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. . . . […]
Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman, authors of Freud’s Mistress, on tour August/September 2013
About Freud’s Mistress • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (July 9, 2013) A page-turning novel inspired by the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, set in Vienna in 1895. Minna is everything her sister Martha is not—intellectually curious, an avid reader and a beguiling beauty. She and Freud embark on […]
Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World, on tour July 2013
About The Mirrored World • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 16, 2013) St. Petersburg, 1736. Dasha and Xenia are cousins and devoted friends growing up in the shadow of royal society. On the night they make their debut at court, Xenia falls madly in love with a charismatic singer in the empress’s imperial choir. They marry […]
Ami McKay, author of The Virgin Cure, on tour July 2013
About The Virgin Cure • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (July 2, 2013) One summer night in Lower Manhattan in 1871, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. Knowing that her mother is so close while she is locked away in servitude, Moth bides her […]
Jamie Ford, author of Songs of Willow Frost, on tour October 2013
About Songs of Willow Frost Publisher: Ballantine Books (Sept 10, 2013) Pages: 352 From Jamie Ford, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his […]
Dilly Court, author of The Best of Daughters and The Lady’s Maid, on tour August/September 2013
About The Lady’s Maid Arrow (July 9, 2012) 512 pages In the quiet of a warm summer’s evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie’s world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have […]