About Shut Your Eyes Tight Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Crown (July 12, 2011) When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2011
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House (July 12, 2011) Every first Sunday in June, members of the colorful Moses clan gather for their annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. Samuel Lake, a handsome young preacher with a huge heart and strong convictions, […]
Jennifer Belle, author of The Seven Year Bitch, on tour June/July 2011
About The Seven Year Bitch Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Riverhead Trade (May 3, 2011) What’s a fabulously fun New York City girl to do when she finds herself in a matrimonial rut — disillusioned, sex life with her husband on the wane, and quickly turning into a big-time nag? No, she hasn’t gotten the seven-year […]
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
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. […]
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 […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for April 2011
We have THREE fabulous books in our Book Club of the Month contest for April! Can a box of recipes help a young woman understand her past and defend her future? Discussion topics for book clubs include self-discovery, autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, what it means to be “normal”, and finding comfort in the kitchen. The […]
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 […]
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, […]