About Joy for Beginners Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (June 9, 2011) Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read.” —Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate’s recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain […]
Summer Wood, author of Wrecker, on tour April/May 2011
About Wrecker Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (February 15, 2011) Set amid the giant trees of northern California’s magical Lost Coast, Wrecker is the story of a nearly broken boy who unexpectedly finds a family. After foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood tried to imagine a place where kids who are left […]
Jael McHenry, author of The Kitchen Daughter, on tour April/May 2011
About The Kitchen Daughter: Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gallery; Original edition (April 12, 2011) After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna […]
Rainbow Rowell, author of Attachments, on tour April/May 2011
About Attachments Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (April 14, 2011) Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can’t seem […]
Anene Tressler, author of Dancing with Gravity, on tour April 2011
About Dancing with Gravity Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press “Whether we love–or fail to love–there is always a cost.” – Nikolai Father Whiting is asleep in his own life. As a St. Louis priest and the head of Pastoral Care at a local teaching hospital, he’s already on edge wondering if he’s up […]
Fred Venturini, author of The Samaritan, on tour March 2011
About The Samaritan Paperback: 210 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and weathered and sometimes only visible if someone cuts deep enough. Scars keep the past just close enough to touch, but healing is forgetting. Healing […]
Meg Wolitzer, author of The Uncoupling, on tour April 2011
About The Uncoupling “Wolitzer writes of a spell cast upon a town—but she superbly casts it upon the reader as well. This deftly written tale of bewildered women (and their men) is always surprising and always engaging, both funny and serious at the same time, a wonderful read.”—Elizabeth Strout, New York Times–bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge Hardcover: 288 pages […]
Sarah Blake, author of THE POSTMISTRESS, on tour March 2011
About The Postmistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reprint edition (February 1, 2011) An ocean apart, two women—Frankie Bard, a gifted, intrepid, and beautiful young radio journalist in London to report on the Blitz, and Iris James, the dedicated, spinster postmistress of Franklin, Massachusetts—are entrusted with letters that concern the same man, to be […]
Anna Quindlen, author of EVERY LAST ONE, on tour March/April 2011
About Every Last One Format: Random House Trade Paperback 400 pages On Sale: March 22, 2011 In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions. Mary Beth Latham […]
Yann Martel, author of Beatrice and Virgil, on tour February/March 2011
About Beatrice and Virgil Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition (February 22, 2011) Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry […]