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, […]
Michael Chabon, author of Telegraph Avenue, on tour September 2013
About Telegraph Avenue • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 10, 2013) As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva […]
Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House, on tour September/October 2013
About The Round House • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 24, 2013) Washington Post Best Book of the Year New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are […]
Georgia Bockoven, author of Carly’s Gift, on tour September 2013
About Carly’s Gift • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 17, 2013) From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts forever What’s in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her […]
Kathleen McCleary, author of Leaving Haven, on tour October 2013
About Leaving Haven • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (October 1, 2013) Getting what you want is just the beginning. Now you have to discover what you truly need. . . . Georgia Bing and Alice Kinnaird have always been there for each other. Eager to help her best friend have another baby after several miscarriages, […]