About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
Ron Rash, author of The Cove, on tour April/May 2012
About The Cove • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Ecco (April 10, 2012) “Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; his new novel solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls “I wish the whole world spoke the way […]
Rodney King, author of The Riot Within, on tour April/May 2012
About The Riot Within • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 24, 2012) On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. […]
Gary Buslik, author of Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls, on tour April/May 2012
About Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Travelers’ Tales/Solas House (March 27, 2012) Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat […]
Doctors George Pratt and Peter Lambrou, authors of Code to Joy, on tour April 2012
About Code to Joy • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (April 3, 2012) Beneath the surface—undiagnosed, untreated and often unspoken—there is a pervasive cloud of unease affecting virtually everyone. This “fog of distress” is the reason so many people feel unloved, guilty, ashamed, fearful, and unsafe. It’s the basis of addictions, sleeplessness, bad habits, […]
James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way, on tour March 2012
About The Irish Way • Hardcover: 400 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 1, 2012) A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. […]
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2012
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2012) A beautifully written biography from an internationally acclaimed poet, The Paper Garden is at once the story of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a “graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age” (New York Times Book Review). […]
Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, on tour April 2012
About Butterfly’s Child Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (April 10, 2012) When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a […]
Linda Campanella, author of When All That’s Left of Me is Love, on tour April 2012
About When All That’s Left of Me is Love • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Tate Publishing (August 2, 2011) In her poignant memoir, Linda Campanella offers readers an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives and reconstructs her last year with her terminally ill mother and, in the process, comes […]
Melanie Dugan, author of Dead Beautiful, on tour May/June 2012
About Dead Beautiful Dead Beautiful is a contemporary retelling of the classic Greek myth of Persephone. This was the myth the Greeks used to explain how we came to have the change of seasons. In the traditional version of the myth, Persephone – the daughter of Demeter, Goddess of agriculture and fertility, and Zeus, the […]