About The Heights • Hardcover: 208 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 10, 2011) From the author of The Works: Anatomy of a City comes a gorgeous graphic tour through the inner workings of skyscrapers. The skyscraper is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the modern urban landscape. Providing offices, homes, restaurants, and shopping to thousands of inhabitants, […]
Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf, on tour November/December 2011
About The Heroine’s Bookshelf • Paperback: 224 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (November 15, 2011) Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, Scout Finch—the literary canon is brimming with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and celebrated female authors. They placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family, not unlike women of today. When they were up against […]
Doc Hendley, author of Wine to Water, on tour January 2012
About Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Avery (January 5, 2012) The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who’s changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of wine-tasting events […]
Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules, and illustrator Maira Kalman, on tour November 2011
About Food Rules • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 1, 2011) Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman come together to create an enhanced Food Rules for hardcover, now beautifully illustrated and with even more food wisdom. Michael Pollan’s definitive compendium, Food Rules, is here brought to colorful life with the addition of Maira Kalman’s […]
Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 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 […]
Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, on tour November 2011
About The Personal History of Rachel DuPree • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Penguin (July 26, 2011) Just optioned for film by Viola Davis, star of The Help; winner of the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, longlisted for the Orange […]
Maud Hart Lovelace, author of The Betsy-Tacy Treasury, on tour October/November 2011
About The Betsy-Tacy Treasury • Paperback: 736 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (November 8, 2011) There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, […]
Caroline Moorehead, author of A Train in Winter, on tour November 2011
About A Train in Winter • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (November 8, 2011) They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newpapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest […]
Matt Rees, author of Mozart’s Last Aria, on tour November 2011
About Mozart’s Last Aria • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (November 1, 2011) The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl’s brother’s demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a […]
C.C. Harrison, author of Picture of Lies, on tour October/November 2011
About Picture of Lies • Hardcover: 326 pages • Publisher: Five Star (October 21, 2011) Investigative journalist Keegan Thomas is living a nightmare of guilt and grief since her little girl Daisy was kidnapped practically in front of her eyes. When the police investigation dead ended, she turned her grief to anger and buried herself in her work. The […]