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 […]
Ellen Feldman, author of Next to Love, on tour June/July 2011
About Next to Love Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (July 26, 2011) “A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.”—Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of three […]
Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 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 […]
Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business, on tour May/June 2011
About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]
Rich Wallace, author of War and Watermelon, on tour June 2011
About War and Watermelon Reading level: 10 years and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (June 9, 2011) It’s the summer of 1969. We’ve just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down […]
John McWhorter, author of What Language Is, on tour August 2011
About What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in […]
Sarah Sentilles, author of Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, on tour May/June 2011
About Breaking Up with God: A Love Story Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: HarperOne (June 7, 2011) In the tradition of Barbara Brown Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd, Sarah Sentilles offers a poignant, beautifully wrought memoir of her personal crisis of faith. Sentilles was on the way to becoming a priest when she ultimately faced the truth: […]
Timothy Taylor, author of The Blue Light Project, on tour June/July 2011
About The Blue Light Project Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Soft Skull Press (April 12, 2011) When an armed man seizes a television studio in the center of town, Thom Pegg, a former investigative journalist turned tabloid reporter, is as surprised as anyone to learn that he is the only person to whom the hostage taker […]
M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist, on tour June 2011
About The Hypnotist Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Mira; Trade Paperback Edition (April 19, 2011) We are celebrating the trade paperback release of The Hypnotist with another tour! The Hypnotist is part of the non-sequential series, The Reincarnationist. Each book is a free standing novel, all set in the same world but with different main characters. […]
Joseph Braude, author of The Honored Dead, on tour June/July 2011
About The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (June 14, 2011) The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our […]