About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
Kate Breslin, author of For Such a Time, on tour May 2014
About For Such a Time Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (April 1, 2014) In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp […]
Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, on tour January/February 2014
About The Gods of Heavenly Punishment Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (January 13, 2014) One summer night in prewar Japan, eleven-year-old Billy Reynolds takes snapshots at his parent’s dinner party. That same evening his father Anton–a prominent American architect–begins a torrid affair with the wife of his master carpenter. A world away in […]
Sarah Jio, author of The Last Camellia, on tour June/July 2013
About The Last Camellia Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (May 28, 2013) On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate […]
Jessica Brockmole, author of Letters from Skye, on tour July 2013
About Letters from Skye Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 9, 2013) A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart. March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]