About Nowhere but Home • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (April 2, 2013) The strategy on the gridiron of Friday Night Lights is nothing compared to the savagery of coming home . . . Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup . […]
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of The Great Escape, on tour April 2013
About The Great Escape • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) The dazzling sequel to Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s beloved bestseller Call Me Irresistible Lucy Jorik is a champ at not embarrassing her family—not surprising, since her mother is one of the most famous women in the world. But now Lucy has done […]
Lionel Shriver, author of The New Republic, on tour April 2013
About The New Republic • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he leaves his lucrative law career for a foreign correspondent post in a Portuguese backwater with a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes Barrington Saddler, the disappeared reporter he’s replacing, as the larger-than-life […]
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins, on tour April 2013
About Beautiful Ruins • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster […]
Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, on tour May 2013
About A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Hogarth (May 7, 2013) In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed–a failed physician–to the bombed-out hospital, […]
Kate Worsley, author of She Rises, on tour in June/July 2013
About She Rises Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (June 18, 2013) A panoramic historical novel of love, adventure, and identity—with an astonishing twist. It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young maid, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember—after all, it stole […]
Jenny Davidson, author of The Magic Circle, on tour April/May 2013
About The Magic Circle Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: New Harvest; 1 edition (March 26, 2013) Three young female academics design daring, boundary-pushing games—until one of them goes too far, in this contemporary thriller by an acclaimed Columbia University professor In the genre-bending literary thriller THE MAGIC CIRCLE, by Columbia University professor Jenny Davidson (Amazon Publishing/New Harvest, on […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, on tour May 2013
About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (March 11, 2013) A lush, exquisitely-rendered meditation on war, The God of Heavenly Punishment tells the story of several families, American and Japanese, their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses, and how they are all connected by one of the […]
Mary Kay McComas, author of Something About Sophie, on tour Mar/April 2013
About Something About Sophie • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 26, 2013) Clearfield, Virginia, is a sleepy, idyllic hamlet where residents welcome its comfortable, familiar routines. But when a newcomer arrives in town, long-buried secrets threaten to surface and destroy their haven . . . Answering a call that summons her to a stranger’s […]
Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance, on tour May 2013
About A Dual Inheritance Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 7, 2013) For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from […]