The Garden Intrigue

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 16, 2012)

Just in time for the post-Valentine’s Day chocolate hangover, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE is the latest novel in the nationally bestselling Pink Carnation series by RITA Award winner Lauren Willig (Dutton, On sale: February 16, 2012). In this ninth installment, long-time readers and newcomers alike will be delighted to meet a character sure to become a fan favorite—a poet whose fervent ardor leads him to declare his feelings for the Pink Carnation in atrociously overwrought verse.

Lovable modern day grad student Eloise Kelly is back and on the trail of the Pink Carnation when she discovers a wretched poem among the papers of a code book. Poetry penned by the notorious fop Augustus Whittlesby for Jane Wooliston (aka the Pink Carnation)—Eloise can’t help but wonder; can anyone really be that bad of a poet? Or is something else hiding behind his putridly saccharine words? Back in 1804, New York born Paris socialite Emma Morris Delgardie doesn’t think so. She’s too busy sipping champagne to notice Whittlesby’s strange interest in a top-secret device Napoleon has commissioned. Unfortunately for Emma, she’s the poet’s entrée into the emperor’s inner circle. Fortunately for Augustus, this plucky American heroine could turn out to be his true muse.

Acclaim for Lauren Willig’s novels is as plentiful as her quirky and charming cast of characters: Marie Claire called her writing “History textbook meets Bridget Jones,” and Library Journal compared the series to “getting a plate of warm-from the oven chocolate chips cookies; it’s hard not to eat them all at once, but you want to savor each bite.”

The perfect addition to a much-beloved series, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE will leave readers clamoring for more of the spunky Eloise Kelly and the ever elusive Pink Carnation.

“As fresh and charming as its floral theme.”                                 

-Kirkus Reviews

“Enlightening and entertaining as always, and full of plenty of romance and intrigue.”                               

–Library Journal

“Readers will be pleased to see the spy who inspired the series in action and will enjoy the charming, witty rapport between Augustus and Emma.”

–Booklist

About Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is the bestselling author of eight previous Pink Carnation novels. She received a graduate degree in English history from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, though she now writes full-time. Willig lives in New York City.

For more information about Lauren and her work, please visit her website, laurenwillig.com.

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Lauren Willig’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Thursday, February 16th:  Unabridged Chick

Friday, February 17th:  I’m Booking It

Monday, February 20th:  In the Hammock

Tuesday, February 21st:  A Fair Substitute for Heaven

Wednesday, February 22nd:  Book Reviews by Molly

Thursday, February 23rd:  Broken Teepee

Monday, February 27th:  Calico Critic

Tuesday, February 28th:  Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, February 29th:  The Allure of Books

Thursday, March 1st:  Colloquium

Monday, March 5th:  The Bookworm

Tuesday, March 6th:  A Chick Who Reads

Wednesday, March 7th:  Library of Clean Reads

Monday, March 12th:  YA Book Nerd

Wednesday, March 14th:  Write Meg

• 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 nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview.

Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence shatters Rosa’s resolve to maintain her increasingly dangerous existence, she flees with the children and her precious heirloom quilts to the mesa where she last saw her beloved mother alive.

As a flash flood traps them in a treacherous canyon, only one man is brave—or foolhardy—enough to come to their rescue: Lars Jorgenson, Rosa’s first love and the father of her healthy daughters. Together they escape to Berkeley, where a leading specialist offers their only hope of saving Ana and Miguel. Here in northern California, they create new identities to protect themselves from Rosa’s vengeful husband, the police who seek her for questioning, and the gangsters Lars reported to Prohibition agents—officers representing a department often as corrupt as the Mob itself. Ever mindful that his youthful alcoholism provoked Rosa to spurn him, Lars nevertheless supports Rosa’s daring plan to stake their futures on a struggling Sonoma Valley vineyard—despite the recent hardships of local winemakers whose honest labors at viticulture have, through no fault of their own, become illegal.

About Jennifer Chiaverini

JENNIFER CHIAVERINI is the author of the New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilt series, as well as five collections of quilt projects inspired by the novels.  A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she lives with her husband and sons in Madison, Wisconsin.

Connect with Jennifer at her website, Elm Creek Quilts Online.

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Jennifer Chiaverini’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 13th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Tuesday, February 14th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Wednesday, February 15th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, February 16th:  Christian Historical Fiction

Monday, February 20th:  Angler’s Rest

Wednesday, February 22nd:  All Grown Up?

