About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]
Timothy Taylor, author of The Blue Light Project, on tour June/July 2011
About The Blue Light Project Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press (April 12, 2011) When an armed man seizes a television studio in the center of town, Thom Pegg, a former investigative journalist turned tabloid reporter, is as surprised as anyone to learn that he is the only person to whom the hostage taker […]
M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist, on tour June 2011
About The Hypnotist Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Mira; Trade Paperback Edition (April 19, 2011) We are celebrating the trade paperback release of The Hypnotist with another tour! The Hypnotist is part of the non-sequential series, The Reincarnationist. Each book is a free standing novel, all set in the same world but with different main characters. […]
Joseph Braude, author of The Honored Dead, on tour June/July 2011
About The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our […]
Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Close Your Eyes, on tour July/August 2011
About Close Your Eyes Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets. For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her […]
Craig Robinson, author of A Game of Character, on tour May/June 2011
About A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (May 3, 2011) This inspirational memoir by Craig Robinson pays tribute to his parents, his coaches, and the lessons his experiences have taught him. Foreword by Marian Robinson When he stepped into history’s […]
Cheryl Robinson, author of Remember Me, on tour August 2011
About Remember Me Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: NAL Trade (August 2, 2011) What happens when the loyalty that defines the friendship of two women is tested? For Mia and Danielle, finding the answer takes a lifetime… Mia Marks is a black girl from inner-city Detroit with an eye for the hottest fashions and a penchant […]
Stefan Merrill Block, author of The Storm at the Door, on tour June/July 2011
About The Storm at the Door Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House (June 21, 2011) The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two […]
Lisa Grunwald, author of The Irresistible Henry House, on tour August 2011
About The Irresistible Henry House Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 16, 2011) It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, […]
Gail Caldwell, author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home, on tour August 2011
About Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail […]