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Patti Callahan and BECOMING MRS LEWIS at 2018 BEA
Patti Callahan signed 150 advance reading copies of her highly anticipated fall novel BECOMING MRS. LEWIS, which was selected as a “Buzz Book” by booksellers for the annual Book Expo America gathering in New York at the Javits Center on May 30/18
Nathan Lents’ Essays in Wall Street Journal
Human Errors (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1, 2018) Nathan Lents has published an essay connected to his forthcoming book in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Botch of the Human Body.” Click here to see it…
The Bookshop at Water’s End
Congratulations to Patti Callahan Henry! Her latest novel THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER’S END is one of the three fiction finalists for SIBA’S 2018 Southern Book Prize in the highly competitive category of novels about Women and Family..
The Art of the Wasted Day
Common Good Bookstore hosted the launch publication reading of THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY by Patricia Hampl in St. Paul. Nearly 250 readers braved a historic April 16/18 blizzard to attend the event which took place at Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel of Macalester College. Her agent Marly Rusoff, who nearly thirty years ago served as a bridesmaid at Hampl’s wedding to her late husband Terrence William, to who the book is dedicated, flew in from NY to introduce Hampl to those gathered.
The Art of the Wasted Day
Patricia Hampl’s THE ART OF THE WASTED DAY receives three Starred reviews before its April 17, 2018 publication
Winter Sisters
Robin Oliveira’s WINTER SISTERS is listed in the February 25, 2018 issue of USA Today as one of five “don’t miss” titles…
The Scribe of Sienna
Melodie Winawer’s debut novel THE SCRIBE OF SIENNA, to be published in May, 2017 by Touchstone, has received two starred early reviews,Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly, which called her novel “a prodigious, vibrant tale of past and present that transports readers and fills in the historical gaps. This is a marvelous work of research and invention.”
No Man’s Land
Simon Tolkien, author of NO MANS LAND, was featured in a Wall Street Journal interview, “A Tale of Two Tolkiens,” on December 27, 20016.
Border Child
Michel Stone’s BORDER CHILD, to be published by Nan A Talese in April, 2017, has been optioned for film by Steve Jimenez who is writing the screenplay.
The Scattering
THE SCATTERING, Book Two in the Outliers YA Trilogy by New York Times bestselling novelist Kimberly McCreight will be published by Harper Collins on May 2, 2017; in a rave Kirkus review, it was called “an unputdownable thriller… a riveting adventure that rewards returning readers.” Optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon and Lionsgate.