Anna Lefler, author of The CHICKtionary, on tour November/December 2011

| October 15, 2011

About The CHICKtionary: from A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know:   Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Adams Media (October 19, 2011) Your bestie, biffle, and GMF rolled into one! You’re all over the definitions of “low lights,” “ruching,” and a “tankini.” But can you spot a “Mrs. Potato Head” when you see one? [...]

Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 2011

| October 11, 2011

About So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (November 15, 2011) Christine Hartmann’s mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death.  Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the [...]

David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, on tour October/November 2011

| September 9, 2011

About You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 27, 2011) An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees [...]

Susan Newman, P.h.D., author of The Case for the Only Child, on tour June 2011

| April 18, 2011

About The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: HCI (June 1, 2011) What’s really wrong with having one child? Is one enough for you? For your partner? What constitutes a complete, happy family? Will your only child be lonely, spoiled, bossy, selfish? Read this book and find out. Despite [...]

Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 2011

| April 15, 2011

About The Long Journey Home Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (May 17, 2011) First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern [...]