• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 28, 2012)

During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape “the life.”

In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. With great humanity, she shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped—small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole. Revelatory, authentic, and brave, Girls Like Us is an unforgettable memoir.

Photo credit Tracy Toler Photography

About Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is the founder and executive director of GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. The recipient of numerous fellowships and honors, including the prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award, Lloyd was a leading advocate for the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, which made New York the first state to protect, not prosecute, sexually exploited children. She lives in New York City.

Visit the GEMS website.

Rachel’s Tour Stops

Tuesday, February 28th: Take Me Away

Wednesday, February 29th: The House of the Seven Tails

Thursday, March 1st: Jenny Loves to Read

Monday, March 5th: The Feminist Texican

Tuesday, March 6th: Book Hooked Blog

Wednesday, March 7th: Sidewalk Shoes

Thursday, March 8th: Melody & Words

Monday, March 12th: Elle Lit

Tuesday, March 13th: Jenn’s Bookshelves

Wednesday, March 14th: Books Like Breathing

Thursday, March 15th: Broken Teepee

Friday, March 16th: Good Girl Gone Redneck

Monday, March 19th: The Englishist

Wednesday, March 21st: Buried in Print

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (March 13, 2012)

A Must-Have Guide for the Smart Vegan

A vegan lifestyle is the newest hot health trend—thanks in no small part to the smart, fearless, and number one New York Times bestselling Skinny Bitch books. But with so much conflicting information out there, it’s not always easy to make the best choices. Now Skinny Bitch coauthor Kim Barnouin is back with a book that makes making the right vegan choice easy. In Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps, Kim Barnouin takes the mystery out of following a plant-based diet. It’s a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that tells you what foods look healthy, but actually aren’t, and explains how to avoid the stuff you don’t want. And because Kim knows that the concerns of today’s savvy eaters run the gamut from calories to carbon footprints, she explains it all.

Skinny Bitch Book of Vegan Swaps offers exciting and tasty alternatives for vegans, whether you’re just starting out or have been a vegan for years. Barnouin’s fun, no-nonsense voice sparkles on every page and in helpful lists and features like:

• The Best Places for Vegans to Grocery Shop
• Delicious Swaps for Your Favorite Dairy Products
• Top Ten Things to Eat While Stranded in an Airport

Photo Credit Sarah Kehoe

About Kim Barnouin

Kim Barnouin holds a master of science in holistic nutrition. A former model, she is the author or coauthor of seven books and has successfully counseled models, actors, athletes, and other professionals using the Skinny Bitch method. She lives in Los Angeles.

Website | Facebook | Twitter

Night Swim by Jessica Keener

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children – but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well for the Kunitz family. Coming home from school, Sarah finds her well-dressed, pill popping mother lying disheveled on their living room couch. At night, to escape their parents’ arguments, Sarah and her oldest brother, Peter, find solace in music, while her two younger brothers retreat to their rooms and imaginary lives. Any vestige of decorum and stability drains away when their mother dies in a car crash one terrible winter day. Soon after, their father, a self-absorbed, bombastic professor begins an affair with a younger colleague. Sarah, aggrieved, dives into two summer romances that lead to unforeseen consequences. In a story that will make you laugh and cry, Night Swim shows how a family, bound by heartache, learns to love again.

“This memorable debut will strike a universal chord with readers” –Hazel Rochman, Booklist

“Moving,” –The New York Times, Newly Released Books

“Keener’s observations perfectly capture a certain kind of 1970s adolescence” –The Boston Globe

“Night Swim is the deeply moving and devastatingly beautiful work of a fearless writer.” –Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants

“I loved this novel! It was just breathtaking…The pages ached.” –Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

“This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice.” –Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of A Visit From the Goon Squad

Please fill out our super short registration form (<—click here) by February 29th for a chance to win a set of up to ten copies of Night Swim for your book club! We will randomly choose a winner at the end of the month. This contest is open to clubs in the US and Canada only (our apologies to friends in other countries).

