About Manuscript Found in Accra Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 2, 2013) The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist. There is nothing wrong with anxiety? Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or […]
Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance, on tour May 2013
About A Dual Inheritance Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 7, 2013) For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from […]
Megan Marshall, author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, on tour April/May 2013
About Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 12, 2013) From an early age, Margaret Fuller dazzled New England’s intelligent elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The […]
Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments, on tour February/March 2013
About Enchantments: A novel of Rasputin’s daughter and the Romanovs Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (February 26, 2013) St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family. Desperately hoping that […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]