About What I Had Before I Had You • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) Written in radiant prose and with stunning psychological acuity, award-winning author Sarah Cornwell’s What I Had Before I Had You is a deeply poignant story that captures the joys and sorrows of growing up and learning to let go. Olivia Reed was […]
Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk, on tour April 2014
About Black Chalk Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition edition (April 1, 2014) One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But […]
Ron Parsons, author of The Sense of Touch, on tour January/February 2014
About The Sense of Touch • Paperback: 252 pages • Publisher: Aqueous Books; 1st edition (May 1, 2013) Old friends uncomfortably reunited and lovers who cling to their distance from one another; disappearing fathers, fiercely loving grandfathers, and strangers who pass through and radically change lives…These are among the characters who populate the rugged Midwestern landscapes of the mesmerizing […]
Willy Vlautin, author of The Free, on tour February 2014
About The Free • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 4, 2014) In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times. Severely wounded in the Iraq war, […]
Stephanie Evanovich, author of Big Girl Panties, on tour January/February 2014
About Big Girl Panties • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 21, 2014) Holly didn’t expect to be a widow at thirty-two. She also didn’t expect to be so big. After her husband’s death, food was the one thing she could always count on. Then she meets Logan Montgomery, a personal trainer so hot […]
Caeli Wolfson Widger, author of Real Happy Family, on tour March 2014
About Real Happy Family Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Lake Union/New Harvest (March 4, 2014) Part-time actress, full-time party girl Lorelei Branch isn’t famous yet, but she’s perfected a Hollywood lifestyle full of clubbing, fashion, and the latest juice cleanse. When Robin, her sister-in-law and agent, throws a plum job her way, Lorelei jumps at the chance […]
Sarah-Kate Lynch, author of The Wedding Bees, on tour January/February 2014
About The Wedding Bees • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (January 28, 2014) Sugar Wallace did not believe in love at first sight, but her bees did. . . . Every spring Sugar Wallace coaxes her sleepy honeybee queen—presently the sixth in a long line of Queen Elizabeths—out of the hive and lets her […]
Wiley Cash, author of This Dark Road to Mercy, on tour January/February 2014
About This Dark Road to Mercy • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (January 28, 2014) The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as “a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Michael Landweber, author of We, on tour February 2014
About We Paperback: 194 pages Publisher: Coffeetown Press (September 1, 2013) After an accident, forty-year-old Ben Arnold regains consciousness in the kitchen of the house he grew up in. Only he feels different, lighter somehow. Something is horribly wrong. Ben is swept into the arms of his mother, who he hasn’t seen in twenty years. She calls […]