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 […]
Vanora Bennett, author of The Queen’s Lover, on tour March 2011
About The Queen’s Lover Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 8, 2011) Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is […]
M. L. Malcolm, author of Heart of Deception, on tour April 2011
About Heart of Deception • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 5, 2011) A man of many contradictions, Leo Hoffman is a Hungarian national with a French passport, a wealthy businessman with no visible means of support, and a devoted father who hasn’t seen his daughter in years. He is also a […]
Kenneth Wishnia, author of The Fifth Servant, on tour February 2011
About The Fifth Servant • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 8, 2011) In 1592, Prague is a relatively safe refuge for Jews who live within the gated walls of its ghetto. But the peace is threatened when a young Christian girl is found with her throat slashed in a Jewish […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2011
Does your book club love historical fiction? If so, have we got a book for you! Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King chronicles the life of Margaret of Scotland, a contemporary of the infamous Lady Macbeth, and a woman destined for sainthood. Margaret, a young Saxon princess, is shipwrecked with her family on the coast […]
Michael David Lukas, author of The Oracle of Stamboul, on tour February/March 2011
About The Oracle of Stamboul • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper (February 8, 2011) Late in the summer of 1877, as Tsar Alexander II’s Royal Cavalry descends on the defenseless Ottoman outpost of Constanta, a flock of purple and white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world […]
Pamela Schoenewaldt, author of When We Were Strangers, on tour January/February 2011
About When We Were Strangers • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (January 25, 2011) “The people as real as your own family, and the tale realistic enough to be any American’s.” —Nancy E. Turner, author of These is My Words A moving, powerful, and evocative debut novel, When We Were Strangers […]