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 […]
Marie-Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas, on tour August 2014
About 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Crown (August 5, 2014) 2 A.M. AT THE CAT’S PAJAMAS begins on a quiet morning in a Philadelphia apartment the day before Christmas Eve, where we meet the precocious and smart-mouthed nine-year-old Madeleine Altimari. Madeleine’s mother has recently died, and her father is still lost in his […]
Heather Webb, author of Becoming Josephine, on tour September 2014
About Becoming Josephine Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (December 31, 2013) Rose Tascher sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris to trade her Creole black magic culture for love and adventure. She arrives exultant to follow her dreams of attending Court with Alexandre, her elegant aristocrat and soldier husband. But Alexandre dashes her hopes and abandons her […]
Jon Enfield, author of The New Men, on tour July/August 2014
About The New Men Print Length: 303 pages Publisher: Wayzgoose Press (May 14, 2014) For us, the new man, he is one of two things. First, he is the new worker, a man we instruct and investigate until his probation is complete. But also he is an idea. In the foundry, they make parts. On the line, […]
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure, on tour June/July 2014
About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
Julia Fierro, author of Cutting Teeth, on tour May/June 2014
About Cutting Teeth Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (May 13, 2014) One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. . Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors […]
Natalia Sylvester, author of Chasing the Sun, on tour June 2014
About Chasing the Sun Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: New Harvest (June 3, 2014) Partially inspired by her grandfather’s kidnapping in Peru, CHASING THE SUN: A Novel (Lake Union/New Harvest; on sale June 3, 2014) is Natalia Sylvester’s suspenseful debut about a man whose wife is kidnapped just as their marriage is falling apart. After going out for […]
Katharine Britton, author of Little Island, on tour May/June 2014
About Little Island Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (September 3, 2013) Grace Flowers By the water Have fun! These are Grace’s mother’s last words – left behind on a note. A note that Grace interprets as instructions for her memorial service. And so her far-flung clan will gather at their inn on Little Island, Maine, to […]
Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch, on tour July 2014
About Losing Touch Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Oneworld Publications (July 15, 2014) After Indian Independence Arjun brings his family to London, but hopes of a better life rapidly dissipate. His wife Sunila spends all day longing for a nice tea service, his son suddenly hates anything Indian, and his daughter, well, that’s a whole other […]
Doug Cooper, author of Outside In, on tour April/May 2014
About Outside In Hardcover: 253 pages Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press (August 13, 2013) From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd–recently forced out of his job as a junior […]