About When God Was a Rabbit Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 10, 2011) This is a book about a brother and a sister. It’s a book about best friends, the secrets forged in childhood, and starting over; about triumph and tragedy, and everything in between. More than anything, it’s a book about love […]
Sarah Addison Allen, author of The Peach Keeper, on tour April/May 2011
About The Peach Keeper Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Bantam (March 22, 2011) The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as […]
Ellen Sussman, author of French Lessons, on tour July 2011
About French Lessons Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 12, 2011) A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning not just about language but also about love and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways. . […]
Lorna Graham, author of The Ghost of Greenwich Village, on tour June/July 2011
About The Ghost of Greenwich Village Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 28, 2011) In this charming fiction debut, a young woman moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement—only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor. […]
Hilary Thayer Hamann, author of Anthropology of an American Girl, on tour June/July 2011
About Anthropology of an American Girl Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) This is what it’s like to be a high-school-age girl. To forsake the boyfriend you once adored. To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher. To discover for the first time the power […]
John Burnham Schwartz, author of Northwest Corner, on tour July/August 2011
About Northwest Corner Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters in a superb new […]
Ann Joslin Williams, author of Down From Cascom Mountain, on tour June/July 2011
About Down From Cascom Mountain Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (June 7, 2011) Set in rugged New Hampshire in the aftermath of a fatal accident, this assured debut novel wrestles with grief and desire as a young woman finds her way over the course of one summer. In Down From Cascom Mountain, newlywed Mary Hall […]
Simon Pegg, author of Nerd Do Well, on tour June 2011
About Nerd Do Well The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: actor, comedian, writer and self-proclaimed supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing […]
Mariah Stewart, author of Almost Home, on tour May/June 2011
About Almost Home Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) When she was young, Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days, Steffie is the proud owner of […]
Lynda Simmons, author of Island Girl, on tour May/June 2011
About Island Girl: Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (December 7, 2010) Do you have to forgive someone a lifetime of sins, just because they have Alzheimer’s? Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is the emotionally riveting story of a 55 year old mother, Ruby Donaldson, fighting to reunite her family as she struggles […]