About Muckers Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (October 8, 2013) Sandra Neil Wallace’s debut historical fiction novel Muckers (Random House/Knopf; October 2013; ($16.99 U.S./$18.99 CAN.), is based on the true story of the 1950 Jerome Muckers football team and the championship season that rallied an Arizona town together and turned tragedy into a […]
William Kuhn, author of Mrs. Queen Takes the Train, on tour October 2013
About Mrs. Queen Takes the Train • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 8, 2013) After decades of service and years of watching her family’s troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain’s Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories—the former royal yacht, Britannia, […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour November 2013
About The House Girl • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 5, 2013) Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action suit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. […]
Jane O’Connor, author of Almost True Confessions, on tour October 2013
About Almost True Confessions • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (October 1, 2013) This comic mystery set in the elite zip codes of Manhattan will leave you breathless . . . literally What could be more fun for a freelance copy editor than work- ing on a juicy tell-all about one of Manhattan’s most […]
Helen Maryles Shankman, author of The Color of Light, on tour November 2013
About The Color of Light NEW YORK CITY, 1992. At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s […]
John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted, on tour September 2013
About Help for the Haunted • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon […]
Sena Jeter Naslund, author of The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, on tour September 2013
About The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013) “Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?” How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly […]
Wally Lamb, author of We Are Water, on tour October/November 2013
About We Are Water • Hardcover: 576 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 22, 2013) In middle age, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Anna has fallen in love with Vivica, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success. Anna and Viveca plan […]
Mitch Albom, author of The First Phone Call From Heaven, on tour November/December 2013
About The First Phone Call From Heaven • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 12, 2013) One autumn day, in a small town on Lake Michigan, the phones begin ringing. The people calling are all deceased. They talk about heaven. They say they are safe and happy. Each call is greeted differently—some with relief, some with love, some […]
Joanna Trollope, author of Sense & Sensibility, on tour October/November 2013
About Sense & Sensibility • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (October 29, 2013) John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half-sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood’s daughters. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, […]