About With This Pledge Hardcover: 448 Pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (January 8, 2019) History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length novel in bestselling author Tamera Alexander’s new 4-book Southern series… The Carnton Novels What can a woman–a mere governess–do against the scourge of slavery? . Elizabeth “Lizzie” Clouston’s quietly held principles oppose those of the […]
Lisa Lewis Tyre, author of Last in a Long Line of Rebels, on tour February 2016
About Last in a Long Line of Rebels Age Range: 10 and up Grade Level: 5 and up Hardcover: 288 pages Debut novelist Lisa Lewis Tyre vibrantly brings a small town and its outspoken characters to life, as she explores race and other community issues from both the Civil War and the present day. Lou might be only […]
Michael Wallace, author of The Crescent Spy, on tour November 2015
About The Crescent Spy Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (November 10, 2015) Writing under a man’s name, Josephine Breaux is the finest reporter at Washington’s Morning Clarion. Using her wit and charm, she never fails to get the scoop on the latest Union and Confederate activities. But when a rival paper reveals her true identity, accusations […]
Edward M. Erdelac, author of Andersonville, on tour August/September 2015
About Andersonville Hydra | Aug 18, 2015 | 272 Pages Readers of Stephen King and Joe Hill will devour this bold, terrifying new novel from Edward M. Erdelac. A mysterious man posing as a Union soldier risks everything to enter the Civil War’s deadliest prison—only to find a horror beyond human reckoning. Georgia, 1864. Camp Sumter, aka […]
Erin Lindsay McCabe, author of I Shall Be Near to You, on tour September 2014
About I Shall Be Near to You Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (September 2, 2014) In I SHALL BE NEAR TO YOU, McCabe introduces us to newlywed Rosetta Wakefield. More accustomed to working as her father’s farmhand and happiest doing what others might call “man’s work,” Rosetta struggles with how to be a good wife to […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of The Spymistress, on tour April/May 2014
About The Spymistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Plume (March 25, 2014) Chiaverini, author of the bestseller MRS. LINCOLN’S DRESSMAKER offers another enthralling historical novel set in the Civil War era, inspired by an overlooked hero, the remarkable Elizabeth Van Lew. Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, VA, when her native state seceded in April 1861, her convictions […]
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 […]
Jo-Ann Costa, author of The Bequest of Big Daddy, on tour April 2013
About The Bequest of Big Daddy Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Koehler Books (April 1, 2013) From a Reconstruction-era turpentine and logging industry to the decaying ruins of a doomed plantation with its dying social system, THE BEQUEST OF BIG DADDY (Koehler Books; April 2013) is evocative of all that was wrong in the post-Civil War […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench, on tour January/February 2011
About Wench • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Amistad (January 25, 2011) An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses wench \’wench\ n. from Middle English “wenchel,” 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Tawawa House […]