About The Hideaway Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (April 11, 2017) When her grandmother’s will wrenches Sara back home from New Orleans, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever did in life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The […]
Cynthia A. Graham, author of Beneath Still Waters, on tour February/March 2016
About Beneath Still Waters Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Blank Slate Press (March 31, 2015) The swamps and bayous around Cherokee Crossing, Arkansas have always been dark and mysterious, but on this summer day two boys stumble across the remains of a baby girl, headless and badly decomposed. Hick Blackburn, a reluctant sheriff with a troubled past is […]
Lisa Lewis Tyre, author of Last in a Long Line of Rebels, on tour February 2016
About Last in a Long Line of Rebels Age Range: 10 and up Grade Level: 5 and up Hardcover: 288 pages Debut novelist Lisa Lewis Tyre vibrantly brings a small town and its outspoken characters to life, as she explores race and other community issues from both the Civil War and the present day. Lou might be only […]
Deborah Mantella, author of My Sweet Vidalia, on tour February 2016
About My Sweet Vidalia Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Turner (October 6, 2015) On July 4, 1955, in rural Georgia, an act of violence threatens the life of Vidalia Lee Kandal Jackson’s pre-born daughter. Despite the direst of circumstances, the spirit of the lost child refuses to leave her ill-equipped young mother’s side. For as long as she […]
Jo-Ann Costa, author of The Bequest of Big Daddy, on tour April 2013
About The Bequest of Big Daddy Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Koehler Books (April 1, 2013) From a Reconstruction-era turpentine and logging industry to the decaying ruins of a doomed plantation with its dying social system, THE BEQUEST OF BIG DADDY (Koehler Books; April 2013) is evocative of all that was wrong in the post-Civil War […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2012 on tour
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (July 10, 2012) Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and […]
Jenny Wingfield, author of The Homecoming of Samuel Lake, on tour July/August 2011
About The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Random House (July 12, 2011) Every first Sunday in June, members of the colorful Moses clan gather for their annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. Samuel Lake, a handsome young preacher with a huge heart and strong convictions, […]
Sarah Addison Allen, author of The Peach Keeper, on tour April/May 2011
About The Peach Keeper Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Bantam (March 22, 2011) The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as […]