___________________________ Your book club won’t be able to put this book down. HE’LL BE WAITING He’ll Be Waiting by Liz Alterman When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy December night, she has no idea she’s about to embark on the most dangerous ride of her […]
Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Runaway Train, on tour April/May 2021
About Runaway Train • Publisher: Wise Wolf Books (April 26, 2021) • Paperback: 294 pages They told me I was an out-of-control train about to crash… Everything changed when the police officer knocked on the door to tell me – a 16-year-old – that my older sister Kristen had died of a brain aneurysm. Cue […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Cosmic Queries, on tour April/May 2021
About Cosmic Queries • Publisher: National Geographic (March 2, 2021) • Hardcover: 312 pages In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world’s most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science. For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to […]
Claudia Kalb, author of Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers, on tour April/May 2021
About Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers • Publisher: National Geographic (April 27, 2021) • Hardcover: 368 pages Yo-Yo Ma’s ear for music emerged not long after he learned to walk. By the age of seven, he was performing for President Kennedy; by fifteen he debuted at Carnegie Hall. Maya Angelou, by […]
C.L. Taylor, author of Her Last Holiday, on tour April/May 2021
About Her Last Holiday • Publisher: Avon (April 27, 2021) • Paperback: 400 pages You come to the retreat to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in the Mediterranean that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink Retreats, […]
Ben Philippe, author of Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend, on tour April/May 2021
About Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 27, 2021) • Paperback: 320 pages It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting […]
Catriona Silvey, author of Meet Me in Another Life, on tour April/May 2021
About Meet Me in Another Life • Publisher: William Morrow (April 27, 2021) • Hardcover: 320 pages “Inventive, bold and surprising . . . Builds in suspense and emotion, revealing itself page by page, layer by layer. Cleverly constructed and highly entertaining.” — Charles Yu Recommended by Popsugar • Bustle • Tor • BookBub • io9 Gizmodo • Lambda Literary • Debutiful For fans of The Invisible Life […]
National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition, on tour April/May 2021
About Backyard Guide to the Night Sky • Publisher: National Geographic; 2nd edition (March 19, 2019) • Paperback: 288 pages Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher’s guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing — and understanding — the wonders of space. Stargazing’s too much fun to leave […]
Jonny Sun, author of Goodbye, Again, on tour April 2021
About Goodbye, Again • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition (April 20, 2021) • Hardcover: 240 pages The wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching and hilarious personal essays, stories, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to […]
Margaret Kimball, author of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets, on tour April 2021
About And Now I Spill the Family Secrets • Publisher: HarperOne; Illustrated edition (April 20, 2021) • Paperback: 288 pages In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988, when Kimball is […]