Beatriz Williams

Lauren Willig (left) will sign and discuss her new stand-alone novel, That Summer (St. Martin's Press; $25.99).

Lauren Willig is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in English History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.

Beatriz Williams (center) with sign and discuss her new stand-alone novel, The Secret Life of Violet Grant (Putnam; $26.95).

A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a corporate and communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons.

She now lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

Susan Elia MacNeal (right) will sign and discuss The Prime Minister's secret agent (Bantam $15), the latest in her Edgar Nominated Maggie Hope series.

Susan Elia MacNeal is the Barry Award–winning and Edgar, Dilys, and Macavity Award–nominated author of the Maggie Hope mysteries, including Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, and His Majesty’s Hope. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband and child.

Location: Street: 2342 Bissonnet St Additional: City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations)

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS autographing and discussing her latest novel The Secret Life of Violet Grant her third novel, following the New York Times bestselling A Hundred Summers and Overseas. Violet is a young physicist in pre World War 1 Germany. Vivian is working for a stylish Manhattan magazine in 1964 when she is unexpectedly and inexorably drawn into her family’s past. What really happened to her Aunt Violet and a certain hushed-over crime of passion as the world edged into war?

Location: Street: 12 Depot Square City: Peterborough, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03458-1421 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations)

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
Overseas by Beatriz Williams

Author Signing, Author Event, Author Reading Join us in Welcoming Author Beatriz Williams of Greenwich, Connecticut sharing her New Book A Hundred Summers A fast-paced love story about a friend's betrayal and a rekindling of a romance. A candidate for this year's big beach read! (ajouté depuis Barnes & Noble)… (plus d'informations)

Beatriz Williams A Hundred Summers THURSDAY, JUNE 20 AT 7 PM Beatriz Williams will discuss and sign her new book A Hundred Summers on Thursday, June 20 at 7 pm. New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island on Memorial Day, 1938, and is expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak. But when newly-weds Nick and Budgie Greenwald, Lily's former best-friend and former fiance, arrive, a wildfire of gossip is set off among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations. The ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations. Under the scorching summer sun, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own, which will change their worlds forever. “A candidate for this year’s big beach read.” —Kirkus

“Novels as masterfully done as A Hundred Summers come along only about that often. Beatriz Williams delivers an intricately woven tale of friendship, betrayal, old families, and closely guarded secrets. It is what every beach book should aspire to be – smart and engrossing.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of Beautiful Day and the bestselling Summerland "Smart, delicious writing... Williams adds a signature touch of historic drama." —Library Journal

Beatriz Williams lives with her husband and children in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the author of Overseas.

Location: Street: 216 S Armenia Ave City: Tampa, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33609-3310 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations)

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS signing and discussing A Hundred Summers her new novel which opens in the summer of 1938 at an idyllic oceanfront community in Rhode Island. Lily Dane and her family have returned for the summer, but unexpectedly Budgie and Nick Greenwald, an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past, show up as well. The couple, recently married, are her former best friend … and her former fiancé. Emotional cyclones brew, and the cataclysmic New England Hurricane of 1938 lurks. This is Beatriz’s second novel published by G.P. Putnam. Her first, Overseas, an intriguing tale of love and time travel between 1916 and 2007, has just been published in paperback. Beatriz is also the author of " A Lady Never Lies" and " A Gentleman Never Tells" written under the pen name Juliana Gray.

Location: Street: 12 Depot Square City: Peterborough, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03458-1421 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations)