About Hometown Girl Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (September 27, 2011) Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. […]
Katharine Britton, author of Her Sister’s Shadow, on tour October/November 2011
About Her Sister’s Shadow Paperback: 352 pagePublisher: Berkley Trade; 1st edition (June 7, 2011) Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call. Her elder sister Bea — at the family homestead in White Head, Massachusetts — has just lost her husband, and she’d like Lilli to fly home for […]
Karl Friedrich, author of Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, on tour October 2011
About Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011) Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for July 2011
We have FOUR fantastic books in our July Book Club of the Month Contest! _____________________________________________________________________ Immigrant life, father/son relationships, and the evolution of an unlikely writer Book Clubs will find all that and so much more to discuss in Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his […]
Michael Alenyikov, author of Ivan and Misha, on tour September 2011
About Ivan and Misha Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Triquarterly/Northwestern University Press (October 30, 2010) In Ivan and Misha, Michael Alenyikov portrays the complexities of love, sexuality, and the bonds of family with boldness and lyric sensitivity. As the Soviet Union collapses, two young brothers are whisked away from Kiev by their father to start life […]
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones, on tour September, 2011
About Salvage the Bones Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (September 8, 2011) A stunning new voice from the Gulf Coast delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, […]
Samantha Sotto, author of Before Ever After, on tour August 2011
About Before Ever After Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (August 2, 2011) What if ‘til death do us part meant more than you could ever know? In Samantha Sotto’s debut novel BEFORE EVER AFTER (Crown Trade: Aug. 2, 2011) a love story defies the bounds of time and space to redefine our notion of forever. […]
David Liss, author of The Twelfth Enchantment, on tour August 2011
About The Twelfth Enchantment Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Random House (August 9, 2011) Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill […]
Keith Cronin, author of Me Again, on tour September/October 2011
About Me Again Hardcover: 322 pages Publisher: Five Star (September 7, 2011) Miracles can be damned inconvenient. That’s what thirty-four-year-old stroke victim Jonathan Hooper learns when he wakes up after spending six years in a coma. Everyone calls Jonathan’s recovery a “miracle,” but since nobody had expected him to recover, his sudden awakening becomes an […]
Kamala Nair, author of The Girl in the Garden, on tour June/July 2011
About The Girl in the Garden Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 15, 2011) The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched […]