CONTACT: Megan Wilson, megan.wilson@hmhpub.com LAST OF THE OLD GUARD by Louis Auchincloss “Auchincloss is our Trollope: a productive, elegant artist whose keen understanding of the small worlds his characters inhabit permits him to examine their surprising variety with an energy undiminished even this late (he is in his 90s) in his brilliant career. A small [...]
Archive of posts tagged fall 08
Shreve, Porter — When the White House Was Ours
WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS OURS by Porter Shreve “WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS OURS is as good as it gets . . . A tale of sheer delight—beautifully told in perfect pitch.” — Jim Lehrer, host of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer “[Shreve] tells smart, inventive, sociologically intriguing stories, and his latest is a [...]
Poole, Gary Andrew — The Galloping Ghost
CONTACT: Megan Wilson, megan.wilson@hmhpub.com THE GALLOPING GHOST: Red Grange, An American Football Legend Gary Andrew Poole This past January, ESPN named Harold “Red” Grange the greatest college football player ever. Yet for all his achievements, Grange has been a largely overlooked and unexplored icon, until now. In The Galloping Ghost, Gary Andrew Poole gives us [...]
Doig, Ivan – - The Eleventh Man
CONTACT: Taryn Roeder, taryn.roeder@hmhpub.com “Powerful and poignant…Entertaining reading from a deservedly popular chronicler of the American West.” –Booklist “Doig, as always, brings American history alive in a rousing narrative that doesn’t airbrush the past; questions of loyalty, courage and conscience, he shows, were just as complicated during World War II as they are today.” [...]
Simmonds, Posy — Tamara Drewe
CONTACT: Taryn Roeder, taryn.roeder@hmhpub.com “a satisfying and complex story…Simmonds’ artwork…invokes and sustains the moods of longing, jealousy, self-satisfaction, and fear as the characters dance a multilayered but unconfusing reel of lust, repentance, forgiveness, bereavement, and distrust.” — STARRED Booklist “A wonderful and slightly evil book.” — STARRED Publishers Weekly Tamara Drewe By Posy Simmonds [...]
Viswanathan, Padma — The Toss of a Lemon
CONTACT: Taryn Roeder, taryn.roeder@hmhpub.com “[Viswanathan's] narrative, refreshingly, is free of anachronism, and she has a pleasing way of engaging the reader’s senses….a piece with the recent works of Vikram Seth, and reminiscent at times of García Márquez—altogether a pleasure.” –Starred Kirkus Review The Toss of a Lemon A Novel By Padma Viswanathan Inspired by [...]
American Heritage (R) Dictionary — Curious George's Dictionary
Curious George’s Dictionary by the Editors of the American Heritage (R) Dictionaries Are You Curious About Words? From about and juggle to splash and vegetables, it’s fun to learn about words with George! For decades, Curious George has been delighting children with his insatiable curiosity. Now he turns his attention to the world of words [...]
Drayson, Nicholas — A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
“A charming love triangle in Nairobi, Kenya, forms the center of a novel that manages to be both sweet and gripping.” —Publishers Weekly “A lighthearted novel about birding and a wager to win the right to call a woman for a date.” —Kirkus “While the reader is pulled along by the suspense of the contest, [...]
Cashore, Kristin — Graceling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Fisch or Sarah Shealy barbara.fisch@hmhpub.com sarah.shealy@hmhpub.com “With this riveting debut, Cashore has set the bar exceedingly high.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Graceling: A Stunning Debut in Teen Fiction To say that Kristin Cashore’s debut has made a splash in the world of teen fiction is an understatement: She has taken [...]
Jiménez, Francisco — Reaching Out
“Too many children in the U.S. have never seen their lives in print, nor have they ever been told their story is extraordinary, nor that they themselves are courageous. I thank Francisco Jiménez for honoring all brave children who grow up poor in America.” — Sandra Cisneros From the acclaimed author Francisco Jiménez comes a [...]