Best of luck!

We LOVE Book Clubs!

]]> http://tlcbooktours.com/2012/02/book-club-of-the-month-contest-for-february-2012/feed/ 2 http://tlcbooktours.com/2012/01/raymond-moody-and-paul-perry-authors-of-paranormal-on-tour-february-2012/ http://tlcbooktours.com/2012/01/raymond-moody-and-paul-perry-authors-of-paranormal-on-tour-february-2012/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:37:25 +0000 admin http://tlcbooktours.com/?p=18199 About Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: HarperOne (February 7, 2012)

From the bestselling author of Life After Life and pioneer researcher and leading authority on near-death experiences comes Paranormal, an intimate look at a lifetime spent fearlessly wrestling with humankind’s most important and perplexing question:

What happens when we die?

Moody traces the roots of his obsession with the point of death and how, at age twenty-three, he launched the entirely new medical field of near-death studies. He went on to explore the world of past lives and possible reincarnation before stumbling into the fascinating realm of facilitated visions. Moody’s rural research center, Theater of the Mind, dramatically advances paranormal research by melding ancient and modern techniques to arouse many of the transformative elements of the near-death experience in people who are still living.

After more than four decades of studying death and the possibility of an afterlife, Moody still sees endless promise in the fringes of psychological sciences, where he continues to seek answers to what happens to our souls after death.

About Raymond Moody

Raymond Moody, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned author, lecturer, and psychiatrist whose seminal work, Life After Life, completely changed the way we view death and dying. He is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading expert in the field of near-death experience.

Visit Dr. Moody at his website.

About Paul Perry

Paul Perry is an internationally bestselling author who has co-written nine books on near-death experience.

Tour Stops for Paranormal

Tuesday, February 7th: Chunky Monkey

Wednesday, February 8th: Bookfoolery and Babble

Thursday, February 9th: Luxury Reading

Monday, February 13th: Books Like Breathing

Tuesday, February 14th: Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, February 15th: Domesticated

Thursday, February 16th: Ronni’s Psychic Room

Monday, February 20th: Paganites

Tuesday, February 21st: Sitting in the South

Wednesday, February 22nd: Michael Prescott’s Blog

Thursday, February 23rd: Pieces of Fate

Monday, January 30th: Melody & Words (Faith)

Monday, January 30th: Coffee and a Book Chick (Baker Towers)

Tuesday, January 31st: Write Meg (Faith)

Wednesday, February 1st: A Cozy Reader’s Corner (Mrs. Kimble)

Wednesday, February 1st: Unabridged Chick (Baker Towers)

Thursday, February 2nd: Broken Teepee (Faith)

New by Winifred Gallegher

Monday, January 30th: Eco-Friendly and Frugal

Monday, January 30th: My Year(s) of Spending Less and Living More

Wednesday, February 1st: Everyday Simplicity

.

.

All the Flowers in Shanghai by Duncan Jepson

Monday, January 30th: The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

Tuesday, January 31st: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

.

.

.

Night Swim by Jessica Keener

Monday, January 30th: Stephany Writes

Wednesday, February 1st: The Lost Entwife

.

.

.

Take a Deep Breath by Dr. Nina Shapiro

Monday, January 30th: Moms Clean Air Force

Wednesday, February 1st: As They Grow Up

.

.

.

The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones

Monday, January 30th: Mysteries and My Musings

Wednesday, February 1st: Life in Review

.

.

.

Wine to Water by Doc Hendley

Monday, January 30th:  Broken Teepee

.

.

.

.

Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein

Tuesday, January 31st: Sara’s Organized Chaos

Wednesday, February 1st: Book Hooked Blog

Thursday, February 2nd: Book Addiction

Friday, February 3rd: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

Friday, February 3rd: Family Volley

All There Is by Dave Isay

Tuesday, January 31st: Amused By Books

Wednesday, February 1st: A Bookish Way of Life

Thursday, February 2nd: Amusing Review

Friday, February 3rd: Book Hooked Blog

.

Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg

Tuesday, January 31st: The Feminist Texican

Wednesday, February 1st: Living Single

Thursday, February 2nd: Rachel’s Musings

Friday, February 3rd: Book Club Classics!

.

The Ruins of Us by Keija Parssinen

Tuesday, January 31st: Col Reads

Wednesday, February 1st: The House of the Seven Tails

Thursday, February 2nd: Raging Bibliomania

.

.

Graveminder by Melissa Marr

Tuesday, January 31st: Elle Lit.

Wednesday, February 1st: The Scarlet Letter

Thursday, February 2nd: Savvy Verse & Wit

.

.

The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

Tuesday, January 30th: Just Joanna*

Wednesday, February 1st: Book Reviews by Molly*

Thursday, February 2nd: A Library of My Own*

*also reading Jane Eyre

.

.

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

Tuesday, January 31st: Unabridged Chick

Wednesday, February 1st: Books Like Breathing

Thursday, February 2nd: nomadreader RESCHEDULED

.

.

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace by Tamara Chalabi

Tuesday, January 31st: BookNAround

.

.

.

.

Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante

Tuesday, January 31st: Jenn’s Bookshelves (Prime Suspect and A Face in the Crowd)

.

.

.

.

First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty

Wednesday, February 1st: It’s a Crazy, Beautiful Life

Thursday, February 2nd: Bookstack

Friday, February 3rd: oodles of books

.

.

Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus

Wednesday, February 1st: Library of Clean Reads

.

.

.

.

The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Gotham (March 15, 2012)

The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time.

Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling showman who transformed American music. His life offstage was just as vibrant, but until now no biographer has delivered a complete profile. The One draws on interviews with more than 100 people who knew Brown personally or played with him professionally. Using these sources, award-winning writer RJ Smith draws a portrait of a man whose twisted and amazing life helps us to understand the music he made.

The One delves deeply into the story of a man who was raised in abject poverty in the segregated South but grew up to earn (and lose) several fortunes. Covering everything from Brown’s unconventional childhood (his aunt ran a bordello), to his role in the Black Power movement, which used “Say It Loud (I’m Black and Proud)” as its anthem, to his high-profile friendships, to his complicated family life, Smith’s meticulous research and sparkling prose blend biography with a cultural history of a pivotal era. At the heart of The One is Brown’s musical genius, as Smith traces the legend’s reinvention of funk, soul, R&B, and pop, and his evolution as an artist whose crucial influence spans at least 5 decades.

About R.J. Smith

RJ Smith has been a Senior Editor at Los Angeles magazine, a contributor to Blender, a columnist for the Village Voice, a staff writer for Spin, and has written for GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Vogue.  His first book, The Great Black Way: LA in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and recipient of a California Book Award.  He lives in Los Angeles.

.

.

.

Monday, January 23rd: One Frugal Girl

.

.

.

Situations Matter by Sam Sommers

Monday, January 23rd: Less Ordinary Living

Tuesday, January 24th: Elizabeth Potts Weinstein

.

.

Between Interruptions by Cori Howard

Monday, January 23rd:  Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Tuesday, January 24th:  From Tracie

Wednesday, January 25th:  Red Headed Book Child

Thursday, January 26th:  There’s a Book.

.

Wine to Water by Doc Hendley

Monday, January 23rd:  Book Addiction

Tuesday, January 24th:  The Things We Read

Wednesday, January 25th:  Books and Boston

Thursday, January 26th:  Helen’s Book Blog

Friday, January 27th:  The Green Geek

.

The Western Lit Survival Kit by Sandra Newman

Monday, January 23rd:  Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms 

Tuesday, January 24th:  Sarah Reads Too Much

Wednesday, January 25th:  Literary Musings

Thursday, January 26th:  Between the Covers

.

Graveminder by Melissa Marr

Monday, January 23rd: Books Like Breathing

Tuesday, January 24th: Jenny Loves to Read

Wednesday, January 25th: Life in Review

Thursday, January 26th: Reviews by Lola

.

Faith by Jessica Keener

Monday, January 23rd: Teresa’s Reading Corner (Mrs. Kimble)

Tuesday, January 24th: Book Hooked Blog (Faith)

Wednesday, January 25th: Unabridged Chick (Baker Towers)

Thursday, January 26th: Amusing Reviews (Faith)

Friday, January 27th: Book Journey (The Condition)

.

The Ruins of Us by Keija Parssinen

Monday, January 23rd: Book Club Classics!

Tuesday, January 24th: Wandering Thoughts of a Scientific Housewife

Thursday, January 26th: Peeking Between the Pages

.

Our Man in the Dark by Rashad Harrison

Monday, January 23rd: A Bookish Way of Life

Wednesday, January 25th: Reflections of a Bookaholic

Thursday, January 26th: Layers of Thought

Thursday, January 26th: A Bookish Affair

Friday, January 27th: Joyfully Retired

.

Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank

Tuesday, January 24th: Hospitable Pursuits

Wednesday, January 25th: All Grown Up?

.

.

Night Swim by Jessica Keener

Tuesday, January 24th: A Soul Unsung

Wednesday, January 25th: Boarding in My Forties

Thursday, January 26th: Sarah Reads Too Much

.

.

Prime Suspect series by Lynda La Plante

Wednesday, January 25th: Wordsmithonia (Prime Suspect)

.

.

.

Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus

Thursday, January 26th: Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms

.

.

.

.

Here’s the schedule for the tour:
March 5th – 9th – The first six books in the Maisie Dobbs series
March 12th – 16th – The Mapping of Love and Death
March19th – 23rd – A Lesson in Secrets
March 26th – 30th – Elegy for Eddie

March 5th – March 9th

About Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas. Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.

About Birds of a Feather

An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-go-lucky Billy Beale. She has proven herself as a psychologist and investigator, and has even won over Detective Inspector Stratton of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad—an admirable achievement for a woman who worked her way from servant to scholar to sleuth, and who also served as a battlefield nurse in the Great War.

It’s now the early Spring of 1930. Stratton is investigating a murder case in Coulsden, while Maisie has been summoned to Dulwich to find a runaway heiress. The woman is the daughter of Joseph Waite, a wealthy self-made man who has lavished her with privilege but kept her in a gilded cage. His domineering ways have driven her off before, and now she’s bolted again.

About Pardonable Lies

In the third novel of this unique and masterly crime series, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but also to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. Determined to prove Ralph Lawton either dead or alive, Maisie is plunged into a case that tests her spiritual strength, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission will bring her to France and reunite her with her old friend Priscilla Evernden, who lost three brothers in the war, one of whom has an intriguing connection to the case.

Set against a finely drawn portrait of life between the World Wars, Pardonable Lies is “a thrilling mystery that will enthrall fans of Jacqueline Winspear’s heroine and likely win her new ones” (Detroit Free Press).

About Messenger of Truth

London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick’s twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isn’t convinced.

When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city’s art world.

About An Incomplete Revenge

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw on her finely-honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.

About Among the Mad

Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Prime Minister’s office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met—and the writer mentions Maisie by name. Tapped by Scotland Yard’s elite Special Branch to be a special adviser on the case, Maisie is soon involved in a race against time to find a man who proves he has the knowledge and will to inflict destruction on thousands of innocent people.

In Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet.

March 12th – 16th

About The Mapping of Love and Death

August 1914. As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in California’s beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe—and duty-bound to his father’s native country, the young cartographer soon sets sail for England to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.

April 1932. After Michael’s remains are unearthed in France, his parents retain London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs, hoping she can find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among their late son’s belongings. It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love—and to the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his dugout. Suddenly an exposed web of intrigue and violence threatens to ensnare the dead soldier’s family and even Maisie herself as she attempts to cope with the impending loss of her mentor and the unsettling awareness that she is once again falling in love.

March 19th – 23rd

About A Lesson in Secrets

In the summer of 1932, the career of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment from the British Secret Service. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.”

When the college’s controversial pacifist founder, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, however, Maisie is directed to stand back as her colleagues in Scotland Yard spearhead the investigation. But she soon discovers that the circumstances of Liddicote’s death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty members and students under her surveillance. To unravel this web, the investigator must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain’s conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising power of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei—the Nazi Party—as the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon.

March 26th – 30th

About Elegy for Eddie

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Harper (March 27, 2012)

In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—“less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power. Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, or other Maisie Dobbs mysteries—and an ideal place for new readers to enter the series—Elegy for Eddie is an incomparable work of intrigue and ingenuity, full of intimate descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars, from one of the most highly acclaimed masters of mystery, Jacqueline Winspear.

In addition to the blog tour, the following Twitter chats have been scheduled. Discussions will be about Maisie, mysteries, and more. Follow the #Maisie hashtag on Twitter to participate:

Friday, March 16, 3 PM EST
JENNIFER BARTH
VP and Executive Editor, Harper Books

Friday, March 23, 3 PM EST
ELAINE PETROCELLI
Founder and President of Book Passage

Friday, March 30, 3 PM EST
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series

The discussion of Maisie Dobbs on Twitter will run all month long and beyond, so be sure to follow the #Maisie hashtag so you can participate.

About Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. Following higher education at the University of London’s Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education, and in marketing communications in the UK.

She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer.

A regular contributor to journals covering international education, Jacqueline has published articles in women’s magazines and has also recorded her essays for KQED radio in San Francisco. She lives in California and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom and Europe.

Jacqueline’s novels thus far—Maisie Dobbs, Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies, Messenger of Truth, An Incomplete Revenge, and Among the Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death, and A Lesson in Secrets are set in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with the roots of each story set in the Great War, 1914–1918. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards.

Find out more about Jacqueline at her website, www.jacquelinewinspear.com, and find her on Facebook.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 6, 2012)

An unexpected treasure: A long-lost novel of innocence threatened, by the author of the beloved classic The Moonflower Vine

The time: 1941, at the cusp of America’s entry into World War II. The place: southwest Missouri, on the edge of the Ozark Mountains. A young single woman named Allen Liles has taken a job as a junior college teacher in a small town, although she dreams of living in New York City, of dancing at recitals, of absorbing the bohemian delights of the Village. Then she encounters two young men: George, a lanky, carefree spirit, and Toby, a dark-haired, searching soul with a wary look in his eyes. Soon the three strike up an after-school friendship, bantering and debating over letters, ethics, and philosophy—innocently at first, but soon in giddy flirtation—until Allen and one of the young men push things too far, and the quiet happiness she has struggled so hard to discover is thrown into jeopardy.

About Jetta Carleton

Jetta Carleton was born in 1913 in Holden, Missouri, and earned a master’s degree at the University of Missouri. She worked as a schoolteacher, a radio copywriter in Kansas City, and a television advertising copywriter in New York City. She and her husband settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they ran a small publishing house, The Lightning Tree. She died in 1999. The Moonflower Vine was, until now, her only published novel.

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Deluxe edition (February 28, 2012)

When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to Les Genévriers, an abandoned house set among the fragrant lavender fields of the south of France. Deeply in love and surrounded by music, books, and the heady summer scents of the French countryside, Eve has never felt more alive. But as verdant summer fades to golden autumn, the grand house’s strange and troubling mysteries begin to unfold—and Eve now must uncover its every secret . . . before dark history can repeat itself.

About Deborah Lawrenson

Deborah Lawrenson grew up in Kuwait, China, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Singapore. She studied English at Cambridge University and has worked as a journalist for various publications in England, including the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, and Woman’s Journal magazine. She lives in Kent, England, and she and her family spend as much time as possible at a crumbling hamlet in Provence, France, the setting for The Lantern.

Website | Blog | Facebook