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 […]
Michel Stone, author of The Iguana Tree, on tour April 2012
About The Iguana Tree Hardcover: 220 pages Publisher: Hub City Press (March 1, 2012) Library Journal says The Iguana Tree “recalls the work of John Steinbeck.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “exceptional … a haunting tale of hope and heartbreak.” Michel Stone’s debut novel, set against the backdrop of illegal immigration, is one family’s story of fateful decisions, […]
Rosamund Lupton, author of Afterwards: A Novel, on tour April/May 2012
About Afterwards: A Novel Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sister comes a compelling, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school is on fire. Her children are inside. Grace runs toward the burning building, desperate to reach […]
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 […]
Ryan David Jahn, author of The Dispatcher, on tour February/March 2012
About The Dispatcher Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 27, 2011) The phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months. So begins Ian Hunt’s fight to get his daughter back. Hunt is a police dispatcher in the small East Texas town of Bulls Mouth. The call comes at the end of […]
Jean Davies Okimoto, author of Walter’s Muse, on tour February/March 2012
About Walter’s Muse Publisher: Endicott & Hugh Books Publication date: 2/1/2012 Pages: 285 It’s the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggie’s summer becomes about […]
Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly, on tour May 2012
About The Year of the Gadfly • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 8, 2012) Storied Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code, its reputation unsullied for decades. Now Prisom’s Party threatens its placid halls. A budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, Iris […]
Kathryn Harrison, author of Enchantments, on tour March 2012
About Enchantments Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Random House (March 6, 2012) From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire. St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is […]