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 […]
Liza Palmer, author of Nowhere but Home, on tour April 2013
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 […]