Thursday, February 23rd:  Brimful Curiosities

Friday, February 24th:  Amused by Books

Monday, February 27th:  Col Reads

Tuesday, February 28th:  Life in Review

Wednesday, February 29th:  Reflections of a Bookaholic

Thursday, March 1st:  Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

Monday, March 5th:  A Chick Who Reads

Tuesday, March 6th:  Joyfully Retired

Wednesday, March 7th:  Colloquium 

Monday, March 12th:  Book Dilettante

Wednesday, March 14th:  A Cozy Reader’s Corner

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 TECHNOLOGISTS

Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as ships’ instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against man’s attempt to control it?

The shocking disasters cast a pall over M.I.T. and provoke assaults from all sides—rival Harvard, labor unions, and a sensationalistic press. With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Institute’s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training.

Led by “charity scholar” Marcus Mansfield, a quiet Civil War veteran and one-time machinist struggling to find his footing in rarefied Boston society, the group is rounded out by irrepressible Robert Richards, the bluest of Beacon Hill bluebloods; Edwin Hoyt, class genius; and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow, the Institute’s lone, ostracized female student. Working against their small secret society, from within and without, are the arrayed forces of a stratified culture determined to resist change at all costs and a dark mastermind bent on the utter destruction of the city.

Studded with suspense and soaked in the rich historical atmosphere for which its author is renowned, The Technologists is a dazzling journey into a dangerous world not so very far from our own, as the America we know today begins to shimmer into being.

“The Technologists combines everything I love in a thriller: fascinating history, science, and a frightening mystery that demands to be solved. Matthew Pearl is one of my must-read authors. He never fails to intrigue and thrill!”—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl

“Fascinating, mesmerizing, and richly atmospheric, The Technologists is the best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel.”—Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Vanished

Photo credit: Sigrid-Estrada

About Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The Last Dickens. He is the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales.

For more information on Matthew Pearl and his work, visit his website,  www.matthewpearl.com, and Facebook.  Watch the trailer for The Technologists HERE.

Matthew Pearl’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, February 13th:  Book Chatter

Tuesday, February 14th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, February 16th:  The House of Crime and Mystery

Monday, February 20th:  Book Club Classics

Wednesday, February 22nd:  A Library of My Own

Friday, February 24th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Monday, February 27th:  Wandering Thoughts of a Scientific Housewife

Tuesday, February 28th:  Jen’s Book Thoughts

Wednesday, February 29th:  Man of La Book

Thursday, March 1st:  Book Addict Katie

Monday, March 5th:  Calico Critic

Wednesday, March 7th:  Annette’s Book Spot

Monday, March 12th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Wednesday, March 14th:  Wordsmithonia

Beyond All Measure

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 31, 2011)

Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man.

Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada accepts a position as a lady’s companion to the elderly Lillian Willis, a pillar of the community and aunt to the local lumber mill owner, Wyatt Caldwell. Ada intends to use her millinery skills to establish a hat shop and secure her future.

Haunted by unanswered questions from her life in Boston, Ada is most drawn to two townsfolks: Wyatt, a Texan with big plans of his own, and Sophie, a mulatto girl who resides at the Hickory Ridge orphanage. Ada’s friendship with Sophia attracts the attention of a group of locals seeking to displace the residents of Two Creeks, a “colored” settlement on the edge of town. As tensions rise, Ada is threatened but refuses to abandon her plan to help the girl.

When Lillian dies, Ada is left without employment or a place to call home. And since Wyatt’s primary purpose for staying in Hickory Ridge was to watch over his aunt, he can now pursue his dream of owning Longhorns in his home state of Texas.

With their feelings for each other growing, Ada must decide whether she can trust God with her future and Wyatt with her heart.

About Dorothy Love

A native of west Tennessee, Dorothy Love makes her home in the Texas hill country with her husband and their two golden retrievers. An accomplished author in the secular market, Dorothy makes her debut in Christian fiction with the Hickory Ridge novels. Hometown: San Antonio, Texas.

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Dorothy Love’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, October 18th:  2 Kids and Tired

Wednesday, October 19th:  Reviews by Molly

Thursday, October 20th:  A Chick Who Reads

Monday, October 24th:  Reviews from the Heart

Tuesday, October 25th:  All Grown Up? 

Wednesday, October 26th:  I Am A Reader, Not A Writer  author Q&A

Thursday, October 27th:  A Fair Substitute for Heaven

Friday, October 28th:  Life in Review

Tuesday, November 1st:  Deb’s Book Bag

Wednesday, November 2nd:  Cheryl’s Book Nook

Thursday, November 3rd:  Life in the Thumb

Monday, November 7th:  By the Book

Tuesday, November 8th:  Southern Sassy Things

Wednesday, November 9th:  Christian Bookshelf Reviews

Thursday, November 10th:  Luxury Reading

Monday, November 14th:  The Overweight Bookshelf

Wednesday, November 16th:  Peeking Between the Pages

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011)

Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak accident, leaving Sally to make her own way in the world. She enrolls in the U.S. military’s Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, and in a special school located in West Texas begins learning to fly the biggest, fastest, meanest airplanes the military has to offer. She also reluctantly becomes involved with Beau Bayard, a flight instructor and aspiring writer, who seems to offer her everything she could want. But many people see no place for a “skirt” in the cockpit, and Sally soon finds herself pitted against a high-powered Washington lawyer who wants to disband the WASP once and for all.  Their battle is a story of extraordinary women who broke society’s rules and became heroes, and of men who stood in their way.

About Karl Friedrich

Karl Friedrich was born and grew up in Tyler, Texas. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine and public relations writer, advertising copywriter, and photographer. A lifelong aviation fan, he got his first ride in an airplane at the age of five (“If I’d been six, I’d have had the sense to stay on the ground, as the thing was held together with rust and bailing wire,” he recalls.)

Karl’s friends who fly commercial, military or private aircraft, and his lifelong fascination with women who achieve great accomplishment despite the displeasure of men, provided the inspiration and impetus for Wings.

Karl and his wife live in Washington State.

Karl Friedrich’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, October 3rd:  A Bookish Libraria

Tuesday, October 4th:  Life in Review

Wednesday, October 5th:  Acting Balanced

Monday, October 10th:  The Life (and lies) of an inanimate flying object - guest post

Tuesday, October 11th:  Diary of an Eccentric

Wednesday, October 12th:  “That’s Swell!”

Thursday, October 13th:  Man of La Book

Saturday, October 15th:  Man of La Book - author Q&A

Tuesday, October 18th:  Reviews from the Heart

Wednesday, October 19th:  A Bookish Affair

Thursday, October 20th:  Bags, Books & Bon Jovi

Friday, October 21st:  Flight to Success

Sunday, October 23rd:  Staircase Wit

Tuesday, October 25th:  Unabridged Chick

Wednesday, October 26th:  Melody & Words

Thursday, October 27th:  2 Kids and Tired

Thursday, October 27th:  A Cozy Reader’s Corner

Tuesday, November 1st:  Joyfully Retired

Wednesday, November 2nd:  The House of the Seven Tails

Thursday, November 3rd: Life on the Road as a Pilot

Motor City Shakedown

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (September 13, 2011)

Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson’s friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will’s hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for nothing except revenge against the people who contributed to Wesley’s murder—first among them crime boss Vito Adamo.

When Will stumbles upon the bloody body of Adamo’s driver, he knows he’ll be a suspect, particularly since he was spotted outside the dead man’s apartment that same night. He sets out to find the killer, and the trail leads him to a vast conspiracy in an underworld populated by gangsters, union organizers, crooked cops, and lawyers. Worse, it places him directly in the middle of Detroit’s first mob war.

The Teamsters want a piece of Will’s father’s car company, Detroit Electric, and the Gianolla gang is there to be sure they get it. To save their families, Will and his ex-fiancée Elizabeth Hume enlist the help of Detroit Police Detective Riordan, the teenage members of what will one day be known as the Purple Gang, and Vito Adamo himself. They careen from one danger to the next, surviving shootouts, kidnappings, and police brutality, while barreling toward a devastating climax readers won’t soon forget.

“Set in Detroit in 1911, Johnson’s vibrant follow-up to The Detroit Electric Scheme delivers razor-sharp depictions of the motor city.  Johnson brings the turbulence and rampant corruption of the era to life through his flawed yet tenacious lead in this worthy successor to his debut.” –Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Johnson’s period noir is violent and chaotic, but his clever weaving of history with intriguing characters makes for an exciting read.”–Kirkus Reviews

About D.E. Johnson

D.E. (Dan) Johnson, a graduate of Central Michigan University, is a history buff who has been writing fiction since childhood but had to hit his midlife crisis to get serious about it. His first novel, a historical mystery entitled The Detroit Electric Scheme, was published in September 2010 by St. Martin’s Minotaur Books. The Detroit Electric Scheme has garnered excellent reviews (including being named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Crime Novels of the year) and also won a 2011 Michigan Notable Book Award.

