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Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea, on tour August/September 2014
About The Story of Land and Sea • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 26, 2014) Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave—characters who yearn for redemption amid a heady […]
Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of GI Brides, on tour September 2014
About GI Brides • Paperback: 592 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (September 2, 2014) They left everything behind to follow their hearts. . . . True stories that illuminate the experiences of British war brides in America after World War II American soldiers stationed in the UK came away winning more than […]
Lacy Crawford, author of Early Decision, on tour August/September 2014
About Early Decision • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 26, 2014) A delightful and salacious novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up Anne Arlington is twenty-seven, single, and in demand: she is the […]
Susan Gloss, author of Vintage, on tour September 2014
About Vintage • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 2, 2014) A small-town girl with a flair for fashion, Violet Turner had always dreamed of owning a shop like Hourglass Vintage. But when faced with the possibility of losing the store to an unscrupulous developer, she realizes that despite her usual […]
Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes & The Debutante Divorcee, on tour August/September 2014
About Bergdorf Blondes • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reissue edition (August 19, 2014) The tenth anniversary edition of New York Times bestselling author Plum Sykes’s timeless satire Bergdorf Blondes are a thing, you know, a New York craze. Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but it’s actually très difficult. You wouldn’t believe the dedication […]
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Story Hour, on tour August/September 2014
About The Story Hour • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014) From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, love, and second chances. An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she agrees to treat a young Indian […]
Thomas McNeely, author of Ghost Horse, on tour October 2014
About Ghost Horse • Publisher: Gival Press Set amidst the social tensions of 1970’s Houston, Ghost Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Buddy Turner’s shifting alliances within his fragmented family and with two other boys—one Anglo, one Latino—in their quest to make a Super-8 animated movie. As his father’s many secrets begin to unravel, Buddy […]
Roland Allnach, author of Prism, on tour October/November 2014
About Prism • Paperback: 282 pages • Publisher: All Things That Matter Press (July 3, 2014) Prism presents the best of Roland Allnach’s newest stories together with his most acclaimed published short fiction. These selected stories fracture the reader’s perceptions among a dazzling array of genres and styles to illuminate the mysterious aspects of the human experience. Roland Allnach […]
Joshilyn Jackson, author of Someone Else’s Love Story, on tour August/September 2014
About Someone Else’s Love Story • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 5, 2014) For single mom Shandi Pierce, life is a juggling act. She’s finishing college, raising precocious three-year-old Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents.Then she gets caught in the middle of a stickup at a gas […]