About The Mapmaker’s Children • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Crown (May 5, 2015) When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code […]
Elizabeth Berg, author of The Dream Lover, on tour April/May 2015
About The Dream Lover Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Random House (April 14, 2015) New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert. At the beginning of this powerful novel, we […]
Patricia Harman, author of The Reluctant Midwife, on tour March 2015
About The Reluctant Midwife • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (March 3, 2015) The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit. The Great Depression has hit West […]
Kate Riordan, author of Fiercombe Manor, on tour March/April 2015
About Fiercombe Manor • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 17, 2015) A house as old as Fiercombe Manor holds many secrets within its walls. But which dark chapter of its history is haunting Alice, a young woman staying there during the course of a fateful summer? In 1933, naive twenty-two-year-old Alice is pregnant, unmarried, […]
Rashad Harrison, author of The Abduction of Smith and Smith, on tour May 2015
About The Abduction of Smith and Smith • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Atria Books (January 6, 2015) In this harrowing and thrilling work of historical fiction, two enemies become the unlikeliest of allies as they fight to save their own lives aboard a hell ship headed into the dangerous unknown. The Civil War is over, though […]
Louisa Young, author of The Heroes’ Welcome, on tour March 2015
About The Heroes’ Welcome • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 10, 2015) April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived. Only twenty-three, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. […]
Month of Maisie Readalong for Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series
To celebrate the release of Jacqueline Winspear’s 11th novel in the Maisie Dobbs series, A Dangerous Place, we’re hosting a series blog tour during the month of March. Tour Schedule: March 2nd – 6th – The first nine books in the Maisie Dobbs series March 9th – 13th – Leaving Everything Most Loved March 16th – […]
Dennis Lehane, author of World Gone By, on tour March 2015
About World Gone By • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (March 10, 2015) Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe Coughlin now works as a consigliere to the infamous Bartolo Crime Family, effortlessly handling its interests in Tampa, Boston, and […]
C. W. Gortner, author of Mademoiselle Chanel, on tour March 2015
About Mademoiselle Chanel • Hardcover: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (March 17, 2015) She revolutionized fashion and built an international empire . . . all on her own terms Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her sisters are sent to a convent orphanage after their mother’s death. The nuns of the order nurture […]
Pamela Ford, author of To Ride a White Horse, on tour May 2015
About To Ride a White Horse • Paperback: 374 pages • Publisher: Aine Press (January 3, 2015) “A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ireland 1846. The potato crop has failed for the second year in a row and Ireland is in famine. When Kathleen Deacey’s fiancé […]