Motor City Shakedown, the first sequel to The Detroit Electric Scheme, will be published by St. Martin’s in September 2011. Dan is married, has three daughters, and lives near Kalamazoo, Michigan.

For more info, visit Dan’s website, www.dejohnsonauthor.com.

D.E. Johnson’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, October 10th:  A Bookish Libraria

Tuesday, October 11th:  The Rap Sheet - guest post

Thursday, October 13th:  Crime Fiction Lover

Friday, October 14th:  Life in Review

Monday, October 17th:  Joyfully Retired

Wednesday, October 19th:  Unabridged Chick

Thursday, October 20th:  Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Friday, October 21st:  The House of Crime and Mystery

Monday, October 24th:  Life in the Thumb

Tuesday, October 25th:  The Literate Housewife Review

Wednesday, October 26th:  Murder by Type

Tuesday, November 1st:  Dan’s Journal

Tuesday, November 8th:  Book Reviews by Elizabeth A White - author guest post

Wednesday, November 9th:  Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White

Thursday, November 10th:  Raging Bibliomania

Monday, November 14th:  Wordsmithonia

Monday, November 21st:  Fiction Addict

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011)

In Flannery O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself.

Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O’Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend.

Cookie Himmel embodies every facet of Southern womanhood that Flannery lacks: she is revered for her beauty and grace; she is at the helm of every ladies’ organization in town; and she has returned from her time in Manhattan with a rich fiancé, Melvin Whiteson. Melvin has come to Milledgeville to begin a new chapter in his life, but it is not until he meets Flannery that he starts to take a good hard look at the choices he has made. Despite the limitations of her disease, Flannery seems to be more alive than other people, and Melvin is drawn to her like a moth to a candle flame.

Melvin is not the only person in Milledgeville who starts to feel that life is passing him by. Lona Waters, the dutiful wife of a local policeman, is hired by Cookie to help create a perfect home. As Lona spends her days sewing curtains, she is given an opportunity to remember what it feels like to be truly alive, and she seizes it with both hands.

Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, these ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses through life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to Flannery’s observation that “the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

About Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano is the author of the novel Within Arm’s Reach. She is a graduate of Connecticut College and received her MFA from New York University. She lives in New York City with her family.

Visit Ann at her website.

Ann’s Tour Stops

Tuesday, July 5th: BookNAround

Wednesday, July 6th: Colloquium

Thursday, July 7th: nomadreader

Monday, July 11th: Lifetime Reading Plan

Tuesday, July 12th: Regular Rumination

Thursday, July 14th: Life In Review

Friday, July 15th: Rundpinne

Tuesday, July 19th: Luxury Reading

Wednesday, July 20th: Bookstack

Thursday, July 21st: The House of the Seven Tails

Friday, July 22nd: A Bookish Way of Life

Before Versailles

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Crown (June 28, 2011)

Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles?

After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can get—including his brother’s wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess Henriette burns, it sets the kingdom on the road toward unmistakable scandal and conflict with the Vatican. Every woman wants him. He must face what he is willing to sacrifice for love.

But there are other problems lurking outside the chateau of Fontainebleau: a boy in an iron mask has been seen in the woods, and the king’s finance minister, Nicolas Fouquet, has proven to be more powerful than Louis ever thought—a man who could make a great ally or become a dangerous foe . . .

Meticulously researched and vividly brought to life by the gorgeous prose of Karleen Koen, Before Versailles dares to explore the forces that shaped an iconic king and determined the fate of an empire.

“In this magnificently written and researched novel, Karleen Koen brings to vibrant life the early years and loves of the future Sun King.”–Jean M. Auel author of The Clan of the Cave Bear & The Land of Painted Caves

“A baroque cornucopia spilling over with intrigue, passion, jealousy, ambition, and rich historical detail, Before Versailles offers a glittering glimpse of the crucial months that shaped Louis XIV into Europe’s most powerful monarch.”–Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings

“Before Versailles captivated me from start to finish! With exquisite finesse, Karleen Koen weaves history and myth into a sumptuous portrait of young Louis XIV, his intrigue-laden court, and the passionate, ambitious, often dangerous women who loved him.”–C.W. Gortner, author of The Last Queen and The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

About Karleen Koen

Karleen Koen is the author of Now Face to Face andThrough a Glass Darkly, which was a New York Timesbestseller and featured a much older Alice Verney (known in that novel as the Duchess of Tamworth). The author lives in Houston, Texas.

