About Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Plume (September 24, 2013) Jennifer Chiaverini departs from her New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series to debut her first stand-alone novel, MRS. LINCOLN’S DRESSMAKER. This compelling historical novel unveils the private lives of the Lincolns from the time of their rise to White House glory, through the […]
Elaine Orr, author of A Different Sun, on tour January 2014
About A Different Sun • Paperback: 378 pages • Publisher: Berkley Trade; 1 edition (April 2, 2013) In 1853, newly married Emma Bowman arrives in Afrida and steps into a world of unsurpassed beauty — and peril. A page-turning adventure with life and death stakes for the body and the soul… Born into a life of privilege in rural […]
Marian Szczepanski, author of Playing St. Barbara, on tour January 2014
About Playing St. Barbara • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: High Hill Press (August 1, 2013) In the Depression-era coal patch known as The Hive, miner’s wife Clare Sweeney keeps secrets to survive. Stripped of her real name, she hides her friendship with a town pariah, haunting guilt around the deaths of her three infant sons, and determination never […]
Adriana Trigiani, author of The Supreme Macaroni Company, on tour November 2013 – January 2014
About The Supreme Macaroni Company • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 26, 2013) For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This historic business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the school teacher turned shoemaker, to fall in […]
Sandra Neil Wallace, author of Muckers, on tour October/November 2013
About Muckers Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (October 8, 2013) Sandra Neil Wallace’s debut historical fiction novel Muckers (Random House/Knopf; October 2013; ($16.99 U.S./$18.99 CAN.), is based on the true story of the 1950 Jerome Muckers football team and the championship season that rallied an Arizona town together and turned tragedy into a […]
House of Earth by Woody Guthrie, on tour October/November 2013
About House of Earth • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 22, 2013) Finished in 1947, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie’s only fully realized novel—a powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, filled with the homespun lyricism and authenticity that have made his songs a part of our national consciousness. Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots […]
Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl, on tour November 2013
About The House Girl • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (November 5, 2013) Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action suit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. […]
Suzan Still, author of Fiesta of Smoke, on tour October 2013
About Fiesta of Smoke • Paperback: 524 pages • Publisher: The Story Plant (March 5, 2013) Against a backdrop of rebellion and intrigue, love between Javier Carteña, commander of insurgent Mexican forces, and Calypso Searcy, an American novelist at the pinnacle of her career, sizzles with passion across a broad sweep of history. Encompassing time from the Conquest of […]
Pamela Schoenewaldt, author of Swimming in the Moon, on tour September 2013
About Swimming in the Moon • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 3, 2013) Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy mistress with song. But volatile tempers force them to flee, exchanging their warm, gilded cage […]
Yangsze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride, on tour August 2013
About The Ghost Bride • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 6, 2013) A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride. . . . […]