Laura L. Sullivan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-547-68951-7
Sullivan (Ladies in Waiting) presents a charming tale of mistaken identity, one that’s perhaps too lightweight for its historical setting. After Kristallnacht, German-Jewish Hannah arrives in England to stay with her snobbish relatives, but she is...
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Adam Shankman and Laura L. Sullivan. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4787-4
Shankman, a film producer, teams up with Sullivan (Love by the Morning Star) for a Depression-era rags-to riches/riches-to-rags story. Lucille O'Malley, 16, lives a mean existence in a Lower East Side tenement until an encounter with a mobster...
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Laura L. Sullivan. Berkley, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-48998-2
Sullivan (Girl About Town) cleverly reveals the untold story behind the Three Musketeers’ most notorious foe, the cunning Milady de Winter, in a novel best suited to those already familiar with the work of Alexandre Dumas. Milady starts her life as...
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Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura Sullivan. Bloomsbury, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0453-1
In her memoir about the transformative power of love, connection, and education, Sabic-El-Rayess revisits her life during the Bosnian civil war beginning shortly after her 16th birthday in 1992, and the ethnic cleansing of Muslims that she, her...
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Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, with Laura L. Sullivan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-39081-5
Collaborators Sabic-El-Rayess and Sullivan (The Cat I Never Named) tackle universal topics surrounding first crushes and bullying while also keenly depicting simmering ethnic tensions within communist Bosnia that would lead to war and genocide in...
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