Becalmed, on tour January/February 2014
About Sailing Out of Darkness • Paperback: 300 pages • Publisher: WhiteFire Publishing Love conquers all?? Maybe for some people. When Samantha Ransom flies to Italy to escape a disastrous affair with her childhood best friend, the last thing on her mind is romance. But Teo Anderson is nothing like her philandering ex-husband or her buddy, Jack, who, despite […]
J. W. Ironmonger, author of Coincidence, on tour February/March 2014
About Coincidence • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 18, 2014) What determines the course of our lives? Chance . . . or destiny? On Midsummer’s Day, 1982, three-year-old Azalea Ives is found alone at a seaside fairground. One year later, her mother’s body washes up on a beach—her link to Azalea unnoticed. On Midsummer’s Day, 1992, […]