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 […]
Doug Magee, author of Darkness All Around, on tour June/July 2012
About Darkness All Around Touchstone, June 2012 Trade Paperback, 352 pages When there’s DARKNESS ALL AROUND . . . some memories are best forgotten Within the span of one harrowing week, Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears, and her best friend, Carol, is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has seemingly put her life back together […]
Grace O, author of FoodTrients, on tour April/May 2012
About FoodTrients: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life FOODTRIENTS A Revolutionary Recipe for Anti-Aging FOODTRIENTS: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life is a new cookbook (and website) dedicated to bringing the science of aging out of the lab and into your kitchen. Delicious foods and rejuvenating nutrients combine to create enticing and nourishing recipes that […]
Saima Wahab, author of In My Father’s Country, on tour April/May 2012
About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]
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 […]
Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden, on tour May 2012
About The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2012) A beautifully written biography from an internationally acclaimed poet, The Paper Garden is at once the story of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman and a “graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age” (New York Times Book Review). […]
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 […]
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 […]
R.J. Smith, author of The One, on tour March/April 2012
About The One: The Life and Music of James Brown Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Gotham (March 15, 2012) The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time. Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, […]
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 […]