About The Roots of the Olive Tree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 23, 2013) Courtney Miller Santo’s compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family— the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one another Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women living […]
Gregory Spatz, author of Half as Happy, on tour April 2013
About Half as Happy • Paperback: 188 pages • Publisher: Engine Books (April 16, 2013) With this beautiful and haunting collection, novelist Gregory Spatz joins the short list of truly great practitioners of the art of short fiction. These are narrative gems that will pull you in and won’t let go. The eight stories in Half as Happy reveal with startling clarity […]
Hit the Beach with the Dorothea Benton Frank Read Along, April – June 2013
To celebrate the release of Dorothea Benton Frank’s The Last Original Wife, we’re doing a read along that culminates in a cocktail party with Dorothea Benton Frank during Book Expo America. In order to qualify to attend the cocktail party, participants must: Read and review one of Dorothea Benton Frank’s back list titles as well […]
Tamar Myers, author of The Girl Who Married an Eagle, on tour May 2013
About The Girl Who Married an Eagle • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Based on actual events in Tamar Myers’s life, The Girl Who Married an Eagle is a beautiful addition to her Belgian Congo mystery series When Julia Elaine Newton, a young, pretty Ohio girl, volunteered to go on a mission […]
Isabel Allende, author of Maya’s Notebook, on tour April/May 2013
About Maya’s Notebook • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 23, 2013) Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful and outspoken, unconventionally wise with a mystical streak, and fiercely […]
Kimberly McCreight, author of Reconstructing Amelia, on tour April 2013
About Reconstructing Amelia • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper (April 2, 2013) When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call summoning her to her daughter’s exclusive private school, she’s shocked. Amelia has been suspended for cheating, something that would be completely out of character for her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter. Kate rushes to […]
Rhonda Riley, author of The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, on tour April/May 2013
About The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Ecco (April 23, 2013) In the waning months of World War II, young Evelyn Roe’s life is transformed when she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier, all but completely buried in the heavy red-clay soil on her family’s farm in North […]
Cecilia Ahern, author of The Time of My Life, on tour May 2013
About The Time of My Life • Paperback: 512 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 23, 2013) “Dear Lucy Silchester, You have an appointment for Monday, May 30, 2011. Yours sincerely, Life.” Lucy Silchester keeps receiving this appointment card and sweeping the envelope under the rug. Literally. Instead, she has busied herself with work (a […]
Mike Greenberg, author of All You Could Ask For, on tour April 2013
About All You Could Ask For • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 2, 2013) A tender and wonderfully insightful story of friendship, love, heartbreak, and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women, from an extraordinary and unexpected debut novelist—the host of the #1 sports talk show in America, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg Three […]
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train, on tour April 2013
About Orphan Train • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 2, 2013) Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a […]