About Don’t Breathe a Word • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 17, 2011) On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place […]
Jennifer McMahon, author of Promise Not to Tell and Island of Lost Girls, on tour April/May 2011
About Promise Not to Tell • Paperback: 250 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 10, 2007) Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who’s afflicted with Alzheimer’s. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate’s childhood. […]
Emily Chenoweth, author of Hello Goodbye, on tour June/July 2011
About Hello Goodbye • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 14, 2011) In the summer after her freshman year of college, Abby Hansen embarks on what might be a final vacation with her parents to a historic resort in northern New Hampshire. The Presidential Hotel, with its stately rooms and old-fashioned dress code, […]
Tessa Hadley, author of The London Train, on tour May/June 2011
About The London Train • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 24, 2011) Long-listed for the Orange Prize Unsettled by the recent death of his mother, Paul sets out in search of Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, who has disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Discovering her pregnant and living illegally […]
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. . […]
Colleen Morton Busch, author of Fire Monks, on tour July 2011
About Fire Monks • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011) Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara by Colleen Morton Busch pivots on the kind of moment some seek and some run from, when life and death hang in simultaneous view. When a massive wildfire surrounded […]
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 […]
Ellen Airgood, author of South of Superior, on tour June 2011
About South of Superior • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (June 9, 2011) “A heartfelt ode to the simpler things in life.” —Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County A debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. […]