About Moonwalking With Einstein • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 3, 2011) Foer’s unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things […]
Archives for January 3, 2011
Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Mapping of Love and Death, on tour February/March 2011
About The Mapping of Love and Death • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 22, 2011) In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and […]
Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion, on tour February 2011
About Devotion • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (January 26, 2010) Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a […]
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, on tour March/April 2011
About The Four Ms. Bradwells • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) Meg Waite Clayton’s national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters was a word-of-mouth sensation and book club favorite. Now the beloved author is back with a page-turning novel that explores the secrets we keep, even from those closest to us, and […]
Camilla Gibb, author of The Beauty of Humanity Movement, on tour March/April 2011
About The Beauty of Humanity Movement • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 17, 2011) This deeply observed novel of contemporary Vietnam interweaves stories of a venerable soup seller, a young Vietnamese American curator, and an enterprising tour guide in ways that will mark all of their lives forever. Maggie, an art […]