Connect with Karleen at her website, karleenkoen.net, and on Facebook.

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Karleen Koen’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, July 5th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Wednesday, July 6th:  Broken Teepee

Thursday, July 7th:  The Bookworm

Friday, July 8th:  Historical-Fiction.com

Monday, July 11th:  In the Hammock

Tuesday, July 12th:  Living Outside the Stacks

Wednesday, July 13th:  The Maiden’s Court

Thursday, July 14th:  Royal Reviews

Monday, July 18th:  Unabridged Chick

Tuesday, July 19th:  Enchanted by Josephine

Wednesday, July 20th:  Laura’s Reviews

Thursday, July 21st:  Historical Tapestry AND  Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

Thursday, July 21st: Laura’s Reviews

Monday, July 25th:  Stiletto Storytime

Wednesday, July 27th:  Life in Review

Thursday, July 28th:  Reading, Reading & Life

Friday, July 29th:  Books Like Breathing

Monday, August 8th:  Hist-Fic Chick

Centuries of June

Hardcover: 352 pages

Publisher: Crown (May 31, 2011)

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as it is captivating” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Centuries of June is a bold departure, a work of dazzling breadth and technical virtuosity.

Set in the bathroom of an old house just before dawn on a night in June, Centuries of June is a black comedy about a man who is attempting to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects—eight women lying in the bedroom just down the hall. Each woman tells a story drawn from five centuries of American myth and legend in a wild medley of styles and voices.

Centuries of June is a romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately deeply moving.

Read an excerpt HERE.

About Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue is the Director of Communications for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grant-making arm of the National Archives in Washington, DC. Until 1998 he worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and wrote hundreds of speeches for chairmen John Frohnmayer and Jane Alexander. He has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other newspapers. Donohue holds a Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America. His dissertation on Irish writer Flann O’Brien was published as The Irish Anatomist: A Study of Flann O’Brien (Maunsel Press, 2003).

Connect with Keith on his website, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

Keith Donohue’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 20th:  The Whimsical Cottage

Thursday, June 23rd:  Reflections of a Bookaholic

Tuesday, June 28th:  Jenn’s Bookshelves

Wednesday, June 29th: Simply Stacie

Tuesday, July 5th:  Booksnob

Thursday, July 7th:  Unabridged Chick

Monday, July 11th:  Books Distilled

Tuesday, July 12th:  S. Krishna’s Books

Wednesday, July 13th:  Man of La Book

Friday,  July 15th:  Books Like Breathing

Friday, July 15th:  Jen’s Book Thoughts

Monday, July 18th:  A Chick Who Reads

Tuesday, July 19th:  Drey’s Library

Wednesday, July 20th:  Fyrefly’s Book Blog

Thursday, July 21st:  Wordsmithonia

Friday, July 22nd:  Sara’s Organized Chaos

Friday, July 29th:  In the Next Room

Becoming Marie Antoinette

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 9, 2011)

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.

Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?

Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.

Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.

Filled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish clothes, and sparkling jewels, Becoming Marie Antoinette will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike.

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About Juliet Grey

Juliet Grey has extensively researched European royal history and is a particular devotee of Marie Antoinette.  She and her husband divide their time between New York City and southern Vermont.

Juliet Grey’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, August 1st:  Diary of an Eccentric

Wednesday, August 3rd:  Well Read Wife

Thursday, August 4th:  Broken Teepee

Monday, August 8th:  Coffee and a Book Chick

Tuesday, August 9th:  The Maiden’s Court

Wednesday, August 10th:  A Library of My Own

Thursday, August 11th:  The Maiden’s Court - author interview

Thursday, August 11th:  Stiletto Storytime

Monday, August 15th:  In the Hammock

Tuesday, August 16th:  Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, August 17th:  Laura’s Reviews

Thursday, August 18th:  Unabridged Chick

Monday, August 22nd:  The Broke and the Bookish

Tuesday, August 23rd:  Stephanie’s Written Word

Wednesday, August 24th:  2 Kids and Tired Book Reviews

Monday, August 29th:  Book Reviews by Molly

Wednesday, August 31st:  So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

Wednesday, August 31st:  Historical Tapestry