About Becoming Marie Antoinette Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 9, 2011) This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 9th-13th
Books by Isabel Allende Monday, May 9th: Books Like Breathing (Ines of My Soul) Tuesday, May 10th: The Lost Entwife (Island Beneath the Sea) Wednesday, May 11th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom (Island Beneath the Sea) Thursday, May 12th: Life In Review (Daughter of Fortune) Thursday, May 12th: Lit and Life (Island Beneath the Sea) Ten Beach Road […]
Kate Kerrigan, author of Ellis Island, on tour July 2011
About Ellis Island • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 28, 2011) Sweethearts since childhood, Ellie Hogan and her husband, John, are content on their farm in Ireland—until John, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, receives an injury that leaves him unable to work. Forced to take drastic measures in order to […]
Nancy Rappaport, author of In Her Wake, on tour July/August 2011
About In Her Wake • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (July 12, 2011) A delivery announcement on elegant paper stamped with the date of a daughters birth; a tarnished silver baby cup, dented at the rim; a lovingly hand-knitted sweater; a school committee flier; hurried grocery lists. This […]
Lynn Cullen, author of Reign of Madness, on tour July/August 2011
About Reign of Madness Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (August 4, 2011) From the author of The Creation of Eve comes a tale of love and madness, royal intrigue and marital betrayal, set during the Golden Age of Spain. Juana of Castile, third child of the Spanish monarchs Isabel and Fernando, grows up with no […]
TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS for May 2nd-6th
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Monday, May 2nd: Fizzy Thoughts Tuesday, May 3rd: Coffee and a Book Chick Wednesday, May 4th: Jenn’s Bookshelves Thursday, May 5th: Alison’s Book Marks Friday, May 6th: Bookfoolery and Babble Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay Monday, May 2nd: Historical Tapestry Tuesday, May 3rd: Man of La Book Wednesday, May 4th: In […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for May 2011
Passion, betrayal, tradition Book clubs will find much to discuss in The Peach Keeper The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous […]
Elisabeth Eaves, author of Wanderlust, on tour June/July 2011
About Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Seal Press (June 7, 2011) Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’s insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she […]
Nayana Currimbhoy, author of Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, on tour June/July 2011
About Miss Timmins’ School for Girls • Paperback: 512 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (June 21, 2011) A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2011
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House (July 12, 2011) Every first Sunday in June, members of the colorful Moses clan gather for their annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. Samuel Lake, a handsome young preacher with a huge heart and strong convictions, […]