About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
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 […]
Dilly Court, author of The Best of Daughters and The Lady’s Maid, on tour August/September 2013
About The Lady’s Maid Arrow (July 9, 2012) 512 pages In the quiet of a warm summer’s evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie’s world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have […]
Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Chalice, on tour July/August 2013
About The Chalice Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition edition (March 5, 2013) The Chalice is a historical thriller told from the point of view of a young woman caught in the crosswinds of time: She has pledged to become a Dominican nun in an England ruled by Henry VIII, who has ruthlessly smashed his […]
Sarah Jio, author of The Last Camellia, on tour June/July 2013
About The Last Camellia Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (May 28, 2013) On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate […]
Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance, on tour May 2013
About A Dual Inheritance Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 7, 2013) For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from […]
Megan Marshall, author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, on tour April/May 2013
About Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 12, 2013) From an early age, Margaret Fuller dazzled New England’s intelligent elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The […]
Betsy Prioleau, author of Swoon, on tour March/April 2013
About Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (February 4, 2013) Casanovas: where are those great romancers of women? In Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them (W. W. Norton), Betsy Prioleau gives us a smart, entertaining study of the ladies’ man, demystifying his character, seductive […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]
Susan Elia MacNeal, author of Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery, on tour October/November 2012
About Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Bantam (October 16, 2012) Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and […]