The advance-reading copies have been sent hailing the start of spring book season. Authors will be hitting the road to promote their newest titles. Here is a sampling of what is headed your way.
3/23 “Caught” by Harlan Cohen A stand alone thriller about a missing teenage girl and the female reporter that tries to find her. Book tour info.
3/30 “The Barbary Pirates” by William Dietrich The fourth in this rollicking, fast paced historical action adventure series featuring American expatriate Ethan Gage. Taking up where ”The Dakota Cipher” ended, Gage is enlisted by Napoleon Bonaparte to recover “an ancient super weapon that legend contends burned a Roman fleet.” Book tour info.
4/6 “Kissing the Mask” by William T. Vollmann Journalist and National Book Award winner examines the subject of beauty and femininity through the ancient tradition of Japanese Noh theater. Book tour info.
4/6 “Imperfect Birds” by Anne Lamott The follow up to “Rosie” (my first and favorite Anne Lamott novel) and “Crooked Little Heart” finds Elizabeth Ferguson in her senior year of high school hiding the truth from her parents that besides being a straight A student, she also sports a nice little drug habit. Book tour info.
4/13 “Beatrice and Virgil” by Yann Martel Author of “Life of Pi” tells what one Amazon reviewer describes as his “Holocaust allegory.” Book tour info.
4/27 “Hannah’s List” by Debbie Macomber A widower finds a letter from his late wife telling him to remarry and even giving him three candidates to consider. Book tour info.
4/27 “Island Beneath the Sea” by Isabel Allende About a slave girl on the island of Saint-Domingue and the young plantation owner she is bound to. Book tour info.
