About A Snug Life Somewhere • Paperback: 294 pages • Publisher: Cambridge Books (April, 2014) A Snug Life Somewhere is about Penny Joe Copper, daughter of a roustabout shingle weaver, who is caught up in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. Her brother Horace is killed, as is the cousin of a radical organizer, Gabe. When […]
Michele Zackheim, author of Last Train to Paris, on tour January 2014
About Last Train to Paris • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Europa Editions (January 7, 2014) Inspired by the story of a distant cousin who was murdered in Paris in 1937, award-winning author Michele Zackheim’s Last Train to Paris is a gripping epic about a half-Jewish female reporter from Nevada who writes for the Paris Courier in the 1930’s. […]
Jane Sanderson, author of Netherwood & Ravenscliffe, on tour January 2014
About Netherwood • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) Two remarkably different worlds—one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation—are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold on to what they have Upstairs: Lord Netherwood, a […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France, on tour January 2014
About Somewhere in France • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) In the dark and dangerous days of World War I, a daring young woman will risk her life to find her destiny Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions […]
Nancy Horan, author of Under the Wide and Starry Sky, on tour February 2014
About Under the Wide and Starry Sky Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (January 21, 2014) From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, on tour November/December 2013
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 […]