About Echoes of Family Paperback: 412 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 27, 2016) Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, […]
Deanna Lynn Sletten, author of FINDING LIBBIE, on tour September/October
About Finding Libbie Paperback: 331 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 6, 2016) Poring over a dusty hatbox of photographs in her grandmother’s closet, Emily Prentice is shocked to discover her father was married to his high school sweetheart before meeting her mother. In the summer of 1968, Jack and Libbie fall in love under the spell […]
Linda Lafferty, author of THE GIRL WHO FOUGHT NAPOLEON, on tour September/October 2016
About The Girl Who Fought Napoleon Paperback: 442 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 20, 2016) In a sweeping story straight out of Russian history, Tsar Alexander I and a courageous girl named Nadezhda Durova join forces against Napoleon. It’s 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother’s footsteps. She’s […]
Virginia Franken, author of LIFE AFTER COFFEE, on tour September/October 2016
About Life After Coffee Paperback: 266 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 13, 2016) When globe-trotting coffee buyer, Amy O’Hara, assures her husband—who stays at home to watch the kids—that it is He Who Has it Harder… she doesn’t really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband decides to devote all his waking […]
Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, author of THE THINGS WE WISH WERE TRUE, on tour September 2016
About The Things We Wish Were True Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (September 1, 2016) In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations. From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that […]
Alex Rosenberg, author of AUTUMN IN OXFORD, on tour September 2016
About Autumn in Oxford Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (August 30, 2016) After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Tom Wrought escapes America’s Cold War climate to teach at Oxford. There, he falls in love with Liz Spencer, a beautiful married woman. When Liz’s husband is pushed […]
Ann Howard Creel, author of THE WHISKEY SEA, on tour August/September 2016
About The Whiskey Sea Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (August 23, 2016) Motherless and destitute, Frieda Hope grows up during Prohibition determined to make a better life for herself and her sister, Bea. The girls are taken in by a kindly fisherman named Silver, and Frieda begins to feel at home whenever she is on the water. […]
D. M. Pulley, author of THE BURIED BOOK, on tour August/September 2016
About The Buried Book Paperback: 410 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (August 23, 2016) When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible. It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He’s lucky to even have a […]
Thelma Adams, author of THE LAST WOMAN STANDING, on tour July 2016
About The Last Woman Standing: A Novel of Mrs. Wyatt Earp Paperback: 298 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 1, 2016) Thelma Adams has built a successful career writing profiles of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest stars. From Julianne Moore and George Clooney to Jessica Chastain and Matthew McConaughey, her portfolio is dazzling and reputation as a […]
Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of LEAVING BLYTHE RIVER, on tour May/June 2016
About Leaving Blythe River Paperback Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (May 24, 2016) New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with an unforgettable story of courage. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to […]