About A Good Hard Look Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: The Penguin Press (July 7, 2011) In Flannery O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself. Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O’Connor was forced to leave New York City and return […]
Karleen Koen, author of Before Versailles, on tour July 2011
About Before Versailles Hardcover: 480 pages Publisher: Crown (June 28, 2011) Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a […]
Keith Donohue, author of Centuries of June, on tour June/July 2011
About Centuries of June Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (May 31, 2011) Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as […]
Juliet Grey, author of Becoming Marie Antoinette, on tour August 2011
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 […]
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 […]
Ellen Feldman, author of Next to Love, on tour June/July 2011
About Next to Love Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (July 26, 2011) “A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.”—Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three […]
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
Sally Gunning, author of The Rebellion of Jane Clarke, on tour April/May 2011
About The Rebellion of Jane Clarke • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 26, 2011) Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich life in the village of Satucket on Cape Cod—until her refusal to marry the man her father has picked out as his son-in-law causes an irreparable tear in the family fabric. […]
Suzannah Dunn, author of The Confession of Katherine Howard, on tour April 2011
About The Confession of Katherine Howard • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 5, 2011) The tragic, moving, and gripping story of the ascendance and fall of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, and the best friend she nearly dragged down with her When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the […]
Lauren Belfer, author of A Fierce Radiance, on tour April 2011
About A Fierce Radiance • Paperback: 560 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 29, 2011) From the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. Claire Shipley is a single […]