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 […]