About The Dispatcher Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 27, 2011) The phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months. So begins Ian Hunt’s fight to get his daughter back. Hunt is a police dispatcher in the small East Texas town of Bulls Mouth. The call comes at the end of […]
Jean Davies Okimoto, author of Walter’s Muse, on tour February/March 2012
About Walter’s Muse Publisher: Endicott & Hugh Books Publication date: 2/1/2012 Pages: 285 It’s the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie’s summer becomes about […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma Rose, on tour February/March 2012
About Sonoma Rose Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 21, 2012) From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but flawed man. As the […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012
About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]
Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes, on tour March/April 2012
About A Partial History of Lost Causes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: The Dial Press (March 20, 2012) In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned […]
Cori Howard, author and editor of Between Interruptions, on tour January 2012
About Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood Paperback: 328 pages Publisher: The Momoir Project; First Trade Paper Edition edition (May 5, 2009) Between Interruptions is a remarkable collection of original and heartfelt essays about the process of becoming a mother. Written by a wide range of mothers – from a Hollywood celebrity to an […]
Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments, on tour March 2012
About Enchantments Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Random House (March 6, 2012) From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire. St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is […]
Doc Hendley, author of Wine to Water, on tour January 2012
About Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Avery (January 5, 2012) The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who’s changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events […]
Sandra Newman, author of The Western Lit Survival Kit, on tour January 2012
About The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Gotham (January 3, 2012) A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we […]
Anna Lefler, author of The CHICKtionary, on tour November/December 2011
About The CHICKtionary: from A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know: Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Adams Media (October 19, 2011) Your bestie, biffle, and GMF rolled into one! You’re all over the definitions of “low lights,” “ruching,” and a “tankini.” But can you spot a “Mrs. Potato Head” when you see one? […]