About The Tusk That Did the Damage Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Knopf (March 10, 2015) From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an […]
Dora Levy Mossanen, author of Scent of Butterflies, on tour February/March 2015
About Scent of Butterflies Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (January 7, 2014) Betrayal, forgiveness, identity and obsession churn against the tumultuous landscape of the Islamic revolution and seemingly perfect gardens of southern California in this compelling novel from bestselling author Dora Levy Mossanen. Amidst a shattering betrayal and a country in turmoil, Soraya flees Iran to make a […]
Lynne Hugo, author of A Matter of Mercy, on tour January 2015
About A Matter of Mercy Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (August 1, 2014) Caroline Marcum thought she’d escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home […]
Tatjana Soli, author of The Last Good Paradise, on tour February 2015
About The Last Good Paradise Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (February 10, 2015) From New York Times bestselling author, Tatjana Soli, comes The Last Good Paradise… On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they’ve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to […]
Michelle Bailat-Jones, author of Fog Island Mountains, on tour November/December 2014
About Fog Island Mountains Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. (November 4, 2014) What if you could rewrite a tragedy? What if you could give grace to someone’s greatest mistake? Huddled beneath the volcanoes of the Kirishima mountain range in southern Japan, also called the Fog Island Mountains, the inhabitants of small town Komachi are waiting for […]
Ellen Hawley, author of The Divorce Diet, on tour January 2015
About The Divorce Diet Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Kensington (December 30, 2014) The Divorce Diet is dedicated to every woman who ever walked away from a relationship—or a diet. Abigail, an inspired cook and stay-at-home mother, decides to repair the problems in her marriage with a diet book for herself and an elaborate birthday dinner for her husband. […]
Victoria Fish, author of A Brief Moment of Weightlessness, on tour September/October 2014
About A Brief Moment of Weightlessness Publisher: Mayapple Press, June 2014 Short stories: 132 pages A Brief Moment of Weightlessness is a collection of short stories that illuminate the beauty and extraordinariness of “ordinary” lives. Each explores the human desire for connectedness and grace. The stories range from large upheavals such […]
Jim Snowden, author of The Summer of Long Knives, on tour September/October 2014
About The Summer of Long Knives Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Booktrope Editions (July 26, 2013) In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the […]
Liz Rosenberg, author of The Moonlight Palace, on tour October 2014
About The Moonlight Palace Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 1, 2014) Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over […]
Lynne Hugo, author of A Matter of Mercy, on tour September 2014
About A Matter of Mercy Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (August 1, 2014) Caroline Marcum thought she’d escaped the great mistake of her life by leaving Wellfleet harbor, but is forced to face it when she returns, reluctantly, to care for her dying mother. Ridley Neal put his past-and his prison term-behind him to return home […]