About Clara and Mr. Tiffany Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 20, 2012) It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes […]
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 […]
Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, on tour April 2012
About Butterfly’s Child Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (April 10, 2012) When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a […]
Lauren Willig, author of The Garden Intrigue, on tour February/March 2012
About The Garden Intrigue Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 16, 2012) Just in time for the post-Valentine’s Day chocolate hangover, THE GARDEN INTRIGUE is the latest novel in the nationally bestselling Pink Carnation series by RITA Award winner Lauren Willig (Dutton, On sale: February 16, 2012). In this ninth installment, long-time readers and newcomers alike […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma Rose, on tour February/March 2012
About Sonoma Rose Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 21, 2012) From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but flawed man. As the […]
Matthew Pearl, author of The Technologists, on tour February/March 2012
About The Technologists Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Random House (February 21, 2012) The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . . THE […]
Dorothy Love, author of Beyond All Measure, on tour October/November 2011
About Beyond All Measure Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (May 31, 2011) Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man. Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada […]
Karl Friedrich, author of Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls, on tour October 2011
About Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: McBooks Press (April 1, 2011) Sally Ketchum comes from dirt-poor farm folk. She has little chance of bettering her life until a mysterious barnstormer named Tex teaches her to fly—and becomes the first person worthy of her love. But Tex dies in a freak […]
D.E. Johnson, author of Motor City Shakedown, on tour October 2011
About Motor City Shakedown Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (September 13, 2011) Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson’s friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will’s hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help […]
Ann Napolitano, author of A Good Hard Look, on tour July 2011
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 […]