About The Orchardist • Hardcover: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 21, 2012) At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and […]
Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie’s Son, on tour September 2012
About The Bookie’s Son Paperback: 248 pages Publisher: (sixoneseven) books (May 1, 2012) In 1960, as a way to pay off some of his debt, the bookie, Harry Davis, starts collecting loan payments for the Bronx gangster, Nathan Glucksman. Making his rounds, Harry visits a sweet tailor named Morris, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Whether […]
Patricia Harman, author of The Midwife of Hope River, on tour August/September 2012
About The Midwife of Hope River • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (August 28, 2012) Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour August/September 2012
About The Mirrored World • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 28, 2012) The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conventions, falls […]
David John, author of Flight From Berlin, on tour July 2012
About Flight From Berlin • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 10, 2012) August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis’ ruthless brutality, and he’s determined […]
Ami McKay, author of The Virgin Cure, on tour June/July 2012
About The Virgin Cure • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 26, 2012) From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City. “I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to […]
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of The Prisoner of Heaven, on tour July 2012
About The Prisoner of Heaven • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 10, 2012) The internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind andThe Angel’s Game must contend […]
Louisa Young, author of My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, on tour June/July 2012
About My Dear I Wanted To Tell You • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 26, 2012) The lives of two very different couples—an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart—are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. […]
Lois Leveen, author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser, on tour May 2012
About The Secrets of Mary Bowser • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 15, 2012) Based on a remarkable true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an inspiring tale of one daring woman’s willingness to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history All her life, Mary has been […]
Sarah McCoy, author of The Baker’s Daughter, on tour August 2012
About The Baker’s Daughter • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Broadway (August 14, 2012) In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country […]