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 […]
Anita Amirrezvani, author of Equal of the Sun, on tour June 2012
About Equal of the Sun Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Scribner (June 5, 2012) Legendary women–from Anne Boleyn to Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scotts—changed the course of history in the royal courts of sixteenth century England, they are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world […]
Nicole Galland, author of I, Iago, on tour April/May 2012
About I, Iago • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 24, 2012) From the author of The Fool’s Tale comes a brilliantly-crafted retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello in which the “true” motivations of literature’s greatest villain, Iago, are revealed. Everyone knows Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of friendship and betrayal, love and jealousy: Othello. But the real […]
Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone, on tour May 2012
About The Chaperone • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 5, 2012) A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, […]
Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests, on tour May 2012
About The Uninvited Guests • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 1, 2012) With some apprehension, the Torrington family is about to celebrate the twentieth birthday of Emerald, the second of three children. Their housekeeper, Florence, plans an elaborate dinner for the family and a few close friends. Charlotte and her children—the romantically handsome […]