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 […]
Leslie Cohen, author of My Ride or Die, on tour April 2021
About My Ride or Die • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 20, 2021) • Paperback: 336 pages A timely and hilarious millennial women’s fiction novel about two friends who decide to give up their search for a perfect man and devote their lives to each other—but their careful plan soon begins to unravel with unexpected […]